Writers ~ Issue #12 (May 2018)
Rachel Burns‘ poems have been published in UK literary magazines recently The Lake, South, Head Stuff, Lonesome October, South Bank Poetry and The Herald newspaper. She was shortlisted for the Keats- Shelley Poetry Prize 2017. Twitter – @RachelLBurnsme, website: https://rachelburnssite.wordpress.com/
Marissa Glover teaches and writes in Florida, where she spends most of her time sweating. Her work is found in After the Pause, Amaryllis, Clear Poetry, Solstice Sounds, and other journals. Read more at MarissaGlover.wordpress.com and follow her on Twitter.
Charley Barnes is a Worcester-based poet and author who spends most of her time drinking tea and thinking about words. She has recently gained her Doctorate degree in Creative Writing and now spends her days wondering what to do with it. Charley’s debut short story collection, The Women You Were Warned About, was published in May 2017, and her debut poetry pamphlet is due to be published later this year.
Maggie Sawkins lives in Portsmouth where she delivers writing projects in community and healthcare settings. She has 3 collections, Charcot’s Pet (Flarestack), The Zig Zag Woman (Two Ravens Press) and Zones of Avoidance (Cinnamon Press). Zones of Avoidance won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
Kitty Coles is one of the two winners of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize 2016 and her debut pamphlet, Seal Wife, was published in August 2017.
Lennart Lundh is a poet, short-fictionist, historian, and photographer. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.
Heidi Slettedahl is a mostly unpublished poet who would like to live up to her potential, now that she is almost 50. In real life she is an academic and goes by a slightly different name.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems published by box of chalk, 2017. For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at http://www.simonperchik.com.
Adrian Slonaker works as a copywriter and copy editor in Urbandale, Iowa. Adrian’s work has appeared in Squawk Back, The Bohemyth, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Pangolin Review, The Honest Ulsterman, and others.
Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon lives in Newcastle upon Tyne and writes short (and not so short) stories and poetry. She has been published on curated internet sites and in print anthologies including Fiction on the Web, Poets Speak (whilst they still can), Three Drops from the Cauldron, Obsessed with Pipework and Poems to Survive In. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She intends to grow old disgracefully.
Bob MacKenzie’s poetry has been published across North America and as far away as Australia and India in publications including Literary Review of Canada, Dalhousie Review, Windsor Review, and Ball State University Forum. He’s published thirteen volumes of poetry and prose-fiction and his work’s been in numerous anthologies. Bob’s received awards for his writing as well as an Ontario Arts Council grant for literature, Canada Council Grant for performance, and Fellowship to attend the 2017 Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Georgia. With the ensemble Poem de Terre, he’s performed his poetry live with original music and has released six albums.
Jack Little is a British-Mexican poet, editor and translator based in Mexico City. He is the author of the pamphlet Elsewhere (Eyewear, 2015) and is the founding editor of The Ofi Press. He was the poet in residence at The Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island in Ireland in July 2016. Jack’s work has been most recently published in Under the Radar, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Boyne Berries, Sarasvati and Picaroon’s Troubadour Anthology.
Neil Fulwood is the author of ‘No Avoiding It’ (Shoestring Press) and ‘Numbers Stations’ (Black Light Engine Room Press). His poetry has been published online and in print journals and anthologies. He lives, works and subsidises several real ale pubs in Nottingham. He is currently bashing a new collection into shape.
Carl Boon lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American culture and literature at 9 Eylül University. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Posit, The Maine Review, and Diagram. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Boon recently edited a volume on the sublime in American cultural studies.
Sophie Petrie is a poet, and literary fiction writer. Her work often deals with trauma and the collapse of time, with an evocative style that is often lyrical and always unexpected. She has a first-class Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, and is a poetry editor for Here Comes Everyone magazine. When not gazing at the sea for inspiration, she can be found training to be a Viking. Follow her on Instagram: @sophpetrie.
Tobi Alfier (Cogswell) is a multiple Pushcart nominee and multiple Best of the Net nominee. Her chapbook “Down Anstruther Way”(Scotland poems) was published by FutureCycle Press. Her full-length collection “Somewhere, Anywhere, Doesn’t Matter Where” is recently out from Kelsay Books. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com).
Bethany W Pope was named by the Huffington Post ‘one of the five Expat poets to watch in 2016’. Nicholas Lezard, writing for The Guardian, described her latest collection as ‘poetry as salvation’…..’This harrowing collection drawn from a youth spent in an orphanage delights in language as a place of private escape.’ Her poetry collections include: A Radiance (Cultured Llama, 2012) Crown of Thorns, (Oneiros Books, 2013), The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press 2014), Undisturbed Circles (Lapwing, 2014) , The Rag and Boneyard (Indigo Dreams 2016), and Silage (Indigo Dreams, 2017). Her first novel, Masque, was published by Seren in 2016.
Brett Stout is a 38-year-old writer and artist originally from Atlanta, GA. He is a high school dropout and former construction worker turned college graduate and paramedic. He writes now while mainly hung-over on white lined paper in a small cramped apartment in Myrtle Beach, SC. He has published several novels of prose and poetry including Lab Rat Manifesto, and has been featured in a vast range of various media including the University of California.
A two-time winner of the Terry Hetherington poetry prize, Thomas Tyrrell lives in Cardiff and recently completed a doctoral thesis on John Milton and eighteenth-century poetry at Cardiff University. His work has also appeared in Lonesome October and Words for the Wild.
Jonathan Humble is a teacher who writes poetry and short stories. His stuff pops up from time to time in journals and anthologies in print and online. He currently holds the position of Poet Laureate for the Tripe Marketing Board and Rossendale’s Sunday Morning Clog Market.
Scott Redmond is a Romani poet and comedian based in Edinburgh. Since bursting onto the spoken word scene at the age of 17, he has been published in a number of physical and online anthologies, as well as winning several slams. He finds writing bios for himself awkward, and dislikes discussing himself in depth.
Abigail Elizabeth Ottley writes poetry and short fiction from her home in Penzance in Cornwall. She is that exasperating combination an intermittently gobby introvert. As such she does her best to stay out of trouble but does not always succeed.
Irene Cunningham has had many poems published in lit mags across the years, including London Review of Books (as Maggie York), New Welsh Review, New Writing Scotland, Stand, Iron, Writing Women, and others. Now she’s preparing for old age before the scythe lands. She sometimes twitters here: https://twitter.com/ireneintheworld and her new website, still a work in progress, is here, http://ireneintheworld.wixsite.com/writer
Making the transition from Psychologist to poet has been Jenny McRobert’s most pleasurable journey. Despite the disadvantage of having been taught it at school, poetry has been her lifelong love. She has always known it, even though her career demanded writing of a different sort (Psychology textbooks and articles). Now she has migrated to a land that she loves, and has spent the last five years developing as a poet. Some of her work work has been shortlisted (Fish Poetry Prize) and ‘Highly Commended’ (Winchester Writer’s Festival), but she hasn’t yet won a prize, or been published, until now…
J.S. Watts is a British poet and novelist. She has published six books to date: two poetry collections, “Cats and Other Myths” and “ Years Ago You Coloured Me”, plus a multi-award nominated poetry pamphlet, “Songs of Steelyard Sue”, all published by Lapwing Publications, and a shiny new poetry pamphlet, “The Submerged Sea”, published by Dempsey & Windle. Her two novels, “A Darker Moon” – dark, literary fantasy, and “Witchlight” – paranormal with a touch of romance, are published by Vagabondage Press. See www.jswatts.co.uk for further details.
