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The Braag CIC supports underrepresented writers in the NE of England. Home of Carmen et Error magazine. We publish pamphlets!
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🎉🎉 We can announce the Braag's publishing line-up for 2024-5 🎉🎉 We're delighted to have acquired work from
@ImeldaSays
@timothy_fox_
,
@joepickard3
, Bruce Rimell,
@Concordmoose
, V Garmon Koski,
@Mollykmoon28
, and Anthony Cartwright
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Submissions for the press are open! Would you like to be one of our 2025 authors?
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We're extending our submissions deadline for pamphlets and micro-chapbooks! We'll now be open May 15th - June 31st. 💚🌿
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Only FOUR days until we open for submissions! We're a small press based in the North East that accepts pamphlet and novella submissions, we pay royalties!
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The Braag is open for submissions for another two and a half weeks! We'd love your submissions of poetry pamphlets, novellas, short stories or micro-chapbooks 💚
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We’d love to see some more flash fiction in our submissions inbox! Particularly anything strange or speculative! Can anybody help get the word out?
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Just another ten days left to submit! Can you help us get the word out? 💚💀💚 We pay our writers, we get our books into bookshops, we do our best as an indie publisher 💚 We love weird writing, and we'd love to read yours!
The Braag is open for submissions for another two and a half weeks! We'd love your submissions of poetry pamphlets, novellas, short stories or micro-chapbooks 💚
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Submissions for Carmen et Error open August 1st - for submissions of poetry up to 40 lines & flash fic of up to 400 words. 💀 🖤
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We're open for submissions for another two weeks! I'd love to see some more weird fiction and poetry in our inbox 💕
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Only a few hours to go until we open for manuscript submissions... so exciting!
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We're open for submissions of:
- Poetry Pamphlets from UK Writers
- Micro-Chapbooks of poetry or prose from anyone in the world
- Individual poems and flash fiction for our magazine, Carmen et Error!
Only a few hours to go until we open for manuscript submissions... so exciting!
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look, I know none of us have any money, but when I hear about poets who weren't paid AT ALL for their pamphlets my soul leaves my body just a bit
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A very quick reminder that the Braag will be open for submissions of
🌿 Poetry Pamphlets
🌊 Prose Pamphlets or Novellas
💫 Micro-Chapbooks
In ONE MONTH! We will be open for six weeks between June 15th an July 31st.
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A writer with a connection to the North of England? Write weird stuff? CARMEN ET ERROR is open for submissions! Our first guest editor is the incredible
@zeeforzahra
and she's ready for your work. 💜💀💜
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I do think our visibility has been hit *very badly* by all these changes to Twitter! Our submissions for strange and lyrical poetry and flash fic are open until the end of February! We want to read your work! Please help us get the word out 🌈🖤🖤🖤
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Work doesn't stop here at the Braag, because after we've closed for submissions for the press, our micro-journal opens! Carmen et Error is open, as usual, for submissions of up to two pieces of poetry or prose throughout the month of August.
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@SarahRoyston4
is taking over the helm as guest editor of our summer issue! Sarah is interested in queer ecologies, re-enchantment as resistance, and our entanglements with the more-than-human world. 🌿🌈
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Micro-Journal Carmen et Error opens for submissions Feb 1st, we love weird wild words and would love to see yours in our inbox!
We're open for poetry up to 40 lines and flash fiction up to 400 words!
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While I glance over submissions I realise we're a little low on microchapbook submissions! You can submit a pamphlet as well as a micro to us and we accept worldwide submissions for the micros 💚
Just three days left in our call for poetry, prose and microchapbooks! You can read our guidelines at 💀🌿
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Submissions are looking a bit more bare than usual! If you've got anything strange, queer, or ecological please get it over to !
@SarahRoyston4
is taking over the helm as guest editor of our summer issue! Sarah is interested in queer ecologies, re-enchantment as resistance, and our entanglements with the more-than-human world. 🌿🌈
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A ✨huge✨ announcement! As part of the
@NewWritingNorth
Young Creative Associate's scheme, I've been given some funding for this project! The Braag will be opening for submissions of poetry pamphlets and poetry or speculative fiction microchapbooks!
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Presses and journals don't exist without writers submitting their work - its important to treat them with respect.
Ugh. Saw a press alert antho submitters that they were rejected by announcing on insta that if they haven't received an acceptance, they were rejected. Don't do this.
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Five days left to submit a manuscript to us! We won't be open again for pamphlets until summer 2025 💀
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A side note: this issue of Carmen et Error was absolutely one of the hardest to put together,
@SarahRoyston4
and I were overwhelmed by the quality of submissions. We said no to so much good stuff!
