Hope you and yours are staying well. I have loads of news for you, some great, some not so great. Here we go.

I am thrilled to announce the theme for our 3rd anthology - Sending Nudes. We are open for submissions until 1 September. Fiction, nonfiction & poetry. Details are on our submissions page, and you can read about how we arrived at this theme in our 13 June blog post.

We are moving forward with Cyber Smut, a tantalizing collection of 12 short stories (fiction & nonfiction) and 12 poems about how the internet impacts our lives and relationships. Release date: September 2020 (actual date TBC). Pre-orders are now available on Guts website, with a nice discount.

Guts Publishing are now an award-winning business! Earlier in June we were awarded the 2020 Santander Development Award. Many thanks to Santander and Goldsmiths College for enabling Guts Publishing to thrive and grow.

I am over-the-moon to announce our first memoir Euphoric Recall by Scottish writer Aidan Martin - a raw, honest tale about addiction, recovery and the impact of the internet on young people's lives. Release date is 12 February 2021. Chapter 1, 'Groomed', appears in our Cyber Smut anthology. Here's an excerpt: 

"I stood outside of that McDonalds with my heart racing. ...Lying to my Mum about who I was meeting didn’t feel great. What was I supposed to do though? I could hardly tell her I was actually here to meet a man I had been talking to on the Internet instead of the ‘friends’ I was allegedly meeting. I was only fifteen. ...already on the way to ending my childhood innocence and yet I had no idea of the impact those moments would have on my entire life."

Many thanks to Aidan for having the guts to write this. I look forward to sharing his story with you.

For those who have submitted work - short stories, poetry and memoir - I send my sincere gratitude. I have read each and every one of your submissions and I am honored and touched to read and learn about your inner worlds. Although we would love to publish much more than we have (and you've sent some phenomenal work), it's simply not possible at this point. If you are interested in working with Guts Publishing, we are now offering services to assist with your writing and publishing goals. To find out more, take a look at Guts Services. First consultation is free.