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Journal featuring poets yet to publish a full collection / Est. 2022 / EIC @aanaxagorou.bsky.social / Issue 14, Ed. @susannahdickey.bsky.social OUT NOW / Subs closed. propelmagazine.co.uk

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🔵 Propel Issue 16, edited with enormous care by the very brilliant Richard Scott, is OUT NOW! 🔵 We're delighted to share this bumper issue with you, featuring work by: > CJ Wagstaff > Edward Doegar > Jack Westmore > Leusa Lloyd > William Gee > Nóra Blascsók @nblascsok.bsky.social (1/3)
Cover of Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Ed. Richard Scott
Contributors listed in threadPropel Issue 16 Contents:
Introduction by Editor Richard Scott

CJ Wagstaff, The Farrier

Edward Doegar, Word-ache. Our steps ––gravel and Overcast; a shadow-less March. Frühling

Jack Westmore, Oasis

Leusa Lloyd, The Snipe

William Gee, wildflower(s)

Nóra Blascsók, Eating sorrel leaves

jake stefan ferguson, after the parade, birmingham pride 2024

Christopher Lloyd, The Tower

Billie Manning, Persephone Makes A Brief Consideration

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, The Exhibition

Freya Jackson, The Vase

Olive Franklin, Shane

Stephen de Búrca, My Father (trans. of Jón úr Vör’s ‘Faðir Minn’)

Kayleigh Jayshree, Desire

Rich Ware, Tangerine

Bonnie Hancell, Two dogs and they are running

Tom Mason, Little Tombeau

Meron Berhanu, Ophelia

Emily A. Taylor, My Sunday Roast

Sophia Georghiou, Adian

Claire Berlyn, The most popular names for girls

William Wyld, The Butterfly Bush
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
👀 Reminder that submissions for Issue 16 are open until midnight tomorrow! Send us your poems >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel July 2025
ISSUE SIXTEEN
Edited by Richard Scott
SUBMISSIONS OPEN
to 6 JUNE 2025

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵 Read & listen to the full issue: propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen bsky.app/profile/prop...
Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.Contents page for Propel Issue 15:
Contents
Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan				1

Impasse, Hasti							3
Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 					4
Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi				6
Still Life, Liva Jean						7
Baby, Regina Avendaño						8
Real Girl, Jory Garner						9
Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey					10
If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway,
   Danny Carlo Pandolfi						12
In the year before i thought i was in love, 
   Shannon Smith Meekings					14
Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick	16
16:33, Alice Weatherley						17
My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 		18
Ghazal, Zainab Imran						20
sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden					22
summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw			24
Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 				26
A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo				27
making a scene, Oli Isaac 					28
chorus, Kit Byford						29
Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore			30

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
So excited for this tomorrow!!
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵 Read & listen to the full issue: propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen bsky.app/profile/prop...
Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.Contents page for Propel Issue 15:
Contents
Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan				1

Impasse, Hasti							3
Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 					4
Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi				6
Still Life, Liva Jean						7
Baby, Regina Avendaño						8
Real Girl, Jory Garner						9
Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey					10
If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway,
   Danny Carlo Pandolfi						12
In the year before i thought i was in love, 
   Shannon Smith Meekings					14
Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick	16
16:33, Alice Weatherley						17
My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 		18
Ghazal, Zainab Imran						20
sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden					22
summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw			24
Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 				26
A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo				27
making a scene, Oli Isaac 					28
chorus, Kit Byford						29
Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore			30