Sunita Thind has always been passionate about her writing and now she has the time to concentrate on it fully. She has dabbled in many things including being a model, primary and secondary school teacher, and trained as a make up artist. Make up, poetry and animals are her passions. She has recently suffered from Ovarian Cancer and is grateful to have survived it, but she is not in remission yet. Poetry is her saving grace, passion and therapy. It brings her great joy, however cheesy that may sound. She is a BAME writer.
Michelle Diaz has been writing poetry since the late 90s. She has been published by Prole, Strix, Amethyst Review, Amaryllis,‘Please Hear What I’m not Saying’ Mind anthology and was awarded 3rd prize in the Mere Literary Competition 2017. She has a son with Tourette Syndrome and had a very unusual upbringing—both of which have been huge inspirations for her writing. She lives in the colourful and strange town of Glastonbury. Without poetry her soul would be incredibly hungry.
Bethany Rivers‘ pamphlet, Off the wall, was published by Indigo Dreams (2016). She mentors the writing of novels, short story and memoir and runs poetry healing and inspiration retreats in beautiful Shropshire countryside. She loves cats, thunderstorms, daffodils and dancing round the house to 80’s music. If she could have anybody to her ideal literary dinner, she would invite Rumi, Rilke, Mary Oliver, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Joseph Campbell, John O’Donohue, Naomi Shihab Nye, Zeina Hashem Beck, Ocean Vuong and, her father. Find out more about Bethany at: www.writingyourvoice.org.uk
Stephen Seabridge is a second year PhD candidate studying Creative Writing at Keele University. His research focuses on Geopoetic responses to space including Psychogeography, Geocriticism, Ecocriticism and Creative Writing. For the critical aspect of his PhD he is producing a thesis entitled The Geopoetics of Stoke-on-Trent, and for the creative aspect a large collection of poetry based on his experiences of growing up in Staffordshire.
Martin Zarrop is a mathematician who wanted certainty but found life more interesting and fulfilling by not getting it. He started writing in 2006 and his poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies. His pamphlet ‘No Theory of Everything’ (2015) was one of the winners of the 2014 Cinnamon Press pamphlet competition and his first full collection ‘Moving Pictures’ was published by Cinnamon in October 2016.
Ian Grosz is a writer and poet based in Scotland. He has performed his poetry around various venues, most recently at the William Lamb Studio in Montrose as a guest with other poets. He is enrolled on an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, and currently working on a novella.
Michael McGill is an Edinburgh-based poet who has recently had work published in Funhouse Magazine, Speculative 66, The Transnational, HARTS & Minds, New Walk and The Haiku Quarterly. He has also recently had photographs published in The Bohemyth and has appeared in two recent instalments of the Lies, Dreaming podcast.
Writers ~ Issue #11 (November 2017)
James H Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review, a former editor with Writer’s Digest, and the co-host of the Troy Poetry Mission reading series. He is the author of What Lies In Wait, Dead City Jazz, Berlin, and other books of poetry and fiction. For more visit www.jameshduncan.com.
F. R. Kesby is a poet and storyteller from Leeds. She is the current chair of Leeds Savage Club and is a regular on the local open mic scene. Her first pamphlet Let Me Be sold sixty copies in two months. When not writing she can usually be found with her cats.
p.a. morbid is a Middlesbrough-based poet, local historian & outsider artist. Editor of The Black Light Engine Room mag/poetry night, he is the author of “River Songs” (BLERoom Press) “Gorged On Light” (Red Squirrel) “Half Life” (Hunting Raven). Married to the artist Mary Lou Springstead.
Jacob Butlett recently graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, with a BA in Creative Writing. At Loras he was the poetry editor of Catfish Creek, a national literary journal. His current work has been accepted by Outrageous Fortune and Wilderness House Literary Review and is forthcoming in Clarion, which is affiliated with Boston University.
Bethany Rivers‘ pamphlet, ‘Off the wall’ was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing, last summer. She loves writing, mentoring writers and pretending to be a cat by the fire on a dark and stormy night. www.writingyourvoice.org.uk
Sharon Phillips is retired and lives in Dorset. Her poems have been published on websites including Ink, Sweat and Tears, Algebra of Owls and Three Drops from a Cauldron.
Rachel Bower is a poet and research fellow at the University of Leeds. Her pamphlet, Moon Milk, will be published with Valley Press in May 2018. She is currently co-editing an anthology with Helen Mort entitled Verse Matters, which is out with Valley Press in November 2017. Her book, Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010 will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2017. Rachel’s poems have been published by Stand Magazine, BBC Radio, Now Then Magazine, Valley Press, Three Drops Press, The Stare’s Nest, Pankhearst and others, and she has had poems shortlisted for several prizes, including The London Magazine Poetry Prize and the Plough Prize 2016.
Jessica Mehta is a Cherokee poet and novelist. She’s the author of four collections of poetry including Secret-Telling Bones, Orygun, What Makes an Always, and The Last Exotic Petting Zoo as well as the novel The Wrong Kind of Indian. www.jessicatynermehta.com.
Ali Jones is a teacher and writer. She is a mother of three. Her work has appeared in Fire, Poetry Rivals Spoken Word Anthology, Strange Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, Snakeskin Poetry, Atrium, Mother’s Milk Books., Breastfeeding Matters, Breastfeeding Today and Green Parent magazine. She writes a regular column for Breastfeeding Matters Magazine. She was the winner of the Green Parent Writing Prize in 2016 and has also written for The Guardian.
Juliet Cook is a grotesque glitter witch medusa hybrid brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
Spangle McQueen is a happy grandma and hopeful poet, living in Sheffield.
Paul Brookes was, and is a shop assistant, after employment as a security guard, postman, admin. assistant, lecturer, poetry performer, with “Rats for Love”, his work included in “Rats for Love: The Book”, Bristol Broadsides, 1990. First chapbook “The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley”, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). Forthcoming this year in addition to “The Headpoke and Firewedding” (Alien.Buddha Press) illustrated chapbook is “The Spermbot Blues” (OpPRESS) and “A World Where” (Nixes Mate Press).
Russell Jones is an Edinburgh-based writer and editor. He has published 4 poetry collections and edited 2 poetry anthologies. He is the deputy editor of Shoreline of Infinity, a sci-fi magazine.
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Brennan Downey is Wilderness Therapy Field Guide in Thetford, Vermont, although he’s originally from Falls Church, Virginia.
Emma Lee‘s most recent collection is “Ghosts in the Desert” (IDP, 2015). She was co-editor for “Over Land Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge” (Five Leaves, 2015) and “Welcome to Leicester” (Dahlia Publishing, 2016). She reviews for The High Window Journal, The Journal, London Grip and Sabotage Reviews and blogs at http://emmalee1.wordpress.com.
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Three Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations.
