[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In issue 50 of Neon Literary Magazine we take a whirlwind trip through a range of improbable worlds. Artists in semi-submerged communes huff oocytes from test tubes. Tiny gods take up residence in birdhouses. A rusty tank begins a new life as a starship crewed…
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Endless Dream
We both knewwhat was coming,but still we argueduntil the end. Until the attendantssecured the maskover my faceand lowered meslowly into stasis. At the last secondyou put your handup to the glass,just like in a movie;I was too druggedto lift mine,but tried to tell youwith my eyes,It’s not too lateyou can still join meon the other…
2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes, awarded annually, are some of the most prestigious awards for poetry available in the UK. Each year we nominate four of the best poems published in Neon during the previous twelve months for the Best Single Poem category, the top prize for which is £1000…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 42
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] From a brief biography of a man raised as a chicken, to a mortuary romance, to a tale that teeters on the edge of a precariously-assembled tower, issue 42 of Neon is packed with excellent poetry and fiction. There’s even a grotesquely surreal comic by…
Belasis and Hastur
It is the first cold night of Autumnand I smoke a cigarette to myselflooking up to the sky;you can’t see many stars from the citybut you can see Belasis and Hastur, the new constellations. When they first appeared two weeks ago,no one knew what to dobut crane their necks upward to see,everyone asking the same…