C Maxfield
@pickledp3.bsky.social
Published via The Broken Spine, Blood+Honey, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, RiversSide and Silly Goose Press
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How do you write the end of the world when parts of it are already ending?
LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY gathers contemporary poets confronting collapse, extinction, loss and humanity’s talent for engineering its own disasters.
Published before. Worth reading now.
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LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY gathers contemporary poets confronting collapse, extinction, loss and humanity’s talent for engineering its own disasters.
Published before. Worth reading now.
shorturl.at/hFE9K
September 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM
How do you write the end of the world when parts of it are already ending?
LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY gathers contemporary poets confronting collapse, extinction, loss and humanity’s talent for engineering its own disasters.
Published before. Worth reading now.
shorturl.at/hFE9K
LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY gathers contemporary poets confronting collapse, extinction, loss and humanity’s talent for engineering its own disasters.
Published before. Worth reading now.
shorturl.at/hFE9K
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Submissions to the literary magazine are now open from September 1st to 31st. Get your poetry and short fiction in now! www.darkwinterlit.com/submit-liter...
Submit to the Literary Magazine | DarkWinter Literary Magazine
Submit short fiction or poetry to DarkWinter Literary Magazine. We want your weird, your traditional with a twist, your humour, your dark thoughts, or your elation. We’re open to anything—just make it...
www.darkwinterlit.com
September 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Submissions to the literary magazine are now open from September 1st to 31st. Get your poetry and short fiction in now! www.darkwinterlit.com/submit-liter...
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This isn't Gatsby fan fiction.
It isn't a centenary tribute with champagne coupes and tasteful Art Deco borders.
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS treats The Great Gatsby as a cultural artefact worth interrogating.
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
shorturl.at/126Ks
It isn't a centenary tribute with champagne coupes and tasteful Art Deco borders.
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS treats The Great Gatsby as a cultural artefact worth interrogating.
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
shorturl.at/126Ks
August 31, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This isn't Gatsby fan fiction.
It isn't a centenary tribute with champagne coupes and tasteful Art Deco borders.
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS treats The Great Gatsby as a cultural artefact worth interrogating.
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
shorturl.at/126Ks
It isn't a centenary tribute with champagne coupes and tasteful Art Deco borders.
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS treats The Great Gatsby as a cultural artefact worth interrogating.
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
shorturl.at/126Ks
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August 27, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Meet our Contributors to 🌙 🐟 Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon 🐟 🌙 HATCHING TOMORROW!
Featuring:
#AbbiPayne
#AllieOlvera
#AnneRamallo
@platypusinplaid.bsky.social
#CeceDArville
#CeliaSchwartz
@christielauryn.bsky.social
@pickledp3.bsky.social
@cynthiayatchman.bsky.social
#EmmaRowan
Featuring:
#AbbiPayne
#AllieOlvera
#AnneRamallo
@platypusinplaid.bsky.social
#CeceDArville
#CeliaSchwartz
@christielauryn.bsky.social
@pickledp3.bsky.social
@cynthiayatchman.bsky.social
#EmmaRowan
August 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Meet our Contributors to 🌙 🐟 Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon 🐟 🌙 HATCHING TOMORROW!
Featuring:
#AbbiPayne
#AllieOlvera
#AnneRamallo
@platypusinplaid.bsky.social
#CeceDArville
#CeliaSchwartz
@christielauryn.bsky.social
@pickledp3.bsky.social
@cynthiayatchman.bsky.social
#EmmaRowan
Featuring:
#AbbiPayne
#AllieOlvera
#AnneRamallo
@platypusinplaid.bsky.social
#CeceDArville
#CeliaSchwartz
@christielauryn.bsky.social
@pickledp3.bsky.social
@cynthiayatchman.bsky.social
#EmmaRowan
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Just one more week to send us your craft-forward whimsy, flockers!
sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit
sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit
August 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Just one more week to send us your craft-forward whimsy, flockers!
sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit
sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit
Yey! Very happy to have an acceptance from @sillygoosepress.bsky.social for a moon piece inspired by the ancient site Çatalhöyük 🙏
(A thank you also to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for kind comments on this piece written during the @welkinpress.bsky.social genre competition.)
(A thank you also to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for kind comments on this piece written during the @welkinpress.bsky.social genre competition.)
Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon submissions are officially closed 🌙 Thank you for sending us your art! Seems like we'll have a pretty busy summer reading away 🪿🪿🪿
August 14, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Yey! Very happy to have an acceptance from @sillygoosepress.bsky.social for a moon piece inspired by the ancient site Çatalhöyük 🙏
(A thank you also to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for kind comments on this piece written during the @welkinpress.bsky.social genre competition.)
