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2 poems by Nora Rawn



Pairs Short Program

Watch the backwards inwards death spiral,

technical element introduced in the 1948 Olympics,

the woman hovers smoothly, levitates, you recall your

last time ice skating solo, a snow day impulse,

memories of watching the rink below,

walks in the park with your lover, your affianced,

freedom of being lonely, difficulty of partnering,

how in the death spiral the woman arches her back, 

she circles the man’s skates smoothly,

there are four death spiral variants, a skill you wish you had, 

to survive entanglement, to remain entangled, 

to come off the ice triumphant, hand-in-hand


Bringing My Mother Along

Once I ran from the house

to hide from her

another time, punished, wrote on my bedroom 

dresser’s side how I hated her. 

What did I know? Nothing, 

and less even than that. 

Now I bring her with me wherever I go,

holding her hand that she may be safe.


Nora Rawn works in subrights in publishing and lives in Brooklyn. She has had pieces published or forthcoming in Dodo Eraser, Dreck Lit, Be About It Press, Electric Pink, Tap Into Poetry, Burial Magazine, Some Words, and Michigan City Review of Books. She spends too much time on twitter under @norabird.

Poems by Henry Luzzatto



Rubberneckin’

I passed by a church basement

full of old people dancing

cheek to cheek to rnb

on Valentine’s Day 

And all the young white single 

people in the city stopped

and said can you believe it?

Can you believe it?

And how could we? Believe that 

quietly each and every 

one all wanted that for us

We’d do anything 

for that to be us 

We’d give money, sex

trade our age for theirs 

to hold each other close in the basement 

and misremember youth we gave up for now


Clone Wars

How many guys with

stupid brown fiddly haircuts

do there need to be

before someone does something drastic?

I know I have a soul

a big blue mile-thick soul but

I don’t know about them

their teeth and black jeans and pus

truth is

I hate them

them I hate

the way an ape bares its teeth at the mirror 


Felix and Regula

Got too high and started imagining the kids I’m gonna have

I don’t usually think about the future of people that aren’t me

But I could see them

They weren’t much, just little scenes

unwashed kid hair and sticky breath

and myself, old, rounder

For my daughter 

who had a stupid name her mom picked out 

like Evangeline 

I dreamed about saying I wouldn’t just love her but 

would always give her the benefit of the doubt

the way boys don’t do with their women

And for my son

who was perfect

and named something big and sweet and dumb

that I got to choose

I just thought about all the baseball players

I want him to know were great 


Henry Luzzatto is a Brooklyn-based writer and musician. Originally from a swamp in Virginia, his work is featured in The Baffler, body fluids, ExPat Press, and more. 

as drowned by Jen Adams



Jen Adams (she/they) is a UK-based researcher, feminist and writer.

A Good Place To Die by LaVern Spencer McCarthy



“When are you going to do it?” Lenny asked Susan.

“When am I going to do what?” she responded, laying a card carefully on the dining room table where she was playing Solitaire.

         “When are you going to kill yourself?” Susan glanced at him warily. 

         “I have no desire to kill myself.”

         “But you need to,” replied Lenny. “After all, it was you who had the affair and ruined my name in this town.”

         “Your name!” Susan screeched, slapping the card she held onto the table. “What about my name? Not only have you trashed me to my friends, you went to every bar in town talking about me, trying to get sympathy, but all they did was laugh at you.” Lenny kicked a small trash can over. 

         “I would never have done that if you had been a faithful wife.”

         “But the affair was over five years ago,” she reminded him. 

         “So I heard,” he retorted, but it’s new to me.” Susan stood, ready to leave the room.

         “You shouldn’t have listened to my former lover’s new girlfriend when she called here trying to make trouble.”

         “Oh, is that so? When I asked you if it was true, I expected you to lie, but now I know you told the truth about everything.”

         “Yes, I did,” she replied. “You should be man enough to let it go.”

         “I will NEVER let it go!” he roared. “You should die.” Susan ran into the bedroom and locked the door. Lenny had been this way ever since he found out about Susan’s affair. She felt like throttling the hussy who called her home and demanded Susan come talk with her about Susan’s former lover. Susan had refused, and the woman informed Lenny. None of this would have happened if the man she gave her heart to had kept his mouth shut.

