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We were established in October 2020 in a moment of dazzling common sense and against government advice to retrain as something practical—such as an umbrella, or an exceptionally short lamp post.
thebraag.co
Hello, friends! The Braag is a Newcastle based small press and journal. We sell amazing speculative fiction and poetry - our vibe is weird, wild and beautifully presented! You can shop our books at thebraag.co, we also run the micro-journal Carmen et Error and work with writers across the world.
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Eeek! Exciting! Thanks so much to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing this quirky little toucan-y micro of mine ❤️🦜
NEW BRAAG MICROS - up at thebraag.co/shop
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Eeek! Exciting! Thanks so much to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing this quirky little toucan-y micro of mine ❤️🦜
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Our newsletter, out on Sunday, will be revealing our submission themes for the year! Sign up here: buttondown.com/carnyx
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Our newsletter, out on Sunday, will be revealing our submission themes for the year! Sign up here: buttondown.com/carnyx
NEW BRAAG MICROS - up at thebraag.co/shop
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
NEW BRAAG MICROS - up at thebraag.co/shop
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman.
🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.
My mistake, it was £13. Why on earth has it gone up by £37 in six years?
When we started the Braag in 2020 it was an £18 filing fee for our yearly confirmation statement for the companies house. They just announced it's going up to £50. Jesus bloody Christ.
January 29, 2026 at 8:11 AM
My mistake, it was £13. Why on earth has it gone up by £37 in six years?
When we started the Braag in 2020 it was an £18 filing fee for our yearly confirmation statement for the companies house. They just announced it's going up to £50. Jesus bloody Christ.
January 29, 2026 at 8:10 AM
When we started the Braag in 2020 it was an £18 filing fee for our yearly confirmation statement for the companies house. They just announced it's going up to £50. Jesus bloody Christ.
We're here for ur weird!
Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️
Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️
January 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM
We're here for ur weird!
Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️
Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️
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I make weird lino prints, poems in the shape of the Chicago rat hole and through @thebraag.bsky.social I publish people's books and make handmade chapbooks of their words ❤️
January 28, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I make weird lino prints, poems in the shape of the Chicago rat hole and through @thebraag.bsky.social I publish people's books and make handmade chapbooks of their words ❤️
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As of this morning we still have:
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
Damaged Braag Books (minor visible scuffs) up for grabs for the cost of postage only! £2.50 for up to three books via paypal (UK).
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 AM
As of this morning we still have:
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
As of this morning we still have:
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
Damaged Braag Books (minor visible scuffs) up for grabs for the cost of postage only! £2.50 for up to three books via paypal (UK).
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 AM
As of this morning we still have:
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
3 x Pond (eco-poetry and trying to re-create the nonhuman language of a pond)
and 1x Gannota (Ukranian fairytale/re-imagining of Lesya Ukrainka)
Damaged Braag Books (minor visible scuffs) up for grabs for the cost of postage only! £2.50 for up to three books via paypal (UK).
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
January 25, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Damaged Braag Books (minor visible scuffs) up for grabs for the cost of postage only! £2.50 for up to three books via paypal (UK).
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
We've got
5 x Sarah Westcott's Pond
4 x Sarah Royston's Fernseed
1 x Andrew Cartwright's Necrosmologies
1 x Nina Murray's Gannota
Comment to claim 💚
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Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?
We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social,
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
January 22, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?
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This one still makes me feel all the feels. So grateful to @thebraag.bsky.social for giving this poem a platform.
Issue 14.5 is here at carmenerror.com?page_id=636, with more work selected by @chadpie.bsky.social featuring
🐌 Evelyn Pae
⏳ @shanaross.bsky.social
🐻 Katrinka Moore
🏠 Reece Sterling Alexander
🐌 Evelyn Pae
⏳ @shanaross.bsky.social
🐻 Katrinka Moore
🏠 Reece Sterling Alexander
Issue 14.5 - Carmen et Error
Poison HighwaysBy Evelyn Pae the giant snails burned through miles of shrubland in a single day. their slime killed plants and insects when wet, then dried into a calcaereous husk perfect for driving ...
carmenerror.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This one still makes me feel all the feels. So grateful to @thebraag.bsky.social for giving this poem a platform.
