One for the short story writing folk - 👇👀👇 Great opportunity to submit to a very exciting new imprint devoted to short stories and the uncanny... www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/...

It's another #ShortStorySunday! Share a link to what you've read or had published recently below (don't drop a link and run, take a look at what other folks are sharing too!)

you can listen to me read my free verse short story about my local park that came out last year - and four other parks by other writers - for free here levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/you-are-here/

It's another #ShortStorySunday! Share a link to what you've read or had published recently below (don't drop a link and run, take a look at what other folks are sharing too!)

What do we all think of this? In many ways I prefer the grassroots approach of Hinokodo's human made icon (hinokodo.itch.io/human-made) but obviously the SoA's approach has a level of verification involved

Fuck AI. Write an absolutely banging short story with your own glorious brain. The Writers' HQ Write A Short Story Festival is in April and you should definitely join us writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch... With @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @aliceslat

𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝕭𝖊𝖊𝖙𝖑𝖊 ✦

dragon posting ⚔️

Submissions are open for our summer issue! variantlit.submittable.com/submit

It's hard to put into words how much of a difference you can make to someone's day simply by reading a story they wrote, sharing it, and telling them that you liked it. Not only is the reading itself a worthwhile pleasure, it's also just a wonderful gift. It's so worth doing

Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

It's been a while, but we're pleased to bring back our weekly #ShortStorySunday thread for recommending online short fiction! If you've read or released a short story recently, share the link below (and don't drop a link and run, read and repost other people's recommendations too!)

It's been a while, but we're pleased to bring back our weekly #ShortStorySunday thread for recommending online short fiction! If you've read or released a short story recently, share the link below (and don't drop a link and run, read and repost other people's recommendations too!)

Now OPEN for submissions! 🐜🦀🐞 Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 3 is looking for the best tales of bug or barnacle or beastie published in 2025! Submit here: hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf

We're open for submissions! Send us your best prose or poetry: variantlit.com/submit/

Oi oi, did you know we have a newsletter? And that you can read our archive? buttondown.com/carnyx/archi...

If you've been enjoying Small Prophets as much as we have, you'll probably find a few treats in our anthology when it comes out later this year...

We're drawing towards the end of the month, so you know the drill folks - if you have competitions or submissions call-outs for UK writers in March, let us know for our newsletter!

1. A Year in Willerby. 12 stories from a haunted village. First edition run of 100 sold out but we're building a waiting list for edition two, which will be mostly the same with some interesting differences. Here's the link for the list. More detail in thread. www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/blank

Just a few more days left of our sale. It runs until Feb 10th!

Revealing the title and cover of our very first anthology! Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore will be published this June, and will include folklore-inspired stories from writers across the North of England.

ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction and #microfiction inc. #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

One of the honest to god goals of this press is to make enough in book sales that we can justify buying a replica carnyx and blast it at maximum strength at all of our book launches

Yesterday, we launched Brave New World? a ground-breaking report about the impact of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This major new study has been published in partnership with other creator-led organisations. buff.ly/vIuLqfn

NEW BRAAG MICROS - up at thebraag.co/shop 👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman. 🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.

year of the fire horse risograph 🐎🔥

Our newsletter, out on Sunday, will be revealing our submission themes for the year! Sign up here: buttondown.com/carnyx

We're here for ur weird! Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️

Writing orgs! We're putting together our February newsletter. If you have an opportunity for writers in the next month or so, let us know.

Thanks, Gabino! I'll have a short story about food, fairies and racist neighbours, out in "Oaths and Offerings", an anthology of folklore by @carnyxpress.co.uk, to be released in June. Readers can sign up for the Carnyx Press newsletter to learn when pre-orders are available: buttondown.com/carnyx

Very excited to have a story in Oaths and Offerings, the first anthology from @carnyxpress.co.uk - coming in June.

We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨ 💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚

I'm going to be published in the first anthology from Carnyx Press! Oaths and Offerings features eight folklore-inspired stories from writers living in the North of England. Out this June! You can sign up for the Carnyx Press newsletter to hear when pre-orders open. buttondown.com/carnyx

Revealing the title and cover of our very first anthology! Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore will be published this June, and will include folklore-inspired stories from writers across the North of England.

Alright lads, we're doing some research into Northern bookshops, so if you've got a favourite local let us know - and if they're on bluesky, drop their @ so we can give them a follow!

I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚 Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'

Alright lads, we're doing some research into Northern bookshops, so if you've got a favourite local let us know - and if they're on bluesky, drop their @ so we can give them a follow!

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

hello again, #PortfolioDay! I'm Torres, a freelance artist and illustrator. I love medieval fantasy, fairy tales and whimsical vibes. I'm always on the lookout for new projects in book publishing, TTRPGs or TCGs 🔸Portfolio: ddbtorres.carrd.co 🔸E-mail: [email protected]

New issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is here from @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social! Look at that cover weightlessbooks.com/lady-churchi...

We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉

There's nothing quite like typesetting. Imagining how everything will look printed as you get the words down on the page... very satisfying.

A walk from Thorne to Goole, via the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Keadby Wind Farm, the River Trent, the River Ouse and the Dutch River, 9.25pm Saturday 3 January to 9.25am Sunday 4 January. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Everytime I see one of these memes it takes me a second to realise its not talking about @carnyxpress.co.uk

Welcome to Willerby. www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

Excellent news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you a writer with something important to say? Fly on the Wall Press seeks exceptional voices crafting political fiction that addresses today's pressing issues. www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/manuscript-s... #submissions

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Purchased our first ISBNs - exciting!

We're putting together our monthly newsletter! If you have January opportunities for writers, let us know - we're particularly interested in sharing opportunities for writers in the North of England, and for writers of speculative fiction.