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📚 THE ILLEGAL NOVEL 📚

Join us as we explore the legacy of William S Burroughs' legendary beat novel, and the controversial adaptation to cinema by the great David Cronenberg.

You can find the article, and plenty more on our site 🌟

#experimentalfilm #nakedlunch

Queer Spectrum Film Festival 2026 is now open for submissions! This year's theme is "Tender Migrations: Queer Journeys Through Desire, Transition, and Healing.” Submit your work here 👉 buff.ly/d2jOPhq

Today is the day! Last call for submissions for our Winter Wonders Mixtape. Any genre, new or old. We are thankful for all the submissions so far, it’s going to be an amazing listen!

Don't forget--Solstice is open for submissions! We read fiction, graphic lit, poetry, poetry in translation, and nonfiction. Submit today!

#callforsubmissions #literaryfiction #creativenonfiction #poetry #callforwriting #amwriting #litjournal #readingperiod

REMINDER: This is the LAST call for submissions for our Winter Issue!

SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/...

Merry submitting!

P.S There is no theme for this issue.

🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

Background image of snowflake graphics Right banner: gold and red light reflections. Large snowflake graphic upper right. Text: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS FEATURE * Poetry * Prose * Filmpoems * Word & Image Submit Now

We are now open for Submissions for our annual '12 Days of' feature. @helenivory.bsky.social will be looking at your poetry and short prose, while Sairah Ahsan wants to see your word & image and filmpoems. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/

#InkSweatandTears #TwelveDaysofChristmas #Slanted

📣 IT'S HERE 📣

Transmissions is now free to access on our site 🎉 take a listen for a collection of new work by 8 emerging working class artists from the Midlands 💪

We couldn't be prouder of them and what they've achieved in the past few months ❤️

#literaturematters #newartists

Nominate Finborough Theatre for the @whatsonstage.bsky.social Awards in 3 easy steps!

1. Click here: zurl.co/qDNlj
2. Write “The Passenger - Finborough Theatre” for Best New Play, and “The Truth About Blayds - Finborough Theatre” for Londoner Best Play Revival.
3. Submit!

Thanks to the incredible work of 8 artists based in the East Midlands, we're delighted to present #transmissions. An audio anthology of poetry and immersive sound design, as part of the #literaturemattersawards - free to access on our site from 21st November 🌟

We'd love to hear what you think 📣📣📣

On 21st November, the Sound based poetry anthology Transmissions will be available to listen to and download from our site with no cost 🎉

Transmissions has been created by eight new poets and artists from the East Midlands as part of the #literaturemattersawards from @royalsocietyofliterature ❤️

Introducing Charlotte! Performing a live reading of her poem 'Forgiveness' during rehearsals for #transmissions recordings 🎙

An incredibly talented Poet/performer based in Leicester, Charlotte was kind enough to sit down for a chat with us about her origins in poetry 📚

THATS A WRAP! 🎉

Our rehearsals and recording sessions are now complete for #transmissions 👏

We've had such a blast putting this project together and can't wait to share more with everyone soon - stay tuned for more over the next few weeks for our free to access audio anthology 💃💃💃

Three copies of 'Inventory', a 16-page A6 format booklet.

If you missed us at the Small Publishers Fair, you can order our titles direct from us here - longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... - and receive a free copy of the new 'Inventory' pamphlet with orders over £8.

WRITING FOR SPOOKS We’ve decided to trawl through a host of submission opportunities covering fiction, manuscripts, audio scripts and compile them for you here, so that you can make the most out of this spooky …

🎃 WRITING FOR SPOOKS 👻

With that festival time coming near (not that one, the other one) - we've gathered some of our favourite horror submission opportunities for writers 🕷

See our site for full list opportunities, get stuck in!

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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Hannah Loeb shows that in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight,” recurrent images of translucence serve as the loci of trans-historical insights that connect present subjectivities with past traumas
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
#poetry

The Joy of Dance There’s always those games that people consider ‘arty’ – the critically acclaimed, triple quadruple award winning ones that seem to capture everyone’s unflinching attention for a singular mom…

WHAT IS MOVEMENT? 💃

One of our favourite Mic'd Up submissions has to have been 'The Joy of Dance'

A heartfelt and passionate account of how video games do constitute art, and can move us in ways we never anticipate ❤️

Give it a read below! 👀

stghostycreative.co.uk/2021/04/28/t...

