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25/08/2025

STAY TUNED! We’ll be revealing the cover art for our next collection later today… 👀📖

24/08/2025

🍂 Submissions are now open for Forge Zine’s Autumn Edition 2025! 🍂

Theme: POISON

We are calling for submissions inspired by substances which can cause harm, or explore literal or metaphorical toxins.

This might include:
– Antidotes, medicines, healing from poison
– Venomous plants and animals, invasive species
– Potions, elixirs, spells, the beauty in decay
– Psychological decay, forbidden desires, poisonous ideas

We welcome playful, weird and unexpected angles, but please note, we will not publish anything relating to or depicting self-harm or su***de.

📅 Deadline: 12 October 2025 (23:59 GMT)
📧 Submit to: [email protected]

✨ Seeking:
• Short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, and mixed media
• Work tied to nature, decay, and the uncanny

Step into the season of shadows. We can’t wait to see what you conjure. 🕷️

Full guidelines in bio.

01/08/2025

Happy !
We’ll have plenty of small press at our TONIGHT 🎤

Come along to The Black Swan Inn 7pm onwards, perform your work & get some great deals on & books alongside new from Forge Press 📚👏

01/08/2025

Today's the day! Our will be starting at 7pm tonight at The Black Swan Inn, . Grab a drink, sign up to read your or just settle in & enjoy the range of local talented has to offer. ABP & Forge Press will also be available to buy. Join us for an evening celebrating the culture & creativity of God's Own Country 🎤🍺📖

31/07/2025

Our Day will be hosted with Forge Press & York TOMORROW from 7pm at The Black Swan Inn, 🎤🤍💙
Want to perform? Sign up on the night - no need to book. of all levels of experience are welcome. Whether it's your first time reading or you're a seasoned , join us for a creative celebration this !

29/07/2025

Published 2 years ago today! 📖❤️‍🔥
🔗 https://acidbathpublishing.com/product/wheel-of-light-by-james-rance

BEHOLD! 👁️🌞📖
The new by James Rance WHEEL OF LIGHT has manifested 📚📦

Order a signed copy now for quick delivery via the Stork or bundle with James' pamphlet BAGWORM (published by Greenteeth Press) to support the 's work 🗓️📮

Treat yourself to some suspenseful with this uncanny selection of & , delving into uncharted realms of cyclical cataclysm & rebirth 🌾⚖️🏺

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27/07/2025

This , we’re coming together to honour the spirit of the with words, voices, shared moments & booze. A celebration of place, people & the stories that root us 📖🎤🍺

No need to book. Just turn up, grab a drink & settle in.

Friday 1st August - 7pm onwards at The Black Swan Inn, 🤍💙

Hosted by 3 local forces in & : Forge Press, York Writers & Acid Bath 📚🖋️

18/07/2025

Celebrate Yorkshire Day with an evening of creativity: join us for an open mic featuring & ! 🙌🎤

Our first Yorkshire Day will be held at The Black Swan Inn, , on Friday 1st August from 7pm onwards. Presented by Forge Press, Acid Bath Publishing and York Writers, the evening will include a space with from local, Yorkshire-based for sale, so bring those pennies along! 📚

Interested in performing?
Sign up on the night - no need to book ahead.
Performers of all levels of experience are welcome, so whether it's your first time at an open mic or vou're a seasoned slam poet, or anywhere in between, come join us this ! ✨

06/07/2025

🖋🙌
Coming Soon... The next from ABP will be I GOT A JOB by Carl Burkitt 📖👀

"I got a job as a midwife, a snake charmer, a wedding planner. I got a job polishing John Travolta’s shoes, buttering bread, ironing the Pope’s garments..." 💬

What adventures are we missing out on? Who could we have met? What person could we have been?

✍️
Carl Burkitt likes telling tales. He tells long tales, short tales, silly tales, sad tales. He likes to tell them online, behind a mic, in books, in schools, & on the sofa with his young family. His debut , WHAT DOES A BABY THINK IT IS? was by Enthusiastic Press in 2020, followed by the BIG BAD MIKE from Dreich in 2021, and the children’s book ELEPHANTS SLEEP IN BUNK BEDS from Beir Bua Press in 2022. Born in Swindon, now living in Manchester, Carl has only ever had six in his life… for now.

Carl has been a regular contributor to ABP since 2021. His work is featured in many of our , including THE WORST BEST YEARS & NIGHT TERRORS 📚

Support the 's work by ordering a collection or pamphlet online today!

🔗 carlburkitt.bigcartel.com

22/06/2025

Happy 1st Birthday to our latest POOR SUBSTITUTE by Brianna Ferguson - last year 🎈🎂🎉

The 2nd by .eff, POOR SUBSTITUTE sketches a tragic comedy of growing up & growing wise as a young pariah & an old soul. Through sharp-witted observations on education, relationships, pop culture & identity, Ferguson’s draws on a personal history of disillusionment & discovery, contending with the artificiality of modern life, the imposed ideals of others & the encroachment of new technology, to reach a tentative contentment with the now. Whether arriving at the sixth grade grad dance, a small town trailer park, or an upscale New York restaurant, these poems frame the dreams & convictions of a lifelong outsider unconvinced by prevailing attitudes.

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21/06/2025

Happy ! 🌞📖

by James Rance, of collection WHEEL OF LIGHT 🌾🪨⚖️

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05/04/2025

Our new site is up & running.... Welcome to AcidBathPublishing.com 3.0 ✅

To celebrate (& to help cover print costs for our next NIGHT TERRORS) we are having a Big on all previous titles 📚🎇

Pick up an or collection TODAY & help to ‼️

(The previous website will remain live to host links to our contributors' work & can be reached at acidbathpublishing.bigcartel.com)

Thank you to everyone who has supported the press by buying NIGHT TERRORS so far. Copies are still available to 🔥