#mswl for December Submissions
The Wild Hunt Books team have been excitedly preparing for our 2023 January Campaign! We hope you join us in that adventure and help support this wonderful publishing project.
But in the mean time, we are open for new submissions during the month of December. We request your query letter, synopsis and full manuscript. For our second list, we are expanding into novels of maximum 85,000 words (but we are still looking for novellas, so don’t fret). More information will be available on the Submissions page closer to December, but for now, we’re sharing our manuscript wish list.
This list doesn’t indicate a requirement, but think of it as the genres, vibes and stories we’ve been in the mood for lately. So, if you’ve been tinkering away on something new or have a dusty typescript hidden in a desk drawer that touches on one or more of these, we’d love to see it!
We are open to novel/las that speak to the heart of our company: Our mission is to foster strong and distinct literary voices and those that experiment with narrative, plot and structure. We are also a home for authors dabbling in the darker genres and liminal spaces.
Locked room mystery with a twist (doesn’t necessarily need to be in a room!)
Smart horror (Catriona Ward)
Something dark, mysterious or experimental set in Scotland
Gothic throwback (think: something classic with or without a new twist or in the penny dreadful vein)
Playing with form, e.g., found text, fictional memoir, podcast (His Bloody Project, James Hogg, Matt Wesolowski’s Six Stories series)
Ghosts or hauntings
Present day or historical folk horror (Starve Acre, Wakenhyrst, The Wicker Man)
Cosmic Horror
Like above, this isn’t a definitive list. So please don’t be put off from submitting if your book doesn’t fit in any of these categories but do remember we priortise writers residing in the UK or Ireland (or citizens living abroad).
Keep an eye on this blog for more info about the submission window, query letters and synopses.