Hedge Apple Magazine

19/02/2024

Dreams guide our subconscious to a world entirely of our own creation. They play on the fringes of our being and show us what we need to see. Use your inspiration, sit down, and just let your words flow onto the page. We here at the Hedge Apple look forward to reading your work and that wonderful extension of your subconscious.

14/02/2024

Happy Valentine's Day from the Hedge Apple team! Whether this is just another day or you are a romantic, we hope everyone has a wonderful day full of magic. Speaking of magic, our current theme Once Upon a Dream has been receiving so many amazing submissions so far! The deadline for submissions is March 1st. If you are still on the fence about submitting, take that leap and let your own magic flow.

22/01/2024

Good evening! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! My name is Sarah Fitzgerald and I am the current Editor of Hedge Apple Magazine. I am looking forward to a fantastic Spring issue. If you are a writer, artist, or know anyone who would like to submit to the current issue to be published please consider submitting and inform your friends/family. The theme is Once Upon a Dream so let your imagination take hold and the beauty of the unknown fuel you! We accept general submissions as well if you feel the current theme does not encompass your work. Take a chance and put your passion out there for the world to appreciate. I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and look forward to connecting with you through written word or art in any form. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!

Once Upon a Dream

Burst into creativity and delve into the inner depths of your being. Release inhibitions through your art whether it be written, painted, sculpted, you name it. Let adventure and whimsy guide the creating process. Let the magic in life enflame you and envelope every cell in your body. Masquerade through dreams, nightmares, and everything in between. No matter which form of art you choose to ensnare the senses with, Once Upon a Dream offers infinite possibilities to be anything and everything. Do you dare to dream?
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--General submissions on any theme are welcome until March 1st, too!
--No cover letter is necessary, although you are welcome to send us a few sentences of artist/author bio if you want to.
--By sending us your work, you grant us permission to publish it both online and in print, but you retain the rights to publish or show it anywhere else that you wish.
--FICTION/POETRY SUBMISSIONS: Please stay under 2000 words.
--ART SUBMISSIONS: Files (photos, 2D art, photos of 3D art, digital art) should be clear, professional JPEG, PNG, or TIFF files.

26/11/2023

Our New Call for Submissions:
Once Upon a Dream
Burst into creativity and delve into the inner depths of your being. Release inhibitions through your art whether it be written, painted, sculpted, you name it. Let adventure and whimsy guide the creating process. Let the magic in life enflame you and envelope every cell in your body. Masquerade through dreams, nightmares, and everything in between. No matter which form of art you choose to ensnare the senses with, Once Upon a Dream offers infinite possibilities to be anything and everything. Do you dare to dream?
www.hedgeapplemagazine.com
--General submissions on any theme are welcome until March 1st, too!
--No cover letter is necessary, although you are welcome to send us a few sentences of artist/author bio if you want to.
--By sending us your work, you grant us permission to publish it both online and in print, but you retain the rights to publish or show it anywhere else that you wish.
--FICTION/POETRY SUBMISSIONS: Please stay under 2000 words.
--ART SUBMISSIONS: Files (photos, 2D art, photos of 3D art, digital art) should be clear, professional JPEG, PNG, or TIFF files.

31/10/2023

And last but not least…
Alyssa Stickley’s “HCC Halloween”
Halloween contest WINNER for poetry

Thanks to everyone who entered! We received A LOT of worthy entries. Happy Halloween!

In a college town, where shadows creep,Amidst the autumn’s chilling sweep,A haunted campus, old and grand,Where tales of Halloween expand. The library, a ghostly sight,Whispers echoing throug…

31/10/2023

Tenzin Geygong’s “Trick or Treat”
Halloween WINNER for artwork

— Tenzin Geygong is a Tibetan-American artist from Vermont who is pursuing a career in healthcare but still has a passion for art. As most people hold buckets decorated like jack-o-lanterns w…

31/10/2023

Happy Halloween! Please enjoy…
Faith Arlington’s “Absentee Landlord”
Halloween contest WINNER for fiction

With sharp bolts of pain fracturing her skull, Hazel listened to the night sounds of the field. The myriad chirping of crickets magnified the darkness and made the whispering columns of ripening ba…

30/10/2023

For all you cat lovers…
Lavern Spencer McCarthy’s “The Halloween Cat”
Halloween contest 1st runner-up for poetry

