![]() ![]() Pick up your copy today, via the university e-store.Ĭultural miscommunications, breakdowns between friends and lovers, the chemical crush of a date rape drug, these are results of build-ups.īut the same is true in reverse. ![]() "The Water Issue" is available at official website.What We Build Up is out now! Featuring work by University of Roehampton students and alumni and put together by current students on the MA Publishing course, What We Build Up is the next instalment in The Rook creative writing anthology series. Shortly after publishing its first editions, Popshot became a pioneer among British poetry magazines, achieving significant international distribution in 18 countries. In this literary quarterly, you can find short stories, flash fiction, and unusual poetry. It goes deep, with tales of selkies, hot tub time machines, submerged villages, and severe droughts." -Popshot Mag "The Water Issue is a collection of vivid writing, exploring our relationship with the wet stuff. Same in the back cover, submerging us in our deep thoughts in the middle of our routines. It can make us feel weightless and more at the moment either floating in it, with waves sounds, on rainy days or, like in this illustration, submerged, where instead of watching from the outside to the interior of an aquarium, it's in the other way, like we are studying ourself at watching from the inside to the exterior. The concept was based on the water as a medium for meditation. I loved designing my first illustrated cover for the spring 2022 issue of. #litmag #callforsubmissions #autumnissue #flashfictionchallenge #poetry #shortstories #shortstoriesofinstagram Visit the website for submission guidelines. The Haunting Issue will be published in August 2022. Submissions for the Autumn 2022 issue are open until 9am (UK time) on Wednesday, 1 June 2022. We welcome all genres and writing styles so long as they follow our guidelines for submission (for more on which, click here). We are looking for a mixture of humour, social commentary, honesty and thrilling storytelling. ![]() Successful submissions must display excellent writing, creative flair and originality. Feel free to take us somewhere funny and lighthearted or go very dark indeed. We want to know about times when you’ve felt haunted or been the person doing the haunting. Although we love spooky tales and this issue will be on newsstands over Halloween, we’re not only looking for classic ghost stories. Writers might want to consider the different meanings of haunting from the repeated appearance of a ghost, to an obsession or memory that haunts someone, through to an evocative sound or keening, or, in its simplest form, a person or thing that turns up again and again at the same location. Our next theme is ‘Haunting’ and we are interested in writing that looks broadly at what it means to be haunted in some way. We have just finished putting together the Joy Issue (thank you to all who submitted), allowing us to open the doors for new submissions. The next issue of Popshot will be on the theme of…“Haunting.” Submit work for the next issue between today and 9am on GMT Wednesday. SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN: WRITE FOR THE AUTUMN 2022 ISSUE OF POPSHOT QUARTERLY. #poetry #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram #illustration #popshotmagazine This poem appeared in The Haunting Issue of Popshot Quarterly But every month secular heads shakeĪs god Camazotz. I need the bats to leave me so I can startĪ new life. Into every season, dizzy and peaceful from what is required Or hibernate – sleep so deeply nature transitions Interior, scratches, clicks faintly echoing.įor nine months I need the bats to migrate southįor winter, where there are richer soils, sweeterįruits. Illustration by Brooklin Holbrough Bats □įor the bats to recover, absorb into the dim Just in time for #Halloween we thought we’d share this spooky poem by Sophia Rubina Charalambous. ![]()
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