Fragmented Voices

21/11/2025

This week we are showcasing poetry by Sam Szanto.

Sam Szanto is a Pushcart prize-nominated writer living in Durham. Her poetry pamphlet ‘This Was Your Mother’ was published by Dreich Press in 2024. She won first prize in the Wirral Festival Poetry Prize, the Charroux Poetry Prize, the First Writer Poetry Prize, the Shooter Flash Prize and the Mum Life Stories Prize. She has poems in journals including 'The Rialto', 'South Carolina Review’, ‘The North’, ‘Dust Poetry’, ‘Broken Spine’ and ‘The Storms’. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and is working on a practice-led PhD about parenthood poetry at York St John.

I leave him at nursery, his red song following me.

14/11/2025

Fiction by Marcelo Medone ✨

Marcelo Medone (1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions Award nominee fiction writer, poet, essayist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He received numerous awards and was published in multiple languages in more than 50 countries, including the UK.

The girl stepped forward and stood beside me. Her eyes widened as did her smile. She extended her chubby little arms upward and outward, as if to embrace the enormity of the specimen on display.

07/11/2025

Poetry by Ben Bruges, published today at our website.

Ben Bruges works in education, is co-Features Editor for Hastings Independent and has poems published in
The Interpreter's House, Banyan Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Write Under the Moon, Memoirist, Howling Owl, Creaking Kettle & Elizabeth Royal Patton Memorial Poetry Competition anthologies. Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, complimented the poems “for their density, thoughtfulness and cleverly pausing rhythms. [They] manage to make the urban city-scape resonate like a pastoral one.” ”

the echo of the controlled explosion and cut of diamond-tipped band saw the ride away on the travelator

31/10/2025

Our featured writer this week is Frances Mulholland, a regular contributor to Fragmented Voices.

Frances Mulholland lives and writes in Northumberland. Her work has been published in Fragmented Voices, Mslexia, The Manchester Review, and Litro, among others. Her debut chapbook, ‘Indifferent Deserts’, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2022. A graduate of Newcastle University's Creative Writing MA programme, she is also Writer-in-Residence at a local school, where she teaches English and Creative Writing.

The hot chocolate comes and Libby is momentarily taken aback by its tar-like consistency.

25/10/2025

This week we are showcasing poetry by Ernest Williamson III.

Ernest Williamson III has published poetry in over two hundred journals. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals including The Roanoke Review, Pinyon Review, Westview, Decanto, Pamplemousse, Oklahoma Review, and Poetry, Life, & Times. Ernest is a three time Best of the Net nominee. Currently, he lives in Tennessee.

bright chariots carrying unscripted scripture deriding thunder in clap of hand

17/10/2025

This week, fiction by Mike Fox. We hope you enjoy reading.

Mike Fox is married and lives in Richmond, Surrey. His stories have been nominated for Best of Net and the Pushcart Prize, listed in Best British and Irish Flash Fiction (BIFFY50), and included in Best British Stories 2018 (Salt Books). His story, The Violet Eye, was published by Nightjar Press as a limited edition chapbook. His collection, Things Grown Distant, featuring photographic illustrations by Nicholas Royle, is available from Cōnfingō Publishing at www.polyscribe.co.uk

I wished I could unremember the newspapers. They all said the same thing.

10/10/2025

Today we present poetry by Nida Sajid.

Nida Sajid is a neurodivergent cultural worker from Glasgow. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, specialising in contemporary fiction. She lives in Hackney.

Once she finished the sutures, she applied a thin coat of white glue with soft brushstrokes, her wrist rippling across the freshly stitched wound.

03/10/2025

This week we are showcasing fiction by Tom Kelly, a regular contributor to our press.

Tom Kelly is a Jarrow born writer. His ninth poetry collection This Small Patch was published in 2020 and re-printed by Red Squirrel Press.His second short story collection No Love Rations was published by Postbox Press in April 2022 and re-printed in 2023. His new collection of poetry and prose, Walking My Streets from Red Squirrel Press, was published in 2024.

He talks of death in a few poems and is accompanied by a photo (presumably of his parents). He opens by talking of death in the broadest sense until the final verse.

03/10/2025

We are now open for submissions to our online magazine.

We accept prose, poetry, creative non-fiction, and essays. We also accept translations in all these genres.

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

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

We look forward to reading your work.

Find out more information at the Submission Guidelines on our website.

https://fragmentedvoices.com/submissions/

26/09/2025

This week we are showcasing poetry by Jeff Skinner.

Jeff’s poems have been published in anthologies and in many journals, most recently in Poetry News and Ink Sweat & Tears. He was commended in the last
Sonnet or Not competition. He volunteers at his local food bank and in an Oxfam bookshop, listens to music, watches football, reads, writes.

Nothing in this world was ever truly over

19/09/2025

This week we are showcasing fiction by Daniel Schulz.
We hope you enjoy reading.

Daniel Schulz (he/him) is a U.S.-German writer known for Kathy Acker in Seattle (Misfit Lit 2020) and publications in journals such as Gender Forum, Fragmented Voices, Versification, Cacti Fur, The Wild Word, Flora Fiction, Steel Jackdaw, The Milton Review, anthologies such as Heart/h (Fragmented Voices 2021), Get Rid of Meaning (Walther König Verlag 2022), and his chapbooks Welfare State and No Change to Abuse (Back Room Poetry 2023). IG:

Softly tipping the shoulder of his neighbor, he asked her to let him out.

13/09/2025

Our first offering of the season, poetry by Emma Lee.

Emma Lee’s publications include “The Significance of a Dress” (Arachne, 2020) and “Ghosts in the Desert” (IDP, 2015). She co-edited “Over Land, Over Sea,” (Five Leaves, 2015), reviews for magazines and blogs at https://emmalee1.wordpress.com.

But the neighbour’s plum dropped a fruit that decomposed its seed, that got buried in soil removed