One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Apple Cat

Microfiction writing competition for anyone 16+. london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/s...

pigwitch by Rupkatha "the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight. She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Publishing thoughts for the day: weighing up the benefits of listing our future titles on Nielsen (which opens up options like getting books into libraries etc) with the fact that it means titles will then automatically get imported into Amazon

Valkyrie

Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!

October Country Ray Bradbury for @tomsbrown.bsky.social and any others who love this month.

Submissions are now closed for our first anthology. Thank you to everyone who sent us a story! We've had over 100 submissions, from every corner of the North of England. It’s been very heartening to get such interest in the press, and for folks to trust us with their words ♥️

Just a few hours left to submit! We're sure you'll all be very glad to stop having our submissions reminders clutter your feed, but just want to take a moment to say thank you for submitting, spreading the word, and following along.

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TODAY!

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TODAY!

Hey indie publishers: Brief Ecology is looking for new and upcoming eco-fiction to review! We like eco-horror, eco-gothic, eco-anti-gothic, eco-weird, eco-literary, and whatever else we're not picky. Get in touch if you've got titles that you think fit!

Getting ready for a delicious final batch of submissions arriving for our anthology call-out

The Haunted Bridge. A mystery to solve ... I have this postcard called "The Haunted Bridge" but cannot identify it. It's described as a British beauty spot. The card was posted from Nottingham, early 20thc.

I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.

Galloping into the last few days of submissions, chasing down folkloric tales

Busy prepping for this week's workshop on folklore-inspired stories. There are still places available if you'd like to join us on Zoom for an evening of writing. www.amylordauthor.com/events

There's one week left for writers in the North of England to send us their stories! We're looking for folklore-inspired tales to publish in our first anthology. It's been a real treat to read all the submissions so far, but we'd love to squeeze a few more in 🙏 carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

Call fo Submissions! At Indie Novella we founded the Diversity in Publishing Partnership because too many great writers remain unheard in a system that too often rewards wealth and connections over talent. We’re committed to changing that. www.indienovella.co.uk/submissions

Commission

We'll be putting our monthly newsletter together soon, so if you've got an event, call-out or other opportunity in October (relevant to writers in the North of England, speculative fic of particular interest), let us know!

Our friends at The Braag continue to publish some of the best weird and speculative writing out there, checking this out is well worth your time

Hey friends, if you're in THE NORTH (and why wouldn't you be?) then the agency who rep me, Johnson and Alcock, and @newwritingnorth.bsky.social are running a competition for emerging writers with a 2.5k prize and it opens in November. newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...

There's two weeks left to submit to our first anthology call-out! We're looking for folkloric tales from writers in the North of England. If you're honing your submission, check out our blog on how to help get selected (just updated with fresh advice!): carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/06/26/h...

We'll be putting our monthly newsletter together soon, so if you've got an event, call-out or other opportunity in October (relevant to writers in the North of England, speculative fic of particular interest), let us know!

It's September, which means our submissions call-out for writers in the North of England closes at the end of this month! We're looking for strange, lyrical, literary and mesmerising short stories for our first anthology, on the theme of folklore 🍂 Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

This autumn, I'm running a series of fun online writing workshops, starting with: 🧚‍♂️ Exploring Folklore 📆 Wed 24 Sep, 7pm-8.30pm We'll be experimenting with our own folklore-inspired story through a range of writing exercises. www.amylordauthor.com/events

All roads lead to Manchester Central Library on Saturday 27th of September for the Northern Publishers' Fair! Come browse books that will challenge and inspire you - delightfully independent - and chat to publishers and agents fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87204... #books📚💙

⚔️📚NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS is live!📚⚔️ This crowdfund is the best possible time to get four exciting new books by @draq.bsky.social, @brynhammond.bsky.social, @breadsonja.bsky.social, and @stevewestenra.bsky.social, featuring killer art inside and out! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

There's three weeks until our submissions call-out closes! If you'd like to know what we consider folkloric, you're in luck - we've written a blog on that very topic. carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/07/23/w...

A few (non-exclusive) things we'd love to receive: 🌿 Stories rooted in contemporary working class communities 🍂 Nature-infused folktales engaging with the climate crisis 🌿 Queer, disabled, and otherwise marginalised tellings of traditional tales 🍂 Migrant folklores transposed to the North of England

I believe it is simple. Folk horror is any horror that uses folklore as psychic infrastructure, not tinsel. In England. I think confusion comes because there is so much glorious English gothic and English strange that people want to label further.

A few (non-exclusive) things we'd love to receive: 🌿 Stories rooted in contemporary working class communities 🍂 Nature-infused folktales engaging with the climate crisis 🌿 Queer, disabled, and otherwise marginalised tellings of traditional tales 🍂 Migrant folklores transposed to the North of England

I've got mine in, now it's your turn. 😊

It's September, which means our submissions call-out for writers in the North of England closes at the end of this month! We're looking for strange, lyrical, literary and mesmerising short stories for our first anthology, on the theme of folklore 🍂 Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Our monthly newsletter is going out in a couple days, including updates from ourselves and opportunities for writers. If you haven't signed up yet, you can do so here: buttondown.com/carnyx

Hooray for 400 followers! Our village of writers and readers is growing nicely. Thanks all for joining us on our publishing journey!

Birdfolk pilgrim

We'll never charge for people to submit to us or get their work published, but if you'd like to support what we do, you can check out our ko-fi: ko-fi.com/carnyxpress

My debut story is out in Apex! While writing this story, I was thinking about emotions that are sometimes so hard to express, that feeling of a lump in your chest, that knot in your throat.

We'll never charge for people to submit to us or get their work published, but if you'd like to support what we do, you can check out our ko-fi: ko-fi.com/carnyxpress

Next month, we are taking part in the inaugural Liverpool Book Fair courtesy of La Vida Liverpool! Please do come and join us to celebrate our Scouse writers in a city that we always love visiting 😍

As someone who has recently stepped into the freelance space, having chunks of time in between jobs isn’t something I’ve figured out yet. I’m putting this out there in hopes there’s an opportunity that would work for me during this time.

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨NEW EVENT🚨 We are thrilled to announce a free in-person event at Urmston Books on 11th September! Come and hear some of our fantastic literary authors from the northwest discuss how class and identity have shaped their writing! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-ic-l...

Do you have an opportunity for writers coming up? We'll be putting our next newsletter together soon, so if you have a competition or submissions call-out relevant to writers in the North of England (or wider UK), drop us a message!

Very much enjoyed reading Lost in the Garden by @adamsleslie.bsky.social recently, one of my favourites of the year. A psychedelic, apocalyptic, folk horror-esque odyssey. Great stuff.

We're all trying to get by, in our own way. And if your way involves thorns, darkness, weird magic, and secret meetings with the old gods in the forbidden end of the forest, so much the better.