Calling all writers and poets
We welcome unsolicited submissions. Submit your previously unpublished poetry of up to 30 lines and short fiction stories of no more than 1,000 words each on any subject for our consideration (as a Word .doc file otherwise we have to convert the file and errors can subsequently creep in). Tim Saunders Publications reserves the right to edit submissions. Authors retain copyright.
Do you have a book that you would like published?
We edit, set, publish and market books for authors.
Publishing procedure
Firstly, once an author agrees to our terms their photo is added to our Representation page.
The publishing process involves Tim thoroughly reading the manuscript, editing, setting it and often, creating book covers. Authors receive pdf proofs and at this stage any amendments can be made. Once the author is happy, the book is then published and retail prices are set. Usually ebooks are the least expensive followed by paperbacks and then luxurious hardbacks. A minimum of 75 pages is required to publish a hardback.
Author copies are often available at a discounted rate.
Books published by Tim Saunders Publications are available on Amazon and other outlets
Email your manuscript to tsaunderspubs@gmail.com
All submissions are responded to, after careful consideration.
We welcome unsolicited submissions. Submit your previously unpublished poetry of up to 30 lines and short fiction stories of no more than 1,000 words each on any subject for our consideration (as a Word .doc file otherwise we have to convert the file and errors can subsequently creep in). Tim Saunders Publications reserves the right to edit submissions. Authors retain copyright.
Do you have a book that you would like published?
We edit, set, publish and market books for authors.
Publishing procedure
Firstly, once an author agrees to our terms their photo is added to our Representation page.
The publishing process involves Tim thoroughly reading the manuscript, editing, setting it and often, creating book covers. Authors receive pdf proofs and at this stage any amendments can be made. Once the author is happy, the book is then published and retail prices are set. Usually ebooks are the least expensive followed by paperbacks and then luxurious hardbacks. A minimum of 75 pages is required to publish a hardback.
Author copies are often available at a discounted rate.
Books published by Tim Saunders Publications are available on Amazon and other outlets
Email your manuscript to tsaunderspubs@gmail.com
All submissions are responded to, after careful consideration.
To be published in 2024
And My Blood Sang by Maia Brown-Jackson
The Light Will Always Return by Frank McMahon
Loving our Home by Tim Saunders - our journey of home improvement
The Light Will Always Return by Frank McMahon
Loving our Home by Tim Saunders - our journey of home improvement
To be published in 2023
Hope in Disaster (incorporating Hope for Morocco and Libya - all royalties to the British Red Cross Appeals for the Morocco Earthquake and Libya Floods)
How Dreams Affect Your Life by DoLoraVi
Stronghold of Happiness film script by Devina Symes
The Paul Cave Prize for Literature 2023
How Dreams Affect Your Life by DoLoraVi
Stronghold of Happiness film script by Devina Symes
The Paul Cave Prize for Literature 2023
Forthcoming anthologies
Have you written a poem (up to 30 lines) or a short story up to 1,000 words on any of the following highly emotive subjects? This page is regularly updated so keep your eyes peeled because deadlines might change and more topics will be added. If you would like to see a particular subject covered, let us know and we'll consider it. Send your submissions to: tsaunderspubs@gmail.com - we'd love to read them. (Only send them, though when you are entirely happy because we cannot accept revised, amended versions due to time constraints). Anthologies are published once we have received work from a minimum of 10 contributors. For this reason sometimes anthologies are combined or deadlines extended.
Deadline: October 1, 2023
URGENT: Hope in Disaster (incorporating Hope for Morocco and Libya)
We are compiling an anthology celebrating everything Moroccan. Email your poems, memories, short stories, photos and art. We hope to publish this as soon as we can with all proceeds going to the British Red Cross Morocco Earthquake and Libya Floods Appeals.
