We hope you enjoy the Book Fair. The next two numbers will be business as usual, but March will be a SCIENCE FICTION special, edited by Jessy Randall. Send up to five unpublished poems about robots, other planets, Star Trek, imaginary technologies, utopian and dystopian futures, Octavia Butler, clones, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doctor Who, the singularity, Princess Leia, black holes, the uncanny valley, alien invasions, time travel, soylent green, Zaphod Beeblebrox, sentient microbes, and so on, to jessyrandall@yahoo.com. Put your poems in the body of the email, please – no attachments (unless it’s a visual poem or something that needs special formatting). Simultaneous submissions are fine. Deadline is January 1, 2025 and you can expect a response by mid-January. Share this call for submissions with anyone you wish. George A reminder:  For those who don't get how Snakeskin works - each number of the zine is made up of the contributions sent in during the previous month. We rarely keep poems over to the next issue (and if we do, we let you know about it. We know that there are magazines out there - especially print ones - which take pride in building up a backlog, and keeping poets dangling for months wondering whether they'll be accepted or not. We don't do that. We tell you which month you'll be considered for - and then you're either in it or you're not. We try to notify poets whose work has not been selected, but in some months this requires major effort, and life can get in the way. There's a huge number of rejection notes to be sent this month, but we'll try to get them out within a few days. And we'll try to be positive, where we can. Send those contributions (in the body of an email, please, not as attachments ) to editor@snakeskin.org.uk. George For details of the editor's collection, Old and Bookish, please click on the cover picture below. Two blog posts may be of interest to potential contributors to Snakeskin . The first, on "How Snakeskin Works", explains the simple procedure by which contributions are selected for a month's issue. The second, called "Don't" offers some tips to novice poets, detailing a few of the things that might make an editor take against your work.