Contents – Issue 12

Click on any of the titles below to be taken to that page in Issue 12. You can skip to the next piece in the magazine from each page by pressing the Next Page button at the bottom of the page. Happy Reading!

The Street of Sun and Soot
Kay Flower
Ancestors
Claire Howland
A Lament for July
Lyanna Choi
The Power of People
Maryam Alatmane
Beauty
Aliya Waseem
The Rightful Queen
Aliya Waseem
The Bastion’s Beginning
Kay Flower
Zombie Apocalypse
Orla Fay
Untitled
Iona Mandal
Friendship
Hattie Gennard
Magpies
Claire Howland
Villanelle
Mark Chappell
Cloudwatching
Similoluwa Osunsanmi

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Submission now open for Anthology 2024

Spark Young Writers can submit up to 500 words of their writing for inclusion in this year’s Anthology. The deadline for submissions is 22nd July 2024. Full details can be found here.

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