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Writer. Book Festival Director. Editor & Co-founder at
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Bleating Thing Magazine
4 days ago
SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31 Guidelines and theme description are available @
bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit
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AGNI
4 days ago
December is here, which means you have 15 days left to submit to AGNI! Our submission portal will be open until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15th—and then we'll be closed for a monthlong break. We look forward to reading your work! 🔥
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Submit to AGNI
We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their…
https://buff.ly/r7UkLPy
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Bull City Press
5 days ago
🎁 Our Cyber Monday sale is up & running—and ENDS Tuesday night! Grab these deals NOW:
buff.ly/O7sPDAS
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FutureCycle Press
5 days ago
Every day, we give away one or more Kindle
#poetry
titles. Today's FREEBIES are listed FIRST here:
buff.ly/4h7F6uh
. Our world needs its
#poets
, so please read and share! More info:
buff.ly/40M9app
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Wild Willow Magazine
5 days ago
One month left! Original poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations! Winter! Hope! Persistence ! Endurance! Submit here by December 31st:
wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
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Written Tales
6 days ago
Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales ✍️ Writers: share your voice. Submissions open now on Written Tales. 🔗 Link in bio
#poetry
#writingcommunity
#writing
#shortstory
#reading
writtentales.com/friday-after...
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Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales
Carmen Fong tallies the cost of healing: bodies, paperwork, penance. Gratitude falters under fatigue, yet at 1 a.m. she scrubs again, chasing redemption through fluorescent light.
https://writtentales.com/friday-afternoon-freedom-poem-by-carmen-fong/
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minor literature[s]
5 days ago
AND!!! we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ... *in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/minor-literatures
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Prairie Fire Magazine
6 days ago
We're in the final stretch! Contest deadline is December 1st!
prairiefire.ca/conte...
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Temple in a city
6 days ago
Want to be part of this issue? You can. Subs permanently open to make this popup micro issue an ongoing and growing apothecary of joy. You’re welcome to contribute to or just borrow and browse.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
https://templeinacity.com/explore-the-magazine-poetry-stories-letters-art/
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
6 days ago
Submission period PROCESS /MARGINALIA / OTHER WOR(L)D(S) closes Sun. Nov. 30th at midnight Pacific Time. If you are working on a hybrid or have pieces unpublished & remarkable in form & content w/at least 2 elements of:
#text
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#image
,
#video
,
#sound
#art
#hybrid
send to:
[email protected]
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6 days ago
Just today and tomorrow left before our Liar Liar Prize closes! (Our general reading period will close as well!) 🦊
blackfoxlitmag.com/contests/
#callforsubmissions
#litmags
#WritingCommunity
#writersky
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Darling Axe Editing
8 days ago
Show don't tell?!? This craft maxim is a bit of a contradiction, and yet it's still super important. Let's break it down 👇
#writingcommunity
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Fahmidan Group
8 days ago
Need an excuse to avoid awkward holiday small talk? Say you're submitting to Fahmidan. Submit here:
buff.ly/3OYTRme
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Bleating Thing Magazine
11 days ago
!! THEME REVEAL !! for Issue 05 This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary Submissions open DEC 1 Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!
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Fly on the Wall Press
17 days ago
Announcing our 2026 Subscription!! Our year of travel through books! Each title will take you to another country - if not several! You will receive the following 8 titles 2 weeks before their publication
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
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Bulb Culture Collective
11 days ago
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡 We want to read your previously published wonders! Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past! Full Guidelines can be found Here:
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Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/submission-guidelines
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Mslexia
11 days ago
Submission Slot ✍️ Poet Laureate: For poems up to 14 lines that respond to news items and issues of topical importance. The subject matter is up to you, but we encourage you to think outside the box! Include a link to the topic or news item you have chosen.
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Poetry - Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Poetry - Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/poetry/
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Rosanna McGlone
12 days ago
Really enjoying catching up with Eve Grubin's session
@nawewriters.bsky.social
conference on bringing silence into one's work. Fitted well w
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
&
@petermcallister.bsky.social
's session. It's a great idea to have all of the recordings available! 🙏
#NAWE
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Long as it is, it’s not a bad start to the commute. Back up to Exeter today to teach some lovely undergraduates.
#Englishliterature
#creativewriting
15 days ago
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Justine Sweeney
19 days ago
Thanks so much
@trashcatlit.bsky.social
for nominating this story for
#bestsmallfictions
😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳
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University of Alberta Press
about 1 month ago
What is a chapbook, you ask? Dawn Macdonald unpacks the format. https://bit.ly/4pY0qXQ @yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social
#poetry
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SmokeLong Quarterly
about 2 months ago
Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec.
www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
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Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in November and December 2...
https://www.smokelong.com/product/try-smokelong-fitness/
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Julia
about 2 months ago
Thrilled & honoured to learn
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
&
@petermcallister.bsky.social
& congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
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#tate
#tatestives
#bestviewintown
2 months ago
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Last week was my first year running the North Cornwall Book Festival and what a week it was. Here’s me looking exhausted between
#patrickgale
and Ian Collins.
2 months ago
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Shelley Trower
3 months ago
Looking forward to Helen Scales's ocean talk, & also to joining
@petermcallister.bsky.social
& other contributors to *Cornwall In Short* at North Cornwall Book Festival in just over a week. 10-11am 27 Sept - Free! Foxgloves!
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Sunrise over the marquee before we get going with the North Cornwall Book Festival today. Lots of amazing authors to see today and tomorrow.
