The theme for Issue 09 of The Vanity Papers is Universe, to be interpreted as you wish.

We publish: Short Story / Art / Photography / Poetry / Essay (with experimental fiction as priority) Please send original unpublished work of a maximum of 4000 words, with a brief biography, and an (optional) author photo. 

We read your work with care and are highly selective. We welcome international submissions. Simultaneous submissions are accepted please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. We nominate for the Forward Poetry Prize.

Please find the submission form: here

Contributors have written for The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The New York Times, JStor, Wet Grain The Minnesota Review, The London Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, The Oxford Magazine and have won amongst others, The Gower Prize, The PenCraft Book Award and The Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award.