Submissions for Issue Twelve are open through April 30! We'd love to read your short/flash fiction, cnf, poetry, prose poetry, & hybrid work on the themes of home, place, & memory 🏠💕

.Octopus Publishing is hiring an editorial assistant!

If you love books, language and communicating on the page and elsewhere with precision, clarity and flair, please apply here: rb.gy/kvj2nf

Submissions for Issue Eight of TOLKA are open until Sunday 5 May.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to gain valuable experience in a role which offers autonomy, independence, and responsibility!

Come to join the Vintage Sales team and kick start your career as a Sales Assistant!

Info:shorturl.at/knwPQ

Subs are open for a limited time this month. We're excited to read your best fiction, mental health and lifestyle writing 🍊 orangesjournal.com/submissions

Submissions for TOLKA Issue Eight are now open. We publish all kinds of non-fiction, including essays, biography, autofiction, and things that fall between. Submit by midnight, Sunday 5 May. Guidelines and link to submit here: tolkajournal.org/submit

We're hugely honoured to be hosting an event next month with Jane Cholmeley, founding bookseller of the legendary Silver Moon bookshop. Cannot wait.

7pm, Tues 21st May. Tickets & info via link below:

gloucesterroadbooks.com/events/#cholme…

Our new blog post went live yesterday! Blog officer Emma shares her thoughts and main takeaways from Exeter MA Publishing's book launch event, specifically on the panel discussion regarding decentralising the publishing industry. Read it here: thesyp.org.uk/2024/04/syp-so… 💚

📣 Do you have plans for the summer? Applications for our paid, 2-month internships are now *open* until 5pm on 29th April!

Find out more and apply if you identify as being from a lower socio-economic background 🧡 >> lnkd.in/esw2-NGX

⚠️We've extended the deadline to April 30th, giving you three weeks more to enter the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize!⚠️

Awarded for fiction under 2000 words
1st Prize: 2,000€
2nd & 3rd Prizes: 1,000€
desperateliterature.com/prize

We’ve opened submissions! 12th April - 3rd May. To summarise: we’re looking for your best work, for writing that resists definition for stories & poems that strain against classification. gorse.ie/submission/

Bad Form issue 12 is on the theme of LOVE and you can pitch your reviews, lit essays, bookish opinion pieces, and short stories to us now. Selected pieces pay £50, open to POC in the UK.
More details: badformreview.com/iss12

🚨Applications for the Carole Blake Open Doors Project are now open!🚨

Like last year we’re excited to offer two separate opportunities – a 6-month long mentorship and a 10 day in-person, online or hybrid internship. Apply by 25th April at 23:59 GMT: blakefriedmann.co.uk/vacancies

Calling all publishing professionals across the South West! We're looking for people working in the publishing industry to mentor like-minded publishing hopefuls! If you're interested in sharing your insights, email [email protected] to apply! 💚

fancy exploring the significance of hands in art, communication + more? join me for the workshop A HANDFUL OF POETRY at the Bristol Bristol Folk House on Sunday 14 April + write new poems! 📖✨ more here: bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/courses/a-hand…

If you've been working on any wan little husks of autofiction, Montaignian essays, or fancy yourself as the Renata Adler of looking at your phone a lot . . . we'll be opening for submissions soon. Watch this space.

Would you like to be part of the world’s biggest publisher, working to promote our brands and authors to customers and consumers across the world?

We are looking for someone with a keen love of books and organisation!

Info: shorturl.at/hirxQ

📣📣Come and work with us! 📣📣

This is an exciting opportunity to join Bristol libraries in a variety of roles. We're looking for:

• Library Assistants
• a Library Supervisor
• a Library Early Years Coordinator
• a Library Volunteer Coordinator

bristol.gov.uk/work-for-brist…

'I truly believe that by being fully remote and widening the pool of potential staff to the entirety of the UK without the need to relocate to London, we are getting the best people' 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/remote…

Last summer, we announced that we were open to submissions from translators anywhere in the world, and now we’re delighted to announce that on March 21, The White Review will publish its third anthology, this time focused on writing in translation.