Robin Houghton

Blog/ 01/06/2016

Some poetry magazine submissions windows now open

For behold! Some windows are now opening, namely… Agenda – opens today, June 1st – with the promise of a 12 week turnaround […]

This is the post I set out to write before I got sidetracked with my last one! So enough with the musings. I […]

I was one of those lucky people who enjoyed school, and whose English teachers (and I will name them, by way of a […]

Last weekend I was at the Troubadour in London on a Sunday afternoon for one of Anne-Marie Fyfe’s themed writing workshops. It was […]

It’s gone a bit quiet here as I’ve been preoccupied with all sorts of things – our new flat is taking shape, so […]

Blog/ 22/04/2016

Even though we have NO bookshelves at the moment and about 40 boxes of books we can’t unpack, I had a bit of […]

I’m fortunate to be a part of two writers’ collectives, one is of course Telltale Press and the other The Needlewriters. Needlewriters is […]

**UPDATED 28-4-16 – new listings in red, with thanks to those who have contributed.** Many UK poetry magazines have now adopted the ‘submissions […]

Apparently I’m well known for broadcasting my rejections, but that’s no reason not to tell of the acceptances. Just when I was thinking I’d […]

Blog/ 22/03/2016

John Myers (aka Mister John) runs a regular poetry evening here in Eastbourne at the Underground Theatre cafe. I’m giving it a good […]