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Active in Airtime 24 Regent Rd. Brightlingsea, Essex
Editors: Ralph Hawkins & John Muckle
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Acumen - 6 The Mount, Higher Furzeham, Brixham, South Devon TQ5 8QY
Editor: Patricia Oxley
UK £12.50 Europe£16.00 USA $45/50 surface/air for 3 issues; single issue £5.00/$8.00 post free.
A literary magazine with a strong emphasis on poetry, printing up to fifty poems an issue. Publishes January, May and September.
Rapid, helpful response -
www.acumen-poetry.co.uk
Aesthetica Magazine Aesthetica is a literary magazine based in York, UK. The magazine was initially started in order to promote creativity, equality and diversity within the literary arts in and around the York area, but its focus - and intended audience - has since become much wider.  See website for details. http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/
Agenda - edited by Patricia McCarthy The Wheelwrights
Fletching Street
Mayfield
East Sussex
TN20 6TL
Subscriptions: £26 (OAP and students £20 Libraries and institutions £30). Europe £28 (Libraries and institutions £32) Overseas £30 or USD52 (Libraries and institutions £34 or USD62)
Aireings Aireings Publications, Dean Head Farm, Scotland Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HU.
Editors: Lesley Quayle and Linda Marshall
Aireings is now online from the next issue, to avoid the immense costs of paper publication, which don't keep pace with subscriptions.       http://www.aireings.co.uk/

 

Ambit 17 Priory Gardens, London N6 5QY
Editor: Martin Bax
Quarterly. Single copy £6.00 inc p&p Subscription £24.00 (Institutions £35.00). Overseas £26/$52, Institutions £37/$74
Submissions usually take up to 3-4 months to be dealt with.
On-line copy via The Poetry Library
Anon 67 Learmonth Grove, Edinburgh EH4 1BL
Editor: Mike Stocks
Three issues per year, £9.00 for three issues, £4.00 for one issue.
Anon uses anonymous submission and assessment procedures. Submit TWO copies of no more than THREE poems to 'Submissions' at the Anon address; do not put your name and details on the poems, please put them on a separate sheet. For fuller information visit the
website.
Aquarius Flat 4, Room B, 116 Sutherland Avenue, London W9 2QP
Editor: Eddie Linden
Sporadic publication, but influential
The Arcadian Ceased publication
Areté - 8 New College Lane, Oxford OX1 3BN Arts tri-quarterly.
Subscriptions £21.00 per year (3 issues). (Overseas £27.00/US$45.00)
Bad Poetry Quarterly PO Box 6319, London, E11 2EP
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Banipal - A magazine of modern Arab Literature PO Box 22300 London W13 8ZQ e-mail: editor@banipal.co.uk
Editor: Margaret Obank
£20 per year for 3 issues.
Billy Liar 7-8 Trinity Chare, Quayside, Newcastle NE1 3DF
£4.00 per issue; £10.00 for four issues.
E-mail:
liar.republic@virgin.net Phone: 0191 2243596 Fax: 0191 2402131
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The Black Mountain Review
Editor Niall McGrath
P.O. Box 9, Ballyclare, BT39 0JW, Northern Ireland
The Black Mountain Review is a Northern Ireland based magazine for contemporary writing. info@blackmountainreview.com
The Black Rose e-mail: blackrosepoetry@btinternet.com Ceased publication Aug 2005
Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society), Hill House Farm, Knighton, Powys LD7 1NA
Editor: Caroline Gourlay
On-line copy via The Poetry Library
The Blue Badge Poetry Supplement PO Box 184, South Ockendon, Essex RM15 5WT
Editor: D. M. Heath
Free bi-annual on disability themes
info - onceorangebadge@poetry.fsworld.co.uk
Bogg 31 Belle Vue St., Filey, N. Yorks, Y014 9HU
UK Editor: George Cairncross
International journal of contemporary writing with an Anglo-American slant, founded in England in 1968. Issues published two or three times a year, with editors in the US, England, Canada, and Australia. US editor: John Elsberg.
Borderlines Magazine of Anglo-Welsh Poetry Society, Nant y Brithyll, Llangynyw, Nr Welshpool, Powys SY21 OJS
Editors: Dave Bingham and Kevin Bamford