Saira Viola is an acclaimed poet fiction writer song lyricist and creator of sonic scatterscript. Lion of literature Heathcote Williams wrote : ‘Saira Viola has devised some new designer drug that keeps you reading……’ Legendary Benjamin Zephaniah has praised her ‘beautiful twisted imagination,’ and her psychotropic talking Siamese kitty is a pivotal influence in her work .
Reuben Woolley was born in Chesterfield but now lives in Zaragoza, Spain. He has been published in a variety of print and online magazines such as Tears in the Fence, Lighthouse, The Interpreter’s House, Domestic Cherry, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Shed, And Other Poems, and The Goose. A collection, the king is dead, was published in 2014 (Oneiros Books), a chapbook, dying notes, in 2015 (Erbacce Press), and a small collection, skins, for and about the refugees, in 2016 (Hesterglock Press), Two collections are forthcoming: broken stories (20/20 Vision Publishing), and some time we are heroes (The Corrupt Press). In his spare time he pretends to edit I am not a silent poet and The Curly Mind.
Kitty Coles is one of the two winners of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize 2016 and her debut pamphlet, Seal Wife, was published in August 2017.
Carla M. Cherry‘s poems have appeared in Anderbo, For Harriet, Obscura, Dissident Voice, Random Sample Review, Eunoia Review, MemoryHouse Magazine, Down In The Dirt, In Between Hangovers, and in forthcoming issues of Street Light Press and HerStory. She has published two books of poetry with Wasteland Press, Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings (2008) and Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup (2017). She is also a vegan who loves to dance.
Nick Allen has been published in Pennine Platform and the Watermarks Anthology (where the poem Rain was “highly commended”) as well as on algebra of owls, leadstoleeds, ink, sweat & tears and newbootsandpantocracies websites and will shortly be in the Poetry Salzburg Review, the Verse Matters anthology and atrium. He is one of four poets that organise Rhubarb at the Triangle, a spoken word evening in Shipley. He derives his sustenance from espressos and good whisky.
Benjamin Smith grew up in Hebden Bridge, UK. He currently lives in Bogota, Colombia. His work has previously appeared, or is forthcoming in: The Meadow, Rust+Moth, Gravel, Menacing Hedge, Vayavya, and elsewhere.
Sally Barrett lives and works in Greater Manchester though is originally from the right side of the Pennines. She has had poetry published on the red ceilings blog and has self-published a poetry booklet which was well thought of by those who were lucky enough to get a copy (free to friends), called ‘They’re coming to take me away’. She is currently working on an identity project. For further poetry by Barrett please see mcbarrettblog.wordpress.com.
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Irene Cunningham has had many poems published in lit mags across the years, now she’s preparing for old age, hoping for more time before the scythe lands. Writing is now slipping up her priorities ladder; it usually wins the fight between lounging around or walking round Loch Lomond. Her new website is: http://ireneintheworld.wixsite.com/writer
Gareth Writer-Davies; Commended in the Prole Laureate Competition, the Welsh Poetry Competition and Commended in the Sherborne Open Poetry Competition (2015), Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Erbacce Prize (2014). His pamphlet “Bodies”, was published in 2015 by Indigo Dreams and his next pamphlet “Cry Baby” will come out in 2017. He is the Prole Laureate for 2017.
Birkenhead-born recovering actor Ken Cumberlidge has been writing poetry, songs and stories on and off for 40+ years, during which his work has popped up sporadically in print (SMOKE, Bogg, Ludd’s Mill) – and, more recently, online (Algebra Of Owls, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The open Mouse, Snakeskin). Since 2011 he’s been based in Norwich, where he can be seen muttering and gesticulating in the company of an embarrassed-looking dog. Don’t worry – the dog’s fine.
Ceinwen Haydon lives in Newcastle upon Tyne and writes short (and not so short) stories and poetry. She has been published on curated internet sites and in print anthologies including Fiction on the Web, Poets Speak (whilst they still can), Three Drops from the Cauldron, Obsessed with Pipework and Poems to Survive In. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She intends to grow old disgracefully.
Jackie Biggs‘ first poetry collection, The Spaces in Between, was published in September 2015 by Pinewood Press (Swansea). She has also had poetry published in many magazines and anthologies, both in print and online. She reads her work regularly at spoken word events all over west Wales, where she lives, and she is a member of the Rockhoppers poetry performance group. Some of her poetry appears on her blog: http://jackie-news.blogspot.co.uk Twitter: @JackieNews
Writers ~ Issue #10
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Writers ~ Issue #9
Louisa Campbell is a product of a weird religious upbringing, happily married (third time around) mother of two children, who hangs around English spa towns. A psychiatric nurse in the past, she now has a bizarre illness that makes her unemployable, so she writes and adopts stray dogs. She has just realised that life is silly, but important and she is very happy about that.
Matt Nicholson is a poet from Hull in East Yorkshire…where the culture comes from…He has been writing and performing all over the place for the last couple of years, and his first collection “There and back to see how far it is” was published by King’s England Press in October 2016. (http://www.kingsengland.com/there-and-back-to-see-how-far-it-is-c2x21548033)
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Paul Vaughan‘s cat still won’t stop sneezing. Despite the fact his poems have been published in Agenda, Prole, Obsessed with Pipework, Dream Catcher yada yada yada. He has promised her a whole salmon for Christmas.
Karen Little trained as a dancer at London Contemporary Dance School, and as a Fine Artist at Camberwell School of Art, London. She has performed and exhibited internationally. Her poems have been published in over fifty magazines and anthologies. ‘Tentacles’, ten Poems, ten Illustrations, was published in 2016. The novella, ‘Filled with Ghosts’ was published in December 2015, and shortlisted for a Saboteur Award. The sequel Ghost Train Leaving’ was published in early 2017.
Tobi Alfier is a multiple Pushcart nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. Current chapbooks are The Coincidence of Castles from Glass Lyre Press, Romance and Rust from Blue Horse Press, and Down Anstruther Way (Scotland poems) from FutureCycle Press. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com).
Robert Okaji once owned a bookstore. He lives in Texas, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Into the Void, Crannóg, Gravel, The High Window and elsewhere.
Wayne Russell‘s musings have been published on a somewhat regular basis since 2007.
Wayne founded Degenerate Literature in March of 2016, they are crazy lot that can be
located on Face Book, Twitter, and on their web site; which link is included below. http://degenerateliterature.weebly.com
Kenneth Pobo has a new book out from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City. Things he likes with some exceptions: rain, Face Book pictures of cats because why not, remembering walking uptown to the Villa Park, Illinois, business district, Marianne Faithfull. Things he dislikes with some exceptions: weeding, heavy sunlight, arguing, talking about technology.
James H Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review, a former editor with Writer’s Digest, and the co-host of the Troy Poetry Mission reading series. He is the author of What Lies In Wait, Dead City Jazz, Berlin, and other books of poetry and fiction. For more visit www.jameshduncan.com.
Cheryl Pearson lives and writes in Manchester. Her poems have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Envoi, Antiphon, and Skylark Review (Little Lantern Press). She placed third in Bare Fiction Magazine’s 2016 Poetry Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Princemere Poetry Prize and the York Literature Festival Poetry Prize. Her first full collection Oysterlight was published in Spring 2017 by Pindrop Press.
