The People's Friend

Guidelines summary

Pays

£80 per story for the first six, £95 from the seventh, then £110 (on acceptance)

Length

Set lengths of 1,000, 1,200, 1,500, 2,000, 2,500, 3,000, 3,500 and 4,000 words

Wants

Feel-good stories: romance, mystery, cozy crime, family. UK weekly; no flash.

Simultaneous submissions

No (must be new and exclusive)

Multiple submissions

Not stated

Reprints

No

Response time

Not stated

Submissions

No reading period stated

Submission or entry fee

None

Rights

First publication; copyright stays with the author and both may republish afterward

Also note

New authors email friendfiction@dcthomson.co.uk. Serials (£150 per installment) are for writers already published there.

Last checked

October 31, 2026