#TheWelkinGenrePrize Entries open two weeks today!!! Spread the word. And get scribbling!! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Just a reminder that regular submissions to the magazine open in 2 weeks on May 1st! Get your short fiction and poetry ready! www.darkwinterlit.com/submit-liter...

"Two Poems" by Colette Maxfield “Before long she was running in and out / Like a trapped cat / That hisses / When it speaks.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/maxfi...

This night matters more than it looks. To the room. To the people in it. To the ones rebuilding. 26 April, 19:00. #PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return

B+H's April update is LIVE!!! HUGE thanks to UK digital artist Paul Warren for the very cool cover art and his ongoing contributions to the mag!!! www.bloodhoneylit.com/blood-honey-...

Mid-month check: Have you written something that unsettles scale, belief, or certainty? That’s what #Firmament is for. #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky

Our 4th Anniversary Contest for Short Fiction and Poetry is now open! Free submission, cash prizes for the winners, and publication in the literary magazine for the long-listers! Send in your entries today! See our contest link for details! www.darkwinterlit.com/contests

To celebrate my birthday, I wanted to do something nice that would hopefully spread a bit of joy in the next few months. So, today is the official launch of... 🥁🥁🥁 THE WELKIN GENRE PRIZE!!! Details in the thread below! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Submissions are open. #Firmament is looking for poetry that reaches beyond the immediate — into scale, silence, and the unknown. This is not escape. It’s perspective. #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky

Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic Closing date: 31st March, 2026 Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems! More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

We are excited to announce the results of our 2026 microfiction competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. You can read the winning & highly commended stories here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

Issue 8 THEME: RIGHTEOUS RAGE Open March 1-30 Get ready. Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/

A #LiftToTheSky for @sillygoosepress.bsky.social for having so much bounce 🎈

SGP ISSUE SEVEN! OPEN FOR SUBS NOW! WE LOVE YOU! sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit

Yay!!!! Congrats

Oh my goodness, I 👀 my title on the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social shortlist! 🙏

If you’ve been thinking about submitting to us, here’s your sign ✨ Subs are open through Feb 15. heimatreview.com/submit

Submissions for MELT are closed! Thanks for submitting, geese! Missed our window? Don’t sweat, you’ll have another chance to visit the pond sooner than you may think 🪿😚

The Welkin Writing Prize WILL BE BACK!!!! (after Matt has had a suitably long rest) And the "backness" **might** be sooner than you think (but Matt makes you no promises...) In the meantime, catch up with all this year's winning stories here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories

Super excited to be a part of this upcoming anthology! 👇😱 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you? This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant. This one’s built with spit. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow 👉 thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/c...

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

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