Open Pen

Free short fiction magazine and publisher of novelettes.

[Open Pen @OpenPenLondon]

Open Pen Anthology: Volume Two is out now: https://t.co/wO7tlM0TjC

Wendy Erskine - Guest

B.B. Fitton
Jacob Parker
Josephine Bruni
Olivia Dunnett
Ian M MacDonald
Rob True
Fernando Sdrigotti
Ben Stone
Bonny Brooks
Krystian Morgan
James Hatton
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Sylvia Warren

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Must say, we’re rather happy with the authors we’ve lassoed over the years.

Very proud to have them within the pages of our latest tablet.

https://t.co/fF4opGBeix

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Open Pen Anthology: Volume Two is out now: https://t.co/wO7tlM0TjC

Wendy Erskine - Guest

B.B. Fitton
Jacob Parker
Josephine Bruni
Olivia Dunnett
Ian M MacDonald
Rob True
Fernando Sdrigotti
Ben Stone
Bonny Brooks
Krystian Morgan
James Hatton
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Sylvia Warren

[Open Pen @OpenPenLondon]

Popped by the excellent Rare Mags in Stockport today. Leaders in the good fight for print magazines everywhere.

[The London Magazine @TheLondonMag]

'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders

@TATFS on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.

Read here: https://t.co/78Ztv2bKJr

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We’re finally going to print this week! Proud to publish this roster of writers. Order a copy: https://t.co/wO7tlM0TjC

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Open Pen issue 30 - out now!

Featuring author, @ricketywhite - a brilliant writer whose debut book was pulled due to the publisher folding. It needs to come out, one way or another… In the meantime, read some of his work here: https://t.co/7apef5Ls3F.

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Open Pen issue 30.

Great writers destined for great things between these covers:

@GurnaikJohal

Kim Chinquee

Myles Zavelo

@ricketywhite

We’ll be sending these issues out to bookshops in the coming weeks.

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You can now pre-order the Open Pen Anthology 2 from our website!

Featuring our guest author, Wendy Erskine.

And our rag-tag band of contributing authors over the last 5 years.

https://t.co/wO7tlM0lu4

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You can now pre-order the Open Pen Anthology 2 from our website!

Featuring our guest author, Wendy Erskine.

And our rag-tag band of contributing authors over the last 5 years.

https://t.co/wO7tlM0lu4

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We’re setting up our web shop again, as soon as our new bank account from the fat cats comes through. You’ll be able to subscribe to our magazine and pre-order copies of our anthology.

Until then, grab a copy of issue 30 from our roster of bookshops https://t.co/2BeFrbuVTU

[Open Pen @OpenPenLondon]

Open Pen issue 30.

Great writers destined for great things between these covers:

@GurnaikJohal

Kim Chinquee

Myles Zavelo

@ricketywhite

We’ll be sending these issues out to bookshops in the coming weeks.

[Open Pen @OpenPenLondon]

We’re open for submissions, as always. Send your work over to [email protected].

Our old email, [email protected], is now defunct. If you’ve submitted to us via this address recently, please resend it to our Gmail address. Taa!

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@NikiSethSmith Hi Niki, thanks for the kind words! We’d love you to send us a story or two to look at: [email protected]. Taa!

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We have some news.

We’ve gone through a lot of changes over the last year or so and have come to a difficult and reluctant decision:

We’re back.

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4. Again, we’re very sorry and embarrassed we’ve taken so long to awaken from this slumber. If you’d like to send us hate mail and call us losers, we’d love to hear from you still.

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3. If you’ve got a story in our anthology which is out this year and we haven’t touched base again already, please email the same address.