1. Travel and transport
celebrating destinations at home and abroad and how they are reached
(have you taken a photo you're particularly proud of? It could make a book cover... email it over for consideration)
2. Photograph stories: send in your photos and stories about them
3. Wildlife: send in your photographs, too for the book cover
4. The importance of trees
5. Grief and death
6. History - "You have to know the past to understand the present," Carl Sagan
yesterday is today's history while today's is tomorrow's...
7. A collection of stories, Vol I
8. Pet poetry and short stories
for our favourite companions
9. Celebrating women
fantastic role models
10. Celebrating men
fantastic role models
Deadline: November 1, 2023
1. Politics (perhaps things might be a bit more stable by then!)
2. Action
3. Weather
4. Humour
5. Sleep
6. Determination (thank you Tony Hillary's niece, Hannah for this excellent idea for an anthology)
7. Flowers: loss, hope and beauty
raising the profile of any garden
8. Science fiction - “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy
exercise that imagination and meld it with science and technology
9. Money
the root of all evil.... or not....
Deadline: December 1, 2023
1. Food
2. Addiction
3. Greed
4. Challenges
5. Nature
6. Resilience
7. Harvest
Deadline: December 31, 2023
The year 2023 (poetry, short stories and comment summing up events of the year: cost of living, strikes, global events, floods, wild fires, volcanoes, boiling oceans, sewerage spills, tragedies, refugees etc.)
Deadline: January 1, 2024
1. Communication
2. People
3. Heritage
4. Music
5. The British Monarchy
(did you meet the Queen? Or any other member of Royalty? What are your feelings about the monarchy?)
6. A collection of verse Vol II
7. Zeitgeist of our times...
Deadline: February 1, 2024
1. Romance
2. Childhood
3. Ageing
4. Fame and fortune
5. Trees
6. Victorian times
Deadline: March 1, 2024
1. Space and time (submissions about space travel, science fiction and anything relating to the galaxy)
2. Sadness
3. Horror
4. The deep, deep ocean
5. A collection of stories, Vol II
Deadline: April 1, 2024
1. Power and corruption
2. Routine and order
3. Greatest achievements
4. Technology
5. Collected stories
6. A collection of verse, Vol III
Deadline: May 1, 2024
1. Lies and deceit
2. City life
3. Love
4. Health
Deadline: June 1, 2024
1. Flash fiction
2. Feelings
3. Reflection
4. Patience
Deadline: July 1, 2024
1. Fables
2. Religious inspiration
3. Patience
4. Talents and gifts
Deadline: August 1, 2024
1. Butterflies
2. Ghost stories
3. Children's stories
4. Best moments
5. A collection of verse, Vol IV
Deadline: September 1, 2024
1. The finer things in life
2. War
3. Myths
4. TV, film and theatre
Deadline: October 1, 2024
1. The power of writing
2. Architecture
3. Fashion
4. Adulthood
`
Deadline: November 1, 2024
1. When we were six (inspired by AA Milne)
2. Simple pleasures
3. Loneliness
4. Teenage years
Deadline: December 1, 2024
1. When we were seven (inspired by AA Milne)
2. Kindness
3. Disasters
4. Courage
5. A collection of verse, Vol V
Deadline: January 1, 2025
1. Regret
2. Morals
3. Privilege
Important note regarding BT email addresses
BT email addresses are not accepting emails from Tim Saunders Publications, returning them undelivered. If you have not received acknowledgement from Tim Saunders Publications please provide an alternative, non-BT email address. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
Have you written a poem (up to 30 lines) or a short story up to 1,000 words on any of the following highly emotive subjects? This page is regularly updated so keep your eyes peeled because deadlines might change and more topics will be added. If you would like to see a particular subject covered, let us know and we'll consider it. Send your submissions to: tsaunderspubs@gmail.com - we'd love to read them. (Only send them, though when you are entirely happy because we cannot accept revised, amended versions due to time constraints). Anthologies are published once we have received work from a minimum of 10 contributors. For this reason sometimes anthologies are combined or deadlines extended.
