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This week we are showcasing poetry by Carolyn Thomas.Carolyn Thomas is from the Neath valley in South Wales, but has liv...
19/12/2025

This week we are showcasing poetry by Carolyn Thomas.

Carolyn Thomas is from the Neath valley in South Wales, but has lived on Tyneside since her days as a student at Newcastle University and is now retired after teaching in Further, Higher and Adult Education. She has reviewed for Stand, and, in the last few years, begun writing creatively. She has been longlisted for the Yaffle Prize and her poems have been published in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere. Her stories have been published in the Honno Press anthologies, Lipstick Eyebrows and Painting the Beauty Queens Orange.

When you came home from school at dinnertimealready they’d prepared him:washed the mud from face and hands,stripped off his sodden clothes, his jacketdraped in dark waterweed, usurpingdandelion, co…

Three Poems by Olga Stehlíková.Olga Stehlíková is a poet, writer, editor, and critic. In 2014, she won the Magnesia Lite...
12/12/2025

Three Poems by Olga Stehlíková.

Olga Stehlíková is a poet, writer, editor, and critic. In 2014, she won the Magnesia Litera Book Prize for poetry with her debut collection Týdny. Since then, she has established herself as one of the most original voices of her generation, with significant achievements on both the national and international literary scenes.

I’d feel my heart pressing against yours without the latticework of bonecages

A special feature this week.✨The Art of Translation: Olga Stehlíková’s Poetry.David Vichnar in conversation with Natalie...
12/12/2025

A special feature this week.✨

The Art of Translation: Olga Stehlíková’s Poetry.

David Vichnar in conversation with Natalie Nera.

‘In my practise, I stick to the literal sense in the sense that I remain as faithful as possible to, let’s say, the “first level” that forms the core of the information.’

Elegy for Pete, by Phil Powrie.Phil Powrie is a UK-based former academic who taught cinema studies. His work has been pu...
07/12/2025

Elegy for Pete, by Phil Powrie.

Phil Powrie is a UK-based former academic who taught cinema studies. His work has been published in Blue Unicorn, Green Ink Poetry, La Piccioletta Barca, The Lincoln Review, Lotus Eater, morphrog, October Hill, Orchard Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, South, amongst others.

our friend Pete recorded bird songs, slowed them downon his reel to reels. chirrups & trills morphed into freaky atonal arias, slow, stretched thin.our friend Pete showed us no two bird’s songs…

Fiction by Joolz Sparkes, published today. Joolz Sparkes is a north London based writer; her short stories appear in Gre...
28/11/2025

Fiction by Joolz Sparkes, published today.

Joolz Sparkes is a north London based writer; her short stories appear in Great Weather for MEDIA and other anthologies. Her poetry collection, London Undercurrents, a joint project with poet Hilaire, is published by Holland Park Press and uncovers London’s unsung heroines north and south of the river. Her pamphlet Face the Strain is a poetic manifesto for today’s troubled times and is published by Against the Grain poetry press.

You could go out to the yew have a good moan, vent your disappointment at yet another year without a pay rise; you could skip over to her excitedly tell her how your granddaughter had passed her d…

This week we are showcasing poetry by Sam Szanto.Sam Szanto is a Pushcart prize-nominated writer living in Durham. Her p...
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.

Fiction by Marcelo Medone ✨Marcelo Medone (1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions Aw...
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.

Poetry by Ben Bruges, published today at our website. Ben Bruges works in education, is co-Features Editor for Hastings ...
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

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

This week we are showcasing poetry by Ernest Williamson III.Ernest Williamson III has published poetry in over two hundr...
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

This week, fiction by Mike Fox. We hope you enjoy reading. Mike Fox is married and lives in Richmond, Surrey. His storie...
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.

Today we present poetry by Nida Sajid.Nida Sajid is a neurodivergent cultural worker from Glasgow. She holds an MA in Cu...
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.

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