#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine
Alan Parry
October 10, 2025
Founded in 2015 and still standing strong a decade later, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine isn’t trying to be edgy, obscure,
Poem from issue #1 of The Broken Spine Artist Collective Bruach Kandinsky-Mhor lives by a loch. His poems have most recently appeared in Ink, Sweat and Tears, Ekphrastic Review, Re-Side, Morphrog, The Lake, Plumwood Mountain, Poetry Village and Emerald (Monstrous Regiment, Edinburgh).
Founded in 2015 and still standing strong a decade later, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine isn’t trying to be edgy, obscure,
In a lit world still groaning under the weight of gatekeepers, binary boxes, and pay-to-play submission models, new words {press} is a
In the sea of indie presses, few walk their talk like Arachne Press. Founded in 2012 and still run largely solo by
The Broken Spine is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry.