Creative Bastards Magazine

Hi, & welcome to the official Tumblr of Creative Bastards Magazine! We are a student-run magazine, based in Nottingham, & we hope to showcase the work of new writers (mainly fellow students) in all creative mediums. ISSUE 1 COMING SOON!!!

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Issue 2 Contributors

As our team work hard on stitching together our latest issue, we'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has submitted a piece for 'Journeys'. A huge thank you to:

Adaria Crutcher Antonia Stassi Cierra Banks Ethan Riddle Nathan Trotman Pillar Blanka RJ Eaton Sofia Alleyne Shamik Banerjee

We're so glad to showcase your work.

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Make sure you're following us here, on Tumblr, or on Instagram for updates on our second issue!

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We're Back!

Creative Bastards Magazine is back with our Second Issue - Journeys!

We’re excited to return to produce a second issue of our magazine, following the theme of Journeys. Submissions open June 5th and close July 7th 2023. To find out more about how to submit, and view our submission guidelines, visit our website here.

You can also read our First Issue, for free, on our website!

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Please Note: Replies and responses to submissions will not be sent until after the submission window has closed. We currently aim to send responses starting July 17th.

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Creative Bastards Launch!

I am delighted to announce that we are launching the first ever issue of Creative Bastards Magazine next week!

If you are in or around Nottingham, or can get to us, please come and check out our Launch on November 21st at 7pm! We hope to see you there!

Book your tickets here: CB Magazine Launch Event Tickets, Mon 21 Nov 2022 at 19:00 | Eventbrite

We hope to see you there!

-Rebecca

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Contributors, thank you!

I would just like to say thank you to all our wonderful contributors to our first issue of Creative Bastards Magazine!

I have had the pleasure of being able to read through and admire all of the pieces Ellis has chosen for this magazine, and they are all wonderful! Thank you for sending in work and allowing us to showcase it in our brand-new magazine!

Nathan Trotman - On the Mantle Nick Barratt - What's That? David Talhadas - The Destruction of Kelper Isabella J. Mansfield - On learning that Medusa was not the villain Andrew Taylor - Murmur & Changes of Time not Space Esther Fisher - Here There Be Monsters Marjan Safiyari - A Gleaming Giant Monster Megan Sprous - Creepy Elle Jacobson - The Monster Under My Bed Marc Isaac Potter - Death 409 Sage Lai - Only Cowards Baulk at the Truth R.J Eaton - The Blue Devil Antonia Stassi - From Within Irina Tall - Artwork Elmo Moorby - A Night on the Moors

I hope that when the magazine comes out you all have a look because we have some absolutely brilliant work from some wonderful people, some of whom are close friends and course mates of mine! I am so proud of all our contributors, and I know Ellis is too.

Thank you everyone for your amazing work!

Please check out the magazine when it launches - a launch event is being planned as I write this, and Ellis wishes to make this accessible to everyone. I'll make a post when we have a date for launch and release!

-Rebecca (R.J. Eaton 😉)

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Cover design (draft)

Hello all! I'm very excited to be able to share with you a draft of our cover, for the first issue, which is currently in production!

I hope you love it as much as I do, though currently it's being updated to look even better on the final product.

Please let us know what you think (though hateful comments will be deleted) and come and say hi!

-Rebecca

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New logos!

Hi all! Just here to drop by and showcase our new logo designs, made by the incredible Ellis, the Editor in Chief and creator of this magazine!

Please, show us some love, we really need it! You can come talk to us here or on Twitter or Instagram!

-Rebecca

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Hi all!

Creative Bastards Magazine is currently in production on our first issue! We are hoping to release later this year, around October, and showcase a variety of submissions around the theme of Monsters.

We have had so many wonderful submissions, and Ellis is working hard to put it all together with the help of Dionne, me and our wonderful editors - though Ellis deserves most of the credit!

We hope you all are looking forward to seeing our finished product, and we can't wait to share it with you!

If you have a question or just want to say hi, contact us here or over on our Twitter or our Instagram! <3

-Rebecca

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The Creative Bastards Magazine submissions are open! (Until June 20th, 2022) For Issue #1, Theme: Monster(s)

We accept many mediums, including: - Prose (Up to 1000 words) - Poetry (Up to 60 lines each) - Script (Up to 5 pages) - Comics (Up to 5 A4 pages) - Artwork (Up to 5 A4 Submissions) - Photography (Up to 5 A4 Submissions)

We accept up to 5 submissions of any medium per person. If you have work in an unlisted medium that you'd like to submit, don't hesitate to get in touch!

We are happy to accept questions about your submission through our social media (Instagram being our most active) or via email, [email protected] Please include the word 'Query' in your email subject to help us reply to you quickly.

Please note: We are a student-run magazine. This means there will not be any financial reimbursement for contributions to this issue. Additionally, dependent on the frequency of submissions, we may not be able to include your submission in this issue.

Even so, we hope you'll take up a pen, a stylus, lens, or brush, and let your creativity flow! We can't wait to see your work <3

-Ellis

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Please go and support us on our Twitter and Instagram too if you can!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cb_magpress

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativebastardsmagazine/

We'd love to see you on any platform, and any support is helpful to us! Thanks so much! 😊

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Welcome to Creative Bastards Magazine!

Hi Tumblr!🤗 This is the official blog of a student-run magazine, that's based in Nottingham in the UK, called Creative Bastards.

Our magazine is aiming to showcase a range of creative work from comics and illustrations to short stories and poetry, and we are specifically hoping to showcase student creators, authors in particular.

This is a passion project, coming from the mind of an Under-graduate Creative Writing student, who has enlisted some fellow Creative Writers (and friends) to help them.

Primarily, there are two of us running things - me, Rebecca, who will mainly be running this blog and the Twitter page, as well as doing the admin - and Ellis, who is the Editor-In-Chief and runs the Instagram as well. This is a project we are running in our spare time, so posting will be irregular.

However, we hope to have our first issue printed, and to launch in October this year! Hope to see some interest, especially from writers!

Thanks, Rebecca. x