Seox, #2

Reading Time: 5 mins and under Want to support my work? Tip me on Ko-fi 🙂 For C.A.J. How now, old friend? Have a most wonderful birthday - with pink socks, not yellow stockings - you Twelfth Night baby. See you soon! The above is my response to Tanka Tuesday’s poetry challenge: 24 Seasons. Using …

Petty Pet-Parenting

Reading Time: 5 mins and under Last month, I mentioned an upcoming flash fiction success. I'm so happy to have made Reflex Fiction's longlist for a second time! And now, that story's been published. Introducing.... Mine? This one is supposed to be funny, but I guess it might not be if anyone's been in this …

Democratic Journalism

Reading Time: 5 mins and under We're at the end of this run of blog posts about getting published. Hopefully, I've given you some good reads, useful information that can help you make your mind up about the types of short-piece publishers you'd like to send your work to. From now on, any more posts …

Mapping Metre

Reading Time: 5 mins and under Community is not limited to one particular place, such as those in the same year at university. It can be much bigger. In some cases, it even involves an entire country... Places of Poetry This was originally a 2019 project, reopened in 2020 to a) celebrate its first anniversary …

EAClet Does a Very Bold Thing

Reading Time: 5 mins and under 'Zines' is short for magazines or fanzines. They're essentially mini, booklet-collections of creativity (compared to more mainstream publications, which go down the ISSN-paperback-or-hardback route). Self-published, often fan-made, and found only in small circulation, they can get quite... niche. Boundary-pushing. Punk, even. Considering that the wildest thing I ever did …