         Susan became a pariah in the town where she lived. Everywhere she went she could hear snide remarks behind her back. Leering men made obscene gestures. She was forced to shop two towns over so as not to be seen by anyone she knew.

         Lenny was not innocent. He backhanded Susan for the slightest thing she did wrong, even before her confession about being unfaithful. She often went to work wearing dark glasses because of a black eye. As a receptionist at an insurance company, she had to be presentable. It was hard to hide a cut lip or swollen, bruised face. Her boss threatened to fire her if she didn’t leave Lenny. She had no place to go, no children, no family. No one cared what happened to her. 

         Lenny hung around her work place, often waiting for her at the ground floor of the elevator when she got off work. His face in a perpetual sneer, he would inquire as to when she would commit suicide. He decided he wanted to be present when it happened. Susan told him not to worry. She would make sure he was there if she did it.

         She wondered what Lenny would do if she did kill herself. She was the only one who worked. Lenny was a dead-beat who never lifted a hand to do anything except drink and play video games. Their marriage had gone steadily downhill. She wished she had never met him.

         She also wished he would see a therapist or mental health worker. Of course, anyone would be upset if a spouse cheated, but Lenny went too far. The torment had been going on for a year. Lenny began suggesting various places for Susan to kill herself.                                               He wanted her to shoot herself in their flower garden, but she said that would disturb the neighbors. There were too many parents with children at the city park. No, she would not go there. But she was thinking of ending her life more and more. What did she have to live for anyway? Lenny’s constant barrage of hatred and ridicule were causing her a great deal of depression and despair. Because of trauma Susan had been eating more. She was a big woman before, but now she topped three hundred pounds, something else for Lenny to make nasty remarks about. 

         At last Susan decided to do what Lenny wanted. When it happened, Lenny was

there just as she had promised. As he was walking past the building where Susan worked,

she jumped from her office window on the twelfth floor and landed squarely on his ugly

head. 


LaVern Spencer McCarthy, has published eight books of poetry and four books of short
stories plus three journals. Her poems have been published in Visions International,
Poetry Society of Texas Book of The Year, Open Skies Quarterly, National Federation of
State Poetry Society’s Encore, Austin Poetry Society’s Austin’s Best Poets, A Texas
Garden of Verses and numerous state anthologies and newspaper columns.
Her poem, October’s Agenda was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2023.

Lavender by Reza Jabrani 


 

The half-empty bottle of lavender 

pure-castile soap haunting 

my shower for months 

after you left, the lonesome 

burning sudsy mornings 

moaning, masturbating, 

inhaling a floral memory of you.  


Reza Jabrani writes coarse prose and crude poetry @coarseprose

The Return by a.d.


For weeks she willed the horizon ablaze

with word of triumph

Smoke from her fires     sways lascivious in the mist

She dresses the house for his return

as a snake vestures itself in foliage    biding for prey

Finally the homecoming

Streets filled with petals     laughter     song

Expectant women     scan the victors for their sons

hope ebbing & absconding

She sees him    argentine    mightier than she remembers

feels an unwelcome stab       of tenderness like self-violation

On the carriage next to him     her daughter    alive

tears pulsating     threads of red dancing in the wind

He gleams    godlike    within the conglomeration

closer     closer—        She realizes his trick:

the girl      foreign      not her own

Fury intensifies within her       seizes her by the throat

resolve     floods her gut like semen

She bids him into the tyrian river     beguiling

the bowels of the butcherhouse

House ghosts nab at his feet    salivating for vengeance

he wades on    blind as a god to silent suffering

For ten years he has cheated death as it caressed him unknowingly

thinks himself inviolable     on par with the deathless gods

But her prayers have been steadfast   inerrant   

& Death is generous & heeding

She spinals the blade   

hones her resolve     into promise: 

the moonfall will see him dead


a.d. is drawn to the sacred, the profane, the mysterious and the mythological, which provides inspiration for her work. She is an award-nominated bisexual poet, writer, and visual artist, with words published in HAD, Blood+Honey, MCRB, REDAMANCY Mag, God’s Cruel Joke, HAWKEYE, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, her visual art, mainly photography and self-portraiture, is featured in Hominum Journal, Occulum, RESURRECTION Mag, Antler Velvet, Bleating Thing and other outlets. Tumblr & Twitter: @godstained

3 poems by Juliet Cook



Sawing Through

Lap dance underwater with

sharks.

