# wordandcolour.com > AI-optimized mirror of wordandcolour.com containing 25 pages totalling 26,216 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://wordandcolour.com/. Last updated: 2026-06-15T23:45:06.916Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [SHARE this collaboration!](/content/site-root.html): We are now accepting submissions for the Winter Edition of Word & Colour. We welcome fiction and non-fiction pieces from 500 - 3000 words, up to 5 poems, and artwork. Underrepresented writers (including IBPOC, LGBTQQIP2SAA, disabled, women and non-binary writers) are especially encouraged to submit. We will be selecting 10 submissions, and all contributors will… (231 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [word/index.html](/content/word/index.html) (1 words) - [“Tickets and Rides” – Josh Elyea – wordandcolour](/content/2017/08/23/tickets-and-rides-josh-elyea/index.html): "Sometimes our love is like that, too; even when I want to, I can never really find where the good bits stop and the bad bits start." (564 words) - [SHARE this collaboration!](/content/2017/10/23/meet-our-new-editor-2/index.html): Meet our new editor, Nailah King. (467 words) - [SHARE this collaboration!](/content/2017/09/08/white-dresses-ruth-daniell/index.html): "and it made you understand something big / and important was happening to the bride / and you thought it must have something to do with / the fact she was beautiful." (507 words) - [“Red Night, Black Night” – Martha Batiz – wordandcolour](/content/2017/11/30/red-night-black-night-martha-batiz/index.html): The last thing I saw — Mother, torch in hand, racing back home at the skirts of the volcano. The sky was dark and grey—an impenetrable shade of grey, darker than night yet cruel enough to let you see as if through a veil, fight for breath, scampering for your life. I watched her leave… (665 words) - [“Screams in an empty place” – Jerry Corvil – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/15/screams-in-an-empty-place-jerry-corvil/index.html): "I call for help, and no one hears me except those monsters under my bed." (466 words) - [“Starlight” – Nailah King – wordandcolour](/content/2017/08/25/starlight-nailah-king/index.html): "When she couldn’t move, she woke up, either alone or with a lover, in despair." (580 words) - [“Checkmate” – Manahil Bandukwala – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/22/checkmate-manahil-bandukwala/index.html): "Her smile teases you to come forward and take her crown; she knows all the rules to the game and you’ve only figured out one." (625 words) - [“Spread” – Sarah Christina Brown – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/18/spread-sarah-brown/index.html): "We girls have to stick together, you know." (491 words) - [“Madonna” – Tristen Sutherland – wordandcolour](/content/2017/12/14/madonna-tristen-sutherland/index.html): She whispers secrets in my ears, about her lovers and her sadness (596 words) - [“Les fauves” – Jenna Jarvis – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/27/les-fauves-jenna-jarvis/index.html): "remember habbo hotel giggling / a room of 13-year-olds pretending / they're just one & a little older" (422 words) - [“E Flat” – Ivana Velickovic – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/01/e-flat-ivana-velickovic/index.html): But they persist, / twinkling like slight touches / on piano keys. / Each flat note an / intentional drip of the rain. (329 words) - [“The Best Lover” – Charlotte Joyce Kidd – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/29/the-best-lover-charlotte-joyce-kidd/index.html): "They’d cancel their Saturday nights, make every hour 8 a.m. Sunday, when together is unthinking." (463 words) - [Meet our new Managing Editor – wordandcolour](/content/2018/03/27/meet-our-new-managing-editor/index.html): Meet our new Managing Editor, Caitrin Pilkington. (448 words) - [“Pawns” – Stephan Enasni Sunz – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/13/pawns-stephan-suntharam/index.html): "It’s no mystery that we are being tamed and depressed, / obsessed with the disbeliefs of becoming kings and queens." (384 words) - [SHARE this collaboration!](/content/2017/09/20/ive-got-to-make-it-show-jeff-blackman/index.html): "We fasten to the architecture / like a file that's been saved. / We're sure that we're saved." (342 words) - [SHARE this collaboration!](/content/2017/08/30/displaced-fiona-williams/index.html): "I have only found comfort in anonymity— / in the sense of security when no one knows my name." (337 words) - [“storytelling” – jesslyn delia smith – wordandcolour](/content/2017/09/06/storytelling-jesslyn-delia-smith/index.html): you will learn how to fold / your body in half / like a woman (305 words) - [about – wordandcolour](/content/about-2/index.html): We send writers art, who write what it inspires. (327 words) - [Opening: Reading Coordinator – wordandcolour](/content/2017/08/29/opening-reading-coordinator/index.html): The Reading Coordinator organizes readings to showcase Word and Colour writers. (352 words) - [“Fondness” – Samantha Lapierre – wordandcolour](/content/2017/12/07/fondness-samantha-lapierre/index.html): When I need to, I hide in the depths of blankets and in deep thoughts of living in a forest with you in a small wood house. (352 words) - [SHARE this collaboration!](/content/artists/index.html): confronting oppression with words inspired by colour (16,742 words) - [news-sitemap-xml.html](/content/news-sitemap-xml.html) (1 words) - [sitemap-xml.html](/content/sitemap-xml.html) (219 words) ## Resources - [Full Page Index](/index.html): Browse all cached pages with rich metadata - [About This Cache](/content/about.html): Methodology, technical details, and usage guidelines - [XML Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable sitemap for crawler discovery - [Robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler directives