Pens of the Earth

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

Stories and poems from our launch night themes are now being published by our media partners Star & Crescent. They will also be announcing our new submission theme this Friday (1st Nov), and we will be opening a new submission window.

Thanks to everyone who submitted material to us. Fabulous stuff! Look out for the three week Star & Crescent series, featuring selected stories, poems and articles based around our launch night themes. Our new submission window and theme(s) will be announced in the next couple of weeks.

We’re now also accepting narrative non-fiction submissions (in other words, factual pieces written using the techniques of fiction).

We’ve added:

• Summaries of the talks from our launch night:
  1. Plastic Free Portsmouth
  2. Portsmouth 2030 – A City Transformed
  3. Streets for People
• Submission guidelines
• A gallery of environmentally themed photos for additional inspiration
• Details of events at Tea Tray Creatives

We now have a Twitter account, run for us by the wonderful Annie Kirby. Check us out: @EarthPens.