Free short fiction magazine and publisher of novelettes.
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6 Dec 2025
Open Pen Anthology: Volume Two is out now: openpen.uk/shop
Wendy Erskine - Guest
B.B. Fitton
Jacob Parker
Josephine Bruni
Olivia Dunnett
Ian M MacDonald
Rob True
Fernando Sdrigotti
Ben Stone
Bonny Brooks
Krystian Morgan
James Hatton
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Sylvia Warren
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18 Dec 2025
Must say, we’re rather happy with the authors we’ve lassoed over the years.
Very proud to have them within the pages of our latest tablet.
Openpen.uk/shop
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6 Dec 2025
Open Pen Anthology: Volume Two is out now: openpen.uk/shop
Wendy Erskine - Guest
B.B. Fitton
Jacob Parker
Josephine Bruni
Olivia Dunnett
Ian M MacDonald
Rob True
Fernando Sdrigotti
Ben Stone
Bonny Brooks
Krystian Morgan
James Hatton
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Sylvia Warren
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12 Dec 2025
Popped by the excellent Rare Mags in Stockport today. Leaders in the good fight for print magazines everywhere.
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2 Oct 2025
'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders
@TATFS on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
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30 Sep 2025
We’re finally going to print this week! Proud to publish this roster of writers. Order a copy: openpen.uk/shop
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1 Jun 2025
Open Pen issue 30 - out now!
Featuring author, @ricketywhite - a brilliant writer whose debut book was pulled due to the publisher folding. It needs to come out, one way or another… In the meantime, read some of his work here: openpen.uk/read.
24 Feb 2025
Open Pen issue 30.
Great writers destined for great things between these covers:
@GurnaikJohal
Kim Chinquee
Myles Zavelo
@ricketywhite
We’ll be sending these issues out to bookshops in the coming weeks.
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3 May 2025
You can now pre-order the Open Pen Anthology 2 from our website!
Featuring our guest author, Wendy Erskine.
And our rag-tag band of contributing authors over the last 5 years.
openpen.uk/shop
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27 Mar 2025
We’re setting up our web shop again, as soon as our new bank account from the fat cats comes through. You’ll be able to subscribe to our magazine and pre-order copies of our anthology.
Until then, grab a copy of issue 30 from our roster of bookshops openpen.uk/stockists
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24 Feb 2025
Open Pen issue 30.
Great writers destined for great things between these covers:
@GurnaikJohal
Kim Chinquee
Myles Zavelo
@ricketywhite
We’ll be sending these issues out to bookshops in the coming weeks.
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23 Sep 2024
We’re open for submissions, as always. Send your work over to openpenmag@gmail.com.
Our old email, info@openpen.co.uk, is now defunct. If you’ve submitted to us via this address recently, please resend it to our Gmail address. Taa!
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22 Jun 2024
We have some news.
We’ve gone through a lot of changes over the last year or so and have come to a difficult and reluctant decision:
We’re back.
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22 Jun 2024
3. If you’ve got a story in our anthology which is out this year and we haven’t touched base again already, please email the same address.
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22 Jun 2024
4. Again, we’re very sorry and embarrassed we’ve taken so long to awaken from this slumber. If you’d like to send us hate mail and call us losers, we’d love to hear from you still.
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23 Apr 2024
This is one of the best magazines I’ve read and the current issue is the best yet
The quality, from the writing to the artwork to the layouts, is remarkable
As somebody who has worked at Britain’s biggest magazine publisher, where it was a constant race to the bottom (1/3)
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