Writers on Boxing

The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

Deadline day to get your boxing-themed art, poetry and prose into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

Deadline day to get your boxing-themed art, poetry and prose into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.

The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.

Woodcut sketch of the Sisters Mills and Alf Ball, National Police Gazette, 1890. It shows two Black women with short afro hair, dark knee length dresses with white trim and sashes, squaring up to each other with boxing gloves on. Alf Ball, a slim young white man with handlebar moustache stands between them holding a towel.

This month, 1889, England's first Black Lady Boxers continued to give exhibition matches, performing at the New Cross Public Hall, South London 🥊

Here's 'Violet' and 'Rosaline', the Sisters Mills, pictured with their promotor, top middleweight Alf Ball:

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The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

2026 - why not make your New Year's resolution to send us some of your boxing-related art/writing to us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket. Deadline 30 Jan. Full info: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

YouTube video by RoyalHollowayDrama Sarah Kane in conversation with Dan Rebellato

Spending my in-betweeny bit here in north London cleaning-up and transcribing (for fun (and study)) this wonderful conversation between Sarah Kane and @danrebellato.bsky.social from 1998.

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An 'informal' transcript here - intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandthea...

For The Spit Bucket @writersonboxing.bsky.social I visited a statue of featherweight champ Johnny Kilbane in Cleveland.

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I started things off right with a piece in The Spit Bucket @writersonboxing.bsky.social about the painter Francis Bacon and a small study he made of Jack Dempsey.

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Quick blog post after spotting something interesting in a bookshop in Oxford at the weekend.

Post no.115: ' An Almanac of Twelve Sports' by William Nicholson and Rudyard Kipling. - writersonboxing.com/2025/12/16/1...

Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.

Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/

If you enjoy this, or any other issue, please consider donating to The Ringside Charitable Trust as they aim to open the UK's first dedicated care home for ex boxers.

Link: www.theringsidecharitabletrust.com/how-to-donate

Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.

Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

This stool was 'customised' with a far more traditional design by its previous owners who also signed their initials and a love heart on the underside (which I couldn't photograph unfortunately.

I'm a joiner and furniture maker away from this boxing account and used to work for Isokon so booked to view some of their historical items (older version of the ones I made) in the collection at V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick.

🥊 Only two weeks left to get your prose, poetry, art work in for consideration for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. 🥊

Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊

Submission info here:

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The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…

🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊

Submission info here:

writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

David Squires on … his boxing forebear who died on the Titanic Our cartoonist tells the story of his great-great uncle David John Bowen, a champion who lost his life on the way to New York

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#114: ‘Boxing Athenas’ by N’Krumah Lawson Daku ‘Boxing Athenas’ is a photographic essay by artist N’Krumah Lawson Daku.This project began in 2010 as a way of documenting female boxers at Parisian club Boxing Beats Aubervillier…

Book blog no.114: 'Boxing Athenas' by N'Krumah Lawson Daku.

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#boxing #photography #books

Fantastic conversation in the latest issue of The Spit Bucket with @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social about the notation method he has devised for transcribing boxing movement.

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If you enjoy this issue (or any of the previous) please consider donating to the amazing Ringside Charitable Trust as they aim to open the first residential care home for former boxers - www.mygivinghub.com/donate?chari...

Issue 6 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket is now in the world. Pick up copies from us in person, or download a free PDF here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...

Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social

Ah, congratulations! I was wondering recently what you might be up to. Best wishes for this book! David. (Lunar)

🚨🥊 two weeks left to get your boxing-related art, prose and poetry into us for the birthday edition of The Spit Bucket 🥊🚨

National finals day in Derby 🥊

Lenny is brilliant, the club is brilliant. Like a second home.