Marija Smits is the pen name of Dr Teika Bellamy, a UK-based mother-of-two, ex-scientist and editor whose art and writing has appeared in over thirty publications, including Mslexia, Brittle Star, The Poetry Shed and JUNO. When she’s not busy with her children or running the indie press, Mother’s Milk Books, she likes to draw, paint and, of course, write. She is continually delighted by the fact that Teika means ‘fairy tale story’ in Latvian.
Tagged ‘literary hero’ by The Skinny, Rosie Garland’s passion for language was nurtured by libraries. Novelist & poet, she sings with post-punk band The March Violets. Third novel ‘The Night Brother’ (Borough Press) is out June 2017 & her latest poetry collection ‘As in Judy’ (Flapjack Press) is out now. She lives in Manchester and is currently developing a new musical project,Time-Travelling Suffragettes. http://www.rosiegarland.com
Leslie Thomas lives in western Wisconsin, USA. She participates in Kinnickinnic Valley Writers Cooperative and Poets Abroad, an international poetry group. Leslie is also a member of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her poetry has appeared in The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poems and is forthcoming in Picaroon Poetry. She was also long listed in the 2016 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year, Galway, Ireland.
Katerina Neocleous has been published in various poetry journals, including Obsessed With Pipework, Clear Poetry, The Dawntreader and Ink, Sweat & Tears (pending). She is a home educator and the poet behind laurelsofrain.wordpress.com
Louise Warren’s first collection A Child’s last picture book of the Zoo won the Cinnamon Press First Collection Prize and was published in 2012. A pamphlet In the scullery with John Keats also with Cinnamon Press came out in 2016. She has been widely published in magazines. Louise lives in London.
Mark Totterdell lives in Devon. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and have occasionally won prizes. His collection This Patter of Traces was published by Oversteps Books in 2014.
Susan Taylor used to be a shepherd in Lincolnshire. This former life has left her with a keen interest in the natural world and ecology. Much of her recent work springs from her fascination with myths and folklore motifs, particularly those related to wolves. So you might say that her world has turned full circle. She has seven published poetry collections, the latest two being A Small Wave for your Form and Temporal Bones, both published by Oversteps Books. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.
Ali Jones is a teacher and writer. She is a mother of three. Her work has appeared in Fire, Poetry Rivals, Strange Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, Snakeskin Poetry, Atrium, Mother’s Milk Books., Breastfeeding Matters, Breastfeeding Today and Green Parent magazine. She writes a regular column for Breastfeeding Matters Magazine. She was the winner of the Green Parent Writing Prize in 2016 and has also written for The Guardian.
Amber Decker lives next to a forest and a field of cows in rural West Virginia. She spends all her money on comic books, wine, tattoos, and band t-shirts, and she spends her free time learning how to love herself and others in a way that makes sense.
Daniel Edward Moore’s poems have been published in journals such as: The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Assaracus Review, Columbia Journal, American Literary Review, Mid-American Review and others. His poems are currently at The American Journal Of Poetry, Lullwater Review, Prairie Winds, Common Ground Review, WA 129 Washington State Anthology, Sweet Tree Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Glass Poetry Journal and New South. He has poems forthcoming in Tule Review, december Magazine, Natural Bridge, Birmingham Arts Journal, District Lit, and Fourth And Sycamore Literary Journal. He lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His recent book, “Confessions Of A Pentecostal Buddhist,” can be found on Amazon. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Visit Daniel at Danieledwardmoore.com
JC Reilly writes across genres and has received Pushcart and Wigleaf nominations for her work. She serves as the Managing Editor of the Atlanta Review and has pieces published or forthcoming in POEM, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Imperfect Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, the Arkansas Review, the Magnolia Review, and Rabbit: a Journal of Nonfiction Poetry (Australia). Read her (sometimes updated) blog at jcreilly.com or follow her @aishatonu.
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Jacob Butlett recently graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, with a BA in Creative Writing. At Loras he was the poetry editor of Catfish Creek, a national literary journal. His current work has been accepted by Outrageous Fortune and Wilderness House Literary Review and is forthcoming in Clarion, which is affiliated with Boston University.
Howie Good is the author of Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. His other books include A Ghost Sings, a Door Opens from Another New Calligraphy and Robots vs. Kung Fu from AngelHouse Press (both 2016).
Bridget Clawson is retired from a thirty-five year career in Human Resources. She lives with dogs in Edmonds, Washington, camps intermittently in a teardrop camper, collects and polishes rocks from beaches, lakes and ravines and tends her half-acre woods and garden, just close enough to family and friends.
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Writers ~ Issue #5
Jackie Biggs started writing poetry after leaving a successful career as a journalist and editor. Her first collection, The Spaces in Between was published in September 2015 by Pinewood Press (Swansea). She has also had poetry published in many magazines and anthologies, and she reads her work regularly at spoken word events all over west Wales, where she lives.
Some of her poetry (and other work) appears on her blog: http://jackie-news.blogspot.co.uk contact: jackienews@hotmail.co.uk
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in New Plains Review, South Carolina Review, Gargoyle and Big Muddy Review with work upcoming in Louisiana Review, Cape Rock and Spoon River Poetry Review.
Lesley Quayle is an award winning poet whose work has appeared in The North, The Rialto, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, High Windows, Angle, Envoi, Pennine Platform, Tears in the Fence, BBC Radio 4 and the Guardian etc. She was an editor of Leeds based poetry magazine Aireings for ten years but now lives in rural seclusion in Dorset. She is also a folk and blues singer.
Jessica Mookherjee is a poet from Wales – now living in Kent. She has been published in Prole, Interpreter’s House, Ink,Sweat and Tears, Brittle Star, Antiphon, Agenda, the Journal, Tears in the Fence, Obsessed With Pipework, High Window and Clear Poetry among others. She was shortlisted for the FairAcre Pamphlet competition 2016. Her first pamphlet, “The Swell” will be published by Telltale Press in October.
Charlotte Ansell has two poetry collections with Flipped Eye and is working on a third. Publications include Poetry Review, Mslexia, Now Then, Butcher’s Dog and various anthologies. She won the Red Shed Open Poetry Competition and was one of 6 finalists in the Fun Palaces Write Science competition in 2015 and won the Watermarks poetry competition in 2016.
Born in Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland, Jo Burns is a biomedical scientist and mother of three. Shelives with her family in Germany. To date, her poems have been published by A New Ulster, The Taj Mahal Review, Greensilk Journal, The Artistic Muse, Poetry Breakfast, The Galway Review, The Honest Ulsterman, featured in The Irish Literary Times, Poetry NI P.O.E.T Anthology, Dove Tales, and Identity.
Although David Susswein has been been published in Envoi, ScarletLeaf, Morphrog [Frogmore Papers ‘off-shoot’] and Dreamcatcher, he’s still struggling to get his voice heard above the din, the din that is this weird world we all live in.
