Guidelines
We publish outstanding emerging writers and welcome writing from anywhere on any subject, have a special place in our hearts for cross-cultural experience, especially when such experience somehow involves Sweden.
We accept simultaneous submissions, but if your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know at once.
Submissions should generally be no more than 2,000 words, but the shorter the better. No more than five poems at a time. We are not presently in a position to pay for publication.
We accept short fiction, short–shorts/flash fiction and creative non–fiction. We’re not interested in genre writing as such, but science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime stories that in their creativity reach outside the expected framework are welcome. We’re interested in outstanding poetry of all kinds, especially in Swedish haiku (!) which we publish under Translation.
[For us, haiku is an epigrammatic Japanese verse form, usually 17 syllables or less, usually on three lines or less, conventionally but not necessarily 5-7-5. Haiku tends to use juxtaposition rather than metaphor, sensory input rather than abstract concepts, common rather than elevated language. Focus on nature and seasons is traditional, but focus on human behavior (senryû) is welcome as is other haiku-inspired poetry.]
If your work has been published previously, include a credit line stating where. At Frostwriting, posting in an online workshop does not count as previous publication. Very generally speaking, we try to steer away from using work that has been published before.
If you refer to literary journals in your bio, please give us the best two, or three on the outside. We try to create active outbound links to the titles so our writer/readers can easily check out sites that publish the kind of stuff they like. This takes a little time, so the fewer titles the better.
Submit your work through our online form. If you have any problems during the submission process please contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).