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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks to all who submitted during FH’s last window. Our donation to @msf.ca has been sent. We’ll look to reopen issue subs again toward the end of the year! ❤️

Charity donation to MSF UK, a small donation for each piece FH passed on during May 2026. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted.

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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you so much, @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @leiabutler.bsky.social, for giving space to my work and my voice once again. Always, always grateful!

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Helen Laycock @helenlaycock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beyond thrilled to get 3rd & 4th Best of the Net nominations from @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for ‘Heavenly Bodies’ & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for ‘After the Hunt’. Enormous thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Congratulations to all nominees! 🥳 #poetry

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There won’t be payment for The Games Room publication, but you will be eligible for any prizes or awards that FH submits for. Your work will also be shared on social media. Details here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro... Have fuuuun! x

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The Games Room submissions — Full House Literary

Please read our guidelines before you make a submission! We have a few guidelines that are really important that we suggest you look over. You can then make your submission!

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Up for a challenge? I want to read tiny poems / flash pieces / art pieces / hybrid pieces, all on the theme of 'drifting'. These are very short submission windows, with a quick turnaround, that accept a small number of pieces.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THE GAMES ROOM IS OPEN!!! 🍁 Would you believe it's been almost a year since The Games Room opened? Now, a new game is waiting...

THE GAMES ROOM. Open 1st October - 5th October. THEME: DRIFTING. We want tiny poems/flash/art/hybrid pieces all about ‘Drifting’.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After the divorce, you leave the country by @ella-b-winters.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/after...

After the divorce, you leave the country by Ella B. Winters 'before the ice begins to crust around the edges of the estuary’s mouth, like sugar crumb on hot pyshki doughnuts which we would gorge on every Saturday between piano lesson and the park'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Daisy Chain by George Brooks www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/daisy...

Daisy Chain by George Brooks. 'The last time I saw you, just in passing in the dairy aisle of our home town Tesco, you had a wife in tow and a daughter on your back. I picked up my double cream and left, a daisy still in my pocket.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grandfather by Kristine Chang www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

Grandfather by Kristine Chang. 'The night recedes—and we glimpse it. An island, lavishly green. A forest where ocean meets land—jeweled and decadent, just like a dream.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What [to do] (with) Rage by Manuel A. Melendez www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/what-...

What [to do] (with) Rage by Manuel A. Melendez. '& this kindly syrup talks powdered sugar into ropy snow talks into snow like collapsing'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mending the Car by Purbasha Roy www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/mendi...

Mending the Car by Purbasha Roy. 'What you did was fix a broken butterfly wing lying on the dashboard. I was surprised but with a pleasantness of a mango tree on receiving a gulmohar bloom from the wind.'

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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This tiny girl would like a word www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...

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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Then they added self-checkouts by @eireneeleni.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle. 'A tiny girl the size of a thumb hangs out by the cash at the discount mart. She has thick hair like a curtain tie and makes sour faces at the things you buy.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fortune cookie by Kalliste Hardy www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/fortu...

fortune cookie by Kalliste Hardy. 'walking the length of butterfly spine, and guiding hands there yourself. here. here, and here. leaving kisses like an ariadne thread'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Half the Story by @suewallaceshaddad.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/half-...

Half the Story by Sue Wallace-Shaddad. 'half-lit auburn hair clay-coloured the semblance of a terracotta head from a far-off land'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The final batch of the latest wave of new Featured Creators are now live. What an amazing month it has been. You can get a little taster of what the pieces are about here, but really you should check out the full pieces because they are faaaab! www.fullhouseliterary.com/featured-cre...

FEATURED CREATOR, Spotlight part 3. Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Kalliste Hardy, Eirene Gentle, Purbasha Roy, Manuel A. Melendez, Kristine Chang, George Brooks, Joshua Zeitler, Ella B. Winters

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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man congratulations: Daniel's collection, Son in a Wild God’s Arms, has been picked up by University Press of Kentucky.

I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man

after Diane Seuss’s “Romantic Poet”

by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri

I cherish the boys who cry in parking lots, who lean against dented Hondas
holding their faces. I love the boys who apologize to stray cats after scaring
them away. The ones who carry flowers badly, stems bent in their sweating
fists. But mostly, let’s be honest, I like Diane Seuss for the way she makes
ruin sit down beside beauty without either one pretending. Ostensibly,
becoming a man is less about hardening and more about surviving softness.
Don’t laugh. I grew up believing manhood was a locked jaw, a fist through
drywall, a silence thick as wet cement. But Diane Seuss writes men like
weathered barns still standing after years of snow and bad harvest. She
lets them ache openly. Lets them fail magnificently. Lets them drink
coffee at midnight while admitting they are lonely. And inside my own
body, under the borrowed swagger, under the deep voice I practice on
buses, there is a small frightened animal wanting permission to stay gentle.

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Louise Mather @louisemather.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you so much to @leiabutler.bsky.social @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for nominating my poem "Definitions" for Best of the Net 💙 www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026...

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Definitions by Louise Mather — Full House Literary

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Liesl Jobson @liesljobson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A pure delight to find myself in great company at @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social. Thanks @nicolebreit.bsky.social for a great prompt that got this sweet little thing done.

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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So happy to have this little micro in Full House literary today. Thank you, @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social , a joy to be here. www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/then-...

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Then they added self-checkouts by Eirene Gentle — Full House Literary

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still by Alex Scarborough www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/still...

Still by Alex Scarborough. 'Maintaining eye contact with you. I nearly knocked over the wine. I had to take a breath and blow that same non-note again. I wanted to see how long you keep watching.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Waiting in low light by @liesljobson.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

Waiting in low light by Liesl Jobson. 'I unravel the mess. The sun appears, reflecting dramatically off a rig up close. Two pelicans glide into perfect position. Pale and pink, they dip and swoop.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

III: Kitchen Renovation by Carys Parker www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/iii-k...

III: Kitchen Renovation by Carys Parker. Visual piece with words and phrases scattered across the page in different formats. You can find the full thing on the website under the featured creator section.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I SAY “LIVE DELICIOUSLY” // HAVE YOUR CAKE AND by Vesper www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/i-say...

I SAY “LIVE DELICIOUSLY” // HAVE YOUR CAKE AND by Vesper. 'kiss your best friend at a gay bar / walk to church with your nan / go to ASDA for a pack of cigs and a carton of milk at 8pm /'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Peaches Last Sunday by Savannah Burke www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/peach...

Peaches Last Sunday by Savannah Burke. 'Only 99 cents for one freshly picked. We bought two. The first tender bite of fur tickles my tongue and juice drips down my chest.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aubade From Our Abode by @aimeelowenstern.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/aubad...

Aubade From Our Abode by Aimee Lowenstern. 'The floor’s more dressed than I am all pools of jeans light and dark bras resting like turtles abask'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a dancing fish too tired to write to prompt by Asa B. Brooks www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/a-dan...

a dancing fish too tired to write to prompt by Asa B. Brooks. 'i take a deep dive into melancholy, octopus drunk. i go to bed out of tune and wake up sunstruck.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

WOODS WALK by @djpoet.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/woods...

WOODS WALK by Kenneth Pobo. 'I might crumble, not like a cookie, more like an aged moon at dawn. I could curl like wax paper by a lit match while a birch reports us to a curious fern.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Contortionists by Arden Falker www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/conto...

Contortionists by Arden Falker. 'breeze discarded pieces shards a trail effervescence lands pooling excess belonging burden'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sisters in Donegal by Ellena Murray www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

Sisters in Donegal by Ellena Murray. 'We three met in Donegal. We won’t meet again, not like this. Not as soft and witchy things who link hands on the sand on Big Beach, and garble Irish names'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Featured Creator pieces are now live! Catch up on the latest pieces that went live by checking out these snippets. Find the full pieces here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/featured-cre...

Featured Creator spotlight part 2. Featuring: Ellena Murray, Arden Falker, Kenneth Pobo, Asa B. Brooks, Aimee Lowenstern, Savannah Burke, Vesper, Carys Parker, Liesl Jobson, Alex Scarborough.

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This poem for my mother has been nominated for Best of the Net by the extraordinarily generous @leiabutler.bsky.social of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social. I am so grateful to Leia for all her support - and to all who have responded to this poem along the way 🫶 www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026...

