Ethos

circular is an online journal that publishes short fiction alongside poetry and personal essays.

Taking inspiration from the serial newspaper format, circular is a collective of creatives, publishers and writers based in
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa New Zealand.

It is our mission to share unusual works that may not fit easily into one category. circular was born from our interests in genre and literary fiction, as we want to provide a platform for different genres to be published in tandem.

How we review and choose submissions

We know first-hand how intimidating it can be to share your creative work, so we want to reassure you that your work is in safe editorial hands. If you haven’t been published before, go ahead and submit! We want to hear from a range of voices.

Once you’ve submitted, we’ll do our best to keep you in the loop by being transparent about our timelines and providing editorial feedback where we can.

For our themed issues, we anonymise submissions before reviewing them to ensure we’re being fair and restricting bias.

If your work isn’t initially selected, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not what we’re looking for. As a small independent press we are mindful of the size of our issues, and our intention is to curate bodies of work.

We thank you for your patience as we read and respond to your submissions! :)