Welcome to Friction Magazine and Journal, the new online space for creative writing and non-fiction published by the Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts and edited by the students on the MA and PhD programmes in creative writing at Newcastle University.
Call for contributions

Friction Magazine and Journal will publish work from leading writers, nationally and internationally, both established authors and first time writers. Please submit your work via editor@frictionmagazine.co.uk for our first November issue. Please read our call for contributions below to see where your work might fit.

For this first issue there is no theme–just submit within one of these two categories:
Monthly Frictions

On the first of each month we’ll publish a selection of stories, poetry, flash fiction and other creative work that won’t easily fit into categories. We’ll then spend the next month promoting your contributions to generate maximum exposure for your writing on Friction. You can submit any time between the 15ths of the month.

We hope this rolling schedule provides opportunity for the best work to be published on Friction, and we hope it means people will keep coming back regularly for new writing.

For creative submissions, we’re looking for:

    * Up to three pieces of poetry, with a maximum count of 100 lines
    * One piece of of fiction, with a maximum word count of 2,000
    * Three pieces of flash-fiction, with a maximum word count of 900
    * One piece of memoir, essay, life-writing with a maximum word count of 2,000

The Magazine

We hope Friction will be a lively and provocative magazine for readers and contributors to enjoy the latest opinion and debate around creative writing practice, from regular blogs on digital literature, young adult and children’s fiction, text and public art, and translation, through to personal narratives of studying and writing creatively. If you want to contribute either a one-off piece on any subject to do with creative writing, or if you’d like to contribute on a more regular basis, please get in touch at editor@frictionmagazine.co.uk and we’ll get back to you.

Further details here.

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