Rob True Proust I love - gets a bit dry in the third volume (which is mostly politics), but other than that it's a fucking ball 90% of the time. And very very funny, which no one ever mentions

My friend and co-conspirator at the hibernating Transportation Press, Tadhg Muller, has a beautiful piece up at @Islandmag It will stop you in your tracks. islandmag.com/read/the-river…

The GOAT Tove Jansson nailing the memoirists 70 years ago.

We continue our hiatus, but will relaunch in 2024. We are currently rebuilding our website, but you can purchase our books over at OpenPen.shop as normal (and elsewhere). All correspondence should go to [email protected] only, please. See ya.

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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)

We’re open for submissions, as always. Send your work over to [email protected]. Our old email, [email protected], is now defunct. If you’ve submitted to us via this address recently, please resend it to our Gmail address. Taa!

Open Pen issue 30. Great writers destined for great things between these covers: Gurnaik Johal Kim Chinquee Myles Zavelo Rick White We’ll be sending these issues out to bookshops in the coming weeks.

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

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

Open Pen issue 30 - out now! Featuring author, Rick White - 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.