MANDY MACDONALD
poetry
Siesta at the botanical gardens
Mandy Macdonald is an Australian writer and musician living in Aberdeen who is trying to make sense of the 21st and earlier centuries. Her poems can be seen in many anthologies and journals – most recently Noon (Arachne, 2019), Multiverse (Shoreline of Infinity, 2019), The Curlew (Spring 2019) and The Poet’s Republic (Issue 7, 2019). Mandy writes in the strong hope that poetry can change the world, even just a little. When not writing, she makes music and gardens.
MAGGIE MACKAY
poetry
Maggie Mackay loves family history which she winds into poems published in print and online journals. One of her poems is included in the award-winning #MeToo anthology. Others have been nominated for The Forward Prize, Best Single Poem with one commended in the Mothers’ Milk Writing Prize. More recently, her poem about George Eliot has appeared in the Yaffle Press celebration anthology and another is forthcoming in Bloody Amazing from Beautiful Dragons Press. Her pamphlet ‘The Heart of the Run’ is published by Picaroon Poetry. Her full collection ‘A West Coast Psalter’ will come out in early 2021. She is a reviewer for https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/.
Twitter: @Bonniedreamer
JOSIE MAHMOOD
poetry
Josie Mahmood started writing poetry during Lockdown when bored and out of ideas for things to do. In summer 2020, she was surprised but very pleased to win the children’s section of the Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition, judged by Liz Berry. As well as more poetry, she’s writing a novel, called “Pitch Black”, and enjoys gymnastics, watching Friends and Gilmore Girls, cooking, going out with her friends and spending time with her pets.
KATHRYN ANNA MARSHALL
poetry
Kathryn Anna Marshall has been writing poetry forever but has only recently made the leap from scribbling furtive notes on the backs of envelopes to sending her poetry into the world, since her diagnosis with M.E.
Kathryn is inspired by goings-on inside and outside her head and loves the puzzle of putting feelings onto a page. She mainly writes poetry, but also enjoys working with short short fiction and relishes the challenge of producing a good story in one hundred words. She has one publication to date, in Mslexia magazine as part of their Autumn showcase.
MARK MAYES
poetry
Mark Mayes writes fiction, poems and songs. He is an avid reader, and enjoys walks in the countryside, especially by rivers. He has had poetry and stories published (including stories in Unthology 5, 9 and 10), and his novel, The Gift Maker, came out in 2017 with Urbane.
alan mccormick
prose
Reasons to Swim Inside the Sky
Alan McCormick lives with his family by the sea in Wicklow. He’s been writer in residence at Kingston University’s Writing School and for the charity, InterAct Stroke Support. His fiction has won prizes and been widely published, including in Best British Short Stories, Confingo, The Bridport Prize anthology, and online at Words for the Wild, 3:AM and Epoque. His story collection, Dogsbodies and Scumsters, was long-listed for the 2012 Edge Hill Prize.
He also writes shorter pieces, known as Scumsters, in response to pictures by artist Jonny Voss. See more of this collaboration, along with Alan’s own fiction at www.alanmccormickwriting.wordpress.com
joan mcgavin
poetry
Joan McGavin featured in a Peterloo Poets anthology and has poetry books from Oversteps Books: Flannelgraphs (2011) and Passing Arcadia Close (2017). A Hawthornden Fellow in 2012, she was Hampshire Poet 2014, and for thirteen years taught Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. A trustee of the Winchester Poetry Festival, she curated an anthology, Hogwords, for them in 2014. She worked on a third collection as part of a PhD in Creative Writing from Southampton University, award in 2020.
rachael mcgill
fiction
Rachael McGill was born in the Shetland Islands. She lives with one foot in Britain, the other in Lisbon. She’s a playwright and literary translator and has recently finished her first novel. Her play The Lemon Princess is published by Oberon. Short fiction has been published in Shoe Fly Baby (Bloomsbury), Shorts 5 (Polygon), New Writing Scotland 35 (ASLS), The Frogmore Papers, Stories for Homes and online.
poetry
Ikebana – Free style
Helen McNaughton lives in Oregon where she grew up and also raised her family. She has been writing poetry since she was a child. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. Being out in nature has always been an important part of her life and included not only in her poetry but also in her photography.
joan mcnerney
poetry
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary zines such as Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Halcyon Days and included in Bright Hills Press, Kind of A Hurricane Press and Poppy Road Review anthologies. She has been nominated four times for Best of the Net.
jenny mcrobert
poetry
Sea shanty for a ship in a bottle
Making the transition from psychologist to poet has been Jenny’s most pleasurable journey. Despite the disadvantage of being taught it at school, poetry has been her lifelong passion. She has always known it, 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 past five years developing as a poet. Her poem ‘Home’ won second prize in the Hyde 100 Poetry Competition. Recently published poems are: ‘Touched’ Picaroon Poetry Issue #12 May 2018, ‘Jezebel’ Ink Sweat and Tear October 2018. Two further poems ‘Silver Samovar’and ‘Bakelite Blintzes’ have been accepted for publication in The High Window later this year.
stephen mead
poetry
Stephen Mead is an Outsider multi-media artist and writer. Since the 1990s he’s been grateful to many editors for publishing his work in print zines and eventually online. He is also grateful to have managed to keep various day jobs for the Health Insurance.
