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Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the fantastic Cassiopeia Gatmaitan, with their stunning tale Living Memory! Read the opening here, and fall in love with it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales! 💙

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the wonderful Alba Sarria, back with their gorgeous poem Oil & Ashes! Take a sneak peek here and read it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales 💙

Kicking off our YA Contributor Spotlights is the wonderful Andrew Searle, back with moon drunk, a stunning new poem! Read it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales now! 💙

Our Contributor Spotlight for today falls on the wonderful Tasha Eggleton, with her incredible work: Jenny Greenteeth. Find it in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales now 💙

Our final middle grade contributor for this issue, today's Contributor Spotlight is the brilliant Shane Bradley, with his witchy tale The Hag of Silkwood! Read it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales 💙

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the excellent Catrin Lawrence, with her deathly tale Bones of Saint Dyfrig, How Shall I Die? Read it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales for free, available on our website! 💙

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Our second Contributor Spotlight, we bring you the amazing Angela Patera with her short winter story, The Benevolent Kallikantzaros! Read the opening here, and fall in love with it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales 💙

Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales has been out for a week, so it's time for our first Contributor Spotlight! First up we have our wonderful cover artist for this issue, Artemis Moss. Swipe for a sneak peek, and view it in full on the cover of Issue Eleven now! 💚

What a wonderful Friday it is! Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales is officially live and available for you to devour for free from our website - go and check it out now, we have a feeling you'll like it 🖤

Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales releases next Friday 19th September at midday, with gorgeous cover art from Artemis Moss that we're beyond delighted to display! 💙

Our cover reveal will be coming soon along with our publication date, and we can't wait for you to get stuck into this one! See you soon 💚

There's poetry from Andrew Searle, Alba Sarria, Ajax Bhaskar, Jamison Mouratova, Mary Binninger, Yuu Ikeda, Jamila Toussaint, and Svetlana Rostova, and art from Tasha Eggleton!

We've got short stories and flash fiction from Angela Patera, Catrin Lawrence, Shane Bradley, Cassiopeia Gatmaitan, Wesley Bishop, Briar Hyssop, and C Sarah Strafford!

Behold! The contents of Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales!

Our final Contributor Spotlight for this collection is on the fantastic Lily Lovelle, with her gorgeous poem Dressing Room! Fall in love with it, and everything else nestled amongst it, in Our Dearest Devotions, available on our shop now! 💜

For today's Contributor Spotlight we bring you the excellent Cagalli Lim, back again with their new story Bum Deals and Bad Decisions! Check it out in all its glory in Our Dearest Devotions now! 💜

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Marisca Pichette, back once more with a new gorgeous poem, What the Unicorn's Horn Feels! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions now 💜

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the wonderful Halle Merrick, with their new short story The Willowwood! Read the full piece in Our Dearest Devotions now! 💜

You've got three days left to submit your cover art to us for Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales! Have you submitted yet artists?? 👀

For today's Contributor Spotlight we bring you the amazing Vivienna LV, with her stunning poem Bared. You can take a sneak peak at the opening here, and read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions! 💜

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the amazing S. Janmar, with their stunning new story Plena Nocturnal! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions 💜

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is on the wonderful Yuu Ikeda, with her gorgeous poem Always. You can find the full poem in all its glory in Our Dearest Devotions, available on our website! 💜

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the excellent Barrett Festen, with her stunning short story On My Knees at the Altar of Love! Take a sneak peek at the opening here, and read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions! 💜

Submissions are officially closed for the contents of Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales, but we're keeping our cover art submissions open for another week! You've got until the 31st August to give us your art - go go go!!! 🖤

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the fantastic Jordan Gilpin, with her gorgeous poem tsunami as blue as her eyes! Take a sneak peek here, and fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions! 💜

and also more art!!!

one day left to submit to issue eleven: forbidden folktales, and we'd love to see some more middle grade submissions!

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Irina Vérène, with their brilliant tale Necessary Change! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions, out now! 💜

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the excellent Dreama Weaver, with her gorgeous poem Not Quite Enough. Read it in full in Our Dearest Devotions, out now! 💜