Inkfish Magazine
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Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
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Excited for the launch of SEXTET Issue II on December 4th, with writing from me, @ewenglass.bsky.social and many others! Work from this issue will be on display in @sixfootgallery.bsky.social until Jan 6th -
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November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Excited for the launch of SEXTET Issue II on December 4th, with writing from me, @ewenglass.bsky.social and many others! Work from this issue will be on display in @sixfootgallery.bsky.social until Jan 6th -
sixfootgallery.co.uk/traces/
sixfootgallery.co.uk/traces/
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Huge thank you to @petermcallister.bsky.social and @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social over at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for this wonderful nomination. I so adore your gorgeous art-forward magazine!
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
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And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
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Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize!
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
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@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Huge thank you to @petermcallister.bsky.social and @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social over at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for this wonderful nomination. I so adore your gorgeous art-forward magazine!
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize!
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize!
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
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We're loving this from @ewenglass.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ##newpoetry #poetry #collection #goodstuff #reading #read #readers #wow
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We're loving this from @ewenglass.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ##newpoetry #poetry #collection #goodstuff #reading #read #readers #wow
Thrilled to see this brilliant poetry chapbook by @ewenglass.bsky.social riding high in the poetry ranks on Amazon! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is full of beauty, magic, humour, and wisdom. You can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/2wSXZ3i
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thrilled to see this brilliant poetry chapbook by @ewenglass.bsky.social riding high in the poetry ranks on Amazon! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is full of beauty, magic, humour, and wisdom. You can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/2wSXZ3i
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a) I know it's probably uncool to post b) it's all possibly a quirk of the Big River place c) I don't really care. I'm so touched by all the support this new book has had so far, I couldn't have imagined getting anywhere near top ten poetry books. Thank you! 🥹
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November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
a) I know it's probably uncool to post b) it's all possibly a quirk of the Big River place c) I don't really care. I'm so touched by all the support this new book has had so far, I couldn't have imagined getting anywhere near top ten poetry books. Thank you! 🥹
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
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Next on the “To Read” list from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Congratulations, @ewenglass.bsky.social!👏👏👏
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Next on the “To Read” list from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Congratulations, @ewenglass.bsky.social!👏👏👏
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This is out now and I’d be over the moon if you considered getting a copy. Thanks as always @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is out now and I’d be over the moon if you considered getting a copy. Thanks as always @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Corner...
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Wishing @ewenglass.bsky.social a very happy launch day! We're so excited to be publishing this chapbook by Ewen Glass - If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea - beautiful poems by a wonderful writer!
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wishing @ewenglass.bsky.social a very happy launch day! We're so excited to be publishing this chapbook by Ewen Glass - If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea - beautiful poems by a wonderful writer!
amzn.eu/d/f6oChEA
amzn.eu/d/f6oChEA
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So happy that some of my favourite poets and authors had such kind words for my new poetry chapbook. Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is out tomorrow from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social 🌊
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
So happy that some of my favourite poets and authors had such kind words for my new poetry chapbook. Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is out tomorrow from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social 🌊
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October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to @defenestrationmag.bsky.social for getting it up on your site. 🙂
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#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
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#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
"Books Books Books," by Peter McAllister
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up.
'You...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to @defenestrationmag.bsky.social for getting it up on your site. 🙂
www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/08/book...
#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
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#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
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"Dad’s personality traits are gatherer, unstable, nurturing, handy, and insane. He wants to fix things and that’s what he’s good at, but he has these random mood swings where he runs after you wielding a garden gnome or pruning shears." - Kate Horsley mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
August 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"Dad’s personality traits are gatherer, unstable, nurturing, handy, and insane. He wants to fix things and that’s what he’s good at, but he has these random mood swings where he runs after you wielding a garden gnome or pruning shears." - Kate Horsley mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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"So we – us two – have chosen love. And celibacy. We may be different species; but we are both as old as dinosaurs and we are in love. We’ll take whatever time we have."
Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
Ma says she’s coming all the way to the port with me but she leaves halfway. I see her carapace swimming backwards; her eyes locked on mine. My heart starts screaming' Read 'Dylan Red Claw', a short story by Nell Carroll Turner
'Dylan Red Claw' by Nell Carroll Turner
Short Story
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July 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"So we – us two – have chosen love. And celibacy. We may be different species; but we are both as old as dinosaurs and we are in love. We’ll take whatever time we have."
Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
'I like to write early in the morning with my dream-head still in touching distance. My writing space is at the top of the garden, with a view across the sea from Rame Head to Looe Island.' Kate Horsley interviews Jackie Taylor
Interview with Jackie Taylor
Inkfish Interviews
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July 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
'I like to write early in the morning with my dream-head still in touching distance. My writing space is at the top of the garden, with a view across the sea from Rame Head to Looe Island.' Kate Horsley interviews Jackie Taylor
Ma says she’s coming all the way to the port with me but she leaves halfway. I see her carapace swimming backwards; her eyes locked on mine. My heart starts screaming' Read 'Dylan Red Claw', a short story by Nell Carroll Turner
'Dylan Red Claw' by Nell Carroll Turner
Short Story
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July 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Ma says she’s coming all the way to the port with me but she leaves halfway. I see her carapace swimming backwards; her eyes locked on mine. My heart starts screaming' Read 'Dylan Red Claw', a short story by Nell Carroll Turner
'When I stopped emailing, I thought to myself, now it’s really the end of the known world. Now I really won’t sleep. Winter rolled, a slow wagon, upon which I was not having a good time.'
