Co-editor Jeremy Dixon introduces the submission call for Joy//Us, our anthology of poetry celebrating queer joy, and reads a couple of poems that fit the theme, with a short follow up from Cherry Potts about what she is (and isn’t) looking for. If you are thinking of submitting please do so via Submittable before 11th October, and you are welcome to join our free workshops on line in September. Please spread the word!
The Summer Solstice is tonight at 22:43 BST (well, that’s when it is in London, anyway).
I’m not going to stay up! but I might tune in for the sunset and sunrise at Stone Henge.
In the meantime, writers, musicians, you have until 23:59 BST tomorrow to submit your offering for the Solstice Shorts Festival. So maybe you will be staying up to see the Solstice in?
See you on the other side.
Well that was a suprise. When we cranked open the vault at Submittable to see what you’d sent us, there were hundreds of stories and poems in there! Like a spider nest full of baby spiderlings. We thought spiderlit was a niche of minute proportions, but it turns out lots of you share our passion for creatives with eight legs and a talent for weaving.
This does mean a lot of reading. We will do it as fast as we can! Definite ‘No’s will be out fairly quickly, but then we’ll have to compare the ‘maybe’s and the ‘yes’es and see what’s what. There already some themes and similarities rising from the mass, so we’ll need to decide if some pieces are too similar, and so on.
Please be patient!
Inspired by Lady Hale I’ve been buying spider brooches (and that T-shirt that’s also supporting Shelter), like a mad thing, and then I thought…
Next August (8th Month) is Arachne Press’s 8th anniversary. What about an eight-legged arachnid inspired anthology?
Get writing, I’ll put a proper call out later in the week but maybe 2000 words-ish, deadline January-ish.
I’m going to make it difficult for you – NO Horror, NO spiders to be killed.
Think Charlotte’s Web for adults, not Arachnophobia. Some sort of homeless connection too? More when I’ve had time to consider properly.
I’ve resisted the temptation to use a close-up photo of a spider here. Imagine one.
Hoxton, View to the City copyright Cherry Potts 2012
Arachne Press’ paean to the glories of the Overground is gradually progressing, although there seem to be engineering works, and possibly signal failures.
We have stories in place for Brockley, Canada Water,Crystal Palace, Dalston Junction, Forest Hill, Haggerston, Highbury & Islington, New Cross, New Cross Gate, Rotherhithe, Shadwell, Surrey Quays, Sydenham and West Croydon.
We have stories promised for Canonbury, Wapping and Whitechapel.
So if you would like to make your mark with a tale from the tracks, we are still looking for stories featuring Anerley, Hoxton, Honor Oak Park, Norwood Junction, and Shoreditch High Street, we’d like to hear from you. Any genre except children’s or Erotica; maximum length in the region of 2,500 words. We like stories with strong narratives and engaging characters we also like weird, but aren’t keen on gore. You can post your story in the message box on the contact page.
Deadline has been extended to Sunday 15th May 2012
Jump on board
© Cherry Potts 2012
The deadline for submissions is Midnight 31st March. Post the story in the comments box on the CONTACT page
looking forward to reading…
Arachne Press is currently looking for submissions for our second planned book.
Stations ( better title no doubt will surface) will be an anthology of stories inspired by the stations on the South and East section of the London Overground (the old East London Line and its extensions). Any genre except erotica.
We have made a good start with stations between Brockley and Whitechapel well covered, but if anyone would like to contribute anything south of Brockley from Crystal Palace/ West Croydon or north of Whitechapel to Highbury & Islington, we’d be very pleased to hear from you.
Word limit 2500, deadline midnight 31st March 2012.
The story doesn’t have to be set ON the Overground station in question, but must make reference to it somehow. It would be a plus if you have some personal connection to the station in question!
Stories should preferably not have been published previously, initial enquiries via our contact page.
Welcome to Arachne Press.
This website will soon be host to lovely books and e-books, and news about books.
Arachne Press is a new publisher of exciting novels and short stories for adults and children; poetry and selected non-fiction. We will also be keeping fiction (poetry, non-fiction) live, through readings, workshops and all things to do with writing.
Our first book London Lies will be out in mid-summer, in print and e-formats, to be followed speedily by the next collection provisionally entitled Stations.
We are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts at present.
