Community guidelines

The Serialise site is intended to nurture and curate literary creativity. We want to attract established and aspiring writers to share their work, and to offer encouragement and constructive feedback. Where feasible we want to provide writers with a platform from which to launch their professional careers, or simply to reach a new and larger audience. We also want to attract readers here to enjoy entertaining, provocative and moving writing.

We do not pre-moderate comments on forum discussions or serials. This is because we believe that debate, discussion and feedback benefit everybody, and that laborious and time-consuming pre-moderation would impede such things. However, if users leave comments which are abusive, inappropriate or unkind (think before posting: am I providing constructive criticism, or just plain criticism?), they may be deleted. Be nice.