Submissions
Thank you for your interest in submitting to Issue 12 of The Apiary. For this issue, we are seeking submissions of poetry (in English and as Gaeilge), fiction, flash-fiction, criticism, scripts, translations, art, and photography.
Submissions for issue 12 are open from the 5th of October to the 8th of November.
For Issue 12, all short-fiction submissions will be considered for our inaugural Emerging Writer Prize, please see details here.
Please read our guidelines carefully. The link to submit to the Apiary is located at the bottom of the page
Guidelines
For all text documents, we request you submit both a Word document, and a PDF of how you want it to look.
Submissions are considered anonymously, so please keep your name off the final submission document, and off the document's file title.
If you are submitting three poems, please separate these poems into three separate PDF/Word documents. Same goes for three fiction pieces, three translations etc. Three separate poems=three separate PDFs/Word docs.
You can submit in up to three categories, but please make a separate submission for each category.
We only accept previously unpublished work.
We only accept writing from Queen's Students, Staff and Alumni, but will accept Art from people resident in the island of Ireland.
We ask that all pieces be in 12pt text in Times New Roman, and in double spacing for all prose works.
- Poetry: up to 3 poems. We are also accepting submissions of poems as Gaeilge for this issue.
- Fiction: 1 piece under 2500 words.
- Flash Fiction: up to 2 pieces, each under 1000 words.
- Non-Fiction: 1 piece under 2500 words, OR 2 pieces under 1000.
- Translation: Up to 3 poems/1 prose piece under 1000 words. We welcome poetry, prose and non-fiction translations of: existing works by authors written in another language into English, or your own work from another language into English, or from English into another language. When submitting a translation, think about the intention justifying the translation of your chosen text, in addition to the act of translation itself. Please include a bio of the original author. Please include a text document of the original work. If possible, please provide the bibliographic details of the source from which you have taken your original text (name of author, title of the work, edition, place of publication, publishing house, year of publication). If the original text has been taken from an online source, please provide the website details and/or a URL link.
- Script: 1 Script under 5 pages.
- Visual art/Photography: Up to 5 images. Please submit as a PNG or JPG file in as highest quality possible.
If you have any queries, please get in touch.