Confluence Medway

05/08/2024

Issue 16 is now available to pre-order. 🎉🎉

Featuring a selection of our favourite writing from the first 15 issues this is a great read to take on holiday! (At 172 pages we couldn't fit in everything we loved and had to make some hard decisions about the longlist, so don't feel too bad if your writing wasn't in there!)

With glorious full colour images by Michi Masumi, this is an issue that gives a great snapshot into Confluence past and present.
We're only getting a limited print run, so if you want a copy, please reserve it now, by ordering in advance. Your copy will be posted 16 Aug.

Profits from this one will go straight back into this year's Medway River Lit.

Pre-order here - https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-issue-16

27/06/2024

Greetings Medwegia! If you are a young writer between the ages of 12 and 17 this could be for you. Or if you know somebody who is and they like to put pen to paper or pixels to the screen in a poetic way, then make sure you tell them all about this...

21/06/2024

Currently having a look back through our first 15 issues - as the next one is going to be an Editors' Pick showcasing some of our favourites from the last 8 years! Subscribe now to get hold of it - www.confluencemagazine.co.uk

27/02/2024

Did you come to Medway River Lit last year?
Fill in the survey to tell us what you liked and what we could do better next time!
Be in with the chance of winning a £10 Book Token. Closing date 29/2/24
Survey - https://forms.microsoft.com/r/3JYY4W19ai

29/12/2023

29/12/2023

🎉🎉What Confluence Medway did this year...

Published two gorgeous issues - Issues 14 and 15.
With writing from 50 writers, based in the UK, ROI, America, Australia, the Netherlands (and probably a few more locations that I can't remember!)...

Some were first timers and some were well established - so if you've been wondering about submitting to Confluence then look out for our next submission windows!

🙏🏼 Thanks to everyone who submitted to the mag - whether you got in or not! And thanks to everyone who bought a copy - tiny magazines like ours depend 100% on sales.

Happy New Year and we hope to read your writing (and maybe publish it) next year! 🎉🎉

01/12/2023

Issue 15 --> UK purchasers can pre-order your copy here https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-issue-15
✍🏾 🖌️ 🎨 📖
Writers - Jane Ayres, Liam Boyle, Seth Crook, Michelle Diaz, ZD Dicks, JS Dorothy, Matt Duggan, David D***s, Marco Etheridge, Richard Foreman, Kester Grieve, Oz Hardwick, Mark Holihan, J Clark Hubbard, TK Howell, Philip Kane, Maggie Mackay, DS Maolalai, Carolyn Martin, Kate Maxwell, Martin Meyler, Stephanie Powell, Derville Quigley, Carol Smith, Neil M Thorne, Dila Toplusoy, Robin Lindsay Wilson
And artwork by Clair Meyrick.

02/10/2023

We are open this month for poetry, prose and CNF. Deadline is strictly midnight on 31st October 👻. Please do read the guidelines at - https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/submissions
Looking forwards to reading your excellent wordage.

(Image description - a blue blob on a black background, with the words - 1-31st October 2023. We are open for submissions! www.confluencemagazine.co.uk)

04/07/2023

https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/blog

New review by Sarah Hehir and a new layout to the Reviews section.

23/04/2023

People get ready!

23/02/2023

We published David Cramer Smith in Confluence Medway issue 1 - now he's coming back to Medway to talk about his novel! Come and have a listen if you're local!

🎉 Our first 'Authors Talk' event is on 2 March. 🎉 David Cramer Smith was published in our magazine Confluence Medway in our very first issue! Since then Confluence has come a long way and so has David! 🖊️ His first novel 'Medway' has been described as a love letter to the authentic Medway.

" On a whim Jamie Sinclair decides to leave his toxic relationship and move back to his parents’ house, to see if his hometown can fix him. But three questions need to be answered: Can he be fixed? Can a place fix someone? And what does it mean to be fixed?"

✈️ David will be coming all the way back from Australia where he now lives and we are delighted to be talking to him as part of Medway River Lit!

Book your place on what is bound to be a fascinating talk, with Medway libraries. (Phone, pop in or use the Spydus app.)

07/02/2023

We are delighted to announce the writers whose writing will be appearing in Confluence Medway no 14!
ANGELA ARNOLD / RUTH AYLETT / ROBERTA BEAUREGARDE /
CLARE BEST / MORGAN BOYER / GWEN BURNYEAT / RACHEL CARNEY / SARAH L DIXON / VERITY / JACK GRANATH/ JASON JAWANDO / KAREN KILCUP / CHIN LI / GEORGIA SAN LI / AMINA A. MALIK / BRUACH MHOR / ZACH MURPHY / CATHERINE NAISBY / MIZUKI NISHIYAMA / EUGENE O’HARE / ANTONY OWEN / MARK SAUNDERS / ROBERT WYSTAGON
You will be able to pre-order it from the website by this afternoon and we should be able to start sending it out about the 18th Feb.

