R. Gerry Fabian
Poetry
R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English Instructor who has been publishing poetry since 1972. His novels: Memphis Masquerade, Getting Lucky and Seventh Sense are available at Smashwords and his first book of poetry, Parallels, is now in bookstores. His second book of poetry, Coming out of the Atlantic is forthcoming in 2019. Gerry is the editor of Raw Dog Press.His website is at:
https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com
Eileen Farrelly
Poetry
Eileen Farrelly has written poetry, intermittently, for most of her life. Although the subject matter varies widely, she is often inspired by the ordinary things that trigger long-forgotten memories. Her poems have recently appeared in Atrium, The Gladrag and Marble. She is also a musician and songwriter and can often be found singing for beer in various pubs around Glasgow.
alyson Faye
Poetry
Alyson Faye lives in West Yorkshire with her family, including 3 rescue cats. She teaches creative writing classes and works part-time as an editor/proofreader. She is one of the writers in Women in Horror Annual 2 (2017); her stories can be downloaded atwww.alfiedog.com as well as being available in numerous ezines and on sites like Zeroflash, Tubeflash, 101 words, Three Drops from a Cauldron and (most often) at The Horror Tree.(www.horrortree.com). Her debut Flash collection, Badlands, from indie publisher Chapeltown Books is available to buy on amazon.
kathy finney
Poetry
Gilbert’s Garden
Born in Blackpool in 1959 Kathy Finney is actively involved in preserving the local history and dialect voices of her native Lancashire. After raising three children she went back to school, completed an Access to Education course, gained a first-class honours degree in English from Winchester University in 2015 and Master of Arts, with merit, in Poetry & Creative Writing with the Open University in 2018. Kathy has now become a serial studier and lives by the motto, ‘you never know until you try.’
kate firth
Poetry
Postcard from the Beara Peninsula
Crackington Haven on New Year’s Eve
The Yew Speaks on St Brigid’s Day
Formerly an actress, Kate Firth is a voice coach based in Barcelona. She has had poems published in various anthologies and magazines. Passionate about poetry as an oral as well as written tradition, she has performed at Bristol, Cheltenham and Winchester poetry festivals.
Charlotte fong
poetry
Charlotte Fong is training to become an English Teacher, whilst experimenting with writing poetry, flash fiction, and short stories. She has recently been long-listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Prize and had poetry featured in Young Ravens Literary Review. She lives in Lancaster, UK with her husband and enjoys frequent visits to explore the beautiful nature and scenery of the Lake District.
duncan forbes
Poetry
Duncan Forbes’ poems have been published by Faber, Secker and Enitharmon, who brought out a Selected Poems, Lifelines, in 2009. It was drawn from five previous collections. Awards and prizes include a Gregory Award, TLS/Blackwells Prize, two Stephen Spender Times Translation Prizes and a Hawthornden Fellowship. A painter as well as a poet, he read English at Oxford and has taught for many years. Now retired, he lives in Gloucestershire.
imogen forster
poetry
Imogen Forster lives in Edinburgh. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and is a translator from French and Spanish.
Juliet Fossey
Poetry
Juliet Fossey is a poet who likes being outside, sketching, scribbling and walking. When not out in the great outdoors, she enjoys working on interdisciplinary projects that include music and art as well as poetry. Her writing process often involves cobbling bits of work together that may start with string or old bird nests which are gradually crafted into poems. You might find her lost on the Cumbria fell side staring at moss.
Maggie freeman
fiction
Maggie Freeman taught Creative Writing in Adult Community Learning in Essex until last year, when she moved to the edge of Epping Forest and decided to concentrate more on her own writing. Some of her short stories have been published in Stand and her poems in Acumen. She has written three historical novels which are due to be republished later this year by Sapere Books (www.saperebooks.com). She wrote this story after an enjoyable week at Moniack Mhor, the Scottish writing centre.
deborah freeman
fiction
Waving in the Wind
Deborah Freeman is a playwright, whose stage plays – The Song of Deborah, Xanthippe, Candlesticks, Breakages and more – have been produced in several London fringe venues, and broadcast by BBC Radio Drama. She has published poetry in Poetry Review and other journals. A previous recipient of an Arts Council Theatre Writing Bursary, she is now writing a new play The Cottage, and awaiting a production in a London venue of Remedies. Plays have been translated into German, Portuguese and Hebrew. Seventh Floor was published in Stand 2013. By Madeleine Black appears in the current issue.
matthew james friday
POEtry
Matthew James Friday has had poems published in numerous international magazines and journals, including, recently: The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Dawntreader (UK), New Contrast (South Africa) and Poetry Salzburg (Austria). A mini-chapbook titled All the Ways to Love was published by the Origami Poems Project (USA).
