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news from the winged moon

it’s on! thrilled to be in the company of these fantastic poets

Our first poetry excerpt from BIOPHILIA. ‘Annotations on Microbes’ from Jayant Kashap We adored his perspective on our theme and felt it was the perfect tone to begin our life-rooted symphony You can read the whole poem here www.wingedmoon.com/biophilia Love to hear your response #poetry

Sharing my poem 'Bøyabreen' from this beautifully put-together anthology, out this week with Scarlet Tiger Press. And @marcellenewbold.bsky.social 's, cos I love it ❤️ And if anyone wants to fund me on a return research trip to Norway to coo over more mountains, that would be super! 🏔️🏞️

We are so delighted to share our first feature from BIOPHILIA with a remarkable and unique essay by Rachel O'Sullivan. To read the full work wingedmoon.com/biophilia #poetrycommunity

totally delighted to be reading some new work under the theme of memory and place with these incredible poets! Thank you @victoriaspires.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏

Sporadic reminder that my book is still available to purchase, either direct from @salopress.bsky.social, or send me a DM if you'd like a copy from me with a message in the front ☺️ Heartfelt thank you to all who have purchased, reviewed and shared already!

Biophilia out now! wingedmoon.com/biophilia

Here they are! Our incredible contributors!

Here is the incredible art for our cover to Biophilia out tomorrow

The fruit is ripening, BIOPHILIA is out next week Sept 3!

hands moving in excited directions

Only one week to go until our responses are out!

thank you to all who submitted! We are in the thick of it now, it is shaping up beautifully

perhaps the heat has bubbled up writing that hums of our theme, only one day left, we’d love to read you

A new batch of Shout-Outs is up: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Every other week, we list some new lit mag & small press publications. @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social @beavermag.bsky.social @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

we’d love to read your vivid weird devastating nature writing, we will water it kindly

thank you @echepoetry.bsky.social for publishing this poem and for the way you were to the poet

what makes us a part of nature and not apart? we are opening our gates for nature writing that includes the human.

This week, Martin Kennedy Yates @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social shares his creative process, his journey as a poet and a few of his evocative poems and upcoming projects over on our substack.

we are open for submissions until July 2

we are waiting for your bold nature writing that stitches the human back into its fabric

This week the trees are alive and the foliage drips with inspiration. with nectar soaked words of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social & a garden heavy with new sub theme, BIOPHILIA written by our EIC & by @victoriaspires.bsky.social Drink in its summons to send daring work your wild twin might have written

We are open! We have received beautiful poems so far, send more! And your art, and essay proposals. Submissions read by myself, @victoriaspires.bsky.social, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and our EIC @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social

Our theme is BIOPHILIA over at the winged moon and we have made a few tiles to lay it all out for you 🪾

thrilled to be included in @echepoetry.bsky.social first issue, you can read all of this perfectly formed issue online, thanks Rebecca for including me

we are open!!!

We are now paying our writers!

it can happen.. just as we are about to open and exodus. We’d love any support you can give to get this message out widely ✨

last day for this months competition and we are still holding out our hands ready to collect your words

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social & all poetry friends - sharing a WIP for this week's #promptcombo in vulnerability. My body used to be one of my favourite places, but lately she has not felt so much like home. Hope you enjoy this different take. I'll get to everyone's elses responses when I can too ❤️

Vic has spun a fine web of words around these stunning poems this week at kin @ the winged moon paired with a collage by Lana A, you could have a read and while away ten minutes in the language of hinterland

So delighted to have two of my poems in the final 12! Thank you Katherine, Sheila and @passionfruitlit.bsky.social

would you like to write engaging & daring nature writing that is unique yet including the human as a part of the story? for our next issue BIOPHILIA we are launching three workshops in May for those writers inspired by the theme and would like to intersect in their own writing.

Gosh darn it. Way too kind James, thank you! I'm very happy to be writing alongside some VERY talented British wimmin poets including @dbodepudi.bsky.social @moette.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social to name a few

This week on substack, we feature surreal poetry by @wdoreski William Doreski, inspired by Hinterland We’re excited to re-open our monthly writing competition featuring a visual prompt by French artist Ise Cellier. See our substack newsletter April 2nd for guidelines on how to enter

congratulations @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social this months winner at the winged moon!

this week our poetry celebrating is reaching its crescending wave with the poetry of Brandon Shane Camille LeFevre with art from Maryssa Paulsen shimmering on the edges. All sailed and stitched into beauty by Vikki C @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

does anyone out there have some tides related writing you might like to submit to this? it can be previously published and you can win a prize! love to hear from you at our email [email protected]

Enjoy poetry by Ursula McCabe and Wendy A Howe inspired by Hinterland, and photography by Anni Rannisto. Submit soon to our monthly writing competition! Deadline is 19 March! Read details here on our latest substack post at thewingedmoon.substack.com

celebrating the release of HINTERLAND with the video art created by our copy editor Lana A

A week in south Goa (India) led to ocean flavours swirling into this month's "the winged muse" competition prompt - "Tides" - looking forward to reading work responding in all imaginative ways. Read here for guidelines & inspiration: open.substack.com/pub/thewinge...

WRITING COMPETITION Submit now… We can’t wait to read your poems/micro fiction/prose in response to this month's prompt, ‘TIDES’ Deadline is March 19th! Read here for guidelines:thewingedmoon.substack

This week, featuring evocative poetry by Elizabeth Lockwood. Also, our monthly writing competition is open again with a thematic prompt! open.substack.com/pub/thewinge...

our EIC has been inspired to make some collage art celebrating the release of HINTERLAND. Next week a video made by one of our art contributing editors! We hope we can continue to bask in the liminal glow for a little while longer

The Winged Moon is hiring! Would you like to be a part of a team of volunteers supporting the magazine’s wings from the side of stage? We’d love to hear from you!