Welcome to Urban Scrawl, the magazine for placemakers.

Quarterly editions will be published on this website in January, April, July and October.

Submissions are accepted all year round by email.

We are looking for poems, stories, essays, photographs and visual art on all things urban.

We invite pieces on subjects including but not limited to:

towns, cities, the built environment, architecture, regeneration, housing, placemaking, gentrification, metropolitan, cosmopolitan, culture, street art, maps, centres, boundaries, connectivity, community, landmarks, liminal spaces…

Send any submissions, comments or questions to editor Annie Acre at surveyorpoet@outlook.com

Please submit:

• as many unpublished pieces of any length as you like (within reason!)

• writing in .docx format or in the body of an email

• artwork in JPEG format

• a short third-person bio if you wish

• a short note about the piece if you wish

• no words or images created using AI - no AI-generated work will knowingly be published

Special editions with a specific theme will be published on an ad hoc basis. Calls for submissions will be made on social media.

For announcements, opportunities and events, follow us on Instagram @urbanscrawlmag

The magazine is based in Manchester.

We are keen to create a local and online community of urban placemakers. If you are interested in collaborating on projects or events, please get in touch.

You can find out more about the editor, a writer and surveyor, at: anniesacre.co.uk