CLAiRE FULLER
Flash FICTION
Baker, Emily and Me
Claire Fuller writes a lot of flash fiction and short stories. She has won the BBC Opening Lines competition and the Royal Academy/Pin Drop Prize. Her novels Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons and Bitter Orange are published by Penguin.
lydia fulleylove
POEtry
Lydia Fulleylove lives on the Isle of Wight where her love of sea and landscape has provided a rich creative resource and inspiration for the combined arts projects she leads, including Estuary, Riverlines and Wild Places. Lydia’s first collection, Notes on Sea and Land was published by HappenStance Press in 2011. Her poem ‘Night Drive’ was shortlisted for the Forward Best Single Poem Prize in 2011. Her second collection Estuary, in collaboration with artist Colin Riches, was published by Two Ravens Press in 2014. Her writing has been included in a range of magazines and publications including Chalk Poets, (2016), Salt on the Coals, (Winchester Poetry Prize 2016), Earthlines and The Guardian.
raine geoghegan
POEtry
they lit fires, moved in close
rebecca gethin
POEtry
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor in Devon. In 2017 two pamphlets were published: A Sprig of Rowan by Three Drops Press and All the Time in the World by Cinnamon Press who published an earlier collection and two novels. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow. In 2018 she jointly won the Coast to Coast Pamphlet competition and has been awarded a writing residency at Brisons Veor.
www.rebeccagethin.wordpress.com
Chrissie Gittins
POEtry
You Mistake Yourself for an Allotment
mark goodwin
POEtry
Mark Goodwin is a balancer, walker, climber, and stroller who speaks and writes in various ways in various places – on paper, online, blended with photos, to live audience, or through mixing his voice with field-recordings & soundscapes. Mark has published five full-length poetry collections & five chapbooks with Leafe Press’s Open House Editions, Longbarrow Press, Knives Forks & Spoons Press, Small Minded Books, Nine Arches Press, & Shearsman Books. Mark’s collection Steps (Longbarrow 2014) was a category finalist in the 2015 Banff Mountain Book Competition. His latest chapbook with Shearsman is All Space Away and In (June 2017). Another full-length collection, Rock as Gloss, which focuses on climbing and mountain navigation, is forthcoming with Longbarrow Press. Mark lives on a boat in Leicestershire.
https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com
http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/writers-directory/mark-goodwin/
linda goulden
POEtry
Linda Goulden lives between a river and a canal at the edge of the dark Peak. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, online, in song and in woodland.
hugh greasley
POEtry
Hugh Greasley is a poet and a painter who uses landscapes as a means of exploring landscape, people and memory. Explorations can be about such things as sunlight falling into a shed or the experience of visiting a wreck on a Cornish beach at night in the teeth of a gale.
Hugh also works as a visual artist, painting in oils and has had a scientific education, culminating in a degree in Chemical Engineering. He has published seven collections of poetry.
geraldine green
POEtry
Geraldine Green is a creative writing tutor, editor and poet, with three poetry collections (Indigo Dreams Publishing) and four chapbooks. Her work is widely anthologised in the UK and USA. July 2019 sees her return to the US for another ‘on the road’ poetry trip, reading at venues in New York and Oklahoma, including the Woody Guthrie Festival in his hometown of Okemah. In 2011 she gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Geraldine is writer-in-residence at the Quaker Tapestry Museum, Kendal. She was born, and still lives, in Cumbria with her husband Geoff and their Border collie, Roy.
She blogs at Salt Road
Paul green
POEtry
Paul Green lives on the edge of the Bowland Fells in Lancashire. He probably rolled down. His work has been published in various literary journals, most recently Orbisand Tears in the Fence. He has a background in nature conservation and a foreground in ecological poetry.
Annest gwilym
POEtry
Annest Gwilym lives in North West Wales, near the Snowdonia National Park. Her work has been published in various literary journals and anthologies, both online and in print. She has been placed in writing competitions in recent years, winning one. She is the editor of the webzine Nine Muses Poetry. Her first pamphlet of poetry – Surfacing – was published by Lapwing Poetry in August 2018.