On-line copy via The Poetry Library
Braquemard
Editor: David Allenby
229 Hull Road
Hull
UK
HU6 8QZ
braquemard@hotmail.com
See all details on the website at http://www.braquemard.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm
Brando's Hat CEASED PUBLICATION
On-line copy via The Poetry Library
Breakfast All Day BAD Press, 43 Kingsdown House, Amhurst Road, London E8 2AS. A quarterly magazine of fiction, comment, humour, poetry and graphics.
£1.50 per issue. £5.00 for four issues.
Editor: Philip Boxall.
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Breathe Poetry Magazine Ceased publication
Brittle Star, PO Box 56108, London E17 0AY
e-mail: magazine@brittlestar.org.uk
Editors: Louisa Hooper and Jacqueline Gabbitas
Submissions invited for poems in sets of 6, and/or two short stories. Also interested in profiles of contemporary poets (1,200 words) and reviews of internet poetry sites. Subscriptions £2.50 per issue, £6 for one year, £11 for a two year subscription,  p&p inc. The magazine can be bought from Books Etc in the South Bank Centre, Subterranean Books in Hackney and Borders in Charing Cross Road.
Cadenza Magazine
Ed - John Ravenscroft
2 Coastguard Cottages, Drove Road, Freiston Shore, Boston. Lincs PE22 0LZ
(81205)
The Cadmium Blue Literary Journal Believed to be defunct.   (111204)
Caduta Arts Review No longer publishing
Candelabrum The Red Candle Press, 1 Chatsworth Court, Outram Rd., SOUTHSEA PO5 1RA.
Editor: M.L. McCarthy
Founded 1970. See website for more information.
Cannon Fodder Gone from their address.
Carillon Magazine Submissions to: Graham Rippon, 19 Godric Drive, Brinsworth, Rotherham, South Yorks. S60 5AN.
Subscriptions to: Ernest Mason, 23 Newman Road, Rotherham, South Yorks. S60 3JB
Editors: : Ernest Mason & Graham Rippon
A5, 40+ pages containing short stories, poetry, articles, a prize competition., Writing Groups' news, comment and submissions.
Frequency: Three per calendar year.
Price: Single copy: £2.50 + 30p postage. Annual subscription (3 issues) £7.25 + 60p postage. Cheques/POs payable to Carillon Magazine.
Who is it for? New/developing writers and writing groups
Requirements: Stories/ articles/fillers to a maximum of 1200 words. Poetry to a maximum of 32 lines. Articles must be factually correct with sources acknowledged. We will also include news from writing groups.
Payment Will be made for published items, initially at the following rates: Stories/Articles: £1.00 - £3.00 according to length Poems: £1.00 - £2.00 according to length
Cascando PO Box 1499, London, SW10 9TZ
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Cencrastus Unit 1, Abbeymount, Techbase, Edinburgh EHS 8ET
Editor: Raymond Ross e-mail:
cencrastus@hotmail.com
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Chapman
4 Broughton Place, Edinburgh EH1 3RX
Tel 44 (0)131 557 2207 Fax 44 (0)131 556 9565 e-mail:
admin@chapman-pub.co.uk
Editor: Joy Hendry
Scottish literary magazine
Subscriptions: Personal - 1year (4 issues) UK £17.00 Overseas £23 USA $35 2years UK £32.00 Overseas £43 USA $66
Institutions - UK £20.00 Overseas £28 USA $43 2years UK £43.00 Overseas £50 USA $80 Airmail outside Europe add £4.00/$7.00 per year.
Chapter and Verse
Chapter & Verse, Sevendale House, 7 Dale Street, Manchester M1 1JB. Tel. 0161 228 2362
Magazine subscription is £34 per annum and enquiries should be made to: Chapter & Verse Subscriptions, Sevendale House, 7 Dale Street, Manchester M1 1JB. Tel. 0161 228 2362
CHIMERA,  
Subscriptions to Robert Cole
Editorial  & Subscriptions Address:118 Nayland Road, Mile End, Colchester CO4 5ET.
Prose contributions to Susie Reynolds, poetry to Robert Cole.
1.      "Chimera: a fabulous Monster, with a goat's body." Skeat.
2.      " A fantastic or grotesque product of the imagination." OED
"We do not have to follow the definitions too closely but we are looking for original poetry and prose. When we have enough subscribers we will produce hard copy down in that inky business among hard metal, the font where I a printer's devil raise his head above the muck sweat of filigreed letters to thank Dannie Abse, Alan Brownjohn, David Constantine, John Heath-Stubbs, Robert Minhinnick, William Oxley, and Jeremy Reed for contributing poems to our first edition. Special thanks go to Tasha Yee-King for designing our website."
For an annual subscription £8 p&p. Single copies £4.75 
C.P.R. International    Believed to be defunct.  (101004)
City Writings c/o The Gantry Arts Centre, off Blechynden Terrace, Southampton, SO15 1GW
Editor: Megan Miranda
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Citizen32 49 Ferndown Road, Brooklands Wythenshawe' Manchester M23 9AW, England, UK Web site www.citizen32.co.uk Send £3.50 for one copy or £7.50 for three issues (121204)  
Clough Words Dean Clough Writers, Dean Clough, Halifax. HX3 5AZ
Free but please send an SAE
Editors: Andy J. Campbell and Alan Littlewood
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Coffee House Poetry Meirion House, Glanrafon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU
Editor: Jan Fortune-Wood
jan@coffeehousepoetry.co.uk
Magazine looking for contemporary poems of edge and depth from new voices and established writers. Submissions welcome; subscriptions £3.50 per issue/£9.00 annually for three issues, payable to 'M.C.Fortune-Wood'
Community of Poets Ceased publication
Connections 13 Wave Crest, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 8DP
Four issues £9.50 (Overseas £14.00 Institutions £12.00). Single issues £3.25, back numbers £2.25
Editor: Narissa Knights
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Critical Quarterly Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Rd., Oxford, OX4 1JF
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Current Accounts Horwich, Bolton BL6 6AT
Editor: Rod Riesco
The magazine of Bank Street Writers, Bolton, Lancs. Publishes poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction by members of the group and by other writers from around the world. £2.00 per issue, published twice yearly. Submissions welcome, payment one complimentary copy of the issue in which work appears.
Dandelion Arts Magazine (International Arts), 24 Frosty Hollow, East Hunsbury, Northants NN4 OSY
Editor: Joaquina Gonzales-Marina
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The Dark Horse
31 Melville Street, Top Flat Left, Pollokshields, Glasgow G41 2JL
Editor: Gerry Cambridge
International literary magazine committed to British and American poetry, and is published in Scotland.
David Jones Journal, The David Jones Society, 48 Sylvan Way, Sketty, Swansea, SA2 9JB *
The Dawntreader,

