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Latest — 16 Feb 2026

Thank you for 200+ submissions

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the Ninth Heaven Summer Short Story Competition. We received 200+ submissions. That number represents a great deal of time, attention, and risk. It reflects the quiet labour of drafting, revising, cutting, and sending work out into the world. We don’t take that

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[POEM] Charity at 11 by Morad Moazami

Issue #2 Blue Spring

[POEM] Charity at 11 by Morad Moazami

A nocturnal meditation on guilt and charity in Oxford’s winter hush. The poem follows a speaker wandering Little Clarendon Street, caught between pity and self-reproach, where an act of giving becomes a reckoning with solitude, privilege, and the limits of goodness.

[POEM] I Wish I Still Had Time to Ask About The Camellias by Erin Weeks

Issue #2 Blue Spring

[POEM] I Wish I Still Had Time to Ask About The Camellias by Erin Weeks

"This piece focuses on the realization that I can no longer ask my grandmother, who has dementia, about the details of her life when she was younger; it's a reflection on memories being lost within a person."

[POEM] Three Poems by Mark Folse

Issue #2 Blue Spring

[POEM] Three Poems by Mark Folse

"Redemption isn't in two crossed pieces of lumber; it's in the living leaves."

[POEM] 3 Poems by Jayanta Bhaumik

Issue #2 Blue Spring

[POEM] 3 Poems by Jayanta Bhaumik

Fib, cue, xyz, both individually and as a combination of imageries, tells about how we or our senses are expanded into the unseen dimensions of the seen.

The Little Pilgrim

Literature & Poetry

The Little Pilgrim

Bailey's sensual evocation of a young woman’s attempt to re establish a stable identity after the devastation of unforeseen betrayal, heartbreak and a near death experience.

Register EOI - Ninth Heaven Awards Night

Please do not forget to register your interest for the NH Short Story Awards Night. Register your Expression of Interest here. Register EOI Here This event is open to all of the NH community, whether you are an applicant to the NH Summer Short Story Comp, a subscriber to our

Literature & Poetry

[POEM] Office Maid by Julia Clark

This poem juxtaposes the mundanity of contemporary office work with the fantasticality of supernatural mythology for a surreal take on modern work culture and its often obscured ties to environmental destruction and capitalism exploitation.

[POEM] Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence by F Kevin Murphy

Literature & Poetry

[POEM] Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence by F Kevin Murphy

These poems are drawn from a sequence entitled “Ancient Whispers” that utilize themes from classical or Slavic myth. Each poem deals with the irony and vicissitudes of human experience.

[PROSE POEM] Auxier Ridge Trail

Literature & Poetry

[PROSE POEM] Auxier Ridge Trail

“Auxier Ridge Trail” is a lyric meditation on emotional exhaustion, intimacy, and the erosive beauty of shared experience within a natural landscape.