What happens when a literary journal has a torrid love affair with a Victorian gossip rag? Folly Journal happens - documenting our cultural moment in all its messy, magnificent glory.
Touted by media as the rebel child of the lit scene, and finalist for the 2024 CLMP Best Literary Debut awards, Folly is found worldwide from parliamentary desks, independent bookstores and the rooms of luxury boutique hotels.
Folly is an annual print only anthology of art, short stories, non-fiction and poetry produced in Wellington city, New Zealand. Unbound by academic affiliations, fiercely independent, and purposely not high brow, and is home to content which is beautiful, sexy, funny, insightful and provocative.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN 13 JANUARY 2025
Please view our guidelines page on our website or via Submittable for information on required format and style prior to submitting your work. We strongly recommend that you read a copy of Folly prior to submitting. Visit our website to order directly.
What is Reader Feedback?
Writers often ask for feedback from Folly. We endeavor to support writers to develop, as well as ensure our largely volunteer team is renumerated for their time. If you choose to purchase feedback you will be provided with a page of notes our readership teams thoughts on plot, pacing, character, dialogue with specific comments from our experienced team, including:
- strengths and development opportunities identified
- specific commentary from our editors and reading team about your story.
This service is provided for a fee of $35 NZD and covers the time required for our reading team to compile the assessment and review comments from our team into an email report for you.
When will I receive my assessment?
If the work you have selected us to provide an assessment for has been longlisted, you will be required to wait until after the short listing process for feedback. If your submission has been declined, we will endeavour to provide specific feedback as soon as possible. If your story has been shortlisted you will receive feedback at the end of the shortlisting process.
Why are you offering this service?
Folly stories often come from emerging writers, or people who are new to this craft. For this reason, many of our writers go through a thorough editing process with professional editors prior to publication. We are offering this assessment service to support other emerging writers who are looking to develop their writing, and better understand how they can better hone their stories for Folly in future submissions.
Why are you charging a fee?
The service fee for this assessment and feedback report goes directly to the costs of administering Folly journal, which includes renumerating our mostly volunteer team of readers and editors. The fee has been set in line with other literary journals who offer this service.
As a largely voluntary team, we simply can't provide specific feedback to all submissions.