February 8, 2008 – 1:42 pm
Welcome to our brand new site! Some might say we should be well rested after our hiatus, but we’ve been working harder than ever to bring you an improved website and a new look Transmission!
“So what’s new?” I hear you ask. Well, take a look around our website, and you will see much more information about the magazine, including a potted history of Transmission and more about each individual issue. Our blog is still here to bring you news and reviews, and we have even launched a call for you to have your say on the blog – head over to our submissions page for further details.
Our brand new issue, Transmission #10, is packed with exclusive interviews, short fiction and reviews. Colm Tóibín talks about the importance of doing nothing, Rose Tremain praises genre fiction and new boy Wesley Stace talks about his love of ventriloquist’s dummies. Writer and lecturer John McAuliffe offers his take on writing schools, and pros and cons of studying creative writing, and we have more original short fiction from the most exciting up-and-coming writers around. Has that whet you appetite? Head over to our online shop to pick up your very own copy.
January 18, 2008 – 10:53 am
Our Christmas and New Year celebrations decided not to end this year, and we have been living merrily for all of 2008. This is evidently not the way to run a blog, as updates and such fall by the wayside as another cork pops…
In our madness, we have decided to welcome in the new year with a sale at our online shop! That’s right, all available back issues of Transmission are HALF PRICE. It will cost you only £2 per issue! This is a very limited offer and will end on 24th JANUARY 2008, just in time for the release of Transmission #10. I should mention it’s while stocks last too, so hurry!
Speaking of Transmission #10, it’s a doozy! Featuring interviews with Colm Toibin, Rose Tremain and Wesley Stace, it’ll be a new look. Oh, and keep your eyes on this here website for further changes…
December 9, 2007 – 12:19 pm
It’s been a busy few weeks here at Transmission HQ. First of all we took a day trip to London and visited some excellent bookshops. Not for Christmas shopping mind.
Now, all of our readers in London can purchase Transmission in their home city. You can find us in:
Blackwell, Charing Cross Road WC2
Foyles, Royal Festival Hall SE1
London Review of Books Bookshop, Bury Place WC1
Why don’t you pop in and buy Transmission for the literature lover in your life this Christmas?
If you already have the Pulp Fiction issue, remember that the new-look Issue #10 is available from the 25th January 2008, featuring exclusive interviews with Colm Toíbín, Wesley Stace and Rose Tremain. More details to follow…
November 13, 2007 – 9:07 am
We have decided to go on a literary inter-railing trip this coming summer and, for Transmission #11, we will be looking for short fiction on the theme EUROPE for publication in May 2008.
Europe is steeped in literary greatness, from Kafka to Flaubert, Dante to Mann, Nabokov to Hamsun. We want the magazine to reflect this, the pages steeped in European culture, stories set anywhere from Helsinki to Hamburg, Catalonia to Copenhagen – if it’s in Europe we want to be taken there!
What we DON’T want are stories set in Britain, stories that are as dry an uninteresting as a Lonely Planet guide, or stories about a Gap year spent as a holiday rep in Greece, complete with drink, drugs and sordid dance-floor frottage.
We DO want to luxuriate in the culture of Europe, stories that capture the essence of a place: the people, the food, the smells. We can’t afford to go on a summer holiday, so take us on a tour – be original and surprise us!
The deadline for submissions is: Monday 10th March 2008. For the full submission guidelines see our submissions page.
November 5, 2007 – 12:51 pm
It’s that time of year again… we roll out a dull thumbnail image tenuously linked to some motivational cliché as a gentle reminder that the submissions deadline for the next issue of Transmission is getting close. So here it is, the deadline for Issue#10 submissions is next Monday 12th November 2007, so if you are wanting to submit… ahem, you better get your skates on.
We are looking for short stories on the theme of New with the usual 3000 words maximum for submissions or 500 words maximum for stories in our micro-fiction section. You can read about the New Transmission here and the full submission guidelines are here.
Suggestions for future images and motivational cliché will be greatly appreciated.