Submissions for the NNJ Issue 2 will open on Saturday the 11th of April 2026.
Issue 2 - Submission guidelines
Please don’t submit until we open on the 11th of April. After that, go for it.
All submissions should be in Arial, 12 point, double-spaced, with your name and email address in the header. Please attach your piece/s to your email, as a PDF, Google Doc or Word document.
Please send these to submissions@newnottinghamjournal.com before Saturday the 16th of May. We ask that you include a brief one sentence bio for yourself which could be included in our contributors section. Here are some guidelines for our content categories:
Poetry: please send up to four poems in one document - each should be no more than 2000 characters, including spaces.
Short fiction: please send pieces up to 4000 words.
Creative non-fiction & slow journalism: please send pieces up to 4000 words.
During this submission window we are seeking to publish original material, rather than pieces which have already appeared on the web or elsewhere in print. We will consider original translations if the work has not appeared before in English. We do not currently accept postal submissions.
Thank you for reading carefully - we can’t wait to read your work!