New on the blog! Our Q&A with Sophie Parkes digs into everyday folklore and how it inspired her story, 'Mother of God', in our upcoming anthology. Read now: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/05/08/i...

Just a reminder: if you’re around in Leeds on Saturday June 6th from 6-8 pm and you like fantasy lit, why not come along to the launch of Oaths and Offerings at The Hyde Park Book Club www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/oaths...

Online launch – Obsidian Join us for a day of space-fun on Saturday May 9th as we celebrate the online launch of Obsidian - an anthology of dark space fiction. Most of the action will be streamed via Facebook and YouTube. We begin the fun at 2pm for a live space-lit-themed quiz with comedian and…

In a month's time we'll be holding our first ever launch event, coinciding with the publication of Oaths and Offerings, our anthology of folkloric stories from Northern writers. We'd love to see folks in the North East there! Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/29/o...

📅DID YOU MISS THE CROWDFUND FOR THIS YEAR'S ISSUES?📚 🧙‍♀️CHECK OUT OUR PRE-ORDER STORE!⚔️ 👉 sword-sorcery-2026.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... 👈

Hear ye! Starting next month, submissions open for our second anthology: a collection of sorcerous tales. Give us high, low, urban or dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, magical realism - anything that crackles with magic and stretches the realm of the possible.

Hear ye! Starting next month, submissions open for our second anthology: a collection of sorcerous tales. Give us high, low, urban or dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, magical realism - anything that crackles with magic and stretches the realm of the possible.

Happy Beltane and International Workers’ Day! This is Walter Crane’s “A Garland For May Day”, first published in 1895. In The Green Issue, it illustrates @verityholloway.bsky.social’s piece on the roots of the folk tradition of Jack-in-the-Green, entangled in the plight of Victorian chimney sweeps.

Closing for novel submissions tomorrow at midnight ✨️ #querying #submissions

beasts on parade

Same, on both counts. I think Shunn aims for readability more than anything, but it’s not some secret formatting code, a shibboleth you’ll be penalized for not following letter-perfect. Simple, readable format makes an editor’s job easier and ensures your story and information is conveyed correctly.

We're on tour! Starting next month our editor and writers are bringing folkloric events to Durham, Newcastle, and Leeds. Find out more and book tickets: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/29/o...

Discover cracking new fiction from eight writers living in the North of England, exploring the theme of folklore. Curses and quests, fairies and petroglyphs, midsummer rituals in a climate-changed future: it's got it all! Out this June. Pre-order now: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat...

Right lads, we're putting together our monthly mailing, so if you have an opportunity for writers in May, let us know! buttondown.com/carnyx

And if you’re in the Leeds area, come to the book launch as part of the Leeds Literary Festival on Saturday June 6th at The Hyde Park Book Club 6-8pm Be there or be … whatever!!

I have a story in this book, and it has ikan bilis and kiam chye in it! What happens to those foods in the tale? You'll just have to read it and see. 😂

Discover cracking new fiction from eight writers living in the North of England, exploring the theme of folklore. Curses and quests, fairies and petroglyphs, midsummer rituals in a climate-changed future: it's got it all! Out this June. Pre-order now: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat...

To celebrate our 20th birthday We're having a Bluemoose Books day At Leeds Central Library on June 13th together with Leeds Lit Festival. Our authors. @sharonduggal.bsky.social Simon Crump & Rob Potts will be reading from their new books. Tickets here. www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/bluem...

And with that, the anthology is at the printers!

FOLKTALES: Short Story Course w/ Sophie Parkes 🐉✍ 📌 Online 📅 Starts Jun 23 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folktales-... Work on your own fiction while learning different forms of folk tale. With guidance from Sophie Parkes you will work on 2 or 3 stories with your favourite published in a Comma eBook.

Fans of folk horror, fairy-lore and weird fiction: we're delighted to announce that you can now pre-order our very first anthology over at carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat... Out the 4th June. It's going to be an absolute treat.

Come along to the Leeds Literary Festival on June 6th 6-8 pm and see/hear me, @maetang.myatproto.social, @suzannahevans.bsky.social, @verbivorial.bsky.social, and more wonderful authors!

Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome! Check out the details: juliebozza.com/submissions-...

