
“My own material existence I am reasonably assured of. I can imagine my friend at the other end of the line. But between us two there is an airy nowhere, inhabited by voices and nothing else[…]The vocal inhabitants of this strange region have an amazing vanishing quality[…] And sometimes…you hear the confused murmur of a hundred voices. You catch more expressions from private conversations than your nerves can transmit to the central office of your brain; and if you are imaginative, you may undergo, as I have, a feeling as if you had a hundred astral bodies that were guiltily listening at as many keyholes.”
“A Reporters Visit to the Boston Telephone Exchange”
Scientific American 1887, 106
joe[a]strangeregion.co.uk
submissions
between DECEMBER 01 2025 and JANUARY 31 2026 we will be open for submissions for long form work
we are interested in work that sits outside of narrative convention, if you have a project that doesn’t seem to fit anywhere, we want to see it
we accept fiction, poetry collections, documentation, reportage, essays, art
if you are unsure if your work is a good fit, we recommend reading some of our previous titles to give you an idea of what we like
we are only accepting finished, or almost finished manuscripts
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all work should be unpublished
we are not currently open for submissions for single poems or short stories
we are particularly excited to receive work from writers from underrepresented and/or marginalised groups
guidelines:
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please send all submissions to: joe@strangeregion.co.uk
please submit the manuscript in full along with a short description of the work (1 page max) and a short (100 words max) bio of yourself
please make the subject line of your email: SUBMISSION_[YOUR NAME]_[TITLE]
please format your submission as a .docx file or .pdf if necessary
please submit one project per email
simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please inform us as soon as possible if a piece of work gets accepted elsewhere
we are not able to receive submissions by post
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we will not consider any work which has been generated, or in any way developed with ai tools
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all submissions will be read, and we will aim to reply to all within three months of receipt, however we cannot offer feedback if you are unsuccessful



