About Pen Pusher

Pen Pusher - where new writing finds its voice. We are a London-based literary magazine, published three times a year, that features original short fiction, poetry, reviews, columns, literary facts and curiosities.

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LATEST NEWS

19 July 2010

An interview with poet Adam O’Riordan

Pen Pusher caught up with poet Adam O’Riordan to find out more about his remarkable debut collection, In The Flesh. Read on...

7 July 2010

Earthy Anecdotes and Apocrypha

In the forthcoming issue of Pen Pusher Magazine, PP16 due out on July 29th, we’re delighted to be publishing extracts from independent poetry publisher, Donut Press’s forthcoming titles. In October and November 2010 Donut will be publishing new work from Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner.

As part of this, each of the five poets has written a short piece to introduce PP readers to their new work and writing processes. So, we start our series of Donut blogs with words from AB Jackson about his poem sequence, Apocrypha, published by Donut in November 2010. Read on...

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SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Pen Pusher Magazine is published three times a year, at the end of March, July and November.

PP 17: Mon, 4th October 2010

PP 18: Mon, 31st January 2011

PP 19: Wed, 1st June 2011

UPCOMING EVENTS

3 August 2010

We're delighted to announce that the PP party to launch issue 16 is being held on Tuesday 3rd August at the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon.

Featuring: Niven Govinden, John Osborne, Jon Stone, Travis Elborough, Sarah Hesketh & Tim Wells. Read on...

The night starts at 7pm, with readings kicking off at about 8pm. R.s.v.p. to let us know that you're coming.