HEBE poetry magazine

SUBMISSIONS TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Online magazine that publishes the work of poets, photographers and illustrators aged 18 and under.

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An update from us 🔖

We run HEBE in our spare time, but there’s a few things going on in the coming months that mean we will have less spare time and as a result will be taking a pause on accepting submissions /1

[Jayant Kashyap: NOTES ON BURIALS out now! @jaydkash]

The last I had a photograph published somewhere was in 2019. The journal was the lovely @HebePoetry ✨ About four years later, I now have four photographs in @FloraFiction’s Volume 4 Issue 1, and it has something to do with a cat, a cake and trees 🍰🌳🐱
https://t.co/7jRFb8gZh2

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@jaydkash @florafiction Congratulations ✨✨✨

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"everyone on earth must attend
this purposely prolonged Party.
you must stay until your time is up -
to Leave Early is Unheard Of."

An extract from 16y/o Ali Ximines' 'masquerade ball', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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"The droplet of Tibet
Seeps into sand, made mud,
Trickles down to join the groundwater."

An extract from 16y/o Trystan Willis' 'The Droplet of Tibet', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgF0AG

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"I'm wearing a
white shirt and brown slacks,
blood on my lips from the copper statues
they never built of you-"

An extract from 17y/o Robin Danvers' 'Boys', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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"I tried to work up a smile,
I crumbled out of my frown
Until he was finally pleased"

An extract from 15y/o Casey Law's 'Mirror eyes', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgF0AG

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"Hesitant to face everything behind that could cause me to break, /
Surprised at the awaiting amount of gaiety, lack of ache, /
It all now looked assuringly transparent, all that had earlier seemed /
so opaque."

Extract from 16y/o Trisha Pai's 'Balance' https://t.co/afIZkgF0AG

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"The only truth we know is that
Paint on human skin is riddled with deception
We create our own armour
Our canvas is the world"

An extract from 17y/o Shauna McNamara's 'Nesting Dolls', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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"The beautiful layers of the sky almost make me want to cry. /
It feels like tide waves flowing around me as we slowly fly through the milky way."

An extract from 7y/o Ellie Moore's 'Endless Sky', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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"Clouds shaped like horns
Out in the night
Flying until dawn."

An extract from 7y/o Mae Turner-Jones' 'Clouded', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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"Coral, sweet coral. Once so pink it used to sheen and shift and pulsate with vitality /
‘til they came and stuck their scalpels in and sucked out the sacred grenadine"

An extract from 18y/o Charlie Bowden's 'Barrier', published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgF0AG

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"if you spend enough time /
you notice me in the Hubble Deep Field of Unexpected Hurt, waiting for you. /
And as space is constantly expanding: so is the universe between us."

An extract from 18y/o Elena J Walker's 'The Space Between Us' https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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"A block of ice
in summer heat:
you melted before me,
like liquid across a glass pane."

An extract from 18y/o Elena J Walker's 'History Is All You Left Me' published in our latest issue https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

[Robin J Danvers @robinjdanvers]

Issue 18 of @HebePoetry is out and features my poem "Boys"!! Super excited :))))

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✨Issue 18 is published + free to download✨

Centred on the theme of 'boundary', the poems dive into what it means to be a human, when you're sometimes part of a community, sometimes an outsider, + sometimes somewhere in between

https://t.co/afIZkgWBse

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In the meantime we’ll still be monitoring our Twitter and email, so please do get in touch if you have any questions, and we look forward to accepting more of your brilliant work in the near future ✨ /4

[HEBE poetry magazine @HebePoetry]

An update from us 🔖

We run HEBE in our spare time, but there’s a few things going on in the coming months that mean we will have less spare time and as a result will be taking a pause on accepting submissions /1

[HEBE poetry magazine @HebePoetry]

For anyone who was considering submitting to us, we suggest you check out the many other brilliant platforms for young writers including @antinarrativeZ @inkfeatherlit @pcjmag @TLMYoungWriters @icelollyreview @thehearthmag @clandestinelit /3

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🌟THANK YOU to everyone who submitted to our 18th issue

We're going to spend the next few weeks reviewing your work, and we'll be in touch to let you know our decision

We can't wait to share what's already shaping up to be a very exciting issue with you in April🌟