Last week, I sent off all twelve back issues of Bindweed Magazine (1-8), and our 4 anthologies (Devil’s Guts 2018, Midsummer Madness 2022, Winter Wonderland 2022 and Midsummer Madness 2023) upon request to the National Library of Ireland. This is great news, as it means our whole back catalogue will be available for readers in the periodicals department.

Our little labour of love publication has certainly grown in recent years. I honestly could do with hiring a team to help out reading submissions, which would give me more time to format the eBook copies and typeset the paperback versions of the anthologies for publication – but sadly, I don’t have the money to pay anyone. We don’t even have the money to pay our contributors. Any money from sales goes back into running the Bindweed website and as payment to winners for our Editor’s pick poetry and fiction prizes in each anthology.

On the other hand, I’m proud that Bindweed is totally independent. We don’t receive any Arts Council funding, or indeed, any other funding at all. Like convolvulus arvensis, our publication is a beautiful weed that will continue growing and spreading across the garden fence of the world, all by itself.

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About Leilanie Stewart

Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry. In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.

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  1. Paula R.C. Readman's avatar Paula R.C. Readman says:
    November 14, 2023 at 12:15 PM

    Congratulation

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