About us
Frostwriting was an initiative of the Creative Writing in English course at Gävle university, Sweden, in 2002; originally meant for participants of that course. The present staff met there, restarted Frostwriting in 2007, and opened Frostwriting’s doors to the whole world, with the idea of encouraging exceptional developing writers, regardless of subject matter or nationality. We do, however, keep a special place in our hearts for cross-cultural experience, meant in the broadest possible sense, especially when such experience somehow involves Sweden.
We are open to submissions year round. At present, we receive about five submissions a day, poetry and short prose in roughly equal parts. We try to pick out the extremely well written material and get it online as soon as possible, without necessarily waiting for our “issues” in Feburary and August. When these issues do appear, they incorporate recently submitted stuff . . . then we just keep filling the “issue” until it’s time for the next one. This procedure means that something is going on most of the time at frostwriting.com .
Through time, we’ve developed a taste for all things short-short, as we work in a medium that encourages onscreen reading. Our heading “Postcards” highlights writing that comes from a particular place or frame of mind. Our heading “On writing” highlights upbeat texts that don’t take the writing life too seriously. Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz might be an example of this in book form. Very generally, we love stuff that has originality of expression, reaches our feelings, has good structure, and has to do with something meaningful and human. (Not asking for much, huh?)
Our staff work is volunteer – a labor of love. Your contribution to frostwriting.com is also volunteer. Whether we publish your stuff or not, we want to show respect for your devotion and build with you toward a richer literary culture.