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Do you love to write? Gully Books welcomes budding writers. This is your chance to get your name out and publish your work on our website. Giving young people this chance is our way of helping cultivate the next generation of writers, editors, and publishers.
In celebration of I Love To Write Day on November 15th, we open Gully Books for submissions. If you are between 13 to 20 and have a knack for writing, we invite you to submit your short stories, essays, and web articles. If your piece gets chosen, we will publish your work online. Published writers receive Gully Books swag and instant bragging rights!
I Love To Write Day
Authors aren’t the only ones who can write. After all, they had to start somewhere. Every famous writer began their first novel with just one word, even though that may seem difficult to believe.
John Riddle, an American author, founded I Love to Write Day in 2002. When asked why he created a day dedicated to writing, he explained that his only goal is for everyone to start writing. Whether it is a short story, a poem, a love letter, a greeting card, or even a novel, it doesn’t matter as long as one celebrates the day by writing something.
I Love To Write Day is commemorated every November 15th all across the globe. The celebration resonates with different cultures, the Philippines included. It spans all genres, everything from novels to poetry to mail correspondence. The goal is for young people to sit down and write something, no matter how short or in what manner, on paper or a computer. Hopefully, this special day will kick-start their writing and give them confidence by being a part of a global movement.
Gully Books Submission Guidelines
- Gully Books will only accept original, unpublished work by writers ages 13 to 20. If you are new to publishing and need assistance, please email us at contact@gullybooks.com or reach out to us on Gully Books’ social media channels.
- All writers with accepted work for publication will need age verification.
- You can write about anything in whatever genre you want – book reviews, short stories, poems, fiction, or nonfiction. It has to be at least 300 words.
- Use of the English language is preferred but works written in Filipino are also accepted.
- Publishing under a pen name is allowed. However, we do not publish anonymous work.
- For those under the age of 18, we must have permission from your parent/guardian to publish your work.
- Writers must submit their work and correspond directly with Gully Books staff. Submissions on behalf of the writer will not be accepted.
- Gully Books retains rights to all submitted work, whether accepted for online publication or not.
- The call for submissions is perennially open. We will make an announcement should we decide to close.
- Gully Books does not accept previously published material online. Work is considered previously published if posted in any digital arena, including social media and online forums, including Wattpad, and other blogs or websites.
- Send all your submissions to submit@gullybooks.com with the subject line “type of work + title of your work”. Email your submissions as a word document file or you can type or copy-paste directly into the email.
Let’s Celebrate I Love To Write Day 2024!
Let’s put our writing and thinking caps on. Start writing your first short story, your first book review, your first poem. Everything starts somewhere and your road to your dream to be a writer, author or publisher can start now. Let’s celebrate I Love to Write Day by writing that first word that would hopefully be your first step to a future bestseller.
