Confluence Medway

20/06/2025

Issue 17 has arrived!

Order your copy here -
www.confluencemagazine.co.uk

05/06/2025

We are delighted to show you the cover for Confluence 17 which features art by Jio Butler. And the 10 shortlisted poems from The Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize 2024.

Poems and fiction inside by Bob Beagrie, Ian Bishop, Tom Blake, Jozef Bowden, JA Burke, Rachael Clyne, Julian Dobson, AW Earl, Pat Edwards, Rebecca Gethin, EJ Hamilton, Barnaby Harsent, S.L. Holm, Angela Howarth Martinot, T.K. Howell, Donald Illich, Marc Joan, Sharmela Kaluzny, Sarah Leavesley, DS Maolalai, Steve May, Gordon Meade, Eszter Molnar, Connor Sansby, Finola Scott, Derek Sellen, Mary Anne Smith Sellen, Michelle Spinei, Geraldine Stoneham, Neve York.

We are just doing final edits - but you can pre-order your copy now which should be posted out to you around 20 June.

https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-issue-17

(Image description: The cover of Confluence 17 magazine with a surreal illustrated image of eyes coming our from an upside down door in the sky. Tones of blue, pink and white.)

24/02/2025

We're open for a month for (or till we reach 200 submissions.) Check out the guides - please do read to the end.

As a micro publisher every sale does count and we have some issues left of our anthology of the first 8 years. It really is lovely, contains some of our favourite poems and stories and has beautiful images by Michi Masumi throughout. Perfect for a gift for yourself on a cold Spring morning, or as a gift for the wordy person in your life! See link in header.

We are looking for submissions from of short stories/prose, creative non-fiction and poetry. (We are sorry but we can't accept plays or scripts.)

10/09/2024

Confluence community - please buy a Festival Friend pass if you can to support !

Today we are launching our Festival Friend Scheme.

We do have some funding bids in progress, but as part of them we need to raise some of our own revenue as our match funding contribution. So look at this scheme as our Crowdfunder - but you get priority entry to all events and a goodie bag in return, as well as our thanks 🌟

Can you help us build a lasting legacy for Medway River Lit?
🌟 Each Festival Friend Pass will contribute directly to our planning for the next 2 years and support grassroots literature and literary projects in Medway.
🌟£50 gets you priority entry to all events, plus goodie bag, plus you'll be supporting grassroots literature in Medway!
🌟 We'll list you on our Supporters page (unless you want to be anonymous).
🌟 Find out more --> www.medwayriverlit.co.uk/festivalfriend

14/08/2024

Here is our fabulous artist Michi Masumi whose art graces the cover and inside the mag, and Issue 16.

14/08/2024

Confluence #16 in the wild! If you've ordered it it will be on the way soon!
If you want to order it - www.confluencemagazine.co.uk

05/08/2024

Issue 16 is now available to pre-order. 🎉🎉

Featuring a selection of our favourite writing from the first 15 issues this is a great read to take on holiday! (At 172 pages we couldn't fit in everything we loved and had to make some hard decisions about the longlist, so don't feel too bad if your writing wasn't in there!)

With glorious full colour images by Michi Masumi, this is an issue that gives a great snapshot into Confluence past and present.
We're only getting a limited print run, so if you want a copy, please reserve it now, by ordering in advance. Your copy will be posted 16 Aug.

Profits from this one will go straight back into this year's Medway River Lit.

Pre-order here - https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-issue-16

27/06/2024

Greetings Medwegia! If you are a young writer between the ages of 12 and 17 this could be for you. Or if you know somebody who is and they like to put pen to paper or pixels to the screen in a poetic way, then make sure you tell them all about this...

21/06/2024

Currently having a look back through our first 15 issues - as the next one is going to be an Editors' Pick showcasing some of our favourites from the last 8 years! Subscribe now to get hold of it - www.confluencemagazine.co.uk

27/02/2024

Did you come to Medway River Lit last year?
Fill in the survey to tell us what you liked and what we could do better next time!
Be in with the chance of winning a £10 Book Token. Closing date 29/2/24
Survey - https://forms.microsoft.com/r/3JYY4W19ai

29/12/2023

29/12/2023

🎉🎉What Confluence Medway did this year...

Published two gorgeous issues - Issues 14 and 15.
With writing from 50 writers, based in the UK, ROI, America, Australia, the Netherlands (and probably a few more locations that I can't remember!)...

Some were first timers and some were well established - so if you've been wondering about submitting to Confluence then look out for our next submission windows!

🙏🏼 Thanks to everyone who submitted to the mag - whether you got in or not! And thanks to everyone who bought a copy - tiny magazines like ours depend 100% on sales.

Happy New Year and we hope to read your writing (and maybe publish it) next year! 🎉🎉