Popshot Magazine
Short stories, flash fiction & poetry
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Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood.
From the pavement to the pubs to the playhouses, our peculiar little planet is full of storytelling. Popshot aims to publish just a few of the more articulate and well-observed versions of these stories, illustrated by some of contemporary illustration’s finest. The magazine is published bi-annually, in April and October.
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Pages (PDF): 68
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THE CURIOUS ISSUE
Our fourteenth issue, containing a selection of poems and short stories that put oddity and curiosity at their heart. Led by some of the finest storytellers and poets, and accompanied by a selection of beautiful illustrations, we’ll travel to the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean; to the workshop of a fraudulent creator of abnormalities; and to the rowing boats of rosy-blooded explorers. We’ll happen across nighttime gardeners and dusty bookshop owners, discover a giant machine capable of attaining the answers to all of life’s questions, watch as dodos are reassembled, and find ourselves caught in a loop where generation after generation lives out a very similar life.
Pages (PDF): 68
Publisher: Popshot Magazine
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THE OUTSIDER ISSUE
Our thirteenth issue, which brings the madmen, the oddballs and the observers into the spotlight to delve into what happens on the fringes of ‘normality’. From a woodland story of a lost boy that the Brothers Grimm would be proud of, to a rallying call for us to listen to the lunatics, to an off-the-grid society at risk of disappearing, to a poem quite simply called ‘The Pervert’ — the Outsider issue is the veritable feast of oddity that it should be.
Pages (PDF): 64
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THE TIME ISSUE
Our twelfth issue, which flings us into the past, present and future – both real and imagined – to explore our perception and relationship with time. From tales of the future where clocks are obsolete, to spending time with 5,000 year old trees, to the fear of losing precious memories, to time travel caused by sherbet and the story of a man who cannot die; the Time issue is a treasure chest of short stories and poems that take us anywhere apart from here.
Pages (PDF): 64
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THE JOURNEYS ISSUE
Our eleventh issue, which takes us on the journey of a series of journeys. From escaping the rat race to explore the planet, to mapping out our lives in jars of memories, to watching a baby's lungs billow into action for the first time; the Journeys issue features 24 short stories and poems that allow us to travel into the curious minds that stipple today's literary and illustration scene.
Pages (PDF): 64
Publisher: Popshot Magazine
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THE WILD ISSUE
Our landmark tenth issue, which leads us into the deepest and darkest depths of the wilderness, exploring the wildness of nature, the wildness of human nature, and everything beyond and inbetween. From the fraught retirement years of a lion tamer, to the blind man who struggled to deal with the miracle of sight, to Dominican ghost stories, dystopian ecopoems, and the tale of the man who claimed he was raised by wolves - the Wild issue is a riotous display of the quality of contemporary writing and illustration.