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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello, friends! The Braag is a Newcastle based small press and journal. We sell amazing speculative fiction and poetry - our vibe is weird, wild and beautifully presented! You can shop our books at thebraag.co, we also run the micro-journal Carmen et Error and work with writers across the world.

The Braag Presents

We were established in October 2020 in a moment of dazzling common sense and against government advice to retrain as something practical—such as an umbrella, or an exceptionally short lamp post.

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 23h

It's a fantastic poem, we're honoured to be your first (very well deserved) publication!

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Marten de la Void @baphomart.bsky.social · 1d

My skittish brain has been all about poetry this year and I’m very excited to share my first published poem! Massive thanks to ed-in-chief Kym Deyn and guest editor Eleanor Ball @thebraag.bsky.social for putting some of my silly ol’ words out there

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 1d

Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from

🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social

carmenerror.com?page_id=606

Issue 13.5 - Carmen et Error

No Blanketsby Patricia Russo They wanted the bed to be comfortable. It was the most they could do. Not the only, but the most. But there were no more blankets left in the world, and the birds no longe...

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 1d

Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from

🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social

carmenerror.com?page_id=606

Issue 13.5 - Carmen et Error

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 1d

It's better to ask "what" im marrying, rather than who.

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 1d

Hi folks! I get married at the end of the month, and won't be fulfilling thebraag.co book orders until I come back to work on November 1st. 👻 See you then!

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 7d

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 11d

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Michaela @michaelastjohn.bsky.social · 12d

Decorative plates depicting nuclear plants. One example:

A porcelain decorative plate depicting the Phillipsburg Nuclear Plant in Germany

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13d

2 October? But that can mean only one thing! YES, THAT’S RIGHT!

In a village in Hertfordshire, they’re marking Old Man’s Day, because it’s the 454th anniversary of Mathew Wall almost being buried, and then not being buried, because he was in fact not dead

A gravestone in a lovely grassy graveyard, and a load of leafy branches on top of the grave. The stone is marked: Matthew Wall died 1595

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!

Forward Prize 2026 Highly Commended Congratulations to Corinna Board!
For
‘A dunnock’s prayer’, published in Issue 9.0 Carmen et Error

A dunnock’s prayer
by Corinna Board

O wingless wun,
god o’ smæl bridds,
spære my nest,
my fīf blue eggs.
Bright sky-keeper,
bringer o’ frost,
maker o’ hip an haw,
can ye hear my
tseep tseep tseep
in the hecg?
I sing for ye
in the blackthorn
an the dogrose,
in the hazel
an the rowan.
I, this tyne spearwa
so smæl in yur hand.

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🎃Spooky Emily🎃 @emmy.baby · 14d

Okay, funny bookstore category

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 14d

Makoto Kobayashi

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Timothy Fox @timothyfox.bsky.social · 14d

Very exciting things in store at @thebraag.bsky.social!

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

braag 25-6 line up
Poetry
polblar tmolkop - Andrew Blair
Empirical - Gita Ralleigh
Micros by
Corinna Board
Jessica Boatright
Heather Chapman
Stevie Ronnie
Lauren Thomas
Hybrid
Only Fragments Survive - Carmen Marcus

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Andboo Scare @andrewblair.co.uk · 14d

EXCITING NEWS!

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social · 14d

I could not be more excited to be able to share this little toucan-y book with you all 😊 Coming soon! Eeek!

#WhereIsTheToucanEmoji

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 14d

Exciting! #ukpoets

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Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Andboo Scare @andrewblair.co.uk · 14d

Got a pamphlet out next year where I explain the existence of Paul Blart Mall Cop through poetry

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Coming February 2026! by @andrewblair.co.uk ⭐👽👮🛍️🌎⭐

Let’s make one thing clear: polblar tmolkop by Andrew Blair is not an endorsement of the 2009 film Paul Blart: Mall Cop. If anything, it is an explanation. One that defies explanation itself. In a series of experimental, ludic poems Blair takes us through a series of conversations between the actor and writer Kevin James, and an ambiguous disembodied entity called Polblar.

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be part of this line-up with ‘Little Book O’Moss,’ my weird little microchap! 💚💚💚

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Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

With micros by @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Jessica Boatright, Heather Chapman, Stevie Ronnie and Lauren Thomas!

Little Book O’Moss by Corinna Board
Toucan by Jessica Boatright
The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman
Possession by Stevie Ronnie
Lavender Hill by Lauren Thomas

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Publishing Autumn 2026! by @carmenmarcus.bsky.social 🌊🪡🧵👗🐻‍❄️🌊

Only Fragments Survive by Carmen Marcus is a collection of speculative hybrid fiction and poetry that imagines the life of paranormal historian, Graine O’Malley. Graine is a researcher who divines the history of objects. Her catalogue contains a splinter of driftwood from Captain James Cook’s Endeavour; a hair from a polar bear that washed up in Orkney; a tale of witches from a dressmaker’s bent pin, an Indie mixtape from 1998 and other tales, taken from the history of broken things.

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Publishing February 2026! by @gitaralleigh.bsky.social ❤️💫✈️⛴️🥭❤️

Empirical by Gita Ralleigh explores immigrant life, domesticity and motherhood through a series of lyric poems and narrative fragments, including several ghazals. From Black Star, a voicing of the earliest South Asians in Britain, to abecedarian for maternity ward, postcolonial estrangement, immigrant contingency and tentative instances of love, joy and belonging are illuminated. These poems trace how inherited myths, contested histories and political tides pattern our lives, leaving indelible marks which corral the course of future imaginaries for ourselves and our descendents.

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Coming February 2026! by @andrewblair.co.uk ⭐👽👮🛍️🌎⭐

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Anthony Cartwright, he's fantastic, isn't he? It's in Necrosmologies, a title we've just published available via our website at thebraag.co 🖤

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 18d

I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.

cover of necrosmologies by anthony cartwright. a moody blue and black shy hangs over a grey and ruined cityscape.

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 20d

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

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