Kathryn metcalfe
poetry
Kathryn Metcalfe hails from Renfrewshire and has been published in many magazines and anthologies, she is a member of the Mill Girl Poets who wrote and performed a stage show about the lives and heritage of the thread mill workers in her local town of Paisley which went on to feature at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She also founded and runs a local open mic event for poets and writers called Nights at the Round Table.
Sue Millard
poetry
Sue Millard lives in Cumbria, England. Her website,
http://www.jackdawebooks.co.uk/
showcases her published output of novels and non-fiction which tend to feature horses, carriage-driving, romance, history and rural life. Her poems have been published by, e.g., The Interpreter’s House, Pennine Platform, Pirene’s Fountain, Butcher’s Dog, Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, and Prole. Her 2012 collection, Ash Tree, was published by Prole:
zoe mitchell
poetry
In 2018, she was joint winner of the Indigo-First Collection Competition and her first collection, Hag, is due to be published with Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2019.
sarah mnatzaganian
poetry
Sarah Mnatzaganian is an Anglo-Armenian poet. Shortlisted for the Poetry Business pamphlet competition 2016/17, her poems have been published in Magma, The North, Fenland Reed, London Grip, Atrium, As Above So Below, Poems in the Waiting Room, and anthologies Write to be Counted and #MeToo. She studies with Peter and Ann Sansom and Moniza Alvi.
heidi morrell
poetry
Cobalt Blue
Heidi Morrell lives and writes in Los Angeles, is married and lives in a big old house with her two kids, patient husband, one dog and two cats. Writing since the age of nine, she has been published in magazines, anthologies, and Ezines. Her poetry chapbook Also As Well is published by Finishing Line Press and her
collection of award-winning poetry, Old As Rain, is published by Ex Ophidia Press.
Heidi’s fiction can be found in Blue Skirt Press; Oval Magazine; Tomato Anthology; Ink Monkey Press; Dual Coast Magazine, 2 Elizabeths micro story. Her middle-grade book, Lane’s Diamond (Cawing Crow Press), is available on Amazon.
DIANE MULHOLLAND
poetry
maxine rose munro
poetry
Maxine Rose Munro is a Shetlander adrift on the outskirts of Glasgow. Her work has appeared widely in print and online journals, and anthologies. She was recently shortlisted for the Scottish Mental Health International Writers Award 2017. She also recently had a poem published online as part of the My Time project by Voluntary Arts Scotland and The Scottish Poetry Library.
Paul Robert mullen
poetry
rodney nelson
poetry
Rodney Nelson’s work began appearing in mainstream journals long ago. See his page in the P&W directory:
http://www.pw.org/content/rodney_nelson
He has lived in various parts of the U.S., working as a licensed psychiatric technician and copy editor, and now resides in the northern Great Plains. Recently published chapbook and book titles are: Metacowboy, Mogollon Picnic, Hill of Better Sleep, Felton Prairie, In Wait, Cross Point Road, Late & Later, The Western Wide, Billy Boy, Ahead of Evening, Winter in Fargo, Hjemkomst, Canyon, Time Tacit, and Minded Places.
‘Most of my poems “arrive” during walks and are written down as soon as I return home or years later.’
Martina reisz newberry
poetry
Martina Reisz Newberry’s newest collection, Blues for French Roast with Chicory is available from Deerbrook Editions. She is the author of six books. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines and journals in the U.S. and abroad. She lives in her much-beloved city, Los Angeles, with her husband, Brian Newberry, a Media Creative.
Marcelle Newbold
poetry
We understand, Gilbert White and I, while in Selborne architecting
Marcelle Newbold loves poetry as a way of exploring inner ramblings. Her poems have been published in magazines, and in recent anthologies by Wild Pressed Books and Maytree Press. She is currently working towards her first pamphlet. A poetry editor for Nightingale & Sparrow and a member of The Dipping Pool writing group, she lives in Cardiff, Wales, where she trained as an architect. Twitter @marcellenewbold
Lynda o’neill
poetry
Lynda O’Neill was born and brought up in Portsmouth, where many of her poems are based. She started writing when she went to a creative writing class at a local arts centre twenty years ago and began to be published and placed in competitions two years later. Lynda writes mostly about childhood, school, war and package holidays, mixing pathos with humour whenever possible. Writing has given Lynda self-expression – and many friends.
