Our Guidelines: Hackwriters will accept submissions on any and every topic, within our remit of travel writing, fiction, lifestyles and comment as long as they are analytical or questioning in nature. We will not publish any work that demonstrates discrimination, sexism, racism, or any other -ism you can think of. We are interested in writing of the highest quality, and ask only that it be thought-provoking without being offensive. *Amusing is acceptable too. Spellcheck and punctuate!

*We do not pay - this is a site for writers to build a portfolio of peer reviewed work to help get work as a writer. Many of our writers have done just that and all work is digitally archived by the British Library and once on site there will remain archived. Note: we do update at least once a week and add work from time to time depending on topicality.

Please send either as a single-spaced Microsoft Word attachment (pref .doc) or within the body of your email. (Word Limit guide 1200-2300 preferred) If you want your email/web address or link to a blog included with the article please make sure your name AND email are in the body of the text as well as well as any link to the blog or personal website.

If you wish to include a picture or a graphic with the article, please send it to us as a JPEG attachment scanned at 72dpi. We will reply as soon as possible. Please note that articles not used in the next issue may be carried over for subsequent issues. In this case we will notify you via email of which issue your submission will be included in. Accepted articles will be indexed and archived after a period of time by us and the British Library in Digital form (forever).

Hackwriters is a free magazine and does not pay.
Note: We are a website bound by a code of ethics.
** We are supported by sales of Sam Hawksmoor and Sam North's books - so any purchases of either in print or as e-books goes directly to keeping Hackwriters going. ***The Kindle books cost as little as $4 bucks.

The Editor.
**submit your work to Editor: hackwriters 'at' gmail.com

Please read previous work before submitting in either our
fiction, travel, lifestyle or review sections.


Skylines Travel Writers of the Year 2001
New Statesmen Community Website Nomination 2004
Nominated for New Statesman Education Award 2006
* Linked to Times Higher, Lonely Planet, Holdthefrontpage.co.uk, The Writers' Handbook and more
Digitally Archived by the British Library 2009
Four NATJA Travel Writing Awards 2011 including Gold
Two NATJA Travel Writing Awards 2012 (inc Gold)
Two NTJA Travel Writing Awards 2013 (inc Silver)
*Prince Christian Sound was awarded “notable essay." in The Best American Essays 2014 series (ed. by John Sullivan) published by Houghton Mifflin -
Hackwriters is happily cited by HelloTravel.com as "TOP JOURNALISM/ NARRATIVES TRAVEL BLOG 2017/2018"

Hackwriters is completely independent and self-funding