Meet the team.
Learn more about the creative staff behind the broken spine
About
Inside The Broken Spine
About
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.
For information about submissions, please go here.
We want to make it clear to everyone that The Broken Spine is a safe space that for all and as such, celebrates diversity, inclusion, and equality. We will never tolerate any form of racist, ageist, sexist, homophobic, or any sort of hateful, vengeful or malicious content or conduct from our readers, contributors, or volunteers.
If you ever have any concerns about violations of the statements above, please feel comfortable to contact us at any time. We will treat any such contact with care and respect.
Ethos
Each issue will feature original art from an entire spectrum of artists – unpublished to well established. All submissions are welcome and will be treated equally.
We will never charge submission fees; nor can we offer any monetary reward for your work at this point in time.
However, all contributors will be rewarded with a print copy of The Broken Spine Artist Collective.
The Broken Spine is an independent and open press that encourages people from all walks of life to submit. We
encourage those internationally, from minorities, from the LGBTQIA+ community and those with disabilities to send their work.
Anybody that sends work to us can rest assured that it will be carefully considered and that we will respond as soon as humanly possible. We will endeavour to provide feedback when possible – please know that we care about your work – we are both active poets who know all about the rollercoaster emotions of submissions, rejections, acceptances, feedback and never hearing anything!
Submission Guidelines
longing to be published? here’s what we’re looking for
