Submissions
Prototype Anthology
Submissions to the next issue of our annual anthology, PROTOTYPE 7 (forthcoming in July 2025), will be open for one month from 1 January – 1 February 2025.
The anthology is a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. We welcome poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between. The dimensions of the anthology are 180mm x 240mm, and the interior is printed in black-and-white only.
To submit your work, please follow the Submittable link below, where you can upload a sample of up to 6 pages.
We will respond to all submissions by the end of April.
To get a feel for what might be a good fit for PROTOTYPE 7, we strongly recommend reading some of our previous editions. PROTOTYPE 6 is available here, and contains work by Imogen Cassels, Miruna Fulgeanu, Hasib Hourani, Rozie Kelly, Lucy Mercer, Leonie Rushforth, Stephen Watts, Kate Zambreno and many others. You can also subscribe to the anthology from just £12 a year here.
Annual Submissions Window
We will not be opening for submissions again in 2024, due both to the volume of work we’ve received and read this year for the Prototype Prize, and to the very restricted scale of our publishing schedule.
We are very sorry to not be able to open for our usual August submissions period, and cannot accept unsolicited submissions at this time, as we simply don’t have the capacity to read and respond to them.
Many thanks to everyone who submitted their work last year. We were overwhelmed by the number we received. We are still working our way through each submission, and everyone will receive a response via Submittable. If you have not heard from us yet, your manuscript is still under consideration. We will not be able to offer individual feedback, but please be assured that every submission will be read and discussed, and given proper consideration.
Please read our guidelines below if you are interested in submitting to future submissions windows:
We are interested in a wide range of work and encourage proposals which resist easy definition or categorisation. We want to publish writing that is courageous, original, demanding and inquisitive. The best way to get a sense of the varied work we publish is to look at our back catalogue, and to read some of our books if you can.
Submissions are open to all, regardless of age, gender, race, religion and background, and we are particularly keen to hear from writers in groups that have been historically underrepresented in literary publishing.
We will ask for a covering letter, which should give a brief synopsis of the work and explain why you think it’s the right fit for us, along with a full manuscript.
We prefer all submissions to be uploaded via our online Submittable portal, a link to which will appear below when submissions are open.
If you have any questions or accessibility issues, please write to us at admin[at]prototypepublishing.co.uk.
