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Erato Magazine is an independent literary magazine and website promoting new and existing creatives.

16/10/2024

Names are powerful things. They shape how we see the world, and sometimes, they shape how we see ourselves.

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15/10/2024

"I want people to take away that gender and sexuality are malleable, and acknowledging this makes it safer for everyone to be themselves. The world would be a better place if we were allowed to be ourselves in ways that bring no harm to others. We are all people trying our best, and we deserve to feel good about ourselves, our bodies, and our place in the world," explains artist Theodoor Gabriella Grimes () in a new interview with Erato Magazine's very own .

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Artwork provided by artist.

14/10/2024

A disgraced ex-politician considers what he's missed all these years.

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Bob Armstrong is a novelist, speechwriter and occasional comedian from Winnipeg. His novel Prodigies (Five Star/Gale) won the 2022 Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction in the Manitoba Book Awards and his short fiction and CNF have been published in Prairie Fire, Exile, The Fiddlehead, FreeFall and anthologies of humour, speculative fiction and travel writing.

12/10/2024

There's blood everywhere - that's how it starts. Or ends?

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Sura K. Hassan () lives between two coastal cities, Karachi and Istanbul, and finds solace in the works of Paulo Coelho. Her writings primarily focus on relationships, personal mythology and identity with splatterings of adjusting to adulthood after a sheltered childhood. Her works have appeared in Welter Journal, Defunct Magazine, Sublunary Review, The Minison Project and more.

11/10/2024

The writer grapples with the experience of an ex-partner stalking her, and her journey dealing with it through the legal system.

CW: Domestic Violence, Stalking/Harassment

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Calla Smith (.c.smith) lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When note writing, she enjoys continuing to discover all the forgotten corners of the city she has come to call home. She has published a collection of flash fiction “What Doesn’t Kill You”, and her work can also be found in several literary journals.

10/10/2024

Y'know, the one who is only there so the lead dude has someone to be sad about when he goes off to war? Here's her story.

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Emma Maguire () is a theatremaker living in Pōneke, trying and failing to fit a healthy sleep routine into their busy schedule.

09/10/2024

¨What is it to know anger as a man? As a woman? As someone in between? How we are taught and withheld our rage has left some to burn fiery like an arsonist's wet dream and others to grieve their silence-shackles. It is only in allowing ourselves that blazing flame, to see what fury means wielded in our own hands, that we can find comfort in ourselves.

Read Kane Song's full piece on our website now: www.eratomagazine.com

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Kane Song is trying to figure it all out. He can be found frantically typing strings of incoherent prose in the middle of a dark field at night, cryptid-style.

08/10/2024

Never too early for a cup of rage, is it?

Shrudithora P. Mohor certainly doesn't think so. Read her piece, 'The Rage Muffins' on our website now!

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is an author from India writing literary fiction. She has been listed in several competitions like Bristol Short Story Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, the Retreat West monthly micro competitions and the quarterly competitions, the Retreat West Annual Prize for short story, the Reflex Fiction competition, Flash 500.

Her writings have been published by several literary magazines and been nominated for Best Micro fictions 2023 and the Pushcart Prize 2024.

07/10/2024

Description of thoughts about an ex.

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06/10/2024

"Our secrets lie in our past, but what happens when we raise a few surprising ones from the dead? How do they inform the present-day?"

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Mary Buchanan () is a born and bred southerner from Mississippi whose writing flirts with topics centered on mental health and magic. She is a writer, educator, and occasional tarot card puller. Buchanan is founder of
the mental health based literature & arts magazine, Libre, and runs social media for Cosmorama. Her work is forthcoming and featured in: Anti-Heroin Chic, Tiny Molecules, Hobart, Brilliant Flash Fiction, among others. Website: http://librelit.com.

05/10/2024

In the words of Orwell, “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

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04/10/2024

"My steak tastes like a beginning and an end. It makes me think about how certain moments in your life can be both firsts and lasts. Turning eighteen, graduating, getting married (probably)... They’re all firsts and lasts."

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03/10/2024

"...within each of us is a testament of duplicity whether in our interactions with our inner selves or when we engage with others. So, when I read Jose Hernandez Diaz’s Bad Mexican, Bad American, released earlier this year, I couldn’t help but feel the power of that proverbial dichotomy permeating throughout the lines," writes Tomas Maldonado in his review of 'Bad Mexican, Bad American' by Jose Hernandez Diaz ().

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02/10/2024

What makes a book “difficult”? Are difficult texts superior to easier texts? What are the benefits of reading more challenging texts? Is there more than one definition of what makes a book “difficult”?

Deep dive into personal compulsory "difficult" reads in the newest piece on our website.

01/10/2024

Most writers will likely agree that writing is an effective means of escapism. When creating stories about epic fantasy journeys, intergalactic wars, or even just alternative versions of our own, real world, writers momentarily forget the troubles of everyday life - a frustrating boss, parental challenges, or even poor health. Though writing is a great distraction from struggles and stressors, it is important to note that writing can also be used to face those very things you're running away from.

offers some great ideas on how to get started in your very own writing for wellness journey!

29/09/2024

"Three days ago, I found myself walking to the bakery down the road from my house," writes Amelia David in her newest piece.

27/09/2024

Jeremy lives near the Yorkshire coast, where he works in a school. He graduated with a B.A in 'English Literature and Creative Writing' from The Open University and now teaches creative writing night classes for his local adult education organisation. His fiction has been published in print, in the 'Glittery Literary Anthology Four' and ‘The York Literary Review’. His stories have also appeared online with 'Sky Island Journal', ‘Loft Books’ and ‘The Mocking Owl Roost’.

25/09/2024

merges mythology with space, sort of combining science and mysticism in '(97) Klotho, (120) Lachesis, (273) Atropos'. Read the full piece on our website!

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Sadee Bee is a q***r artist and writer inspired by magic, strange dreams, and creepy vibes. Sadee is the Visual Arts Editor for Sage Ci******es Magazine and the author of Pupa: Growth & Metamorphosis, Magic Lives In Girls, and Viscera. Sadee can be found on the web at linktr.ee/SadeeBee.

23/09/2024

"'If there's anyone who deserves to live, it is is. It is us, after all these dying we've done'. - These lines from Eloghosa Osunde's Debut, Vagabonds, and have somehow become the mantra of African q***r folks. They have decided to live - to live through their burners," writes Olanrewaju Oluwafemi Damzy.

In his latest piece, 'LGBTQAI+ : Living through a Burner', Damzy interviews q***r people across the African continent about their burner accounts, why they use them, and if they stopped, why they decided to stop.

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21/09/2024

"I'm an old man sometimes haunted by half-remembered, half-imagined scenes from childhood. I remember "the witch," Frony B. But who was she, really? Who was I, really?" writes Dennis Vannatta in this new creative non-fic piece.

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19/09/2024

interviewed Charlie Mitchell from . Read the full piece on www.eratomagazine.com

17/09/2024

Rebecca Fearn's 'Habitat' follows a young girl in her first year of university. The story looks at her struggle to connect with people, and then the odd connection she does make.

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15/09/2024

Do you have any tattoos? writes about tattoos as a way of reclaiming one's body.

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13/09/2024

Author John RC Potter has another piece in Erato Magazine - A Garden in Winter is free to read on our website now!

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11/09/2024

In an interview with , artist and psychotherapist Lanie McKeever talks about art as a form of healing and expression.

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