Issue 1 is
out now

The rebel city’s brand new magazine, featuring top quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry from around the world.

Journals can also be purchased at:

  • Five Leaves Bookshop

  • Nottingham Tourism Centre

  • Beam Bookshop

  • Bromley House Library

  • magCulture

  • Waterstones Nottingham (soon!)

Issue 1
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Issue 1 Launch Release at Nottingham Central Library:

Submissions for Issue 2 are currently closed. Opening date TBA.

Our Issue 1 contributors:

Amy Acre
Aurora Amaryllis
Hongwei Bao
David Belbin
Vanessa Bell
Jim Brown
Elizabeth Cook
Benedict Cooper
Daniel Cordle
Chase Cormier
Helen Cross
Nathan Curnow
Nicola Davison Reed
CJ Deocareza
Shashank Dhongadi
Ashley Gallant
Rich Goodson
Griffin Gudaitis
Janet Gunter
Nicholas Hogg
Nas Jolaade
Gaynor Jones

Nandakumar K
Frank G. Karioris
Andrew Tucker Leavis
Thomas Legendre
Paul Liedvogel
Indu Menon
Alison Moore
Emma Neale
Henry Normal
Vinod Sankaran
April Seaworth
Thom Seddon
David Sergeant
Ra Sh
Bridie Squires
Fiona Theokritoff
Jib Tran
Gail Webb
Chloé Rose Whitmore
Jared Wilson
Ash Wroughton
Ho Kin Yunn

At the NNJ we’ll feature short fiction, essays and slow journalism, as well as poetry - the best new writing we can find, from established writers and beginners, pulling from as many voices and perspectives as can be mustered.

If you think you have a piece that would suit the Journal, then stay posted for the submissions window for Issue 2, likely to be in Spring 2026.

Submissions

The New Nottingham Journal is a print publication launching in 2025 which takes its cue from Nottingham’s rich culture of writing, both past and present.

The NNJ draws inspiration from the city’s rich history of publications like the original Nottingham Journal, a newspaper which ran from the early 18th century until the 1950s - where writers like Graham Greene and J.M. Barrie learned their trade.