Limbs tossed into 
bleeding mosh pits.

Those still alive are uniform,

guns, glass, hate.
Won’t stop shooting,
biting, spitting out

splintered heads they don’t want
to swallow.

Lacerated tongues which

can no longer speak.

Stuffed animal lair only

allows meat eating breeds

filled with contracting, contractual,
expanding killer teeth.

Dialect of smashed windows 

dragging you away.


Intrusive Obsession 

Hiding in the background,
then quietly limping to the side

of my peripheral vision,
then suddenly racing towards my headspace.


Screaming internally then constricting

my throat with heaves and gasps and

compulsions, every membrane screaming

obsessive images about how men are looking

at creampie dripping down 
younger women’s thighs 
and I’m a boring middle
aged woman his age

 
with saggy breasts and a heart
instead of just an opening

aimed to explode in his face.

Like a Ouija board strobe light inside

my brain, this obsession won’t stop

until my head splatters.


Invisible Ink

Possible poem lines emerge in bed,

in the midst of what seems like a semi-dream/

semi-reality state, followed by internal glitch

in which a semi-truck aims to run over

my new lines or my entire head. 


I thought I had managed

to temporarily sit up and 

write down my impending words, but

the first pen was devoid of ink. 

The second pen spit a thin drizzle

of almost invisible blood,

which soon disappeared. 

When I awoke, nothing new

was on the page. Had my words ever been there

at all? I could no longer remember the words
which had felt like they were writing themselves

inside my semi-invisible brain.

Perhaps it was just an illusion.

The bedside table was loaded

with hundreds of sheets of paper,

repetitive to-do lists. But no poetry. 

My new lines must have been 
thrown away or swallowed or 
trapped inside the dream or else 

never fully existed. 

I re-entered real life,

viewed the latest news,
saw death, murder, evil

worse than nightmares.
Part of me wished I was still stuck
in a dream. If I look away, am I acting
like another dead body is invisible ink? 


Juliet Cook doesn’t fit inside an Easy-Bake Oven and rarely cooks. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including “red flames burning out” (Grey Book Press, 2023), “Contorted Doom Conveyor” (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), “Your Mouth is Moving Backwards” (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023), “REVOLTING” (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), and “Blue Stingers Instead of Wings” (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025). Her most recent full-length poetry book, “Malformed Confetti” was published by Crisis Chronicles Press. You can find out more at https://julietcook.weebly.com/.

from wastes / wraiths by James Knight


in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal

and stabbing breath

looped like my passage through this space

what is it we fear when images come to mind

do we sense something that inhabits rooms and woodlands

beyond exhalation

under duress

my door ceases to be mine

I crumple into an apology the bedsheets are too clean for me

when the human beast arrives it hunkers down and won’t budge

remembering the man gone mad asleep

clubbing his family to death


James Knight is a poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Publications include Cosmic Horror (Hem Press), Rites & Passages (Salò Press), Machine (Trickhouse Press) and Void Voices (Hesterglock Press). Website: www.thebirdking.com. Bluesky: @badbadpoet. Instagram: @jkbirdking.

Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter



What was our poison touch, of palm lines

centred on hands, opening chords

into the body, incisions rent inside

like wreathless layers of skin?

A glorious kinetic estrangement 

feed-back loops speaking in tonality /  

urban reconstruction:  organ runs,  skronky sax,

industrious clarity / at the edge. In the frame, 

increments. And 

some time later, New York City,

alone. Glorious / audacity.

I saw your shadow forty feet long crossing

father demo square to come up stairs

after the ritual throwing up of food 

I tossed down the ring with the skeleton key.

Enactments between us always began with something 

breath/ less. Taking starkest energy. 

Was it you then, 

dressed in a white tuxedo? Art student

of midnight, your ironed shirt,  clover-patterned pants

sitting angular at the edge of a conceptual stare, 

a concrete floor, iron bed-sit, installation.

Being, the notion of prayer, 

or, in waiting at an abutment outside the Mudd Club

or somewhere else , in another outfit,

I remember your troweled performance on a couch

in the sprung rhythms of acid house.

Such memories / walk / me waking 

forward

to specular lipstick on pale skin,

circular meridians drawn in cups

from a river. 

