Thank you for your interest in submitting work for consideration for The Bee.

We will next be open for submissions of new work between Monday, 14 July and Friday, 29 August 2025. We will share details of how to submit your work at the start of that period.

This will be a time-limited opportunity. All work submitted will be read. We will contact everyone who submits work within three months of the closing date.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our editorial support and, should your work be accepted, you will work with our editor to prepare it for publication.

Throughout the year, we run three to four open calls for submission of new work, and we will announce further calls here and in our regular newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free here.

General Guidelines

We welcome work from writers who are working class or from working-class origins.

All submissions must be the original work of the writer.

We are interested in work of all lengths and in fiction, non-fiction, commentary, essays, and journalism. We are also interested in visual arts and photography submissions. Work will be published on The Bee website and considered for a forthcoming print edition.

Any work submitted for consideration must not have been published online or in print previously.

Agreement

If we accept a piece for publication, you will be issued with an agreement for usage of the work. The agreement covers the following: that New Writing North (on behalf of The Bee) will retain the first publication rights on the work produced, and the non-exclusive right to use the work online and in print in perpetuity. We reserve the right to be involved in any future exploitation of the work.

Payments

We pay all of our writers and have varying scales of payment for commissions depending on the length of the piece.

We pay following the receipt of an invoice and settle all accounts within one month of receipt.