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With our August challenge underway, we're thinking about what's still to come at Trash Cat Lit.
Here is a post summarising the rest of our 2026 sub calls. Pencil us in if something takes your fancy 🦝
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Our fourth tease for the upcoming horror issue is a tense, feverous one from Clare Cummings 🦝
In The Fever, a young girl bedridden and boiling can only watch as terrible things happen around her, while her doting parents see to her care
In the issue coming 31st October
The first tease of the day is an ekphrastic piece from Sophia Adamowicz @SophiaA_writes 🦝
In Fragment on the theme of memento mori, a man receives a vision he believes to be holy, then it leads to strange and terrible things
Coming 31st October.
Our second tease for the Halloween biohazard issue is a delicious treat from LM Fontanes @LoriFontanes 🦝
In Bite Me, a self-involved misogynist scientist working on insect resilience in humans meets his match - in love and more - and starts to transform 🖤
Coming 31st Oct
Our first tease for the biohazard issue is a dark and demented one from Leigh Loveday @MrLovelyday 🦝
In Loss and Recovery, grubby corporate practices force a brilliant molecular biologist to forge their own path, leading to a very different divesting 🖤
Coming 31st October
We'll start daily teases for the Halloween horror issue tomorrow 🦝
Coming next in the bin calendar is our Winter general call - this year we want stories that are set in or feel...wintry ❄️
Get some ideas from our mood board here:
trashcatlit.com/winter-mood/
Subs open November 1st
The air has bite today in NW England, and that seems appropriate for our biohazard horror contributor reveal 🦝
14 amazing writers and stories coming on 31st October. Celebrate them 🖤
@SophiaA_writes Clare Cummings, Eli S. Evans @LoriFontanes Kathryn Kulpa @MrLovelyday
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More biohazard horror contributors 🖤
Rowan Marsh, Ali McLafferty, @DrAaronMullins F. Palmer, W.M. Peregrine, Dina Perthakines, Aza Smith, Lydia Storm
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My poem 'dorsum' is up in roughhouser.neocities.org/is… - a great first issue- congrats Roughhouser! And alongside some excellent writers too, go read this one x
All Biohazard call notifications have been sent. We've 14 contributors to this, our first horror issue 🦝
Thank you to readers Zoe Davis @MeanerHarker and @JoyceBingham10 for working so well with Trash Cat. The issue is going to be 🔥
Contributor reveal tomorrow, be there!
One benefit of being published by TCL is the opportunity for your facials to be used in a bespoke image which will hang in the Trash Family Gallery FOR ALL TIME.
Our prose poets have been added. Our Halloweeners will be heading there soon...
trashcatlit.com/trash-family…
We end our amazing prose poetry issue highlights with a total banger from Gill O'Halloran @poetrypleases 🦝
We loved the hermit structure used to wonderful effect, the surreal and imaginative responses, and a last line that lingers
Read and listen:
trashcatlit.com/living-well-…
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Alongside the spotlight for her gorgeous prose poem, we have Gill O'Halloran's @poetrypleases responses to Trash Cat's interview questions.
Don't miss this. Be inspired.
trashcatlit.com/2026/10/15/q…
For today's prose poem spotlight, we have a twofer from Sushanth Shyamasundar 🦝
We loved the beautiful phrasing in both these pieces, the observational style, and of course, how one truly celebrates Jimothy 💜
Read both here:
trashcatlit.com/two-prose-po…
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I’m delighted to share Issue 8 of Underbelly Press will be released on the 13th of November. As it’s Friday the 13th, I thought it was a fitting date to publish an issue revolving around fear!
Thank you for your support. The list of contributors for Issue 8 will be shared soon.
ALT Underbelly Press Issue 8 coming soon November 13
Today we have a beautiful Scottish prose poem from Moira Ashley 🦝
Reader @judepickledplum said "I love that the narrator's mood reflects the weather, but the land remains the hero of the piece."
Immersive and stunning language throughout.
Read here:
trashcatlit.com/weathering-t…
Submissions closed last night and we're dug in making decisions. It's clear our first horror issue is going to be FIRE. The horror writers brought it!
Notifications will go out this week.
Thank you to all of you who subbed to this one.
Issue will go live on the 31st 🦝
Starting the week with a prose poetry spotlight from Liz Steale 🦝
We loved this unexpected POV, the insight into a very different life, the simple joy.
Read here
trashcatlit.com/almost-catch…
Ermagod it's almost time! At 8pm (BST) we slam the lid on the biohazard bin before everything seeps out.
Horror writers assemble, it's almost the endgame, get in the bin! 🦝
trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio…
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Thrilled to be part of the Sunday Morning festivities with a little piece called Candy's Place.
Joel Rifkin's my uncle
Secret Saturday with @jessebinger is out NOW!
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It's Sunday, it's Autumn-crisp, sink into our prose poem from Rachel Jones 🦝
We loved the mismatch between intent and action, the MCs underlying fear of failure, and the sensory immersion you have reading this one.
Read and listen here:
trashcatlit.com/barefeet/
