The Illustrated Magazine of New Writing; Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood.

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ISSUE 9 - THE IMAGINATION ISSUE

Our ninth issue, which pays homage to one of the finest facets of humankind - the imagination. From tall tales of market stalls selling ideas, to imagined rooms and lives that gradually become real, to worlds where we find our lost loved ones again: Issue 9 is chock-full of short stories, flash fiction, and poetry that addresses the ethereal, the surreal and the fantastical creations of our minds.

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ISSUE 8 - THE BIRTH ISSUE

Our eighth issue, freshly relaunched and redesigned to suit its new literary status as The Illustrated Magazine of New Writing. This issue features 27 short stories, poems, and flash fiction pieces, all elegantly compacted into 64 pages of illustrated heroism and centred around the rather befitting theme of Birth. Expect to find literary musings on the birth of nations, transvestites, eternal youth, a life spent in freefall, and how society might operate if we all had transparent foreheads.

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ISSUE 7 - THE POWER ISSUE

Our seventh issue, based on the wonderfully tangled and extensive theme of Power. Expect to find poems about selling the sky, baby dictators, the infamous jumpers of 9/11, and women's connection to the moon. Featuring work from some of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators working today, plus interviews with Ross Sutherland, Clinic, and the co-director of the film We Are Poets, Alex Ramseyer-Bache.

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ISSUE 6 - THE LOVE ISSUE

Our sixth issue which tackles one of the dangerous themes in poetry. Expect to find poems about the weight of meaning behind the term 'wife', love as an elderly lesbian, motherhood and the hopeless powerlessness of love after death. Featuring work from some of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators working today, plus interviews with Joe Dunthorne, Salena Godden and Tom Chivers.

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ISSUE 5 - THE CHILDHOOD ISSUE

Our fifth issue which takes a hide and seek peek into the rose tinted, summer filled hours of our childhood. Expect to find poems about worm eating school children, horror filled sleepovers, school toilet hierarchy and old wives tales. Featuring work from some of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators working today, plus interviews with Polarbear, Peepshow Collective, Murray Lachlan Young and Mr Bingo.

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ISSUE 4 - THE MODERN LIVING ISSUE

Our fourth issue which takes an inquisitively analytical step back from the whirlwind world that surrounds us and tries to work out exactly what this modern living nonsense is all about. Expect to find poems on TV culture, living for the weekend, the London underground and how a GPS can steal your husband. With poems, illustrations and interviews from some of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators breathing today.

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ISSUE 3 - THE LIBERATE ISSUE

Our third issue which takes an explorative gulp into the world of liberation and challenges what liberation and freedom really means in the 21st Century. Expect to find poems about taking your clothes off, ejaculation, beating up the Dalai Lama and your grandmother growing her brain. With poems and illustrations from over 50 of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators breathing today.

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ISSUE 2 - THE US & THEM ISSUE

Our second issue which looks at the bizarre compulsion as a human race to create splits, divides, factions and in particular - the 'Us & Them' mentality. Expect to find poems about the BNP, the royal family, dreaded job interviews and humans being eventually replaced by robots. With poems and illustrations from over 50 of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators breathing today.

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ISSUE 1 - THE WONDER OF THE ORDINARY ISSUE

Our naively beautiful first issue which dives head first into the celebration of the everyday and the recognition of those smaller things that can tend to pass us by. Expect to find poems that commemorate the tea mug, identify with the milkman, marvel at a woman called Barbara and sympathise with the feelings of a washing up brush. With poems and illustrations from over 50 of the finest contemporary poets and illustrators breathing today.

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