To tie red hemp rope around your

waist,  tautly hold down your thigh

to hook beneath the back of knees 

for levitation,  a shuddering radio static 

meeting clustered mind, gathering up

in suspension’s glove for inertia. We ache 

in de-evolution towards ancestors, the 

awesome incisive markings, spine of 

your bridge, arched, offering, gravity-less

spectral juxtapositions: wigs / wraps, 

buttoned / in collated 

collars; marginalia  /collective sighing of electric

guitars in process  /a novel /

pages with annotations, yes, without 

you we are in for a long triage.

Hand over hand, climbing over 

indelicate industrial clamor, unrolling   

typewriter ribbons to erase propaganda broadsheets / smear

the news and various 

other kinds of puppeteer topographies / 

with spilled black ink blood.

Wandering / steps behind a

procession. At the parade grounds of immolation,

we sit on our knees, for hours / Try to 

stand up straight with

a wishbone lodged in the prism of

your throat, already broken, outmaneuvered /

we were plates of glass, shattered

fragments, separated from everything. 

Sometimes /planes take off from here,

on time. Even cauliflower 

softens in the pan.  You were once

serenaded by electricity volts, hand-held by numbers

of your fans who came to see you perform.

 (new stanza)

Now / (note): I serenade your memory. 

Dictate stenographic emblems 

to exposed toes. I

want to shake in crescendo, howling

in a complicated realm of teeth.

Programmed noise for synthetic generative 

chatter. 

Titled, Music # 4: It is /

so cold outside. Never forgot 

your urgency /

The predilection / to wander.  


Robert Frede Kenter is a widely published writer, visual artist, performer, & publisher of
Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) with work in over 200 publications published or
forthcoming including: Watch Your Head, Harpy Hybrid, ballast, winged moon, ABR, storms
journal, heavy feathers, petrichor, Cable Street, Burning House, Pissoir, Lost & Found Times,
Blood & Honey, Otoliths, Paragraph, The Prose Poem Journal etc.. In Anthologies incl:
Capitalism is a Death Cult (Sunday Mornings at the River), Speaking in Tongues (Steel
Incisors), The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press). Interpoem 1 & 2 (Sedserio), Glisk and
Glimmer (Sidhe Press). Select books: Moon Writing (with Catherine Graham) (Ice Floe Press,
2026), In the Blueprint of Her Iris (with Vikki C) (Ice Floe Press, 2025), Father Tectonic (Ethel
Zine, 2025), Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert was guest editor of Secrets and
Lies (July, 2019) at Burning House Press and has lots of other projects on the go.
Soc media X: @frede_kenter, IG: icefloe22, r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, Bluesky:
@rfredekenter.bsky.social‬.

SUMMER NEEDS by Sara Matson


<1>

my suede hand

warm + gloved

pinning swollen fist on 

either side of ur mandible

+ screaming until the jaw

snaps (so visceral !)

my wet thigh sticky

(unexpected blood)

i tuck my body beneath

stubbed nose cold comfort

watching my verbal tics echo 

in the rugless lobby

my god, 

that’s what summer needs

a cropped linen jacket

just shaped enough

to warm my tits in 

cool summer shade

no pride or shame in making

an old woman cry

… i’m the old woman

<2>

the ridiculousness of lunch glass

or getting chewed out

in the afternoon thicket 

… unthinkable !

vibrant creature,

effervescence of youth

forest green + humbled by

succulence or prosperity,

buccal fat smeared in shiny layers

refracting age or wisdom

<3>

then me

+ the vibes i give: 

                   nervous forgiveness

                   stuffed with love which cannot carry

                   s w a m p

                   incurable lack/deepest ache

                   sun schemes (insofar as to stop the sun

                                     and it’s bullshit)

                   but like,                … friendly ?

yes, 

my hairline continues

to fur itself by fireplace

many extra fingers invited to 

light + curl 

squeezing crunch into velvet

 
before botox is just called youth

let me lick yours like a ruffle, 

like a scream in church !

in my mother’s voice: 

                            CRY OUT A WINDOW ABOUT IT

                            TELL THE MIDNIGHT MAN 

                            REMEMBER THE SLIME RIVER

ah,

of course

her indifference reminds me

to invoke the river of slime

to soak my sins in

the neon absolution

of undone mildew stains

like imposition over injury

<4>

the back of my neck 

is so hairless

(from          the accident)

that when i was nailing my wistfulness

to the new wallpaper

i adhered myself to the baseboard

gathering dust like spring grain

in my historically accurate suit

admiring medieval books

on weddings 

+ informal sutures 


Sara Matson (she/her) is a poet in Chicago and host of the seasonal online reading series Words // Friends. Her poems can be found in Discount Guillotine, Kicking Your Ass, The Chicago Reader and elsewhere. Her favorite color is lime green and you can find her on Instagram @skeletorsmom and Blue Sky @saramatson.bsky.social. 


