Welcome to Britain: a Call for Poetry and Short Fiction
CivicLeicester is inviting and accepting poems and short fiction on the theme, Welcome to Britain . We welcome submissions exploring but not limited to: images, issues, histories, lives, and demands that are currently in play in Britain today daily life in Britain reparations for slave trading, the use of slave labour and for benefiting from the slavery system (the extended global system involving plantation labour and slave-produced commodities etc) issues that made the Black Lives Matter movement relevant to Britain, the current state of the movement and its possible futures responses that engage with, contest and subvert the myths Britain tells about itself responses to British politicians' attitudes towards the use of nuclear weapons and their fixation with the idea of pushing 'the button' responses to Britain’s role in the current Ukraine-Russian War that go beyond, engage with or challenge the propaganda coming from both sides of the conflict responses to how Britain