Amy Kinsman is a poet and playwright living in Sheffield, England. In her spare time she is also an editorial assistant at Three Drops From A Cauldron. Her work has appeared in publications including Rat’s Ass Review, Rust + Moth, Pankhearst, Prole and Up The Staircase Quarterly. Find her online at facebook.com/amykinsmanwriter
Monika Kostera is a scholar in management and organization theory, working as Professor and Chair in Poland, the UK and Sweden. She has published many books and articles within the area of her research. Oneiropeia is her first published collection of poems. She lives in Warsaw, Poland and Sheffield, UK. More of her poems in English, Polish, Swedish and French can be found online.
James H Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review, a former editor with Writer’s Digest magazine, and the author of What Lies In Wait, Dead City Jazz, Berlin and other books of poetry and fiction. He currently resides in upstate New York a stone’s throw from Vermont, but dreams of the highways and railyards of his past. For more, visit http://www.jameshduncan.com.
Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe is a Poet and Mum from Dukinfield. Her work has appeared in Magma, Curly Mind, Clear Poetry, Lakeview Journal, Interpreter’s House and The Lake. She also enjoys wargaming, painting models and scrapbooking.
Ava C. Cipri is a poetry editor for The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and currently teaches writing at Duquesne University. Ava’s poetry and nonfiction appears or is forthcoming in Cimarron, decomP magazinE, The Fem, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, and Uppagus, among others.
Derek Coyle has published poems and reviews in the U.S., Britain and Ireland. He has been shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Bradshaw Prize, and he has been a chosen poet for the Poetry Ireland ‘Introductions Series’. Most recently he has had a selection of poems published in Assaracus in the U.S. He is a member of the Carlow Writers’ Co-Operative.
Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota since 2000. Her published books include Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, Piano All-in-One for Dummies, Walking Twin Cities, Insider’s Guide to the Twin Cities, Nordeast Minneapolis: A History, and The Book Of, while her poetry has recently appeared in New Ohio Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle. Her newest poetry book, Ugly Girl, just came out from Shoe Music Press.
Brett Evans writes from and lives on a small leper colony somewhere beneath Ynys Mon since posting social media support on Bob Dylan’s winning of the Nobel Prize in literature.
Ojo Taiye is a young Nigerian who uses poetry as a handy tool to hide his frustration with the society.
Bethany W Pope is an award-winning writer. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing program, and her MA from the University of Wales Trinity St David. She has published several collections of poetry: A Radiance (Cultured Llama, 2012) Crown of Thorns,(Oneiros Books, 2013), The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press 2014), and Undisturbed Circles(Lapwing, 2014). Her collection The Rag and Boneyard was published this month by Indigo Dreams, her next collection, Silage, has been accepted by Indigo Dreams and shall be released in 2017 and her chapbook Among The White Roots Will be released by Three Drops Press next autumn. Her first novel, Masque, was published by Seren this June.
Paul Brookes is an amateur Yorkshireman, educated beyond his intelligence, short in the tooth, forward at going backwards.
Emma Lee‘s most recent collection is “Ghosts in the Desert” (IDP, 2015). She was co-editor for “Over Land Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge” (Five Leaves, 2015) and “Welcome to Leicester” (Dahlia Publishing, 2016). She reviews for The High Window Journal, The Journal, London Grip and Sabotage Reviews and blogs at http://emmalee1.wordpress.com.
Pat Edwards
Steven Bruce is a writer, poet, and author of Thrown Up. His work has featured in the B.L.E.R. magazine, and performed at the Electric Kool-Aid Cabaret, Crossing the Tees, and the B.L.E.R. live night. He currently studies the MA in creative writing at Teesside University. When he isn’t writing into the early hours of the morning, he is most likely indulging in his miniature wargaming addiction, or getting a good dose of coffee. www.stevenbrucewriter.com
John D Robinson is a published poet; ‘When You Hear The Bell, There’s Nowhere To Hide’ (Holy&intoxicated Publications 2016) ‘Cowboy Hats & Railways’ Scars Publications 2016; A contributing poet to the 2016 48th Street Press Broadside Series; his work appears widely in the small press and online literary journals.
Nenad Trajkovic was born in 1982 in Serbia. He graduated from Faculty of Law. He is a poet, translator, essayist and literary critic. He has published two collections of poetry, Traces (2008) and I’ll Take You To The Museum (2011). His work has been widely published and translated into English, German, French, Polish, Macedonian and Bulgarian. In 2013 he received the award given by the Bulgarian publishers Melnik. In 2015 he received the award Rade Tomic for the best poetry manuscript in Serbia. His translations from Macedonian into Serbian were published in literaty magazine Istok in Serbia. He is a founder and editor of an international literary manifestation Pisanija. He lives and works in Vranje, Southern Serbia.
Shauna Robertson hails from the north-east of England and now lives, writes and paints in the south-west. Poems appear in many and varied publications on both sides of the Atlantic including Ambit, Magma, Poetry London, Hotel Amerika and The Found Poetry Review. Meanwhile, poem-pictures have popped up in a handful of gallery exhibitions and a first chapbook, ‘Blueprints for a Minefield’, was published by Fair Acre Press in 2016. More at shaunarobertson.wordpress.com
Bobby Steve Baker grew-up on an Indian Reservation on the Canadian side of Lake Huron and still craves a life by the big water. He now lives in Lexington Kentucky with his wife, several male offspring, who come and go, and a very large Airedale.
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of chapbooks Siamese Sisters and All in the Family (Bottlecap Press). Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Connections, Welter, The Legendary, Germ Magazine, District Lines, Slab, Wicked Banshee, The Door is a Jar, and others. She loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos. Read her blog at www.wordperv.com, follow her on twitter: @wordperv, or find her on facebook: www.facebook.com/poetry.CourtneyLeBlanc.
Jane R Rogers has been writing poetry for around five years. Jane is a member of the Greenwich Poetry Workshop in London and the Magma Poetry Magazine board, co-editing Magma 65. Jane find ideas come easy but that the hard work is in the editing, where she finds feedback invaluable. Jane lives in London but misses the West Country.
Cheryl Pearson lives and writes in Manchester. Her poems have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Envoi, Antiphon, and Skylark Review (Little Lantern Press). She placed third in Bare Fiction Magazine’s 2016 Poetry Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Princemere Poetry Prize and the York Literature Festival Poetry Prize. Her first full collection is forthcoming in Spring 2017 with Pindrop Press.
Writers ~ Issue #4
Nancy Iannucci is a historian who teaches history and lives poetry in Troy, NY. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Amaryllis, Eunoia Review, Three Line Poetry, Fickle Muses, Red Wolf Journal, Rose Red Review, Faerie Magazine (FB photography), Three Drops from a Cauldron, Mirror Dance, Pankhearst, Yellow Chair Review, and her poem, “Howling”, won Yellow Chair Review’s Rock the Chair Challenge poetry contest.
Amy Rea
Lizzie Holden’s motto is “The Truth will just have to do”.
Ricky Garni was born in Miami and grew up in Florida and Maine. He works as a graphic designer by day and writes music by night. COO, a tiny collection of short prose printed on college lined paper with found materials such as coins, stamps, was recently released by Bitterzoet Press.
