Variant Lit open for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, and speculative.
Submissions are open for our summer issue!
variantlit.submittable.com/submit
It's hard to put into words how much of a difference you can make to someone's day simply by reading a story they wrote, sharing it, and telling them that you liked it. Not only is the reading itself a worthwhile pleasure, it's also just a wonderful gift. It's so worth doing
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...
Image reads "Short Story Sunday" with Carnyx Press boar's head logo
It's been a while, but we're pleased to bring back our weekly #ShortStorySunday thread for recommending online short fiction!
If you've read or released a short story recently, share the link below (and don't drop a link and run, read and repost other people's recommendations too!)
Oh cool, congratulations!
Ta @kymdeyn.bsky.social for the recommendation on this one, it's amazing
Our recommendation is this story from @seizethepress.bsky.social, fantastically imagined, breathtaking prose, and a total emotional gut punch. Fair warning for parental-relationship-type-stuff www.seizethepress.com/2026/01/30/s...
Image reads "Short Story Sunday" with Carnyx Press boar's head logo
It's been a while, but we're pleased to bring back our weekly #ShortStorySunday thread for recommending online short fiction!
If you've read or released a short story recently, share the link below (and don't drop a link and run, read and repost other people's recommendations too!)
Now OPEN for submissions! 🐜🦀🐞
Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 3 is looking for the best tales of bug or barnacle or beastie published in 2025!
Submit here: hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf
Variant Lit is open for submissions of prose and poetry. Photo by staff member of the moon in the trees in the pacific northwest.
We're open for submissions! Send us your best prose or poetry: variantlit.com/submit/
Oi oi, did you know we have a newsletter? And that you can read our archive? buttondown.com/carnyx/archi...
If you've been enjoying Small Prophets as much as we have, you'll probably find a few treats in our anthology when it comes out later this year...
We're drawing towards the end of the month, so you know the drill folks - if you have competitions or submissions call-outs for UK writers in March, let us know for our newsletter!
Image of the first edition cover. Green. Title and a lino cut print of main street. Timbered cottages and a cobblestone street..
1. A Year in Willerby.
12 stories from a haunted village.
First edition run of 100 sold out but we're building a waiting list for edition two, which will be mostly the same with some interesting differences.
Here's the link for the list.
More detail in thread.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/blank
An excellent first page!
Just a few more days left of our sale. It runs until Feb 10th!
Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore
Revealing the title and cover of our very first anthology!
Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore will be published this June, and will include folklore-inspired stories from writers across the North of England.
ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction and #microfiction inc. #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
One of the honest to god goals of this press is to make enough in book sales that we can justify buying a replica carnyx and blast it at maximum strength at all of our book launches
Yesterday, we launched Brave New World? a ground-breaking report about the impact of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This major new study has been published in partnership with other creator-led organisations. buff.ly/vIuLqfn
Braag chapbook with rosary draped over
Braag chapbook being read by a tin toucan
NEW BRAAG MICROS - up at thebraag.co/shop
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
year of the fire horse risograph 🐎🔥
Our newsletter, out on Sunday, will be revealing our submission themes for the year! Sign up here: buttondown.com/carnyx
Carmen et Error Submissions Open All February Poetry, 40 lines. Flash fiction up to 400 words. carmenerror.com
We're here for ur weird!
Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️
We'll also be sharing a preview of our next submission themes for newsletter subscribers, so if you want a bit of a peek at what's coming up, you can sign up to the mailing list here: buttondown.com/carnyx
Writing orgs! We're putting together our February newsletter. If you have an opportunity for writers in the next month or so, let us know.
The book cover for "Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx Anthology of Folklore", featuring a drawing of circular collection of objects, such as a knife and a bowl of food, and creatures, such as a snake, a fish and a hare, and branches, fruit and flowers, in gradients of red to purple.
Thanks, Gabino! I'll have a short story about food, fairies and racist neighbours, out in "Oaths and Offerings", an anthology of folklore by @carnyxpress.co.uk, to be released in June.
Readers can sign up for the Carnyx Press newsletter to learn when pre-orders are available:
buttondown.com/carnyx
Very excited to have a story in Oaths and Offerings, the first anthology from @carnyxpress.co.uk - coming in June.
Many thanks!
We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social,
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
