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20/09/2025

Check out by our Sara Cullen Author

19/09/2025

We are proud to present our national writing competition on the theme of "Belonging"

11/09/2025

Arkbound Foundation’s 2025 UK wide National Writing Competition for prisoners and people with experience of incarceration

Please submit an entry up to 1000 words, of your story or poem on the theme of “Belonging”

Check it out, get involved, win a prize, get published:
1. We appreciate everyone entering the competition. Any questions, please get in touch.
2. Your stories will reach people who understand, care and listen. Our panel who selects the winning entries includes people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.
3. The top 50 selected entries will get published in our upcoming book “Belonging” in 2026
4. The top three entries receive a cash prize of £30.- or accredited to their HMP accounts
5. The next five top scoring entries will receive £15.- in the same way
6. Every entry will receive a ‘thank you’ certificate from Arkbound Foundation
7. Everyone participating will get included in our contact list and can apply to join our Writers Within Walls free mentorship programme
8. Winning entries will receive a free copy of the publication, featuring them as author.
9. Participating HMP will receive the book to display in their libraries.

Entry conditions:
1. Please submit a story, poem, fiction, cartoon… on what comes into your mind when you hear the word “Belonging”, or what it means to you, and submit it before 31.12.2025
2. The theme “Belonging” has been chosen by a group of prisoners from GRT (Gypsy, Romany and Travellers) backgrounds.
• We believe that nobody ‘belongs’ to prison, while connecting to where you ‘really belong to’ could help you ‘touch ground’ and path a way towards a better future.
• Please put down what you personally feel or associate with “Belonging”.
3. The wordcount of the submission should be up to 1000, while a few graphics or images are accepted as supplements or additions.
4. Handwritten stories should be readable, while spelling mistakes don’t matter.
5. The deadline for submitting entries is the 31st of December 2025
6. Support from writing mentors or probation officers is accepted, while it should be indicated in the submission. In case AI is used, please let us know in which way. We usually can only allow it for entrants with accessibility needs.
7. You are free to choose a penname. Arkbound will respect your privacy.

05/09/2025

✨ EXCITING NEWS ✨
We are thrilled to announce that the audiobook of VALUE BEYOND MONEY is OUT NOW!!!!
Congratulations to Diana Finch! 🎉

Go check it out on

Value Beyond Money: An Exploration of the Bristol Pound and the Building Blocks for an Alternative Economic System

04/09/2025

Invitations to our Brighton 6th September event of https://www.arkbound.com/bookshop/p/talking-to-a-pie

03/09/2025

"We have extended Amanda's fundraiser until October! By donating to her fundraiser you are supporting smaller authors and communities to have a voice and the space to express experiences and describe identities.

This is a poetry collection about grief, identity, and survival. Told through the lens of working-class life, it moves through the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – capturing the heartbreak and resilience of lives shaped by struggle. These poems don’t just ask you to reflect, they ask you to feel.

Go to our website and help us voice those experiences! "

This Crowdbound campaign is to raise funds for the publication of the poignant, provoking upcoming poetry collection, A Requiem for Biscuit Town by Amanda W ...

01/09/2025

Check out Sara Cullen Author her and upcoming book

30/08/2025

Meet our Katy Fraser of "Talking to a pie while walking the dog"

"Talking to a Pie about Walking the Dog is psychotherapist and ADHD advocate Katy Fraser’s memoir-come-toolkit offering a deeply relatable perspective from a nodivergent woman. Drawn from her experience living and now thriving with the diagnosis. Katy’s childhood provides a foundation for her shared knowledge.

Structured in three parts, each section of Talking to a Pie about Walking the Dog offers a new way of thinking built upon her person-centred therapy work. Discover a unique blend of ADHD healing practices and advice to support embracing self-love and authenticity.

10% of book sales will directly support ADHD UK a Brighton-based national charity hosting confidential, resourceful peer support drop-in sessions in person and online for those impacted by ADHD and their families."

Order your copy through: https://www.arkbound.com/bookshop/p/talking-to-a-pie

23/08/2025

Part two of our amazing 2024 , today is non-fiction and some fantasy! Go check'em out 👀

- "Value Beyond Money": Drawing on the lessons learned as Bristol Pound’s managing director, the author examines the theory and practice behind many new economic ideas. What really is ‘money’? Can we imagine an economic system that prioritises non-financial value? Can we create a post-market economy? The author’s conclusions shape a new narrative and understanding that will forever change how you think of money and the economy.

- "Silenda": Horatio is not a hero. But he is lost in a world divided by the light and the dark.
Horatio’s family are Luxies; believers in the afterlife. His best friend is an Umbra; a believer in eternal nothingness. When a terrorist attack strikes the city, Horatio’s powerful uncle recruits him to find out who is behind it. Alongside his best friend, a girl with no memory, a grumpy computer geek, a man named after a bird and the city’s most famous supermodel, Horatio uncovers a dark reality;
A vicious underground organisation trying to exploit the most terrifying truth of all; what really happens when we die?

- "Crown and Scalpel": Close your eyes and look into the light. What do you see? Now click with your tongue, then face a wall and click again. What do you hear? This is how Ambarenyll perceives the world after becoming blind in a Darmé rebel attack. Thirteen years later, he finally finds the courage to pick up his stethoscope once more. But just as he starts to practice medicine again, old wounds resurface when the fragile treaty between the Mané and Darmé factions splinters apart. When the young doctor finds himself having to treat Princess Jade, sole daughter of the Mané King, he is confronted with emotional turmoil that he thought had been long buried. As their attraction grows amidst the backdrop of looming civil war, a dark family secret threatens to throw everything into even deeper chaos.

Link to our website here! https://lnkd.in/d-QVpEgZ

23/08/2025

Meet the Crown and Scalpel by CJL Thomason

Caroline was born in the German-speaking region of Belgium to two Flemish parents. When she was six, she moved to Flanders, where she currently lives on her family’s farm with her dad and aunt as well as their horse, ponies and corgis. From a young age, Caroline was a passionate reader and loved creating stories that brought joy to others. After she lost her mother, she found it hard to blend in with her peers at school and often relied on writing fiction to cope with emotions. She started writing her debut novel Crown and Scalpel when she was sixteen years old and published it with Arkbound in 2024!

23/08/2025

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