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It's here! Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions incl. poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2025. Good luck & pls share.

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JULY Poems of the Month These poems notice what isn’t said in the animacy of the non-speaking. They map togetherness in salt-licked gestures, the universal language of focaccia, burning trees, and fruit we don’t share.

Delighted to have a poem shortlisted in @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social PotM July Comp.
A loving homage to lesbian media, Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’, Carol, San Junipero, Desert Hearts, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Thelma and Louise . . . and much more vervepoetry.substack.com/p/july-poems...

& to our shortlist

@deanatta.bsky.social
@janeburn.bsky.social
@lauraceleste.bsky.social
@corrintachibana.bsky.social
@fiddes.bsky.social

The front cover of Under the Radar Issue 35

A poem called ‘Tragedy! When the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on’ by Laura Celeste

Thrilled to have a poem in a magazine I’ve admired for so long!