We had over 200 submissions and only room for 7 pieces 😱
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I can also announce that
@SarahRoyston4
's forthcoming prose chapbook with us is called Fernseed: A Collection of Tales, and will be published September 2024! 🌿🌈 Where language is as strange and lush as the world around it!
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Here we go, Carmen et Error Issue 9.0 (!!) edited by the impeccable
@SarahRoyston4
and featuring:
🍄
@lowermelody
🦡
@Mollykmoon28
🪶
@CorinnaBoard
🥚
@suzannafitzpat
Full of delicious ecologies & the nonhuman 💚 🌿 🌿
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Reminder that subs are open for the magazine throughout August!
Work doesn't stop here at the Braag, because after we've closed for submissions for the press, our micro-journal opens! Carmen et Error is open, as usual, for submissions of up to two pieces of poetry or prose throughout the month of August.
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TWO WEEKS until submissions open for both poetry and prose pamphlets!
✨ We Pay Royalties
✨ Work with writers across the UK (but are VERY keen to hear from northern writers)
✨ Get your work into indie bookshops up and down the east coast.
A very quick reminder that the Braag will be open for submissions of
🌿 Poetry Pamphlets
🌊 Prose Pamphlets or Novellas
💫 Micro-Chapbooks
In ONE MONTH! We will be open for six weeks between June 15th an July 31st.
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Twitter ate this post, but you may have it again. Our micro-journal, Carmen et Error is open for submissions in the month of may, helmed by the impeccable
@SarahRoyston4
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While I take a rest day for my chronic fatigue, take a look at some of these gorgeous variant endpapers for Fishnet!
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2 days left to submit to our pamphlet & microchap call out!
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We're open until December 1st! We'd love to read your work 💕💕
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CFS brain fog aside, let's get this announcement right this time! Our brilliant issue 9.0 contributors, selected by
@SarahRoyston4
are:
🍄
@lowermelody
🦡
@Mollykmoon28
🪶
@CorinnaBoard
🦉
@suzannafitzpat
🍏
@thetrampoet
🐚
@TimothyJJarvis
🐦⬛Jack Mckenna
🌱
@fictionalsarah
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159 manuscripts submitted over the course of six weeks! Thank you to everyone who has shared their work with us. We'll be doing our thing and get back to you as soon as we can!
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Quick statement regarding in-person events over the summer:
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Hello! We're The Braag a production company for literature and performance arts, supporting underrepresented emerging artists in the North East. We're named after the Northumbrian Trickster Spirit who sometimes appears as a horse, cow, or four men under a sheet! 👻👻👻👻
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new submissions guideline: we only accept prophetic dreams
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Our 💙very💙 first pamphlet is available for Pre-Order now! Unfurl by Kym Deyn, Nathaniel Spain and Finlay Worrallo offers tantalising glimpses into another world.
40pages a5 pamphlet - full colour with illustrations! This is a truly beautiful book 💙
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Lovely for
@sarahwestcott1
's Pond, to get a shout-out in the
@PoetryBookSoc
's summer bulletin. Pond is a "beautifully produced", "immersive pool of thought." 🐸🌊
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The Braag is open for submissions throughout the merry month of May! 🌸🌸
@SarahRoyston4
is taking over the helm as guest editor of our summer issue! Sarah is interested in queer ecologies, re-enchantment as resistance, and our entanglements with the more-than-human world. 🌿🌈
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The Braag Presents: A POETRY MURDER MYSTERY with readings from:
💀
@BetaRish
💀
@Zeeforzahra
💀
@ByfordPoet
👻 May 6th, 7:00PM, Free/PWYF
Tickets:
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Happy to announce our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize! They are:
🍂
@suereedwrites
🦢 Ruth Yates
🌊
@JaneBurn14
🛸
@Mollykmoon28
🌿
@jasgraywrites
☠️
@WhattheBlair
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me @ the trickster spirit we're named after before each of our events
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SUBMISSIONS FOR THE PRESS OPEN TOMORROW - WHICH MEANS TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF OUR SUMMER SALE ! Get some pamphlets at an absolute bargain while you can.
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Good morning! Issue 8.0 is here, featuring work from
🍒
@jenny_danes
🪐
@ellora_sutton
⛪️ Ian Irwin
🏚️
@pattiepoetry
It's brilliant! Go read it! ✨
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Reminder that Carmen et Error is open for submissions throughout May! ✨
@SarahRoyston4
is taking over the helm as guest editor of our summer issue! Sarah is interested in queer ecologies, re-enchantment as resistance, and our entanglements with the more-than-human world. 🌿🌈
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A little late in the day, but here nontheless! Issue 9.5 of Carmen et Error, selected by
@SarahRoyston4
and featuring:
🪷
@thetrampoet
🐦⬛Jack McKenna
🐚
@TimothyJJarvis
🍃
@fictionalsarah
Full of strangeness and wildness 💀💚
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Paris Review branded blanket: limited edition, 100% combed cotton, $175.00
braag branded blanket: can be found anywhere, 100% fresh soil, $0, makes an excellent covering for your grave
Our new knit blanket is a rendition of the cover of the Spring 1969 issue of the Review, which features the bold geometries of the artist Jean Dewasne.