Contributors							32
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan, is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵 As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again." (1/3)
Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan – the propel logo runs up the left side in black on an off-white background. An issue card overlays a grainy monochorome image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Contributors listed below, per the subsequent posts in this thread.
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
UPDATE! Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025 Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
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Propel Magazine is an online literary magazine founded in 2022 by Anthony Anaxagorou, featuring the work of poets based in the UK or Ireland who have yet to publish a first full length collection of p...
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
UPDATE! Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025 Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
propelmagazine.submittable.com
Propel Magazine Submission Manager
Propel Magazine is an online literary magazine founded in 2022 by Anthony Anaxagorou, featuring the work of poets based in the UK or Ireland who have yet to publish a first full length collection of p...
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)! SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Edited by Richard Scott – Submissions open to 31 May 2025
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Maarten Ornstein @maartenornstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Love the typography here
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Morgan L. Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Over the moon to have a poem in the latest issue of the brilliant @propelmagazine.bsky.social Many thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for choosing ‘Four anecdotes from the life of Alexander von Humboldt’, a poem about power, arrogance, & an ancient tree who knows all.
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Pascal Fallas @theobjectyes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Excitingly, I have something in this issue. Thanks @susannahdickey.bsky.social and @propelmagazine.bsky.social
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Henry St Leger @henrywriteswords.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Very happy to feature in Propel #14 with my poem 'Do You Like Your Current Work?', part of a pamphlet coming out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social next year - thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for including!
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed. @susannahdickey.bsky.social 🔵 www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen Featuring work by: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha ○ @alykissner.bsky.social ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser (1/2)
Cover of Propel Issue 14, March 2025 Ed. Susannah Dickey. Off white background, propel logo running up the left side in black, top right has a grainy grey and black image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Below that is issue card and contributor list: 
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha @Anisha_Jaya
○ Alyson Kissner @alykissner
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard @dylanstallard 
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser
○ June Archbold
○ Marina Scott @marinaasinsea
○ Jose Buera
○ Bea Bacon @bea__bacon
○ Henry St Leger @henry_stleger
○ Pascal Fallas
○ Michael Naghten Shanks
○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah @johnking1502
○ Morgan L. Ventura
○ Joshua Blackman
○ Eleanor Cousins Brown
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Goooood morning from the Propel Magazine account 😅
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit/32293...
Propel Issue Fifteen May 2025
Edited by Sanah Ahsan
Submissions open to 31 March 2025
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
SALE 👀 The Propel Anthology is 50% OFF on our webshop now! With 120 fantastic poems for just £5.99 — buy a copy here: propelmagazine.co.uk/anthology
Cover of Propel anthology- selected poems from Propel Magazine 2022-2024
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
LAST call for submissions for Issue Fourteen
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Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s been so long since I published anything I’d forgotten the extremes of elation and anxiety that go along with it. I’m so happy to be included in this issue, edited by my most admired Helen Mort. Deep breaths ♥️
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We're delighted to announce our 2025-26 list under editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social, with new poetry from: 🟡 @nikeshshukla.bsky.social 🟡 @simonmaddrell.bsky.social 🟡 Natalie Shapero 🟡 @mayacaspari.bsky.social 🟡 Joladé Olusanya 🟡 Madeleine Kruhly It'll be 🔥 www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
Out-Spoken Press 2025-26
2025
March - Maya Caspari, Almost, with Tenderness
July, Joladé Olusanya
September, Natalie Shapero,
October, Madeleine Kruhly
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Spring - Simon Maddrell
Autumn, Nikesh Shukla

Editor: Anthony Anaxagorou
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE! Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back. With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading: propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen
Cover of Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 Ed. Helen Mort. A contributor list runs across the bottom - listing the poets in the next two tweets in this thread, below an issue card and a grainy black and grey image of a projectile moving toward the right of frame. Propel logo runs up the left hand side, all on an off-white background. CONTENTS
Introduction by Editor Helen Mort

