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Aesthetica
Aesthetica is a literature, arts, music and film magazine which promotes new writers and artists.
www.aestheticamagazine.com

Ascent Aspirations
www.ascentaspirations.ca
A literary magazine specializing in the darker shades of short fiction in all genres. It also publishes poetry with an edge and features creative photography and art.

Blow Magazine
www.blowsite.com
B L O W, a new print publication, is now seeking submissions of short stories, poetry, articles, and cartoons. Leading criterion for acceptance – mass appeal – is likely the most stringent known. Yet, within that stipulation, content, theme, and style restrictions are virtually non-existent. Please visit our website. Get to know us. Contributor guidelines can be found at the bottom right of home page.

Border Lines:
Anthologies by Saddleworth Writers.
Click here for more details.

Cadenza
www.cadenza-magazine.co.uk

Carillon Magazine:
URL: www.carillonmag.org.uk

Connections:
A leading quarterly magazine for writers and readers with a focus in the South East.We run workshop events, poetry and prose competition. We welcome submission of prose and poetry. We carry news and reviews. Join us and become part of the literary scene.

You can order 4 issues for only £10. Concessions £8.50. Single issue £3.50. Back number £2.50. Institutions £13. Overseas £15.
Email Narissa Knights: connectionsmagzine@another.com
13 Wave Crest, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1EH

Crystal
3 Bowness Avenue, Preston, Birkenhead CH43 0SD
Tel: 0151 608 9736
www.christinecrystal.blogspot.com
Editor - Christine Carr
A friendly magazine for subscribers only. Part-colour bi-monthly. Forty pages of poems, stories and articles. Payment for work. (Sometimes there are bumper issues and booklets at no extra charge.) Subscribers may showcase work on the website.

Advertising: anything of interest to writers. £5 for one issue (cheques payable to Mrs C Carr). Adverts will also appear on the website. Adverts are accepted from non-subscribers.
Christine also offers a typing service.

Current Accounts:
Bank Street Writers magazine
URL: http://ourworld-top.cs.com/bswscribe/myhomepage/favorite.html

Dark Tales

Dark Tales magazine is for sci-fi, dark fantasy and horror writers.
URL: www.darktales.co.uk

Echoes of Gilgamesh Lo
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URL: www.gilgamesh.fsworld.co.uk

Equinox
A twice yearly journal illustrated in colour which accepts poems of up to 40 lines.
Subscription: £10 p.a.
Barbara Dordi - Editor, 134b Joy Lane, Whitstable, Kent CT5 4ES
dordi@talktalk.net

Grimm Magazine
www.grimmagazine.com

Libbon Magazine
www.libbon.co.uk
Libbon is a new magazine, our next issue will be only our fourth, aiming to print high quality fiction from established and aspiring authors. Stories up to 5,000 words in length are welcomed. Please include your name, address and email so that we can write back to you. Libbon will pay for single issue rights only. The Libbon website gives examples of previously published stories and the latest issue of the magazine containing 13 new stories can be purchased here for a cost of £3 plus P&P. Email to submissions@libbon.co.uk

Link:
NAWG (National Association of Writers' Groups) magazine
URL: www.nawg.co.uk

Monas Hieroglyphica

Mslexia
Mslexia - www.mslexia.co.uk
Magazine for women who write. Advice and inspiration, news, reviews, interviews, competitions and grants. Submit your work now!

Paramater Magazine
News, writings and reviews from Berlin.
www.parametermagazine.org

PN Review:
PN Review is a poetry journal published from The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University
URL: www.carcanet.co.uk

Poetry Life
No1, Blue Ball Corner, Water Lane, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 0ER
Tel: 01962 842621
URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/poetry.life/

Poetry London
www.poetrylondon.co.uk

Poetry Salzburg Review
www.poetrysalzburg.com
Biannual English Poetry magazine (200 pages per issue) published at the University of Salzburg

Reader's Digest:
URL: www.readersdigest.co.uk

Read More:
Bimonthly magazine filled with short stories, poems and articles. Its editor, A B Blake, says it "is designed to reach out to you lost souls who flounder somewhere between the television addicts and the culture vultures, in short, you sad, sad souls who just love to read". For more information or to subscribe (£12 cheque/p.o. payable to Pentangle Publications), contact A B Blake at:
Pentangle Publications, PO Box 535, Maidstone ME15 8FP

Riverrun:
The magazine of Dundee Writers' Group
Click here for more details.

