It'll only help you spend £1 on poetry (and I'm admittedly biased cos she's my wife...), but Susie Wilson's Skin the Rabbit is cool and available as an e-chapbook from the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social here: thebraag.co/product/micr...

Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈

Convincing you to read my forthcoming poetry pamphlet by the first few lines. Share yours if you want.

A braag, brag, or bragg, is a shapeshifting trickster spirit that appears in County Durham folklore, where it appears variously as: a wild horse that will run you amok, cow in a white scarf, a naked headless man, or in one case, four men stood under a sheet.

Isn’t it? An enfolding in language that enhances and never overpowers the stories being told. Poetic, proper folk horror that treat the folklore as vital infrastructure, not tinsel.

Fernseed by Sarah Royston comes @hookland.bsky.social approved 💚 Get yourself a copy here: thebraag.co/product/fern...

Received my order from @thebraag.bsky.social ! Ready to dive in Necrosmologies but also to discover Nina Murray's work 🤗

My skittish brain has been all about poetry this year and I’m very excited to share my first published poem! Massive thanks to ed-in-chief Kym Deyn and guest editor Eleanor Ball @thebraag.bsky.social for putting some of my silly ol’ words out there

Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from 🛏️ Patricia Russo 🦌 Alex McCrickard 🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social carmenerror.com?page_id=606

Hi folks! I get married at the end of the month, and won't be fulfilling thebraag.co book orders until I come back to work on November 1st. 👻 See you then!

Braag-core

2 October? But that can mean only one thing! YES, THAT’S RIGHT! In a village in Hertfordshire, they’re marking Old Man’s Day, because it’s the 454th anniversary of Mathew Wall almost being buried, and then not being buried, because he was in fact not dead

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!

Okay, funny bookstore category

Makoto Kobayashi

Very exciting things in store at @thebraag.bsky.social!

EXCITING NEWS!

I could not be more excited to be able to share this little toucan-y book with you all 😊 Coming soon! Eeek! #WhereIsTheToucanEmoji

Exciting! #ukpoets

Got a pamphlet out next year where I explain the existence of Paul Blart Mall Cop through poetry

Lovely to be part of this line-up with ‘Little Book O’Moss,’ my weird little microchap! 💚💚💚

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

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.

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

Since it seems people are into WOKE CANNIBAL EROTICA, I should probably point to my novelette about being an altar boy to elder gods, Shadow Jack - free to read at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/s...

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

Apropos of everything, because it cannot be said loudly or frequently enough, anybody who has a problem with trans people can get fucked.

If it's not pushed back on now at the very least we will have a two-tier publishing environment, where established authors get the human infrastructure and the newer/less prominent authors get a substandard experience, and then the surprised publishers will wonder why new authors aren't selling

What an excellent metaphor for the CEOs scrabbling for the benefits of the AI "revolution" and data centre "deals".

Books for the end times, sir? Madame, some books for the horrors? No, no when I said 'end times' sir, I was being hyperbolic, I know its not helpful to be pessimistic. Books for morale, my dear fellow?

A sample piece from Necrosmologies, available here: thebraag.co/product/necr...

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

Necrosmologies is also available to pre-order here! thebraag.co/product/necr... This is a gorgeous 64 page novella-in-flash, with matt cover, printed marble endpapers and illustrations ✨

Necrosmologies by Braag author, Anthony Cartwright is launching at Voce Books, Birmingham on the 25th of Semtember! This is a wild & working class alternate history and is not to be missed. ⚡

Asylum seekers in the UK are literally not "illegal migrants" the law, the courts, and international treaties that we all have to follow say they are not. It's hate speech to call an asylum seeker an "illegal xyz"

Hey, we wont be shipping to the USA until we work out how to navigate it's most recent "pissing on it's own face"-style incident. Any orders to the USA will be cancelled and refunded, and we know you hate this shit as much as we do! We'll find a way to get cool books to you ASAP.

LAST DAY to submit to my guest editor call with @thebraag.bsky.social! If you have any weird, speculative tiny stories and poems looking for a home, don’t miss this window!

Hi folks, just to let you know that all decisions should've been sent out RE: The Braag's most recent manuscript subs window. If you've not heard back, let me know!

As a reminder, my guest call with @thebraag.bsky.social is closing THIS FRIDAY! Sub guidelines here: carmenerror.com?page_id=19 and some more info on what I’m interested in seeing here: carmenerror.com?page_id=26

Due to your incredible response, Kym and I made the decision to close subs for my guest call with Carmen et Error early, on August 15th, so our small team is able to give every single submission the attention it deserves. See all sub guidelines here: carmenerror.com?page_id=19

Someone with time and resources should put together a reprint anthology of 21st century weird fiction to counteract all the public domain repackaging out there that makes it seem like the mode froze decades and decades ago.

I once had a chicken we rescued from a battery farm who was obsessed with pecking people's feet and we called her Feet—does this count as "faulty egg-producing equipment"?

Quick head's up: submissions are VERY BUSY this month and we'll be closing EARLY on AUGUST 15th!

Repeat after me: authors are not an exploitable resource. Authors are not an exploitable resource.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Not entirely sure I can live without this

💫 Manuscript submissions for The Braag close July 31st 💫 Carmen et Error journal subs open August 1st 💫 Guest editor @eleanorball.bsky.social 💫 We're now able to pay a small honorarium! 💫 Full info and guidelines at carmenerror.com

Just had these absolute gems through the post, little works of art, gorgeous words from @mollykmoon28.bsky.social & Joe Pickard via @thebraag.bsky.social