The Forward Prizes for Poetry have been running since 1992, and seek to recognise the best poetry published in the UK and Ireland over the course of the previous year. It’s one of the biggest poetry prizes in the country, with support from organisations like the BBC, The Royal Mail, and Arts Council England…
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Neon’s 2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Best Small Fictions is one of our favourite annual anthologies. Every year it features a huge range of tiny stories and hybrid fiction. This year it’s managed by Sonder Press, and – just as we always do – we’ve put forward a couple of our favourite small fictions for possible inclusion…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 49
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] The Futurism themed issue of Neon shows us a handful of absurd, dark, twisted, wonderful, impossible futures. We sell memories. We stalk social media. We lose ourselves in snowstorms. We take a drawing exam. We donate every ounce of blood we have. We observe the…
Nest
Not far from the university campus, an elderly man walking his small dog turns into an underpass and finds a shopping trolley, alone in the tunnel. The sight of it, suddenly there, a skeletal shadow in the empty space, makes him jump. The underpass is a regular route for students returning to campus from the…
Do Something Amazing Today
A blood van has just parked outside. Don’t look surprised; you’ve let the summonses pile up over the past fortnight or so. A man and a woman get out. He checks your house number. She opens the boot and gets the equipment for taking blood and, where necessary, bodily restraint. Whichever one’s knocking, they make…
Nan-e
Nan-e, this is a messageTo say: I love you.With mum busyYou make me Content. Wake me With musicSpeak Latin At breakfastPull lessons from cloudsChart progress. You,Set food remindersSet pill remindersNan-e,Count my stepsGuard me from Germs and Conditions;Save myCookies, readBed-time storiesOver speakersAt night; I imagineThe next episodes Of my favourite showsWithout your parentalControls. Nan-e, remember When…
Neon’s 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
The annual Pushcart Prize is a unique award, intended to recognise the very best fiction, poetry, and essays published in the small press world. Each year we nominate several of our favourite pieces from the last twelve months of Neon Literary Magazine…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 48
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] This issue of Neon opens with a heroic rescue attempt, and closes with an aquatic monster getting kelp on his chequebook. In between there are doomed interstellar romances, vicious acts of vandalism by young children, a midnight encounter with god at a gas station, and…
The Few Who Eat Us
Who could fail to admirethose few who eat uswithout compunction? Great whites rip with serrated teethand call others inwith your hemosignal. Tigers when you are sweating and swatting in the banded shadowswill crush your throat. Crocodiles will bite then twisttheir whole body roundto strip you clean. Most admirable of all are polar bearsnearly invisible in…
With Compliments
We are the hotel of the lost. There are no maps on the front desk, because none of you would read them. There isn’t a street sign on the wall outside. The door has no number. You found us anyway. Welcome. * Sinead has been running. Two minutes late is okay. Five is a problem….