Welcome to The Letters Page

The Letters Page is a literary journal in letters, published by the School of English at the University of Nottingham and edited by Jon McGregor. We publish essays, stories, poetry, memoir, travelogue, and criticism; but all in the form of letters. We are interested in the literary traditions of letter-writing, and in the idea of correspondence in a digital age. We would love to hear from you.

The Letters Page: Volume 4 - Available Now 

In this issue, Roddy Doyle writes to us about his mother’s letter writing habit, and how her letters unearthed distant relatives in Long Island; Andika Budiman sends us notes from a bookshop in Indonesia; Sarah Whiteside writes to the Finnish poet, Marko Hautala, and lets us listen in; Som-Mai Nguyen writes to us not once but twice; and Liam Harrison asks if it can really be true that Claire-Louise Bennett is no longer writing, as she claimed in our previous issue.

The Letters Page, Vol 4 is an 80 page craft-bound book with fold-out facsimile reproductions of the original handwritten letters, featuring a screen-printed cover which folds out to form its own mailing package, complete with wax seal.

Order your copy today, while limited stocks last!

Submissions for Volume 5

We are currently reading submissions for publication in the ongoing email-only Volume 5. 

We publish stories, essays, poems, memoir, reportage, criticism, recipes, travelogue, and any hybrid forms your fevered minds can conjure up: we only ask that your submissions come in the form of a handwritten letter, delivered in the post. 

Published contributors will receive a gift subscription to one of our favourite small presses or literary journals. 

While our offices are closed, we are accepting submissions by email. Please send your letters by email, with SUBMISSION in the subject line, to jon.mcgregor@nottingham.ac.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.