We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social,
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
January 22, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social,
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
Issue 14.5 is here at carmenerror.com?page_id=636, with more work selected by @chadpie.bsky.social featuring
🐌 Evelyn Pae
⏳ @shanaross.bsky.social
🐻 Katrinka Moore
🏠 Reece Sterling Alexander
🐌 Evelyn Pae
⏳ @shanaross.bsky.social
🐻 Katrinka Moore
🏠 Reece Sterling Alexander
Issue 14.5 - Carmen et Error
Poison HighwaysBy Evelyn Pae the giant snails burned through miles of shrubland in a single day. their slime killed plants and insects when wet, then dried into a calcaereous husk perfect for driving ...
carmenerror.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Issue 14.5 is here at carmenerror.com?page_id=636, with more work selected by @chadpie.bsky.social featuring
🐌 Evelyn Pae
⏳ @shanaross.bsky.social
🐻 Katrinka Moore
🏠 Reece Sterling Alexander
🐌 Evelyn Pae
⏳ @shanaross.bsky.social
🐻 Katrinka Moore
🏠 Reece Sterling Alexander
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They call them corpse roads, coffin paths. They call them wraith ways, lych lanes. Routes carved into the land by those grief-heavy feet coming from outlying places to distant churches for burial. Death as procession, death as ritual journey. A haunted hodology. – Dr. M. Benn
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 AM
They call them corpse roads, coffin paths. They call them wraith ways, lych lanes. Routes carved into the land by those grief-heavy feet coming from outlying places to distant churches for burial. Death as procession, death as ritual journey. A haunted hodology. – Dr. M. Benn
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Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.
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Truly amazing things are happening in Poetry
I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Truly amazing things are happening in Poetry
I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
January 16, 2026 at 11:11 AM
I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
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A new poem up on Carmen et Error, with thanks @chadpie.bsky.social & Kym. Poems by Zoë Green & Jess Richardson also magnificent.
You can read it here: carmenerror.com?page_id=622
You can read it here: carmenerror.com?page_id=622
January 16, 2026 at 9:13 AM
A new poem up on Carmen et Error, with thanks @chadpie.bsky.social & Kym. Poems by Zoë Green & Jess Richardson also magnificent.
You can read it here: carmenerror.com?page_id=622
You can read it here: carmenerror.com?page_id=622
A belated issue 14.0 is up on Carmen et Error, but no less magnificient for that! We have:
🫖 Zoe Green
🫀 @victoriaspires.bsky.social
🪱 Jess Richardson
Selected by the eminent @chadpie.bsky.social, our guest editor for this unsettling issue. 💕
🫖 Zoe Green
🫀 @victoriaspires.bsky.social
🪱 Jess Richardson
Selected by the eminent @chadpie.bsky.social, our guest editor for this unsettling issue. 💕
- Carmen et Error
The cause of Roman poet Ovid’s exile was “carmen et error”, a poem and a mistake. We want your poems and your mistakes. Fiction that falls between genres. Weird, wild poems. Anything speculative, dari...
carmenerror.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
A belated issue 14.0 is up on Carmen et Error, but no less magnificient for that! We have:
🫖 Zoe Green
🫀 @victoriaspires.bsky.social
🪱 Jess Richardson
Selected by the eminent @chadpie.bsky.social, our guest editor for this unsettling issue. 💕
🫖 Zoe Green
🫀 @victoriaspires.bsky.social
🪱 Jess Richardson
Selected by the eminent @chadpie.bsky.social, our guest editor for this unsettling issue. 💕
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brother gregor's fish dumplings
January 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
brother gregor's fish dumplings
We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉
January 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉
Hi folks - Just to let you know that we've had to increase our international shipping fees as the prices have gone up so much.
EU - £7.50 flat rate
ROW - £15.00 flat rate
I know we have a lot of international customers, and I don't want to scare them off, but we can't take the hit anymore. :(
EU - £7.50 flat rate
ROW - £15.00 flat rate
I know we have a lot of international customers, and I don't want to scare them off, but we can't take the hit anymore. :(
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Hi folks - Just to let you know that we've had to increase our international shipping fees as the prices have gone up so much.
EU - £7.50 flat rate
ROW - £15.00 flat rate
I know we have a lot of international customers, and I don't want to scare them off, but we can't take the hit anymore. :(
EU - £7.50 flat rate
ROW - £15.00 flat rate
I know we have a lot of international customers, and I don't want to scare them off, but we can't take the hit anymore. :(
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Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
The Braag Presents
thebraag.co
January 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
my fellows in big five publishing are looking to a future in which AI is pushed onto them by the higher-ups with little thought, meanwhile 99% of the indies I know are coming out against it
I tried to read that AI defense from an author I'd never heard of before, sorry, anthologist, and I gave up. If you call spellcheck AI, then you're just muddying the waters. And stating that small presses disproportionately depend on AI generated materials? Is this for real?
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
my fellows in big five publishing are looking to a future in which AI is pushed onto them by the higher-ups with little thought, meanwhile 99% of the indies I know are coming out against it