Submissions

What we are looking for

Micro-Booklet Submissions are OPEN

We’ve refreshed our micro-booklet programme to make it simpler, fairer, and more useful for writers. Submissions are now open year-round for pieces up to 300 words in any genre, and we publish four micro-booklets each year.

You can submit for free (no feedback), or choose an optional feedback tier if you’d like editorial notes: £10 for a detailed written critique, or £30 for fast-track reading plus margin notes. Payment never affects editorial decisions.

Selected authors receive a £25 honorarium and 10 free author copies, with a contributor discount on extras. We also offer no-questions-asked bursary codes each quarter to keep the feedback tiers accessible.

We love tiny pieces with a big aftertaste — work that surprises, unsettles, delights, or reframes the everyday. Send us up to 300 words that carry voice, image, and intent.

We’re especially excited by:

  • Strange & unusual: uncanny moments, surreal pivots, fabulism, odd artefacts found in pockets.

  • New perspectives: voices we don’t hear enough; fresh angles on familiar themes.

  • LGBTQ+ writing: joy, nuance, mess, tenderness — across genres.

  • Mini-essays: sharply observed micro-nonfiction with a thesis (however small).

  • Food writing: taste as memory, recipe-as-map, kitchen table ethnography.

  • Folk & fairy: retellings, regional lore, modern myth stitched to the present.

  • Intersectional feminist work: power, care, labour, rage, repair.

  • Isle of Wight / pride-of-place: although we are open to submissions form anywhere, we love reading about the Ilse of Wight’s hyperlocal textures, coastlines, dialect, history, and everyday island life.

All genres welcome — flash fiction, prose poem, micro-essay, hybrid. Previously unpublished work only; simultaneous subs are fine (withdraw if accepted elsewhere).

How to submit

Submit your work

Follow these simple steps. Your choice of tier never affects editorial decisions.

1) Choose your tier in our Shop

  • Free Submission (no feedback) — £0

  • Submission + Editorial Feedback — £10

  • Fast-Track + Margin Notes + Feedback — £30

2) Checkout

Complete checkout as normal (even for the free option).

3) Paste your work into the form

After checkout you’ll land on a form.

  • Paste your piece (max 300 words; title not included).

  • Add a 50–80 word third-person bio.

  • One piece per submission. Simultaneous subs are fine—withdraw if accepted elsewhere.

4) Get your confirmation

You’ll receive an email confirming we’ve got it.

  • Free tier: response in 8–10 weeks.

  • £10 Feedback: 500–700 words of notes in ≤3 weeks.

  • £30 Fast-Track: response in 7–10 days + margin notes.

We read blind

Editors don’t see names or tiers during first reads.

Quick checklist

  • ≤ 300 words (unpublished; no AI-generated text)

  • Clear title

  • Standard font, single spacing is fine

  • Third-person bio included

Trouble finding the form after checkout? Use the link in your confirmation email or contact hello@lemonjellypress.com with your order number.