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Submissions are officially open for #Rites&Trials #Coming-of-Age Poetry — and no, this is not an April Fools' joke. £3 fee. Deadline: 30 April.
This one’s for the scars that shaped you.
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Submission Call for Rites & Trials: Coming-of-Age Poetry - The Broken Spine
The Broken Spine invites submissions for Rites & Trials: Coming-of-Age Poetry, the latest addition to our acclaimed slimline anthology series. Following
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April 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted to have a very personal poem “In Search of Albion” in the new #Rites&Trials anthology out today. Huge thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Many great pieces by @samszanto.bsky.social @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social and many more

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December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
deborahzafer.bsky.social
Oh my goodness, my first ever published poem will be in Rites and Trials: Coming-of-Age anthology this December. Thank you! @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Rites & Trials: Coming of Age Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk is doing marvellously well

- congratulations to @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk ‪@louisepoetical.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
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December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
rburrows.bsky.social
So thrilled that my poems are going to be in #Rites&Trials @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Thank you @alanparry83.bsky.social - I can’t wait to read it - looks like a fab line-up!
May 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted to have work in Broken Spine’s wonderful Rites & Trials: Coming-Of-Age Poetry — coming soon

Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Amazing poets include Sam Szanto, @louisepoetical.bsky.social, C. Oulens, Susan Richardson, Paul Brookes and many more
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted my poem "In Search of Albion" is included in the upcoming @brokenspinearts.bsky.social anthology 'Rites and Trials' featuring stellar poets inc. @samszanto.bsky.social nto.bsky.social @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social ‪@paulbrookes07

Huge thanks to the great editor @alanparry83.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
badvibrations62.bsky.social
I’m very proud to announce that two of my poems - ‘Fourth’ and ‘Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting’ - have been selected for publication in #Rites&Trials by @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, due for publication in December! Thanks to @alanparry83.bsky.social for choosing my stuff!
A picture publicising the fact that my work is being published in a poetry anthology about coming of age called Rites and Trials.
May 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
alanparrywriter.co.uk
Trying to write pain, performance, eroticism, & shame for my #Rites&Trials piece.
alanparrywriter.co.uk Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · May 19
I am half way through writing the most honest poem I've ever put down.
May 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
saccharinequeen.bsky.social
What a splendid thing! Thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for letting me be part of Rites & Trials: Coming-Of-Age Poetry — the fifth edition in The Broken Spine’s Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthology Series. #Poetry #BookSky 📚 💙
#Rites&Trials #ComingOfAgePoetry My work is being published Coming December 2025 (Graphic provided by Broken Spine)
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Delighted to have a poem in the new #RitesandTrials anthology out today. Huge thankyous to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Many great pieces by Sam Szanto @pdevonald.bsky.social @louisepoetical.bsky.social Rachel Burrows and many others:
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December 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to share that my most fav poem (& a very long one at that)- ‘the output…err…the outcome’ has found a wonderful home in #Rites&Trials anthology by @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, to be published in December! Can’t thank enough, @alanparry83.bsky.social for making my day memorable! #bliss
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May 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
badvibrations62.bsky.social
Received my copy of Rites & Trials today. I have two poems in here: Fourth and Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting - they are alongside some brilliant work by excellent poets - thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for picking my stuff to go with them!

#poems #poetry #anthology #thebrokenspine
Me in my office, with pictures created by my wife behind me, resplendent in my Breton top, happy because I am holding a copy of Rites & Trials in my hand!
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
beagletsuin.bsky.social
Facilitator - The Naknadan Umgadi.

She arranges the trials and ceremonial rites for specific members.

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March 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
Thrilled to have my poem “the output…err…the outcome (well…whatever…if ever) of a therapy
session” in this #Rites&Trials anthology. Huge thanks to EIC Alan Parry @alanparrywriter.co.uk , @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Many wonderful pieces including by Alan Parry, @pdevonald.bsky.social and more…

#Oulens
thebrokenspine.co.uk The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · Nov 28
Also out today, dual launch of festive short fiction and this coming of age poetry #Slimline #Rites&Trials

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November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
johnadlam.bsky.social
#Rites&Trials #ComingOfAgePoetry
Forthcoming in the @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthology Series.
Thank you so much @alanparry83.bsky.social for believing in my poem 'Fingers' - and that I find myself in such amazing company, looking at the list of contributors... 🙏❤️❤️🙏
May 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
thebrokenspine.co.uk
Also out today, dual launch of festive short fiction and this coming of age poetry #Slimline #Rites&Trials

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November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
shadesofgreen.bsky.social
I will be contacting writers in the coming weeks with invitations to participate in our new poetry series, but today I am going to kick things off with a a poem of my own from @thebrokenspine.co.uk slimline anthology Rites and Trials. My thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for including my work!
February 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
pointpixeladv.bsky.social
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July 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
I’d also like to congratulate all the other poets whose work will be featured in this collection, and I must emphasise it’s a real privilege to be in such great company!
Look forward to reading all your works.
#Rites&Trials
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May 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
tristanoberon.bsky.social
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April 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
evalynlee.bsky.social
Delighted to have a #poem in the new #RitesandTrials anthology.

Huge thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk:

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December 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
paulwritespoems.bsky.social
Reading Soots & Boots and Rites &Trials (I have a poem in this excellent book) from @thebrokenspine.co.uk over the next few days. I’ve already cried at @lozzawriting.bsky.social short story. Outstanding work.
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
paulrapley.bsky.social
I'm so happy that Alan's included one of mine in
Rites & Trials: Coming-Of-Age Poetry:

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I'm so happy that Alan's included one of mine in Rites & Trials: Coming-Of-Age Poetry: what friends rep my ends
May 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM