New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination. Submissions are invited for New Writing Scotland 45, publishing in summer 2027.

All forms of writing are invited: autobiography and memoirs; creative responses to events and experiences; drama; graphic artwork (monochrome only); poetry; political and cultural commentary and satire; screenplays; short fiction; travel writing or any other creative prose may be submitted.

Please send no more than four poems, or one prose work. Prose pieces should be double-spaced and carry an approximate word-count. We have a maximum recommended length of 3,500 words in total. Please do not send complete novels or other long works, although self-contained extracts are acceptable.

The work must be entirely your own and produced without the assistance of generative AI.

It must be neither previously published nor accepted for publication and may be in any of the languages of Scotland.

Please do not put your name on your submission; instead, please provide your name and contact details, including email and postal addresses, on the covering letter.

If you are sending more than one piece, please group everything into one document. 

Submission is free. We have limited space in each edition, and therefore shorter pieces are more suitable – although longer items of exceptional quality may still be included. 

Successful contributors will be paid at a rate of £50 for the first published page and £25 for each subsequent published page. Authors retain all rights to their work(s), and can submit and/or publish the same work(s) elsewhere after they appear in New Writing Scotland. 

The deadline is 11:59 p.m. (GMT) on 13 December 2026.