Six months of Carnyx Press

This little press has now been running for half a year! Thank you to everyone who has followed our journey so far.

2026 brings exciting new steps for Carnyx. We'll be revealing the title and cover of our folklore anthology in the new year, and open for pre-orders in the spring, ahead of a planned launch in early summer.

Provided we hit our development targets, we'll also be accepting short stories for our second anthology. Watch this space!

Reflecting back on the last six months, we've had an excellent journey so far, and have learned lots about managing submissions and growing our reach online. We can't wait to see what we'll learn next!

Open to manuscript submissions

We're still open to submissions of novellas and collected short fiction from writers living in the North of England. We love to read strange and literary speculative fiction, filled with atmosphere and imaginative flair.

We're planning to close our reading period on Saturday 20th December at midnight. This will give us time to read enquiries so far and respond to everyone in January. If you'd like to be considered during this reading period, please send us your work within the next three weeks.

Read the full guidelines here.

Other opportunities

• New Writing North's Northern Writer's Awards and Northern Debut Awards are now open for submissions, until 5th of February.
• Submissions are open for women writers to submit to issue 109 of Mslexia. The deadline is the 5th January.
• Writers & Artists are running paid workshops on How to Get Published on the 10th and 11th December, with speakers including Zoe Gilbert.
• Haddaway & Write are open for applications to their support and development programme for play writers in the North East, until the 9th January.

Thanks for reading, and wishing you a peaceful festive season.

Nathaniel

Editor, Carnyx Press

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Carnyx Press is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registration no. 16443369.