Brittle Star

We are a literary magazine with a reputation for publishing excellent new and early-career writers. Poetry, short stories, articles & first-collection reviews.

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Our online submission window is now closed. Thank you everyone who submitted we'll be letting you know our decision within the next 3 weeks or so. We had almost 500 submissions this time (inc postal). If you want to support us further, please subscribe at https://t.co/4brJl1zaSi

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Brooklyn, NY – June 11 https://t.co/7bfzjEp6ya

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Philadelphia, PA – May 21 https://t.co/TuXwZ93k7i

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Los Angeles, CA – May 16 https://t.co/gg9edHvMHT

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@LeanneModenPoet The pea knife should be a mythology in its own right. Really beautiful knife.

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Alasdair Gray is brilliant. We love this!

[Òran Mór @OranMorGlasgow]

Lovely write up on the inaugural #GrayDay - a celebration of Alasdair Gray with @AGrayArchive @canongatebooks & @NeuReekie - in today's @heraldscotland 👇

https://t.co/SDFVgcxMx0

[Yommi⁷🤴🏾 @Yxmmitmf]

I’m telling you man, there’s something different about spinach

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@spiritual_jny There's a brilliant TED talk on how our emotions change the shape of the human heart.

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Tomorrow's workout is going to be fun. We're looking at epistolary material (must practice saying epistolary!) We still have places left. https://t.co/Ollv0JAvEG

[The Literary Consultancy @TLCUK]

.@WasafiriMag are running a series of online workshops tutored by poet and Wasafiri Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative. All workshops have a small number of subsidised places available. More details https://t.co/r10RZyE3Kp

[G. E. Gallas | Open Book Chocolates @gegallas]

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[Dr Joanne Dixon @DrJoanneDixon]

So pleased to receive my festival poetry kit. Thank you @KendalPoetry. Looking forward to many wonderful events over the coming days.

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@wondykitten Gor blimey! It's very lovely of you to be looking at us, thank you - we feel very honoured. We're in the middle of re-shaping the magazine (and website) but we're still champions of new writers looking for a home.

[Scott Reintgen @Scott_Thought]

My son found a chocolate wrapper this morning and started interrogating me about it. I realized my wife and I basically run an underground speakeasy from 8-11 every night and we’re trying not to get caught by our two toddler landlords.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”

#ValentinesDay with Hannah Arendt and St. Augustine https://t.co/ELPbEIlzTz

[Butcher's Dog Publishing @ButchersDogMag]

'How prettily we swim.
Not in water.
Not on land.
But in love. - Gertrude Stein

Here, Stein and Alice B. Toklas joyously walk Basket the poodle. Happy Valentine's Day, folks. #LGBTHM21 #poetrylovers

p.s. Don't forget that submissions for issue 15 close at midnight.💋

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

It’s the First Anniversary of Prime Minister Boris Johnson missing 5 Emergency Cobra Meetings before emerging to tell us to Wash Our Hands & Covid would go away

[European Mags #FBPE @FullerMadzia]

EU membership was so good for us. Travel, work, study, love was seamless. What a tragic loss this is. Pointless, unnecessary, tragic loss.

[Fawzia Muradali Kane @tantiederosas]

Signed. What do you think was one of the driving forces to demolish streets of refurbishable Victorian & later terraced housing since the 1980's?