About The Edge
If you're interested in
writing for The Edge please read the guidelines below before contacting us.
It's a good idea to read the editorial as well.
We now have to charge for
postage on overseas orders. The prices below include postage and packing,
though in the UK you still pay no more than you would in a shop. Be warned,
subscription and overseas prices will have to rise again some time this year.
65 Guinness Buildings
Hammersmith
London
W6 8BD
UK
email is checked several times a week
Edited by Dave Clark
Site originally designed by Gerald Houghton
You can buy The Edge from
a variety of retail outlets or directly from us; mail order details are below.
Sorry, we don't have a list of stockists to send you. Mail order is better for
us anyway, and in the UK you pay no more than you would in a shop.
We publish fiction, features, interviews, book, film, video, soundtrack and graphic novel reviews and comment columns, and a letters page.
If you want a sample
issue, we send new series #2, 60 A4 pages. Fiction by Steve Beard, Eric
Brown, Michael Moorcock and Peter Whitehead; extensive interviews with Caitlin
R Kiernan and Anthony Frewin; Iain Sinclair on London, David Litvinoff, Peter
Ackroyd and Michael Moorcock; Christopher Fowler's regular film column; 8 of
our popular La Squab strips, and our usual review sections, competitions
and letters page. £4 UK; 7 Euro; $10 US; $12 Australia. You can include this
issue in your subscription if you like.
The next issue includes the usual features. Order now for £4 UK, 8 Euro, $10 US, $12 Australia, and it’ll be sent on publication.
Subscriptions
There is no charge for postage and packing in the UK. All overseas copies go
by air mail.
Rates are available for most currencies. Please enquire, letting us know what
you want, and we'll probably be able to give you a price in your own currency,
which we can usually accept by cheque or cash.
Please email all enquires or send them with return postage for air mail (1
International Reply Coupon from Europe, 2 IRCs from outside; or $1 US cash from
Europe, $2 from anywhere else) or an email address.
UK, one issue: the price is
currently £4 for the next issue.
2 issue subscription, £7; 4 issue subscription, £13.
All overseas prices
include postage
Europe/Irish Republic:
£4.50 for next issue; 2 issues, £8; 4 issues, £15.
Euros: 8 for next issue, 12 for two, 22 for 4. We can take Euro cheques or
notes, and notes in most other currencies.
USA: $10 or £6 for next
issue; 4 issues, $35 or £25.
US checks (from $35 up) are accepted, or you can send US cash (notes only).
Australia: $14 or £7 for
next issue; 4 issues, $45 or £27
Australian cheques are accepted from $45 up, or you can send Australian cash
(notes only).
Unfortunately, we can't
accept International Money Orders in currencies other than £UK.
If you are outside Europe
or the US, you can pay either the European price in British currency or Euros,
plus £1 or 2 Euro per issue (International Money Order/Eurocheque) or the US
prices in US dollars cash or, possibly, your own currency in cash (please
email The Edge for details.) Subscribers
are sent each issue before the shops. All overseas orders are sent by
airmail.
Please make cheques,
etc, payable to 'The Edge', 65 Guinness Buildings, Hammersmith, London, W6 8BD,
UK.
Back issues
Subscriptions can include #2, details above, and #5 of the old series, but must
also include the next issue. Back issue details
Guidelines for
potential contributors
These guidelines are copyright The Edge and, like everything else on this
site, may not be reproduced or circulated anywhere, in any form, without
permission from the copyright holder.
Please read carefully
before contacting us.
The Edge is interested in
fiction, features and reviews and open to anyone.
We reply to all submissions that arrive with appropriate return postage or an
email address within 3 weeks of receipt (usually within one week). All
submissions must be previously unpublished and sent by post, not email.
Please note that The Edge accepts no responsibility for unsolicited submissions: if your email address bounces, or your story arrives with an ‘insufficient postage’ label on the envelope and the same amount in stamps on the sae, that’s your look-out. We usually don’t reply to CVs, artwork submissions, stuff that comes without postage, one IRC instead of two, from India with neither postage or an email address, questions about a story you sent us last week or 6 months ago, etc, etc… because we can’t provide services for people who don’t buy the magazine.
Fiction
The Edge publishes short stories of more than 2000 words (not whole novels or
sequels to work published elsewhere). Many have urban themes, and/or could be
described (by others) as modern and borderline gothic horror/fantasy/sf,
slipstream, crime fiction or erotica; please don't send clichéd stories.
Experimental work is welcome. There is always room for new names.
A lot of our fiction has subsequently been collected into book form. The Edge
is, obviously, read by many professional writers and editors.
Please send one story at a time, don't email fiction to us, and read the 'General
requirements' bit below.
Non-fiction
Features and interviews are from 2-20,000 words. Please write with something
you've written, published or unpublished, with appropriate return postage (see
below) unless you are enclosing your email address. Don't email anything to us.
We've never published an unsolicited review. Those interested in book or film
reviewing should look at our reviews and send examples of their work
(published or unpublished).
Artwork
Illustrators, cover artists and cartoonists are not required.
Comic strip submissions will be considered, either serious or humorous, but look
at the magazine (not just the site) first. We look at either complete
strips or stories, or sample pages. All artwork sent must be disposable and, if
you want a reply, send postage or your email address.
Payment
Payment is negotiable (up to £50 per 1000 words) and made on publication. We
will send you proofs before printing.
The Edge buys First Publication Rights (in any media, anywhere in the world)
only. All copyrights revert to contributors on publication.
This means that anything accepted for publication must not have appeared
anywhere, including on websites, before we publish it; and that, after we
publish it, it's yours again. We've never said anywhere that The Edge will
publish reprints, so please don't send them - you might not get a reply.
General requirements (read these before sending
anything)
Please type double-spaced, number the pages of typescripts, and include your name
and address and the approximate number of words. Paperclip or staple your work.
No poetry, simultaneous submissions or submissions by email or on disk.
Please don't squash your work into a tiny envelope. If you send a big ms and a
small sae we'll assume the ms is disposable.
Please don't send anything by any service requiring a signature on receipt. We
get tons of things that way already, and that's enough.
We don't discuss submissions, enter into correspondence about it, and rarely
reply personally. This is to save time.
Unless you're someone whose work we're already interested in, we're very
unlikely to visit your website to look at your work.
Appropriate return
postage
UK: enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope (an SAE) for the return of your
work, ensuring that the stamps are of sufficient value. Alternatively, send a
disposable copy of your work plus an SAE for a letter of acceptance/rejection.
If you're outside the UK, always send disposable work.
If you're in Ireland or Europe 1 IRC (an International Reply Coupon) will be
sufficient for an airmail reply.
If you're outside Europe or Ireland enclose 2 IRCs or $1 cash (US). This covers
an airmail letter of reply. One IRC usually isn't enough, unfortunately. We
know some US post offices will say it should cover an airmail response. This
might be something to do with US internal air mail. One IRC actually covers
feather-light envelopes and paper or a hand-written postcard, but we send
pre-printed letters. If you only send one IRC then you may not hear from us.
The above guidelines
are copyright The Edge and, like everything else on this site, may not be
reproduced or circulated anywhere, in any form, without permission from the
copyright holder.