The submission window for our upcoming short story collection, Pebbles on the Strand, closes in two weeks. This collection will be the follow-on volume to Making Marks in the Sand. Pebbles on the Strand will publish around the end of January, 2024. Until the end of November you can find details on how to submit [...]
Category: Anthologies
Draft Cover for “Pebbles on the Strand”
I have great pleasure in previewing the draft cover for our upcoming short story collection, Pebbles on the Strand. This is the follow-on volume to Making Marks in the Sand. Pebbles on the Strand will publish around the end of January, 2024. The submission window is still open - but only until the end of [...]
Submission windows: one closing in November!
The submission window for our new short story collection closes in one month, at the end of November. The window for New Contexts: 6 is open a further month i.e. to the end of December. You can also find details HERE.
Draft Cover for “New Contexts: 6”
I have great pleasure in previewing the draft cover for the next volume in our Anthology series, New Contexts. New Contexts: 6 will publish around the end of February, 2024. The submission window is open until the end of December, and you can find details by clicking here. New Contexts: 5 New Contexts: 4 New [...]
New Contexts: 6 – submission window news
The submission window for the sixth edition of our New Contexts poetry and short prose anthologies will open on 1st October and run until 31st December. New Contexts: 6 will publish by the end of March 2024. Once again entries will be managed via Submittable (it simplifies administration so much!), and so for New Contexts: [...]
Short Story submission call
We are delighted to announce that the submission window is now open for short story collection which will be published early in 2024. For submission details please go to Submittable. This new collection follows on from the well-received Making Marks in the Sand which we published in 2022. We look forward to reading your submissions!
New submission calls coming soon!
I am delighted to announce that we will be announcing the opening of submission windows for new publications very soon! Last year I published a collection of short stories, Making Marks in the Sand. Long overdue, I now plan to produce a follow-up (as yet untitled) for prose pieces of 2,000-5,000 words. This should be [...]
This quarter’s newsletter now available
The second issue of our quarterly newsletter is now available. The four-page newsletter contains a general update, a look into the future, highlights three of our publications, and has a full catalogue of all our books. It comes in .pdf format and is emailed to those who have contributed to our books, competitions, anthologies etc. [...]
“New Contexts: 4” – Submissions close tomorrow!
With a deadline of tomorrow, 1st October (end of day, UK-time), Coverstory books invites submissions for a literary compendium aiming to publish in December 2022. The volume - “New Contexts: 4” - seeks to showcase contemporary work, both poetry and fiction, and will be made available in both Paperback and ebook formats. Poetry: please submit [...]
‘Contextual: 11’ – Tomorrow!
Coverstory books' eleventh 'Contextual' poetry reading event is tomorrow, Wednesday 28th September, starting 1930 UK-time. Our main readers for 'Contextual: 11' will be the prize winners and commended poets from this year's Poetry Competition. If you would like an invitation to the event - or a link to the recording of 'Contextual: 10' - please [...]
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