Lit Mags
We’re delighted to welcome two new lit mags to our list: Use Your Words, “open to submissions of all kinds; poetry, short stories, personal essays and anything in between”, and the Arts Foundry, “a website and journal based in the Black Country, championing regional art and writing”.
Fictive Dream has a special call for submissions for Flash Fiction February. Open Pen releases its 20th issue, and the A3 Review’s 7th issue is here. Bunbury has a new issue, Fallout, and Palm-sized Press’ ‘Retrospective’ zine is now available for pre-order. Spelk is open to flash fiction submissions.
Anthologies
Hometown Tales are looking for writers from Wales and the south-west for their new series of anthologies.
Live Lit
Talking Tales is holding their next event on Dec 9th in Bristol.
Competitions
The Ruth Rendell short story competition closes on December 22. The Casket of Fictional Delights has announced its 2017 Flash Fiction competition winners, and Reflex Fiction has announced its summer 2017 winners
ShortStops 