PO Box 77, Bull Pitch, Dursley, GL11 4WW and email indigodreamspress@tiscali.co.uk

Bi-monthly magazine from the producers of Reach. Specialises in poetry of a pantheistic nature including myth and legend, landscape, spirituality etc. £3.50 per copy, £10 for 3, £18.50 for 6. Payable to Indigo Dreams Press. Queries to Ronnie Goodyer at dawntreader@indigodreams.plus.com  (406)
Decanto editor: Lisa Stewart

send up to 6 poems to: Miss L Stewart: Masque Publishing - PO Box 3257 - Littlehampton - BN16  9AF

'Not just contemporary all styles considered!' We are always interested in reading new poetry of any style and length. The Decanto poetry magazine comes out 6 times a year, and is currently priced at £3.40 for inclusions, £3.60 for non. For more information about the magazine and our self publishing service, please visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/masquepublishing email: masque_pub@tiscali.co.uk  (221105)
Delhi London Poetry Quarterly 50 Penywern Road, London SW5 9SX *
Deliberately Thirsty Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, Argyll PA22 3AE
Editor: Sean Bradley
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The Delinquent

http://www.thedelinquent.co.uk/

Subscribe for hard copy or download for a small fee.

The Devil Top Offices, 13a Western Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AE
Editor: Stephen Plaice, Sean O'Brien, Fiachra Gibbons & Julie Charlamides
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Dial 174 21 Mill Road, Watlington, Norfolk PE33 0HH
e-mail:
apoet@globalnet.co.uk tel 01553 811949
Editor: Joseph Hemmings

Subscription £12.00 per year for four seasonal A5 issues of 60 pages, plus competition supplements. OVERSEAS: Please add IRC's, or extra payment to cover postage; 73p per issue (EEC), £1.50 'rest of world'.
Dog 32b Breakspears Road, London SE4 lUW
Editor: David Crystal
?ceased publication?
Doors Wanda Publications, 61 West Borough, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 lLX
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Dream Catcher
Editor: Paul Sutherland, Jasmine cottage, 4 Church St, Market Rasen, Lincs, LN8 3ET, paulsuther@hotmail.com
or 01673 84435
Literary magazine of poetry, short fiction and art. Subscription (3 issues) UK £15.00, Europe £18.00, USA & Canada £22.00, Australia & Japan £25.00. Single issue (UK only) £5.95, all payable to Dream Catcher.   Also available at www.inpressbooks.co.uk and at Amazon
On-line copy via The Poetry Library
Eclipse Everyman Press 53 West Vale, Neston, South Wirral, L64 9SE.
Editor: Elizabeth Boyd
Subscriptions for six issues are £18 per year £20 overseas
ecorche ceased publication   (241004)
Edinburgh Review
22a Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LN
edinburgh.review@ed.ac.uk
Published by the Centre for the History of Ideas in Scotland, University of Edinburgh