4 poems by Damon Hubbs


Olympia

Real love. Unsparing introspection

Oh, for heaven’s sake 

fucking ____________________  . 

  1. Jennifer
  2. You (& Jennifer) 
  3. Jack the Modernist
  4. Veronica, Ted, Sabalenka, Sailor Socialism
  5. the museum goers at The Frick, 

a poem for trapped things, the solar anus

the girl whose lips

are like 

the last helicopter 

out of Saigon

O lose the noise 

you’re going to be all right

go home, spoon the Hitachi     

blackmatter

Berkshire Hathaway

     Dear Cinnette, 

     did you obtain cheap land, seek fortune, 

     join a religious community—

     I’m taking the kitchen sink approach 

            Where do the coordinates lead…

Delia Deetz died. 

The Lily Jean sank off the coast of Gloucester. 

The streets are draped in anti-drone nets. 

Today, when I was looking at the clouds 

I remembered how Leni Riefenstahl attached automatic cameras to balloons. 

     I want to fall in love 

     with a blind flower girl

     who mistakes me 

     for a millionaire. 


Even the Automobiles Here Seem to Be Ancient 

Dear Cinnette, I grew tired of the world 

at the Braintree split      

but there’s no shepherdess in sight

the ice floes on the Merrimack look like wounded angels

Dear Cinnette, the sun’s fixed stare expresses something beyond death

I’m letting my beard grow  

Let’s just say 

your period 

is the ultimate form of punctuation

Which one of your phone calls changed my life      fuck

     it

I’m raising a toast to Odin 

and the beauty of Japanese volcanoes

Last I heard you hitched a ride to Salt Lake     

O     Madonna 

        of the Trail— 

                          Dear Cinnette, Infinite Jest turned 30  

Sabalenka was penalized for a midpoint grunt

I saw a woman at Stop & Stop 

buying avocados 

like it’s 2010

I heard Thom bit off a prostitute’s toe in Prague

I’m high on benzos       godspark     

Dear Cinnette          Il faut être absolument modern

Did you know in 1955 

Friehofer’s still used horse drawn carts 

to deliver baked goods in Schenectady— 

Imagine if your whole job was putting cherries on cupcakes

Imagine if our midpoint grunt went on forever. 


Dobermann

If you said all I do is write love poems

     I’d say I’m solving the crisis of panty lines 

but that’s just another comedy 

for our conspiracy 

theory   

age

Again the snow is scatterbrained

millions of individual 

amens

and I’m thinking 

about the time 

we had sex at the Tate Modern

If you said it was like a love poem 

featuring Rouveyre’s car and several Soviet bikers

     I’d say 

look at the charm of the industrial streets.  

Fun is a steel bath in Mitteleuropa,  

your tongue like a menacing dobermann. 


MALMO

it feels very intimate, very private 

being an author and a character simultaneously

like a crowd of people 

at the beach 

screaming      shark!    Shark!

Quite unlike the Oulipians

who organize their internet novels 

by color

fake barn country 

the IKEA back catalogue. 

      Dear Cinnette, 

I prefer the dark arts 

“So we shall take the train here to MALMO

then get into the car 

and drive home to our house, 

and all the way I shall revel in, 

truly revel in”

how we used to smoke 

in bed on Sundays 

and read The Boston Globe

Akhmatova, Letters to a Young Poet, 

the cat purring like 

a bloom of chocolate, 

mirrors caressing the room 

and the sense of things 

careening

towards

a head

still a long 

way

     off

like a seizure 

on a boat 

in the middle of the sea


Damon Hubbs is a poet from New England. His latest collection, Bullet Pudding, is forthcoming from Roadside Press in 2026. Recent publications include Horror Sleaze Trash, Apocalypse Confidential, Be About It Press, Revolution John, The Literary Underground, RESSURECTION magazine, and others. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net. He is a poetry editor at Blood+Honey and The Argyle Literary Magazine. bluesky: @hubbsd.bsky.social

DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico

Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of December.

