April Showers Publishing

01/08/2026

August Writing Competition 🖊️

🦢 UK only
🌻 £5 entry fee, £15 prize money to winners
🪻1000 words prose or 30 lines poetry
🌞 We are a strictly anti-AI company
🌊 Open until midnight on 31st August

Any questions don’t hesitate to message or email!

Image: Venus’s Bathing, Thomas Rowlandson (1800), pdimagearchive.org

28/07/2026

3 days left! Link in bio 😊

25/07/2026

There are still copies of our beautiful zine issue 5 on our website! Filled with prose, poetry, photography and art on the theme “Whimsy”.

Photos taken at North Farm Horton PYO sunflowers in Horton, Dorset 😊🌻💕

23/07/2026

June 2026 Writing Competition Winners 🥳

To My Future Daughter by Lauren Green
Pillow Princess by Taye Brown

Read the winners in our free e-zine on our website (linked in bio!)

July’s competition ‘Feathers & Flight’ is open until 31st July! Enter now via the link in our bio.

20/07/2026

July Writing Competition 🖊️

🦢 UK only
🌻 £3 entry fee, £15 prize money to winners
🪻1000 words prose or 30 lines poetry
🌞 We are a strictly anti-AI company
🍄 Open until 31st July

Any questions don’t hesitate to message or email!

17/07/2026

🖊️ July Writing Competition 🖊️

🦢 UK only
🌻 £3 entry fee, £15 prize money to winners
🪻1000 words prose or 30 lines poetry
🌞 We are a strictly anti-AI company
🍄 Open until 31st July

Any questions don’t hesitate to message or email!

Image: Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen, Anton Schöner (1906), pdimagearchive.org

16/07/2026

Do you get imposter syndrome about your writing? 🤔

04/07/2026

Release Day - Issue 5 of our not-for-profit zine!

This issue’s theme was ‘Whimsy’ and the zine features 21 writers, photographers and artists! You can get a copy in the link in our bio 😊

Thank you to everyone who supported our zines over the past two years, we’ve met some incredible people. This will be our last not-for-profit zine for the foreseeable future BUT we’re working on a VERY exciting new publication which will be a natural successor to them! Like a big sister to these zines! Watch this space for info soon 👀

02/07/2026

Best-selling mystery author A. S. McClatchie is back with a new series! Buy book one of The Cranshire Mysteries now!

𝑺𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒅-𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏, 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒉...

𝐓𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲 needed no introduction in the equestrian world. Renowned horse trainer, British Olympic showjumping medallist and matriarch of the Bilsbury family, which produced a further dozen talented riders.
At the dress rehearsal party for her wedding to what would be her fourth husband, Tatty is found dead in the hay barn of her stables.
When the police fail to see anything suspicious in her death, Holly finds the bit between her teeth as she takes the mystery on for herself.

𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆-𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕-𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓 𝑨. 𝑺. 𝑴𝒄𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆. See less

needed no introduction in the equestrian world. Renowned horse trainer, British Olympic showjumping medallist and matriarch of the Bilsbury family, which produced a further dozen talented riders. At the dress rehearsal party for her wedding to what would be her fourth husband, Tatty is fou...

01/07/2026

🖊️ July Writing Competition 🖊️

🦢 UK only
🌻 £3 entry fee, £15 prize money to winners
🪻1000 words prose or 30 lines poetry
🌞 We are a strictly anti-AI company
🍄 Open until 31st July

Any questions don’t hesitate to message or email!