Publishing Cycle
Swale Life magazine is published online only in February, May, August, and November. Submission deadlines for the issues is as follows:
31st January for February issue.
30th April for May issue.
31st July for August issue
31st October for November issue.
Submissions to Swale Life are ongoing.
Submission Guidelines
***SUBMISSIONS BY E-MAIL ONLY***
Poems: Submit up to 6 poems on any subject of 60 lines or less, or a long poem up to 200 lines plus 2 shorter poems.
Fiction: Submit Short Stories, or Excerpts from Novels on any subject or theme up to 8,000 words long.
Essays: Academic essays may be up to 10,000 words long.
Reviews and Interviews: These may be up to 3000 long.
All materials submitted must be in English Language.
The name of the author as he/she would like to be credited must appear on the materials.
Please send a photograph of yourself in Jpeg or PNG format to go on your page.
Copyright: Once we accept materials for Swale Life, we acquire the copyright until they have been published. 90 days after publication, the copyright reverts to the authors.
Simultaneous Submissions: We discourage simultaneous submissions. The turnaround time is 8 weeks. Hopefully that is not too long for you.
Previously Published Work: If your work has been published elsewhere and you feel it has not been given the exposure it deserves, and you feel strongly about it, by all means submit it, but please mention where and when it was first published.
Payment: Swale Life does not currently pay authors any money for work accepted and published. We appreciate the effort that goes into every piece of writing we publish and in the future we hope to be able to reward the writers in some way.
Important: Please submit only materials that are your original work. Bear in mind that Swale Life is a magazine and not a blog or discussion forum. Therefore the form and content of any work published in the magazine is final and any aspect of the work, or its authorship, may not be modified after 7 days of publication. Requests for modification of content, authorship or deletion may not be entertained. Copyright reverts to all authors 90 days after publication.
Send all submissions to submissions@swalelife.com