Abhijeet Singh, Reading Emily Dickinson

Rency Jumaoas Raquid, To The Tall Man in Queen’s Library

Nia Broomhall, I won't tell you this

Daniel Nixon, Axe Edge

Ger Duffy, Baile an Ghoilin / Burnham East

Julie Kennedy, Change of Purpose

Nasim Luczaj, her father 

Laura Strickland, When My Body Remembers

Becky May, Lessons with Conchita

Sallyanne Rock, Matthew 10:29

Helen Bowell, Is That the Moon

Nia Solomon, When My Hair Was a Blonde Bowl

Maria Isakova-Bennett, My father is a complicated sentence 

Ben Verinder, Lavender

Rochelle Hanslow, A Body of Text

Brad Beau Cohen, cyanotypes

Godelieve de Bree, Study from the Human Body, 1949

Bella Rona, Rorschach Test

Barnaby Harsent, Half-light

Helena Fornells Nadal, Ships Came from Cuba
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Laura Strickland @l-strickland.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Happy to be in Issue 13 of Propel edited by Helen Mort @propelmagazine.bsky.social @helenmort.bsky.social
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Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Well, hello there... This is all rather lovely. To have someone say they like your poem is lovely. When that person is a poet, it's a big deal. When that person is a poet whose work you own and love, that's pretty much end-of-level boss validation. Out tomorrow.
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Which also means... you've until midnight UK tomorrow to send us your submissions for Propel Fourteen, edited by Susannah Dickey! >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Issue card: March 2025, Issue Fourteen edited by Susannah Dickey. 
Submissions open to 31 January 2025
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Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Submissions are still open for issue 14 of @propelmagazine.bsky.social edited by @susannahdickey.bsky.social Propel is an online and physical magazine for poets who have yet to publish a full collection. www.propelmagazine.co.uk
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🔵 Propel Issue 13, edited by Helen Mort, is out TOMORROW 31 Jan 🔵 As Helen says, "I hope you enjoy the questions these poems provoke and that they inspire you to add to the abundance of the literary landscape. It is a form of plenty we can feel comfortable with, thankful for, even." (1/3)
Cover of Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 Ed. Helen Mort. A contributor list runs across the bottom - listing the poets in the next two posts in this thread, below an issue card and a grainy black and grey image of a projectile moving toward the right of frame. Propel logo runs up the left hand side, all on an off-white background.
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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
& this one by @em-words.bsky.social - i didn’t think anyone else would remember that advert! www.propelmagazine.co.uk/em-gray-geez...
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Em Gray, Geezerdom — Propel Magazine
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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This poem by Steph Ellen Feeny: www.propelmagazine.co.uk/steph-ellen-...
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Steph Ellen Feeney, Ars Domestica — Propel Magazine
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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Have just read 2 brilliant poems in @propelmagazine.bsky.social issue 12: www.propelmagazine.co.uk/twelve
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Propel Twelve, July 2024, edited by Tishani Doshi
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Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
While reading (and listening to) @propelmagazine.bsky.social online is a joy, being able to leaf through the anthology is even better. Especially when it contains incredible scope and some really great work, including terrific pieces by @jpseabright.bsky.social and @rcurzon.bsky.social Go buy.
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵 If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems! >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Issue 14, March 2025, Edited by Susannah Dickey – Submissions open to 31 January 2025. Headshot of Susannah, a white woman with long wavy dark hair, above an issue card with the information, on a mid-blue background with the Propel logo running up the left hand side
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Submissions are now closed for Issue 13. Thank you to everyone who sent poems 🙏 lovely @helenmort.bsky.social will spend December making her selections. In the meantime do check out Issue 12, edited by Tishani Doshi here > www.propelmagazine.co.uk/twelve
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Submissions close midnight tonight 𓏗𓏗
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Friday reminder that our submissions for Propel Issue 13, edited by @helenmort.bsky.social CLOSE 11.59pm UK tomorrow Saturday 30 November >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Magazine Issue 13, January 2025, edited by Helen Mort. submissions open 1-30 November 2024
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Friday reminder that our submissions for Propel Issue 13, edited by @helenmort.bsky.social CLOSE 11.59pm UK tomorrow Saturday 30 November >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Magazine Issue 13, January 2025, edited by Helen Mort. submissions open 1-30 November 2024
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hi, we're Propel, a journal featuring the work of UK/IE-based poets who've yet to publish a first full collection. Launched in 2022, we publish 6 online issues a year, each with a different guest editor – as well as a print Anthology & a Membership program. propelmagazine.co.uk
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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Just read this brilliant Job poem in the current issue of Propel www.propelmagazine.co.uk/olivia-hegga...
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Olivia Heggarty, Conversation Between Job and his Wife — Propel Magazine
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Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The wonderful @propelmagazine.bsky.social has now joined Bluesky. An online and physical poetry magazine launched in 2022 that features poetry from the U.K. and Ireland exclusively from poets who are yet to publish a full collection.
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