I have a little story in here, it does have a long title.

Better late than never.. The Mersey Review 8 is finally live! 🐷💚 Get your eyes on down to.. well.. here ⬇️⤵️⏬👇 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/8/

It's the last day to submit for Issue 8! Get your subs in before midnight 🎃 www.themerseyreview.com/submit

Submissions are open for Issue 8 until the 30th day of October in the year 2025! Deal us some literary gold & other precious metals! Full guidelines right here 👇🏻🙂‍↕️ www.themerseyreview.com/submit

We've got @sarafmc.bsky.social's 'Apocalypse FAQ' for this Mersey Monday 🙂‍↕️ give it a read, and prepare for the End 😱🐷 www.themerseyreview.com/merseymonday...

In May, I made a phone note: swarm of lavender bees. I carried the bees until Kathy Fish's summer immersive when "Lavender Bees, Dilly Dilly" was born 🐝Thank you to the @themerseyreview.bsky.social editors for seeing something in my purple micro fiction haze. www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7/lav...

Did you hang out at McDonalds in Eastern Europe in the 80s? Did you almost die because you snuck into a Hungarian government building after dark? Just me? 😄 Thanks @themerseyreview.bsky.social for publishing my slice of nostalgia!!

🫨🫨🫨 It's Issue 7!!! 🫨🫨🫨 twelve new pieces for you dive into, swim through, jetski across, or drink? Anyway, check it all out 🐷💚 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7

Mersey Mondays #2 at yourrrr serviceeeeee 🎶 Check out Rhys Barnes' 'Love Letter' 👇🏻👇🏻 (do the clicking!) www.themerseyreview.com/merseymonday...

Mersey Mondays is finally a-go!! & for our first piece, we have former TMR contributor @liuswrites.bsky.social with a little hermit crab CNF 🦀💚🐷 Check it out 👇🏻 www.themerseyreview.com/merseymondays/1

Woke up to the wonderful news of making @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 longlist! Thank you @laughingyeti.bsky.social and all of the readers and editors! Thank you @themerseyreview.bsky.social and Quarterly West for publishing my micros! wigleaf.com/2025longlist...

#SubmissionCall @themerseyreview.bsky.social is accepting #flashfiction, flash creative #nonfiction and #poetry. 🔗 authorspublish.com/the-mersey-r...

Just a few days left! Subs closing Monday, midnight UK time 😎 get wild with your words and send em our way 📝🫨💚

Submissions open for The Mersey Review 7! Pls bless us with your words, adorn us with your words, throw your words at us like a custard pie. Words 😌 www.themerseyreview.com/submit

Our EIC Christopher Allen talks to Beth Sherman, winner of The SmokeLong Workshop Prize with 10 stories on the long list for the prize. Hear what Beth has to say about workshopping. A link to the whole interview is in the thread. youtu.be/sqgyTaVFRVQ

I don't think I ever shared my exact piece from Issue 6 of @themerseyreview.bsky.social. Cool thing: TMR EIC Sean is from Liverpool and this came out WHILE I WAS IN LIVERPOOL on vacation (great city; LFC prem champs - YNWA 🏆). www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/wew...

Really enjoyed this one by @audreytcarroll.bsky.social in the latest issue of @themerseyreview.bsky.social - there's also a flash personal essay by me in this issue, titled "The Penelope Section"

Just ICYMI 👀💚 we've got 12 writers & 12 class pieces of poetry & prose to liven up your Monday!

Looking forward to getting stuck into this. Huge thanks for giving me a space to fangirl about Charlotte Brontë...

Read my new microessay "Define Neurodivergent" in @themerseyreview.bsky.social! www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/def...

Thanks @themerseyreview.bsky.social for publishing my story, "Hope Hippo," which was born in a Flash Cabin workshop run by the wonderful @stillsquirrel.bsky.social www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/hop...

I wrote the first draft of this piece about 5 years ago- so delighted that it found a home @themerseyreview.bsky.social ! www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/the...

Issue 6? 😱💪🏻😱🤩💃😯🤪🙌🏻🫨😤🏆🐷💚 Yep, it's live! Get a load of it riiiiiiight about here ⬇️👇🏻⬇️👇🏻 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6

Last orders at the bar! 🔔🐷🔔🐷 We're still open for submissions for Issue 6 until midnight (GMT) tonight! www.themerseyreview.com/submit

Just in case you missed it 👀🐷😱📝👀😱🐷📝

Keeping up with all these socials platforms is hard work, but... WE'RE OPEN FOR SUBS AGAIN 🥳 all the way until 2nd March 😎 Send us your fictional/nonfictional/poetic gems 💎💚 All the info, over at: www.themerseyreview.com/submit

The Mersey Review, a newer journal I admire a lot, is open for subs! 750 words or fewer. @themerseyreview.bsky.social www.themerseyreview.com

Big News! 🎺 The Mersey Review is moving to a triannual publication schedule. This means the new reading periods are in: Feb, Jun, Oct -- & publishing dates are the first Monday of: Apr, Aug, Dec. & there's more! 🎺 1/4

Magazines & Journals to check out! @adinfinitumlit.bsky.social @stonecirclereview.bsky.social @afternoonvisitor.bsky.social @necksnapmag.bsky.social @themerseyreview.bsky.social #writing #fiction #art #literature #callforsubmissions #literarymagazine #photography #writingcommunity

TMR5 has been out a week & you've not read yet? Well, here's some snippets to convince you 🫨💚

The Mersey Review just published my poem I've Never Been a Country and an essay about one of my favorite poems too! www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5/ive... #poetrycommunity #writing

Have a new piece in @themerseyreview.bsky.social. go check it out!

I have a wee cnf piece in this issue of @themerseyreview.bsky.social massive thanks to Sean for an amazing editorial experience and @jmgatford.bsky.social for critique 🙏🏾 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5/bec...

I have a poem in here. Go read it.

Very excited to share my first published piece in @themerseyreview.bsky.social issue 5! And yes, it’s four poems, let me know if you find them! I feel so honoured to have my stuff next to so many other incredible pieces so go check out the whole issue 🖤 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5/fou...

I have a new story out today about a girl, a bike, and the neighborhood bully. Thank you, @themerseyreview.bsky.social , for giving it a home! www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5/tha...

The Mersey Review 5 is here! Delivered, signed for, clearly tampered with by the postal service 🫨 We've got 16 brand new pieces & mini-interview for you! Check emmmm ouuuuuttttt 🐷💚 www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5