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Blog/ 01/06/2016

Some poetry magazine submissions windows now open

windows-scales-weights

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

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Blog/ 27/05/201627/05/2016

A few poetry comp deadlines coming up

be in it to win it

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

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Angst/ 27/05/2016

Thank you, Dr Upadhayay

lift off

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

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Blog/ 23/05/201623/05/2016

Coffee-House poetry workshops with Anne-Marie Fyfe

Coffee-House poetry workshop

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 […]

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Blog/ 16/05/201616/05/2016

Bare Fiction, Marion Tracy’s new book & other news

Chronicles of Eve & Bare Fiction magazine

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

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Blog/ 22/04/2016

Andrew McMillan’s ‘Physical’

Physical by Andrew McMillan

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

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Blog/ 10/04/201609/04/2016

A (tell) Tale of Two Collectives

Telltale infiltrates Sainsburys

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

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Blog/ 28/03/201628/04/2016

UPDATED – List of poetry magazine submissions windows

Windows

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

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Angst/ 24/03/2016

The rejections behind poem acceptances

Drafts of Plath poems

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 […]

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Blog/ 22/03/2016

World Poetry Day – Sussex Poets’ showcase

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

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