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Jan 12 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Welcome to 2036
Bending The Arc submissions window opens on 12th January
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Can you write our future?
Festive greetings & submissions window opening soon…
Dec 19, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Final Saturday Round-up
Farewell . . . for now!
Nov 15, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Everyday Actions: Waste into Wellbeing
Regular feature by our editors highlighting one easy, practical action
Nov 14, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine and Ilse Pedler

Edition 2

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Final Saturday Round-up
Farewell . . . for now!
Nov 15, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Everyday Actions: Waste into Wellbeing
Regular feature by our editors highlighting one easy, practical action
Nov 14, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine and Ilse Pedler
Call Out for Submissions for Bending The Arc 3
Submissions open in January 2026
Nov 13, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Grasshoppers Are Older than Dinosaurs
Novel Extract from 'The Rewilding' by Donna M. Cameron
Nov 12, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Death Doulas for Modernity
Review: writer and academic Sophie Buchaillard inspects Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's books 'Hospicing Modernity' and 'Outgrowing Modernity' to see how…
Nov 11, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Saturday Round-up for Week 2
Here's how to catch up
Nov 8, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
How To… Manifest the Future
Writing a manifesto poem by Katherine Stansfield
Nov 7, 2025 • Katherine Stansfield and Bending The Arc Magazine
Fireflies
Short story by Megan Mills
Nov 6, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine

Poems

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How To… Manifest the Future
Writing a manifesto poem by Katherine Stansfield
Nov 7, 2025 • Katherine Stansfield and Bending The Arc Magazine
What if
Poem by Elizabeth Lewis Williams
Nov 5, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine and Elizabeth Lewis Williams
Grove of Titans
Poem by Nia Solomon
Oct 30, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine and Nia Solomon
A Brief Introduction to the Institute of Continued Existence
Poem by Angela Cleland
May 7, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
A Sudden Blossoming
Poem by Deryn Rees-Jones
May 6, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
If We Relearn to Love the Ground
Hybrid piece by Jane Burn
May 5, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Words Strong Enough to Dig up Your Street
Poem by Alice Willitts
Apr 28, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
There's a New Constellation in the Sky
Poem by Hilary Watson
Apr 26, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine

Stories

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Grasshoppers Are Older than Dinosaurs
Novel Extract from 'The Rewilding' by Donna M. Cameron
Nov 12, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Fireflies
Short story by Megan Mills
Nov 6, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Seeds of Change in a Future Wales
Novel extract from After the Clearances by Alison Layland
Nov 3, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
First Love and Farming: Writing Thrutopian Fiction
Story: commentary piece and extract from novella, Dirt, by Laura Baggaley
May 3, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Lift
Short story by Katherine Stansfield
Apr 24, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine

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Call Out for Submissions for Bending The Arc 3
Submissions open in January 2026
Nov 13, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Grasshoppers Are Older than Dinosaurs
Novel Extract from 'The Rewilding' by Donna M. Cameron
Nov 12, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Death Doulas for Modernity
Review: writer and academic Sophie Buchaillard inspects Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's books 'Hospicing Modernity' and 'Outgrowing Modernity' to see how…
Nov 11, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
We Are Resilience: A Thrutopian Approach to Flooding
Hybrid piece: JBA Consulting, who specialise in flood risk and water management, and poet, Sophie Kirtley, explain their unusual collaboration and the…
Nov 10, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Saturday Round-up for Week 2
Here's how to catch up
Nov 8, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
How To… Manifest the Future
Writing a manifesto poem by Katherine Stansfield
Nov 7, 2025 • Katherine Stansfield and Bending The Arc Magazine
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Hybrid

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If We Relearn to Love the Ground
Hybrid piece by Jane Burn
May 5, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine

Features

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More Than a Mohawk: Why Thrutopian Punks Don’t Just Burn It Down
Feature by Rachel Pryor
Oct 31, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Riding the Wave of a Paradigm Shift
Feature by Manda Scott
May 4, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Farming with Nature at RSPB Haweswater
Feature by Lee Schofield
May 2, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine and Ilse Pedler
Murder and Romance in Thrutopian Worlds
Feature by Denise Baden
Apr 23, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine

Interviews

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Imagining Tomorrow: what we can do now
Interview with Emma Newman
Apr 29, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
Asking a Thrutopian About Water
Interview with Rupert Read by Clare Whistler
Apr 27, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine

Edition 1

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It's a wrap! More to come...
Today marks the end of Edition One of Bending The Arc – thank you for reading!
May 8, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
A Brief Introduction to the Institute of Continued Existence
Poem by Angela Cleland
May 7, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
A Sudden Blossoming
Poem by Deryn Rees-Jones
May 6, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
If We Relearn to Love the Ground
Hybrid piece by Jane Burn
May 5, 2025 • Bending The Arc Magazine
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