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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello, friends! The Braag is a Newcastle based small press and journal. We sell amazing speculative fiction and poetry - our vibe is weird, wild and beautifully presented! You can shop our books at thebraag.co, we also run the micro-journal Carmen et Error and work with writers across the world.

The Braag Presents

We were established in October 2020 in a moment of dazzling common sense and against government advice to retrain as something practical—such as an umbrella, or an exceptionally short lamp post.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 2d

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Michaela @michaelastjohn.bsky.social · 6d

Decorative plates depicting nuclear plants. One example:

A porcelain decorative plate depicting the Phillipsburg Nuclear Plant in Germany

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 7d

2 October? But that can mean only one thing! YES, THAT’S RIGHT!

In a village in Hertfordshire, they’re marking Old Man’s Day, because it’s the 454th anniversary of Mathew Wall almost being buried, and then not being buried, because he was in fact not dead

A gravestone in a lovely grassy graveyard, and a load of leafy branches on top of the grave. The stone is marked: Matthew Wall died 1595

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!

Forward Prize 2026 Highly Commended Congratulations to Corinna Board!
For
‘A dunnock’s prayer’, published in Issue 9.0 Carmen et Error

A dunnock’s prayer
by Corinna Board

O wingless wun,
god o’ smæl bridds,
spære my nest,
my fīf blue eggs.
Bright sky-keeper,
bringer o’ frost,
maker o’ hip an haw,
can ye hear my
tseep tseep tseep
in the hecg?
I sing for ye
in the blackthorn
an the dogrose,
in the hazel
an the rowan.
I, this tyne spearwa
so smæl in yur hand.

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🎃Spooky Emily🎃 @emmy.baby · 9d

Okay, funny bookstore category

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 9d

Makoto Kobayashi

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Timothy Fox @timothyfox.bsky.social · 8d

Very exciting things in store at @thebraag.bsky.social!

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

braag 25-6 line up
Poetry
polblar tmolkop - Andrew Blair
Empirical - Gita Ralleigh
Micros by
Corinna Board
Jessica Boatright
Heather Chapman
Stevie Ronnie
Lauren Thomas
Hybrid
Only Fragments Survive - Carmen Marcus

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Andboo Scare @andrewblair.co.uk · 9d

EXCITING NEWS!

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social · 9d

I could not be more excited to be able to share this little toucan-y book with you all 😊 Coming soon! Eeek!

#WhereIsTheToucanEmoji

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 9d

Exciting! #ukpoets

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Andboo Scare @andrewblair.co.uk · 9d

Got a pamphlet out next year where I explain the existence of Paul Blart Mall Cop through poetry

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Coming February 2026! by @andrewblair.co.uk ⭐👽👮🛍️🌎⭐

Let’s make one thing clear: polblar tmolkop by Andrew Blair is not an endorsement of the 2009 film Paul Blart: Mall Cop. If anything, it is an explanation. One that defies explanation itself. In a series of experimental, ludic poems Blair takes us through a series of conversations between the actor and writer Kevin James, and an ambiguous disembodied entity called Polblar.

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely to be part of this line-up with ‘Little Book O’Moss,’ my weird little microchap! 💚💚💚

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

With micros by @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Jessica Boatright, Heather Chapman, Stevie Ronnie and Lauren Thomas!

Little Book O’Moss by Corinna Board
Toucan by Jessica Boatright
The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman
Possession by Stevie Ronnie
Lavender Hill by Lauren Thomas

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Publishing Autumn 2026! by @carmenmarcus.bsky.social 🌊🪡🧵👗🐻‍❄️🌊

Only Fragments Survive by Carmen Marcus is a collection of speculative hybrid fiction and poetry that imagines the life of paranormal historian, Graine O’Malley. Graine is a researcher who divines the history of objects. Her catalogue contains a splinter of driftwood from Captain James Cook’s Endeavour; a hair from a polar bear that washed up in Orkney; a tale of witches from a dressmaker’s bent pin, an Indie mixtape from 1998 and other tales, taken from the history of broken things.

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Publishing February 2026! by @gitaralleigh.bsky.social ❤️💫✈️⛴️🥭❤️

Empirical by Gita Ralleigh explores immigrant life, domesticity and motherhood through a series of lyric poems and narrative fragments, including several ghazals. From Black Star, a voicing of the earliest South Asians in Britain, to abecedarian for maternity ward, postcolonial estrangement, immigrant contingency and tentative instances of love, joy and belonging are illuminated. These poems trace how inherited myths, contested histories and political tides pattern our lives, leaving indelible marks which corral the course of future imaginaries for ourselves and our descendents.

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Coming February 2026! by @andrewblair.co.uk ⭐👽👮🛍️🌎⭐

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Anthony Cartwright, he's fantastic, isn't he? It's in Necrosmologies, a title we've just published available via our website at thebraag.co 🖤

The Braag Presents

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 13d

I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.

cover of necrosmologies by anthony cartwright. a moody blue and black shy hangs over a grey and ruined cityscape.

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 15d

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 16d

Since it seems people are into WOKE CANNIBAL EROTICA, I should probably point to my novelette about being an altar boy to elder gods, Shadow Jack - free to read at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social

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Shadow Jack - GigaNotoSaurus

Content Note: aftermath of sacrifices, blood, body horror, offscreen abuse, suicide There is a hole in the wall by Shadow Jack’s bed. It is no bigger than a pin prick, and the wind that blows from it ...

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 22d

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

Vulnerable Families Urgent Evacuation Fund

We are a group of Gazans and international activists (Palestinian/SWANA/Allies) who have been supporting Gazans for the past 2 years and beyond. We are now working to coordinate crisis evacuations for...

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Dominic Armato @darmato.bsky.social · 19d

Apropos of everything, because it cannot be said loudly or frequently enough, anybody who has a problem with trans people can get fucked.

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 21d

Artwork by @pigsbliss on twitter its a very unusual art piece of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the tv show the X files xfiles it features both agents standing at someone's doorway she is holding her fbi badge and he has his hands in his pockets their eyes are unusually placed its amazing art

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21d

If it's not pushed back on now at the very least we will have a two-tier publishing environment, where established authors get the human infrastructure and the newer/less prominent authors get a substandard experience, and then the surprised publishers will wonder why new authors aren't selling

Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 21d

This sort of thing may be (and I don’t know the publishing industry so I could be wholly wrong here!) something worth pushing back on early? So there’s not a 2030 future where they all do it and there’s nowhere else to go? But that might be naive on my part (and you’d do it anyway, I know)

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