Antony Owen was born in Coventry to working class parents. He is the author of four poetry collections. His work generally explores the consequences of domestic and international conflicts. Following a trip to Hiroshima in 2015 to interview atomic bomb survivors, Owen was one of a handful of people appointed as a CND (UK) Peace Education Patron. In Spring 2017 Coal Sack Press (Japan) will be publishing and translating his fifth collection of poems titled We Are Made From Beautiful Atoms.
Paul Vaughan is a Yorkshire poet who dislikes custard with a passion. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Seventh Quarry, Sarasvati, Peeking Cat and Eunoia Review amongst others. He also runs the poetry e-zine Algebra of Owls.
Kevin Casey’s work is forthcoming or has appeared recently in Rust+Moth, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Gulf Stream, Chiron Review, and other publications. His chapbook “The wind considers everything” was published by Flutter Press last year, the full-length collection And Waking… was published this year by Bottom Dog Press, and Red Dashboard will publish the chapbook “For the Sake of the Sun” later this year. For more, visit andwaking.com.
Larry D. Thacker is a writer and artist from Tennessee. His poetry can be found or forthcoming in journals and magazines such as The Still Journal, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Tennessee, Mojave River Review, Broad River Review, Harpoon Review, Rappahannock Review, Silver Birch Press, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, AvantAppal(Achia), Sick Lit Magazine, Black Napkin Press, and Appalachian Heritage. His stories can be found in past issues of The Still Journal, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and The Emancipator.
Daniel Roy Connelly was the winner of the 2014 Fermoy Poetry Prize and the 2015 Cuirt Prize for New Writing. He has been published by Magma, The North, Acumen, B O D Y (amongst others) and is forthcoming on Uncle Vanya in Critical Survey. He is a professor of English, theatre and creative writing in Rome. www.danielroyconnelly.com
Cathryn Shea’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Dirty Chai, Gargoyle, Gravel, Main Street Rag, Permafrost, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. Cathryn’s chapbook, Snap Bean is by CC.Marimbo (2014). Cathryn served as editor for Marin Poetry Center Anthology and is the author of dozens of software and database manuals (which you will be blessed never to read). Cathryn lives in Fairfax, CA. See www.cathrynshea.com and @cathy_shea on Twitter.
Meygan Cox resides in Bristol, Tennessee and is a librarian. She loves her job, especially during poetry week. When she isn’t writing, she loves practicing playing the guitar, playing old school video games, and reading. She is obsessed with cats, chocolate, the smell of books, and, of course, poetry. Aside from school publications, this is her first time being published.
Evie Worrall
R. A. Clemens is a PhD student at Leeds Trinity University, and their research topic is footnotes, which fittingly sounds a lot like ‘Fuck knows’. They have previously written for The B.S. Johnson Journal, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, the British Library European Studies blog, and the Centre for Low Countries Studies. For a while they ran an ill-fated spoken word night in Manchester.
Grant Tarbard is a ferret whisperer, a smoke wrangler, a person without portfolio.
Anna Percy
Andie Berryman
Al McClimens
Caroline Hardaker lives in the north of England and earned her BA and MA from Newcastle University. Her non-fiction work has been published all over the world, and her poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in Neon, Allegro, The Stinging Fly, and I am not a Silent Poet. She is currently buried underneath three different pamphlets-in-progress, and her debut chapbook collection, ‘Eye, Tongue, Machinus’ will be released with Goya Press in Autumn 2016.
Holly Magill is a poet from Worcestershire. She does NOT want to run away to join the circus.
Ben Banyard lives and writes near Bristol, the ancestral home of brigands and rapscallions. His debut pamphlet, Communing, was published by Indigo Dreams in February 2016 and he edits Clear Poetry, an online journal publishing accessible contemporary writing by newcomers and old hands alike: https://clearpoetry.wordpress.com
Heath Brougher is the poetry editor for Five 2 One Magazine. He has published two pamphlets with Green Panda Press and his first chapbook A Curmudgeon Is Born is forthcoming from Yellow Chair Press. His work has appeared or is due to appear in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Chiron Review, Of/with, Gold Dust Magazine, Main Street Rag, Mobius, The Angry Manifesto, The Seventh Quarry, eFiction India, and elsewhere.
Pat Edwards is a writer, teacher and performer from Mid Wales. She recently read at Wenlock Poetry Festival and can be found at events all along the Powys-Shropshire border where worlds collide, but in a good way.
Susan Castillo Street
G.B. Ryan was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Dublin. He is a ghostwriter in New York City. Elkhound published his SURPRISED BY GULLS in May 2015.
Bethany W Pope is an award-winning writer. She has published several collections of poetry: A Radiance (Cultured Llama, 2012) Crown of Thorns,(Oneiros Books, 2013), The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press 2014), and Undisturbed Circles (Lapwing, 2014). Her collection The Rag and Boneyard was published this month by Indigo Dreams and her chapbook Among The White Roots Will be released by Three Drops Press next autumn. Her first novel, Masque, shall be published by Seren this June.
Adam Phillips makes his living teaching at-risk junior high kids how to read, write, and dominate on the hardwood (these are three separate things; the kids rarely read or write while playing basketball). When not thusly occupied, he’s f**king s**t up old school on the coastline of Rockaway Beach, Oregon, with his inimitable wife and two small sons. If you’re interested, recent/impending publications include upstreet, Blotterature, Shark Pack Poetry Review, Raven Chronicles, and Blue Monday Review. His first novel is forthcoming from Propertius Press.
James Croal Jackson is a US-based writer, musician, and filmmaker whose work in film and TV in Los Angeles led to a rediscovery of his love of poetry. His poems have appeared in magazines including The Bitter Oleander, Lines+Stars, and Columbia College Literary Review. He is the winner of the 2016 William Redding Memorial Poetry Prize. He lives in Columbus, Ohio. Visit him at jimjakk.com.
Hugo Esteban Rodriguez
Seth Crook taught philosophy at various universities before moving to the Hebrides. He does not like cod philosophy in poetry, though he likes cod, poetry and philosophy. His poems have rappeared in such places as The Glasgow Review of Books, Gutter, New Writing Scotland, Northwords Now, Southlight, Causeway, The Rialto, Magma, Envoi, and Three Drops from a Cauldron.
Vincent Frontero is an undergraduate english and creative writing student at the University of Alabama. He is originally from Spring Lake, NJ.
Lindsey Lucas‘s work has appeared in The Fem, The Blue Route, and Canvas, and is forthcoming in Dirty Chai. She is an editorial intern for Sundress Publications and a content editor for Blue Monday Review. She was recently accepted as an MFA student and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Steve Lambert
Since she could read, Mackenzie Dwyer has known a longing to make a mark on literature. But another landmark decision of hers was to leave the marksmanship Junior Olympics qualifying rounds to go earn her black belt and a concussion. Mackenzie’s work has been recognized with an honorable mention and a Silver Key in 2015’s Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, shortlisted by Vine Leaves Literary Journal and Brain of Forgetting, and published in Ink In Thirds Magazine.
Daniel Blokh is a 15-year-old creative writer living in Birmingham, Alabama. His work has been recognized by Foyle Young Poets, Scholastic Art and Writing awards, Cicada magazine, and more. His debut novel, In Migration, will be available at booksamillion.com.
Richie Brown is an author and poet from Aberdeenshire in the UK. He published a collection of poetry with Blue Salt called ‘Travel with my Rants’ in 2014, has had recent stories published by Funny in Five Hundred and Donut Factory and is currently working on his first novel for children. You can catch more from him at http://www.richiebrown.co.uk and on Twitter @richiewrotethis.
Glen Armstrong edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three recent chapbooks: Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.) His work has appeared in The Lake, Conduit and BlazeVOX.
Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, Co Kerry. In this his 50th year, he has reached his 1000th publication of a poem, haiku or short story in magazines and journals in thirty-eight countries. His poetry collections are published by Salmon: Prophesying the Past, (2010), The Stern Wave (2013) and Sons (2015). He has edited more than fifty books of work by others (Doghouse Books, 2003 – 2013) and was poetry editor of RevivalLiterary Journal (Limerick Writers’ Centre) in 2012/13. A short story collection, The Key Signature & Other Stories will be published by Liberties Press in 2017.
Poems by Bernadette Gallagher have been published on HeadStuff.org as poem of the week during November 2015, and in two literary journals published in Ireland ‘Boyne Berries 1916’ and ‘ROPES2016.’ One of her poems was included in the shortlist for the Galway University Hospital Arts Trust poetry competition 2016. Bernadette lives in Cork, Ireland. Further details on bernadettegallagher.blogspot.ie
Chris Hemingway is a poet and songwriter from Gloucestershire. He has self-published a collection of poems and lyrics “Cigarettes and Daffodils” and a prose collection “The Future” about extra-terrestrial management consultants. He is also on the organising committee for Cheltenham Poetry Festival and co-runs the “Squiffy Gnu” poetry prompt blog.
Carrie Redway is a mixed media artist and writer in Seattle, WA. She is inspired by myth, folklore, and ritual. Her poems have been featured in Really System and Sick Lit Magazine. She tweets @carrie_redway.
Grace Kearney is a recent graduate of Stanford University, where she majored in English. She is currently living in Baltimore, Maryland and conducting clinical research at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Siegfried Baber was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1989 and his poetry has featured in a variety of publications including Under The Radar, The Interpreter’s House, Butcher’s Dog Magazine, and online with The Compass Magazine and Ink, Sweat and Tears. His debut pamphlet When Love Came To The Cartoon Kid is published by Telltale Press, with its title poem nominated for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Follow Siegfried on Twitter: @SiegfriedBaber
Writers ~ Issue #2
Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz. His work has appeared in the several anthologies and hundreds of periodicals. He has published two chapbooks, Three Visitors, and Artifacts and Relics and one full length collection , Lent, 1999 as well a novel, Knight Prisoner. Two more novels and another full length collection are on their way. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster.
Angela Croft worked as a journalist and took to writing poetry in retirement. Highly commended in competitions, most recently by Magic Oxygen, and widely published in magazines – including South, Agenda, South Bank Poetry, The North and the Morning Star – with poems on the Poetry Kit website and a collection entitled Dancing with Chagall published in Caboodle by Prolebooks.
Stephen Bone has been published in various journals. Most recent work in Elbow Room Poetry, The Fat Damsel, The Dawntreader. Poems from first collection ‘ In The Cinema’, published Playdead Press 2014, to be featured in Indigo Dreams Sarasvati magazine.
Kiley Creekmore writes poetry and other things. She really isn’t a hard-core kleptomaniac (although who is going to miss a rogue fork here and a rogue napkin there, and mostly, sadly, in plastic?). She also loves cats.
Beth McDonough is currently Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts. She is published in Gutter, Interpreter’s House, and many other fine places. Her debut pamphlet with Ruth Aylett, Handfast, will be published in May 2016.
Demi Cybulski is the daughter of the late filthmonger, BBQ poet and pornography baron King Concrete. Following the death of her estranged father, Demi was inspired to become as little like him as possible, and now lives alone in Brighton where she writes, often and poorly.
Kymm Coveney, an American expat living in Barcelona, grew up in a harbor town known as the Irish Riviera. She has been told her Irish surname is native to County Cork, which, she has heard, is famous for its pirates. (Her pirate name is Iron Bess Rackem.) She posts mostly flash fiction at betterlies.blogspot.com, and tweets @KymmInBarcelona.
Kate Hodges is a teacher turned writer. She has traded the Middle School Science Lab for the Uni Library. She still believes that you can a lot about person based on their favourite Wakefield Twin. She has fallen in deep like with Heathcliff, Laurie, and Moriarty. She has fallen in deep love with Gilbert Blythe. When she’s not writing, she is trying to (finally) win a pub quiz and to bake a perfect pie crust.
Hilary Hares has just completed an MA in Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is published in various magazines and anthologies and currently helps Hospice patients capture memories through creative writing.
Finola Scott enjoys life and loves adventures, even little ones. Travel excites her – she’s thrilled waking up in strange beds! Since escaping work, she been writing, having poems and stories published. Finola is proud to be a slam-winning Granny. Performance poetry allows her to be terrified in the safety of cosy pubs. To recover and soothe her soul, she plays non-stop Mah Jong, tickles her grandchildren and scans cheap flight sites.
Carol Gloor is an extremely ancient woman living on the Mississippi River in far northwest Illinois. Her work has appeared all over the place, most recently in the print journal East on Central and the online journal Riverrun. She is the featured poet in the next issue of Sage Woman. Her chapbook, Assisted Living, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013.
Charles W. Brice is a retired psychoanalyst living in Pittsburgh. His full length poetry collection, Flashcuts Out of Chaos, has just been published by WordTech Editions (2016). Hispoetry has appeared or is forthcoming in over 45 publications incuding The Kentucky Review, The Atlanta Review, Chiron Review, The Dunes Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Sports Literate, Avalon Literary Journal, Icon, The Paterson Literary Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Spitball, Barbaric Yawp, VerseWrights, The Writing Disorder, and elsewhere.
AE Stueve
Stephen Daniels is the editor of Amaryllis Poetry and the Secretary for Poetry Swindon. His poetry has been published in various magazines and websites, including The Interpreter’s House, Ink Sweat & Tears, And Other Poems, and The Fat Damsel. You can find out more at www.stephenkirkdaniels.com @stephendaniels
Jovan Jakić was born in 1995 in Belgrade, Serbia. He’s currently a student of the English department of the Faculty of Philology on the University of Belgrade. He finished his first book of poetry “Insane by the Judgment of Time” in 2014. He lives in Belgrade.
Pru Kitching has two poetry pamphlets: All Aboard the Moving Staircase was published by Vane Women Press in 2004 and Arrowhead Press published The Kraków Egg in 2009, the same year that she received a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North. She has worked at home and abroad in theatre and opera, was married to a painter, lives in beautiful Upper Weardale and is generally artsy fartsy.
Mab Jones
Mary Imo-Stike identifies as an American Indian, and a feminist. She worked “non-traditional” jobs as a rail worker, construction plumber, boiler operator and gas line inspector. Now retired from work-life, she obtained an MFA in Poetry from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 2015, and is currently the poetry co-editor of HeartWood Literary Magazine. Her work has been published in Antietam Review, Phoebe, The Pikeville Review, Appalachian Heritage and Cactus Heart, and will be included in the forthcoming issues of Young Ravens Review and riverSedge.
