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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A poem of mine in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
The Haikouichthys
just began to develop a backbone.
Isn't that what you said about me the other day?
A thick skull. A segmented body.
I wonder if all this extra oxygen will explode into new life.
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to the amazing Mor Poets! Their brilliant and beautiful poetry anthology Wild Women is out today! You can order this gorgeous anthology here: www.inkfishpress.co.uk/wild-women
Wild Women poetry anthology by Mor Poets.
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We'll be launching ENTRIES FROM A GLACIER 6-7:30pm, Weds 24th June, at @stedmundhall.bsky.social with readings from Katie Peterson, Young Suh, Erica McAlpine and Kate Wakeling!
A poster announcing the launch event for ENTRIES FROM A GLACIER by Katie Peterson and Young Suh.
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We're so excited to be publishing Katie Peterson and Young Suh's beautiful chapbook of poems and photographs, ENTRIES FROM A GLACIER soon! www.inkfishpress.co.uk/entries-from... “Meditates on the precariousness of daily, lived experience in the face of sweeping change." — Erica McAlpine
Kate Peterson and Young Suh, Entries from a Glacier, a chapbook of poems and photographs published by Inkfish Press.
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
On June 19, we will be publishing Wild Women, the thrilling new anthology by Mor Poets! Penelope Shuttle says: "These are poems drawn from the very slipstream of life, courageous and affirming." You can preorder this gorgeous anthology here: www.inkfishpress.co.uk/wild-women
Wild Women, a poetry anthology by Mor Poets published by Inkfish Press
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Aaarrrgghh!!!! Thrilled to see a couple of my stories in with such brilliant company - I remember many of the amazing pieces shortlisted here so vividly and fondly!! 😍❤️
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Best Small Fictions 2025 will soon be available for purchase! @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social inkfishmag.com/she-is-there...
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We're thrilled to announce that in May 2026, we will be publishing Wild Women, the gorgeous and thrilling new anthology by Mor Poets!
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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
what a great opportunity for the new year with 2 excellent tutors!
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Aiming to finish a novel? Start a short story? Or do you simply want to write more regularly? This course is for you… inkfishmag.com/kickstart-yo...
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Thrilled to see my flash piece, ‘The Altar of St Cindy’, in brilliant company in this beautiful issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social Thanks so much to David Galef, @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began, and to my lovely writing group as always ❤️
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Robert Allen Poet @robertallenpoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I Just did a reading with Inkfish Press, with Tim Moder, and @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social. Tim and I have chapbooks out with Inkfish Press, and Kate is a co-founding editor of @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine and Press (& a very good poet). Enjoy it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWF...
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Inkfish Press Poetry Reading with Robert Allen, Tim Moder, and Kate Horsley.
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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors 🥳
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Excited for the launch of SEXTET Issue II on December 4th, with writing from me, @ewenglass.bsky.social and many others! Work from this issue will be on display in @sixfootgallery.bsky.social until Jan 6th - sixfootgallery.co.uk/traces/
SEXTET literary magazine issue II: Traces
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Huge thank you to @petermcallister.bsky.social and @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social over at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for this wonderful nomination. I so adore your gorgeous art-forward magazine! And ICYMI here's the link to my story: inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize! @juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social inkfishmag.com/awards/
Inkfish Magazine Pushcart Prize nominations 2025
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We're loving this from @ewenglass.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ##newpoetry #poetry #collection #goodstuff #reading #read #readers #wow
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Thrilled to see this brilliant poetry chapbook by @ewenglass.bsky.social riding high in the poetry ranks on Amazon! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is full of beauty, magic, humour, and wisdom. You can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/2wSXZ3i
Amazon bestselling poetry book by Ewen Glass, If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea
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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
a) I know it's probably uncool to post b) it's all possibly a quirk of the Big River place c) I don't really care. I'm so touched by all the support this new book has had so far, I couldn't have imagined getting anywhere near top ten poetry books. Thank you! 🥹 @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
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T. E. Niemi @teniemi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Next on the “To Read” list from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Congratulations, @ewenglass.bsky.social!👏👏👏
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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is out now and I’d be over the moon if you considered getting a copy. Thanks as always @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Corner...
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If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea: Poems (Inkfish Press Chapbooks): Amazon.co.uk: Glass, Ewen: 9798271980640: Books
Buy If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea: Poems (Inkfish Press Chapbooks) by Glass, Ewen (ISBN: 9798271980640) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and ...
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Wishing @ewenglass.bsky.social‬ a very happy launch day! We're so excited to be publishing this chapbook by Ewen Glass - If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea - beautiful poems by a wonderful writer! amzn.eu/d/f6oChEA
A poetry chapbook by Ewen Glass called If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea
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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So happy that some of my favourite poets and authors had such kind words for my new poetry chapbook. Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is out tomorrow from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social 🌊
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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thank you so much, @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for the nomination! inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to @defenestrationmag.bsky.social for getting it up on your site. 🙂 www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/08/book... #amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
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"Books Books Books," by Peter McAllister
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up. 'You...
