Truth Serum Press

01/01/2024

Submissions have now opened for 'Retirement Lifespan Vol. 10'

Accepting short stories, essays and poetry.

Find more info here:

Submissions for Retirement Lifespan Vol. 10 HAVE OPENED Submissions close 29th February 2024. From 2021 through to mid-2024, Pure Slush has been conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking acr…

01/01/2024

Submissions close (weirdly enough, given time zones) midnight Hawaiian time ...

Submissions for Loss Lifespan Vol. 9 HAVE OPENED. Submissions close 31st December 2023. From 2021 through to 2024, Pure Slush has been conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the Li…

08/12/2023

Submissions for 'Loss Lifespan Vol. 9' are still open ... and close 31st December.

For more info, click here:

Submissions for Loss Lifespan Vol. 9 HAVE OPENED. Submissions close 31st December 2023. From 2021 through to 2024, Pure Slush has been conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the Li…

25/11/2023

... aaaa-a-a-a-a-nd ... it's out there ...

Yes, 'Books Truth Serum Vol. 7' is now available for purchase.

'Books' features the poetry and prose of 53 writers from around the world, all talking and writing and wondering about the roles books, literature, stories, poetry and reading has played in their lives.

Available in 3 formats:
Paperback - https://bit.ly/BooksPB
ePub eBook - https://bit.ly/BookseP
Kindle eBook - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNXXQVRK/

For a taste of 'Books', click here - https://truthserumpress.net/tastesof/a-taste-of-books/

from the anthology Books Truth Serum Vol. 7, published November 2023   ISBN (paperback) 978-1-923000-01-8 ISBN (ePub) 978-1-923000-07-0 ISBN (Kindle) 978-1-923000-14-8   to purchase, c…

01/11/2023

Submissions have opened for Pure Slush's 'Loss Lifespan Vol. 9'.

Submissions close 31st December 2023.

For more info, click here:

Submissions for Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8 HAVE OPENED. Submissions close 31st December 2023. From 2021 through to 2024, Pure Slush is conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the L…

25/10/2023

Last day for submissions: Tuesday 31st October 2023

Submissions for Boléro at Breakfast Music Folio 3 HAVE NOW OPENED. Submissions NOW CLOSE 31st October 2023. For information about the set-up of this project, click here. From 2022 through to 2024, …

05/10/2023

For those who submitted for the Truth Serum Press anthology 'Books', submissions are slowly being worked through.

As always, thanks for your patience.

12/09/2023

https://pureslush.com/submissions/current-submissions/bolero-at-breakfast-submit-now/

Submissions for Boléro at Breakfast Music Folio 3 HAVE NOW OPENED. Submissions close 30th September 2023. For information about the set-up of this project, click here. From 2022 through to 2024, Pu…

15/07/2023

'Achievement' is the 8th volume in Pure Slush's 'Lifespan project, marks the 2/3 point ... and has just been released!

For a taste of 'Achievement' click here:
• https://bit.ly/achievetaste

To purchase 'Achievement', click below for:
• paperback - https://bit.ly/AchievPB
• ePub - https://bit.ly/AchieveP
• Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBVN7CMN/

15/07/2023

Very happy to announce the publication of 'Where the Wind Blows' by Sandra Arnold, out now from Truth Serum Press.

'Alexa, her husband Rob and daughter Beth leave New Zealand to live in Brazil for one year. Sixteen-year-old Beth struggles with
a new culture, but it brings her insights, too. Six years later, back in New Zealand, Beth dies, and the family is thrown into despair.
Coming to terms with their grief, they leave to work in another country, Oman: its alien culture bears no resemblance to the life they have known. What they experience and discover helps them towards acceptance of their loss, the ability to appreciate beauty again, and gives them hope for the future. 'Where the Wind Blows' explores the themes of love, culture shock, grief and survival.'

Click below for 'Where the Wind Blows' in
• paperback - https://bit.ly/WherePB
• ePub eBook - https://bit.ly/WhereeP
• Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBG8ZM6J/

Click here for 'tastes of 'Where the Wind Blows':
• https://bit.ly/Wheretaste

14/07/2023

'Their teeth skitter like tambourines. A smattering of dust under noses tells a story they’re not ready to share.'

from 'Seven Le****ns and a Bar of Soap' in 'Love, Lemons and Illicit S*x' by Nod Ghosh, out now from Truth Serum Press

Find more tastes here:
• https://bit.ly/Lemontaste

Click below for:
• paperback - https://bit.ly/LLISpb
• ePub eBook - https://bit.ly/LLISePub
• Kindle - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CB1V5CCD/

05/07/2023

Very happy to announce the publication of 'Love, Lemons and Illicit S*x' by Nod Ghosh, out now from Truth Serum Press.

A racy collection of 32 stories sexy, mad, crazy, ridiculous and at times, quite sad ...

Click below for links to
• the book's webpage:
https://truthserumpress.net/catalogue/fiction/love-lemons-and-illicit-sex/
• the paperback:
https://bit.ly/LLISpb
• the ePub eBook:
https://bit.ly/LLISePub
• the Kindle eBook:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CB1V5CCD/

Find 'tastes of Love, Lemons and Illicit S*x' here:
• https://bit.ly/Lemontaste

01/07/2023

Yes, it's true ... you can no longer submit for 'Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8' ...
.. but you CAN submit for 'Boléro at Breakfast Music Folio 3'.

