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Stuart Johnstone | Editor
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We welcome fiction stories from our readers year-round, and poems from known authors. To submit your work, please see our latest fiction guidelines, and please send your submission to friendfiction@dcthomson.co.uk for a chance to have it published in “The People’s Friend”. Only new, unpublished stories are accepted for consideration – please, don’t send in a story or a poem that’s been published before.
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We abide by the Editors’ Code of Practice, which is enforced by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).
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