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 and publishing exceptional developing writers, regardless of subject matter or nationality. We still, 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 the present, we receive about one submission a day, poetry and short prose in roughly equal parts. Most of these submissions are well written. We try to pick out the extremely well written material and get it online as soon as possible, without waiting for our actual “issues” in Feburary and August. When these issues do appeal, they incorporate recently submitted stuff and even material that came after deadline. 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.