Advice & information for writers

Tindal Street Press publishes excellent contemporary fiction from the English regions – which means the manuscripts that interest us most have a centre of gravity outside of London and the south-east. If you are unsure whether your work counts as 'regional' then please check with info@tindalstreet.co.uk before submitting.

We publish 6 adult fiction titles a year. We welcome unsolicited manuscripts, but will not consider poetry, children’s, teenage, sci-fi, fantasy or romance.

To submit a manuscript please send a synopsis and the first 3 chapters of a novel to:

Tindal Street Press

217 The Custard Factory

Gibb Street

Birmingham

B9 4AA

Short stories can only be considered if presented as a coherent, complete collection.
 
Please send hard-copy submissions only (ie: a print-out by post rather than email), with a covering letter and return postage. We acknowledge all submissions, and aim to respond fully in 3 months, though this is not always possible.

Birmingham Post Short Story Master Classes

Writing Master Classes - Archive

Top Birmingham writers offer their advice on how to craft a polished short story. Alan Mahar, Alan Beard, Jackie Gay, Joel Lane, Helen Cross and Julia Bell, give practical tips by examining the technique of Eudora Welty William Trevor, E Annie Proulx, Ray Bradbury, Emily Perkins and Raymond Carver.

This series of 6 master classes was first published in the Birmingham Post in autumn 2001 to inspire the city's writers to enter a short story competition which resulted in Birmingham Nouveau (2002). An initiative between the Birmingham Post, Tindal Street Press and Arts & Business New Partners, the competition gave writers the chance to 'bring the city alive on the page'.

Read the master classes ...

Here are six PDF files containing the master classes:

• 1: Keep Your Eyes & Ears Open
• 2: Be Indirect
• 3: Be Inspired
• 4: Use Your Characters
• 5: Be Fearless
• 6: Showing not Telling