Every year we nominate some poems for the Forward Prize For Best Single Poem. This award recognises the author of the best individual poem published in a magazine in the previous year. It comes with a top prize of £1000. Best of luck to our four nominees…
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2014 Pushcart Prize Nominations
A few weeks ago we sent off Neon’s nominations for the 2014 Pushcart Prizes. This annual award celebrates the best of the small press. We made six nominations out of all the work that was published in Neon in 2014. Congratulations and best of luck to the authors…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 39
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In issue 39 of Neon everything goes wrong. Parties become nightmares, bridges collapse into bays, a house fire consumes possessions, cars freeze over and life plans dissolve into nothingness. But if that all sounds a bit depressing it’s worth mentioning that there are…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 38
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 38 of Neon begins with a world in which everyone has been swallowed by whales, and ends with a recurring nightmare story about a kitten. In between there are desert islands, floods and plagues, flings and wounds and Facebook, the possibility of…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 37
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 37, Neon‘s first issue of 2014, features the work of Paul Bavister, Shanalee Smith, Noel Williams, Christopher Owen, Tracey S Rosenberg, Erric Emerson, Meg Eden, and Joe Evans. The cover image is by Timur Cetintas. In its pages you will find guns and…
2014 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
We’ve now sent in Neon’s four nominations for the Forward Arts Foundation’s 2014 poetry prize. Each of the below have been entered into the Best Single Poem category – congratulations and best of luck to all of them…
2013 Pushcart Prize Nominations
We’re pleased to announce Neon’s nominations for next year’s Pushcart Prize. These three stories and one poem are picked from all of the work that the magazine published over the course of 2013. Congratulations to all of the authors and poets involved…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 36
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 36 of Neon features the work of Paul Ebbs, Simon Collings, Michael Hemmingson, CJ Opperthauser, Amy Schreibman Walter, Dan Coxon, and Helen Addy. The cover image is by Sarah Katharina Kayß. There’s time travel, mannequins, failed attempts at kindness, a haunting retreat…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 35
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 35 of Neon features the work of Jenny Gray, Jack Brodie, Noel Sloboda, An Anonymous Author, Nicole Cloutier, Derek Adams, Deborah Sellers, and Annette Volfing. The cover image is by Imran Khan. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 34
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 34 of Neon features the work of Sam Frankl, Eliza Victoria, Lynn Hoffman, Tracey Iceton, Michael Frazer, Kate Folk, Heidi James, and Nancy Hightower. The cover photograph is by Andrew Shoemaker. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for…