(A thank you also to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for kind comments on this piece written during the @welkinpress.bsky.social genre competition.)
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"We are gorgeous here..." Also gorgeous is this new poem Campus by Colette Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/campus-...
Campus by Colette Maxfield
We travelled like stars through three forests
Densely protruding through thickets
And tangled unceremoniously like hair.
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July 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
"We are gorgeous here..." Also gorgeous is this new poem Campus by Colette Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/campus-...
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✨Submissions for Issue 12 are open through August 15.
We're seeking writing, visual art and photography, drawings, hybrid work, and more inspired by myth, legend, folklore, fantasy, and inherited stories.
Send us your work! heimatreview.com/submit.html
We're seeking writing, visual art and photography, drawings, hybrid work, and more inspired by myth, legend, folklore, fantasy, and inherited stories.
Send us your work! heimatreview.com/submit.html
June 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
✨Submissions for Issue 12 are open through August 15.
We're seeking writing, visual art and photography, drawings, hybrid work, and more inspired by myth, legend, folklore, fantasy, and inherited stories.
Send us your work! heimatreview.com/submit.html
We're seeking writing, visual art and photography, drawings, hybrid work, and more inspired by myth, legend, folklore, fantasy, and inherited stories.
Send us your work! heimatreview.com/submit.html
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Submissions are OPEN! Send us your words, your artworks, your ✨🌙 OFFERINGS TO THE STURGEON MOON ✨🌙
More info here: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon
More info here: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon
July 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Submissions are OPEN! Send us your words, your artworks, your ✨🌙 OFFERINGS TO THE STURGEON MOON ✨🌙
More info here: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon
More info here: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon
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This is your SEVEN day warning!!!
This is NOT a drill!
And be aware of the deadline time! You need to get your entries in by 3PM on the 30th June - i.e. the deadline is NOT midnight!
This is NOT a drill!
And be aware of the deadline time! You need to get your entries in by 3PM on the 30th June - i.e. the deadline is NOT midnight!
I may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping...
Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!!
Micros up to 100 words
Free to enter
Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories
Deadline 30th June
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!!
Micros up to 100 words
Free to enter
Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories
Deadline 30th June
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
June 23, 2026 at 10:23 AM
This is your SEVEN day warning!!!
This is NOT a drill!
And be aware of the deadline time! You need to get your entries in by 3PM on the 30th June - i.e. the deadline is NOT midnight!
This is NOT a drill!
And be aware of the deadline time! You need to get your entries in by 3PM on the 30th June - i.e. the deadline is NOT midnight!
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Poetry doesn't need more branding, networking, gatekeeping or performance.
In this new piece, @alanparrywriter.co.uk reflects on why poetry still matters, the value of paying attention, and why ordinary lives remain the raw material of great writing.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2026/06/07/n...
In this new piece, @alanparrywriter.co.uk reflects on why poetry still matters, the value of paying attention, and why ordinary lives remain the raw material of great writing.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2026/06/07/n...
Not Here for the Performance - The Broken Spine
I didn't come to poetry because I wanted a profile, a brand, or a place within a literary scene. Like many people, I came to it because I was trying to make
thebrokenspine.co.uk
June 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Poetry doesn't need more branding, networking, gatekeeping or performance.
In this new piece, @alanparrywriter.co.uk reflects on why poetry still matters, the value of paying attention, and why ordinary lives remain the raw material of great writing.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2026/06/07/n...
In this new piece, @alanparrywriter.co.uk reflects on why poetry still matters, the value of paying attention, and why ordinary lives remain the raw material of great writing.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2026/06/07/n...
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#TheWelkinGenrePrize
Entries open two weeks today!!!
Spread the word. And get scribbling!!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Entries open two weeks today!!!
Spread the word. And get scribbling!!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
May 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM
#TheWelkinGenrePrize
Entries open two weeks today!!!
Spread the word. And get scribbling!!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Entries open two weeks today!!!
Spread the word. And get scribbling!!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
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Just a reminder that regular submissions to the magazine open in 2 weeks on May 1st! Get your short fiction and poetry ready! www.darkwinterlit.com/submit-liter...
Submit to the Literary Magazine | DarkWinter Literary Magazine
Submit short fiction or poetry to DarkWinter Literary Magazine. We want your weird, your traditional with a twist, your humour, your dark thoughts, or your elation. We’re open to anything—just make it...
www.darkwinterlit.com
April 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Just a reminder that regular submissions to the magazine open in 2 weeks on May 1st! Get your short fiction and poetry ready! www.darkwinterlit.com/submit-liter...
