This is the new baby in the house. Her name is Ginger and she’s making friends with Joanie (Mary will be a slower process 😬) 🩶

Submissions open Deception and dirty realism Submissions open April 17 to May 22 Underbelly Press logo in the bottom right corner Text is on a black background. There is an image of a skull behind the text.

Poetry (30 lines max), submit up to three. Short fiction (1,000 words max), submit up to three. Art & Photography (of any medium), submit up to five. Please note that submissions will be responded to after the reading period. Acceptances and rejections will start being sent out after May 22. Editing will take place throughout June (I am away from mid June to early July). Issue 7 tentatively set for mid to late July. For poetry and short fiction, if you were a contributor in the last issue we won’t be accepting submissions for the consecutive issue in the same category you were published. The theme is DECEPTION. For our two year anniversary, we’re returning to our roots. Issue 7 calls back to our initial core focus - dirty realism.We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. The mundane, the overlooked, the everyday struggles. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life. Where does deception live within that? In lies, fractured relationships, self delusion, blurred truths, the things we refuse to face, the things we conceal or convince ourselves of. For artwork, we’d love to see pieces that explore illusion and distortion, as well as greyscale or black and white pieces.

Submissions are now open (a couple of hours early), until May 22! Issue 7: DECEPTION and DIRTY REALISM

We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life.

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Oh Leigh I’m so sorry to hear this. Rest peacefully Oscar 🧡

Yay, congrats Zoe 💜

If you like your fiction cinematic and with unfolding tension and layers of emotion - get your chops round this one from @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social. It will discombobulate you and mess with your sense of right and wrong. Brutal and unnerving and very British 🖤

Lovely Clodagh 💚

Love to see you safe VB 🖤

The Genny is spitting out wonderful groups of prompts already. Get on it before Monday eve so you can write and submit 😀

Thank you so much ☺️

Thank you June 🖤

Thank you so much for reading and sharing 🖤

Thank you, that means a lot 🖤

I'm chuffed to bits to have a wee one in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social😊 The @trashcatlit.bsky.social micro issue inspired me so much to try and write smol. I like it!

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After the orgy, the Inquest So, it was me, Bella, Frieda, Alice, Tom, and Jay in the bedroom where they kept the coats at my cousin’s twenty-first birthday party. That’s a lot of potential horny masterminds to plow through, but ...

A nostalgia tinged carnal whodunnit from me with funky outlet HAWKEYE (not of this parish but great stuff in their virtual pages - check em out!) hawkeyemag.com/stories/john...

She’s beautiful 😻

This is such a cool issue full of brevity and skill. Go on, have a wee one 😍

Thrifted this beautiful hand painted tile today - which originated in Minnesota - and I think it was meant to be 🤍🖤

Thank you June

Wow, so blown away by this fantastic news. Congrats also to Jenny and @noranadj.bsky.social 🌟🌟
Thank you to everyone at The Prize Roars for this 💜

By Train Through the Actinic Mountains - Uncharted A carriage, exposed and burning at the foot of a sheer silver peak. Sunlight, intense sunlight. Smoke. Stillness. Blood. No movement. Then: a solitary figure moving away, stumbling from shadow into li...

Forgot to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my cheery train-in-a-geological-hellscape story appearing in @unchartedmag.bsky.social but let's do it now instead, what's a couple of weeks between hellscape enjoyers: www.unchartedmag.com/stories/by-t...

Bought for Trash Cat fave, @mrallanmiller.bsky.social , looking forward to finding lots more to laugh with - it’s sorely needed these days 😌

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Chuffed to bits to be hanging in there 😀

Get into this, it looks stunning 🤩

Same here - when I hit my latest car, I insisted it was pre-2018 so it would have a CD player 😀

The can’t get near my extensive dvd collection 😀

"He took the doohickey for a pillow and woke only to rile his driver and eat rotten carrion, maggots and all."

Remarkable darkly-magical-Western horror from @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social. Full of character, blistering language, incredible imagery.
Read it, like now
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Wonderful Nora 😌

Amazing! I’m there too - and that makes 6 Trash Family that I know of 😍

Thank you June