SUBMISSIONS

Open Submissions: Fiction

November 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026

Submissions Overview

Splice is currently open to submissions of fiction for publication in 2026 and 2027. We are looking for book-length collections of short fiction, as well as novellas of between 10,000 and 20,000 words and novels of 20,000 words or more.

As with all books in the Splice catalogue, we welcome submissions in any genre. While we often lean towards literary fiction (see here, here, and here), we also encourage submissions that depart from strict realism, and we have previously published science fiction, magical realism, absurdism, surrealism, urban fantasy, horror, and speculative historical fiction.

If you’re familiar with the Splice catalogue, or if you read the samples at the other end of those links, you’ll see that our primary interest isn’t story so much as language. We love it terse and wry, we love it fragmented, erudite, elusive. We love nested narration and time-lapse chronology and the first-person plural voice and voices that speak breathlessly in a torrent of words. We’re looking for fresh, inventive, and experimental prose styles and narrative structures. Your approach to those elements of fiction will impress us more than your choice of genre and subject.

We like to publish books in bundles of two or three at a time. We don’t have any fixed vision of what we’ll be publishing in 2026-27, but we’d like to find three collections or novels, or else four novellas. The result will depend on the submissions we receive. Please be sure to send us your best work, and it might be helpful to read this advice from Daniel Davis Wood, the Commissioning Editor at Splice. You can expect to hear back from us by Easter, when we’ll have some decisions on our next titles.

Guidelines and Instructions

It’s easy to submit your work to Splice. Just fill in the form below and it’ll reach us. You’ll need to provide your name and email address, along with a brief note to let us know something about yourself and your writing.

Then you’ll need to do one more thing, depending on your familiarity with Splice and the books we’ve published so far…

If you’ve got a print copy of one of our books, please upload some evidence of this. The simplest evidence is a selfie with the book in the frame. If you’d prefer not to send a selfie, you can send other documentation: a library receipt if you’ve borrowed the book, an order number if you purchased from us.
If you don’t have a print copy of one of our books, you’ll need to pay a reading fee to help cover the costs of administering open submissions. It’s only £3, cheaper than a coffee, in lieu of postage for hard-copy manuscripts. All revenue from fees goes straight back into producing the books we accept for publication.

Some answers to common questions…

Yes, we accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your introductory note if you’re submitting your work elsewhere.

Yes, we accept multiple submissions. However, each manuscript requires its own evidence of a Splice purchase or a payment of the reading fee.

No, sorry, we can’t accept evidence of eBook purchases or purchases from Amazon. There are reasons for this, which we’d be happy to explain to you, but you’ll need to submit your work first.

Submit Here

Ready to submit? Enter your details into this form, upload your manuscript as the first attachment, upload your evidence as the second attachment, and then press the button. You’ll get a pop-up confirmation, where you can pay the reading fee if necessary. You’ll receive an email acknowledgement that your submission has been received within 72 hours of sending it in. If you haven’t received an acknowledgement by then, please contact us directly.

Thanks for your interest in Splice, and for supporting small presses. As above, we’ll be making decisions early next year and we’ll be in touch with responses to all submissions before Easter.