Are you a budding first time writer? An up and coming literary talent? An established wordsmith? Popular Cornwall based reading night Telltales is branching out into publishing and it's looking for submissions.

Based on the principle of an ever aspirational upwards curve, The Parabola Project will be a themed collection of work which represents the full writing spectrum in Cornwall, profiling new writers alongside experienced poets and novelists. Pulling together creative writing, interviews, slick design and beautiful imagery, it will give those looking to get a foot on the ladder that much needed first piece of work in print while opening up a whole new readership to those who already have plenty of published words under their belt.

And its not just writers The Parabola Project is looking for. Extending the open submissions invitation to image makers too, the Parabola team want to platform the creative talent of the County's photographers and illustrators, inviting anyone interested in seeing their stuff in print to submit work which can then compliment, juxtapose with, or add depth to the creative writing featured.

Scheduled for publication at the end of October 2010, it's hoped the publication will generate enough interest to become a regular feature of the Southwest's literary landscape.

If you're a writer or imagemaker and interested in being published in The Parabola Project you've got until the 27 July to get your submission in. The theme for the first edition is Origins and both written and visual submissions need to play with this theme in some way. Written submissions must be no more than 2000 long, but apart from that anything goes. Telltales has always been about variety and The Parabola Project intends to reflect that in its content. So get your creative thinking caps on and get submitting.

To submit, log on to the Telltales website to find out more and upload your work. The reading and creative teams will sift through all the submissions in August and get back to successful writers and imagemakers in early September to start pulling the publication together.

And in the meantime, if you fancy hearing what Cornwall's writing scene has to say for itself, Telltales will be on the walled garden stage at Port Eliot Festival this year with a mini Telltales set to enthrall festival goers.