Managing Editor: Ronald Turnbull

Eildon Tree
Eildon Tree editorial team
SBC Library Headquarters
St Mary's Mill
Selkirk TD7 5DG
Originally a showcase for writing and writers from the Scottish Borders. It now attracts submissions from all over Scotland and beyond. The magazine is published by Scottish Borders Council with support from the Scottish Arts Council
Envoi 44 Rudyard Road, Biddulph Moor, Stoke-on-Trent ST8 7JN
176 pages of poetry, critical reviews, articles and features.
Editor: Roger Elkin
Subs £15 per year (3 issues) UK, £20 or $40 overseas, sample £3.00, $8, current issue £5.00, $10, payable to ENVOI.
Publishes groups or short sequences of up to 6 poems. Quick and helpful responses. But the current publication back-log is 18 months. Also runs regular competitions.
Episteme magazine London based international literary magazine that presents challenging, spectacular prose, poetry and essays on arts and literature in political, cultural and economical contexts.   Themed issues - see website for details.  email submission.
Equinox134b Joy Lane Whitstable, Kent CT5 4ES
Editor: Barbara Dordi
Twice yearly (March and September) A5 poetry journal. Publishes original, contemporary poetry on any subject and in any style. Submissions - 40 lines max. with SAE to the above address Subscriptions £10.00 pa, or back numbers £5.50 each. Cheques payable to B. Dordi  - deadlines 30th November & 30th June. (207)
Erbacce  Print and online journal edited by Alan Corkish and Andrew Taylor(30904)

Essence Poetry

editor: Robert Marsland

email: robertmarsland@btinternet.com

Essence -Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Frequency: annually Cost: £3.50
- emails only please
Exile 8 Snow Hill, Clare, Suffolk, C010 8QF
Editors: John Marr and Ann Elliot-Marr
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Fabric 33 Royal Crescent, Holland Park, London W11 4SN
Editor: M. Hogan
fabricpoems@hotmail.com
On-line copy via The Poetry Library
Fatchance ceased publication 1998(?)
Fife Lines 67 Dunlin Avenue, Collydean, Glenrothes KY7 6TD
Editor: Ian Nimmo White
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FIN
Editors: Rosie Garner, Nigel Pickard.
PO Box 9207, Nottingham NG14 7WP
Four issues a year, subscription - £12, submissions and subscriptions to: FIN, PO Box 9207, Nottingham NG14 7WP   -   cheques made out to FIN
A small magazine in the old style, no reviews, no comment, just bloody good poems. (607)
Finger Dance Festival,
http://www.fingerdancefestival.org.uk
Finger Dance Festival, a London magazine based is looking for creative, idiosyncratic and inventive submissions of poetry, short stories, essays and visual art.  We hope to discover and celebrate new talent as well as old hands.  Please send 1-3 submissions to submissions@fingerdancefestival.org.uk.  Subscriptions - see the website for details.  (707)
Fingertips 18 Beesfiled Lane, Farningham, Dartford, Kent
Editors: Gerald Roome & Ian Lang
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Fire Field Cottage, Old Whitehill, Tackley, Kidlington, Oxfordshire OX5 3AB
Editor: Jeremy Hilton
firejhilton@talk21.com

