Peter McAllister
@petermcallister.bsky.social
Writer. Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
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SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31
Guidelines and theme description are available @ bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit
Guidelines and theme description are available @ bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31
Guidelines and theme description are available @ bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit
Guidelines and theme description are available @ bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit
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December is here, which means you have 15 days left to submit to AGNI! Our submission portal will be open until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15th—and then we'll be closed for a monthlong break. We look forward to reading your work! 🔥
Submit to AGNI
We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
December is here, which means you have 15 days left to submit to AGNI! Our submission portal will be open until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15th—and then we'll be closed for a monthlong break. We look forward to reading your work! 🔥
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🎁 Our Cyber Monday sale is up & running—and ENDS Tuesday night! Grab these deals NOW: buff.ly/O7sPDAS
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎁 Our Cyber Monday sale is up & running—and ENDS Tuesday night! Grab these deals NOW: buff.ly/O7sPDAS
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Every day, we give away one or more Kindle #poetry titles. Today's FREEBIES are listed FIRST here: buff.ly/4h7F6uh. Our world needs its #poets, so please read and share!
More info: buff.ly/40M9app
More info: buff.ly/40M9app
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Every day, we give away one or more Kindle #poetry titles. Today's FREEBIES are listed FIRST here: buff.ly/4h7F6uh. Our world needs its #poets, so please read and share!
More info: buff.ly/40M9app
More info: buff.ly/40M9app
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One month left! Original poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations! Winter! Hope! Persistence ! Endurance!
Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One month left! Original poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations! Winter! Hope! Persistence ! Endurance!
Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
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Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales
✍️ Writers: share your voice. Submissions open now on Written Tales.
🔗 Link in bio
#poetry #writingcommunity #writing #shortstory #reading
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✍️ Writers: share your voice. Submissions open now on Written Tales.
🔗 Link in bio
#poetry #writingcommunity #writing #shortstory #reading
writtentales.com/friday-after...
Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales
Carmen Fong tallies the cost of healing: bodies, paperwork, penance. Gratitude falters under fatigue, yet at 1 a.m. she scrubs again, chasing redemption through fluorescent light.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales
✍️ Writers: share your voice. Submissions open now on Written Tales.
🔗 Link in bio
#poetry #writingcommunity #writing #shortstory #reading
writtentales.com/friday-after...
✍️ Writers: share your voice. Submissions open now on Written Tales.
🔗 Link in bio
#poetry #writingcommunity #writing #shortstory #reading
writtentales.com/friday-after...
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AND!!!
we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
AND!!!
we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Want to be part of this issue? You can. Subs permanently open to make this popup micro issue an ongoing and growing apothecary of joy. You’re welcome to contribute to or just borrow and browse.
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JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Want to be part of this issue? You can. Subs permanently open to make this popup micro issue an ongoing and growing apothecary of joy. You’re welcome to contribute to or just borrow and browse.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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Submission period PROCESS /MARGINALIA / OTHER WOR(L)D(S) closes Sun. Nov. 30th at midnight Pacific Time. If you are working on a hybrid or have pieces unpublished & remarkable in form & content w/at least 2 elements of: #text, #image, #video, #sound #art #hybrid send to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Just today and tomorrow left before our Liar Liar Prize closes! (Our general reading period will close as well!) 🦊 blackfoxlitmag.com/contests/ #callforsubmissions #litmags #WritingCommunity #writersky
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just today and tomorrow left before our Liar Liar Prize closes! (Our general reading period will close as well!) 🦊 blackfoxlitmag.com/contests/ #callforsubmissions #litmags #WritingCommunity #writersky
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Show don't tell?!?
This craft maxim is a bit of a contradiction, and yet it's still super important. Let's break it down 👇
#writingcommunity
This craft maxim is a bit of a contradiction, and yet it's still super important. Let's break it down 👇
#writingcommunity
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Show don't tell?!?
This craft maxim is a bit of a contradiction, and yet it's still super important. Let's break it down 👇
#writingcommunity
This craft maxim is a bit of a contradiction, and yet it's still super important. Let's break it down 👇
#writingcommunity
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Need an excuse to avoid awkward holiday small talk? Say you're submitting to Fahmidan.
