Author: Richard Salsbury

Submissions for 2021 are now open. Our theme is ‘Small Differences Add Up’ and you can read all about it here. We look forward to reading your work!

Thanks to everyone who has helped us grow our forest by donating to our Tree Sisters fundraiser. So far, we have raised enough to fund the planting of 817 trees. This tropical reforestation project has now funded the planting of more than 15 million trees across the tropics, in locations …

Seeking the 2020 Rainbow – A Celebration. It started with a theme asking writers to explore their experiences of this strange year and to consider how the burgeoning of nature may have helped. And what a wonderful response we had. There has been so much honesty, resilience, humour, love and …

Our new run of stories, poems and non-fiction has begun! We’ll be featuring new work over the next four weeks for our theme ‘Seeking the 2020 Rainbow’ (plus a couple of others that fit our previous themes). Click here to read our contributors’ work, and keep coming back as we …

And … another update to the inspiration page for our 2020 submission window Seeking the 2020 Rainbow. Thanks to all those who have generously contributed their words and photos.

Our inspiration page has been updated with prompts and observations for our new submission theme. More to come!

We are open to submissions until 30th September 2020. Check out all the details here.

Our media partners Star & Crescent have begun their three week run of publishing our articles,  stories and poetry. Many thanks to Paris, Esti, Tom and Sarah for all their support. More to come!

We are running a creative writing workshop in association with the University of Portsmouth on March 19th 2020 on the theme ‘Streets for People’. Details here.

Read about the tireless gardeners, planters and environmentalists helping to green up the city in our series of four articles on Planting Portsmouth: Trees and the City Wilder Portsmouth Pocket Parks Community Orchards