On-line copy via The Poetry Library
First Impression PO Box 111, Scarborough, YO13 9XY
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First Time 'The Snoring Cat', 136 harold Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN35 5NN. Phone/fax: 01424 428855 Phone: 01424 201370
Editor: Josephine Austin
B-annual magazine to encourage first time poets. Subs £6.00 per year plus £1.00 p&p.
Fragmente 10 Rylands Way, Durham, DH1 5GR
Editor: Anthony Mellors
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Gairfish 71 Long Lane, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2AS
Editor: W N Herbert e-mail:
xen19@dial.pipex.com
Currently dormant. Not accepting submissions.
Gairm 15 Strun Road, Glasgow G44 3AT
Editor: Derick Thomson
All-Gaelic quarterly
Gare du Nord
21 rue des Messageries, 75010 Paris France.
Price £3/25F/$4.50. Subscription £9/90F/$20 for three issues annually
Editor: Douglas Oliver
Douglas Oliver died April 2000.
Gargoyle Magazine 152 Harringay Road, London N15 3HL. Phone: 020 8292-7350 Anglo-US magazine. US address: Atticus Books, 2308 Mt Vernon Ave, Alexandria VA 22301 e-mail: atticus@atticusbooks.com
Get Lost 17 Newcombe Park, London, NW7 3QN abcohen@hotmail.co.uk
Slightly subversive, Brighton based poetry magazine (although the editor is living in London and welcomes submissions from anywhere) Current price: £1.00. Recently established, welcoming contributions for the third and later editions. Short poems welcomed. Longer poems: 80 lines max. Email submissions preferred. Very friendly magazine, seeking a good relationship with regular enthusiastic writers. Please send a tiny amount of biographical details. Any more information needed, please get in contact.
Glass Orange Poems
9, Whinstone View, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough.
E-mail - glassorangepoems@aol.com
For more information, please contact Trev or Ann at the above addresses.
We publish a bi-monthly magazine of poems, prose, artwork and other delights!  (506)
Gold Dust Magazine A print magazine for fiction and poetry, and appears seasonally, four times per year. Email submissions see site for details - http://www.golddustmagazine.co.uk/ (3505)
Granta Obtain information re magazine from the website. http://www.granta.com/latest-issue
Grim Magazine

Gildard (the UK division of Grimm Magazine)
1 Howden Hall Road
Edinburgh
EH16 6PQ

Canadian Magazine with UK office.

1 year subscription (2 issues): £9.50 GBP
2 year subscription (4 issues): £18 GBP
Trial issue: £5 GBP

HQ Poetry Magazine 39 Exmouth Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 3PU
Subscription for 4 issues is £9 UK, £12 non-UK. Single copies £2.60, double issues £4.50.
Editor: Kevin Bailey
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Handshake 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG
Free - send large SSAE or IRC
Editor: John F Haines
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Harlequin, PO Box 23392, Edinburgh EH8 7YZ
Editor: Unspecified

 www.harlequinmagazine.com

 

The editor writes: You are invited to send works of intense beauty, mysticism and wisdom to the poetry magazine of the new century. We dare you to re-create your world and open new horizons in literature. Enclose an S.A.E. HARLEQUIN reserve the right to reject uninspired material.
Subscription £10.00 for four issues, payable to Harlequin. Add £2.00 for postage outside Europe.   (207)
Helicon Poetry Magazine Now incorporated in Reach *
How do I love thee? Poetry Life Publishing, 14 Pennington Oval, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 8BQ
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How High? Ceased publication
Ibid
Department of English, University of Edinburgh
Ceased publication
'In Between Hangovers' A quarterly  print magazine,  open for submissions by email only at inbetweenhangovers@hotmail.co.uk  (906)
Inside Out, Clarence House, Clarence Drive, Englefield Green, Surrey, TW20 0NL
Send: poems of up to 30 lines, prose and short stories of up to 2,000 words, and illustrations (paper and digital copy). Up to 5 pieces in each instance.
www.myinsideout.co.uk
Inside Out aims to promote the use of creativity for personal development. A new breed of lifestyle magazine, it encourages the submission and publication of work with a focus on self-awareness and self-help — because sometimes, simply owning something on the page is all it takes to move past it and move on, for both reader and writer. Turn the inside out — onto the page, into the world, and out of your system. (507)
Interlude
www.interludemagazine.co.uk
Interlude is an Arts magazine that includes writings, poetry and visual work. It has no particular theme or subject and is open to all contributions
 
The Editors
Interlude Magazine
info@interludemagazine.co.uk
Involution Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 OAG
Editor: A. M. Horne
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Iota 1 Lodge Farm, Snitterfield, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwicks. CV37 0LR.
Editors: Janet Murch and Bob Mee
Poetry quarterly. Annual sub (four issues) £12 and single issue £3 for the UK. For overseas rates please see www.iotapoetry.co.uk

 Submissions to: Iota, Payment: one free copy.

Island 8 Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh EH10 5PA
Editor: Julie Johnstone
"a magazine for new poetry inspired by landscape, nature, and the relationship between people and the land".
The Journal
17 High Street, Maryport,Cumbria, CA15 6BQ
tel - 01900 812194
http://members.aol.com/smithsssj/index.html
Used to be The Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry
Keystone
Ed. - Tom Chivers,
 by email.
No recent news about this mag.
Krax c/o 63 Dixon Lane, Leeds LS19 4RR
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KUDOS replaces - Writing Competitions Monthly.  Full of information, competitions and leads.
Kunapipi PO Box 20, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 5UZ
Editor: Anna Rutherford
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