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We're very excited to have
@GregoryKearns
as our guest editor for the next issue of Carmen!
Gregory Kearns is a poet based in Liverpool. He is the winner of a Northern Writers Award. He has been published in Bath Magg, Ink, Sweat and Tears and Introduction X
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Our limited run micro chapbooks are now available via our website
We have
🦷 sweet tooth, a short horror story about mothers and daughters by Amelia K.,
🌪️ BAD AIR, nine incredible poems by Liv Aldridge
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Just a quick reminder to check our subs guidelines before submitting! I've tried to make them as simple as possible while cutting down pointless admin for my team and I 💚💚
The Braag is open for submissions for another two and a half weeks! We'd love your submissions of poetry pamphlets, novellas, short stories or micro-chapbooks 💚
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Issue 6.0 is HERE!
So excited for this issue featuring:
🐗
@tombranfoot
🪦
@julieEsampson
🕯️
@Chadpie
👻 Tom Bennett
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Join us at the
@litandphil
for
@sarahwestcott1
and Nina Murray's pamphlet launch! Or pamphlets launch, pamphlet launches. Some combination thereof! There'll be readings by the poets, drinks and nibbles its also completely FREE ! Turn up on the door or book via eventbrite ❤️
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For clarity, we close for pamphlet submissions at 11:59PM July 31st for thebraag(.)co!
...And re-open for submissions of single poems and flash fic for carmenerror(.)com at 12:00AM August 1st.
Happy submitting!
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The murder is among us, somewhere in this very... *Zoom*
The Braag Presents: A POETRY MURDER MYSTERY
July 8th / 7:00PM / Free or PWYF
TICKETS:
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We're also announcing our poetry and prose micro-chapbooks for 2023-4!
🎣 Fishnet by
@AskVestergaard
🦷Sweet Tooth by Amelia K.
😶🌫️ DREAM SIMULATION
@ElliottChlo
🌪️ Bad Air by
@liv_aldridge
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Unfurl is out in the world! Thank you so much to
@ForumBooks
for the best launch we could have asked for! And a huge congratulations to our authors
@spainsthename
,
@FWorrallo
&
@shortestwitch
🌊
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PRE-ORDERS are now live for Pond and Gannota! 💚 Dive into fairytale magic and a pond's deep green languages
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responses to the literary discourses (all of them)
1) we're not slop. we're sexy.
2) we'll never use AI for anything nor publish anything AI
3) most editors are writers trying to create venues for good work without getting paid - they've gotta do something to keep the lights on!
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Celebrating Sloane Allen's poem from Issue 5.0 today!
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Are you an 18-25 year-old looking for experience in the book industry? We’re partnering with
@NewWritingNorth
to offer a 5-day work placement and a bursary of £500 to support your involvement. Find out more and apply here
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Delighted to announce that Carmen et Error has nominated the following pieces for the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology. Congratulations! ❤️💀❤️
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Announcing our contributors for Issue 8!
🍒
@jenny_danes
🪐
@ellora_sutton
⛪️ Ian Irwin
🏠
@pattiepoetry
🐊
@EZhang77
🥚
@KoftheTriffids
🌿
@alander140
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Everyone forget my last tweet on the matter, I cannot fathom the passage of time. The Braag is open for submissions of pamphlets and microchapbooks until the 💫 END of JUNE 💫
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"When a body enters a bog, it is usually an accident."
Anyone who knows me knows I love a good bog body, and this is the perfect bog body story. Very gently unsettling in the best way. This is by
@TheNurtureBoy
in
@longleafreview
💚
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Just three days left in our call for poetry, prose and microchapbooks! You can read our guidelines at 💀🌿
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This Is The Next Calling: Poems and Music to Make the Future 💛 A Poetry Workshop with the incredible
@BetaRish
, whose collection Saffron Jack was published by
@NineArchesPress
last year.
💀 TICKETS ON SALE NOW: 💀
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Carmen et Error has its own website now!
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Support this new Palestinian press! 💚🍉
We're almost breaking through to fund the first book. With just a few weeks left of the fundraiser, you still have time to fund this new, proudly Palestinian press!
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you wrote a book, babe! A little mini baby book, but a book. It's not about the £££ its about respect, innit? (but its a little bit about £...)
