Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales has been out for a week, so it's time for our first Contributor Spotlight! First up we have our wonderful cover artist for this issue, Artemis Moss. Swipe for a sneak peek, and view it in full on the cover of Issue Eleven now! 💚

What a wonderful Friday it is! Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales is officially live and available for you to devour for free from our website - go and check it out now, we have a feeling you'll like it 🖤

Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales releases next Friday 19th September at midday, with gorgeous cover art from Artemis Moss that we're beyond delighted to display! 💙

Behold! The contents of Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales!

Our final Contributor Spotlight for this collection is on the fantastic Lily Lovelle, with her gorgeous poem Dressing Room! Fall in love with it, and everything else nestled amongst it, in Our Dearest Devotions, available on our shop now! 💜

For today's Contributor Spotlight we bring you the excellent Cagalli Lim, back again with their new story Bum Deals and Bad Decisions! Check it out in all its glory in Our Dearest Devotions now! 💜

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Marisca Pichette, back once more with a new gorgeous poem, What the Unicorn's Horn Feels! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions now 💜

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the wonderful Halle Merrick, with their new short story The Willowwood! Read the full piece in Our Dearest Devotions now! 💜

You've got three days left to submit your cover art to us for Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales! Have you submitted yet artists?? 👀

For today's Contributor Spotlight we bring you the amazing Vivienna LV, with her stunning poem Bared. You can take a sneak peak at the opening here, and read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions! 💜

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the amazing S. Janmar, with their stunning new story Plena Nocturnal! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions 💜

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is on the wonderful Yuu Ikeda, with her gorgeous poem Always. You can find the full poem in all its glory in Our Dearest Devotions, available on our website! 💜

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the excellent Barrett Festen, with her stunning short story On My Knees at the Altar of Love! Take a sneak peek at the opening here, and read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions! 💜

Submissions are officially closed for the contents of Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales, but we're keeping our cover art submissions open for another week! You've got until the 31st August to give us your art - go go go!!! 🖤

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the fantastic Jordan Gilpin, with her gorgeous poem tsunami as blue as her eyes! Take a sneak peek here, and fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions! 💜

one day left to submit to issue eleven: forbidden folktales, and we'd love to see some more middle grade submissions!

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Irina Vérène, with their brilliant tale Necessary Change! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions, out now! 💜

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the excellent Dreama Weaver, with her gorgeous poem Not Quite Enough. Read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions, out now! 💜

you have until THIS FRIDAY to give us your forbidden folktales for issue eleven - we want ya and mg short stories, flash, poetry, and art from YOU!

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the amazing Johnna Parker, with her gorgeous vampiric tale Le Rouge Night! Fall in love with the start here, and in full in Our Dearest Devotions, out now 💜

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the excellent Andrew Searle, with his stunning poetry piece heaven. Read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions, out now! 💜

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the wonderful Julianne Estur, with her gorgeous new story yours, truly! Read it in all its glory in Our Dearest Devotions, out now 💜

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the brilliant Evelyn Vozar, with her gorgeous poem my olive branch! Read the first snippet here, and fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions - available now through our website! 💜

Finally! Finally, the Voice from the Void has granted mercy, and the copies of Our Dearest Devotions have arrived! Behold the gorgeous cover art from Lucas Hill, and snippets of the stunning work of our contributors for this, our 2025 Pride collection - OUT NOW!

Quick Our Dearest Devotions update: our books were lost in post! Our absolutely wonderful printers are re-printing as we speak and bringing them down to us ourselves (we love Palace Printers 🖤) and we will be shipping them out this weekend! Thank you for your patience with this one!

Our Dearest Devotions will be out super soon, but for now: submissions are officially open from now until August 22nd for Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales! Share your forgotten and found fables, your hidden truths, your storybook secrets - full guidelines on our website 🖤

A quick Our Dearest Devotions update: we’re just waiting for the courier to deliver the books, and then we’ll be sending them out to you! 🖤

Slightly delayed on this, but we've just had the all clear from our printers, and the books will be shipped out end of this week! Get your pre-orders in now through our bio! 🖤

Our final Contributor Spotlight for this issue is the excellent Jemima Bishop, with her gorgeous piece Flourishing! Read it in full alongside its neighbours in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

join us in our NEW discord corner of the void - share your work, get early access to issue themes ahead of submission windows, chat to other ghosts and ghouls, and give us your spooky recs! link in bio 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is the wonderful Zoe Davis, with her gorgeous poem Purpose of a Seed! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted now 🖤

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Avilasha Bhowmik, with her stunning poem April's Haunting Lullaby! Fall in love with it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Behold, the beautiful Our Dearest Devotions cover, with stunning artwork from Lucas Hill! We are so in love with this cover, and the stunning work nestled within its pages.

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the excellent Gabriel Elvery, with their tense mystery story Empty Nest! Take a read of the full story in Issue Ten: Rooted now 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the excellent Andrea Green, with her murderous short story Definitely No Flowers! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the wonderful Yuu Ikeda, one of our fantastic returning contributors with her new poem Us! Fall in love with the whole piece in Issue Ten: Rooted now! 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the wonderful Lizzie Elliot-Klein, with her gorgeous poem A Weed's Farewell! Fall in love with it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today lands on the fantastic Jasmina Kuenzli, with her gorgeous short story of love and different worlds, The Quagmire! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted today 🖤

Today we bring you another Spotlighted Contributor: the excellent Remi Beach! Read the first part of her short young adult horror I'm Here now, and check it out in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

May we proudly present you with the list of incredibly talented contributors in Our Dearest Devotions, our printed 2025 Pride collection. We are so excited to share this new collection with you, coming end of June/start of July - cover and release date reveal to come! 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the amazing Arabella Jain, with her short horror piece Seven Minutes in Hell! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the excellent Laila Papas, with her gorgeous poem The Boy with the Blackened Heart! Read it in full for free via the link in our bio now 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the wonderful Katrina Lemaire, with her short young adult piece Dig Deep! Read it in all its glory in Issue Ten: Rooted now 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the excellent Barrett Festen, with her short middle grade tale of family: Inheritance! Take a sneak peek at the start here, and read it in full for free in Issue Ten 🖤

ALL submission responses for Our Dearest Devotions are going out today! Keep an eye on your inboxes, and a HUGE thank you again to everyone who submitted - we've had the pleasure of reading such fantastic queer stories and poetry all week thanks to you 💜

For our Contributor Spotlight today, we bring you the brilliant Charlotte Razzino, with her middle grade sibling-centric short story Wishing Well! Read the opening here, and read the whole piece in all its glory in Issue Ten: Rooted! 🖤

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the fantastic Mikala Smee, with her short middle-grade piece Looking Glass! Read it in full for free in Issue Ten: Rooted! 🖤

Today's spotlighted contributor is the wonderful Daniel Gene Barlekamp, who kicks off Issue Ten with middle-grade horror It Stares Back! Take a sneak peek at the start of the story here, and read it in full on our website 🖤

To start off our Issue Ten Contributor Spotlights, we have the amazing Lucas Hill, our cover artist for this issue! Take a sneak peek at Lucas' stunning art here, and see it in all its glory on our front cover in Issue Ten: Rooted, available now through the link in our bio 🖤

TWO DAYS LEFT to submit to our dearest devotions, our 2025 pride collection! have YOU submitted yet??👀