Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Bye bye #stmichaelsmount. Off for another day teaching lovely #Englishliterature students at @exeter.ac.uk 010
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This amazing little creative non fiction piece from the always incredible @justine1902.bsky.social makes me feel all the feels. Well worth a read, all! 020
Reposted by Peter McAllisterJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officialsSuperintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas 27165573292
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 15/01/2026New anthology coming soon from Inkfish Press. 020
Reposted by Peter McAllisterUniversity of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Listen to this new short story by Peter McAllister from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A New Way to Live by PT McAllisterKathleen learns that even after years of marriage, her husband John can still surprise her 042
Reposted by Peter McAllistermatchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Subs are open until Jan 12! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...duotrope.commatchbook Submission ManagerSubmit to matchbook (a project of matchbook literary magazine). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager. 097
Reposted by Peter McAllisterStanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 05/01/2026OPEN. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions 1126
Reposted by Peter McAllisterDishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: shadows, fish, wheelbarrows, rain, Infinity Train, cardboard, love of all kinds, forests, errands, ornaments, elk & other antlered animals, mail, football, and wheels. 0124
Reposted by Peter McAllisterDriftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 03/01/2026DEADLINE JANUARY 15TH: Send this to a friend who should submit to our In-House Fiction and Poetry Contests! Use the link in our bio to submit your work for a chance to win a cash prize and publication before the deadline. #writingcontest 011
Reposted by Peter McAllisterParaselene @paraselenemag.bsky.social · 03/01/2026We are BACK OPEN for poetry and book review submissions! Visit our Submit page here: paraselenemagazine.com/submit 155
Reposted by Peter McAllisterTrash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Are you looking ahead for submission opportunities? We have THREE this Spring 🦝 February - New Writers, Preloved Words trashcatlit.com/spring-2026/ March - Microfiction for the Mini Bin trashcatlit.com/microfiction... April - Prompted Flash Challenge trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissions 098
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Tune in to #BBC #Radio4 today at 3:45pm and hear my story being read by the velvet-voiced Helen Lloyd. Thanks to everyone who helped me with feedback on this one. If you miss it today, you’ll be able to listen in your own time on the Radio 4 website, here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A New Way to Live by PT McAllisterKathleen learns that even after years of marriage, her husband John can still surprise her 091
Reposted by Peter McAllisterSeize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.seizethepress.comSubmissions - Seize The PressSubmissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ... 2335233
Reposted by Peter McAllisterBoulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Deadline extended! We are now accepting submissions to our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers through January 8. The winning entry will receive $1500. Head to the link in our bio to submit your work! 044
Reposted by Peter McAllisterAcre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Acre Books is reading queries and submissions for #poetry manuscripts during the month of January. To learn more, visit acre-books.com/submissions/. 📚🖊️ #booksky 02321
Reposted by Peter McAllisterSarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨ 13313
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 01/01/2026New Year, New Goals. Aiming to finish a novel in 2026? Start a short story? Or do you simply want to write more regularly? This course is for you… click to learn more: inkfishmag.com/kickstart-yo...inkfishmag.comKickstart Your Writing!Join six live learning sessions held on Saturdays from 10am-1pm (GMT). 010
Reposted by Peter McAllisterBlack Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 31/12/2025🔔 A special two-day submission window opens for next year’s Christmas and winter anthology but only, as a thank you, for those who have bought our anthology. We will have another general submission window quite soon! 🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/events #poetry #writing #poet 073
Reposted by Peter McAllisterNeither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com · 28/12/2025And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme. Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...duotrope.comNeither Fish Nor Foul Submission ManagerSubmit to Neither Fish Nor Foul. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager. 01613
Reposted by Peter McAllisterHub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · 29/12/2025‼️Less than a week left to submit‼️ Send your short story collection in by January 4 at 11:59PM—finalists will be read by the one and only Catherine Lacey! Learn more and submit at hubcity.submittable.com. 042
Reposted by Peter McAllisterThe Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 30/12/2025we're open for fiction for just a little bit longer!! get those stories in and please, read the guidelines 🖤 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...psychopomp.comThe Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COMFiction 15336
Reposted by Peter McAllisterNeither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com · 30/12/2025Little reminder we’re open and excited to read your work. Also that it really is worth reading a few published stories on the website to identify the kind of thing most likely to get published … 145
