Always our pleasure!

This is all Nina's fault. Sharp and witty new poem Friday Afternoon by Colette Maxfield now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/friday-...

Congratulations, Colette! Thank you so much for trusting me with your brilliant words!

Wow. Pinch me. I can 👀 my piece on the longlist!

My first #LiftToTheSky @thebrokenspine.co.uk. @mattkendrick.bsky.social for organising the @welkinprize.bsky.social submission window with so much care and generosity!

@stanchion.bsky.social 'Music' submission window today! www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

Some ancient and twisted memory in Savernake Forest today 🪾

I have opened this with immediate effect, submit people! Those waiting on responses ought to get them this week, for past calls.

Submissions are open. Poetry that remembers. That mourns. That refuses to let go. Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/c...

Reading the 2025 @welkinprize.bsky.social shortlist, I can’t get over how perfectly suggestive ‘Mayday’ is: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Merry Christmas @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🌟

🪿ISSUE SIX - POETRY🪿 TALISMAN by @pickledp3.bsky.social Read here: sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/ta...

That's FIVE HUNDRED entries folks! And there are still over two weeks until entries close. Such a joy to read this flood of micros. And if you get an NQA (not quite acceptance) know that you're in a pretty big boat! Entry information here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Subs Open for Issue 10 Authora 'Aquatic': "Seafarers expanded horizons and enabled civilisations to flourish. Now, those vast bodies of water, once teeming with animal and plant life, are jeopardised by human activity on an industrial scale" - Jena Woodhouse, Guest Editor www.authora.net

We know you've been writing and making art all year. Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are always open. Send us your best today! www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews

This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "They won’t let you in" by @noranadj.bsky.social :

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk! Sending a copy to the Charles Dickens Museum in Bloomsbury, as a visit last year inspired the short story ‘The Guide’ @alanparrywriter.co.uk @lucindahawksley.bsky.social

Ordered! 👇 Really looking forward to the post on Monday 📦

Today is launch day for #SootAndBoots our collection of short festive fiction! Get your copy in hardback or paperback. amzn.eu/d/fotY3hp

“Winter hides in my heart…” A glimpse of the stories inside Soot & Boots. Out this month. #SootAndBoots

‘….with frosted festoons like a ceremony’ ! 🤩

Two new drops before month’s end. Couldn’t be more different. Couldn’t be more us. #SootAndBoots – our first seasonal fiction set – hits in hardback & paperback. Wintry stories with dirt under their nails. #RitesAndTrials Coming-of-age poems stitched with class, becoming, longing, & defiance.

Thirty writers, thirty winter visions. Soot & Boots brings them together in one seasonal anthology. Out soon. #SootAndBoots

Thank you so much 🙏 @sillygoosepress.bsky.social for including this poem about my ‘incred’ little sister sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/ta...

Have you checked out Issue 10 yet? 👀And if you’re reading it now, we want to hear your thoughts! 💭Stand out pieces/lines, surprises, pieces you keep going back to? Reply, tag us, or share your thoughts. #Palimpsest #HeimatMagazine #Poetry #FlashFiction #Art #litmag #literary www.heimatreview.com

ISSUE SIX POETRY GEESE

HOOONK PUT YOUR FEATHERS TOGETHER FOR THE SILLY GOOSE PRESS ISSUE SIX CONTRIBUTORSSS HOOONK

Our first short-fiction release since Four Forked Tongues is nearly here. Bold, strange, tender winter tales. November release. #SootAndBoots

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So exciting! 👇🤩

Our festive & wintry short-fiction anthology Soot & Boots lands later this month. Hardback + paperback. Sharp stories for dark nights. More soon. #SootAndBoots

Regular subs for issue 4 open until Nov 15. No theme, just send what you love in art micro flash and poetry templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Magma 95 - 'Architecture' Closing date: 10th Dec 2025 Editors Leo Boix & Stav Poleg look forward to reading your work—your rooms, your ruins, your bridges of language... Image: Charles Schridde magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1967176915...

Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇

Tomorrow the door closes. If you’ve been waiting, now is the time. The Havisham Steps is almost sealed. #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Hahaha this is sooo real 🫶🏻 happy we could add a little green to the party 🪿🪿

Is it normal to be this excited about the first acceptance on Submittable? Thank you @sillygoosepress.bsky.social for showing me what the green light looks like 💚😂

Thank you #LauraGrevel for this revealing review of #BeautifulLittleFools #GreatGatsby#FScottFitzgerald #Decadence #Deceit #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237581519-beautiful-little-fools

And YES! Another submission opportunity! We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest. Check out the website for submission details... roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

Still relatively new to indie lit - but still haven’t come across anything quite like the lens of @thebrokenspine.co.uk 👇

For #WednesdayWIPs This past weekend has been HARD! But, at least I got a poem from it all. Collapse, 7th October, 2025 coughing up cum-soaked sheaths & spitting my hide onto the floor this is breakdown in motion

Heard voices coming from within here today 😬 #ModernGothicPoetry

Reminder: we reopen for submissions NEXT WEEK! Oct 1 - 31 on theme #Integrity Simultaneous call with our #kidlit magazine @nimblewitlit.bsky.social You are highly encouraged to submit to both! epistemiclit.com/submissions/

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds. Closing date: October 31st #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Someone nominated The Broken Spine. And then wrote this: “Honest, truthful, gripping work that doesn't hold back and is brave. The best kind.”

We open on Wednesday 1st October for free submissions in, Prose, CNF and Flash Fiction. So what are we looking for? Laura @lozzawriting.bsky.social riffs a little on just that in relation to Poetry in this post below. Take a look! www.frazzledlit.com/p/hurt-us-a-...

Such an incredible part of Reading’s history - I think of it every time I pass under the arch. Thanks again to Two Rivers Press for hosting this poem! tworiverspress.com/2024/10/28/j...

#Submissions are now open for #Verdigris: #PoetryOfDecay. If #LiftToTheSky is about rising, Verdigris is about falling — splendour unravelled, glamour undone. Open all September: