Divinations Magazine

05/01/2024

🌊 And we're officially open!

For this issue, we invite submissions delving into the mysteries of the mightiest realm: the sea. The deadline for submissions to Issue Three: Siren is January 26th.

🔗 Ready to take the plunge? Submit your work at https://www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions

04/01/2024

🧜‍♀️ Venture into the depths. Submit to Issue Three.

⏰ Submissions for our third issue, "Siren," will open in 24 hours. Curious about the theme? Explore details on our submissions page at

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02/01/2024

🐋 Dive into the depths, heed the Siren's call.

🔗 Submissions for Issue Three: Siren, open in 3 days. What's it about? Check out our submissions page here: https://buff.ly/42vGQpl

15/12/2023

The curtain has fallen on the applications for our Editorial Assistant Roles! A massive thank you to everyone who applied — we're swimming in a sea of over 60 applications in just 5 days! 😮

Mark your calendars with sparkly stickers because the official word from us will hit your inboxes by Jan 3rd (although it's likely that you'll hear from us before December 25th!) ✨ 🔮

05/12/2023

🌊 Dive into the depths, heed the Siren's call.

Announcing Issue Three: Siren! Submissions open on January 5th 2024.

🔗 Check out our guidelines here: https://buff.ly/42vGQpl

24/11/2023

✨ Introducing Shamik Banerjee ✨

Shamik Banerjee is a poet and poetry reviewer from the North-Eastern belt of India. He loves taking long strolls and spending time with his family. His deep affection with Solitude and Poetry provides him happiness.

"Those who shall look at my eye, Will suffer evilfare. Whoever near my bust will stand,
Will venom in me flood," The Bust of Roth Hoffmann.

Discover more about Shamik's work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/47LwiVA ✨

23/11/2023

🚗 Introducing Yasmine Diaz 🚗

Yasmine Diaz is a New York native and an avid playlist creator. When she's not trying to craft fictional plots via music, she's watching horror movies, taking pictures and taking up sketching hands.

"All she can do is watch as her sister walks hand in hand with a woman into the dark night," Wrong Turn by Yasmine Diaz.

Discover more about Yasmine's work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/3STGyHk✨

22/11/2023

🐍 Introducing Briana Zelkova 🐍

"Do you ever pay too close attention to the laces snaking across the top of your foot," Call me Pygmalion/Medusa is my deadname by .

Discover more about Zelkova's work in Issue Two of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/464JEuW
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19/11/2023

🧙 Introducing A.L. Davidson 🧙

A.L. Davidson (she/they) is a writer who specializes in massive space operas and tiny disturbances. She writes stories about ghosts, grief, isolation, space exploration, eco-horror, q***rness, and the human condition. She is the author of three web novels, The Wayward Souls of Avalon, Lonely Planet Hotel, and The Night Farm, the R-PNZL: A Futuristic Fairytale series, and her debut eco-horror romance novella, When The Rain Begins To Burn, released in October of 2023. They live with their cat Jukebox in Kansas City.

"Remember, curses are only charming until they happen to you,” The Plight of Professor Pyle.

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/3MN3ZhA ✨

18/11/2023

🐈‍⬛ Introducing JP Relph 🐈‍⬛

JP Relph is a working-class writer from northwest England, mostly hindered by four cats and aided by copious tea. She volunteers in a charity shop where they let her dress mannequins and source haunted objects. A forensic science degree and passion for microbes, insects and botany often influence her words. JP writes about apocalypses quite a lot (despite not having the knees for one) and her post-apoc flash collection was published by Alien Buddha Press in June 2023 and is available on Amazon. Stories in The Ghastling, Wyldblood Press and Dark Winter Lit.

"We don’t fear the Old Lady. She’s not here for us. She’s here for him. He is already damned,” Winter-Bourne by

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/3suSwwp ✨

17/11/2023

📺 Introducing Sara Roncero-Menendez 📺

Sara Roncero-Menendez (she/her) is a writer based in Queens, NY, and has published stories and essays in several outlets, including Points in Case, Sad Girl Review, and miniskirt magazine, as well as a poetry chapbook, Graveyard Heart. She is also a journalist and PR professional, writing about movies, television and books.