Three weeks to go - STRANGE AS FOLK is creeping closer all the time, and is bound to be a great online day for anyone writing or looking to write folk horror! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #horror #folkhorror #writing #writers #authors #fiction #books #novels

We're on tour! Starting next month our editor and writers are bringing folkloric events to Durham, Newcastle, and Leeds. Find out more and book tickets: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/29/o...

🌟 ICYMI 🌟 Cover reveal for our gorgeous anthology Together is a Distant Star ✨ A collaborative effort from queer and women authors throughout the world. Releasing May 19th! Add it on Goodreads now <3 www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... 📚💙

Over on the blog, @verbivorial.bsky.social talks about cup and ring marks and their influence on her story in our upcoming anthology! Read more: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/04/17/i...

Join us from 6–14 June for a city-wide celebration of words & imagination. Our biggest collaboration yet as we bring together more than 50 events across 16 venues. Lots of the city’s best writers joined together with friends from afar. LLF 2026 PROGRAMME 👇👇👇 www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/

You all may or may not be aware that submissions are opening for our second anthology between June and July, and it'll be another themed one for writers living in the North of England! VERY excited to open the gates for submissions once more

Pride in Horror submissions close at the end of this month. Open to all (yes, including allies!), PIHM is an annual event over at DHR, and we want you to take part! Just check the website for submission guidelines, and get your pieces to us! divinationhollow.com/pride-in-hor...

Extremely grateful for these lovely words about our first anthology. Feeling very proud! Find out more about the book here: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat...

Extremely grateful for these lovely words about our first anthology. Feeling very proud! Find out more about the book here: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat...

The Northern writers folklore anthology that I have a short story in, Oaths and Offerings, is finally up for pre-order, thanks to @carnyxpress.co.uk. There's more info here: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat...

Fans of folk horror, fairy-lore and weird fiction: we're delighted to announce that you can now pre-order our very first anthology over at carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat... Out the 4th June. It's going to be an absolute treat.

Something for all those with a suddenly-revived interest in journeys to the moon. sidekickbooks.com/booklab/book...

New on the blog: we chatted with Oaths and Offerings contributor Steven French (@srdfrench.bsky.social) about boggarts, orchards, and gabble ratchets! Read our Q&A: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/04/06/i...

New on the blog: we chatted with Oaths and Offerings contributor Steven French (@srdfrench.bsky.social) about boggarts, orchards, and gabble ratchets! Read our Q&A: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/04/06/i...

The #kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is now live! #projectwelove @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/06-devils-al... A Devil's Alphabet by Annie Hayter (Cw: CSA, violence), so gorgeous joylandpublishing.com/fiction/hors... Horse Girl by K. C. Mead-Brewer, literally always makes me cry.

Another #ShortStorySunday is here! If you've read a great short story recently, or have had one of your own published, pop a link below.

If you're a book reviewer, blogger, vlogger, booktoker, or similar who would like to receive promo copies of our titles, we'd love to hear from you! We've popped together an expression of interest form which you can fill out here: forms.gle/a4Dwe5s69ZUT...

Now open for submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, video, labyrinths, manifestos, & the generically transgressive Submissions will be considered for both our print and online editions

Over on our blog you can read a Q&A with Oaths and Offerings contributor Mae Tang (@maetang.myatproto.social), about her inspiration for 'Away With the Fairies', Northern bookshops, and nightmarish folkloric creatures: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/30/i...

IT’S HERE! Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities. 👉🏼 Pre-orders for The Green Issue are now open worldwide! helleborezine.com/products/the-green-issue

I answered some questions about the story I've written for Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore, and on various other topics. The anthology will be out in June, and pre-orders will open on Thursday 9th April, over at carnyxpress.co.uk.

Over on our blog you can read a Q&A with Oaths and Offerings contributor Mae Tang (@maetang.myatproto.social), about her inspiration for 'Away With the Fairies', Northern bookshops, and nightmarish folkloric creatures: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/30/i...

We're delighted to announce that pre-orders will open on the 9th April for Oaths and Offerings: our anthology of folklore-inspired tales from writers living in the North of England. Get notified when pre-orders open: buttondown.com/carnyx

@maetang.myatproto.social whose story ‘Away With the Fairies’ is included in the forthcoming anthology Oaths and Offerings, is interviewed on the @carnyxpress.co.uk blog: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/30/i...