Work in Progress (WIP) Blog Submissions
Grattan Street Press is seeking short stories and chapters/extracts from larger works for our new Work in Progress (WIP) Blog! The WIP feature is a place for both emerging and established authors (that’s you!) to receive feedback from the public on anything still in development.
This is a practice that many celebrated authors have used to test out a wide range of elements, from writing style to points of view. Australian author Christos Tsiolkas published an early extract from The Slap in the literary journal Overland while he was still writing it, to gauge audience reactions to one of the book’s more controversial characters; the feedback he received helped shape that character into how he appears in the published novel.
If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, send your work through! Accepted works will undergo a collaborative editorial process before being published on the blog.
For fiction, we’re looking for short stories and chapters/extracts from larger works, of any genre from literary fiction to fantasy. For non-fiction, we’re looking for chapters/extracts from larger works that explore contemporary social, political and cultural issues that resonate with a modern audience.
When submitting fiction, please include the following:
- a short story or chapter/extract of no more than 4500 words (less is fine!)
- a short summary of the complete work
- a brief author CV
When submitting non-fiction, please include the following:
- a chapter/extract of no more than 4500 words; please choose a chapter/extract that can stand on its own and that can be understood by the average layperson
- a table of contents
- a 500-word outline of the proposed work
- a brief author CV
Please note that acceptance of a WIP extract from a larger work does not equal acceptance of that larger work for full manuscript publication. We do not publish poetry (small inclusions in works primarily in prose are allowed) or erotica.
Please send no more than three proposals. We’d love to read more of your work but we want to give each submission the time it deserves!