Call for submissions: Forest Publishing celebrates 20 years of Forest!
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020
^ The Forest Cafe’s current location, photographed by me in 2014.
Hello friends!
One of the few nice happenings of the past few weeks is this: I recently became a trustee of Forest, the legendary arts co-operative that’s been providing grassroots support for artists and writers in Edinburgh since 2000. If you’ve been around for ages, then you’ll remember me talking about how important Forest is here. If it weren’t for Forest and the bloody fantastic poet and all-round excellent human Ryan Van Winkle (one of its founding directors), I might never have made it in the weird and wild world of writing!
Part of my trustee role has been revitalising Forest Publishing, the publishing arm of the collective, in time to celebrate Forest’s 20th birthday. I’m delighted to say that the first of a series of anniversary publications is going to be an anthology of creative writing by… well, anyone. That means YOU, if you’d like to submit! All the details are below and you get one month to perfect your poems, stories, or flash pieces.
I look forward to reading your work! :)
Forest Publishing
Call for submissions: Forest 20/20/20
Forest is 20 in 2020! As part of the birthday celebrations, Forest Publishing will create a series of DIY chapbooks full of poems, stories, flash and artwork. These will be limited edition publications, hand made in short runs and produced as a series so readers can eventually collect them all!
Our first chapbook will be an anthology of poetry, flash and stories.
Submissions are open to absolutely everyone!
Send us your previously unpublished / un-broadcast writing on the theme of PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE.
Interpret the theme however you like!
There’s no limit on word or line count, but we may favour shorter pieces in order to fit more good stuff in our chapbook.
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We are particularly keen to receive submissions from Black and indigenous writers, writers of colour, LGBTQIA+ writers and disabled writers.
Send your submissions to forestpublishing20@gmail.com by 5pm on Friday 31st July
What is Forest?
We are a volunteer-run, collectively-owned, free arts and events project that has existed in Edinburgh (and elsewhere) since 2000. We run a free-to-access café/gallery/performance space for people to get involved in any creative activity imaginable. Our events have included music, theatre, dancing, yoga, massage, poetry recitals, art displays, knit-ins, book tours, language teaching, monsterbike making…and plenty more. We’re always on the lookout for new events and ideas, even when they take us to space.
Our aims are:
To enable greater access to all forms of the performing arts
To provide opportunities to learn and develop skills
To increase access to art
To facilitate the development of artists’ work and skills
To build co-operation and cultural understanding
Find out more at theforest.org.uk and on #Forest202020