Carnyx Press
@carnyxpress.co.uk
Northern speculative fiction micropress • Tyne & Wear, UK • carnyxpress.co.uk • posts by @nathanielspain.bsky.social
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Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres.
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
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Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres.
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres.
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres.
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres.
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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December is here! That means you have two-and-a-bit weeks to send us your novella or short story collection for consideration.
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
December is here! That means you have two-and-a-bit weeks to send us your novella or short story collection for consideration.
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
December is here! That means you have two-and-a-bit weeks to send us your novella or short story collection for consideration.
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
December is here! That means you have two-and-a-bit weeks to send us your novella or short story collection for consideration.
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
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For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
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Got an opportunity for writers in December? We're currently putting together our monthly newsletter, particularly seeking news and events relevant to writers in the North of England: buttondown.com/carnyx
Carnyx Press
We’re a new micropress for speculative fiction, based in the North of England. Sign up for submission call-outs, news about our latest books, and other events and opportunities from the world of publi...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Got an opportunity for writers in December? We're currently putting together our monthly newsletter, particularly seeking news and events relevant to writers in the North of England: buttondown.com/carnyx
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We're planning to close our reading window for novella and short fiction collections at midnight on the 20th December. This will give us time to read through enquiries and send out responses in January!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're planning to close our reading window for novella and short fiction collections at midnight on the 20th December. This will give us time to read through enquiries and send out responses in January!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
We're planning to close our reading window for novella and short fiction collections at midnight on the 20th December. This will give us time to read through enquiries and send out responses in January!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're planning to close our reading window for novella and short fiction collections at midnight on the 20th December. This will give us time to read through enquiries and send out responses in January!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
This gives you a month to submit your enquiry. We look forward to reading your work!
Got an opportunity for writers in December? We're currently putting together our monthly newsletter, particularly seeking news and events relevant to writers in the North of England: buttondown.com/carnyx
Carnyx Press
We’re a new micropress for speculative fiction, based in the North of England. Sign up for submission call-outs, news about our latest books, and other events and opportunities from the world of publi...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Got an opportunity for writers in December? We're currently putting together our monthly newsletter, particularly seeking news and events relevant to writers in the North of England: buttondown.com/carnyx
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If I lived in the north, I would be submitting to Carnyx Press. Good advice from good folk.
Getting ready to send us a publishing enquiry? We've penned a blog post on how to write a query letter:
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
How to write a cover letter
Our tips on how to write an eye-catching query letter.
carnyxpress.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If I lived in the north, I would be submitting to Carnyx Press. Good advice from good folk.
Reposted by Carnyx Press
Getting ready to send us a publishing enquiry? We've penned a blog post on how to write a query letter:
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
How to write a cover letter
Our tips on how to write an eye-catching query letter.
carnyxpress.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Getting ready to send us a publishing enquiry? We've penned a blog post on how to write a query letter:
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
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I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
The UK’s culture sector needs financial, political and public support to survive. Funding is not a ‘favour’. It is an investment in imagination, in our shared experience – and in inspiration and joy
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November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
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Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
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New submission call announcement!
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Open Calls for Submission
The Rock-Horror Anthology Screams and Wails, to be published November 2026, will be an anthology of horror short stories with music at their still-beating heart. Think cursed instruments; songs tha…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New submission call announcement!
theslab.press/calls-for-su...
theslab.press/calls-for-su...
Getting ready to send us a publishing enquiry? We've penned a blog post on how to write a query letter:
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
How to write a cover letter
Our tips on how to write an eye-catching query letter.
carnyxpress.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Getting ready to send us a publishing enquiry? We've penned a blog post on how to write a query letter:
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
carnyxpress.co.uk/2025/10/30/h...
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There, in the dark...
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There, in the dark...
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
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Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
Speaking of which, I'll be putting together our November newsletter soon. If you have any events, call-outs, or opportunities for writers in November (of particular interest, but not limited to, writers in the North of England) let us know and we may be able to squeeze it in!
Seems to be fixed! If you fancy joining our newsletter you can do so here: buttondown.com/carnyx
Carnyx Press
We’re a new micropress for speculative fiction, based in the North of England. Sign up for submission call-outs, news about our latest books, and other events and opportunities from the world of publi...
buttondown.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Speaking of which, I'll be putting together our November newsletter soon. If you have any events, call-outs, or opportunities for writers in November (of particular interest, but not limited to, writers in the North of England) let us know and we may be able to squeeze it in!
There's a bit of a bug with our newsletter where it's not adding new subscribers at the mo, I'm on the case and it should hopefully be fixed soon!
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
There's a bit of a bug with our newsletter where it's not adding new subscribers at the mo, I'm on the case and it should hopefully be fixed soon!
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My comfort in folklore often comes from the fact it ratifies the truths that greed is an evil, tyranny is to be opposed and manners matter. If it legitimises a fear of trespassing against the common good by the rich, it is performing one of its fundamental roles. – #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My comfort in folklore often comes from the fact it ratifies the truths that greed is an evil, tyranny is to be opposed and manners matter. If it legitimises a fear of trespassing against the common good by the rich, it is performing one of its fundamental roles. – #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday
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We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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