Submissions for PBLJ11 are NOW OPEN! Send us up to five poems in a single Word document using our online submission form. You can find all the details on our website at poetrybirmingham.com/submission-gui…. Your work will also be considered for digital publication. Deadline: 31/08/24.

Meet our new MA Creative Writing interns from School of English. The talented Paul & Lucy will be assisting us with all things PBLJ this year as Editorial Assistant and Project Assistant respectively. We've got lots to do this summer, including reading your poems & planning readings!

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⏰ Register for the Educating Susan conference on 12 September. We are hosting a conversation on ‘The Future of Literary Magazines’ ft. Amy Mae Baxter Bad Form, Naush Sabah (Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal), Livia Franchini & Lucy Mercer (TL/TH), chaired by Sana Goyal Kotecha wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

Send us your poems! We are also seeking essays, reviews, feature articles, interviews/conversations, hybrid pieces, etc. We particularly welcome proposals & submissions from writers who are under-represented in publishing or from minoritised communities. Please do get in touch!💚

Essays, reviews, something fresh, spicy, fun, interesting for PBLJ's prose section? Send things my way! Email me at naush AT poetrybimingham DOT com. Do it now. 🤓Especially, if you have something in the drawer or burning at your brain. Maybe PBLJ is the home for it?

Naush Sabah, poet & editor of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, visited beautiful Erdington Library, a Grade 2 listed Carnegie library endangered by Bham City Council cuts. It's time, Naush writes, "to take our bookish selves out onto the street to shout”! Keep shouting: Birmingham LOVES libraries 💘

If you're in Durham, don't miss ابتسام عازم. Her "Book of Disappearance" tr. Sinan Antoon came out from And Other Stories August 1 & we have a #WiTMonth conversation coming soon, between her & contributor Rahael Mathews. andotherstories.org/the-book-of-di…

Our submissions are open this month and while we prefer digital submissions you can also send work via post. Please note our postal address is now Poetry Birmingham, PO Box 18757, Oldbury, B69 9HS; ARCs, review copies, and publisher catalogues can also be sent to this address.

Today on Digital Features we publish a new essay by Alex🌌 on Pre-Raphaelite Birmingham poet Bessie Parkes's 'Summer Sketches'. Have a read here on our website: poetrybirmingham.com/digital-featur…

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Our submissions CLOSE TONIGHT. ⌛ Get those last minute poems in!

✍️We're delighted to launch a new competition; BCU Presents: Benjamin Zephaniah Future Writers! Celebrating the life & rhythms of BCU Honorary Doctorate & Brummie icon Professor Benjamin Zephaniah, the competition encourages all ages to submit poetry & short stories. ✨bcu.ac.uk/future-writers✨

💙 This year’s theme is inspired by Benjamin’s poem ‘People Need People’, encouraging budding poets and writers to submit pieces about their friends, family, peers, and those in their lives and communities who they rely upon and have connections with.

With support from Benjamin’s wife Qian Zephaniah & Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, there are 6 categories from primary & secondary school children to adults & BCU staff, students & graduates. Judges include Casey Bailey, @MSoulFires, Gregory Leadbetter, @NaushSabah, Madeleine Kludje, Catherine

Prizes include Birmingham Literature Festival tickets, Amazon Kindles, tickets to shows at The Rep, The Heath Bookshop vouchers and more! Winners also get a framed piece of their poem or short story, a book of Benjamin’s poetry, and have their entry included in the Benjamin

The competition is now open and closes at 5pm Monday 11 November. An awards ceremony for those with shortlisted entries will be at our City Centre Campus on Wednesday 11 December. Learn more, see the criteria and terms & conditions, and submit your entry: bcu.ac.uk/future-writers