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Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott — Propel Magazine Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott, July 2025

> Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social
> Rich Ware @warer.bsky.social
> Bonnie Hancell
> Tom Mason
> Meron Berhanu
> Emily A. Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social
> Sophia Georghiou
> Claire Berlyn
> William Wyld 

Huge gratitude to Richard & all our contributors.
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Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott — Propel Magazine Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott, July 2025

> jake stefan ferguson @jakestefan181.bsky.social
> Christopher Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social
> Billie Manning
> Gayathiri Kamalakanthan @unembarrassable.bsky.social
> Freya Jackson
> Olive Franklin @usuallyolive.bsky.social
> Stephen de Búrca @sdeburca.bsky.social

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Cover of Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Ed. Richard Scott Contributors listed in thread

Propel Issue 16 Contents: Introduction by Editor Richard Scott CJ Wagstaff, The Farrier Edward Doegar, Word-ache. Our steps ––gravel and Overcast; a shadow-less March. Frühling Jack Westmore, Oasis Leusa Lloyd, The Snipe William Gee, wildflower(s) Nóra Blascsók, Eating sorrel leaves jake stefan ferguson, after the parade, birmingham pride 2024 Christopher Lloyd, The Tower Billie Manning, Persephone Makes A Brief Consideration Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, The Exhibition Freya Jackson, The Vase Olive Franklin, Shane Stephen de Búrca, My Father (trans. of Jón úr Vör’s ‘Faðir Minn’) Kayleigh Jayshree, Desire Rich Ware, Tangerine Bonnie Hancell, Two dogs and they are running Tom Mason, Little Tombeau Meron Berhanu, Ophelia Emily A. Taylor, My Sunday Roast Sophia Georghiou, Adian Claire Berlyn, The most popular names for girls William Wyld, The Butterfly Bush

🔵 Propel Issue 16, edited with enormous care by the very brilliant Richard Scott, is OUT NOW! 🔵

We're delighted to share this bumper issue with you, featuring work by:

> CJ Wagstaff
> Edward Doegar
> Jack Westmore
> Leusa Lloyd
> William Gee
> Nóra Blascsók @nblascsok.bsky.social

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👀 Reminder that submissions for Issue 16 are open until midnight tomorrow!

Send us your poems >>
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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.

Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32

🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
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So excited for this tomorrow!!

Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.

Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32

🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

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> Rowan Lyster @rowanlyster.bsky.social
> Zainab Imran
> Rose Ramsden ‪@roseramsden.bsky.social‬
> Marianne Habeshaw
> E.M. Davis
> Rona Luo
> Oli Isaac
> Kit Byford
> Phoebe Gilmore

It's a fab issue we can't wait for you to read!

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With gratitude to each of our wonderful contributors:

> Hasti
> Yousef Alawi
> Liva Jean
> Regina Avendaño
> Jory Garner
> J.J. Carey
> Danny Carlo Pandolfi @dannycarlo.com‬
> Shannon Smith Meekings
> Kate Fenwick
> Alice Weatherley @peremptorytiger.bsky.social

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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan – the propel logo runs up the left side in black on an off-white background. An issue card overlays a grainy monochorome image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Contributors listed below, per the subsequent posts in this thread.

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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UPDATE!
Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025

Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

UPDATE!
Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025

Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Edited by Richard Scott – Submissions open to 31 May 2025

We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)!

SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May

If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

So glad you found us! 💙🙏

Love the typography here

Thank you!

Over the moon to have a poem in the latest issue of the brilliant @propelmagazine.bsky.social

Many thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for choosing ‘Four anecdotes from the life of Alexander von Humboldt’, a poem about power, arrogance, & an ancient tree who knows all.

Excitingly, I have something in this issue. Thanks @susannahdickey.bsky.social and @propelmagazine.bsky.social

Very happy to feature in Propel #14 with my poem 'Do You Like Your Current Work?', part of a pamphlet coming out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social next year - thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for including!

And SUBMISSIONS are OPEN for Issue 15 (May 2025) edited by Sanah Ahsan until midnight UK tonight, Mon 31 March >>

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Issue 14 of Propel is out today!

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Propel Fourteen, edited by Susannah Dickey — Propel Magazine Propel Fourteen, March 2025, edited by Susannah Dickey

○ June Archbold
○ Marina Scott
○ Jose Buera
○ Bea Bacon
○ @henrywriteswords.bsky.social
○ @theobjectyes.bsky.social
○ Michael Naghten Shanks
○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
○ @morganvl.bsky.social
○ @jjblackman.bsky.social
○ Eleanor Cousins Brown

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

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Cover of Propel Issue 14, March 2025 Ed. Susannah Dickey. Off white background, propel logo running up the left side in black, top right has a grainy grey and black image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Below that is issue card and contributor list: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha @Anisha_Jaya ○ Alyson Kissner @alykissner ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard @dylanstallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser ○ June Archbold ○ Marina Scott @marinaasinsea ○ Jose Buera ○ Bea Bacon @bea__bacon ○ Henry St Leger @henry_stleger ○ Pascal Fallas ○ Michael Naghten Shanks ○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah @johnking1502 ○ Morgan L. Ventura ○ Joshua Blackman ○ Eleanor Cousins Brown

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Goooood morning from the Propel Magazine account 😅

Propel Issue Fifteen May 2025 Edited by Sanah Ahsan Submissions open to 31 March 2025

Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan

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Cover of Propel anthology- selected poems from Propel Magazine 2022-2024

SALE 👀 The Propel Anthology is 50% OFF on our webshop now!

With 120 fantastic poems for just £5.99 — buy a copy here:

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LAST call for submissions for Issue Fourteen

It’s been so long since I published anything I’d forgotten the extremes of elation and anxiety that go along with it. I’m so happy to be included in this issue, edited by my most admired Helen Mort. Deep breaths ♥️

Out-Spoken Press 2025-26 2025 March - Maya Caspari, Almost, with Tenderness July, Joladé Olusanya September, Natalie Shapero, October, Madeleine Kruhly 2026 Spring - Simon Maddrell Autumn, Nikesh Shukla Editor: Anthony Anaxagorou outspokenldn.com/press

We're delighted to announce our 2025-26 list under editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social, with new poetry from:

🟡 @nikeshshukla.bsky.social
🟡 @simonmaddrell.bsky.social
🟡 Natalie Shapero
🟡 @mayacaspari.bsky.social
🟡 Joladé Olusanya
🟡 Madeleine Kruhly

It'll be 🔥
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