Bye bye #stmichaelsmount.

Off for another day teaching lovely #Englishliterature students at @exeter.ac.uk

This amazing little creative non fiction piece from the always incredible @justine1902.bsky.social makes me feel all the feels. Well worth a read, all!

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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New anthology coming soon from Inkfish Press.

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A New Way to Live by PT McAllister Kathleen learns that even after years of marriage, her husband John can still surprise her

Listen to this new short story by Peter McAllister from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4

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OPEN.

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Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: shadows, fish, wheelbarrows, rain, Infinity Train, cardboard, love of all kinds, forests, errands, ornaments, elk & other antlered animals, mail, football, and wheels.

DEADLINE JANUARY 15TH: Send this to a friend who should submit to our In-House Fiction and Poetry Contests! Use the link in our bio to submit your work for a chance to win a cash prize and publication before the deadline. #writingcontest

We are BACK OPEN for poetry and book review submissions!

Visit our Submit page here: paraselenemagazine.com/submit

Are you looking ahead for submission opportunities? We have THREE this Spring 🦝

February - New Writers, Preloved Words
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March - Microfiction for the Mini Bin
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April - Prompted Flash Challenge
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A New Way to Live by PT McAllister Kathleen learns that even after years of marriage, her husband John can still surprise her

Tune in to #BBC #Radio4 today at 3:45pm and hear my story being read by the velvet-voiced Helen Lloyd.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with feedback on this one.

If you miss it today, you’ll be able to listen in your own time on the Radio 4 website, here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...

We're open for fiction submissions!

We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.

No closing date, open indefinitely.

Deadline extended! We are now accepting submissions to our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers through January 8. The winning entry will receive $1500.

Head to the link in our bio to submit your work!

Acre Books is open for poetry submissions January 1 to 31.

Acre Books is reading queries and submissions for #poetry manuscripts during the month of January. To learn more, visit acre-books.com/submissions/. 📚🖊️ #booksky

Cream background with the white Sarabande logo bleeding through in the background. Black text at top reads: Submissions Open. Underneath in pink text it reads: Sarabande Annual Prizes. Along the left hand side are the judges headshots. Top to bottom reads: Photo of Kaveh Akbar, black text next to his headshot reads “Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction selected by Kaveh Akbar”; Underneath is Adrian Matejka’s headshot and text next to his photo reads “Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry selected by Adrian Matejka”; followed by the headshot of Aimee Nezhukumatathil and next to her photo is text that reads “Sarabande Prize in the Essay selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.” At the bottom right in pink text it says “open submissions” and underneath in black text the open submission dates “Jan 1 - Feb 15”

✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)!

Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨

Kickstart Your Writing! Join six live learning sessions held on Saturdays from 10am-1pm (GMT).

New Year, New Goals.

Aiming to finish a novel in 2026? Start a short story? Or do you simply want to write more regularly? This course is for you… click to learn more:

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🔔 A special two-day submission window opens for next year’s Christmas and winter anthology but only, as a thank you, for those who have bought our anthology. We will have another general submission window quite soon!

🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️

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And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme.

Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry.

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C. MICHAEL CURTS SHORT STORY BOOK PRIZE prize advance of $5000 SUBMISSIONS OPEN THROUGH JAN. 4, 2026 2026 JUDGE CATHERINE LACEY hubcity.org/cmc-short-story-prize

‼️Less than a week left to submit‼️

Send your short story collection in by January 4 at 11:59PM—finalists will be read by the one and only Catherine Lacey!

Learn more and submit at hubcity.submittable.com.

The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Fiction

we're open for fiction

for just a little bit longer!!

get those stories in

and please, read the guidelines 🖤 💀

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Little reminder we’re open and excited to read your work. Also that it really is worth reading a few published stories on the website to identify the kind of thing most likely to get published …

The amazing @justine1902.bsky.social at work again. This is a beautiful story of hers. Well worth a read… 😍

Guys guys guys, I’m in the Radio Times!!!

Listen in to BBC Radio4 in early January if you fancy hearing my short story

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We know you've been writing and making art all year. Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are always open.
Send us your best today!
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We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.

December’s theme is “letting go.”

January’s upcoming theme is “sound.”

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Thrilled to see my flash piece, ‘The Altar of St Cindy’, in brilliant company in this beautiful issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social
Thanks so much to David Galef, @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began, and to my lovely writing group as always ❤️

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Against a backdrop of marble, a staff-wielding shepherd gazes out at his flock, a lamb nestled in the crook of his arm. The text bubble reads: SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW THRU JAN 31 BLEATINGTHINGMAGAZINE.COM

SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31

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Submit to AGNI We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their…

December is here, which means you have 15 days left to submit to AGNI! Our submission portal will be open until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15th—and then we'll be closed for a monthlong break. We look forward to reading your work! 🔥

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