Holly Magill is from Worcestershire. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, including Lunar Poetry, The Stare’s Nest and The Emma Press anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse. She prefers cats and strong tea to most things.
Marilyn Francis lives, works, and writes poems near Radstock in the wild south-west of England. She has had one collection of poems, red silk slippers, published by Circaidy Gregory Press. She also has some other poems out and about in the world, though she has even more lazing in her notebooks.
Joanne Key
Faye Boland has had poems published in Literature Today, The Shop, The Galway Review, Revival, Crannóg, Orbis, Wordlegs, Ropes, Headstuff, Silver Apples, The Blue Max Review, Speaking for Sceine Chapbooks, I and II and in Visions: An Anthology of Emerging Kerry Writers’. Her poem ‘Silver Bracelet’ was shortlisted in 2013 for the Poetry on the Lake XIII International Poetry Competition.
Laurie Kolp lives in Southeast Texas with her husband, three kids, and two dogs. She recently returned to teaching after a 14-year hiatus which has rocketed her into a new dimension where her only saving grace is poetry. Learn more about Laurie’s full-length collection, chapbook, and publications at http://www.lauriekolp.com.
Bethany Rivers debut pamphlet is due out with Indigo Dreams Publishing later this year, called Off the wall. Ekphrastic poetry is one of her specialities. She loves writing, helping others to write and being with cats. She runs creative writing courses, poetry healing and inspiration days: www.writingyourvoice.org.uk
Broc Riblet is a writer of poetry and fiction. He graduated from Defiance College and now resides in Kentucky with his cat Waffle.
Writers ~ Issue #1
Orooj-e-Zafar
Writing under the name of iDrew, to co-ordinate with her titles, Essex girl Drew has previously been published both on-line and in print. She enjoys shopping, boys and clubs claiming these are merely research for her writing. She is one of the founding members of the Clueless Collective and to be found at: www.cluelesscollective.co.uk
Shane Vaughan is a writer of poetry, prose and plays. His work has been published in The Pickled Body, Unbroken Journal, Poetry NI, Roadside Fiction and elsewhere. In August 2015 his play, Jacqueline, ran in the Cork School of Music. He works for Ó Bhéal: Cork’s Weekly Poetry Event, and also runs Stanzas: An Evening of Words, where he publishes a chapbook of new writing every month. For more: shanevaughan.wordpress.com | stanzas.ie | obheal.ie
David Spicer has had poems accepted by or published in such magazines as Reed Magazine, The Curly Mind, Mad Rush, Slim Volume, Yellow Chair Review, Jersey Devil Press, New Verse News, The Kitchen Poet, Circle Seven, Phantom Kangaroo, Bad Acid Laboratories, Inc., and elsewhere. He is also the author of one full-length collection of poems and four chapbooks and is the former editor of Raccoon, Outlaw, and Ion Books. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Susan Castillo Street is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor Emeritus, King’s College London. She has published two poetry collections, The Candlewoman’s Trade (Diehard Press, 2003) and Abiding Chemistry (Aldrich Press, 2015). Her pamphlet Constellations is out in the spring 2016 by Three Drops Press.
Neil Fulwood is the author of media studies book The Films of Sam Peckinpah and the co-editor, with David Sillitoe, of More Raw Material: work inspired by Alan Sillitoe (Lucifer Press, 2015). His poetry has appeared in The Morning Star, The Lampeter Review, The Interpreter’s House, Nottingham Drinker and Dissident Voice. He lives and works in Nottingham, where he also subsidizes several real ale pubs.
Brett Evans is co-editor at Prole, his debut poetry pamphlet The Devil’s Tattoo was published by Indigo Dreams in 2015. Brett drinks to try to forget he is an editor of poetry and a poet himself.
Amy Kinsman is a poet and playwright living in Sheffield, England. In her spare time, she is an editorial assistant at Three Drops from a Cauldron. Her work has previously appeared, or is forthcoming, in After The Pause, Glass Octopus, Pankhearst, Rust + Moth and Up The Staircase Quarterly. Find her online at https://www.facebook.com/amykinsmanwriter/
Dean Rhetoric
Carole Bromley lives in York where she is the stanza rep and runs poetry surgeries for other rogues and pirates. Her most recent publication is ‘The Stonegate Devil’ (Smith/Doorstop 2015) .
Alyson Miller teaches literary studies and professional and creative writing at Deakin University, Australia. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in both national and international publications, alongside a work of literary criticism, Haunted by Words: Scandalous Texts, and a collection of prose poems, Dream Animals.
In his current incarnation, Robert Crisp teaches writing and literature at Armstrong State University in Savannah, GA. By night, he wanders through cemeteries, which isn’t always tolerated by the local constabulary. He writes poems as often as he can.
Chris Hemingway is a poet and singer-songwriter based in Cheltenham, and has read at various events at both the Cheltenham Poetry and Literature festivals in the last three years. Chris has been published in Lunar Poetry, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Stare’s Nest and I am not a silent poet websites, and has self-published two collections, Cigarettes and Daffodils (2012) and The Future (2016).
Rachel Nix is a native of Northwest Alabama, where pine trees outnumber people and she likes it. She stays busy as Poetry Editor at cahoodaloodaling, Associate Editor at Pankhearst, and coffee-maker at her paying gig. She can usually be found in some sort of shenanigans on Twitter as @rachelnix_poet
Despite being certified as disabled at age 16, Jennifer A. McGowan has published poetry and prose prolifically on both sides of the Atlantic, including in The Rialto and Pank. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and been highly commended in many competitions. Jennifer’s chapbooks are available from Finishing Line Press; her first collection, The Weight of Coming Home, is from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Her website is http://www.jenniferamcgowan.com.
Bethany W Pope is an award-winning author. She has published several collections of poetry: A Radiance (Cultured Llama, 2012) Crown of Thorns, (Oneiros Books, 2013), The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press 2014), and Undisturbed Circles (Lapwing, 2014). Her collection The Rag and Boneyard, shall be published soon by Indigo Dreams and her chapbook Among The White Roots Will be released by Three Drops Press next autumn. Her first novel, Masque, shall be published by Seren in 2016.
Grant Tarbard lives in his granny’s wooden shoe which has many bedrooms. She’s applied for the Bedroom Tax exemption under the Disability Rights UK Factsheet F57 as she has a tea kettle for a chest and wheezes in frost but the government are bastards.
Hannah Pyne lives near a vineyard in Kent and teaches English. She has been published by Prole, Forward Poetry, The Emma Press and on various websites.
Marilyn Hammick writes (and reads) when travelling, during still moments at home in England and France, recalling a childhood in New Zealand and years living in Iran.
Mary Stone is the author of the poetry collections Mythology of Touch and One Last Cigarette, and the chapbooks The Dopamine Letters andHoney & Bandages (co-written with Katie Longofono). Her third collection, Deficiency, will be published in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in Decomp, Menacing Hedge, Cahoodaloodaling, Tinderbox, and other journals. She currently lives in St. Joseph, MO, where she teaches English and coordinates the First Thursday open mic reading series, and edits the regional anthology Black Snake Creek.
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