• Multiple submissions are accepted but must be submitted in separate emails.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must have the right to license your story in an anthology. If your story is accepted elsewhere, please let us know straight away by ‘replying’ to your original submission email, so we can clearly see which submission is no longer available.
• Reprints are unfortunately not accepted.
• We will not consider submissions written, developed, or assisted by AI.
• Stories suspected of, or outwardly using AI-generated text will not be accepted.
• All profits will be donated directly to the charity. As such, this is not a paid-for opportunity, but successful contributors will be acknowledged in all social media posts and publicity where possible.
• We request first serial rights, indefinite archival rights, and the right to publish in print, digital and ebook formats. These rights will be exclusive for six months from date of publication, converting to non-exclusive rights for a further period of two years, six months. With the exception of non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, all rights will revert back to the author after three years from the date of publication.
• Once selected for publication, your story will go through a copyedit. We reserve the right to make sentence-level edits to the manuscript to deal with spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation and flow, as well as formatting for House Style. Your editor will be careful to retain your voice and style, and any proposed edits that could impact those elements will be queried and agreed with the author.
• We will aim to read each story and confirm its status by 30^th June, 2026.
• Submission does not imply the right to publication. Each story will be read and assessed by the selection panel.
• We welcome submissions from all writers, of all nations, nationalities, ethnicities, backgrounds, genders, faith, orientations, identities, and experiences.
• All submissions should be in English.
• We are open to a wide spectrum of content, but trigger warnings should be included if needed on the first page of your submission. Content of this nature should serve a specific narrative purpose and not be self-gratifying or for ‘shock factor’.

Guidelines:

• Submissions should only be emailed to submissions@jkwpr.co.uk
• Please make sure your story is double-spaced with 12-point sans serif font (such as Times New Roman).
• The file name of the submission must be the story name only. Please just use spaces between words in the title (not _ or -) and if the story starts with ‘A’ or ‘The’, please use it at the beginning of the file name.
• The subject line of the email must be the story title. The name of the file must match the name in the subject line.
• The file with the story must be attached to the email (.docx, .doc or .rtf format) NOT in the body of the email.
• Please include a short cover letter that includes a brief bio.
• If submitting more than one story, please submit one story per email.
• Story length is most likely to be successful at 2,000 – 4,000 words, but we will still read stories slightly outside this range (max. 5,000 words).
• Publication will be in Autumn/Winter 2026.
• Deadline for submissions: Friday 22^nd May, 2026, at 11.59pm.