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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"Dad’s personality traits are gatherer, unstable, nurturing, handy, and insane. He wants to fix things and that’s what he’s good at, but he has these random mood swings where he runs after you wielding a garden gnome or pruning shears." - Kate Horsley mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"So we – us two – have chosen love. And celibacy. We may be different species; but we are both as old as dinosaurs and we are in love. We’ll take whatever time we have." Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
'I like to write early in the morning with my dream-head still in touching distance. My writing space is at the top of the garden, with a view across the sea from Rame Head to Looe Island.' Kate Horsley interviews Jackie Taylor
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Interview with Jackie Taylor
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Ma says she’s coming all the way to the port with me but she leaves halfway. I see her carapace swimming backwards; her eyes locked on mine. My heart starts screaming' Read 'Dylan Red Claw', a short story by Nell Carroll Turner
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'Dylan Red Claw' by Nell Carroll Turner
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
'When I stopped emailing, I thought to myself, now it’s really the end of the known world. Now I really won’t sleep. Winter rolled, a slow wagon, upon which I was not having a good time.' Read 'The Red Kite', a Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid by Ambika Bates
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'The Red Kite' by Ambika Bates
Prose poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
'It had been her brother who taught her how to tie a rope secure enough to swing on. It was him who had shown her how to swing from it into the river. According to her, Logan had always been in love with being alive.' Read 'The Riverbank', a short story by Amirah Walters
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'The Riverbank' by Amirah Walters
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
'My laboratory is on the basement level with soundproofing and no windows, so it’s only once I leave work that I can see and hear the birds without mediation.' Read 'What the birds are saying', flash fiction by Fiona Mossman
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Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"What other plants and creatures were here with them? What abundance of clean water and shellfish? What clam gardens? What cold rivers and salmon? What relatives?" Daily reads: Susan Kostick in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Happy friday! Here’s a few mags whose names start with a vowel that you should go check out: @anmlymag.bsky.social @afterdinnerconversation.com @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @okaydonkey.bsky.social @identitytheory.bsky.social @eunoiareview.bsky.social @underbellypress.bsky.social
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
'She hears rather than feels her legs snap out on instinct and away from the warmth of the old horse rugs, up the creaky metal stairs and into the bower at the top of the barn, where she can hear the mice shifting and hiding...' Read 'Hunting Season', a short story by India Fishburn buff.ly/91bXBiS
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying." Read our Review of Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social buff.ly/TpVNzQu
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
'North of Frog Pond a path is beaten into the snow so worn that it can bear your weight without rackets.' Read 'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson
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'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
'These fungi grow together but are not communal– like us, walking together, keeping our own counsel.' Read 'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick
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'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
'The taproot of the Sycamore/is a strong old sod, no/manners, never says/please, pushes past/shoulders aside/boulders, animal/bones, burials'. Read 'The taproot of the Sycamore', concrete poetry by Vanessa Gebbie buff.ly/A14D7uY
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'The taproot of the Sycamore' by Vanessa Gebbie
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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
July's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter, recommending Isabelle Baafi's 'Chaotic Good' @faberbooks.bsky.social & feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social mailchi.mp/315fe9108e32... #poetry
Smiling woman performing at a poetry festival with hands raisedCopy of Isabelle Baafi's 'Chaotic Good' poetry collection with an orange flower
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
'That was the year/of seared flesh and fishbones,/the year I was landed/gasping for breath, gulping/thin air, jerking and juddering/on the slimy ground/as a knife eased my body/from its backbone .' Read ''Gutted' and 'Here is my haul', poems by Vivienne Tregenza
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'Gutted' & 'Here is my haul' by Vivienne Tregenza
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
'June bug, kettle-moraine, delta, heather, black ice, prairie, witches-halo, feathered aerie, vernal pools, will-o-the-wisp, darkling beetle, cuckoo.' Read 'A Thrice Tilled Field', concrete poems by Tim Moder
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'A Thrice Tilled Field' by Tim Moder
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
@petermcallister.bsky.social will be leading a discussion with Jackie Taylor, Rob Magnuson Smith, @amarkle.bsky.social & @emmatimpany.bsky.social at Penzance Litfest, & they’ll be reading from our Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards-shortlisted anthology, Cornwall In Short! Book here: buff.ly/H8AWToG
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The #anthology of short stories I co-published with @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof awards this year!! #booksky #award #shortlist #shortlisted #literaryfiction
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
'I’ve got limited floor space, and a little production line going for wrapping which I do cross-legged on the rug, hemmed in by a box of envelopes and boxes of Aspier issues. And there’s always music playing.' Kate Horsley interviews Sravya Raju, editor of Aspier Magazine
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Interview with Sravya Raju
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall In Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our amazing authors! The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th. buff.ly/OQcmmtv
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
'We guessed their sudden advent was something to do with global warming. And insects were scarce, weren’t they? So, it had to be a good thing. A manifestation of nature. Beautiful in its way.' Read 'Lepidopterists', a short story by Graham Mort
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‘Lepidopterists' by Graham Mort
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excited to see my first peer-reviewed paper published today. It's an investigation into the murky area that 'divides' short-story collections and novels and questions whether it's time to re-frame the idea of the death of the novel. www.swdtp.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #amwriting #academia
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
'And so it comes to pass that the whale and I are the last two souls on this good Earth. She looks at me with that eye of hers, round and blue and human. I don’t know what kind of whale she is, and neither does she.' Read 'The Last Two', Flash Fiction by V. Kate Hutchings
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'The Last Two’ by V. Kate Hutchings
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