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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 31

> Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social
> Rich Ware @warer.bsky.social
> Bonnie Hancell
> Tom Mason
> Meron Berhanu
> Emily A. Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social
> Sophia Georghiou
> Claire Berlyn
> William Wyld

Huge gratitude to Richard & all our contributors.
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Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott — Propel Magazine

Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott, July 2025

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 31

> jake stefan ferguson @jakestefan181.bsky.social
> Christopher Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social
> Billie Manning
> Gayathiri Kamalakanthan @unembarrassable.bsky.social
> Freya Jackson
> Olive Franklin @usuallyolive.bsky.social
> Stephen de Búrca @sdeburca.bsky.social

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Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott — Propel Magazine

Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott, July 2025

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 31

🔵 Propel Issue 16, edited with enormous care by the very brilliant Richard Scott, is OUT NOW! 🔵

We're delighted to share this bumper issue with you, featuring work by:

> CJ Wagstaff
> Edward Doegar
> Jack Westmore
> Leusa Lloyd
> William Gee
> Nóra Blascsók @nblascsok.bsky.social

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Cover of Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Ed. Richard Scott
Contributors listed in thread

Propel Issue 16 Contents:
Introduction by Editor Richard Scott

CJ Wagstaff, The Farrier

Edward Doegar, Word-ache. Our steps ––gravel and Overcast; a shadow-less March. Frühling

Jack Westmore, Oasis

Leusa Lloyd, The Snipe

William Gee, wildflower(s)

Nóra Blascsók, Eating sorrel leaves

jake stefan ferguson, after the parade, birmingham pride 2024

Christopher Lloyd, The Tower

Billie Manning, Persephone Makes A Brief Consideration

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, The Exhibition

Freya Jackson, The Vase

Olive Franklin, Shane

Stephen de Búrca, My Father (trans. of Jón úr Vör’s ‘Faðir Minn’)

Kayleigh Jayshree, Desire

Rich Ware, Tangerine

Bonnie Hancell, Two dogs and they are running

Tom Mason, Little Tombeau

Meron Berhanu, Ophelia

Emily A. Taylor, My Sunday Roast

Sophia Georghiou, Adian

Claire Berlyn, The most popular names for girls

William Wyld, The Butterfly Bush

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 5

👀 Reminder that submissions for Issue 16 are open until midnight tomorrow!

Send us your poems >>
propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

Propel July 2025
ISSUE SIXTEEN
Edited by Richard Scott
SUBMISSIONS OPEN
to 6 JUNE 2025

Black and white photo of Richard Scott, a smiling white man with a dark beard, above an issue card with the above information, on a medium blue background

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 31

🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

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Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.

$Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32$

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · May 30

So excited for this tomorrow!!

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · May 30

in here tomorrow! alongside some astounding work

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 31

🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

bsky.app/profile/prop...

$Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32$

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30

> Rowan Lyster @rowanlyster.bsky.social
> Zainab Imran
> Rose Ramsden ‪@roseramsden.bsky.social‬
> Marianne Habeshaw
> E.M. Davis
> Rona Luo
> Oli Isaac
> Kit Byford
> Phoebe Gilmore

It's a fab issue we can't wait for you to read!

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30

With gratitude to each of our wonderful contributors:

> Hasti
> Yousef Alawi
> Liva Jean
> Regina Avendaño
> Jory Garner
> J.J. Carey
> Danny Carlo Pandolfi @dannycarlo.com‬
> Shannon Smith Meekings
> Kate Fenwick
> Alice Weatherley @peremptorytiger.bsky.social

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 19

UPDATE!
Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025

Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 19

UPDATE!
Due to a delayed timeline, we're happy to let you know that we've extended the submission window for Propel Issue 16, Edited by Richard Scott to midnight FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2025

Subs OPEN >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 5

We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)!

SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May

If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Edited by Richard Scott – Submissions open to 31 May 2025

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Apr 1

So glad you found us! 💙🙏

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Maarten Ornstein @maartenornstein.bsky.social · Mar 31

Love the typography here

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thank you!

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Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem) @morganvl.bsky.social · Mar 31

Over the moon to have a poem in the latest issue of the brilliant @propelmagazine.bsky.social

Many thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for choosing ‘Four anecdotes from the life of Alexander von Humboldt’, a poem about power, arrogance, & an ancient tree who knows all.

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Pascal Fallas @theobjectyes.bsky.social · Mar 31

Excitingly, I have something in this issue. Thanks @susannahdickey.bsky.social and @propelmagazine.bsky.social

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Henry St Leger @henrywriteswords.bsky.social · Mar 31

Very happy to feature in Propel #14 with my poem 'Do You Like Your Current Work?', part of a pamphlet coming out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social next year - thanks to @susannahdickey.bsky.social for including!

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

○ June Archbold
○ Marina Scott
○ Jose Buera
○ Bea Bacon
○ @henrywriteswords.bsky.social
○ @theobjectyes.bsky.social
○ Michael Naghten Shanks
○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
○ @morganvl.bsky.social
○ @jjblackman.bsky.social
○ Eleanor Cousins Brown

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

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Propel Fourteen, edited by Susannah Dickey — Propel Magazine

Propel Fourteen, March 2025, edited by Susannah Dickey

www.propelmagazine.co.uk

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

And SUBMISSIONS are OPEN for Issue 15 (May 2025) edited by Sanah Ahsan until midnight UK tonight, Mon 31 March >>

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 10

Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan

>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit/32293...

Propel Issue Fifteen May 2025
Edited by Sanah Ahsan
Submissions open to 31 March 2025

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

Issue 14 of Propel is out today!

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

○ June Archbold
○ Marina Scott
○ Jose Buera
○ Bea Bacon
○ @henrywriteswords.bsky.social
○ @theobjectyes.bsky.social
○ Michael Naghten Shanks
○ Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
○ @morganvl.bsky.social
○ @jjblackman.bsky.social
○ Eleanor Cousins Brown

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

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Propel Fourteen, edited by Susannah Dickey — Propel Magazine

Propel Fourteen, March 2025, edited by Susannah Dickey

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

🔵 OUT NOW: Propel Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social
🔵

www.propelmagazine.co.uk/fourteen

Featuring work by:
○ Jay Barnett
○ Tabitha Giddings
○ Danielle Gilmour
○ Anisha Jaya Minocha
○ @alykissner.bsky.social
○ Alex MacDonald
○ Dylan Stallard
○ Benjamin J. Larner
○ Manuela Moser

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 31

Goooood morning from the Propel Magazine account 😅

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