Deadline: October 1, 2023
URGENT: Hope in Disaster (incorporating Hope for Morocco and Libya)
We are compiling an anthology celebrating everything Moroccan. Email your poems, memories, short stories, photos and art. We hope to publish this as soon as we can with all proceeds going to the British Red Cross Morocco Earthquake and Libya Floods Appeals.
1. Travel and transport
celebrating destinations at home and abroad and how they are reached
(have you taken a photo you're particularly proud of? It could make a book cover... email it over for consideration)
2. Photograph stories: send in your photos and stories about them
3. Wildlife: send in your photographs, too for the book cover
4. The importance of trees
5. Grief and death
6. History - "You have to know the past to understand the present," Carl Sagan
yesterday is today's history while today's is tomorrow's...
7. A collection of stories, Vol I
8. Pet poetry and short stories
for our favourite companions
9. Celebrating women
fantastic role models
10. Celebrating men
fantastic role models
Deadline: November 1, 2023
1. Politics (perhaps things might be a bit more stable by then!)
2. Action
3. Weather
4. Humour
5. Sleep
6. Determination (thank you Tony Hillary's niece, Hannah for this excellent idea for an anthology)
7. Flowers: loss, hope and beauty
raising the profile of any garden
8. Science fiction - “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy
exercise that imagination and meld it with science and technology
9. Money
the root of all evil.... or not....
Deadline: December 1, 2023
1. Food
2. Addiction
3. Greed
4. Challenges
5. Nature
6. Resilience
7. Harvest
Deadline: December 31, 2023
The year 2023 (poetry, short stories and comment summing up events of the year: cost of living, strikes, global events, floods, wild fires, volcanoes, boiling oceans, sewerage spills, tragedies, refugees etc.)
Deadline: January 1, 2024
1. Communication
2. People
3. Heritage
4. Music
5. The British Monarchy
(did you meet the Queen? Or any other member of Royalty? What are your feelings about the monarchy?)
6. A collection of verse Vol II
7. Zeitgeist of our times...
Deadline: February 1, 2024
1. Romance
2. Childhood
3. Ageing
4. Fame and fortune
5. Trees
6. Victorian times
Deadline: March 1, 2024
1. Space and time (submissions about space travel, science fiction and anything relating to the galaxy)
2. Sadness
3. Horror
4. The deep, deep ocean
5. A collection of stories, Vol II
Deadline: April 1, 2024
1. Power and corruption
2. Routine and order
3. Greatest achievements
4. Technology
5. Collected stories
6. A collection of verse, Vol III
Deadline: May 1, 2024
1. Lies and deceit
2. City life
3. Love
4. Health
Deadline: June 1, 2024
1. Flash fiction
2. Feelings
3. Reflection
4. Patience
Deadline: July 1, 2024
1. Fables
2. Religious inspiration
3. Patience
4. Talents and gifts
Deadline: August 1, 2024
1. Butterflies
2. Ghost stories
3. Children's stories
4. Best moments
5. A collection of verse, Vol IV
Deadline: September 1, 2024
1. The finer things in life
2. War
3. Myths
4. TV, film and theatre
Deadline: October 1, 2024
1. The power of writing
2. Architecture
3. Fashion
4. Adulthood
`
Deadline: November 1, 2024
1. When we were six (inspired by AA Milne)
2. Simple pleasures
3. Loneliness
4. Teenage years
Deadline: December 1, 2024
1. When we were seven (inspired by AA Milne)
2. Kindness
3. Disasters
4. Courage
5. A collection of verse, Vol V
Deadline: January 1, 2025
1. Regret
2. Morals
3. Privilege
Important note regarding BT email addresses
BT email addresses are not accepting emails from Tim Saunders Publications, returning them undelivered. If you have not received acknowledgement from Tim Saunders Publications please provide an alternative, non-BT email address. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