Read 'The Red Kite', a Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid by Ambika Bates
Read 'The Red Kite', a Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid by Ambika Bates
'The Red Kite' by Ambika Bates
Prose poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid
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July 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
'When I stopped emailing, I thought to myself, now it’s really the end of the known world. Now I really won’t sleep. Winter rolled, a slow wagon, upon which I was not having a good time.'
Read 'The Red Kite', a Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid by Ambika Bates
Read 'The Red Kite', a Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Hybrid by Ambika Bates
'It had been her brother who taught her how to tie a rope secure enough to swing on. It was him who had shown her how to swing from it into the river. According to her, Logan had always been in love with being alive.'
Read 'The Riverbank', a short story by Amirah Walters
Read 'The Riverbank', a short story by Amirah Walters
'The Riverbank' by Amirah Walters
Short Story
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July 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
'It had been her brother who taught her how to tie a rope secure enough to swing on. It was him who had shown her how to swing from it into the river. According to her, Logan had always been in love with being alive.'
Read 'The Riverbank', a short story by Amirah Walters
Read 'The Riverbank', a short story by Amirah Walters
'My laboratory is on the basement level with soundproofing and no windows, so it’s only once I leave work that I can see and hear the birds without mediation.'
Read 'What the birds are saying', flash fiction by Fiona Mossman
Read 'What the birds are saying', flash fiction by Fiona Mossman
July 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
'My laboratory is on the basement level with soundproofing and no windows, so it’s only once I leave work that I can see and hear the birds without mediation.'
Read 'What the birds are saying', flash fiction by Fiona Mossman
Read 'What the birds are saying', flash fiction by Fiona Mossman
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"What other plants and creatures were here with them?
What abundance of clean water and shellfish?
What clam gardens?
What cold rivers and salmon?
What relatives?"
Daily reads: Susan Kostick in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
What abundance of clean water and shellfish?
What clam gardens?
What cold rivers and salmon?
What relatives?"
Daily reads: Susan Kostick in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
'These fungi grow together
but are not communal–
like us,
walking together,
keeping our own counsel.'
Read 'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick
but are not communal–
like us,
walking together,
keeping our own counsel.'
Read 'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick
'Fungi' and other poems by Susan Kostick
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July 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"What other plants and creatures were here with them?
What abundance of clean water and shellfish?
What clam gardens?
What cold rivers and salmon?
What relatives?"
Daily reads: Susan Kostick in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
What abundance of clean water and shellfish?
What clam gardens?
What cold rivers and salmon?
What relatives?"
Daily reads: Susan Kostick in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️
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Happy friday! Here’s a few mags whose names start with a vowel that you should go check out:
@anmlymag.bsky.social
@afterdinnerconversation.com
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
@okaydonkey.bsky.social
@identitytheory.bsky.social
@eunoiareview.bsky.social
@underbellypress.bsky.social
@anmlymag.bsky.social
@afterdinnerconversation.com
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
@okaydonkey.bsky.social
@identitytheory.bsky.social
@eunoiareview.bsky.social
@underbellypress.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Happy friday! Here’s a few mags whose names start with a vowel that you should go check out:
@anmlymag.bsky.social
@afterdinnerconversation.com
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
@okaydonkey.bsky.social
@identitytheory.bsky.social
@eunoiareview.bsky.social
@underbellypress.bsky.social
@anmlymag.bsky.social
@afterdinnerconversation.com
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
@okaydonkey.bsky.social
@identitytheory.bsky.social
@eunoiareview.bsky.social
@underbellypress.bsky.social
'She hears rather than feels her legs snap out on instinct and away from the warmth of the old horse rugs, up the creaky metal stairs and into the bower at the top of the barn, where she can hear the mice shifting and hiding...'
Read 'Hunting Season', a short story by India Fishburn buff.ly/91bXBiS
Read 'Hunting Season', a short story by India Fishburn buff.ly/91bXBiS
July 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'She hears rather than feels her legs snap out on instinct and away from the warmth of the old horse rugs, up the creaky metal stairs and into the bower at the top of the barn, where she can hear the mice shifting and hiding...'
Read 'Hunting Season', a short story by India Fishburn buff.ly/91bXBiS
Read 'Hunting Season', a short story by India Fishburn buff.ly/91bXBiS
"Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying." Read our Review of Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social buff.ly/TpVNzQu
July 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying." Read our Review of Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social buff.ly/TpVNzQu
'North of Frog Pond
a path is beaten
into the snow so worn
that it can bear your weight
without rackets.'
Read 'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson
a path is beaten
into the snow so worn
that it can bear your weight
without rackets.'
Read 'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson
'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson
Poetry
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July 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
'North of Frog Pond
a path is beaten
into the snow so worn
that it can bear your weight
without rackets.'
Read 'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson
a path is beaten
into the snow so worn
that it can bear your weight
without rackets.'
Read 'Snowshoeing' & 'Newfoundland Buffalo' by Logan Ropson