Submissions are open from today 1st December – and will remain open until 21st DECEMBER.

Matt’s theme for the month is as follows

My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico

Matthew Kinlin lives and writes in Glasgow. His published workst include Teenage Hallucination (Orbis Tertius Press, 2021); Curse Red, Curse Blue, Curse Green (Sweat Drenched Press, 2021); The Glass Abattoir (D.F.L. Lit, 2023); Songs of Xanthina (Broken Sleep Books, 2023); Psycho Viridian (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and So Tender a Killer (Filthy Loot, 2025). Instagram: @obscene_mirror.

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Submission Guidelines

All submissions should be sent as attachments to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com

Please state the theme and form of your submission in the subject of the email. For example: NICO/POETRY

Poetry and Fiction

For poetry submissions, submit no more than three of your best poems. Short stories should be limited to 1,500 words or (preferably) less. We encourage flash fiction submissions, no more than three at a time. Send these in as a .doc or .docx file, along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Art
Submit hi-res images of your works (drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, photography, etc) with descriptions of the work (Title, Year, Medium, etc) in the body of the email. Files should be in .JPEG unless they are GIFs or videos, and should not exceed 2MB in size for each work. File names should correspond with the work titles. Video submissions can be uploaded onto Youtube or Vimeo for feature on our website. Send these submissions along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Virtual Reality/ 3D Artworks

For VR Submissions, please submit no more than three (3) individual artworks. For Tilt Brush works, please upload your artwork to Google Poly (https://poly.google.com/), and mark it as ‘public’ (‘remixable’ is at your own preference). A VR/3D artwork can also be submitted as a video export navigating through the artwork. If you prefer this method, please upload your finished video file to YouTube or Vimeo and provide a URL. With either format, please provide a 150 word artist’s statement.

Non-fiction
Non-fiction submissions (essays, reviews, commentary, interviews, etc) should be no more than 1, 500 words and sent as a .doc or .docx file along with your third-person bio/and optional photograph.

Submissions are open until 21st December – and will reopen again on 1st January 2026/for new theme/new editor/s.

BHP online is now in the capable hands of the amazing Matthew Kinlin – friends, arsonistas, send our December 2025 guest editor your magic!

NOVEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is C.C. O’HANLON!!! THEME/S: JOURNEYS

Burning House Press are excited to welcome C.C. O’HANLON as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today C.C. will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of November.

Submissions are open from today 1st November – and will remain open until 25TH November.

C.C.’s theme for the month is as follows

—JOURNEYS

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JOURNEYS: Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media.

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Photo by Given Rozell.

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A self-described ‘vagabond, diarist, and wreck’, C.C. O’Hanlon’s fragmentary memoirs have been published in various anthologies, including Best Australian Essays 2005 and Best Australian Stories 2004 (both published by Black Inc, Australia), A Revealed Life: Australian Writers And Their Journeys In Memoir (ABC Books, Australia), The Odysseum: Strange Journeys That Obliterated Convention (John Murray, U.K.), Zahir: Desire & Eclipse (Zeno Press, U.K.), and Dark Ocean (Dark Mountain Project, U.K.). A founding features editor of Harper’ Bazaar Australia in the late ’80s, his mainstream journalism and images have appeared in The New York TimesThe Sydney Morning HeraldVarietyTravel & Leisure, the Australian editions of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and scores of other newspapers and magazines.

He now lives a nomadic life with his American wife of 38 years aboard a small, sea-worn old sailboat named Wrack in the southern Mediterranean. They have three adult children.

