At Flash, we aim to offer a unique editorial process, to provide aspiring writers with insight into how the publishing industry operates, and to offer useful feedback with which they can develop their skills and broaden their horizons.
Submissions for a new issue will typically twice per academic year. If you’re unsure about whether you’re able to submit, be sure to check our social media pages, which are frequently updated during term time with opening/closing submissions dates.
Having submitted a piece of work to the journal, providing it adheres to the parameters regarding word length outlined here, please wait until submissions have closed.
You will then be assigned an editor from our team, who will have one week to provide initial feedback to your piece for you to consider. Feedback typically includes any spelling, punctuation, and grammar amendments, along with suggestions for developing structure, character, or themes in your piece.
Subsequently, you will have a week in which you can send as many drafts as you would like to your editor, who will aim to promptly respond with new feedback.
The extent to which you engage with the editorial process is entirely up to you. We understand that many students are busy with multiple other commitments, along with coursework to attend to, so you are by no means obliged to send multiple drafts to your editor if you feel you will not have time.
However, this process is unique in its provision of detailed feedback for your creative work, which may improve your skills and enable you to think in depth about particularities of style, wording choice, structure, character, and so on. Writers who invest some time into the editorial process and develop their piece with their editor are often more likely to be successfully published in the journal than those who do not.
Once this second week of editing has elapsed, you will be asked to send a final draft of your piece(s) to your editor, who will then pass your final draft onto our executive editors: Bronte, Lucy, Ivy and Yoto.
The executive editors will carefully read all the pieces, and make any final grammar/spelling/punctuation amendments which may have been missed during the editing process. They will then select a set of around ten pieces to be published in the issue.
We really enjoy working with our writers at Flash. We aim to make this process enjoyable and informative, enabling writers to carefully scrutinise their work, in conjunction with helpful suggestions from an experienced editor.
If you have any further questions about this process, don’t hesitate to contact us on Instagram, or send us an email at flashliteraryjournal@gmail.com
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