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THE EDGE
Unit 138
22 Notting Hill Gate
London
W11 3JE
UK
Email: davec AT theedge DOT abelgratis DOT co DOT uk
Email is checked several times a week. Please note that if you ask questions that are covered on this page you may just receive a form response directing you back here. Also, we don't send read receipts, and we can't consider short stories sent by email!

Edited by David Clark.
Website design 3.1 by David Clark, 2001 and 2011.

You can buy THE EDGE from a variety of retail outlets or directly from us; mail order details are below. Mail order is best for us, and in the UK you pay no more than you would in a shop (less, if you subscribe). The prices below include shipping. Overseas orders are expensive because of shipping costs.

We publish fiction, interviews and other features, book, film, DVD and graphic novel reviews and comment columns, and, sometimes, a letters page. If you’re interested in writing for us then please read the guidelines below before contacting us. It’s a good idea to read the editorial too.

The next issue includes the usual features. Order now for £5 UK, 8 Euro, $10 US, $16 Australia, and it’ll be sent on publication.

Subscriptions
All overseas orders 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.

All prices include shipping
UK:
one issue: the price is currently £5 for the next issue.
A 4 issue subscription costs £18.00.

Europe/Irish Republic:
£6 for next issue; 4 issues, £21.
Euros: 8 for next issue, 25 for 4 issues. 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: $16 or £8 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 for details first.) Subscribers are sent each issue before the shops. All overseas orders are sent by airmail.

Please make cheques etc payable to ‘The Edge’, Unit 138, 22 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JE, UK.

Back issues
Subscriptions can include back issues, but must also include the next issue. Back issue details

IF YOU'D LIKE TO WRITE FOR US
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 (that works!) within 3 weeks of receipt (usually within one week). All submissions must be previously unpublished. Fiction submissions must be sent by post.

Please note that we can’t accept responsibility for unsolicited submissions: if your email address bounces, or there’s an insufficient amount in stamps on the sae, or we're asked to pay on delivery (we won’t) because there’s an ‘insufficient postage’ label on the envelope, that’s your look-out. We usually don’t reply to CVs, artwork submissions, stuff that comes without postage or an email address, etc, etc . . . because we just don’t have time.

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/borderline/gothic horror fiction, SF (science fiction, speculative fiction, whatever!), crime fiction, magic realism, imaginative fantasy, literary fiction, etc, etc; please don’t send clichéd or twist in the tail 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 and read the ‘General requirements’ below. Fiction that’s emailed to us will not be read.

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. Non-Fiction submissions can be emailed to us, but not as attachments. (We won’t open them).
New reviewers are always welcome. Please note that we’ve never published an unsolicited review. Those interested in book or film reviewing should look at our reviews and send sample reviews (published or unpublished). We’ll tell you if we’re interested.

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, also 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.

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 the pages together.
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.
We don’t discuss submissions, enter into correspondence about them, 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; they do still exist) 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 an airmail envelope and paper or a handwritten postcard, but we send pre-printed letters. If you only send one IRC then you may not hear from us. Wherever you are, you can enclose a sufficient amount in British stamps for a reply, but you must send enough. Ask in your post office.

THE EDGE is published by David Clark, Unit 138, 22 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JE, UK. All material is copyright the named contributors and should not be reproduced without permission. The magazine and website are copyright THE EDGE.

© THE EDGE and individual contributors. All rights reserved. All contributors reserve the right to be identified as the authors of all works credited to them on this site. Nothing should be reproduced without permission. THE EDGE magazine was founded in 1990, before anything with a similar name. The opinions of individual writers are not necessarily those of the editor.