To read the individual submissions and writers’ biographies online, please click the titles below.

Prose

Alasdair Baird – Extract from The Temple Beneath the Scarlet Forest

Lydia Bunt – Extract from Carpe Diem

Justin Carroll – Extract from Where the dark shines through

Neil Christie – ‘The Rat’

Amy Collins – Extract from Family on TV

Gabriela David – ‘Nine Circles of Tail’

Maria Kelpi – Extract from Vices

Jadyn-Elia Lansana – Extract from Florilegium

Stella Eunseo Lee – Extract from The Magpie and the Broken Forge

Kate Malczewski – Extract from Ordinary Form

Nishita Naga – Extract from The Lost Verses

Elizabeth Nichol – ‘Ministry’

Aadira Parakkat – ‘The Sky is Not Empty’

Lily Pratt – ‘Dear Major Tom’

Abigail Shaw – ‘Forever Green’

Sonia Slattery – Extract from The Furies of Krishna Devi

Meredith Smola - Extract from Punchline

Caroline Söderlund – Extract from The Plum Grave

Isabella von Haydin – ‘Ozempic Sundays’

Lena Zeller – Extract from a Novel

Poetry

Poulami Somanya Ganguly – Writing Where Your Hand Has Been and Other Poems

Francis de Lima – Excerpts from Past the sun and Bodied call 

Isabelle Masters – Extract from Ode: Intimations of Wordsworth from a Digital Earth

Rose Ramsden – Bunny and Other Poems

Surmaya Talyarkhan – The beauty of the string and other poems

Nicola Toft Lahiff – Two Poems