Robert hamberger
POEtry
Robert Hamberger’s poetry has been broadcast on Radio 4, featured on The Guardian Poem of the Week website and has appeared in British, American and Japanese anthologies and various magazines, including The Observer, The Spectator, New Statesman and Gay Times. He has been shortlisted for a Forward prize, awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and published three collections Warpaint Angel (1997), The Smug Bridegroom (2002) and Torso (2007).
iris hanson
fiction
Collection of Bones: The Whistling Cages
Iris Hanson, originally from Hampshire, is now a Cardiff-based musician. She is an avid plant-keeper, and loves to watch the weather change over the water.
During lockdown, Iris planted the pips from a lemon and now has a grove of sixteen in her flat.
‘The Whistling Cages’ is Iris’ first published story.
Chris Hardy
POEtry
Chris has travelled widely and after many years in London now lives in Sussex. His poems have been published in Acumen, Agenda, Stand; Pennine Platform; Tears in the Fence; The Interpreter’s House; The North; The Rialto; Poetry Salzburg Review; Poetry Review; ink sweat and tears; the blue nib; the compass magazine and many other places.
He is in LiTTLe MACHiNe, performing their settings of poems at literary events in the UK and abroad. ‘The most brilliant music and poetry band in the world’ (Carol Ann Duffy).
His fourth collection, Sunshine At The End Of The World, was published by Indigo Dreams. Roger McGough said about the book, ‘A poet as well as a guitarist Chris consistently hits the right note, never hits a false note’ and Peter Kennedy, in London Grip says, ‘Chris writes vivid, expository poetry often heavy with portent and mystery. Each of these poems is as beautifully muscular and slippery as an eel’.
HILARY HARES
POEtry
On moving sideways through Hampshire
Hilary Hares lives in Farnham, Surrey. Over 200 of her poems have found homes online and in print including Acumen, Finished Creatures, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Magma, Stand and South. She has an MA in Poetry from MMU and her collection, A Butterfly Lands on the Moon sells in support of Winchester Muse. She won the Christchurch Writers’ Competition 2013 and Write-By-The-Sea Competition 2018 and has recently been awarded second prize in the Cannon Poets’ 2022 Sonnet or Not Competition. Her latest pamphlet, Red Queen (Marble Poetry 2020), is available from her website: www.hilaryhares.com Twitter: @HilaryHares
deborah harvey
poetry
Deborah Harvey’s poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on Radio 4’s Poetry Please. She has three poetry collections, Communion (2011), Map Reading for Beginners (2014), and Breadcrumbs(2016), all published by Indigo Dreams, while her historical novel, Dart, appeared under their Tamar Books imprint in 2013. Her fourth collection, The Shadow Factory, will be published in 2019. Deborah is co-director of The Leaping Word poetry consultancy.
Ceinwen E. cariad haydon
poetry
judith heneghan
Flash FICTION
Judith Heneghan writes fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Winchester where she is also Director of the Winchester Writers’ Festival. Her favourite walk begins and ends at Cheesefoot Head
john herbert
fiction
John Herbert teaches and writes in Brighton. He was Highly Commended for the 2017 Brighton Prize and will appear in the Brighton Prize anthology this year. In 2018 his work has also appeared in DNA Magazine and The Forge Literary Magazine and is due to appear in the first print edition of The Nottingham Review in April. He has a PhD in modernist fiction and graduated from New Writing South’s Creative Writing Programme. When not scowling at cameras, he is writing a novel about surfing, travel and belonging from which this story is adapted.
Twitter: @jherbertwriter
Hilaire
Poetry
Hilaire is co-author with Joolz Sparkes of London Undercurrents, published by Holland Park Press. She was poet-in-residence at Thrive Battersea in 2017, and has poems published in numerous magazines and in three anthologies from The Emma Press.
London Undercurrents blog:
Charlie Hill
Poetry
Charlie Hill is a writer from Birmingham. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels and a pamphlet-length collection of short stories. In 2016 he published a novella that was described by Nicholas Royle in his introduction to Best British Short Stories 2017 as: ‘an engrossing piece that…were the author French and his readers all French, might well have been regarded as a worthy late addition to the school of existentialist literature’.
He can be contacted at: Charlie dot hill at hushmail dot com
georgia hilton
poetry
Georgia Hilton has been writing poetry since childhood and finds spending time in nature to be both an inspiration and a solace. Georgia’s debut poetry pamphlet, I went up the lane quite cheerful, was published in September 2018 by Dempsey and Windle Publishing, and she was the joint winner of the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize in the same year. Georgia also has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester.
As a resident of Winchester and its surrounding villages for the last sixteen years, she loves the enduring beauty of the Hampshire countryside.
Julie Hogg
Poetry
Julie Hogg is published in many literary journals including Abridged, Black Light Engine Room, Butcher’s Dog, Corrugated Wave, Honest Ulsterman, Irisi, Poethead, Poetry Bus Mag, Proletarian Poetry and Well Versed. Featured in anthologies by Ek Zuban, Litmus, Zoomorphic and Seren, her debut pamphlet Majuba Road is available from Vane Women Press.
Christopher hopkins
poetry
Christopher Hopkins is a Welsh poet living in Faversham, Kent. He has received an IPPY, CLMP Firecracker and three Pushcart Prize nomination. He has two chapbooks published by Clare Songbirds, New York and his third The Shape of a Tulip Bird is due out this summer. Christopher is widely published including poems in The Morning Star, The Cortland Review, Rust + Moth and Ink Sweat & Tears.
andrew howdle
poetry
Andrew Howdle is a retired teacher and educational consultant. He lives in Leeds, England. He studied literature at the Universities of Manchester and York. Poems have appeared in Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, Singapore Unbound, Nine Muses, and Lovejets (2019), an anthology of poems paying tribute to Walt Whitman. His poem, “A Letter from York”, which won the 2018 Singapore Unbound poetry competition, was nominated for the Hawker Prize.
glenn hubbard
poetry
The Great Banded Grayling Emerges in September
Glenn Hubbard has lived in Madrid for 30 years and has been writing poems since 2012. Though fluent in Spanish, he is poetic only in English and has had poems published in a number of magazines. Nature and landscapes are often an inspiration for his writing. Spain has a lot of both.
Ian Huckson
Poetry
prose
Ian Huckson is a semi-retired gardener, living in Cumbria. A lifetime of being in the countryside and working close with the land informs and colours everything he does and results in his never trying to be other than a part of nature. Also an amateur poet, recent poems of his have been published in magazines including; The Dawntreader, Sarasvati, Poetry Space Showcase and the Dempsey & Windle anthology Alternative Truths.
gill horitz
poetry
Gill Horitz has worked in the arts for many years. Her poetry has been published in magazines, including Writing Women, Mslexia, Smiths Knoll, Frogmore Papers, Tears in the Fence, and a short story in Cheatin’ Heart – Women’s Secret Stories Anthology (Serpents Tale 1998).
Gill was short-listed in the Bridport Prize, 2011 and Cinnamon Press will publish her first Pamphlet, All The Different Darknesses, in 2019. She attends a poetry group in Dorset where she lives, led by Paul Hyland.
mandy huggins
poetry
Cows
Mandy Huggins is the award-winning author of the flash fiction collection, Brightly Coloured Horses. A selection of her longer fiction appears in Death of A Superhero (InkTears), and her first full-length short story collection, Separated From the Sea, will be published by Retreat West Books in June 2018.
ROBERT HUGHES
poetry
Robert Hughes is a retired secondary school English teacher who now writes fiction and nonfiction about overcoming alienation by reconnecting with the environment.
SUZANNE IUPPA
poetry
Suzanne Iuppa is a poet, community worker and conservationist living in the Dyfi Valley, mid Wales.
Her poems can be found in literary magazines including The Lampeter Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Zoomorphic, Slipstream, The Lake and many others. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the WoLF poetry competition, and Highly Commended in the Mother’s Milk Writing Prize. She writes her first full collection with a very loud roosting goshawk for company.