On Halloween nobody knowswhere Mr. Golden Whiskers goes. His eyes of emerald green turn red.He bounds across the garden bed, jumps the fence and disappearswith eerie howls and laid-back ears, then …

30/10/2023

Alyssa Neff’s fun and beautiful “Autumn Aviators”
Halloween contest 1st runner-up for artwork

— Alyssa Neff is an artist and photographer currently attending Rochester Institute of Technology for a BFA in Visual Media. While spending her days between the studios, computer labs, and ch…

30/10/2023

Naomi Sheely’s “Me, Myself, and I Make Five” is a must-read!
Halloween contest first runner-up for fiction

The room wraps me in its unrelenting chill, its sterile atmosphere amplifying my unease as I cling to the unforgiving chair. I make every effort to conceal my discomfort, determined not to give in …

29/10/2023

You’ll meet quite a memorable family in:
Michele Cacano’s “Haunting Daddy” Hallloween contest 2nd runner-up for poetry

Daddy was a preacher,stern and full of fire,paranoid of sinners,adulterers, and liars.He left when I was five,Mama nursing little Tommy,When she cried, I asked her why. She’d say:“Not for him, but–…

29/10/2023

Have a look at this creepy little image…
Masyn Perrigo’s “Untitled”
Halloween contest 2nd runner-up for artwork

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29/10/2023

Hedge Apple is pleased to present.. Scott Hutchinson’s “Bad man”
Halloween contest 2nd runner-up for fiction

“You don’t know all the cruel and unhealthy things that a dude like that might do.” Ned grabs a napkin off the table where we’re having beers, wipes sweat off his nec…

26/10/2023

Abby Whittington’s “Dreadful”
Welcome back, Abby!

This is a Halloween piece by Abby Whittington entitled “Dreadful.” It shows a character haunted by their past. Since Abby has offered to withdraw their artwork from the Halloween contes…

20/10/2023

Thanks for all the WONDERFUL submissions! If you are one of the winners, we’ll be in touch personally to give you the good news, and then the winners will be announced here on our website during the week of Halloween.

Thanks for all the WONDERFUL submissions! If you are one of the winners, we’ll be in touch personally to give you the good news, and then the winners will be announced here on our website dur…

17/09/2023

Hedge Apple Magazine peeps! Saturday the 23rd, Hedge Apple will be represented at the always fantastic and fun Conversations and Connections conference run by Barrelhouse. Come check out the sessions and featured books, and speed date with us!

Mighty Writers is a proud sponsor of Barrelhouse’s Conversations and Connections writing conference!

Join us on September 23 for an energetic day filled with stories and workshops from local writers and independent publishers. And, the best part: 70% of the proceeds go back into the pockets of small presses, writers and editors.

Here’s the 🔗 to register: https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shop/p/registration-september-23-2023-conversations-and-connections-conference-in-philadelphia-pa

03/09/2023

Our Halloween contest is baaaack! Start cooking something up!

30/06/2023

Fragmenting light into 7 springs of beams,Scattered in the plain, yet still unseen,Gleaming bright like glass on a mural dome,Furious intensity embedded in stone,The surface is carved, with perfect notches,Enlightening colors, carefully dotted,Onlookers left elated and wanting more,Silently still, its aura roars,So Beautiful and priceless, Stars splatter their light,A phenomenal daze that blossoms out bright,...

Fragmenting light into 7 springs of beams,Scattered in the plain, yet still unseen,Gleaming bright like glass on a mural dome,Furious intensity embedded in stone,The surface is carved, with perfect…

28/06/2023

Mario Loprete, “Ukrainian Ice Cream”

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26/06/2023

My Ukrainian wedding band:a strip of wood, a sample of lichen,forest hues hardened in resin I tend to tense my fingersbelow knuckles, stiffening,tendons kissing hard, an obsessive squeeze for releasewhich brings the fear, inadvertently,I’ll crush the ring in time, freeing foreign vegetationfrom my promised finger,stasis to alien air...

