C Maxfield

Submissions for MELT are closed! Thanks for submitting, geese!

Missed our window? Don’t sweat, you’ll have another chance to visit the pond sooner than you may think 🪿😚

Oh darn it, missed this!

Welkin-stories | MattKendrick.co.uk

The Welkin Writing Prize WILL BE BACK!!!! (after Matt has had a suitably long rest)

And the "backness" **might** be sooner than you think (but Matt makes you no promises...)

In the meantime, catch up with all this year's winning stories here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories

What perfect rhythm! 🤩

Oh! 😅

This is beyond. Another Wow 😮!

Phew. Wow.

Super excited to be a part of this upcoming anthology! 👇😱

@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Why We Created an Anti-Prize: On Poetry Awards, Indie Presses, and the Myth of Prestige - The Broken Spine Poetry prizes are everywhere. So are prize-nominated books, prize-listed poets, and presses (not so) quietly using awards as a marketing strategy. Ugh!

thebrokenspine.co.uk/2026/02/08/w...

You gotta love @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Call for Submissions: Poetry With Spit, Spine, and Something to Say - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year

Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you?
This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant.
This one’s built with spit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow
👉 thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/c...

Congrats 🥳!

Always our pleasure!

Thank you 🙏 @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social 🤩

Friday Afternoon by Colette Maxfield Nina did something That she shouldn’t have done. Giddily, thoughtlessly, she looked for an all staff mailing list For help in her search for an apartment. [...]

This is all Nina's fault. Sharp and witty new poem Friday Afternoon by Colette Maxfield now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/friday-...

Congratulations, Colette! Thank you so much for trusting me with your brilliant words!

Congrats! 🥳

Congratulations! 🥳

Congratulations! 🤩

Wow. Pinch me. I can 👀 my piece on the longlist!

My first #LiftToTheSky @thebrokenspine.co.uk.

@mattkendrick.bsky.social for organising the @welkinprize.bsky.social submission window with so much care and generosity!

Brown background like a corkboard with two photographs taped onto it. One photo of a singer guitarist and the other of a signer with people dancing behind. Information text saying 'The Music Issue Stanchion 21' and '24 hour submission window, January 5th 2026''

@stanchion.bsky.social 'Music' submission window today!
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

Being a part of this really lifted my December!

Some ancient and twisted memory in Savernake Forest today 🪾

I have opened this with immediate effect, submit people! Those waiting on responses ought to get them this week, for past calls.

Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year

Submissions are open.

Poetry that remembers.
That mourns.
That refuses to let go.

Read the call carefully.
Take your time.
Send the work that needs to exist.

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The Welkin Writing Prize | Shortlist 25 Shortlisted pieces for the 2025 Welkin Mini

Reading the 2025 @welkinprize.bsky.social shortlist, I can’t get over how perfectly suggestive ‘Mayday’ is:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Merry Christmas @sillygoosepress.bsky.social 🌟

Merry Christmas @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🌟

Love.