The theme for Issue 10 of The Vanity Papers is “Phenomenon” to be interpreted as you wish. Submissions are open until the 7th of February 2026.

We read your work with care and are highly selective. We nominate for the Forward Poetry Prize. 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. We publish short fiction, poetry, essay, art and photography (with experimental fiction as priority) Please send original work of a maximum of 5000 words.

Please find the submission form: here

We publish artistically innovative and experimental works.