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Three Superb Publications with a Strong Focus on Place

If you’ve drafted a piece of writing you’re proud of but haven’t yet found a home for it then one of the three publications below might welcome your words. As a writer with ambition you’ll want to see your work in print or online but, as always, be prepared for rejection—writers need to be made of tough stuff now more than ever.

Specialising in creative non-fiction and welcoming work in the fields of Nature, Home, and Place, you’ll be well rewarded if you take a slice of your valuable time to polish up a piece of writing and submit it to one, or perhaps all, of these excellent publications (one charges a readers’ fee of £3 for each submission, none pay a writer’s fee).

Are you going to take the opportunity? As always, I look forward to reading your comments!

The Clearing

Little Toller Books is a wonderful bookshop and indie-press down in the West Country of England. I went out of my way to visit a few years back, and it was worth the extra road miles. The shop offers a wide range of nature and place writing publications as well as biographical works.

Their online journal, The Clearing, is a dedicated space for writers who have something meaningful to say about place, from the landscapes we live in to those we inhabited in the past, from urban to country, from lowlands and coastlines to mountains. The editors seek contributions with spark and originality up to 2000 words.

At the time of writing submissions are open.

Elsewhere

Founded in Berlin in 2015, this online literary magazine is a non-commercial venture dedicated to writing that explores the idea of place in all its forms from country living to seascapes and strands, and from urban landscapes to wastelands and long-forgotten places.

The co-founders, Paul Scraton and Julia Stone, along with editors, Anna Evans and Marcel Krueger aim to publish writing from and about places that rarely appear on the radar. Pieces of around 1000-1500 words in length are welcomed though at the time of writing submissions are closed. But keep an eye on this publication with its European edge and have one of your best pieces ready!

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Hinterland

This print and digital magazine is dedicated to creative non-fiction and the editors, Andrew Kenrick and Yin F. Lim, aim to support new writers and a range of genres from memoir and biographical essays to, travel and food writing, as well as nature, home, and place writing. Long and short formats are welcomed—flash non-fiction to long-form, i.e. 500-5000 words.

Hinterland asks the question, ‘what is creative non-fiction?’ and through showcasing the work of a diverse range of authors, it aspires to establish new ways of thinking as well as provide encouragement and inspiration.

At the time of writing submissions are closed.

Credits & Links:

• Above image, my own.

• See more about Little Toller Bookshop and The Clearing.

• Look up and read the Elsewhere journal.

• Hinterland is on Substack!

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