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Lares and Penates by John Adlam — Full House Literary

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@paulwritespoems.bsky.social will be working soon with @leiabutler.bsky.social on the follow-up anthology Concealed Revelations, also supporting MSF

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Disgraceful calls in the right-wing media for the proscription of Médecins Sans Frontières impel me to remind people that you can support this great charity & read some fine poetry too by downloading @paulwritespoems.bsky.social’s anthology Unwhispered Legacy & making a donation 👇 #poetrycommunity

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And the latest piece fab piece to be featured, 'synergy/parasitism//effluent/ecstasy//mastery/tyranny' by @word3floyd.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/syner...

synergy/parasitism//effluent/ ecstasy//mastery/tyranny by Hannah Floyd 'woman as scratchpad knifeblock as woman woman as palette'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Next to be featured was the brilliant 'A Mother’s Inheritance' by @hayleygrace.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

A Mother’s Inheritance by Hayley Grace 'I reached out my hand carefully, as though the package were a wild animal I didn’t want to startle. The brown paper crinkled beneath my fingertips as I grazed it, ordinary and harmless.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also featured is the wonderful 'The Weight of a Pulse' by @quickasaflash.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

The Weight of a Pulse by Gill O’Halloran 'I could consume you, Carbon-unit5501, but why would I? You’re not my kind of energy. The Ornithopter could consume you, but why would it? It feeds on biomass electrics.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another fab feature, 'But it was a love song' by Betty Powdrill www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/but-i...

But it was a love song by Betty Powdrill 'your fingers skim my collarbone, like a needle scratch on vinyl'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also featured, 'healing is' by Jaymz Lea www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/heali...

healing is by Jaymz Lea 'no one told me flesh that’s shred gets wove & plait with collagen. gnarled & sturdy with less flex.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Next up, the amazing 'Learning to Cook FryBread from an Online Recipe Because I Refused to Learn from My Grandmother because my Older Sister Was With Her' by Honey Nara www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/learn...

Learning to Cook FryBread from an Online Recipe Because I Refused to Learn from My Grandmother because my Older Sister Was With Her by Honey Nara. 'Drizzle, drizzle the oil dabble, dabble the dough in the hot oil three to four minutes flip, flip it.'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Super thrilled to publish 'Manifestation' by @merrildsmith.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/manif...

Manifestation by Merril D. Smith. 'Reflections of the stelliferous sky gleam in the moon-less tarns of her eyes'

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mark Valentine's brilliant 'Antennae' www.fullhouseliterary.com/art/antennae...

Antennae by Mark Valentine. An image of a stalk of seaweed with a round pinhead protrudes from an empty beach.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'Sudoku #143' by the brilliant Candace Renicks 👏 www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/sudok...

Sudoku #143 by Candace Renicks. A sudoku board with certain numbers left empty and instead text reading 'you only exist in small memories'.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The incredible 'Game' by @bcmearc.bsky.social 👏 www.fullhouseliterary.com/art/game-by-...

Game by Bill Marsh. 'Unreal enough maybe the splash is not too too fast once a tin breakfast impetus abandonded large purple cluster but breezy and dense areas of similar'. The word game appears under the words in neon green colour. Behind the words are blue, yellow, green, red highlighted blocks of texts.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Featured Creator pieces will be going live each day in September! We've already had some incredible pieces featured, so here is a spotlight to catch you up on what has been live so far! www.fullhouseliterary.com/featured-cre...

FEATURED CREATOR Spotlight part 1. Bill Marsh, Candace Renicks, Mark Valentine, Merril D. Smith, Honey Nara, Jaymz Lea, Betty Powdrill, Gill O’Halloran, Hayley Grace, Hannah Floyd.

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you so so so much for letting me publish your amazing story Hayley! Such brilliant writing 👏

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Brilliant story that went live this week over on the Featured Creator's section! SUCH a good piece ⬇️👏

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

SUCH an incredible piece, I feel so lucky I was given the chance to publish it! Thanks so much Merril!

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So excited that FH has published Merril's incredile piece, please do check it out! ⬇️

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