An art and literary magazine with heart

Celebrating the power of creative expression and positive action

Steel Jackdaw
Edition 15. Out now!

Our fifteenth edition is available in eBook format and features the work of a carefully selected group of talented creatives.

Cover art created by Jason Conway.

Get your uncurated work published for a new audience by submitting it to us.


Steel Jackdaw is a quarterly publication. We are looking for work that shines and spreads positivity, educates, captivates and inspires. For details on our submission window for the next edition, visit the Submissions page.

A journal promoting creative expression and positive purpose.

 

Steel Jackdaw magazine celebrates art and creativity, combining heart and passion with social and environmental change.

Stand up and speak out.

This journal is a space to be brave, sharing unique voices and observations of life that champion positive change, social cohesion, and eco issues. It promotes the struggles of mental health, social issues, diversity and equality, and the transformative power of nature through writing, performance, crafts, and art to educate, heal, and grow.

 
 
Steel Jackdaw is an innovative and highly creative magazine that showcases a diverse and talented selection of poets and artists from across the world. Beautifully curated and stylised, it is a joy to read from cover to cover and a great source of creative inspiration!
— Professor Sam Illingworth; academic, poet, and founder of Consilience journal. e
Steel Jackdaw has quickly become one of my favourite literary magazines. Digital magazines often range in stylistic choices and editorial preferences, but Steel Jackdaw stands out immediately. It has the classic print style of a coffee shop magazine. The kind you cannot help but pick up, flick through and ponder on. This is how literary magazines should be.
— Genevieve Ray
A beautiful diverse, inclusive magazine, with words from the heart. Pages of truths, of a modern world and times gone by, nestled inside a cover of wonderful artwork.
Creativity at its finest. A window to the world’s realities.
— Dee Cooper
Cometh the hour, cometh the arts magazine. Steel Jackdaw sits in perfect synergy with an emerging zeitgeist, eschewing the bankrupt narratives and practices established art publications remain wedded to. Artists help change the world, and at a time when change has never been more needed, SJ promotes a necessarily alternative way forward. It’s also a deeply fulfilling read.
— Derek Dohren
 

Be published and have your work loved by a new audience.

 

Speak from the heart and support others. A percentage of proceeds are donated to charity.

10% of magazine and advertising sales are donated to two environmental and social charities.

 

Submit your ‘uncurated’…

Poetry - Spoken Word - Flash - Short Story - Art - Craft - Film - Music - Design - Sculpture - Ceramics - Printmaking - Photography…

Use your creativity to WOW us with your words, performance, crafts, or artwork. Steel Jackdaw is a place for provocative, powerful, and poignant expression of quality and impact. We want wonder, insight, questioning, reflection, challenge, compassion, detail, depth, and beauty.