Mark Bolsover

the engine(idling Issue 9 Collab Matchmaker Our 9th Issue will be all about Collaborations! *** *** *** *** *** *** Fill out this Google Form if you need a creative partner for this project. We'll match you up with another interested c...

Our 9th issue is all about Collaborations!

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Issue deadline April 30

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

watercolour collage on paper (surrealism) a fish flies, a large beetle confronts a man in a top hat who stands, his hands clasped behind, a surreal eye -like octopus- gazes at you from atop a block of dark wood Conroy was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer through mediums of paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts.

The Waft of it All

Conroy Maddox, Untitled (1969)

Submission Guidelines We publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…

Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Woodcarved creature (Siren Head) with very long skeletal arms and legs, also too many ribs. Its head is a pole with two speakers and wires. Those speakers have teeth. On the highest speaker, a nest with a pigeon. Siren Head is extending its left arm, point a finger forward. A pigeon sits on its index.

Siren Head and friends

Siren Head is a creation from the artist Trevor Henderson @slimyswampghost.bsky.social

This piece is available. See other pictures below 🔽

@jenbitespeople.bsky.social. ...

Please add me Rob

MOUSEKA-GIGER [photo of HR Giger in a mouseketeer hat and holding an Oscar] ... As  fan of H.R. Giger, I have been collecting his prints and corresponding with him for some time. So, when he arrived in Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, I wasted no time in contacting him. Enclosed is a photograph of him posing with his award for ALIEN. He had just been to Disneyland the day before, which explains the hat. As a fan of STARLOG, I would like to share this picture with the readers. I’m sure they would enjoy seeing this Mouseka-Giger! Gary Randall 4094 Glenalbyn Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90065 PHOTO: GARY RANDALL

Here is a higher-res image of H.R. Giger holding his Oscar while wearing a Mickey Mouse hat, along with better alt text:

✂️ ISSUE 8: COLLAGE IS LIVE!✂️

W/in these pgs contributors remix works from our past 7 issues creating something bold & new!

It's FREE to read, download & share online: buff.ly/E6d26Y2

Print copy available for purchase via Amazon: buff.ly/OOpa6Ct

#poetry #poetrycommunity #indiepublishing

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we've got new stickers for issue 9 submitters

I've got my eye on you...

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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A huge honour and lovely surprise! I'm so grateful to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and The Book Bag: Poetic Voices for nominating 'Morningfall' for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social 🔥 🙏

And in amazingly talented company too! Congratulations all round 🎉

#poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

Happy World Book Day! Celebrating Alasdair Gray—novelist, artist and champion of Scottish and Glaswegian identity. Here is his self-portrait aged 16 (1951) writing at his desk, from his illustrated autobiography A Life in Pictures (2010).

Coming soon! The 404 Ink Bursary for small presses and accompanying crowdfunder will launch in mid-March. This will give away at least £3,000 to small presses - we hope to raise more to pay it forward to even more people.

*with thanks to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, & to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for the fantastic engine(idling prize merch. ...

—feat. Mr BONESY as ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’. …

#writing #art #WritingCommunity

‘he *changes* (—in the magazine. – (the) cereal box). ( … —after Gaddis,—The Recognitions). … ’

#experimental prose- #poetry, originally published in @rangermagazine.bsky.social, with thanks to EIC, @davidabishop.bsky.social

www.rangermagazine.net/issue13

#writing #art #WritingCommunity

*it’s an honour to have my #experimental prose- #poetry piece, ‘he *changes*,’ named WINNER of ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’ @ the @the-engine-idling.bsky.social DASHBOARD AWARDS 2026.

—SWAG arrived today, from #Pittsburgh to #Edinburgh, with thanks to EIC, @dehm000.bsky.social. ...

#WritingCommunity

Our Literary Freestyler Award has finally arrived across the Atlantic & into the hands of @mdbolsover.bsky.social (& Mr. BONESY)!

Congratulations Mark! You deserve recognition for your stellar poem! We hope that you enjoy the bits of swag we've sent. We're celebrating w you from afar!

Cheers!

#poetrycommunity, check out the bonkers (in a good way) literary gymnastics in @mdbolsover.bsky.social's poem "he *changes*" pubbed by @rangermagazine.bsky.social: www.rangermagazine.net/bolsover_iss...!

A Literary Freestyler if there ever was 1! Mark's operating on a totally different plane!

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*with thanks to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, & to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for the fantastic engine(idling prize merch. ...

—feat. Mr BONESY as ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’. …

#writing #art #WritingCommunity

‘he *changes* (—in the magazine. – (the) cereal box). ( … —after Gaddis,—The Recognitions). … ’

#experimental prose- #poetry, originally published in @rangermagazine.bsky.social, with thanks to EIC, @davidabishop.bsky.social

www.rangermagazine.net/issue13

#writing #art #WritingCommunity

*it’s an honour to have my #experimental prose- #poetry piece, ‘he *changes*,’ named WINNER of ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’ @ the @the-engine-idling.bsky.social DASHBOARD AWARDS 2026.

—SWAG arrived today, from #Pittsburgh to #Edinburgh, with thanks to EIC, @dehm000.bsky.social. ...

#WritingCommunity

“Look aloft!” cried Starbuck. “The St. Elmo’s Lights !”

All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and [...] each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.

H. Melville, Moby Dick

Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Blue Slide by Walter Dexel - Oil on glass - 65×50 cm (1926)

This one's for the early birds! We're accepting submissions for Issue 33 of the #SFWPJournal until 4/16! All accepted submissions will be published on our website May 2026.

Please review our complete guidelines prior to submitting right here: buff.ly/YjL13Jo

A giant serpent coils around a stone circle and worshippers turning to stone; in the centre a beam of light shoots.down from the sky.

🎨 Les Matthews, painting for the series ‘Children of the Stones’ (1977) #StandingStoneSunday

Sagrada Família Reaches Full Height as Gaudí’s Central Tower Is Completed It took 144 years, but Gaudí’s vision has finally come to light.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Família reaches full height with the completion of Gaudi’s central Tower of Jesus Christ. trib.al/gGmZ5FG