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Better late than never.. The Mersey Review 8 is finally live! π·π
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It's the last day to submit for Issue 8! Get your subs in before midnight π
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Submissions are open for Issue 8 until the 30th day of October in the year 2025!
Deal us some literary gold & other precious metals! Full guidelines right here ππ»πββοΈ
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We've got @sarafmc.bsky.social's 'Apocalypse FAQ' for this Mersey Monday πββοΈ give it a read, and prepare for the End π±π·
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In May, I made a phone note: swarm of lavender bees. I carried the bees until Kathy Fish's summer immersive when "Lavender Bees, Dilly Dilly" was born πThank you to the @themerseyreview.bsky.social editors for seeing something in my purple micro fiction haze. www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7/lav...
Did you hang out at McDonalds in Eastern Europe in the 80s? Did you almost die because you snuck into a Hungarian government building after dark? Just me? π Thanks @themerseyreview.bsky.social for publishing my slice of nostalgia!!
π«¨π«¨π«¨ It's Issue 7!!! π«¨π«¨π«¨ twelve new pieces for you dive into, swim through, jetski across, or drink? Anyway, check it all out π·π
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Mersey Mondays #2 at yourrrr serviceeeeee πΆ Check out Rhys Barnes' 'Love Letter' ππ»ππ» (do the clicking!)
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Mersey Mondays is finally a-go!! & for our first piece, we have former TMR contributor @liuswrites.bsky.social with a little hermit crab CNF π¦ππ·
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Woke up to the wonderful news of making @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 longlist! Thank you @laughingyeti.bsky.social and all of the readers and editors!
Thank you @themerseyreview.bsky.social and Quarterly West for publishing my micros!
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Submissions open for The Mersey Review 7! Pls bless us with your words, adorn us with your words, throw your words at us like a custard pie. Words π www.themerseyreview.com/submit
Our EIC Christopher Allen talks to Beth Sherman, winner of The SmokeLong Workshop Prize with 10 stories on the long list for the prize. Hear what Beth has to say about workshopping. A link to the whole interview is in the thread. youtu.be/sqgyTaVFRVQ
I don't think I ever shared my exact piece from Issue 6 of @themerseyreview.bsky.social. Cool thing: TMR EIC Sean is from Liverpool and this came out WHILE I WAS IN LIVERPOOL on vacation (great city; LFC prem champs - YNWA π).
www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/wew...
Really enjoyed this one by @audreytcarroll.bsky.social in the latest issue of @themerseyreview.bsky.social - there's also a flash personal essay by me in this issue, titled "The Penelope Section"
Just ICYMI ππ we've got 12 writers & 12 class pieces of poetry & prose to liven up your Monday!
Looking forward to getting stuck into this. Huge thanks for giving me a space to fangirl about Charlotte BrontΓ«...
Read my new microessay "Define Neurodivergent" in @themerseyreview.bsky.social!
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Thanks @themerseyreview.bsky.social for publishing my story, "Hope Hippo," which was born in a Flash Cabin workshop run by the wonderful @stillsquirrel.bsky.social www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/hop...
I wrote the first draft of this piece about 5 years ago- so delighted that it found a home @themerseyreview.bsky.social !
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Allison Burriss
Kurt Schmidt
Sophie Thompson
Karen Crawford
Marvin Waldman
Issue 6? π±πͺπ»π±π€©ππ―π€ͺππ»π«¨π€ππ·π
Yep, it's live! Get a load of it riiiiiiight about here β¬οΈππ»β¬οΈππ»
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Last orders at the bar! ππ·ππ·
We're still open for submissions for Issue 6 until midnight (GMT) tonight!
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Just in case you missed it ππ·π±πππ±π·π
Keeping up with all these socials platforms is hard work, but... WE'RE OPEN FOR SUBS AGAIN π₯³ all the way until 2nd March π
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