Submissions are now closed. We are on hiatus until Dec 2024 - please read more here.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please send one piece only to submissions@extrateeth.co.uk during each submissions period, with SHORT STORY: TITLE or ESSAY: TITLE in the subject line. Secondary submissions will be deleted. We will strive to get back to you around six weeks after submissions close;. please don’t email to check up on your submission before eight weeks has passed from the end of the submissions period. We will contact you whether or not your piece has been accepted. Editors’ decision is final.

We understand that it is unrealistic to ask you not to submit pieces elsewhere during this period, but if you need to withdraw a submission please email to let us know ASAP.

Please note we are unable to give feedback on either submissions or unsuccessful mentoring applications.

Submissions guidelines

We do not set a theme for each issue; please feel free to send your best work on any topic. The best way to understand the type of work we like is to buy a copy of the magazine.

Pieces should be between 800 and 4,000 words, submitted in a Word document in a standard font, size 12, with double line spacing.

Every submission should be accompanied by a title sheet including author’s name, address, the word count of the piece and a short biography of under 100 words. Cover letters are not required.

Work should be previously unpublished. Copyright remains with the author.

what we pay

We offer £110 for each selected piece, as well as two copies of the magazine in which the piece is featured. We pay via bank transfer within 30 days of receipt of a signed publishing agreement. Extra Teeth does not charge fees to submit writing. We also offer fees for event appearances.

What we publish

We accept creative fiction and nonfiction between 800 and 4,000 words. We look for short stories that stick with you, lingering in the memory long after reading, and essays that explore specific interests or issues from a new perspective. We offer a space for writers to be strange, bold and experimental, and to express their unique style however they see fit.

Extra Teeth is a Scottish magazine with an international outlook—meaning that we will always champion and cultivate great Scottish writing, but we also publish work from writers located elsewhere. We especially welcome submissions from underrepresented groups.

We are happy to accept work in translation, with the necessary permissions.

We do not currently publish poetry, scripts, translations or artwork, outside of the work of our guest illustrator for each issue.

PLEASE NOTE that we are currently unable to accept stories from North America due to team capacity. This is in order to ensure we can pay our readers for their work and to ensure we are giving our readers a reasonable workload.

NEW! mentorships

In every submission period, we receive hundreds of pieces that show great promise but which don't quite make it into the magazine. For this reason, we’re thrilled to now offer one or two mentoring spaces per issue.

Extra Teeth mentoring is intended to offer support to new or emerging writers in the form of three workshop sessions (either remote or in person) with Heather over a six month period, helping to develop work for submission elsewhere or to simply offer guidance and career development assistance.

Mentorship applications are now closed while we finish up our previous mentoring committments.

'Heather’s mentoring was incredibly beneficial for me. I’ve gone back to my writing with a totally fresh perspective, not only feeling a lot more confident in it, but also having a much stronger sense of who I am as a writer and what my strengths and weaknesses were.'

- Catherine Wilson, Issue Two mentee / Issue Three contributor