Tag: prose
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Issue V: Cassandra
It is a pleasure to announce that submissions are open for our first issue of 2022. Our fifth issue will be titled ‘Issue V: Cassandra (prophecy and deceit)’ and invites writers, photographers, and artists to explore the story of Cassandra in Troy and how its relevance is still felt today, across the globe. Cassandra was […]
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Issue V prompts
On January 10th, Issue V’s theme will be revealed and submissions will open for our first issue of 2022! In the meantime, here are some prompts to get you inspired ahead of the submission window reopening… Issue V prompts: stolen words echoes & glass ceilings let us live, let us love, let us tell our […]
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Hindsight is 2021
This year saw Free Verse Revolution transform from an online blog, to literary magazine, to a literary and arts magazine. Four issues have been published and have been downloaded over two thousand times. As this year draws to a close, I wanted to reflect upon this year but more importantly look ahead with many lessons […]
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Issue IV features Howard Young
The Garden is a House of Death (excerpt) White butterflies tumble down, as burning embers from a paper fire, funeral confetti, fearful blossom, I saw fallen apples fading into brown and white eaten out from the inside, fading worlds, dissolving circles of decay. Above, autumn spiders drift silent silken in recycled parachutes, clawing at the […]
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Issue IV features Caitlan Docherty
purple flowers, tense fruit, lust (excerpt) for only him, my stolen girlhood a painted replica in a swollen field, we share the tense fruit, lick the memory of sunlight from polished skin. i suspect he is triple-tongued with want: see his stern-blue lips, the way they pucker for the unblemished apple, the way they quiver […]
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Issue IV available to download!
Download here Editor’s note from Issue IV: hades (the unseen) It is with a heart full of joy that I present Free Verse Revolution’s finalissue of 2021. It has been a busy and incredibly rewarding inauguralyear transitioning from an online blog to a literary and arts magazine.We have released four issues which, combined, have beendownloaded […]
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