Welcome to Haunted Words Press 2026! We're entering into our fifth year (!), and we can't wait to get started🧵

The second of Sonnet's Young Writers for this issue, take a sneak peek here at the opening to the wonderful Abigail Chu's poem Echoes, and read it in full in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds, available for free now! 🖤

The first of Sonnet's Young Writers for our newest issue is the wonderful Rosie Kersley Williamson, with her gorgeous new poem Memory of a Midnight Guardian! Read the full piece in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds today!🖤

Check out the opening of the brilliant Jensen Young's dystopian YA short story Kelsey here, and uncover the full tale in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds, available now! 🖤

Have a break and a read of the opening to the brilliant Madilyn Hazelton's poem I am one rib, and then find the full piece in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds! 🖤

The fantastic Hannah Dilday's tarot poem Celtic Spread can be read for free in all its glory in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds! Read the opening here now, then fall in love with the full piece on our website! 🖤

Up to date with Issue Thirteen yet? Read the opening of the brilliant Kim Piercy's poem Bolero Blessing here, and then in full for free through our website! 🖤

What rotting blooms have sprouted near you? Can you see them from your window? Do they whisper to you? Take a look at some of our mood boards for These Rotten Blooms to spark some inspiration, and see what emerges. Which one haunts you most?🥀🖤

Read the opening of the brilliant N.A. Kimber's new piece What Remains here, and fall in love with it in full in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds for free on our website! 🖤

Take a sneak peek at this nature-centric YA poem from the wonderful Andrew Searle, and fall in love with the whole piece in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds 🖤

The corpses of those long loved and long gone have returned. What stories do they whisper? Submissions for These Rotten Blooms, our 2026 Pride collection, are officially open now until Thursday 14th May! Full submission guidelines on our website🥀🖤

Take a peek at the opening to the wonderful R. Reed's poem Storm, and read the full poem in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds for free via our website now! 🖤

Have you read Issue Thirteen yet? Take a peek at stunning poem orphic by Evelyn Vozar here, and read it in full in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds now! 🖤

Are you sitting comfortably? Ready to fall in love with twenty wonderfully peculiar, devastatingly hopeful pieces of work? Of course you are! Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds is officially live and available for you to read for free on our website! Check it out, we dare you 🖤

Kicking off our YA written work we have the incredible Liz Waldie, with stunning and tragic found family piece The Mask! Read the opening here, and fall in love with the full piece in Issue Thirteen: Ruined Worlds when it published on Saturday 11th April! 🖤

Our inside art piece for this issue is from the incredible Emma Kraus, titled Outnumbered! What could our final girl be staring at? See the full piece this Saturday 11th April! 🖤

Our final middle-grade piece in this issue is The Boy Beneath the Stairs, by the wonderful Kamea Kyon! Take a sneak peek at the opening to this fantastical tale here, and read it in full this Saturday 11th April! 🖤

Read the opening to the brilliant Luke Barron's gorgeous middle grade short story Tiny Robot! You can fall in love with TB in the full piece in Issue Thirteen on Saturday 11th April 🖤

Stay for a moment and read the opening of the fantastic Abraham Aondoana's middle grade poem of rebirth and renewal, After the Castle Fell! You can fall in love with the full poem in Issue Thirteen on Saturday 11th April! 🖤

Read the opening to the brilliant Mario Senzale's mystery middle grade tale Smog now, and bide your time until Saturday 11th April to read the piece in full, surrounded by even more ruined worlds! 🖤

Take a sneak peek at the opening to the brilliant Sadie Leewood's feline middle grade short story In Here! You can read the full piece in all its glory when Issue Thirteen releases on Saturday 11th April 🖤