Haunted Words Press

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the brilliant Evelyn Vozar, with her gorgeous poem my olive branch! Read the first snippet here, and fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions - available now through our website! 💜

Pre-orders are being shipped asap, and there’s still copies left - order your copy through the link in our bio (we dare you) 🖤

Finally! Finally, the Voice from the Void has granted mercy, and the copies of Our Dearest Devotions have arrived! Behold the gorgeous cover art from Lucas Hill, and snippets of the stunning work of our contributors for this, our 2025 Pride collection - OUT NOW!

Quick Our Dearest Devotions update: our books were lost in post! Our absolutely wonderful printers are re-printing as we speak and bringing them down to us ourselves (we love Palace Printers 🖤) and we will be shipping them out this weekend! Thank you for your patience with this one!

Our Dearest Devotions will be out super soon, but for now: submissions are officially open from now until August 22nd for Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales! Share your forgotten and found fables, your hidden truths, your storybook secrets - full guidelines on our website 🖤

And while we wait! Submissions for Issue Eleven open tomorrow! Keep an eye out 👀

We would’ve liked it out around Pride month like the previous two, but we’re also queer all year round, so you should read queer work all year round too!

A quick Our Dearest Devotions update: we’re just waiting for the courier to deliver the books, and then we’ll be sending them out to you! 🖤

Slightly delayed on this, but we've just had the all clear from our printers, and the books will be shipped out end of this week! Get your pre-orders in now through our bio! 🖤

Our final Contributor Spotlight for this issue is the excellent Jemima Bishop, with her gorgeous piece Flourishing! Read it in full alongside its neighbours in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

join us in our NEW discord corner of the void - share your work, get early access to issue themes ahead of submission windows, chat to other ghosts and ghouls, and give us your spooky recs! link in bio 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is the wonderful Zoe Davis, with her gorgeous poem Purpose of a Seed! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted now 🖤

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Avilasha Bhowmik, with her stunning poem April's Haunting Lullaby! Fall in love with it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our 2025 Pride collection is available for pre-order NOW on our website, available through the link in our bio! What're you waiting for? Go get your copy - it's calling to you 🖤

Behold, the beautiful Our Dearest Devotions cover, with stunning artwork from Lucas Hill! We are so in love with this cover, and the stunning work nestled within its pages.

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the excellent Gabriel Elvery, with their tense mystery story Empty Nest! Take a read of the full story in Issue Ten: Rooted now 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the excellent Andrea Green, with her murderous short story Definitely No Flowers! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the wonderful Yuu Ikeda, one of our fantastic returning contributors with her new poem Us! Fall in love with the whole piece in Issue Ten: Rooted now! 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the wonderful Lizzie Elliot-Klein, with her gorgeous poem A Weed's Farewell! Fall in love with it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today lands on the fantastic Jasmina Kuenzli, with her gorgeous short story of love and different worlds, The Quagmire! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted today 🖤

Today we bring you another Spotlighted Contributor: the excellent Remi Beach! Read the first part of her short young adult horror I'm Here now, and check it out in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

We’ve got work from Evelyn Vozar, Julianne Estur, Andrew Searle, Johnna Parker, Dreama Weaver, Irina Verene, Jordan Gilpin, Barrett Festen, Yuu Ikeda, S. Janmar, Vivienna LV, Halle Merrick, Marisca Pichette, Cagalli Lim, and Lily Lovelle. We’ll see you soon🏳️‍🌈🖤

May we proudly present you with the list of incredibly talented contributors in Our Dearest Devotions, our printed 2025 Pride collection. We are so excited to share this new collection with you, coming end of June/start of July - cover and release date reveal to come! 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the amazing Arabella Jain, with her short horror piece Seven Minutes in Hell! Read it in full in Issue Ten: Rooted 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the excellent Laila Papas, with her gorgeous poem The Boy with the Blackened Heart! Read it in full for free via the link in our bio now 🖤

Our Contributor Spotlight today is on the wonderful Katrina Lemaire, with her short young adult piece Dig Deep! Read it in all its glory in Issue Ten: Rooted now 🖤

Today's Spotlighted Contributor is the excellent Barrett Festen, with her short middle grade tale of family: Inheritance! Take a sneak peek at the start here, and read it in full for free in Issue Ten 🖤

ALL submission responses for Our Dearest Devotions are going out today! Keep an eye on your inboxes, and a HUGE thank you again to everyone who submitted - we've had the pleasure of reading such fantastic queer stories and poetry all week thanks to you 💜

For our Contributor Spotlight today, we bring you the brilliant Charlotte Razzino, with her middle grade sibling-centric short story Wishing Well! Read the opening here, and read the whole piece in all its glory in Issue Ten: Rooted! 🖤

Today's Contributor Spotlight is on the fantastic Mikala Smee, with her short middle-grade piece Looking Glass! Read it in full for free in Issue Ten: Rooted! 🖤