Poetry manifestos set aside the conventional use of stanzas and rhyme, to instead describe (in many more words) exactly what poetry should stand for, look like, and even feel like. These manifestos can also be as poetic as… well… poetry…
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Literary Lists: TikTok Poetry
You’ve probably heard of TikTok, the video sharing social media platform that’s taken over the internet. Especially popular with Gen Z, TikTok has over 650 million users globally and has spawned all manner of memes and cultural exports, from dance moves to viral pasta recipes…
Literary Lists: Webcomics
Webcomics may have started as a relatively simplistic medium, but throughout the 21st century they have grown and matured, as new artists experiment with what can be done within the confines of a single page. As a result, what was once a format dominated by short, surrealist jokes has blossomed into an exciting and ever-evolving branch of literature…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 52
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 52 of Neon Literary Magazine features a herd of improbable animals: a gigantic genetically-engineered rat, a dog destined to be a Hollywood plot device, chest-bursting aliens and more. Children play god with science lab hearts. Colonists on an alien planet struggle to adjust to…
Huge Rat Comforts Himself With Lies
The rat engineered to grow to the size of a humanhas only two hours left to live. The laboratory has burnedto the ground. The rat suffered burn wounds, but theseburns will not be what kill him; it’s just that his physiologyis unsustainable when detached from specialized machinery.So he has stepped out of the burning building,…
Pretty Little Chestburster
face-hugged from the black then ditched like a flesh vessel, the worst of it now is wondering where you are. who you’re with. glowing on every grimy corner, I wear you so heavy it feels impossible you could be anywhere but curled beneath my ribs, preparing to pop. Stephen Ground is a multi-faceted writer and…
Social Science
“Social Science” was first published in Tuesday Magazine It is the early morning. A man, dressed in a suit, walks alone to the bus. He feels a pleasant and uplifting sense of solitude, but slowly becomes aware of a matched sense of desolation. He sighs, his feet feeling heavier than before. A researcher, hidden in…
2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes for Poetry have been running for almost two decades now, but their mission remains the same: to recognise the best poetry published in the UK and Ireland each year. They’re among the most prominent poetry prizes in the country…
Neon’s 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominations
The annual Shirley Jackson Awards recognise outstanding achievements in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. They’re named after Shirley Jackson, a prolific novelist and short story writer whose output includes “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 51
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 51 of Neon Literary Magazine is our horror issue, and it’s all kinds of scary. There are dragons, ghosts, and star creatures lurking on every page. An expedition to locate a mysterious cryptid goes tragically wrong. Polar bears stalk through the streets of a…