NOVEL UPDATE!

This week's Thursday Throwback features Pot Washer by Emyr Payne. @emyrpayne.bsky.social A sharp and candid piece, we thought it excelled in voice and enjoyed its resonant authenticity. Read it now in Issue 4. Friendly reminder, submissions for Issue 7 close tomorrow!

Another sample of something new I'm working on:

New writing - could be a novel, could be nothing.

Llandudno North Wales in the springtime sunshine

Proof copy of debut novel - stay tuned for more info / tasters / release date etc in the coming months!

New poem, Amir Khan featured in the below! To purchase, follow link: undergroundpress.ink/issue-31/

Llandudno springtime

Got a new story, 'Hairspray Queen' in issue 5 of Aeos magazine. YES MATE! To buy (the price of two disappointing coffees): aeos.bigcartel.com/product/aeos...

Submissions are now open (a couple of hours early), until May 22! Issue 7: DECEPTION and DIRTY REALISM We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life. 🔗 forms.gle/rfX3nyUnRMwD...

It's hard to judge your own work but I really feel the two poems included in this zine by Crying Heart Press is probably my best work to date. Honoured to be included in such an awesome publication. Link to buy: cryingheartpress.bigcartel.com/product/chp-...

Got some pics in a story about Jelvis Pelvis in the Liverpool Echo - link to read: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/mus...

👀 Here is a wee sneak peek inside our For The Sad Kids Zine - check out this illustration from Savannah 😍 Follow @samonrreal for more like this and grab your copy of the zine in the Coin-Op shop now!! ✨️ #SneakPeek #zines #SadKids #emo #alternative

Stoked to have my work featured in this issue by the wonderful @coinoppress.bsky.social - just follow the link in their bio to purchase this and many other wonderful zines - they have something for everyone!

Honoured to have my poem, 'Too Many Humans' published in issue 6 of @underbellypress.bsky.social - you can download a FREE!!!! Copy by following this link: linktr.ee/underbellypr...

"He’d promised himself, promised his therapist, he’d stop letting his anger be the first thing out of his mouth. But here he was, a grown man, sober for three months, crying over a clogged drain while his son watched him unravel like cheap plumbing." Susmita Mukherjee mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Check this out from Bull magazine: a brliant, deceptively simple.story about masculinity and grief by Susmita Mukherjee:

Rhyl then and now: 2019 (top) and 2026 (bottom) - an example of how my long term documentation of Rhyl reflects the various stages of change for the town.

ISSUE 6 POETRY ☆ Abraham Aondoana ☆ @poetloz.bsky.social ☆ @lowermelody.bsky.social ☆ David Anson Lee ☆ @devonwebbnz.bsky.social ☆ @emyrpayne.bsky.social ☆ James Fleet Underwood ☆ Jeff Skinner ☆ Lauren Paré ☆ Maëlle Keita ☆ Paul Whelan ☆ Rebecca Leek ☆ Sarai Nichole ☆ @swhoffmann.bsky.social ☆

I've been hibernating from social media - now I'm back with a new short story, 'Ducksie' published in Bull! Read below: mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Submissions for Underbelly Press Issue 6: GREED close this week, January 30! For this issue, we’re looking for work that explores the intersection of greed and human experience. As before, we’re pairing the theme with our inherent focus: the gritty, the mundane, the uncomfortable, the human.

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A sample from my second novel, 'Binge Drinker' - a story about life in the 00s for those of us who graduated into the 2008 financial crash - currently unedited and unpublished x

First round of line edits for my debut novel, '50 Reasons to Live' with Barnard Press - shit got real!

Yo yo yo, got a short story published in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social about shadow boxing, earrings and life on a psychiatric forensic unit, amongst other things. CHECK IT OUT - LINK BELOW!!! www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/i-ca...

Word (if anybody listening)

@j-tkelly.bsky.social just read your poem, 'Career' - resonated with me ❤️

New novel - first draft done - here's another taster

Working on a new novel about ...... well, says it on the tin really.

Working on a new novel .....

Theme Reveal: Greed Issue 6: 19 December to 30 January For this issue, we’re looking for work that explores the intersection of greed and human experience. The desire to take more than you’re owed. The people who get crushed under someone else’s wanting. The need to be needed. Hoarding comfort.

Hey! I have a new story, 'Fish' published in Bel Esprit - to read for FREE! follow the link below, and if you like physical media, you can also subscribe to the literary paper - also, 2 min read - like all great literature😂🤣😂 www.belespritproject.com/post/_fish

Check it out! To read full story click: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Key Worker by Emyr Payne @emyrpayne.bsky.social It's a visceral piece with a resonant narrative voice that blends the grit of Underbelly with the mood of autumn beautifully. With Issue 6 opening for submissions soon, now’s the perfect time to have a taste of Emyr’s short fiction.

The first novel, is my all time favourite novel, the second I bought based on a recommendation, with no knowledge that Yuko Tsushima was his daughter - for soke reason this makes me very happy.

On line edits for my debut novel, 50 Reasons to Live with Barnard Press - think this is draft 10, over two years since I wrote the first draft - the only way out is through!

Eryri / Snowdonia

On a landscape kick at the moment - Eryri

Getting my landscape on - Eryri

So chuffed to have my short story, 'Key Worker' included in issue 5 of Underbelly Press - there are some stellar pieces in this issue and I highly recommend anybody who is interested in the underbelly of existence to check it out - just follow the link below to download a PDF copy free!

I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press! Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Studying texture in Eryri / Snowdonia

Eryri

Supper chuffed to be included in issue 5 of Underbelly Press with my VERY first short story publication! Stay tuned for release date and link to read! Thanks @underbellypress.bsky.social for including me again 🙏🙏🙏

Short Fiction Amy Leacy ☆ @deniseb.bsky.social ☆ Derek Jennings☆ @emyrpayne.bsky.social ☆Heather Walker ☆ Ian Johnson☆ John Storey☆ @jupiterjonz.bsky.social ☆ @darkonelf.bsky.social ☆ @lozzawriting.bsky.social ☆ @madeleinewrite.bsky.social ☆ Rebecca Tiger ☆ Scott MacLeod☆ @tednorthodox.bsky.social ☆

Super chuffed to have my poem, 14k included in issue 4 of The Scumrag, published by Scumbag Press. On to more submissions!

For all you poetry lovers out there - my poem, Ectopic has been shortlisted for the Apoetical poetry prize - you can follow the link on my profile to read it and other entries - you can vote for your favourite as part of the poet's choice award, so if you have a favourite, please click like!

Llandudno, North Wales 2024

Just sent draft 8 of my debut novel, 50 Reasons to Live to my publisher - Barnard Press - next step: edits and cover design 👍 I am feeling a strange mixture of excitement and anxiety after 15 years or so of trying to write this book!