FREE submissions to @frazzledlit.bsky.social open this coming week. Take a look at what the editors are looking for! #WritingCommunity #writing #books #writerslife #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction

Get a mentor Arts Emergency provides young people, aged 16-18 years old, with free mentoring, support and community to help them pursue a career they’re passionate about.

Applications are open for our Mentoring Programme.
If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need!

Apply 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!

We have rolling open submissions for articles on art, theatre, film, photography, and anything else creative that's filling up your brain at the moment 🔥 Wet in touch!

You can find more guidelines on our website, or you can email stghostycreatives@gmail.com ❤️

#creativewriting

Making Ends Meet: Why funding cuts are the biggest threat to national Arts and Culture Taking risks is one of the most important parts of any business. Risk means potential loss, but also possible growth. Either way it means change and keeps us away from stagnation. It’s especi…

Looking for funding as an artist? 👀

You're not alone, but it's tough 🙃

MIC'D UP opens it's doors to the latest thoughts of one of our members as they expore why funding is so essential to organisations and freelancers across the world.

Give it a read! 🌟

stghostycreative.co.uk/2024/08/29/m...

ArtFlicks | Rural Media ArtFlicks applications are now OPEN! Submit your application via form.jotform.com/RuralMedia/ArtFlicks2025.  The closing date is midnight 17th October 2025. Good luck! 🎬 What is ArtFlicks?  …

ArtFlicks is a creative commission for bold, emerging artists aged 18–30. Rural Media offers £1,000 bursaries and support to create 3x 90-second films — whether that’s dance, spoken word, music, visual arts, crafts, animation, or something completely different.

Enhance: Romeo & Juliet - Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres

We have free tickets available for the Enhance performance of Romeo & Juliet at Liverpool Everyman on 1st Oct. These are for VI audience members, on a first come first served basis. Featuring a pre-show Touch Tour and 'Meet Extant'
Email admin@extant.org.uk
everymanplayhouse.com/enhance-rome...

Bridging the Gap: The Deconstruction of Kay Sage “There’s no such thing as structure.” That’s what this random guy said to me, unwavering eye contact, before proceeding to finish his vodka, be sick over the payment and dro…

SAGE: One of the most influential female surrealists in history 💪

We express our sincere and unending love for the artist who helped inspire our careers ❤️

See more:

stghostycreative.co.uk/2020/09/15/b...

#surrealism

Unlimited Open Awards 2025/26 Ten opportunities for disabled artists based in the England, Scotland or Wales. These awards offer a grand total of £413,000 to disabled artists with individual awards ranging from £15,000 seed…

@weareunlimited.bsky.social's Open Awards offer ten opportunities for disabled artists in England, Scotland or Wales.

Supporting brilliant disabled artists to create, develop and share work.

🔹 Small awards: new, exploratory ideas

🔹 Large awards: work that’s closer to production

OUR PROJECTS - What have we been up to?

We have some very exciting news coming next week, so ahead of this we wanted to share what we've been doing with the support of members and funders 🌟

Visit out website for full details, or reach us at stghostycreatives@gmail.com ❤️

#arts #writingsubmission

A collective act of solidarity.
Join us, @tamasha1989.bsky.social, @gatetheatre.bsky.social & @newearththeatre.bsky.social for the Gaza Monologues at our London office on 18th.

All proceeds to Ashtar Theatre’s campaign support the writers.

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gaza-m...

A top down photo of a crowd gathered at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant bar. Text: We're Hiring: Deputy Front of House Manager

Only one week left to apply!

Applications for our Deputy Front of House Manager position close at midnight on Sunday 14 Sep.

Know someone who would be perfect at delivering first-class audience and visitor experience? Send this their way.

Find out more here: southwarkplayhouse.co.uk#jobvacancies

The submission window is now open to short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and essays.

Guidelines on the site.

We're excited to see your work! 😍

Featuring opportunities from

@royalcourtliv.bsky.social
@theberlinreview.bsky.social
@dustpoetry.bsky.social

Among others 👏👏