17/03/2026
Call for Submissions: Spring, Sheffield Review, 2026 (for all UoS students, staff, alumni and affiliates).
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – THEME: ‘IN TRANSIT’
The Sheffield Review, the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal, request your submissions for our twenty-second issue. We are seeking creative work that responds to the theme of ‘in transit’ for our 2026 edition, in the medium of prose, poetry, experimental/hybrid writing, literary translation experiment, drama or visual art.
Whilst our theme ‘in transit’ is designed to be expansive, work may examine liminality, moments of transition, cross-cultural fusions/conflicts, the crossing of boundaries (interpersonal, sociopolitical, or textual) or what it means to be in a state of flux.
Other ways into the theme:
travel stories that involve transitions of any kind
translations or translatory encounters
trans and transitioning
transtemporal events
refugee and migrant crises
motions of mind
transgression
crossings, quests, arcs
poetics of transformation / metamorphosis
The issue is open to writers and artists who are from or are affiliated with the University of Sheffield. The deadline for submissions is 20th April and the launch of the journal is scheduled for 20th May.
The general editor is Adam Piette. The journal is divided into sections, each of which has an editorial team run by a staff editor working with postgraduate editors.
Please send submissions to the following genre editors, confirming your status (u/g, MA, postgrad, alumni, affiliate) and including your year of study if applicable:
Short fiction & creative non-fiction
For all prose submissions (complete short stories or extracts from longer works, of no more than 2,000 words), and creative non-fiction (experimental nonfiction, essays, memoirs, opinion pieces, theory work, reviews or something stranger, in the interstices between these genres), please submit to Adam Piette
([email protected]).
Poetry & Experimental/Hybrid Writing-Translation
Submit your poems (prose poems, poetic prose, essay poems, experimental, hybrid work or extract from a longer sequence etc as well as any literary translation experiment are all welcome...) of no more than (circa) 200-300 lines to Ágnes Lehóczky: ([email protected]).
Performance
Plays, scripts, sketches or performance pieces of all kinds to Frances Babbage: ([email protected]).
Visual Art
Photography, illustrations, drawings, short film and other visual material, to Elena Barham: ([email protected]).
