For our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event (Thursday 26th October @ 19:30 UK-time) our readers will be: Pratibha Castle - who will be reading from her new collection Miniskirts in The Wasteland plus Lizzie Ballagher Ann Pelletier-Topping David Punter Jane Turner It should be a great hour! If you would like an invitation to [...]
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Contextual: 21 – Our Readers
For our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event (Thursday 26th October @ 19:30 UK-time) our readers will be: Pratibha Castle - who will be reading from her new collection Miniskirts in The Wasteland plus Lizzie Ballagher Ann Pelletier-Topping David Punter Jane Turner Already looking forward to it! If you would like an invitation to the [...]
Contextual: 20 – Back with a Bang!
What a splendid hour we had at yesterday's twentieth Contextual virtual poetry reading event. We had thirty-one attendees including our splendid readers: Kate Swann, Thomas Larner, Jenna Plewes, Patty Cannon, Penny McCarthy, Janet Philo, Greta Ross, Caroline Matusiak, Charlotte Wilson, Zanna Beswick, Di Hills, Gillie Robic, Stephen Poole, Annemarie Cooper, Angela Ellis, Jonty Pennington-Twist, Carmina [...]
Contextual: 20 – Tomorrow!
Our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event is tomorrow, Thursday 28th September @ 19:30 UK-time, and our readers will be: Kate Swann, Thomas Larner, Jenna Plewes, Patty Cannon, Penny McCarthy, Janet Philo, Greta Ross, Alison Hramiak, Caroline Matusiak, Charlotte Wilson, Zanna Beswick, Di Hills, Gillie Robic, Stephen Poole, Annemarie Cooper, Angela Ellis, Jonty Pennington-Twist. Our [...]
Contextual: 20 – Next Thursday!
For our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event (Thursday 28th September @ 19:30 UK-time) our readers will be: Kate Swann, Thomas Larner, Jenna Plewes, Sangita Kansal (tbc), Patty Cannon, Penny McCarthy, Janet Philo, Greta Ross, Alison Hramiak, Caroline Matusiak, Charlotte Wilson, Zanna Beswick, Di Hills, Gillie Robic, Stephen Poole, Annemarie Cooper, Angela Ellis, Jonty Pennington-Twist. [...]
Contextual: 20 – Our Readers
For our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event (Thursday 28th September @ 19:30 UK-time) our readers will be: Kate Swann, Thomas Larner, Jenna Plewes, Sangita Kansal (tbc), Patty Cannon, Penny McCarthy, Janet Philo, Greta Ross, Alison Hramiak, Caroline Matusiak, Charlotte Wilson, Zanna Beswick, Di Hills, Gillie Robic, Stephen Poole, Annemarie Cooper, Angela Ellis, Jonty Pennington-Twist. [...]
New Contexts: 6 – submission window news
The submission window for the sixth edition of our New Contexts poetry and short prose anthologies will open on 1st October and run until 31st December. New Contexts: 6 will publish by the end of March 2024. Once again entries will be managed via Submittable (it simplifies administration so much!), and so for New Contexts: [...]
Short Story submission call
We are delighted to announce that the submission window is now open for short story collection which will be published early in 2024. For submission details please go to Submittable. This new collection follows on from the well-received Making Marks in the Sand which we published in 2022. We look forward to reading your submissions!
New submission calls coming soon!
I am delighted to announce that we will be announcing the opening of submission windows for new publications very soon! Last year I published a collection of short stories, Making Marks in the Sand. Long overdue, I now plan to produce a follow-up (as yet untitled) for prose pieces of 2,000-5,000 words. This should be [...]
Contextual: 20 – we’re back!
Having taken a break during July and August (during which time we moved house) I am delighted to say that our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event will be held on Thursday 28th September @ 19:30 UK-time. For Contextual: 20 we are going to adopt an 'open mic' approach. Thus far we have eighteen potential [...]
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