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Published via The Broken Spine, DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Silly Goose Press
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darkwinterlitmag
3 days ago
Always our pleasure!
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darkwinterlitmag
3 days ago
This is all Nina's fault. Sharp and witty new poem Friday Afternoon by Colette Maxfield now up on DarkWinter Lit!
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Friday Afternoon by Colette Maxfield
Nina did something That she shouldn’t have done. Giddily, thoughtlessly, she looked for an all staff mailing list For help in her search for an apartment. [...]
https://www.darkwinterlit.com/post/friday-afternoon-by-colette-maxfield
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The Welkin Writing Prize
3 days ago
Congratulations, Colette! Thank you so much for trusting me with your brilliant words!
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Wow. Pinch me. I can 👀 my piece on the longlist!
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My first
#LiftToTheSky
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
.
@mattkendrick.bsky.social
for organising the
@welkinprize.bsky.social
submission window with so much care and generosity!
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@stanchion.bsky.social
'Music' submission window today!
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
6 days ago
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Some ancient and twisted memory in Savernake Forest today
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9 days ago
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Alan Parry He/Him
11 days ago
I have opened this with immediate effect, submit people! Those waiting on responses ought to get them this week, for past calls.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
11 days ago
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...
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Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/call-for-submissions-poetry-that-remembers-mourns-and-refuses-to-let-go/
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Reading the 2025
@welkinprize.bsky.social
shortlist, I can’t get over how perfectly suggestive ‘Mayday’ is:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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The Welkin Writing Prize | Shortlist 25
Shortlisted pieces for the 2025 Welkin Mini
https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/shortlist-25
10 days ago
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Merry Christmas
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
🌟
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19 days ago
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Silly Goose Press
25 days ago
🪿ISSUE SIX - POETRY🪿 TALISMAN by
@pickledp3.bsky.social
Read here:
sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/ta...
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The Welkin Writing Prize
28 days ago
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...
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Authora Australis
about 1 month ago
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
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
about 1 month ago
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
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The Welkin Writing Prize
about 1 month ago
This week for
#WelkinWindbackWednesday
, "They won’t let you in" by
@noranadj.bsky.social
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The Welkin Writing Prize | They won’t let you in
"They won’t let you in" by Nora Nadjarian
https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/they-wont-let-you-in
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The Welkin Writing Prize
about 1 month ago
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...
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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
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about 1 month ago
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Ordered! 👇 Really looking forward to the post on Monday 📦
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about 1 month ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 1 month ago
Today is launch day for
#SootAndBoots
our collection of short festive fiction! Get your copy in hardback or paperback.
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Amazon.co.uk
https://amzn.eu/d/fotY3hp
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
“Winter hides in my heart…” A glimpse of the stories inside Soot & Boots. Out this month.
#SootAndBoots
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‘….with frosted festoons like a ceremony’ ! 🤩
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about 2 months ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
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.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
Thirty writers, thirty winter visions. Soot & Boots brings them together in one seasonal anthology. Out soon.
#SootAndBoots
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Thank you so much 🙏
@sillygoosepress.bsky.social
for including this poem about my ‘incred’ little sister
sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/ta...
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Talisman — SillyGoosePress
When we stepped off the boat To watch the glass blower Your single-bead bracelet Broke. That was the day the giant blue crab Danced for us in the canal way. Now I see him adorned with that Perfe...
https://sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/talisman
about 2 months ago
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Heimat Review
about 2 months ago
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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Heimat Review
Heimat means “home.” More than a house or city, heimat is the place of being, of presence and reflection. It is the moment in time when you are invited to ask “where am I” and “where should...
https://www.heimatreview.com/
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Silly Goose Press
about 2 months ago
ISSUE SIX POETRY GEESE
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Silly Goose Press
about 2 months ago
HOOONK PUT YOUR FEATHERS TOGETHER FOR THE SILLY GOOSE PRESS ISSUE SIX CONTRIBUTORSSS HOOONK
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
Our first short-fiction release since Four Forked Tongues is nearly here. Bold, strange, tender winter tales. November release.
#SootAndBoots
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Silly Goose Press
about 2 months ago
HOOONK SGP6 DROPS THURSDAY HOOONK
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So exciting! 👇🤩
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about 2 months ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
Our festive & wintry short-fiction anthology Soot & Boots lands later this month. Hardback + paperback. Sharp stories for dark nights. More soon.
#SootAndBoots
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Temple in a city
2 months ago
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...
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
https://templeinacity.com/submit-writing-art-digital-magazine/
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Magma Poetry
2 months ago
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...
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
2 months ago
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...
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Matt Kendrick
2 months ago
Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
2 months ago
Tomorrow the door closes. If you’ve been waiting, now is the time. The Havisham Steps is almost sealed.
#PoetrySubmissions
#SubmissionWindow
#TheHavishamSteps
#ModernGothicPoetry
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Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/something-gothic-this-way-comes-submit-to-the-havisham-steps-modern-gothic-poetry/
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Silly Goose Press
3 months ago
Hahaha this is sooo real 🫶🏻 happy we could add a little green to the party 🪿🪿
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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 💚😂
3 months ago
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Karen Pierce Gonzalez
3 months ago
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
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Rough Diamond Poetry
3 months ago
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/
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Submissions
We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…
https://roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/
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Still relatively new to indie lit - but still haven’t come across anything quite like the lens of
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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3 months ago
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Alan Parry He/Him
3 months ago
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
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Heard voices coming from within here today 😬
#ModernGothicPoetry
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3 months ago
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 7: Integrity now!
4 months ago
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/
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Submissions -
Submission guidelines for a fully digital literary anthology that explores themes to open conversations through the written word.
https://epistemiclit.com/submissions/
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
3 months ago
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
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Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/something-gothic-this-way-comes-submit-to-the-havisham-steps-modern-gothic-poetry/
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 months ago
Someone nominated The Broken Spine. And then wrote this: “Honest, truthful, gripping work that doesn't hold back and is brave. The best kind.”
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Frazzled Lit *Closed*
4 months ago
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-...
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Hurt us a little
In which Laura riffs on what we look for in poetry submissions
https://www.frazzledlit.com/p/hurt-us-a-little
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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...
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4 months ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
4 months ago
#Submissions
are now open for
#Verdigris:
#PoetryOfDecay.
If
#LiftToTheSky
is about rising, Verdigris is about falling — splendour unravelled, glamour undone. Open all September:
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Dressed to Kill, Ready to Rot: Submit to Verdigris: Poetry of Decay - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout September 2025 | Publication in 2026
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/dressed-to-kill-ready-to-rot-submit-to-verdigris-poetry-of-decay/
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