Sand
SAND is a 200 page twice yearly magazine of new poetry and prose.
www.sandwriting.co.uk

SAW:
SAW poetry magazine. For full details click here

Seventh Quark
The Seventh Quark is a literary short story magazine with a difference. An invaluable resource for learning or improving craft, Seventh Quark will feature top-end literary shorts and at least one genre piece each issue, as well as reprints of winning fiction, guest authors, a quality craft article every issue aimed at intermediates, a detailed critique of one story every issue, reviews, letters and a slot for unpublished or little-published authors. The editorial board led by Alex Keegan has more than 500 publications and over 20 first prizes. There will be three regular competitions.Please contact seventhquarkcontact@btconnect.com
or see subscription details on the website: www.7thquarkmagazine.com

Spoon:
Liverpool underground magazine
Click here for more details.

Tales from the Labyrinth
For details of this anthology of short stories produced by Michael Acton and Tony McNamara click here.

Tears in the Fence
One of the fastest growing, independent literary magazines in the country. For poetry, prose and reviews. Click here for more information. Or see the website www.wanderingdog.co.uk

The French Literary Review
www.thefrenchliteraryreview.co.uk

The London Review of Books:
URL: www.lrb.co.uk/index.php

The New Writer:
URL: http://thenewwriter.com

The North:
The magazine of The Poetry Business - includes a lively range of contemporary poetry by new and established writers. Full details at: www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/North.htm

The Reader:
A magazine about writing worth reading
URL: www.thereader.co.uk

Thereby Hangs a Tale
www.therebyhangsatale.com
Thereby Hangs a Tale explores stories that form around an idea, an object, an image, a place, an experience. One story sparks another, igniting a chain reaction of diverse voices. You know the kind of story we're talking about. The kind where you're all ears, hanging on every syllable. It doesn't matter if it's fact or fiction, about things great or things mundane, if it makes you laugh or makes you cry. After all, the key to a good story is in the telling.

Thumbscrew:
An independent poetry journal
URL: www.bristol.ac.uk/thumbscrew

Visible Ink:
The magazine of the Edinburgh based writer's group, Visible Ink.
www.visible-ink.co.uk

Wasafiri:
The indispensable journal of contemporary African, Asian, Black British and Caribbean literature produced by the Department of English and Drama at the University of London.
URL: www.english.qmw.ac.uk

Whispers and Shouts:
Ireland's short story magazine. Full details at www.whispersandshouts.net

Words:
The quarterly short story magazine. Profits in aid of the Winnicott Baby Unit (Reg. charity no. 292668).
PO Box 13574, London W9 3FX
Tel: 07885 399602 (evenings and weekends)
Email: admin@wordsmag.com
URL: www.wordsmag.com

Write Angle:
The magazine of Yorkshire Arts
Email the Editor, Kelly McMichael for details

Writers Forum:
URL: www.writers-forum.com
Email: groups@writers-forum.com
Phone: 01202 586848

Writers' News and Writing Magazine:
URL: www.writersnews.co.uk
Writers' News and Writing Magazine also offer distance learning courses. Full details at:
Writers' News and Writing Magazine
Home Study Division, Fifth Floor, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 5JD
www.writersnews.co.uk/homestudy/default.asp
Tel: 0113 200 2917

Writing for Money:
For full details contact: Mangla Sachdev, 16 Curlew Gardens, Dunfermline KY11 8GF, UK
Email: writing4money@e-mile.co.uk