Submissions are now open for…
Still Hungry
A charity Anthology
Please make sure you read the guidelines on the link below before submitting! Thank you.
Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions for our next charity anthology! Once again, we have decided to donate all profits from this collection to FIND -Families in Need. This Suffolk based charity is one we here at Urban Pigs Press feel very passionate about. It is our aim to help contribute to those who need it the most in our local area. We would love for writers all across the globe to help us make a real difference to people’s lives regardless of their faith or beliefs. Food banks shouldn’t exist in this day and age with the amount of super-wealth on display, but sadly they do.
In fact, it’s safe to say things have become even worse since our first Anthology!
Fortunately fantastic charities such as FIND do exist and we hope to help them make a positive impact.
The first anthology was a huge success locally and helped to raise nearly £500 in donations to FIND. We are under no illusions how much of a drop in the ocean that actually is when trying to tackle hunger and poverty, which is why we have already titled this anthology – The Still Hungry Anthology.
We are looking for short fiction between 500 to 2000 words inspired by the prompt Hunger. We are open to a wide range of genres but find that CRIME, HORROR and GRITTY REALISM work best. Please read and familiarise yourself with our previously published work before submitting.
This window is now open and will close on the 1st May 2026. Submissions received after will not be read.
We are aiming for a summer release.
We are not accepting poetry at this current time unless it is story based. We will not tolerate any hate speech whether homophobic, racism or any other form.
If you’d like us to consider your work please include a short third-person bio, author photo, a short pitch and attach your work in a word compatible format (Word.doc works best). Please also include social links so we can share and tag you upon release.
This is an anthology for charity so we can’t offer payment. Contributors will receive a PDF and digital copy as a small token of our appreciation. The first anthology cost us £184 in sending out physical copies to authors. We understand that your writing should be appreciated through payment but our goal is to achieve the maximum donation for our chosen charity. We respect your decision not to submit, please respect ours. We do not accept previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are fine but please let us know if they are accepted elsewhere. Please only send one story and not multiples.
We aim to respond to all queries as soon as possible. If you haven’t heard from us within four weeks after the closing date and have followed all guidelines then please feel free to message us via email.
If you believe you meet all of the above and would like to send us your fiction for consideration then please do so via the email address below with the subject matter Still Hungry. We will not respond to emails that haven’t followed the guidelines.
urbanpigsguest@outlook.com
By submitting your work you confirm that your submission is owned and controlled by you. Agree that Urban Pigs Press have the right to publish your work both in eBook and print. We politely request that you do not publish accepted work until 12 months after the release.
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We look forward to reading your work!
Jenks, Virginia and Mark
About FIND
For over 30 years, Families in Need (FIND) Ipswich has offered a lifeline to people in Ipswich and the surrounding areas who are experiencing poverty and despair.
We provide free food parcels and personal care items to help people get through a crisis, as well as furniture, bedding and other household items where the person or family has none.
An army of over 80 volunteers regularly give their time freely to check and sort the donated food, collect items from local stores, make up the food parcels and deliver them.
It’s a six-day a week operation.
The demand for food parcels has risen year on year and FIND now distributes an average of 120-150 parcels every week and even more at Christmas – more than 7,000 every year. findipswich.org.uk
Submission Guidelines
We’re especially interested in gritty realism, crime, cultists, the occult, dystopia and even more so if it includes more than one of the above. We highly recommend that you familiarise yourself with our previous published works before considering us.
Please send your submission as an attachment in Word.doc format and include a short third-person bio. We will not tolerate any form of hate speech whether homophobic, racism or other.
urbanpigsguest@outlook.com
Please support us by subscribing to the newsletter on the home page of our site.
We look forward to reading your work, as long as you have read our guidelines!
General Submissions
Urban Pigs Press are now seeking submissions for novels. Send us something gritty, horrifying, surreal, darkly humorous, twisted, and real. Yes, we’re asking a lot but we know you’re out there.
We’re especially interested in gritty realism, horror, cultists, the occult, dystopia and even more so if it includes more than one of the above. We highly recommend that you familiarise yourself with our previous published works before considering us.
Submissions should be between 40-60K. We are not looking for non-fiction, short story collections or poetry at this stage. Please send in the first two chapters or first 5K words only. Full manuscripts will be ignored. If we like what we see then we will follow it up with a request for more.
Please send your submission as an attachment in Word.doc format, include a synopsis in the body of your email and include a short third-person bio. We will not tolerate any hate speech whether homophobic, racism or any other form.
If you believe you meet all of the above and would like to send us your work for consideration then please do so via the email address below with the subject matter General Submissions. We will not respond to emails that haven’t followed the guidelines.
urbanpigspress@outlook.com
Please support us by subscribing to the newsletter on the home page of our site.
We look forward to reading your work!
James, Virginia and Mark.
Urban Pigs Press 