My Ukrainian wedding band:a strip of wood, a sample of lichen,forest hues hardened in resin . I tend to tense my fingersbelow knuckles, stiffening,tendons kissing hard, . an obsessive squeeze for r…

23/06/2023

Poetry is for the faintheartedThe feeble and insecureWho find shelter in words: We are the crippled and infirmOur hurt coalescing into alphabetical figuresBroken lines on the page Vast white spacesLike the snowstorm that blinds usAnd hides the throbbing heat Of passions with cooled handsCold-trembling skinAnd icy hearts. Your enduring love…...

Poetry is for the faintheartedThe feeble and insecureWho find shelter in words: . We are the crippled and infirmOur hurt coalescing into alphabetical figuresBroken lines on the page . Vast white sp…

21/06/2023

Jasper Parks, “Wayfaring Stranger”

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19/06/2023

Pain is a weapon wielded by time.It tears and it burns and it cutsAt your soul, till it penetrates your mind. You try to defend with whiskey and wine.Retreating bottle, to glass, to tongue,Demons lurking just behind. Haunted by the things you cannot undo,Their voices echo words, and cries, and dies,Somewhere deep inside of you....

Pain is a weapon wielded by time.It tears and it burns and it cutsAt your soul, till it penetrates your mind. . You try to defend with whiskey and wine.Retreating bottle, to glass, to tongue,Demons…

16/06/2023

I am a member of a forsaken communityand I refuse to believe thatwe have a safe place in this worldI realize this may be a shock, butour experiences are uniquely validis a fu***ng lie; andonly those who adhere to the binary deserve to liveSo I will tell the next generation thatthey have no power in this world…...

I am a member of a forsaken communityand I refuse to believe thatwe have a safe place in this worldI realize this may be a shock, butour experiences are uniquely validis a fu***ng lie; andonly thos…

14/06/2023

in which families say / regarding their four-hour-old newborn /she has her mother’s eyes / her father’s nose / her grandmother’sears / her grandfather’s toesthen / as she grows / characteristics set in and families say / shehas this one’s smarts / that one’s athletic gift / this one’s finedraftsmanship / that one’s bubbly showmanship…...

in which families say / regarding their four-hour-old newborn /she has her mother’s eyes / her father’s nose / her grandmother’sears / her grandfather’s toesthen / as she grows / characteristics se…

12/06/2023

Iwadeupstreamover rocksfeet firmly plantedshuffling sideways like a sly crabconcentrating on the water’s speed and on the depth.I’m leaving those in need to find why so many people keep falling in the river.But if the current takes me under and sends me backdrowning and in need of rescue,will you still be thereat the shore?Will youcatchme?

Iwadeupstreamover rocksfeet firmly plantedshuffling sideways like a sly crabconcentrating on the water’s speed and on the depth.I’m leaving those in need to find why so many people keep falling in …

09/06/2023

Alyssa Neff, “Lonely”

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07/06/2023

The day 144,000 wordsGot slashed ten times overBy one single bladeA podium awaited in quiet Writers and wannabesUnwittingly at this requiemFor every exileBled untold stories on paperOr dreamed such sacrifice As a blind manRushed the stageWith eyes were geographic balloonsFilled past capacityFrom breathingThe stale air of barbarism…...

The day 144,000 wordsGot slashed ten times overBy one single bladeA podium awaited in quiet . Writers and wannabesUnwittingly at this requiemFor every exileBled untold stories on paperOr dreamed su…

05/06/2023

botanic gardens. 9amand after a night outin town. I was twenty.nineteen – I was maybenineteen. out, some activityto rinse off the drinkingand the feeling you getof a tired clearheadednesswhich you thinkwhen you’re youngis a hangover.endorphins rushing,the giddiness of trickshots at pool and the sun,like a chuckle,...

botanic gardens. 9amand after a night outin town. I was twenty.nineteen – I was maybenineteen. out, some activityto rinse off the drinkingand the feeling you getof a tired clearheadednesswhich you …

29/05/2023

summer warmthsiphoned offslowlyamidNovember skiesandI walkedalonecrunching leavesbeneath worn soleschilled withbreezescrispchoking onwords unspokenthinkinglonely thoughtswishinghopingfeeling emptywalkingwantingto go homebutthat wasmiles awayandyears agosoI walkedonalone

summer warmthsiphoned offslowlyamidNovember skiesandI walkedalonecrunching leavesbeneath worn soleschilled withbreezescrispchoking onwords unspokenthinkinglonely thoughtswishinghopingfeeling emptyw…