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    Literary Magazine

    The People's Friend

    www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk

    Fiction

    Poetry

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    The longest running women's magazine in the world. We're famous for fiction, knitting and cookery.

    Highlights

    • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
    • Response time:
      84 days after submission*
      Editor reported data
       / 
      18 days*
      Chill Subs tracker stats
    • Acceptance rate:
      ?*
      Editor reported data
       / 
      19.00%*
      Chill Subs tracker stats

    Publication

    • Accepts simultaneous submissions

      What's that?

      When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

    • Accepts previously published

      What's that?

      When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

    • Nominates for prizes

    • Active on social media

    • Available in print

    • Provides contributor copies

    • Has examples online

    How to submit

    • Processs

      Email

    • Cover letter

      No cover letter advice

    • Eligibility

      No specific eligibility requirements

    • Formatting

      Pages can get mixed up in the reading process, so to save time, please number each one. Please put your name under the title of your story on the opening page of your manuscript. If we buy your story, we will then ask for an electronic copy. This makes it easier for our Production team when it comes to making up the issue and running the copy onto the page. No formatting Please use double spacing, and don’t include any indents. Once again, this saves oodles of time when we run the copy on the page. All dialogue should be in double quotes.

    • Author's rights

      We don't have rights information for this magazine

    • Additional info

      The best way to get a sense of our style is to read the magazine regularly. “Friend” readers range in age from about thirty to well over eighty. They like being entertained — and dislike being depressed. They like realistic material, but not so realistic — with sex, violence, drugs, drink, etc — that they are frightened or saddened.

    Tracker statistics

    50

    Total submissions tracked

    18 days

    Average response time

    19.00%

    Average acceptance rate

    1 days

    Fastest response time

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    The Submissions Grinder Statistics

    0.00%

    12-month average acceptance rate

    2 days

    12-month average response time

    About

    “The People’s Friend” is DC Thomson’s flagship title and the longest-running women’s weekly magazine in the world. First gracing newsagents’ shelves on 13 January 1869, the magazine has an ever-rising subscription base and is loved and trusted all around the world, with readers in Canada, New Zeala...

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    Founded

    1869

    Country

    GB

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      Stuart Johnstone

      Editor-in-Chief