Fragmented Voices

01/06/2025

We are now closed for submissions to our online magazine for our annual summer break.

We reopen in September 2025.

If you are still waiting for a response to a submission, you will hear from us soon.

Thanks to our authors, readers, and followers for continuing to support our press.

Natalie and Natalie x

30/05/2025

Today we present poetry by Mark Connors.

Mark Connors is a poet, novelist and creative writing tutor from Leeds, with eight books to his name. He is the co-founder of Yaffle Press and Yaffle’s Nest and lives with his wife, Gill, near Skipton in North Yorkshire.

Look, you must be feeling better

23/05/2025

Today we are showcasing poetry by Tom Kelly .

Tom Kelly’s most recent collection of poems and prose Walking My Streets is his thirteenth book published by Red Squirrel Press and explores Kelly’s life and changing face of his native north-east of England.

Now see our sad show where body language changes

16/05/2025

Today we present fiction by Natasha Soto.

Natasha Soto is a writer and illustrator born in Brooklyn, NY, and currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry, prose, and illustrations have been published in Rejoinder Journal, Starlight Magazine, Siren Magazine, and elsewhere.

What should I know about angels? I asked.

09/05/2025

Poetry by Giles Goodland, published today.

Giles Goodland’s books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023). A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001) Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022. He has worked as a lexicographer, editor, and bookseller, and teaches evening classes on poetry for Oxford University’s department of continuing education, and lives in West London.

The soil vomits out of the European theatre daffodils and bones.

02/05/2025

Fiction, 'Tidal Lock', published today.

VA lives outside Seattle, WA, with her human and animal family. Her work has appeared in The Lake, 34th Parallel Magazine, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Five on the Fifth, Lumina Journal, and elsewheee. She has work forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Courtship of The Winds, and Re*****on Review, along with a poetry collection through Kelsay Books.

The biggest lie, the lie of all lies, the one I can’t get past: Moonlight!

25/04/2025

Today we are showcasing poetry by Veronica Zundel.

Veronica Zundel is a non-fiction writer and graduate of the Poetry School/Newcastle MA in Writing Poetry. Her poems have been published in Magma Poetry, Snakeskin, The Ekphrastic Review, The Alchemy Spoon and various anthologies. She has won the Barnet Open and Cruse Lines competitions, been a finalist in the Mslexia competition and won second prize in the Sonnet or Not competition and joint second in the Hippocrates Open.

And this was my life too

18/04/2025

Fiction by Roy Duffield, published today.

Roy Duffield wrote you Bacchus Against the Wall (Anxiety, 2023). He loves to talk to strangers: https://linktr.ee/royduffield.

https://fragmentedvoices.com/2025/04/18/missed-connection-by-roy-duffield/

And that night they met again at the bar. A Sunday, because they were alone among the hallowed pews.

11/04/2025

'Light and Dark' - poetry by Tonnie Richmond.

Tonnie Richmond lives in Leeds, loves Orkney and archaeology, and has had many poems published. Her pamphlet, Rear-view Mirror, was published by Yaffle's Nest in 2023.

a large stone placed to hold her down.

04/04/2025

Today we share fiction by Robert Stone.

Robert Stone was born in Wolverhampton in the UK. He has had stories published in numerous British, American, Asian and Canadian magazines, including Stand, 3:AM, The Write Launch, Confingo, The Decadent Review, The Westchester Review and Lunate. More details can be found on his website. He has had three stories published in Nicholas Royle’s Nightjar chapbook series. A story appeared in Salt’s Best British Stories 2020 volume.

The opportunity came as opportunities do and he was over there.

28/03/2025

Today we are showcasing poetry by Rebecca Gethin.

Rebecca Gethin has written 5 poetry publications and 2 novels. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a
Poetry School tutor. Her poems are widely published in various magazines and anthologies. She won the first Coast to Coast pamphlet competition with Messages.

Orange lights shine in corridors all the way up to the top floor

21/03/2025

Today we are showcasing fiction by Ian Forth.

Ian writes short stories, several of which have been published in journals and e-zines and have received affirmative reviews. In a previous life, he was a university lecturer in Linguistics which allowed him to indulge his interest in language.

When he wasn’t at college, Sam spent his time at Goya’s, a small café in the high street where the whistling machines and the smell of coffee (and wet dog) became his home.