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It's Follow Friday, isn't it? Here's a list of absolutely fantastic poets/magazines/orgs/events💜💜💀
@brownbloomrise
@thewritingsquad
@stevieronnie
@InkSweatTears
@Neon_Lit_Mag
@african_fanta
@PoetsTees
@ButchersDogMag
@JayHulmePoet
@TheBlackLightE1
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Cover drop for our 2024 poetry pamphlets...? 🙀
Pond by
@sarahwestcott1
Gannota: A Tale of Three Thimbles by Nina Murray
Pre-Orders open next week! 🫀💚
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IM SCREAMING! Samir's work is so amazing and this is so well deserved! I'm also so so proud to have published this gorgeous and unsettling flash fic 🎂💜💜
elated to learn that my
@TheBraag
microfiction piece "Girlish Duties" is a Best of the Net 2024 finalist! enormous thanks to Kym for both taking this piece and nominating me. 💀
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Four days remaining until submissions close! 💜💜 Hurry and get your poetry and prose pamphlets into The Braag. We close 31st July 11:59PM BST!
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@Sea_Minor_
Us!
@hexliterary
@hexagonmagazine
@Neon_Lit_Mag
@longleafreview
(?), Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet,
@CrowKeys
@opialitmag
, Menagerie,
@wrongpublishing
,
@UncannyMagazine
,
@strangehorizons
@TravestiesPress
@OcculumJournal
@3lobedmag
💀
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"The lighter. The haste. The knife. The taste. The ache of someone else’s birthday cake. Always a day late and ten dollars short."
sweet tooth by Amelia K. is a magnificent little horror story, available as a limited run micro-chapbook! 🎂🦷
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For our pamphlets we are looking for Writers based in the UK, this is so we can do in-person events and to work with writers that can more easily build a uk audience.
For our micro-chapbooks we accept submissions from anywhere in the world.
Only FOUR days until we open for submissions! We're a small press based in the North East that accepts pamphlet and novella submissions, we pay royalties!
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If you want to keep up to date with our current and future titles, you can have a look at 💀🌱
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Pond and Gannota are out in the world! 🎉🎉 Thanks to
@sarahwestcott1
and Nina Murray for a fantastic poetry launch in the
@litandphil
💚 Our very first poetry pamphlets, and what brill pamphlets they are. 💫
Their books can be purchased at !
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Our first issue of Carmen et Error is LIVE! Featuring work from
@LouLouMach
,
@spainsthename
and
@Andreamsmall
🌿💚💚
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Issue 4.0 publishes the wonderful:
🎭
@LenaOzge
🎭
🐟 Anthony Tomkins 🐟
🦇
@ByfordPoet
🦇
Issue 4.5, launching this sunday, has contributions from the fantastic:
👼
@no_ao_
👼
🩸
@violavolee
🩸
⛳️Richard Roberts ⛳️
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... And that's the Braag closed for manuscript submissions for this year! Our journal, Carmen Et Error remains open on a rolling basis.
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Absolutely here for
@pollycocktail
's "After 70 Years in the Ice, Steve Rogers Visits Whole Foods" published by
@okaydonkeymag
I adore how vivid and unexpected and melancholy it is!
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Interested in using Tarot in your writing? Looking for some unusual prompts? Or just interested in gaining familiarity with the Tarot de Marseilles? We; running a creative writing and Tarot masterclass! 🔮🔮💕
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Issue 4.5 is here, and it might be the strangest we've ever published! Featuring work by:
🩸
@violavolee
👼
@no_ao_
⛳️ Richard Roberts
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🪷 Pond by Sarah Westcott and
🪡 Gannota: A tale of three thimbles
will be published February 2024! These pamphlets are sheer magic 💚
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There are some poems that will live rent-free in your head forever. This is one of them. Rust Belt Jessie’s Taxonomy of Ghosts by
@rustbeltjessie
is strange and gorgeous and perfect. Published by the wonderful
@CrowKeys
💜
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A book launch for Unfurl is happening at
@ForumBooks
's The Bound in Whitley Bay, September 9th @ 7PM 🌊
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What if I open submissions on my birthday? (Tomorrow Jan 28th?) Writers from EVERYWHERE will be welcome to submit, with a couple of spots reserved for writers from the NORTH of ENGLAND 💀
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Please, please book a (free)! ticket for this if you're able, its a wonderful celebration of everything we've managed to achieve here at The Braag. Unfurl is beautiful, strange and emotive, a wild portrait of a strange, uncanny world 🪲🪲🪼🐠
The
@TheBraag
book launch for Unfurl is happening at ours! 🌊
w/
@shortestwitch
@spainsthename
@FWorrallo
the bound, Whitley Bay
THIS Saturday September 9th @ 7PM 🌊
🎟️ free!
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A little late in the day, but stunning nontheless, Issue 2.5 is here!
Featuring the incredible:
@suereedwrites
🍃
Ruth Yates 🪶
@JaneBurn11
🌊
And
@Mollykmoon28
🛸
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