Our general submission window will open on the first of the month!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
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Grey cat sitting in a tree house, with his head emerging from one doorway, tail through another. One paw on the threshold.
Ozzy in his cat condo, with an extra doorway for his tail.
As a result of this my brain has just linked minion/mignon and now there is the mental equivalent of a ten-car pile-up in there. Thank you, I will never be getting this out of my head 😂
Congratulations!!
A photo of the live NASA tv coverage of the Artemis capsule hanging from its parachutes. My cat Pablo is reaching up the tv screen to try to swat Artemis out of the sky.
#Artemis almost had a disaster.
Think of all the problems I could solve! By causing new and more exciting ones!
I urgently require a North Pole Dinosaur. Something tells me this would be a bad idea but I want one anyway.
I just love my friends so much, you know?
Have you told your friends you love em recently? How's the chat looking? Phoned em for a gab in the last few weeks? Hung out in person if you can? You should do that. You should definitely do that. Humans are made to live and love and be in community.
The Blue Sword remains an all-time favourite, but who doesn’t love Aerin?
The National Museum of Denmark’s photo shows fourty-four annular (ring-shaped) translucent turquoise blue glass beads strung on a modern circular thread and displayed against a black background. In 1885, Jens Jensen, a farmer, found the forty-four glass beads in a large cremation urn in the ploughed-over Kongehøj burial mound, near Humlum church, Denmark. The broken urn contained burnt bones, forty-four turquoise blue glass beads, and two gold spiral rings. The cremation burial is dated circa 1,100 BC. A research project published in 2015, analysed twenty-three blue glass beads from various Danish Bronze Age graves. The analysis showed that the glass of two of the beads originated in Egypt, and the others originated in Mesopotamia. The forty-four glass beads from Kongehøj at Humlum, originated in Mesopotamia. They date to the same long-distance exchange period as Baltic amber moving south. The research project links glass moving north with Baltic amber moving south, which points to complex, far-reaching trade and exchange in exotic goods some 3,000 years ago.
Beautiful blue glass beads from the Danish Bronze Age.
Found by a farmer at Humlum in Denmark in 1885. Glass analysis published in 2015 shows the beads originated in Mesopotamia indicating far-reaching trade networks some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
"No," the swordmaster said.
"One does not refuse the king," the herald said.
"I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war."
"You will regret this!"
"No," the swordmaster said.
Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.
Ooh this is worth remembering.
I love both of them, but the photo in front of the covers is particularly cool!
As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children
Photo of a white and light ginger, medium haired, tabby kitten, looking down at a miniature typewriter and raising one paw as if about to smack it. He’s standing on brown carpeting in a living room setting.
Suddenly feeling terrible that I’ve never given my cats a tiny typewriter. Photo from my collection, 1966.
This window has been in my diary for a while!
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Mark down your calendars 👀‼️
🍃🌬️🌊A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🍃🌬️ events forthcoming—
release date: April 28th with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫
Hey, you're the one who invented them 😁 Freddie and Viv will always have a special place in my heart.
A number of characters belonging to @champs-elyse.bsky.social live rent-free in my head.
You're welcome! It's just such a jewel of a story, and you get so much world-building and painful personal history for the characters into such a small space.
I found this very beautiful.
A fascinating, moving piece.
That sounds amazing, and also like someone would have to collect me from under the table afterwards.
I genuinely can't decide if it's spectacularly bad luck (the various occurrences) or spectacularly good luck (the ensuing survivals) but either way, I'm glad you're still around!
If I hadn’t already been following you for long enough to have a general idea why Jay Hulme said you were permanently on his prayer list, that would clear it up. I'm very sorry all of this happened to you.
Don't make art for anyone else. Don't show it to a single soul. Don't even judge it yourself. Exist inside the process of creation. If the end result is pretty, that's a bonus. But the real result is what happens inside of you, during the creation itself. Embrace that deeply human impulse. Be free.
As someone who regularly goes back to these books and films for hope and comfort, this essay moved me very much.
This is rather lovely and somehow relaxing - an interactive map of lighthouses of the northern seas lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app#3/48/-30
Hey, exciting! Congratulations 😊