That doesn't mean we want your half-baked potboilers and poetic rants that have spent the past five years in a bottom drawer. Can you remember a story or an artwork that made your heart falter just shy of a proper beat? We know that feeling, and it's the kind of thing we have a duty to present to our readers. Each year we receive hundreds of submissions, and we want your piece to be heard over the noise of the pack. Give us something that's braved the editing table a few times. Give us something that sings.
     We're five readers, artists and writers of varying palate, so don't be afraid that an idea or theme will be too this-or-that for us to appreciate. But I can say, straight off the bat, that we do not accept previously published/ prizewinning pieces, gratuitous alliteration, wanton offensiveness, chapters of a larger work (we can tell) and fan-fiction, unless it's a dark satire of Joycean genius.

So rock our socks with the following:
Short stories: we would prefer between 350 - 2,000 words. Stories over 2,500 words will need to be proportionally brilliant to hold out two shorter stories. Nothing over 3,000 words, please.
Poems: save your epics; poems/ suites of poems need to be fewer than 100 lines.
Scripts: under 5 - 7 minutes. That's 5 - 7 pages of properly formatted Courier New, not 5 - 7 minutes of single-spaced monologue.
Non-fiction: traditionally Verandah has not carried much creative non-fiction. Change our minds with insightful pieces that follow the short story limits.
Artwork and photography: we welcome both colour and black and white. Verandah is slightly smaller than A4 sized, and we're seeking full, half and quarter page submissions.