Guidelines

Submissions Details

Please read all the guidelines below before submitting your work to Cov Words. Publishing decisions are made by the CovWords Team. Content that is submitted to the website does not have to follow any particular theme and may be based on or about any topic.

Your work must comply with the appropriate guidelines below:

  • Mini Sagas (50 Words exactly)
  • Drabbles (100 words exactly)
  • Flash Fiction (up to 500 words)
  • Short Stories (up to 5000 words)
  • Poetry (maximum of 40 lines)
  • Play/Screen Scripts
  • Comic Strips/Graphic Novels/Storyboards/Artwork (high-quality images only, must be readable)

Website Only:

  • Articles related to creative writing (between 800 and 1200 words)
  • Travel Articles (between 800 and 1500 words)
  • Author/ Book Reviews (between 500 and 1000 words)
  • Recorded Plays (WMV, MP4 and AVI formats are accepted)
  • Recorded Radio Dramas (WMA and MP3 formats are accepted)
  • Online Videos of Performance Poetry
  • Multimedia Creative Pieces

* In case of artwork or media submissions of any kind, e-mail it directly to coventrywordsmagazine.su@uni.coventry.ac.uk or host the file on an image/video hosting website and paste the link on the form. Only HQ files will be accepted.