"No one is supposed to know they’re in a scary story,” Scream Queen Confessional by .

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/49ynrZc ✨

15/11/2023

🔗 Introducing M.L. Hufkie 🔗

M.L. Hufkie was born in Cape Town in 1984. Her birth, during the last desperate years of South Africa’s apartheid policy and subsequent childhood in a country on the brink of change and plagued by political unrest has left a profound impact on her. Growing up in a religious and very traditional household in a township called Bishop Lavis she has always been fascinated by topics around politics, religious dominance, the impact of patriarchy, social change, and the occult. With a minority voice in the UK, and the world at large her aim is to challenge dominant narratives from a minority perspective. She recently completed her MFA at Birkbeck working on a novel entitled Voices from the South.

"Blinded by tears, her arms and legs propelled her forward like she was a great marionette in the hands of an expert puppeteer," Scold's Bridle by M.L. Hufkie.

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/3QHEfVg ✨

14/11/2023

🔮 Explore the mysterious realm of Issue Two: Cursed from Divinations Magazine!

Whether you prefer web or PDF formats, you can delve into these cursed tales right from your screen.

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13/11/2023

🌿 Introducing Hannah Ascough 🌿

Hannah Ascough is a PhD student in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, on unceded Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory; her recent publications are housed primarily in academic journals, while her creative works can be found in Fathom, The Octopus, and The Coast.

"Jon realizes that the lines are not black but wooded browns and spindled greens and they have spread not just below him but around him, and he sees now that they are branching out of him, sprouting from his chest; feels them writhing across his back, and breathing up his spine."

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/3QxIpyF ✨

12/11/2023

💻 Introducing Sheri White

Sheri White’s stories have been published in many anthologies, including Alice Says Go F**k Yourself (an ezine), I Cast You Out, published by CultureCult Press, Flashes of Fantasy, published by Wicked Shadow Press, Tales from the Crust (edited by Max Booth III and David James Keaton), Halldark Holidays (edited by Gabino Iglesias), and HWA’s Don’t Turn Out the Lights (edited by Jonathan Maberry). Her collection, Sacrificial Lambs and Others, was published in 2018.

Sheri lives in Jefferson, Maryland with her husband Chris, their daughter Lauren, their three black cats (Lucy, Sadie, and Vlad), and two dogs (Dobie and Josie). Their other daughters Sarah and Becca fled the scene last year.

✨ Read White's work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/40navBl

11/11/2023

🖤 Introducing Jay Pallas 🖤

Jay was raised in New Zealand but returned to England for University where she also began to write fiction in her spare time. Inspired by folklore and fairytales, she loves to apply extraordinary twists to ordinary scenarios with a focus on fantasy and horror. She has previously written short stories for Bandit Fiction and designed cover art and illustrations for multiple self-published fantasy works.

"Curses did not discriminate," A Fresh Start by Jay Pallas.

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/40PclLH ✨

09/11/2023

💚 Introducing Laura Bibby 💚

Laura Bibby (she/her) writes poetry and stories that weave her love of nature with the strange, fantastical and ominous. Her work has found homes in Nymphs, Moss Puppy Magazine and Selenite Press, among others, and her debut poetry chapbook A KNIFE IN THE DARK was published by Bottlecap Press in 2022.

"the bitter taste of that witch knows I cannot be pacified," Cursed by Laura Bibby.

Discover more in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/3QuYIwd ✨

08/11/2023

🔥 Introducing Alexandra "Sasha" Weiss 🔥

Alexandra Weiss is trying and failing to grow superhot chillies. Sasha is an American studies graduate student, an editor of Another Chicago Magazine, and the author of autumn is when the ghosts come out (Blanket Sea Press, 2022).

"She had too much dead matter already. Dirt choked her dreams. Tendrils snaking from the black soil like so many worms," Canaries by Alexandra Weiss.

Discover more about Weiss' work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://buff.ly/462e8xy✨

07/11/2023

🐍 Introducing Briana Zelkova 🐍

Briana is a neurodivergent poet from Tennessee. She is obsessed with surrealism, hates Ernest Hemingway and can be found gazing out of windows.

