Overview

This is an occasional feature, online only. Apart from permission to display it on our website, you retain all rights in your story. There is no reading fee. Payment is a copy of one of our past anthologies. Please read Terms and Conditions below for details in full before submitting. 

Terms and Conditions

• We’re seeking literary fiction. Please see our back issues for examples of what we like.
• Language: English. Previously unpublished. Entirely your own original work.
• Stories created in whole or in part by generative A.I. are excluded.
• Word range: 1000 to 6500. Only one submission at a time please.
• Submission is for online publication only. We are not publishing books at this time.
• Story of the Month is an occasional feature. A month may be missed out for any number of reasons.
• In addition to stories submitted via Submittable.com, some months may feature stories acquired or commissioned directly.
• We are seeking to publish stories by writers not previously featured in Story of the Month or not featured for more than a year.
• Consideration: Each Story of the Month author will receive a copy of one of our past anthologies. 
• Response time: Submissions are read in sequence by date received. When a story of the month is chosen, we try to "release" all prior submissions. If you have not heard back it means your story is still under consideration for a subsequent month.
• When a story is accepted, it will be published as Willesden Herald Story of the Month and will remain online indefinitely or at the editor's discretion. You can view and read the previous Stories of the Month. 
• Permissions: Except for permission to display your submitted story online on our website when your story is published as Willesden Herald Story of the Month, all copyright reverts to you, the author.
• The text of stories will remain online indefinitely unless removed later on request from the author or at the discretion of the editor.
• Data Protection: We wish to communicate through Submittable.com's message system, not collecting any of your data outside of that. We won't pass your information to anyone else, unless compelled to do so by law.
• Submission shall be taken as acceptance of these terms.