The journal of experimental poetics.

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Futch Journal is a place for prose that listens as much as it speaks.
Writing that moves by intuition, by pressure, by hesitation.
Writing that thinks through art, poetry, spirit, fracture, attention.

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We publish experimental, essayistic, and critical work: notes and counter‑notes, sermons without doctrine, glosses, marginal texts, errata, invocations, aural and image-led texts, hybrid forms. Writing on art, writing on poetry and poetics; writing alongside art, writing alongside poetry and poetics; writing that behaves like an artwork, poetry, poetics. We’re interested in gaps, thresholds, residues: writing that makes and unmakes forms rather than settling into them.

Futch is drawn to writing adjacent to poetry but not contained by it. We’re concerned with the unanswered questions, ethical pressures and critical visions language carries.

Each piece is published alongside an image; contributors are encouraged to consider how visual elements might accompany, disrupt, or extend their work.

If this feels resonant, and you recognise something of your own practice here, we’d love to hear from you.

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Work by neurodivergent and/or queer writers is especially welcome.

Submissions via the contact form or futchpress[at]gmail.com

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Who
Futch Journal is edited by Linda Kemp, accompanied by a dispersed editorial advisory team.
Futch develops out of earlier presses, a reading series in Sheffield, paused print ambitions, and a pandemic‑era move online, shaped by formative conversations and entering circulation with its first publication in September 2020.

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Donations
Futch Journal is an unfunded journal and press. Donations can be made through PayPal to futchpress[at]gmail.com to support our work.

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​​​​​Published from the UK, Futch Journal has a worldwide readership.​

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ISSN 2977-635X