End of call for submissions.

We are about to end our call for submissions. The reason? We have sufficient good material to fill our list for the next 12 months. Simple as that.
 
Unsurprisingly, we had hundreds of submissions and many of them from talented writers. But we can only take on a few at a time and our publishing cup runneth over for this year, we're sorry to say.

Now, for those who received rejections, it's not possible, or advisable, to give individual critiques. Some don't need critiques at all. The reasons why some good writing was rejected are many and varied but include: our personal dislike of the subject matter; overly contentious material - in particular, hard-hitting religious or political diatribes; explicit sex scenes that had no bearing on the storyline; material that would be difficult to market; over-use of obscenities; and graphic violence. And so, without commenting on the value of the actual writing, it was relatively easy to say that such things are simply not for us.

All writers, though, however good, bad or indifferent, might wish to look at the following article in The Guardian Online if they are serious about improving the chances of their submissions being accepted by a publisher or agent.