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Due to your incredible response, Kym and I made the decision to close subs for my guest call with Carmen et Error early, on August 15th, so our small team is able to give every single submission the attention it deserves.

See all sub guidelines here: carmenerror.com?page_id=19

Someone with time and resources should put together a reprint anthology of 21st century weird fiction to counteract all the public domain repackaging out there that makes it seem like the mode froze decades and decades ago.

I screenshotted from the newsletter because its just me running the socials, and guys I am TIRED. Your editor with CFS/ME, checking out.

I once had a chicken we rescued from a battery farm who was obsessed with pecking people's feet and we called her Feet—does this count as "faulty egg-producing equipment"?

Further to this, we’re open for submissions to our Micro-Journal (this one!) Carmen et Error, however, due to the volume of submissions we’ve received since offering a small honorarium, we’re having to close early to make it feasible for us to read everything that comes in. We’re now closing August 15th, 00:00BST. I also want to remind you that we don’t make any money through Carmen et Error (only through booksales via The Braag) and if you want to support the magazine and directly help pay writers for their work you can make a donation via our Ko-Fi. Thanks so much for subscribing, reading and submitting! Kym The Braag CIC Carmen et Error

Quick head's up: submissions are VERY BUSY this month and we'll be closing EARLY on AUGUST 15th!

Repeat after me: authors are not an exploitable resource. Authors are not an exploitable resource.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Facebook marketplace advert for a full human size owl costume. A snip at fifty quid.

Not entirely sure I can live without this

We're open to everyone across the world, but we do save a spot in each issue for northern writers! 💚

Carmen et Error. Carmenerror.com Submissions open. Poetry 40 lines. Flash fiction up to 400 words. August 1st - 31st. Carmenetsubmissions@gmail.com

Carmen et Error. Guest editor: Eleanor Ball NEW: Honorarium £5 per published piece

💫 Manuscript submissions for The Braag close July 31st

💫 Carmen et Error journal subs open August 1st

💫 Guest editor @eleanorball.bsky.social

💫 We're now able to pay a small honorarium!

💫 Full info and guidelines at carmenerror.com

Two beautiful handmade micro chapbooks. Joe Pickard's Pilgrimer and Molly Knoxes Spindrift. Both via The Braag. Published 2025.

Just had these absolute gems through the post, little works of art, gorgeous words from @mollykmoon28.bsky.social & Joe Pickard via @thebraag.bsky.social

A pile of books and pamphlets

Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend

a week late because I ran away to the woods, but here’s my #chani / sappho / apocalypse poem, out in one of my favourite northern publications

Little Borgesian tribute

This issue is a little meditation on our current 💫 interesting times 💫 but still lyric and a little speculative!

Egg, almanac, & onion tumbling off table as lucky cat steals the fish, 1650. From the circle of Sebastian Stosskopf, whose day is today.

Issue 12.5 - Carmen et Error listening to Chani on inauguration day with all social media apps deleted except BlueSky maybe because the sky is all we have leftby Jess Wrightgolden shovel after Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho ...

carmenerror.com?page_id=528

Carmen et Error 12.5 makes its debut into the world, featuring work from:

☁️ @sublunam.bsky.social
🌮 K. Degala-Paraíso
☕ @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social

Issue 12.5 - Carmen et Error listening to Chani on inauguration day with all social media apps deleted except BlueSky maybe because the sky is all we have leftby Jess Wrightgolden shovel after Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho ...

carmenerror.com?page_id=528

Carmen et Error 12.5 makes its debut into the world, featuring work from:

☁️ @sublunam.bsky.social
🌮 K. Degala-Paraíso
☕ @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social

The Braag is a Poetry and speculative fiction publisher looking for manuscripts June 15th - July 31st thebraag.co

UK writers can submit
⭐ Poetry Pamphlets
🌟 Novellas/fiction experiments/flash or short story collections up to around 30,000 words

Writers worldwide can submit
💫 9 a5 pages of work for limited run micro-chapbooks

We pay our authors! We never use AI! Could you please share this? We want your work!

Quick one to note that we don't use AI in *any* of our processes, all of our illustrations and covers are either commissioned from artists or recycled from freely available archives.

I HANDMADE ANOTHER 70 BOOKS THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE GIVE THEM ATTENTION. I'm giving up being subtle. They're great books. I'm very tired.

Thank you so much, Dorian! 💚

Carmen et Error is one of my favourite things to read. Small, short, but impeccably curated. Like a perfect amuse bouche of words, but guaranteed to also be swampy.

New micros by Molly Knox and V N Garmon are available at thebraag.co/shop 💚💀

Knocked it out of the park again, pals.

Issue 12.0 - Carmen et Error Listby David Rutherford You have a book-length list of all the things a crow can’t do.And I remember the phone calls from the weeks you were writing –how you said you couldn’t rid the house of the sme...

Issue 12 of Carmen et Error is up today, featuring poems from:

🪶 David Rutherford
🦄 James King
🪲 Prerana Kumar
🧽 @sublunam.bsky.social

carmenerror.com?page_id=534

It's one of our weirdest and wildest yet!

Our 2024-5 book bundle is available now, if you're looking to catch up on our latest releases! thebraag.co/shop/

A book cover for "Necrosmologies by Anthony Cartwright". an ominous blue and black sky, marred by clouds, hovers over a set of buildings painted in grey.

We can reveal the cover for Anthony Cartwright's book, Necrosmologies, launching on September 25 2025! Necrosmologies is Invisible Cities for late stage capitalism, a deeply weird and lyric novella-in-flash-fic.

Kym and all at The Braag are a dream to work with 🖤🦇- If you have something ready send it their way

Have had some decision paralysis around #LiftToTheSky - I want to share so many amazing people and their work!

Starting with liminal bog weirdness at @thebraag.bsky.social Beautifully curated journal in 'Carmen et Error'. Delicate, deadly, deliberate.

Also, subs are open, send Kym weird things.