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"Two Poems" by Colette Maxfield
“Before long she was running in and out / Like a trapped cat / That hisses / When it speaks.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/maxfi...
“Before long she was running in and out / Like a trapped cat / That hisses / When it speaks.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/maxfi...
two poems — Blood+Honey
by Colette Maxfield “Before long she was running in and out / Like a trapped cat / That hisses / When it speaks.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
April 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
"Two Poems" by Colette Maxfield
“Before long she was running in and out / Like a trapped cat / That hisses / When it speaks.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/maxfi...
“Before long she was running in and out / Like a trapped cat / That hisses / When it speaks.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/maxfi...
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This night matters more than it looks.
To the room. To the people in it. To the ones rebuilding.
26 April, 19:00.
#PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return
To the room. To the people in it. To the ones rebuilding.
26 April, 19:00.
#PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return
The Return of #PoemsAbout: Online Open Mic (Zoom) | Hosted by Alan Parry Tickets, Sunday, April 26 • 6 PM - 8 PM UTC | Eventbrite
Eventbrite - Broken Spine Arts presents The Return of #PoemsAbout: Online Open Mic (Zoom) | Hosted by Alan Parry - Sunday, April 26, 2026 - Find event and ticket information.
shorturl.at
April 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This night matters more than it looks.
To the room. To the people in it. To the ones rebuilding.
26 April, 19:00.
#PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return
To the room. To the people in it. To the ones rebuilding.
26 April, 19:00.
#PoemsAbout #OpenMic #Return
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B+H's April update is LIVE!!! HUGE thanks to UK digital artist Paul Warren for the very cool cover art and his ongoing contributions to the mag!!!
www.bloodhoneylit.com/blood-honey-...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/blood-honey-...
Blood+Honey Home — Blood+Honey
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April 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
B+H's April update is LIVE!!! HUGE thanks to UK digital artist Paul Warren for the very cool cover art and his ongoing contributions to the mag!!!
www.bloodhoneylit.com/blood-honey-...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/blood-honey-...
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Mid-month check:
Have you written something that unsettles scale, belief, or certainty?
That’s what #Firmament is for.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
Have you written something that unsettles scale, belief, or certainty?
That’s what #Firmament is for.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Reaches Beyond - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout April 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
April 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Mid-month check:
Have you written something that unsettles scale, belief, or certainty?
That’s what #Firmament is for.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
Have you written something that unsettles scale, belief, or certainty?
That’s what #Firmament is for.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
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Our 4th Anniversary Contest for Short Fiction and Poetry is now open! Free submission, cash prizes for the winners, and publication in the literary magazine for the long-listers! Send in your entries today! See our contest link for details! www.darkwinterlit.com/contests
Contests | DarkWinter Lit
www.darkwinterlit.com
March 31, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Our 4th Anniversary Contest for Short Fiction and Poetry is now open! Free submission, cash prizes for the winners, and publication in the literary magazine for the long-listers! Send in your entries today! See our contest link for details! www.darkwinterlit.com/contests
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To celebrate my birthday, I wanted to do something nice that would hopefully spread a bit of joy in the next few months. So, today is the official launch of... 🥁🥁🥁
THE WELKIN GENRE PRIZE!!!
Details in the thread below!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
THE WELKIN GENRE PRIZE!!!
Details in the thread below!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
March 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM
To celebrate my birthday, I wanted to do something nice that would hopefully spread a bit of joy in the next few months. So, today is the official launch of... 🥁🥁🥁
THE WELKIN GENRE PRIZE!!!
Details in the thread below!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
THE WELKIN GENRE PRIZE!!!
Details in the thread below!
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
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Submissions are open.
#Firmament is looking for poetry that reaches beyond the immediate — into scale, silence, and the unknown.
This is not escape. It’s perspective.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
#Firmament is looking for poetry that reaches beyond the immediate — into scale, silence, and the unknown.
This is not escape. It’s perspective.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Reaches Beyond - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout April 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
April 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Submissions are open.
#Firmament is looking for poetry that reaches beyond the immediate — into scale, silence, and the unknown.
This is not escape. It’s perspective.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
#Firmament is looking for poetry that reaches beyond the immediate — into scale, silence, and the unknown.
This is not escape. It’s perspective.
#Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky
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Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic
Closing date: 31st March, 2026
Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems!
More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Closing date: 31st March, 2026
Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems!
More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
March 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic
Closing date: 31st March, 2026
Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems!
More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Closing date: 31st March, 2026
Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems!
More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
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We are excited to announce the results of our 2026 microfiction competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. You can read the winning & highly commended stories here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
March 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
We are excited to announce the results of our 2026 microfiction competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. You can read the winning & highly commended stories here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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