The Waterhouse Review
There are presently no open calls for submissions.
The following relates to regular fiction and poetry submissions. Guidelines for competition entries are shown separately in the category.
Things to bear in mind before submitting:
Use boring, easy to read fonts.
For Fiction Submissions, there is no upper word count limit as such, but success is exponentially more unlikely the further away you get from 2,000 words.
We don't have an aversion to genre fiction but prefer work of a more literary persuasion.
For Poetry Submissions, please send three to five poems per submission. Send them all together in one document if you can. All forms and genres of poetry are welcome, but please keep in mind that rhymes need to be more than gratuitous ... with us. (See what I did there? If you did that in a submission, we would reject it. So please don’t.)
We’ve all been in love before, we’ve all had a good dog, a lot of us have kids. If you’re going to write poetry about such things, please surprise us. As Emily Dickinson once said, “tell the tale/ but tell it slant.” We want to be off our feet, reading on our heads, by what we read, so send us that stuff. Please.
We're a Scottish publication and Scottish stories and poems will make us smile.
Give us a month to get back to you, then feel free to chase.
Simultaneous submissions are fine but please withdraw in a timely fashion if your work finds a home elsewhere.
If we accept your story, we'll pay you $2 via PayPal for First Electronic Serial Rights. If we accept your poetry, we'll pay you $2 per poem via PayPal for First Electronic Serial Rights.
No reprints, please.
PLEASE NOTE that by submitting to us you are entering into an agreement in which you confirm that the work offered is your own, is not subject to any rights elsewhere and has not previously appeared publicly online or in print and you acknowledge that the Waterhouse Review and its editors accept no responsibility for any breach of this agreement. In other words, it's up to you to ensure your work is your work, hasn't been published elsewhere and isn't scheduled to be published elsewhere. Okay? Okay.
Good luck and we look forward to reading your work.
Things to bear in mind before submitting:
Use boring, easy to read fonts.
For Fiction Submissions, there is no upper word count limit as such, but success is exponentially more unlikely the further away you get from 2,000 words.
We don't have an aversion to genre fiction but prefer work of a more literary persuasion.
For Poetry Submissions, please send three to five poems per submission. Send them all together in one document if you can. All forms and genres of poetry are welcome, but please keep in mind that rhymes need to be more than gratuitous ... with us. (See what I did there? If you did that in a submission, we would reject it. So please don’t.)
We’ve all been in love before, we’ve all had a good dog, a lot of us have kids. If you’re going to write poetry about such things, please surprise us. As Emily Dickinson once said, “tell the tale/ but tell it slant.” We want to be off our feet, reading on our heads, by what we read, so send us that stuff. Please.
We're a Scottish publication and Scottish stories and poems will make us smile.
Give us a month to get back to you, then feel free to chase.
Simultaneous submissions are fine but please withdraw in a timely fashion if your work finds a home elsewhere.
If we accept your story, we'll pay you $2 via PayPal for First Electronic Serial Rights. If we accept your poetry, we'll pay you $2 per poem via PayPal for First Electronic Serial Rights.
No reprints, please.
PLEASE NOTE that by submitting to us you are entering into an agreement in which you confirm that the work offered is your own, is not subject to any rights elsewhere and has not previously appeared publicly online or in print and you acknowledge that the Waterhouse Review and its editors accept no responsibility for any breach of this agreement. In other words, it's up to you to ensure your work is your work, hasn't been published elsewhere and isn't scheduled to be published elsewhere. Okay? Okay.
Good luck and we look forward to reading your work.