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Witch-run literary magazine for horror authors of the future. 🔗 divinationsmagazine.co.uk
Today we're sharing work from five writers whose words are invigorating us through this cold and challenging season, and we hope you'll enjoy their work too. Issue 8 is out now! 💙
Read pieces from:
Kimberly Gibson-Tran
Jackie Hedeman
Marc Huerta Osborn
Sambhu Ramachandran
Allegra Wilson
Submissions for Issue Six: Craving are now closed.
Thank you to everyone who submitted work! We will be in touch by 17th February at the latest.
This was such a lovely surprise, and we want to be able to ensure that we give each piece our full attention and love 🫶🔮
As a reminder, full guidelines are here: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions.
[1/2] Submissions will now be closing 1 week early - 11:59pm (GMT) January 25th.
For context, we've received more submissions in our opening week than we would usually receive in 1 month.
Final word count for ‘25. Can’t wait to finish drafting her in 2026.
Thanks to @divinationsmag.bsky.social &
@underbellypress.bsky.social for publishing my first fiction pieces this year. 🖤
#writing
Just submitted a couple stories to this because oh my god the prompt perfectly suits them so much it's insane??
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Submissions are now open for Issue 6: Craving until February 1st.
We welcome horror poetry and prose that explores longing, appetite, absence or desire in its own way.
Guidelines here: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions
A reminder that submissions for Issue 6: Craving open tomorrow.
January 15th through February 1st 2026.
Guidelines here: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions
Theme reminder! For Issue 6, we are interested in fiction and poetry that engages with 'craving' in any form. Whether that's through the vampiric, zombies or another unusual form, we love it!
Submissions open January 15th through February 1st: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions
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Save the date!
Submissions will open for Issue 6: Craving on January 15th 2026 until February 1st 2026.
For more details: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions
🌙 Meet the restless shadow that haunts your waking moments, the cryptid beneath your skin, the whisper in the dark before dawn.
Confessions of a Hypnopomp explores the terror of the night’s lingering touch: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
Step into a dark, haunting bath of yarrow, nightshade, and poppies.
🌙 (34) Circe explores frailty, defiance, and transformation beneath the gaze of a predator goddess.
Read now: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s... / @SadeeBee
✨ Exhausted witch, a curious professor, and a ghost hunter’s midnight vigil... Dive into Night of The Walking Eloise, a magical tale of sleepwalking mysteries, autumn nights, and enchantment: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
26.05.2025 07:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is a brilliant little story I had the pleasure of editing. Also, it's Chris' first publication - such a joy to be a part of that ☺️
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✨ Step into the eerie silence of Temporalities by Ally Kölzow.
A haunting motel, fractured reality, and a nightmare that blurs the lines between sleep and death. Can Maura escape the shadows or is she trapped forever?
www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
✨ What if the road home kept stretching, and sleep was the only way through? In The Opportunist by Shay B. Keats, time warps, phones crackle with dread, and even the family dog isn’t quite right.
Read now in Divinations: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
"🌌 “A great horned owl inveigled me to talk…”
In Apprenticed to the Night, LindaAnn LoSchiavo conjures a lush, lyrical pact with darkness.
Available now: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s... / @Mae_Westside
🌙 I am your Dream…
Desire, memory, and the surreal blur in Jorge López Llorente’s hypnotic poem Your Dream.
Read it now in Divinations Magazine: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s... / @JorgeLLlorente
🔒 “But I was so careful.”
In Lock the Doors by Melissa Emmett, routine is survival, and even one creak could kill. A slow-burning, claustrophobic horror for fans of isolation dread and shadowed streets.
Read now: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s... / @memmett16
🌿 She was born of clay, of mud, of Earth - and she’s done being ignored. In Liliac by Sarah R. New, an ancient being turns to modern magic to fight back. Sleep is just the beginning.
Read now in the latest issue of Divinations Magazine: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s... / @aldbera
A Garden In The Winter by @JohnRCPotter sinks you into Christmas Eve - six children stranded by storm and power loss, a silent house, and a lone figure gliding through the snow.
Available to read in Issue 5: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
🚿 In Treading Water by Sophia Holme, grief lingers like steam in the air. A haunting routine reawakens in the stillness of dawn, and the past slips back into the present
Read in Issue 5: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
🌪️ Tornado Dreams by Rose Maligne twists sleep and terror into a single, fevered breath. A child’s nightmare veers from weather alert to home invasion to out-of-body dread - until all that’s left is the storm.
Read now in Divinations: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-sleep-1/tornado-dreams
🌊 You can breathe underwater. It’s just a dream. Until the dream starts to hurt. Until the dream won’t let go.
Dive into Under the Sea by Chris Ennen: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
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“It was your blood, I smelled that beckoned me here, my love.”
Sleep becomes seduction in this darkly romantic tale of Easter rites and forbidden love.
Read Midnight Mass by Austin: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
A haunting tale of insomnia, lies, and the elusive truth that haunts Lyla at 3am.
Read Liar, Liar, Lyla Knight by @darkonelf.bsky.social now in our latest issue.
🔗 www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
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Sleep-deprived. Possessed. Desperate to finish a masterpiece before madness takes hold.
🕯️ Read An Ode to the Madman and the Paper by Bethany-Jade Fisher: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
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🕷️ In The Recurring by Elizabeth Butler, sleep offers no escape - only a deeper nightmare. Moira’s search for control leads her somewhere far darker than she ever imagined.
Read it here: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
a white tooth upon a pink background
Perfect lips. Perfect laugh. Perfect teeth - but flat, unnervingly flat.
In flat teeth, Rachel Kitch unravels perfection and obsession in the dead of night.
🦷 Read it now: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...
Very happy to show you all my latest story, Lock the Doors, in the incredible @divinationsmag.bsky.social
They were amazing to work with and I'm grateful to share some pages with so many talented writers ❤️
