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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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  • All Issues
    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    ‘upon seeing yourself in the window,’ ‘honesty as a policy though not necessarily the policy,’ ‘sadbearhugs, inc.,’ ‘yo’ momma’s so fat (redux)’ and ‘parenting advice from a 45-year-old divorced man with 3 trash dogs, no children’

    6 October 2024

    Benjamin Drevlow — Excerpt: I’m gonna be honest: I am not actually having an emotional affair with Gary from work. / Big dicks really are overrated.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    For Better or For Worse

    6 October 2024

    MN Wiggins — Excerpt: “Sweetheart, you can’t keep eating our friends.” “Was he that great a friend, Stan?” “Kind of. Yeah.”

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  • BOTN - Culture - Literature - Nominations - Weekly Features

    “Self-Portrait of My Father as James Baldwin Reading Me Notes of a Native Son” by I Echo

    29 September 2024

    Best of the Net 2025 Nomination: CNF Category — Originally published on 5 May 2024 in THR Weekly Features

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    “A Map of the Welsh Coast as Seen by My Mother” by MJ Huntsgood

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    Best of the Net 2025 Nominations

    29 September 2024
  • BOTN - Nominations - Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “A Map of the Welsh Coast as Seen by My Mother” by MJ Huntsgood

    29 September 2024

    Best of the Net 2025 Nomination: CNF Category — Originally published on 12 May 2024 in THR Weekly Features

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    29 September 2024
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The Not So Divine and Barely Hilarious Comedy That’s My Social Life

    22 September 2024

    Nina Miller — Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2025 Longlist

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