Turnsole Press

Submissions are now closed! Thank you to all. We are so excited by what we have received. A beautiful thing lies down the path! You can expect to hear back from the editors very soon. Happy Monday and have a great week 🌻

Happy Friday!!! Thank you to everyone who has submitted their writing so far. We've received a huge volume of high quality submissions, so we will be closing our inbox on JANUARY 16th ⚠️🚨 you know what that means! ✍ get writing this weekend, before it's too late 🍃

Happy new year's eve!! Hello to all our new followers 🍃🙏❤For those new here, we are a recently launched small press printing our first edition in 2022. We are inspired by medieval manuscripts and poems steeped in the natural world. Check out our website and submit! 🥂

Quick betwixtmas reminder!! We are currently open for submissions and we NEED YOUR POEMS 💖👑 head to our website to submit, and in the meantime, enjoy this image of our Xmas fave, Gawain, beheading the green knight 🍃

Herbal with bonus #cat Sloane 4016 f.40

Last night we found ourselves with Bert again. A favourite piece of wintry audiovisual content! youtube.com/watch?v=yRQ_Fo…

💡Yule, midwinter, hibernate solstice - the astronomical first day of Winter. Welcome! And so the horizon ushers the Spring, though it may not feel that way yet🌛 The Latin 'solstice' refers to the 'stoppage' of the Sun. Don't let this time stop you writing, send us your poems☀️

Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice. The darkest, shortest day, but then, light and light and light!! We hope everyone is keeping safe and warm☀️If, like us, this time inspires you, please share your poems with us. Grateful for the beauty in our inbox so far...

Thanks for all the truly fantastic submissions so far. It's been such a secret treat getting to read all of your wonderful poems; we can't wait to get them in print and share them with the wider world! Keep them rolling in! God bless you all this Christmas! And Get boosted <3

We've been bowled over by some of the beautiful work you've been sending in. This first volume is going to be pretty special! Thanks to everyone who has submitted so far 🌻

Wild poets! Please consider submitting your work to this lovely press.

Check out our Instagram for some visually ravishing Turnsole content. And lots of hearty, fruity updates! instagram.com/turnsolepress/

STRANGE, strange, most strange. Here's another piece of design work in progress from our designer Alfie Robinson. Thanks for the subs so far, happy weekend🌱☀️🌛

@briseiswrites Hello! We hope to go to print in the new year. You can expect to hear back about your submission by the end of 2021 ☀️

As we are a new press we have decided to keep submissions open on a rolling basis ☀️🌻

@pratibhacastle Hello! Happy Friday! Our website has the details in full. Find them at turnsolepress.co.uk

Good morning! We are a new lit mag seeking poems that encounter nature in its many guises: wild and tame; familiar and unknown; benevolent and menacing. Our first hand illustrated anthology is inspired by medieval manuscripts. #submissions open 15 Nov! ☀️

💫 We are delighted to say we are officially OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!!! Very excited to see some already in our inbox and keep them coming! ☀️ #subsopen turnsolepress.co.uk/contact/

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100 followers and counting!! 🤯 To celebrate we want to share a dazzling poem that we think captures a relationship to the natural world that we at Turnsole are so inspired and fascinated by 🌱❤ Woods etc. by Alice Oswald

We love the strange marginalia that animate the folia of medieval manuscripts. 👉 take, for instance, the manicule. As early as the 12th century these spindly fingers were etched into manuscripts to annotate and emphasise sections of a text. 🤯