Submissions close 30th September.

Submissions for Boléro at Breakfast Music Folio 3 HAVE NOW OPENED. Submissions close 30th September 2023. For information about the set-up of this project, click here. From 2022 through to 2024, Pu…

29/06/2023

Last day for submissions is Friday 30th June ...

https://pureslush.com/submissions/current-submissions/achievement-lifespan-vol-8/

Submissions for 'Boléro at Breakfast' open Saturday 1st July ...

https://pureslush.com/submissions/current-submissions/bolero-at-breakfast-music-folio-3/

Submissions for Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8 HAVE NOW OPENED. Submissions close 30th June 2023. From 2021 through to 2024, Pure Slush is conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the L…

24/06/2023

Last day for submissions ... 30th June!

Submissions for Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8 HAVE NOW OPENED. Submissions close 30th June 2023. From 2021 through to 2024, Pure Slush is conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the L…

19/06/2023

SUBMISSION CALLS

‘Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8’
Final day for submissions 30th June
Find submission info here:
https://pureslush.com/submissions/current-submissions/achievement-lifespan-vol-8/

‘Books Truth Serum Vol. 7’
Final day for submissions 31st August
Find submission info here:
https://truthserumpress.net/submissions/current-submissions/books-truth-serum-vol-7/

‘Bolero at Breakfast Music Folio 3’
Submissions open 1st July
Find submission info here:
https://pureslush.com/submissions/current-submissions/bolero-at-breakfast-music-folio-3/

Boléro at Breakfast is the 3rd anthology in Pure Slush’s Music series. Submissions open 1st July 2023 Here is the set-up … Every weekday morning at 7.05 (directly after the 7.00am news)…

10/06/2023

https://truthserumpress.net/submissions/current-submissions/books-truth-serum-vol-7/

Submissions for Books Truth Serum Vol. 7 have opened. Submissions close 31st August 2023.   Your Books submission must be: original, so previously unpublished online or in print (so that inclu…

10/06/2023

Submissions open soon ... first TSP anthology in 3 years ...

09/06/2023

https://nationalflash.org/2023-festival-of-flash/

Starts Saturday June 10th ...

TUNE in this year to our series of ONLINE PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS IN THE 2023 NFFD SEASON! Saturday, 10 June & Saturday, 17 June LIVESTREAMED AND RECORDED ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE! With prize-winning writers, artists and editors from Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas Free discussions * guest rea...

09/06/2023

‘Stella’s Secret Sonata’ is the second volume in Pure Slush’s ‘Music Folio’ series and features the imaginative work of 38 writers. #

The anthology offers many different versions as to just who the dedicatee of a long-unknown violin sonata might be ...

Available now in:
• paperback – https://bit.ly/StellaPB
• Kindle eBook – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7HF5MWR
• ePub eBook – https://bit.ly/StellaePub

For a taste of ‘Stella’s Secret Sonata’, click here – https://bit.ly/Stellataste

‘Stella's Secret Sonata’ features the talents of 38 writers, including Cathie Aylmer, Pamela Baker, Cindy Botha, Diane Broughton, Michael Coolen, Eithne Cullen, Dawn DeBraal, Mark Donnelly, Tom Fegan, Julian Fell, PM Flynn, Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos, Wiebo Grobler, Ronald T. Hardwick, Matthew Hisbent, GP Hyde, rani Jayakumar, Christine Johnson, Karen Laws, J. Lister, Lance Manion, Liz Mayers, Jenean McBrearty, Karla Linn Merrifield, Jane Mooney, John Notley, Sylvia Petter, Matt Potter, David Rae, Susmita Ramani, Christine Reeves, Edward Reilly, Lily Roberts, Cheryl Snell, Gail Sosinsky, Michael Webb, Allan J. Wills and Melissa E. Wong.

03/06/2023

Submissions opened 1st May and they close 30th June.

'Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8' is the name.

This volume will finish off the middle third of the series ... 7 complete and 4 more to go after this one.

Hope you and your talent can be part of it.

Submissions for Achievement Lifespan Vol. 8 HAVE NOW OPENED. Submissions close 30th June 2023. From 2021 through to 2024, Pure Slush is conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the L…

31/05/2023

Some time next year, Pure Slush will resume its standalone anthology series ... and the first (submission call for April-May 2024) will probably be 'Bo****lo Pure Slush Vol. 24'.

Stay tuned ... and meanwhile, submit for our other anthologies ...

(original photo by Annette Rose Fort)

28/05/2023

Completing the Bequem Publishing May-release trifecta is 'Hold Off the Night', a collection of short stories by Teresa Burns Gunther.

An earlier version of this collection was a Finalist for the Orison Book Prize and the Hudson Prize, and you can find tastes of it by clicking here: https://bit.ly/HoldOfftaste

"The fragile space between hope and disappointment are where Teresa Burns Gunther’s characters reside in this beautifully wrought collection. Husbands and wives, sisters and brothers, children, and parents; every relationship sings with the truths we know and sometimes wish we didn’t, and yet it’s difficult, if not impossible, to turn away from these people. HOLD OFF THE NIGHT is a paean to the small miracles of ordinary life."
— Louise Marburg, author of YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION

Out now from Truth Serum Press, 'Hold Off the Night' is available in the following formats:
• paperback - https://bit.ly/HoldOffPB
• ePub eBook - https://bit.ly/HoldOffeP
• Kindle eBook - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6871DB8/