Ache x Common Threads Collaborative Publication

Submission deadline: 1 April 2026

Ache Magazine and Common Threads Press are excited to invite you to contribute a submission for our new collaborative publication (title TBC) exploring the intersection of craft practices and disability to be published in Spring 2027.

Details

For this book-length anthology, we are publishing:

  • Creative non-fiction (up to 2,500 words)

  • Visual Artwork (4-6 images and up to 500 total words for captions)

Guidance

  • Craft is often romanticised as therapeutic, relaxing or universal, but whose hands, bodies and rhythms are being centered?

  • Disability offers radical reimaginings of craft: through slowness, adaptation and resistance.

  • This project will spotlight disabled makers, thinkers and writers, and offer a space for their practices and perspectives. 

  • We welcome visual art and writing that looks at contemporary and historic craft practices, both about/or through the lens of disability, health and care. We hope to represent a broad range of perspectives and subjects in this publication, and strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to submit.

FEE: Contributors will be paid a flat fee of £150 for work published, inclusive of each piece of prose or artwork contributed.

A note on our fee: Ache and Common Threads Press are publishing projects run by people who do so out of our commitment and passion for the work. Neither receive long-term external funding, and every sale goes back into paying writers, artists and printers. 

If the fee for this publication isn’t suitable for you, we completely understand and wish you luck placing your writing elsewhere. Thank you for your understanding. 

How to Submit Your Work

Please submit your work via the Google form.

  • Essays should be sent as a Word Document.

  • Visual art should be sent as a JPEG or TIF file 300PPI to be suitable for print.

Thank you for sharing your work and for your interest in being part of this special publication from Ache and Common Threads Press. We sincerely appreciate your time and we are grateful you have chosen to share your writing with us.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to get in touch: hello@commonthreadspress.co.uk