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About The London Magazine

The London Magazine Volume 1 Issue 9 - cover page    From the 1700's until the present day, The London Magazine has played a vital role in the literary world.

First founded in 1732, The London Magazine appeared for 53 years as a counterbalance to The Gentleman’s Magazine. Re-launched in 1820 under John Scott’s editorship, The London Magazine championed the work of Wordsworth, Lamb, De Quincey and Clare, as well as the ‘Cockney School’ of poets. Welcoming the publication under John Lehmann’s editorship, T.S.Eliot saw it as ‘the magazine which will boldly assume the existence of a public interested in serious literature’.

Today The London Magazine continues to present the finest writers, artists and commentators working in London and farther afield. Nobel Prize winners and unpublished writers, renowned artists and neglected poets have graced the pages of The London Magazine.

Our most recent issues have included such writers as Nicholas Royle, Penelope Shuttle, Anne Stewart, Tim Turnbull, Trevor Hoyle, Annie Freud, Roddy Lumsden, Graham Buchan, Leah Fritz, John Hartley Williams, Todd Swift, Martyn Crucefix, Tim Cumming, Dalgit Nagra, Andy Brown, Neil Curry and many more…

We have a regular film column (written by Nicholas Royle), and have recently begun a regular column  called 'Poets on Politics'.

Consistently on the pulse of the literary scene, The London Magazine is a meeting place for the day’s greatest minds.

Sara-Mae Tuson
Editor 


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Submissions

 

 

Deadlines For Submission

April/May

29 March 2008

June/July

29 May 2008

Aug/September

29 July 2008

October/November

29 August 2008

December/January

29 November 2008

February/March

29 December 2008



Payment
Unfortunately we are unable to offer payment at this time due to the cancellation of our Arts Council Grant.


Rough Guide To Presentation

Short stories, features, memoirs, critical articles

No more than 3,000 words

Reviews

Generally no longer than 2,000 words

Poetry

No longer than 800 lines



Form of submission
Contributions to the magazine in literature and the arts are both welcome and invited. We do prefer e-mail. Please send your submissions to admin@thelondonmagazine.net. All postal submissions must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. Sufficient international reply-paid coupons must be enclosed, if work is required to be returned. In general, a mimimum of 3 coupons is necessary for type-scripts of 5 A5 pages.

When commissioned, submissions should be sent by e-mail as a .doc file attached to a covering message. No file should be larger than 500k. If your work is larger, please compress it with a package such as WinZip or similar. We also accept floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Images should be submitted in .TIFF format, maximum size A5 @ 600dpi. Please note: there will be NO colour reproduction in the magazine apart from the front cover.

If you use a Mac computer, please ensure that you send a file which can be opened and read by our PC equipment. If you send a floppy disk, you will need to ensure that it is formatted to be read by a PC. There are usually no difficulties in reading CDs.


Format of reviews
Please put the following information in the order below at the top of your review:
  • Name you wish to appear under
  • Head title you would like for your review
  • Title of book being reviewed
  • Name of author
  • Publisher
  • Number of pages and cover price (do not convert foreign currencies to sterling)
Rough guide to textual conventions
  • Single inverted commas for all speech marks unless. further quotations within direct speech.
  • Single inverted commas for short quotations.
  • Longer quotations indented by 1/2 inch.
  • Ordinary paragraph breaks to be made with a single carriage return - not line spaces.
  • All publications to be referred to in italics.


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  Vol 1 No 12
March 1962

 
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February 1962

 
  Vol 1 No 10
January 1962

 
  Vol 1 No 9
December 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 8
November 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 7
October 1961

 
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September 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 5
August 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 4
July 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 3
June 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 2
May 1961

 
  Vol 1 No 1
April 1961

 
 


ISSN
0024-6085

Current editor
Sara-Mae Tuson

Publisher
Christopher Arkell

Contact address
Flat 5, 11 Queen's Gate, SW7 5EL

Tel (0)207 584 5977
Fax (0)20 7225 3273

Email admin@thelondonmagazine.net

Website
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