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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hypnagogic Peacock is now open for submissions. The journal publishes vesical work. Writing and research that is constituted by its in-between-ness. Work that not only refuses the available containers but smashes them and flosses its teeth with the fragments. vesicapress.co.uk/submit

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What is the work that has no name yet? Hypnagogic Peacock — the Vesica Press journal — opens for submissions in September and I am on the hunt for creators of work that has no name. Writing and research that has gone somewhere the available categories cannot follow.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you want to be more involved there is a Discord for patreon members (who can also get every issue of Hypnagogic Peacock as part of their subscription). All details are on the Vesica Press website. www.vesicapress.co.uk

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm not just building a press but a community. The most exciting writing, the most radical research, is out there struggling to find a home. The creators of this work need a place to nurture creativity, expand ideas and ask what if...? to a bunch of like-minded folk who are also asking.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hypnagogic Peacock, the press's bi-annual journal, opens for submissions in September this year. If you're not sure if your work fits (and if you're not sure that's a good indication that it just might) head on over to the Vesica Press website. vesicapress.co.uk/submit

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Vesica Press is looking for work that refuses classification. Creative criticism, poetic non-fiction, practice research, prose poetry, poetic prose, lyric essays... Take these words, jumble them up, take two, three, four at random and that's what I want. If you can't name it, I'll read it.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The latest Vesica Press essay looks to Claude Cahun's genre-defying Disavowals as a handbook for vesical work. Want to know what the press is looking for? This essay lays out some selection criteria. open.substack.com/pub/vesicapr...

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It Trains the Eye

Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals as a Vesical Editor

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It does. The inability to name it is not a failure of the work. It is evidence that the work has gone somewhere the available categories were not built to go. Hypnagogic Peacock, Vesica Press's journal, opens for submissions September 2026. vesicapress.co.uk/submit

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The most persistent question I get as an editor is some version of: what is this? The writer knows it is not quite a poem, not quite an essay, not quite criticism. What they're really asking is: does this have a right to exist?

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My piece in this month's Univocity Drift. A taxonomy of nonsense — four categories, a self-undermining footnote, and further research indicated. This is what I mean by vesical work. (Vesica Press EIC and self-professed nonsense generator) open.substack.com/pub/univocit...

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A Taxonomy of Nonsense

Being a preliminary classification of nonsense-types for the purposes of classification

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Vesical work: a manifesto for writing that lives in the overlap. If you're curious about vesical knowing you can read the latest Vesica Press substack essay below. In-between-ness. Monstrous conjunctions. Work that refuses to stay in its lane. open.substack.com/pub/vesicapr...

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On Vesical Work — and Why I Coined a Term

A manifesto for the writing that lives in the overlap

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hybrid writing is not simply two things added together. It's a third thing. But the term 'hybrid' has become diluted, flat. Vesical work is what we call the third. The in-between-ness. Remove an element and the whole work collapses. The test is not what the work contains but what it requires.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The most interesting work being made has nowhere to go. Not because it's not ready. Because the available categories were built for a different kind of making. Hypnagogic Peacock exists for that work. We call it vesical — work that lives in the overlap, the space no single category makes.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There is work being produced right now that cannot find a home - not because it isn't good but because the categories used to organise publishing were built for a different kind of making. What kind of writing have you made that had nowhere to go? Hypnagogic Peacock - Submissions September 2026.

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I just added @vesicapress.bsky.social and @pizamapress.bsky.social to my Hybrid Writing Starter Pack - few places still left for those who write or publish writing that can't be neatly labelled or boxed in! go.bsky.app/MswLLwc

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We do not want your work explained. If it requires explanation it is not ready. What work have you been sitting on because you cannot explain it? Hypnagogic Peacock opens for submissions September 2026.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are looking for the essay that enacts. The prose that breaks. The poem that thinks. If you write in the territory of Michaux, Carson, Celan, Lispector - this journal is for you. vesicapress.co.uk/submit

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Writing that sits cleanly in a single category probably isn't right for us. Writing that does something the writer cannot entirely account for probably is.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The vesica piscus is the figure produced when two circles overlap. Neither circle alone produces it. That is the only editorial principle we hold to.

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The essay that thinks in images. The poem that is also an argument. The research that has found a form the institution did not provide. Writing that is formally strange because it had to be. Read about what Vesica Press stands for on Substack. vesicapress.substack.com/p/for-the-wo...

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Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Vesica Press is now live. Publishing work that cannot be published anywhere else. Not because it is difficult, but because it refuses the categories that would make it easy. Poetry. Hybrid writing. Creative-critical work. Practice-based research. The third thing. vesicapress.co.uk

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