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Thank you #LauraGrevel for this revealing review of #BeautifulLittleFools #GreatGatsby#FScottFitzgerald #Decadence #Deceit #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237581519-beautiful-little-fools

Submissions We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…

And YES! Another submission opportunity!
We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest.
Check out the website for submission details...
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

Still relatively new to indie lit - but still haven’t come across anything quite like the lens of @thebrokenspine.co.uk 👇

For #WednesdayWIPs

This past weekend has been HARD! But, at least I got a poem from it all.

Collapse, 7th October, 2025

coughing up
cum-soaked sheaths
& spitting my hide onto the floor

this
is breakdown
in motion

This is a good poem ✊. Take lots of care Alan 🤝

Heard voices coming from within here today 😬 #ModernGothicPoetry

Submissions - Submission guidelines for a fully digital literary anthology that explores themes to open conversations through the written word.

Reminder: we reopen for submissions NEXT WEEK!

Oct 1 - 31 on theme #Integrity

Simultaneous call with our #kidlit magazine @nimblewitlit.bsky.social

You are highly encouraged to submit to both!

epistemiclit.com/submissions/

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Someone nominated The Broken Spine.
And then wrote this:

“Honest, truthful, gripping work that doesn't hold back and is brave. The best kind.”

Hurt us a little In which Laura riffs on what we look for in poetry submissions

We open on Wednesday 1st October for free submissions in, Prose, CNF and Flash Fiction. So what are we looking for? Laura @lozzawriting.bsky.social riffs a little on just that in relation to Poetry in this post below. Take a look!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/hurt-us-a-...

Ah just checked and I’m already double booked - otherwise would have found it really interesting to attend!

Yep

Such an incredible part of Reading’s history - I think of it every time I pass under the arch.

Thanks again to Two Rivers Press for hosting this poem!

tworiverspress.com/2024/10/28/j...

Dressed to Kill, Ready to Rot: Submit to Verdigris: Poetry of Decay - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout September 2025 | Publication in 2026

#Submissions are now open for #Verdigris: #PoetryOfDecay.

If #LiftToTheSky is about rising, Verdigris is about falling — splendour unravelled, glamour undone.

Open all September:

Submit to the Literary Magazine | DarkWinter Literary Magazine Submit short fiction or poetry to DarkWinter Literary Magazine. We want your weird, your traditional with a twist, your humour, your dark thoughts, or your elation. We’re open to anything—just make it...

Submissions to DarkWinter Literary Magazine are now open! www.darkwinterlit.com/submit-liter...

Yes certainly! 🤗

Oh wow, delighted. I’m smiling here. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and love the art 🥰

Loved this Julie. I read it through a few times. I took from it all the ways that pain creates its own universe, and the struggle against this - sometimes exhausted, sometimes hopeful. Such a cohesive collection - and always ready with a fistful of last lines ✊

It’s a photo from the Pilgrim’s Way - across the sea bed at low tide to Lindisfarne last week! Looking forward to reading more collections in the future #fan ☺️

Loved this Julie. I read it through a few times. I took from it all the ways that pain creates its own universe, and the struggle against this - sometimes exhausted, sometimes hopeful. Such a cohesive collection - and always ready with a fistful of last lines ✊

#poetryofdecay

Wonder what the story is behind this?

Dressed to Kill, Ready to Rot: Submit to Verdigris: Poetry of Decay - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout September 2025 | Publication in 2026

Tomorrow we open for #submissions to #Verdigris: #Poetry of Decay. Poems where splendour cracks, glamour rots, and beauty corrodes into something strange.

Guidelines: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/d...

The New Samizdat At the Corner of Hope and Despair: An Anthology for the Trump Era Charlotte Muse, Chris Cummings and Patrick Daly, eds. Pope Street Press ISBN-13: ? 979-8218526832 Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Gl...

Outstanding review of #BeautifulLittleFools here:

Thanks to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for arranging!

portside.org/2025-08-27/n...

Neon Ghosts - Alan Parry - The Broken Spine Neon Ghosts is the debut poetry collection from Alan Parry and the first to be published by The Broken Spine.

"what hurts more than flowers failing—
knowing you have been complicit in their death"

Parry’s words cut deep. Neon Ghosts is a collection of fleeting beauty and brutal honesty. Don’t miss it.

Order POD now:
🔗 thebrokenspine.co.uk...

#PoetryLife #ReadIndie

Just read the first poem of this 👇 - and already I’m caught.

Just read the first poem of this 👇 - and already I’m caught.

A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine

Six years of supporting poets, and we want to give back more than ever. We’ve run competitions before, but this will be our biggest prize yet. It will be free to enter, but only if we hit £5,000. Chapbook fees help, but we still need your donations. 🔗

What a beautiful evening ❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social

Tonight ✨
So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨

Hey, should have come through from initials NB, on behalf of me, Colette! 😀