It's here! 11 months on from when submissions opened last year, Oaths and Offerings is now published. What a feeling!
And for any North East locals, come and celebrate the launch with me this evening at Newcastle Arts Centre, with readings from two of our writers: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/29/o...
Submissions are open! We're looking for short stories from writers living in the North of England for our second anthology, on the theme of sorcery.
Find out more and submit: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/
Nathaniel Spain
Carnyx Press
I'm looking for richly imagined tales of strange, wondrous, and dangerous magic for our next anthology! Subs open until the end of July!
Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore is published today!
We've brought together eight brilliant short stories, wonderfully written and imagined by Northern writers, each with a distinct interpretation of what folklore can be.
Available to order now! carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oat...
UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year.
Compare that to:
Premier League football: £6.6 billion
Home entertainment: £5.6 billion
UK film industry: 2.8 billion
Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.
💚 We're seeing poetry pamphlets and novellas from UK Authors
+ Smaller manuscripts from authors worldwide! 💚
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Congratulations to Kym Deyn, whose collection 'Folkish' has been named by the Poetry Book Society as a Summer Recommendation for 2026.
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"Hekate Einodia, Trioditis, lovely dame, of earthly, watery, and celestial frame, sepulchral, in a saffron veil arrayed, pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade”
(Orphic Hymn 1 to Hecate)
🎨 Jane Estelle Trombley