Twitter: @wildernesspoet
Harriet Jae
poetry
samantha jayasuriya
Poetry
Samantha Jayasuriya is a writer, coach and teacher, and she seeks to live a creative life. She is a diarist who writes every day whilst surveying the ever-changing seasons outside her window. She is a poet and writer of short stories and letters. Time, the sky, trees, colours and family life are the threads she uses to weave her stories and poems together. She lives in Barnet with her husband and two teenage sons.
sue johnson
poetry
Beach Walk
Sue Johnson is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Her other interests include reading, walking and yoga. Sue is a Writing Magazine Creative Writing Tutor and also runs her own brand of writing workshops. Further details of her work can be found at
www.writers-toolkit.co.uk
Rosie johnston
poetry
Rosie Johnston’s four poetry books, published by Lapwing Publications in Belfast, are: Sweet Seventeens (2010), Orion (2012), Bittersweet Seventeens (2014) and Six-Count Jive – new and selected 17-syllable stanzas (2019). Her poems have appeared or featured in London Grip; Culture N1; FourxFour,; The Honest Ulsterman; Ink, Sweat & Tears; Hedgerow; on the Mary Evans Picture Library’s Poems and Pictures blog and in Live Canon’s anthologies 154: In Response to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2016) & New Poems for Christmas (2018). She has read her poetry widely and between 2014 and 2018 was poet in residence for the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust, until she moved to live by the sea in Kent.
brian johnstone
poetry
Brian Johnstone is a poet, writer and performer whose work has appeared throughout the UK, in the Americas, Australasia and Europe. His poems have been translated into over a dozen languages and are included in the UK Poetry Archive website. He has published seven collections, most recently the pamphlet Juke Box Jeopardy (Red Squirrel Press, 2018), shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award 2019, and the full collection Dry Stone Work (Arc Publications, 2014). His memoir Double Exposure was published by Saraband in 2017. He is a founder and former Director of StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival.
ali jones
poetry
Ali Jones is a teacher, music lover, and mother of three. Her work has appeared in Proletarian Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, Snakeskin Poetry, Atrium, Mother’s Milk Books, Breastfeeding Matters, Green Parent magazine and The Guardian. Her pamphlets Heartwood and Omega are forthcoming with Indigo Dreams Press in 2018.
zoe karathanasi
Poetry
Zoe Karathanasi is a Greek-born poet who currently lives in Paris, France. She has an MA in Poetry with distinction from the Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various online and print publications, such as Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Tears in the Fence and Under the Radar. She is working towards a first collection.
Lisa Kelly
poetry
Lisa Kelly’s first collection, A Map Towards Fluency, was published by Carcanet in 2019. Her poems have appeared in Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press) and Carcanet’s New Poetries VII. Her pamphlets are Philip Levine’s Good Ear (Stonewood Press) and Bloodhound (Hearing Eye). Her pamphlet, ‘from The IKEA Back Catalogue‘ is forthcoming from New Walk Editions in 2021.
calum kerr
flash fiction
Calum Kerr is a writer, editor and lecturer, as well as Director of National Flash-Fiction Day. For someone who writes short pieces all the time, he’s not very good at these biographies and tends to become fixated on facts. He lives in Southampton with this wife, a dog, and two cats.
M.D. Kerr
poetry
MD Kerr lives in Oxford, United Kingdom, and writes fantastical fiction and poetry, with a special love of nature poetry, poetic forms, and surprise pirates. She’s pseudonymously published a novel, novellas, and short stories, and ghostwritten seven novels. Under her own name, she’s published short fiction and poetry in a range of journals. She teaches creative writing at The Writers’ Greenhouse.
L. Kiew
poetry
A Chinese-Malaysian living in London, L Kiew earns her living as an accountant. She holds an MSc in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from Edinburgh University. Her debut pamphlet The Unquiet came out with Offord Road Books in February 2019.
carol krauss
poetry
Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Tunnel
Carol Parris Krauss is a mother, poet, and teacher from the Tidewater region of Virginia. She was recently honoured by the University of Virginia Press as a 2018 Best New Poet. Her work can be found online and in print in Amsterdam Quarterly, Storysouth, and Poetry24 amongst others. She enjoys American college football, gardening, and her many pets.
