Key Information:​

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Submission to Interpret is free for all readers who need it to be. If for whatever reason you would prefer not to pay our editorial fees, simply send a submission email as normal. No questions will be asked and no proof is required: this is part of our commitment to openness to all authors, and it will never change.

If you have the means, we ask that you pay £3 or equivalent to cover editorial fees to our PayPal, or to subscribe to the magazine. Interpret receives no institutional support and relies on its readers for survival.

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Information on our fast-track service, with replies within five working days, can be found below alongside the details for professional editorial feedback.

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Please don't send texts written, edited, or translated by AI. This is easily detectable and will result in your submission being deleted. If you lack a translator and so have provided a temporary computer translation, please make this clear in your email.

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Specific Guidelines:

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• Please send no more than three poems or two stories per submission.
   

• Our limit for short fiction is 2500 words.
   

• Only send work for which you hold the necessary rights. This includes all quotations, such as epigraphs.
   

• All unsolicited work must be unpublished in English-language magazines. We consider 'published' to mean 'readable in print or on any website excluding private social media accounts'.
   

• Attach a 30-word, third-person bio.
   

• While we accept simultaneous submissions, please notify us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
   

• Interpret accepts submissions in any language from anywhere in the world. Our editor is a professional translator of French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Writers in these languages are not required to supply an English translation, as this can be completed by our editor; they may choose to send another translation, however.
   

• If you write in a language other than those mentioned above, your work must be accompanied by a full translation into English.
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• Unfortunately, unless your work has been selected for publication, we are no longer able to send individual rejection slips over email. This is because of the sensitivity of spam-detection software, which can lock us out of our email account. As such, if you have not heard from Interpret in five months, please assume that your work has not been placed.

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Fast-track service:

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• Interpret offers a fast-track service for writers who purchase a copy of the magazine or make an equivalent donation.
   

• Authors will be informed within five working days if their work has been accepted for publication. Response times are otherwise between one and four months. Please include 'fast track' in your submission subject line and provide evidence of your purchase.

Full editorial feedback:

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• For full feedback on a submission, including line edits and comments, please contact our editor at the address below, with 'Feedback' in your subject line.

• Cost of feedback is set at £25 or equivalent per poem and £45 or equivalent per short story, paid in advance at the PayPal link on our 'Subscribe & Buy' page.

• Previous recipients of feedback have seen their work published both in Interpret and in leading UK magazines such as Gutter, Poetry Scotland, World Literature Today, Propel, and Acumen.

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All information is processed according to our privacy notice.

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Send all correspondence to the following address: