WRITERS’ NEWS
80 NOVEMBER 2019 http://www.writers-online.co.ukBritish Horse is
the magazine of
the British Horse
Society. The deputy
editor is Alison
Coleman. There are
prizes for star letter
writers.
Details: email:
Alison.coleman@
bhs.org.uk; website:
http://www.bhs.org.ukFormer Dundee
Courier political
editor David
Clegg has been
appointed editor
of the daily
newspaper.FT group’s Money
Management mag
has folded.Archant has
arranged a three-
year partnership
with the search
engine Google,
called Project
Neon, ‘which will
target up to three
UK communities
identified as
being currently
underserved by
local news’.Times columnist
and former
Economist senior
editor Edward
Lucas now edits
the monthly
politics and
culture magazine
Standpoint.To mark the
Leeds Year of
Reading, the city
council signed
a partnership
agreement with
BookTrust, the UK’s
children’s reading
charity, which will
contribute over
£1million in books
and resources
for children and
families in Leeds
over the next three
years.‘One day I will find
the right words,
and they will be
simple.’
Jack KerouacFLASHES
Go green
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MARKET
PDR Lindsay-SalmonChelsea Green Publishing is a well
established US publisher of ‘books
on the politics and practice of
sustainable living’, which now has
an office in the UK. The editorial
team like to publish authors ‘who
bring in-depth, practical knowledge
to life, and give readers hands-on
information related to organic
farming and gardening, ecology
and the environment, healthy food,
sustainable economics, progressive
politics, and, most recently,
integrative health and wellness.’
The ethical company is 100%
employee owned and a member of
the Green Press Initiative which has
been printing books on recycled
paper since 1985.
The company’s official aim is ‘to
reverse the destruction of the natural
world by challenging the beliefs
and practices that are enabling this
destruction’ and they ‘seek to builda community of new voices that will
empower and inspire individuals
to reduce their ecological impact
and to participate in the restoration
of healthy local communities,
bioregional ecosystems, and a
diversity of cultures’.
Writers who have work on the
practice and politics of sustainability,
organic growing and renewable
energy, or who provide information
about ‘democratic citizenship, political
action, and cultural resistance and
rebirth’ could find a home here.
Check the website, read their list,
follow the guidelines carefully.
Possible submissions include:
organic gardening and market
farming, from home- to professional-
scale, sustainable agriculture andpermaculture with an in-depth,
how-to approach, local and global
agricultural movements and healthy
food supplies.
Be aware that academic or
educationally based books, non-
organic farming, and new age or
spiritual books are not wanted.
Query with a one- or two-page
email letter, by email, or submit a
full proposal, with table of contents,
sample chapter, possible markets, etc.
Response ‘can take several weeks’.
Rights and royalties are discussed
with the contract.
Detail: Chelsea Green Publishing,
email subs to: submissions@
chelseagreen.com or contact the UK
office on UKenquiries@chelseagreen.
com; website: http://www.chelseagreen.comPerhaps unique in its means of publication and
distribution Word-o-Mat is a zine vending machine
delivering short works, in a box, via a vintage vending
machine at events and venues in Glasgow and beyond.
The 5cm x 7cm handmade boxes are filled with six
books containing the work of international writers.
Every year four editions are published, each containing
six writers’ work.
The idea began in Malmo, Sweden and came to its
home in Glasgow in 2016 via a literary tour through
Europe. International submissions are more than
welcome so the zine can continue ‘providing a wordy
gateway between Scotland and the rest of the world’.
There are additional hubs and writer links in Montreal,
Istanbul and a collaborative link with African writers is
being developed.
Submissions
may be fiction,
poetry, creative
non fiction, essays,
excerpts from longer
works, image-texts
or cartoons. The
emphasis is on
short works of a
maximum 2,000
words. Several piecesmay be submitted to be published as a small collection.
You may submit previously published work, just say
when and where it was published and that you have the
rights to republish.
The zine supports new writers and aims to give
feedback and support as much as possible. There is a
commitment to ‘representing a heterogeneous set of
voices and in seeking submissions from female and non-
binary writers’.
Email your work as a pdf document with numbered
pages, your name and country of residence on each page.
Send to: [email protected]
Website: https://word-o-mat.hotglue.me/Get your work boxed off