John Lanyon
poetry
Feeling Winter/Becoming Spring
LEBANESE FOOD CENTRE, ACTON, NOVEMBER
John Lanyon lives in West Oxfordshire where he works as a gardener, linguist, musician and writer. He is approximately 25% of the poetry quartet The Four Wordsmen (www.fourwordsmen.com). John is excited by the secret lives of words, the play between the animate and inanimate world, the spirit of places. He thinks a poem has a kind of DNA and if you can find the first piece the rest will follow. It’s detective work. Tea helps.
donna kirstein
poetry
Donna Kirstein is a poet, writer and creative professional who currently lives by the seaside in the UK. Donna’s debut poetry collection Borderlands was published by Liquorice Fish Books in 2017, and her award-winning poems and short stories have been published in several anthologies internationally. Her website can be found at:
hiram larew
poetry
Hiram Larew’s poetry appears in recent issues of Viator, Contemporary American Voices, Voices Israel, Amsterdam Quarterly, Honest Ulsterman and Lunaris Review (Nigeria). He is on Facebook at Hiram Larew, Poet and at Poetry X Hunger.
wes lee
poetry
You wait for your loneliness to be looked upon
Originally from the UK, Wes Lee lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Her writing has appeared in New Writing Scotland, The London Magazine, Riptide, Going Down Swinging, Magma, The Stony Thursday Book, Poetry London, Poetry New Zealand, Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology of Oceanic Life, and many other journals and anthologies. She has won a number of awards for her writing, most recently as a contributor to Remembering Oluwale, winner of The Saboteur Awards Best Anthology 2017.
s.A. leavesley
Poetry
More than ‘structurally unsafe‘
The Disappearing River, Stream, Trickle
S.A. Leavesley is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and journalist. Overton Poetry Prize winner 2015, her new pamphlet, How to Grow Matches, is forthcoming with Against the Grain Press in 2018. She has been published by the Financial Times and The Guardian, on Worcestershire buses and in the Blackpool Illuminations. An occasional climber and surfer, she also loves swimming, cycling, walking and being outdoors.
geoff le pard
poetry
Geoff Le Pard started writing to entertain in 2006. He hasn’t left his keyboard since. When he’s not churning out novels he writes some maudlin self-indulgent poetry, short fiction and blogs at geofflepard.com. He walks the dog for mutual inspiration and most of his best ideas come out of these strolls. He also cooks with passion if not precision.
xaioly li
poetry
Xiaoly Li is a poet, photographer and computer engineer who lives in Massachusetts. Prior to writing poetry, she published stories in a selection of Chinese newspapers. Her photography, which has been shown and sold in galleries in Boston, often accompanies her poems. Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in American Journal of Poetry, PANK, Atlanta Review, Chautauqua, Rhino, Rockvale Review, Cold Mountain Review, J Journal and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and a Pushcart Prize. Xiaoly received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Masters in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University in China.
Alison lock
poetry
Alison Lock writes poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction. She is the author of two short story collections, three collections of poetry, and a novella, as well as contributing to several anthologies. Her short fiction has won/been listed in a number of competitions – The London Magazine, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Tillie Olsen Award, The Carve Esoteric Prize. She has an MA in Literature Studies from York St John University. Her work focuses on the relationship of humans and the environment, connecting an inner world with an exploration of land and sea, a love of nature, through poetry and prose. www.alisonlock.com
sheila lockhart
poetry
Sheila Lockhart is a retired social worker and lives on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands with her partner and two Icelandic horses, tending her garden and writing poetry. She has been published in Northwords Now, Nine Muses Poetry, Twelve Rivers (Suffolk Poetry Society), the StAnza Poetry Map of Scotland, The Writers’ Cafe and the Ekphrastic Review.
JANE LOVELL
poetry
Jane Lovell is an award-winning poet whose work is steeped in natural history, science and folklore. Her latest collection is This Tilting Earth published by Seren. Jane also writes for Elementum Journal. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and runs the Mid Kent Stanza group for the Poetry Society.
barbara lovric
fiction
Barbara Lovric is an American expat now living in Ireland. A previous Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair winner, she’s had flash in The Fiction Pool, The Incubator, and The Cabinet of Heed. She was short-listed for the 2017 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the 2017 Bare Fiction Prize. Her debut novel will be published in 2019. Barbara is also a Senior Editor and Reader for TSS Publishing and runs a local writing group.
REBECCA LYON
poetry
Rebecca Lyon is a writer/performer based in Hampshire. The Yellow Box, which she co-devised with Nicole Le Jeune and Fatima Pantoja toured earlier this year and her short play, Alan, was performed as part of Heavy Weather Theatre’s new writing festival at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Her work has appeared in Spelk, Visual Verse and The Stare’s Nest and she does love a bit of open mic.