2 months ago
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Finishing up a weekend of teaching some lovely masters students creative writing at @UniOfHull and couldn’t resist taking a few snaps as the campus is looking so lovely.
#amwriting
#teaching
#creativewriting
#Masters
3 months ago
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Defenestration Magazine
4 months ago
Time to unveil the August 2025 issue of Defenestration! We have ten short stories and seven poems for you this month. Read it all here:
bit.ly/3HxXXCc
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.)
#DefenestrationMagazine
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Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to
@defenestrationmag.bsky.social
for getting it up on your site. 🙂
www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/08/book...
#amwriting
#flashfiction
#shortstory
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"Books Books Books," by Peter McAllister
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up. 'You...
https://www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/08/books-books-books-by-peter-mcallister/
4 months ago
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My view from the Morrab library this morning as I prepare for judging this year’s short story competition.
#writerinresidence
#shortstory
#competition
#morrablibrary
#cornwall
#penzance
4 months ago
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Shō Poetry Journal
4 months ago
We’ve entered the final month of our reading period for Shō No.8. Send us poems! • Payment is one contributor copy • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social
4 months ago
Cherry Tree is open for submissions through October 1. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. All accepted pieces are considered for our special section of Literary Shade!
cherrytree.submittable.com
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Pulp Literature Press
4 months ago
Two Contests to Enter this Month 🖋️ -
mailchi.mp/afe8ed7cd584...
Find details on our Kingfisher Poetry Prize and the First Page Cage in this Pulp Mystery newsletter...
#writingcontest
#literarymagazine
#litmag
#writingprize
#novelprize
#poetrycontest
#shortpoemscontest
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Cursed Morsels
5 months ago
I hadn't heard about Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton until it won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel, but the description immediately sucked me in. Gothic, surreal, literary horror. Gotta pick this one up!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Curdle Creek
Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award For fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chillin...
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250362018/curdlecreek/
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Viridine Literary
5 months ago
☆ SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 04 ARE OPEN ☆ Theme: CONTAGION Give us contagious laughter. Give us catching feelings. Give us plague. Give us mob mentality. Submit here:
forms.gle/N8HUjshpzWrZ...
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Driftwood Press
5 months ago
DEADLINE JULY 31ST! Our Adrift Writing Contests are closing at the end of this month. Use the link in our bio to submit your poetry chapbook or short story for a chance to get PAID to be PUBLISHED!
#writingcontest
#closingsoon
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Fly on the Wall Press
5 months ago
Poets! The news is out... Submissions to "Woman, Mapped" to open shortly
@foundationswift.bsky.social
www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/news/rebecca...
#poets
#submissions
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Rebecca Swift Foundation Launches Women Poets Anthology - Rebecca Swift Foundation
The Rebecca Swift Foundation will join forces with Fly on the Wall Press to publish an anthology of women poets in the UK.
https://www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/news/rebecca-swift-foundation-launches-women-poets-anthology/
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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag
5 months ago
We are again open for fiction and poetry submissions! (We've received 15 of 200 possible written submissions for 15 July to 14 August.)
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
5 months ago
We're now approaching our final week. Fantastic work so far but we'd love to see more!
#sciencefiction
#art
#contest
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Bulb Culture Collective
5 months ago
L.M. and I are reading your BLAZING submissions, and we're loving what we're seeing! 🔥 If you have something that fits our current FIERY theme, make sure to send it our way before Aug 1. Guidelines can be found here:
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Chandelier Submissions — Bulb Culture Collective
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/chandelier-submissions
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The Broken Spine
5 months ago
If you’ve been locked out, shut down, left out of the room—walk into this one. The Broken Spine opens Aug 1–31. 👉
shorturl.at/eTSjI
👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social
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The Broken Spine Summer Competition 2025: Submit Bold Poetry and Fearless Prose for Publication - The Broken Spine
This August, The Broken Spine opens submissions for our 2025 Summer Competition. We’re seeking poetry and prose that refuses to flinch, writing that risks,
https://shorturl.at/eTSjI
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5 months ago
Submissions for Journal 15 will open on July 17. Our theme is Tension. See our Submission Guidelines for all the dirt. We can’t wait to read your work. Enjoy the flower.
www.muleskinnerjournal.com/submit
#writingcommunity
#litmag
#flashfiction
#fictionsubmissions
#poetryjournals
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Penstricken
5 months ago
#writingprompt
#writing
#inspiration
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Stelliform Press
5 months ago
Yes, we're officially closed to submissions, but pitch sessions can be a way to get our attention even when we're not reading subs. We will be looking for unique ecofiction, especially novellas, especially BIPOC and/or Canadian. More pitch opportunities to come! Some in-person!
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West Trade Review
5 months ago
Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Submissions are open! See details at the link below:
buff.ly/uBOmrKz
#writingcommunity
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Cosmic Daffodil Journal
5 months ago
Submissions for LOST & FOUND close in ONE WEEK ✨️📅 Visit our website for more information:
cosmic-daffodil.squarespace.com/submission-g...
We can't wait to see your creations!
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L'Esprit Literary Review
5 months ago
#callforsubmissions
: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. G’Lines + open calls:
lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...
#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
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Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
https://lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-guidelines/
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Driftwood Press
5 months ago
DEADLINE APPROACHING: You have until July 15th to submit to our writing contests! Use the link in our bio for details.
#writingcontest
#deadlinesoon
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