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Festival Submissions Call – ‘Maytime’ by Sue Wallace-Shaddad

Festival Submissions CallWe are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead...

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April 23, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – ‘Montol – Penzance Winter Solstice 2025’ by Ian Cave

Festival Submissions CallWe are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead...

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April 22, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – ‘Feast Day’ by Jackie Taylor

Festival Submissions CallWe are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead...

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April 21, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – ‘Isobar of Ash’ by Yvonne Salmon

Festival Submissions CallWe are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead...

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April 20, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – ‘Winter Solstice: Sauna Experience’ by Holly Peters

Festival Submissions CallFollow along as we post one of the ‘Festival’ selected poems a day, and don’t forget to book...

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April 19, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – ‘A Tale of Tam the Travelling Man’ by Steward Ennis

Festival Submissions CallFollow along as we post one of the ‘Festival’ selected poems a day, and don’t forget to book...

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April 18, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – ‘The Daffodils Speak of You’ by Megan Fatharly

Festival Submissions CallWe are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead...

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April 17, 2026

Festival Submissions Call – Chosen poems!

Festival Submissions CallWe are very excited to share with you the chosen poets from our ‘Festival’ prompt!As this year’s Launceston...

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April 17, 2026

Michelle Szobody’s Residency with Guillemot Press – Emerging Poets in Residence Programme

The Guillemot residency is a week I’ll remember through a gauze of rain and silvery light. Cyprus Well was the...

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February 22, 2026

Call for Submissions: Festival!

We’re inviting all poets to share with us your work inspired by the theme “Festival”! Whether you have a poem...

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January 20, 2026

Welcome Hauntings – Children’s Hauntings

Welcome Hauntings submissions! For our final ‘Welcome Hauntings’ post we wanted to address our younger readers in poems that are...

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October 8, 2025

Welcome Hauntings – Dream Hauntings

Welcome Hauntings submissions! 'After McBride and Wiltzie' by Theodore Nisbett This painting came about as a response to a piece...

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October 6, 2025
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