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Need an excuse to avoid awkward holiday small talk? Say you're submitting to Fahmidan.
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
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!! THEME REVEAL !! for Issue 05
This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary
Submissions open DEC 1
Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!
This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary
Submissions open DEC 1
Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
!! THEME REVEAL !! for Issue 05
This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary
Submissions open DEC 1
Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!
This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary
Submissions open DEC 1
Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!
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Announcing our 2026 Subscription!!
Our year of travel through books!
Each title will take you to another country - if not several!
You will receive the following 8 titles 2 weeks before their publication
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
Our year of travel through books!
Each title will take you to another country - if not several!
You will receive the following 8 titles 2 weeks before their publication
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Announcing our 2026 Subscription!!
Our year of travel through books!
Each title will take you to another country - if not several!
You will receive the following 8 titles 2 weeks before their publication
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
Our year of travel through books!
Each title will take you to another country - if not several!
You will receive the following 8 titles 2 weeks before their publication
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
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We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
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Submission Slot ✍️
Poet Laureate: For poems up to 14 lines that respond to news items and issues of topical importance. The subject matter is up to you, but we encourage you to think outside the box! Include a link to the topic or news item you have chosen.
Poet Laureate: For poems up to 14 lines that respond to news items and issues of topical importance. The subject matter is up to you, but we encourage you to think outside the box! Include a link to the topic or news item you have chosen.
Poetry - Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Poetry - Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
mslexia.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Submission Slot ✍️
Poet Laureate: For poems up to 14 lines that respond to news items and issues of topical importance. The subject matter is up to you, but we encourage you to think outside the box! Include a link to the topic or news item you have chosen.
Poet Laureate: For poems up to 14 lines that respond to news items and issues of topical importance. The subject matter is up to you, but we encourage you to think outside the box! Include a link to the topic or news item you have chosen.
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Really enjoying catching up with Eve Grubin's session @nawewriters.bsky.social conference on bringing silence into one's work. Fitted well w @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social 's session. It's a great idea to have all of the recordings available! 🙏 #NAWE
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Really enjoying catching up with Eve Grubin's session @nawewriters.bsky.social conference on bringing silence into one's work. Fitted well w @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social 's session. It's a great idea to have all of the recordings available! 🙏 #NAWE
Long as it is, it’s not a bad start to the commute. Back up to Exeter today to teach some lovely undergraduates. #Englishliterature #creativewriting
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Long as it is, it’s not a bad start to the commute. Back up to Exeter today to teach some lovely undergraduates. #Englishliterature #creativewriting
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Thanks so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social for nominating this story for #bestsmallfictions 😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳
It was nigh on impossible to choose only 5! 🦝
3 of these are from August's prompted stories - which were all that good.
Good luck to all our nominated authors and their stunning stories (links to online pubs in thread) 💜
1/5
@jupiterjonz.bsky.social
@pj-mccarthy.bsky.social
3 of these are from August's prompted stories - which were all that good.
Good luck to all our nominated authors and their stunning stories (links to online pubs in thread) 💜
1/5
@jupiterjonz.bsky.social
@pj-mccarthy.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Thanks so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social for nominating this story for #bestsmallfictions 😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳
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What is a chapbook, you ask? Dawn Macdonald unpacks the format.
https://bit.ly/4pY0qXQ
@yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social #poetry
https://bit.ly/4pY0qXQ
@yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social #poetry
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What is a chapbook, you ask? Dawn Macdonald unpacks the format.
https://bit.ly/4pY0qXQ
@yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social #poetry
https://bit.ly/4pY0qXQ
@yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social #poetry
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Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in November and December 2...
www.smokelong.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
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Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Last week was my first year running the North Cornwall Book Festival and what a week it was. Here’s me looking exhausted between #patrickgale and Ian Collins.
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Last week was my first year running the North Cornwall Book Festival and what a week it was. Here’s me looking exhausted between #patrickgale and Ian Collins.