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WRITERS GUIDELINES
Ambit is put together entirely from unsolicited, previously unpublished poetry and short fiction submissions. We are only able to print about 3% of the material we receive, however. So how do you get into that 3%?

• Get to know Ambit before you submit. You may read Ambit and decide your work would not fit the style. You may even decide you don’t want your work to be published alongside the shocking, the erotic, the comic, the provocative.

• If you decide your work is right for us, send 5 or 6 poems, OR 2 or 3 stories
(stories can be up to 10,000 words in length), to:
Ambit, 17 Priory Gardens, London N6 5QY, UK.

• Do not send work via email. We do not read any email submissions.

• Enclose a self-addressed envelope with UK stamps, or with sufficient, endorsed International Reply Coupons (IRCs). If you want your manuscripts returned, please make sure the return envelope is big enough and includes sufficient postage. We will not reply to submissions that come without SAEs.

• If you submit material to us, YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO WAIT AT LEAST 3-4 MONTHS FOR A REPLY. We apologize in advance for this and thank you for your patience. We receive a huge amount of copy, have only a few readers, and like to read submissions carefully.

• If you’re worried about things going astray in the post, include a stamped, addressed postcard so that we can let you know that your submission has arrived at Ambit.

• Keep a record of exactly what you have sent and when.

• Be aware that Ambit is a non-profit making magazine. We pay our authors merely a token amount to appear in the magazine and give them 2 copies of the issue their work appears in (and discounts on further copies).

• Please note: we regret that are unable to give you any feedback on your work or enter into any correspondence about rejected work.

• Please also note: we do not print articles, essays, interviews, memoirs or biography. We do not accept unsolicited reviews and are not looking for new reviewers.

HERE ARE A FEW MORE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
The editors find the following annoying: indiscriminately centre-justified poems; jazzy fonts; poems all in italics for the sake of it; return envelopes from the USA with US stamps on – these have no value in the UK; return envelopes from the USA that do not have ‘USA’ written at the end of the address; people who send folders full of poetry or reams of stories; people who fold each poem individually.

HERE ARE A FEW CLASSIC POEMS THAT DON’T GET ACCEPTED
Parochial, I’ve-got-no-money ‘bed-sitter’ poems; self-consciously poetic this-is-a-poem poems; poems by people who really want to be Keats or Wordsworth; poems about what it is to write a poem, or worse, what it is NOT to be able to write one; that-man-or-woman-done-me-over poems; sweeping generalization poems - life, death and why we are here, what’s- it-all-about? poems; the use of clichés like ‘sweeping generalizations’… oh and avoid' shards', 'abysses' and 'iridescence'.

SHORT FICTION THAT DOES NOT APPEAR IN AMBIT
As for stories, we don’t tend to print tales of domestic boredom (or bliss), detective / horror / ghost / school / fantasy stories or anything that ends ‘it was all a dream’. Subverted versions of these, however, will sometimes appear in Ambit.

... AND WHAT DO THE EDITORS LIKE?
We could give you a lot of adjectives but they wouldn’t mean too much out of context - so read Ambit to find out!