Fragmented Voices

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

07/09/2025

I see it as a form of collective therapy. Who else can speak the truth about human existence?

Welcome back ✨

We begin this September with an editorial by Editor Natalie Nera.

Thank you for joining us, creative friends, followers, and writers.

https://fragmentedvoices.com/2025/09/05/inter-arma-silent-musae/

I see it as a form of collective therapy. Who else can speak the truth about human existence?

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.