21/01/2023

We are a bit behind - due to repeated doses of Covid and other ailments - so apologies - but we are almost there with the final list of poetry and prose for the next issue. Thanks for bearing with us!

04/10/2022

We have incoming!
Reading goggles on!

29/09/2022

What's this? A new review on the Confluence website! Thanks to Sarah Hehir for writing this review of Pratibha Castle's first collection 'A Triptych of Birds and a few Loose Feathers'.
https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/review-29-09-22

19/09/2022

We are getting ready to open submissions in October! Don't send us anything till then!

12/08/2022

ICYMI - Confluence 12 is on offer all month. Less than half price! Featuring these folk. Get it from www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

10/08/2022

On offer now! Featuring:
Writers - Sara Collie, James Croal Jackson, Matt Duggan, Barry Fentiman Hall, Annette Freeman, Edward Ginn, Bethany Goodwill, Oz Hardwick, Sarah Hehir, Jason Jawando, David Lewitzky, Carolyn Oulton, Diana Powell, Monika R Martyn, Gerry Sloan, Sarah Tait, Jessica Taggart Rose, J Wallace Pringle, Jonathan Williams and Mark Wilmot.
Cover (Gull over the Medway) by Barry Fentiman Hall.
Get it from --> www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

08/08/2022

Confluence 10 on sale now!
www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer
Bag a bargain!

07/08/2022

Issue 9 on offer now!
www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

05/08/2022

Issue 8 contains words by Rosie Allabarton, Matt Chamberlain, Kitty Coles, Mark Connors, Jessica Jane Draper, Maya A Horton, Bill Lewis, Chin Li, Rosemary McLeish, Tadhg Muller, Ben Ray, Belinda Rimmer, and Derek Sellen. Images by Laura Chuter.
Get it throughout August for a fiver!
www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

04/08/2022

Confluence 7 currently on sale! Only a few issues of this one left - so order it now if you fancy it! Writers featured: Gordon Meade, Elizabeth Gibson, Samuel Yearley, Gareth Writer-Davies, Sarah Summerson, Maria C McCarthy, Sarah L Dixon, David D***s, Rei Lindemann, Rodney Wood, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Dot, Byron Beynon, Chris Hardy, George Aitch, Barry Fentiman-Hall
Illustrations by Pev.
Order it here -> www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

03/08/2022

Issue 6 contains the words of William Bedford, Kitty Coles, Mark Connors, James Costello O'Reilly, Setareh Ebrahimi, SM Jenkin, Rosemary McLeish, Bridget Nolan, Joe Pickard, Ruth Payne, David Subacchi, Niall Shepherd, Fiona Sinclair and Mary Anne Smith. With graffiti photos by BFH.
On sale now for £5 from www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

02/08/2022

Confluence 5 - on sale now for £5! Issue 5 contains poetry and stories by Bengt O Björklund, Matt Chamberlain, Gareth Writer-Davies, Sarah L Dixon, Angela Dye, Barry Fentiman Hall, Sam Hall, Emily Harrison, Sarah Hehir, Rei Lindemann, Stephen Lockhart, Rosemary McLeish, Connor Sansby, Chris Vannoy, and Louise Wilford. Illustrations by Heather Haythornthwaite.
Poems shown by Sarah L Dixon and Sarah Hehir

Get the offer --> www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

01/08/2022

Back issue bonanza! 💷 Back issues of Confluence - a literary magazine - Issues 5-13 are £5 each all month (UK addresses only). We'll be publishing a reminder of the wonderful authors that we've published in each issue in the coming days.
Grab a bargain now - we've only got limited stock of some back issues!
Get them here --> www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/offer

20/05/2022

01/03/2022

Print copies of Issue 13 have now sold out. PDF is still available. We may get another run later in the year - so if you really, really want a printed copy - message us!

Most other back issues are available still, from the website www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/magazine

Find out more about Confluence and buy issues.

14/02/2022

Off down the post office this afternoon to post out the first batch of Confluence! If you live locally, we will probably deliver it by hand - so see you later, or tomorrow if it pours down :)

11/02/2022

Obligatory books in box shot! We'll be sending out orders in the next week :)

09/02/2022

It's the 9 Feb - which means you have 20 days left to enter the Still plenty of time to polish those nature poetry gems! 💎💎💎
Find out more www.wordsmithery.info/prize