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The amazing @justine1902.bsky.social at work again. This is a beautiful story of hers. Well worth a read… 😍 020
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Guys guys guys, I’m in the Radio Times!!! Listen in to BBC Radio4 in early January if you fancy hearing my short story #shortstory #bbc #radio4 050
Reposted by Peter McAllisterDoor Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 09/12/2025We know you've been writing and making art all year. Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are always open. Send us your best today! www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews 0155
Reposted by Peter McAllisterWest Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/12/2025We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. December’s theme is “letting go.” January’s upcoming theme is “sound.” buff.ly/Zreigwv #writingcommunity 033
Reposted by Peter McAllisterKate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Thrilled 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 ❤️ 2244
Reposted by Peter McAllisterBleating Thing Magazine @bleatingthing.bsky.social · 01/12/2025SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31 Guidelines and theme description are available @ bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit 2126
Reposted by Peter McAllisterAGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025December 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! 🔥buff.lySubmit to AGNIWe 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… 053
Reposted by Peter McAllisterBull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 30/11/2025🎁 Our Cyber Monday sale is up & running—and ENDS Tuesday night! Grab these deals NOW: buff.ly/O7sPDAS 001
Reposted by Peter McAllisterFutureCycle Press @futurecyclepress.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Every 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 021
Reposted by Peter McAllisterWild Willow Magazine @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social · 30/11/2025One month left! Original poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations! Winter! Hope! Persistence ! Endurance! Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio... 021
Reposted by Peter McAllisterWritten Tales @written-tales.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Friday 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...writtentales.comFriday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written TalesCarmen 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. 002
Reposted by Peter McAllisterminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 30/11/2025AND!!! 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.ioOleada - A Submission PlatformA submission platform for small presses and magazines. 088
Reposted by Peter McAllisterPrairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social · 29/11/2025 We're in the final stretch! Contest deadline is December 1st! prairiefire.ca/conte... 033
Reposted by Peter McAllisterTemple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Want 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-...templeinacity.comJOY, Temple in a City special pop-up editionTemple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters 2129
Reposted by Peter McAllisterIce Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Submission 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: icefloeprojects@gmail.com 11813
Reposted by Peter McAllisterblackfoxlit.bsky.social @blackfoxlit.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Just 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 012
Reposted by Peter McAllisterDarling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 27/11/2025Show 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 5149
Reposted by Peter McAllisterFahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Need an excuse to avoid awkward holiday small talk? Say you're submitting to Fahmidan. Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme 021
Reposted by Peter McAllisterBleating Thing Magazine @bleatingthing.bsky.social · 24/11/2025!! 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! 022
Reposted by Peter McAllisterFly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Announcing 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... 11510
Reposted by Peter McAllisterBulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 24/11/2025We 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:bulbculturecollective.comSubmission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective 23324
Reposted by Peter McAllisterMslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Submission 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.mslexia.co.ukPoetry - 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. 052
Reposted by Peter McAllisterRosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Really 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 242
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Long as it is, it’s not a bad start to the commute. Back up to Exeter today to teach some lovely undergraduates. #Englishliterature #creativewriting 020
Reposted by Peter McAllisterJustine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Thanks so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social for nominating this story for #bestsmallfictions 😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳 3103
Reposted by Peter McAllisterUniversity of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 24/10/2025What is a chapbook, you ask? Dawn Macdonald unpacks the format. bit.ly/4pY0qXQ @yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social #poetry 0106
Reposted by Peter McAllisterSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...smokelong.comTry SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong QuarterlyAre 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... 1106
Reposted by Peter McAllisterJulia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Thrilled & 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. 🥳 5133