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Journal featuring poets yet to publish a full collection / Est. 2022 / EIC @aanaxagorou.bsky.social / Issue 14, Ed.
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🔵 Propel Issue 16, edited with enormous care by the very brilliant Richard Scott, is OUT NOW! 🔵

We're delighted to share this bumper issue with you, featuring work by:

> CJ Wagstaff
> Edward Doegar
> Jack Westmore
> Leusa Lloyd
> William Gee
> Nóra Blascsók @nblascsok.bsky.social

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Cover of Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Ed. Richard Scott Contributors listed in thread Propel Issue 16 Contents: Introduction by Editor Richard Scott CJ Wagstaff, The Farrier Edward Doegar, Word-ache. Our steps ––gravel and Overcast; a shadow-less March. Frühling Jack Westmore, Oasis Leusa Lloyd, The Snipe William Gee, wildflower(s) Nóra Blascsók, Eating sorrel leaves jake stefan ferguson, after the parade, birmingham pride 2024 Christopher Lloyd, The Tower Billie Manning, Persephone Makes A Brief Consideration Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, The Exhibition Freya Jackson, The Vase Olive Franklin, Shane Stephen de Búrca, My Father (trans. of Jón úr Vör’s ‘Faðir Minn’) Kayleigh Jayshree, Desire Rich Ware, Tangerine Bonnie Hancell, Two dogs and they are running Tom Mason, Little Tombeau Meron Berhanu, Ophelia Emily A. Taylor, My Sunday Roast Sophia Georghiou, Adian Claire Berlyn, The most popular names for girls William Wyld, The Butterfly Bush
July 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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👀 Reminder that submissions for Issue 16 are open until midnight tomorrow!

Send us your poems >>
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Propel July 2025 ISSUE SIXTEEN Edited by Richard Scott SUBMISSIONS OPEN to 6 JUNE 2025 Black and white photo of Richard Scott, a smiling white man with a dark beard, above an issue card with the above information, on a medium blue background
June 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore. Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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So excited for this tomorrow!!
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30
🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan – the propel logo runs up the left side in black on an off-white background. An issue card overlays a grainy monochorome image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Contributors listed below, per the subsequent posts in this thread.
May 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore. Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan – the propel logo runs up the left side in black on an off-white background. An issue card overlays a grainy monochorome image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Contributors listed below, per the subsequent posts in this thread.
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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UPDATE!
Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025

Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
May 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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UPDATE!
Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025

Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
May 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)!

SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May

If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Edited by Richard Scott – Submissions open to 31 May 2025
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Love the typography here
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31
🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Cover of Propel Issue 14, March 2025 Ed. Susannah Dickey. Off white background, propel logo running up the left side in black, top right has a grainy grey and black image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Below that is issue card and contributor list: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha @Anisha_Jaya ○ Alyson Kissner @alykissner ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard @dylanstallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser ○ June Archbold ○ Marina Scott @marinaasinsea ○ Jose Buera ○ Bea Bacon @bea__bacon ○ Henry St Leger @henry_stleger ○ Pascal Fallas ○ Michael Naghten Shanks ○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah @johnking1502 ○ Morgan L. Ventura ○ Joshua Blackman ○ Eleanor Cousins Brown
March 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Over the moon to have a poem in the latest issue of the brilliant @propelmagazine.bsky.social

Many thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for choosing ‘Four anecdotes from the life of Alexander von Humboldt’, a poem about power, arrogance, & an ancient tree who knows all.
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31
🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Cover of Propel Issue 14, March 2025 Ed. Susannah Dickey. Off white background, propel logo running up the left side in black, top right has a grainy grey and black image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Below that is issue card and contributor list: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha @Anisha_Jaya ○ Alyson Kissner @alykissner ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard @dylanstallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser ○ June Archbold ○ Marina Scott @marinaasinsea ○ Jose Buera ○ Bea Bacon @bea__bacon ○ Henry St Leger @henry_stleger ○ Pascal Fallas ○ Michael Naghten Shanks ○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah @johnking1502 ○ Morgan L. Ventura ○ Joshua Blackman ○ Eleanor Cousins Brown
March 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Excitingly, I have something in this issue. Thanks @susannahdickey.bsky.social and @propelmagazine.bsky.social
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31
🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Cover of Propel Issue 14, March 2025 Ed. Susannah Dickey. Off white background, propel logo running up the left side in black, top right has a grainy grey and black image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Below that is issue card and contributor list: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha @Anisha_Jaya ○ Alyson Kissner @alykissner ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard @dylanstallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser ○ June Archbold ○ Marina Scott @marinaasinsea ○ Jose Buera ○ Bea Bacon @bea__bacon ○ Henry St Leger @henry_stleger ○ Pascal Fallas ○ Michael Naghten Shanks ○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah @johnking1502 ○ Morgan L. Ventura ○ Joshua Blackman ○ Eleanor Cousins Brown
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Very happy to feature in Propel #14 with my poem 'Do You Like Your Current Work?', part of a pamphlet coming out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social next year - thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for including!
March 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Cover of Propel Issue 14, March 2025 Ed. Susannah Dickey. Off white background, propel logo running up the left side in black, top right has a grainy grey and black image of a projectile moving to right of frame. Below that is issue card and contributor list: ○ Jay Barnett ○ Tabitha Giddings ○ Danielle Gilmour ○ Anisha Jaya Minocha @Anisha_Jaya ○ Alyson Kissner @alykissner ○ Alex MacDonald ○ Dylan Stallard @dylanstallard ○ Benjamin J. Larner ○ Manuela Moser ○ June Archbold ○ Marina Scott @marinaasinsea ○ Jose Buera ○ Bea Bacon @bea__bacon ○ Henry St Leger @henry_stleger ○ Pascal Fallas ○ Michael Naghten Shanks ○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah @johnking1502 ○ Morgan L. Ventura ○ Joshua Blackman ○ Eleanor Cousins Brown
March 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Goooood morning from the Propel Magazine account 😅
March 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan

>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit/32293...
Propel Issue Fifteen May 2025 Edited by Sanah Ahsan Submissions open to 31 March 2025
March 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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SALE 👀 The Propel Anthology is 50% OFF on our webshop now!

With 120 fantastic poems for just £5.99 — buy a copy here:

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Cover of Propel anthology- selected poems from Propel Magazine 2022-2024
February 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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LAST call for submissions for Issue Fourteen
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 30
Which also means... you've until midnight UK tomorrow to send us your submissions for Propel Fourteen, edited by Susannah Dickey!

>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
January 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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It’s been so long since I published anything I’d forgotten the extremes of elation and anxiety that go along with it. I’m so happy to be included in this issue, edited by my most admired Helen Mort. Deep breaths ♥️
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 31
Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE!

Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back.

With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading:

propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen
January 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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We're delighted to announce our 2025-26 list under editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social, with new poetry from:

🟡 @nikeshshukla.bsky.social
🟡 @simonmaddrell.bsky.social
🟡 Natalie Shapero
🟡 @mayacaspari.bsky.social
🟡 Joladé Olusanya
🟡 Madeleine Kruhly

It'll be 🔥
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Out-Spoken Press 2025-26 2025 March - Maya Caspari, Almost, with Tenderness July, Joladé Olusanya September, Natalie Shapero, October, Madeleine Kruhly 2026 Spring - Simon Maddrell Autumn, Nikesh Shukla Editor: Anthony Anaxagorou outspokenldn.com/press
January 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE!

Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back.

With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading:

propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen
Cover of Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 Ed. Helen Mort. A contributor list runs across the bottom - listing the poets in the next two tweets in this thread, below an issue card and a grainy black and grey image of a projectile moving toward the right of frame. Propel logo runs up the left hand side, all on an off-white background. CONTENTS Introduction by Editor Helen Mort Abhijeet Singh, Reading Emily Dickinson Rency Jumaoas Raquid, To The Tall Man in Queen’s Library Nia Broomhall, I won't tell you this Daniel Nixon, Axe Edge Ger Duffy, Baile an Ghoilin / Burnham East Julie Kennedy, Change of Purpose Nasim Luczaj, her father Laura Strickland, When My Body Remembers Becky May, Lessons with Conchita Sallyanne Rock, Matthew 10:29 Helen Bowell, Is That the Moon Nia Solomon, When My Hair Was a Blonde Bowl Maria Isakova-Bennett, My father is a complicated sentence Ben Verinder, Lavender Rochelle Hanslow, A Body of Text Brad Beau Cohen, cyanotypes Godelieve de Bree, Study from the Human Body, 1949 Bella Rona, Rorschach Test Barnaby Harsent, Half-light Helena Fornells Nadal, Ships Came from Cuba
January 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Happy to be in Issue 13 of Propel edited by Helen Mort @propelmagazine.bsky.social @helenmort.bsky.social
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 30
🔵 Propel Issue 13, edited by Helen Mort,
is out TOMORROW 31 Jan 🔵

As Helen says, "I hope you enjoy the questions these poems provoke and that they inspire you to add to the abundance of the literary landscape. It is a form of plenty we can feel comfortable with, thankful for, even."

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Cover of Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 Ed. Helen Mort. A contributor list runs across the bottom - listing the poets in the next two posts in this thread, below an issue card and a grainy black and grey image of a projectile moving toward the right of frame. Propel logo runs up the left hand side, all on an off-white background.
January 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Well, hello there...

This is all rather lovely.

To have someone say they like your poem is lovely.

When that person is a poet, it's a big deal.

When that person is a poet whose work you own and love, that's pretty much end-of-level boss validation.

Out tomorrow.
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 30
🔵 Propel Issue 13, edited by Helen Mort,
is out TOMORROW 31 Jan 🔵

As Helen says, "I hope you enjoy the questions these poems provoke and that they inspire you to add to the abundance of the literary landscape. It is a form of plenty we can feel comfortable with, thankful for, even."

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Cover of Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 Ed. Helen Mort. A contributor list runs across the bottom - listing the poets in the next two posts in this thread, below an issue card and a grainy black and grey image of a projectile moving toward the right of frame. Propel logo runs up the left hand side, all on an off-white background.
January 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Which also means... you've until midnight UK tomorrow to send us your submissions for Propel Fourteen, edited by Susannah Dickey!

>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
Propel Issue card: March 2025, Issue Fourteen edited by Susannah Dickey. Submissions open to 31 January 2025
January 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM