Cover reveal of our first chapbook, publishing next month! Woohoo!

It's really happening! Our first ever launch on Thursday, 25 June at @thegrapesbath.co.uk at 7 p.m.! Please spread the word--it's free and all are most welcome!

It's really happening! Our first ever launch on Thursday, 25 June at @thegrapesbath.co.uk at 7 p.m.! Please spread the word--it's free and all are most welcome!

Woohoo! Our website has been updated with our 2025 competition result, the date of our VERY FIRST EVER chapbook launch, &c. &c.! Come take a look! foxandstarbooks.org

Editor Carrie Etter is posting daily poetry prompts for National Poetry Writing Month on her Insta here If you’d like to give it a go—it’s only day three, after all! www.instagram.com/carrie__etter/

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

All flags in San Diego County have been ordered to fly half-staff through Wednesday in solidarity with Minnesota, and in honor of those murdered by ICE. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Great to see our winner Soledad Santana in the latest missive from @maxwallis ‘s The Aftershock Review! Watch this space for news of the chapbook launch and release!

The second winner of our debut poetry chapbook competition is June Wentland! Congratulations, June!

The first winner of our debut poetry chapbook competition is Soledad Santana! Congratulations, Soledad!

Drumroll, please! We'll be announcing the first winners of our debut poetry chapbook competition later today! Watch this space!

Delighted to have been shortlisted by @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social for their debut chapbook competition 🙏🏻🦊⭐️

Beyond delighted!

We have our first list of shortlistees for our debut chapbook competition! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to Bridgette James, @cerimair.bsky.social, Nick Currass, @mrirwin.bsky.social, Angela Cheveau, @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social, June Wentland, Nadia Yahlom, Victoria Punch...

Well, that's a wrap! Our first competition closed at midnight last night, and we'll let everyone know our shortlist next week! Watch this space!

Today's the last day! UK and Irish emerging poets, you have till midnight tonight! Good luck! bsky.app/profile/foxa...

Not long left for UK and Irish debut poets to submit their entries, with some free entries left for global majority poets! Please share! foxandstarbooks.org

I've just signed the @weownit.org.uk petition to say NO to private finance deals for Neighbourhood Health Centres. Will you join me? weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...

We still wanna know.... bsky.app/profile/foxa...

Poets and poetry fans, what font do you love to use most / do you dream in?

What's that, you say? One week left to get in your entries for Fox and Star Books' debut poetry chapbook prize for UK and Irish poets? And there are still free entries available for global majority poets who need them? Please spread the word! foxandstarbooks.org

Not long left for UK and Irish debut poets to submit their entries, with some free entries left for global majority poets! Please share! foxandstarbooks.org

As of 1 July, our remaining free entries for our debut chapbook competition are reserved for low income, global majority authors. Please spread the word, and see our website for full details: foxandstarbooks.org!

Help @bookhaus.bsky.social, a great Bristol independent and supporter of poetry, survive, and donate what you can! Please share! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

Congratulations to our poetry co-editor, Kaycee Hill, on her Eric Gregory Award, and to all the wonderful winners! @societyofauthors.bsky.social

We're taking debut chapbook submissions from UK and RoI poets now, and it's an important part of our mission to champion global majority poets! Please share! Full details: foxandstarbooks.org!

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” could close your local hospital. Spread the word. Call your senator.

Santa Monica

Hello, new followers! Short, contemporary poems you love? Here's a favourite of mine by Rita Dove: poets.org/poem/adolesc...

Good morning! We've begun accepting entries for our first debut chapbook competition for UK and RoI poets! We love a wide range of poetries and are eager to find and support new voices, esp those often marginalised in publishing! Full details: foxandstarbooks.org Please share!

Consulting with some of our Irish connections, we've decided to open eligibility for our debut poetry chapbook competition to RoI writers as well, full details on our website at foxandstarbooks.org! Spread the word! @poetryireland.bsky.social

📣Announcing The Eavan Boland Award 2025 The Award invites applications from early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland for cross-residency opportunities with Trinity College Dublin & University of Manchester ℹ️ Full Award Details: www.poetryireland.ie/news/eavan-b...

In three days we open for submissions for our debut poetry chapbook competition for UK poets! Full details: foxandstarbooks.org! We're particularly keen for entries from global majority, working class, and other often marginalised writers, so please spread the word!

John Ashbery

Please share this notice far and wide--we're keen to reach global majority poets in particular! @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social @romalynante3.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foxa...

Our first call for submissions for debut poetry chapbooks from UK poets is now up! We've set aside 20 free entries for low-income writers, and we're asking for an initial submissions of 3 poems/5 pages between 15 June and 15 July. Full details are on our website here: www.foxandstarbooks.org

Love being in this list. Northern writers, check it out!

Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!