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Bollocks to Brexit: Poetry & Microfiction - a Call for Submissions

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Bollocks to Brexit: an Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2019) is now available .* We are inviting, and are accepting, poems and short fiction on the theme, Bollocks to Brexit . Brexit has polarised the country and led to the normalisation of xenophobia, Islamophobia and hate crimes. Can the harm it is causing be stopped? Can it be reversed? Who should clean up the mess which the politicians have made and are making? What will the future be like for Britain? Who will be the winners and who the losers? Should it be like this? Should the country be divided in two? Please send the poems and short fiction to civicleicester@gmail.com by 11pm on Friday, 29 March 2019 . Submission Guidelines ● Poems should be 40 lines or less, and short fiction, 100 words or less. ● The poems and short fiction should be on the theme, Bollocks to Brexit . ● Submissions must be in English. In the case of translated work, it is the translator’s responsibility to obtain permis