"Do you ever pay too close attention to the laces snaking across the top of your foot," Call me Pygmalion/Medusa is my deadname by .

Discover more about Zelkova's work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/cursed-call-me-pygmalion
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06/11/2023

🐍 Dive into the eerie world of Issue Two: Cursed from Divinations Magazine! 🐍

📚 Available in both web and PDF formats, you can now immerse yourself in the cursed stories from the comfort of your screen. Don't miss out on this thrilling collection that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

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05/11/2023

☠️ Introducing Bobby Wells-Brown ☠️

Bobby is a long-time lover of cosmic horror, and fantasy fiction. Over the last 10 years he has studied to achieve Bachelor and Master’s degrees in writing and media - he has continued this into his professional life having worked in travel journalism, copywriting, media production, and publishing.

His fiction focusses on the ideas of epistemic distance, cosmic philosophy, and Death as a character. Despite these dark themes, he loves to bring detailed and compelling visual descriptions to his work, which is often inspired by the likes of HP Lovecraft, Phillip Pullman, and Eric LaRocca.

"Death felt like a spider above his web, looking for the fly about to die," Born in Death by Bobby Wells-Brown.

Discover more about Wells-Brown's work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/46VGJ9p
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04/11/2023

💜 Introducing Dori Lumpkin 💜

Dori Lumpkin is a q***r writer and graduate student from South Alabama. Their work has appeared in Susurrus and Diet Milk Magazines, and is forthcoming in many other places. They love all things speculative and weird, and strive to make fiction writing a more inclusive place. You can find them on most social media websites, or if you’re looking for a little more information than that, you can check out their website: https://buff.ly/3u4pHad

"She screamed so much that her jaw split open, just like the dozens who had come before her," Binding by Dori Lumpkin

Discover more about Lumpkin's work in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine:
https://www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/cursed-binding✨

03/11/2023

⚰️ Introducing Grace Magee

Grace Magee is an Irish writer based in Belfast who loves spooky stories (but always regrets hearing them).

“Oh, sweetie,” She whispered hoarsely, and reached her hand down, as if to stroke the corpse’s cheek, but couldn’t make contact, “Oh, my love," A Wake by Grace Magee.

Discover more about Magee's haunting piece in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/3FHfval ✨

02/11/2023

🔮 Introducing Livvy Linz Winkelman 🔮

Livvy Linz Winkelman is a writer and poet currently pursuing a BA in creative writing. She can often be found obsessively curating her Spotify or haunting her university's library. Her work has been published in Grim & Gilded and is forthcoming in various publications.

"Concept of time does not exist when you’re haunted. Concept of time does not exist when you’re half-possessed. Concept of time matters not to teenage girls with notches in their spines and smoke as perfume. Concept of time matters not to teenage girls. Concept of time matters not," Demonology by Livvy Linz Winkelman

Discover more about Winkelman's enchanting piece in Issue Two: Cursed of Divinations Magazine: https://buff.ly/3MOSVkj ! ✨

31/10/2023

It's here! Embrace the enchanting chill of autumn with Divinations Magazine's latest issue: Cursed 🐍

Immerse yourself in a world of supernatural phenomena, where every page is woven with bewitching curses. Explore the realms of witches, spells, and apparitions, and unearth talented new voices in the realm of Horror 👻

👉 Discover the terror, break the curse: https://buff.ly/3tTOIVE

28/10/2023

✨Issue Two releases in 3 days!

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01/06/2023

🐍 Our submissions are open for Issue Two: Cursed.

🔮 Had a premonition? Share your vision with us: https://buff.ly/43eY1w5

⏰ Deadline: June 30th 11:59pm (BST)

28/04/2023

3 days to go!

Prepare to be spooked. Intuition will be released May 1st.

26/04/2023

🐍 Dare to venture into the dark?

Submissions for Issue Two: Cursed open on June 1st.

29/03/2023

👇 Hunger is such a treat! We can't wait for you to read it alongside the rest of Issue One.

Coming soon!
I’m frightfully excited to have ‘Hunger’ find a home with Divinations Magazine!
I hope you all have the stomach for it…