Submit to Wrackline

Wrackline welcomes submissions of poetry, essays, and visual work that explore the thresholds between nature, myth, memory, and the unseen. We’re drawn to the liminal, the layered, and the quietly radical.

What We’re Looking For

• Poetry: Up to 3 poems— any genre, historical, or speculative. Long poems get in touch first with a sample stanza
• Short Fiction Up to 2,000 words—any genre, historical, or speculative
• Essays: Up to 2,000 words—any discipline
• Visual work: Photography, illustration, or collage (JPEG or PNG)

We’re especially interested in work that resonates with the themes of:

• Folklore and forgotten histories
• Ecological grief and renewal
• The ancient and the extraterrestrial
• The poetic edge of the real

How to Submit

Please send your work to: editor@wrackline.co.uk

Include:

• A short bio (50–100 words)
• Your work as an attachment (Word, PDF, or image files)
• “Submission – [Your Name]” in the subject line

We aim to respond within 4–6 weeks. If you haven’t heard back by then, feel free to follow up.

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Submissions are welcome. 

We only take online submissions.

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Please always fill in the subject bar for which area the submission is relevant.

Most journals only accept unpublished material. We don't; we welcome published work because for too long now work is published then never seen again. Some may be published later in pamphlet form, or even a perfect bound book, and that's great, but  often it's published once then lost. We acknowlegde the first publication but if your favourite work is only ever seen once and is believed to be an outstanding piece, then please let us see it.

Poetry of any kind. Often, poets are asked to consider the content of a journal or website before submitting work. I understand the reasoning, but it’s not for us. We all have preferences, but if we persuade writers to submit only work that is what they perceive as similar in voice to ours, then how much are we missing?

We don’t like constraints; freedom of speech is important. We won’t be corralled into banality by any one standpoint that believes another viewpoint should be silenced. 

Due to time constraints on the editor, poems of only 80 lines (excluding title and line breaks) are accepted. I hope to change this but at the moment it isn't possible.

Again, anything goes but no stories longer than 2000 words.