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Welcome to Open Shutter Press
We aim to publish well-crafted poetry of nature & place
together with selected
B&W nature, landscape & cityscape photography
SORRY, SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME ONE ARE NOW CLOSED.
editor@openshutterpress.com
Please email our Managing Editor, Pete Taylor, attaching your work.
Send up to 5 poems and/or 5 photographs.
Poems should be a maximum of 30 lines (INCLUDING title and blank lines) to suit our 'poem-per-page' Anthology format.
Photos should be black-and-white, high quality and good resolution.
We'll get back to you with a decision by early January - or sooner.
Successful submitters will be asked for a brief 'Contributor' biography.
Our Editor
Pete Taylor
Pete has enjoyed a long copywriting and occasional journalism career in the UK, Middle East and Africa. His publishing experience goes back to the mid-90s, when he launched and ran the poetry & visual arts journal PPQ, or Poetry Postcard Quarterly.
His own work has been curated by PN Review and The Rialto, among others, while his poems also appear in - or have been accepted for - anthologies from 1-2-3 Press, Candlestick Press and The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press.
Recently, Pete was shortlisted for the Ginkgo/AONB ‘Best Poem of UK Landscape’ Prize – and had previously been a finalist in the Wales Poetry Award, commended in the Acumen International Poetry Competition, and longlisted for The Rialto/RSPB ‘Nature and Place’ Poetry Prize.
Three of his photographs were awarded Second Prize at the Corbis ‘Creatives: Through the Lens’ Exhibition in Dubai. He now lives with his wife and two youngest daughters in the Cheshire countryside of north-west England - editing anthologies and working on a new collection of his own poetry.