A deep-sea diver reaching for a shell — illustration by Tom Harding

The Deck Hand

A Journal of Maritime Art · est. 2019

The Deck Hand is a harbour for sea-themed creative work of all kinds — pelagic poetry, pirate prose, maritime music, aquatic art, and a bountiful miscellany of creative flotsam and jetsam. Dive in.

What we welcome

Poetry · Fiction · Non-Fiction · Art · Music · Photography · Miscellany

A few rules, matey

  • Work must be sea-themed (hopefully that's obvious by now).
  • Paste your writing straight into the form — no attachments. For art, music or film, paste a link to it instead.
  • Keep your biography short and salty: just Name, Location, Profession and one link (a webpage, Twitter or Instagram). For example: 'William Kidd, Caribbean, Privateer, Twitter link.'
  • Accepted work joins our Roll Call of successful submariners.

Prefer to send by post? Write to The Captain at thedeckhand99@gmail.com, with the genre in the subject line (e.g. POETRY SUBMISSION).