We are officially on ko-fi, which means we can now offer expedited responses from the crypt🪦
This is a great way of keeping the magazine up & running, however general submissions will always be free—art is for everyone!
We are crawling out from the very depths of the crypt to announce our theme for issue two is...
🌲DARK WOODS🌲
Submissions open Friday 14th June accepting poetry, fiction & artwork. You have been warned.
while our submissions are still open, here's what we want to see...
hauntings
dark woodlands
bottomless pits
small town cryptids
the absolute darkest folklore
lively crypts
THE THIN VEIL BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING
thank you
Job opportunity on our Editorial Team!
We are on the hunt for a spooky Editorial Assistant who specialises in poetry, if this sounds like you email us ASAP🎃🎃🎃
contact details on our website, see bio
Considering we announced our theme a day before submissions opened, we are positively spooked by how many weird dark woods inspired submissions you had ready to go
You creepy tree dwellers (keep them coming)
We are emerging from the crypt where tales are being read to remind you all of our theme for issue two.
While we have received some great work, unfortunately if it does not fit the theme, it will not be accepted.
DARK WOODS ONLY🌲
After our magazine is published on Halloween, we will be reopening submissions for a new section of the website called Dark Reads!
So if you have something creepy in your crypt, keep an eye on this page...
wow, you did it! thank you to everyone who is following our journey as a new spooky lit mag, now to reward you... spooky submissions are REMAINING OPEN!
limited time only, here's your last chance to submit to issue 1!🎃
Merry Christmas from our crypt to yours💀
We are continuing submission reads through the remainder of the month, but no rejections will be sent today. We are dark, not cruel.
Eat, drink, and be merciless!
emerging from the crypt to say thank you for 1,000 followers🖤
as a thank you, anyone who submits in the next 30 minutes will be offered feedback on their work once it's read...ready, set, GO!
Submission reads have begun🪦
We are a nonprofit magazine and our big annual website payment is looming, so if you would like to support us by donating, you will receive an expedited response on your submission (and our eternal gratefulness!)
See pinned tweet for info🖤
while submissions are still rolling in, here are the stats from issue one: halloween (oct, 31st)
number of published pieces: 15 (+ 3 comp winners)
acceptance rate: 9.3%
It's officially the spookiest month of the year, which means our first Halloween issue is launching this month🎃
Keep an eye on your inboxes as we finalise our shortlists...
our submissions are officially closed, thank you to everyone who submitted to our halloween issue!🖤
and to those of you who submitted sheer seconds before midnight, well played.
I would just like to say that issue one would not have been possible without my amazing skeleton crew at TVP and our wonderfully talented contributors.
You all make this small non-profit press possible and worthwhile💀🖤
So far we’ve received submissions on witches, ghosts, trick-or-treating gone wrong & even a resurrection or two…
17 more days until our tomb closes for issue one!💀
This is just a small update to say that we are still working through January submissions.
We are a few team members down and doing our absolute best to respond to you all as soon as we can.
Everyone will receive a response regardless of the outcome, we are dark, not cruel.
Almost 24 hours until we publish our magazine🎃
Our subscribers will receive a link to our magazine straight into their inboxes tomorrow night, sign up to our mailing list on our website for easy reading!
UPDATE: We aim to finish reading subs by the end of September—responses will be sent on a rolling basis, please keep an eye on your inbox!
also, we offer feedback on unsuccessful submissions so let us know if you're interested once you have been contacted.
🎃🎃🎃
Beware of what enters the woodlands. Beware of what climbs the trees.
Tonight's poem by m.v. riasanovsky reminds us of the dangers of an unsatiated appetite...
Submissions update: we have now responded to all submissions from December!
If you submitted prior to Jan 1st & haven’t heard from us, please drop us an email.
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while our submissions are extended, it's the last day to enter our spooky competition!
send us a scary 10 word story via out submit page for a chance to feature in our first issue!
you have three hours remaining👻
Delighted to announce the WINNERS of our 10 Word Horror Competition!
These winning entries will be included in our Halloween issue on Oct 31st, 2023
Congratulations to our winners🎃
Hey, we're up to sumthin' 😏
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