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Submission Guidelines

All submissions should be sent as attachments to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com

Please state the theme and form of your submission in the subject of the email. For example: JOURNEYS/POETRY

Poetry and Fiction

For poetry submissions, submit no more than three of your best poems. Short stories should be limited to 1,500 words or (preferably) less. We encourage flash fiction submissions, no more than three at a time. Send these in as a .doc or .docx file, along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Art
Submit hi-res images of your works (drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, photography, etc) with descriptions of the work (Title, Year, Medium, etc) in the body of the email. Files should be in .JPEG unless they are GIFs or videos, and should not exceed 2MB in size for each work. File names should correspond with the work titles. Video submissions can be uploaded onto Youtube or Vimeo for feature on our website. Send these submissions along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Virtual Reality/ 3D Artworks

For VR Submissions, please submit no more than three (3) individual artworks. For Tilt Brush works, please upload your artwork to Google Poly (https://poly.google.com/), and mark it as ‘public’ (‘remixable’ is at your own preference). A VR/3D artwork can also be submitted as a video export navigating through the artwork. If you prefer this method, please upload your finished video file to YouTube or Vimeo and provide a URL. With either format, please provide a 150 word artist’s statement.

Non-fiction
Non-fiction submissions (essays, reviews, commentary, interviews, etc) should be no more than 1, 500 words and sent as a .doc or .docx file along with your third-person bio/and optional photograph.

Submissions are open until 25th November – and will reopen again on 1st DECEMBER 2025/for new theme/new editor/s.

BHP online is now in the capable hands of the amazing C.C. – friends, arsonistas, send our NOVEMBER 2025 guest editor your magic!

Subterraneans ii by Paul Hearn

Part-time collagist and amateur bricoleur, Paul has always been infatuated
with pop music and comics. Bluesky @paulxhearn.bsky.social

SEPTEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is Alexander Booth!!! THEME/S: LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

Burning House Press are excited to welcome Alexander Booth as the fourth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Alexander will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of September.

Submissions are open from today 1st September – and will remain open until 25TH SEPTEMBER.

Alexander’s theme/s for the month are as follows

—LANDSCAPE

LABYRINTH—

Black Square and Red Square by Kazmir Malevich

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LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

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When the painter’s friends, however, looked around for the painter, they saw that he was gone—that he was in the picture. There, he followed the little path that led to the door, paused before it quite still, turned, smiled, and disappeared through the narrow opening. 

–        Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 (trans. Howard Eiland)

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Each one of us, then, should speak of his roads, his crossroads, his roadside benches; each one of us should make a surveyor’s map of his lost fields and meadows. 

           Gaston Bachelard (trans. Maria Jolas)

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“Though Minos blocks escape by land or water,”

Daedalus said, “surely the sky is open,

And that’s the way we’ll go. Minos’ dominion

Does not include the air.”

–        Ovid, Metamorphosis (trans. Rolfe Humphries)

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Alexander Booth is a poet, translator, collage artist and printmaker who lives in Berlin. Recent translations include books by Friederike Mayröcker, Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Rühm, and a new translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. His collection of poems Triptych was published in 2021 and Kantor in 2023.

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Submission Guidelines

All submissions should be sent as attachments to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com

Please state the theme and form of your submission in the subject of the email. For example: LANDSCAPE/POETRY Or LABYRINTH/FICTION

Poetry and Fiction

For poetry submissions, submit no more than three of your best poems. Short stories should be limited to 1,500 words or (preferably) less. We encourage flash fiction submissions, no more than three at a time. Send these in as a .doc or .docx file, along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Art
Submit hi-res images of your works (drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, photography, etc) with descriptions of the work (Title, Year, Medium, etc) in the body of the email. Files should be in .JPEG unless they are GIFs or videos, and should not exceed 2MB in size for each work. File names should correspond with the work titles. Video submissions can be uploaded onto Youtube or Vimeo for feature on our website. Send these submissions along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Virtual Reality/ 3D Artworks

For VR Submissions, please submit no more than three (3) individual artworks. For Tilt Brush works, please upload your artwork to Google Poly (https://poly.google.com/), and mark it as ‘public’ (‘remixable’ is at your own preference). A VR/3D artwork can also be submitted as a video export navigating through the artwork. If you prefer this method, please upload your finished video file to YouTube or Vimeo and provide a URL. With either format, please provide a 150 word artist’s statement.

Non-fiction
Non-fiction submissions (essays, reviews, commentary, interviews, etc) should be no more than 1, 500 words and sent as a .doc or .docx file along with your third-person bio/and optional photograph.

Submissions are open until 25th SEPTEMBER – and will reopen again on 1st OCTOBER 2025/for new theme/new editor/s.

BHP online is now in the capable hands of the amazing Alexander Booth – friends, arsonistas, send our SEPTEMBER 2025 guest editor your magic!

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