Patrick Osada
poetry
A Field Guide for Young Naturalists
Patrick B. Osada is an editor and also writes reviews of poetry for magazines. He recently retired after ten years on SOUTH Poetry Magazine’s Management Team and as the Magazine’s Reviews Editor
His first collection, Close to the Edge was published in 1996 & won the prestigious Rosemary Arthur Award. He has published six collections, How The Light Gets In was launched in June 2018.
Patrick’s work has been broadcast on national and local radio and widely published in magazines, anthologies and on the internet..
For more information about his work and a selection of his poetry, visit :
Harry Owen
poetry
Originally from Liverpool, Harry Owen moved to South Africa’s Eastern Cape from UK in 2008, where he had been appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire in 2003.
Outspoken in his commitment to the natural world and a passionate advocate of poetry, he is the author of eight collections, including The Cull: new and resurrected poems(Poets Printery, East London, 2017) and All Weathers (Ink Sword Press, Grahamstown, 2019), a collection of dog and cat poems in support of the local SPCA.
In addition, he has edited three anthologies – I Write Who I Am: an anthology of Upstart poetry (2011); For Rhino in a Shrinking World: an international anthology (2013); and Coming Home: poems of the Grahamstown diaspora (2019), all with Poets Printery.
Harry hosts the popular monthly open floor event called Reddits Poetry in Grahamstown, where he lives and writes.
josé emilio pacheco
poetry
José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2026) was the leading Mexican poet of the second half of the twentieth century. Also a distinguished translator, essayist, novelist and short-story writer, he received all of the major literary prizes given in the Spanish-speaking world, including the Premio Cervantes (2009), Premio Reina Sofía (2009), Premio Federico García Lorca (2005), Premio Octavio Paz (2003), Premio Pablo Neruda (2004), Premio Ramón López Velarde (2003), Premio Alfonso Reyes (2004), Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares (2000), National José Asunción Silva Poetry Award (1996), and Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. Collections of his work in English translation include: Selected Poems, trans. George McWhirter (New Directions, 1987), Battles in the Desert and Other Stories, trans. Katherine Silver (New Directions, 1987), and City of Memory and Other Poems, trans. Cynthia Steele and David Lauer (City Lights, 2001). His collected poems are available in Spanish as Tarde o temprano (Poemas 1958-2009) (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009). Pacheco’s poetry is characterized by its precision, understatement, erudition, and preoccupation with humanity’s destructive tendencies toward both the natural world and itself.
Rebecca Parker
poetry
Rebecca Parker is based on the coast of Fife, Scotland. Her work has most recently appeared in Gutter, The Curlew, and online at The Poetry Village. She is a member of the publishing team at Tapsalteerie.
mel parks
Poetry
Mangal Patel
fiction
Born in India, Mangal Patel has lived in London, UK since her early childhood. She loves creative writing which she took up after retiring as a Director of IT. Her work has been published on the web and in a number of anthologies. She writes for the pleasure it gives her and hopes her readers enjoy her work.
Mangal’s husband and twins are her source of joy and keep her smiling.
matthew paul
fiction
Swallowing the Toad
Matthew Paul’s first collection, The Evening Entertainment, was published by Eyewear Publishing in 2017. Matthew is also the author of two collections of haiku – The Regulars (2006) and The Lammas Lands (2015) – and co-writer/editor (with John Barlow) of Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (2008), all published by Snapshot Press. He was co-editor of Presence haiku journal, and has contributed to The Guardian’s ‘Country Diary’ column.
Cheryl pearson
poetry
Cheryl Pearson is the author of Oysterlight (Pindrop Press). Her poems have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Mslexia, The Moth Magazine,and Poetry NorthWest, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has won or placed in competitions including the Cheshire Prize, the Hippocrates Prize, the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize, the Keats Shelley Prize, and the Costa Short Story Award. Her second collection, Menagerie, is forthcoming from The Emma Press in 2020.
Ilse pedler
poetry
Ilse Pedler has had poems published previously in Poetry News, Prole, Artemis and Stand. She was shortlisted in The Rialto Nature Poetry competition in 2014 and 2015 and in the Bridport prize 2016 and commended in the Hippocrates 2017. She is the winner of the 2015 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition. Her pamphlet, The Dogs That Chase Bicycle Wheels, was published by Seren in March 2016. She lives and works as a veterinary surgeon in Saffron Walden and is currently working towards a first collection.
Gordon Peters
Essay
Gordon Peters has published a pamphlet of poems, By Leaves Entwined [Jaggnath, 2012] and contributed to various collections such as Remember [by Paragram], and How Big is Your Wingspan [Otago University]. He hails from Moniaive in Scotland and has spent a working life as a social worker, academic and social services director before many years as a consultant in health and social development overseas. He lives in north London.
jeanine pfeiffer
Essay
Jeanine Pfeiffer is devoted to the celebration and conservation of biocultural diversity: the intrinsic connections between nature and culture. An ethnoecologist with over 30 years’ experience in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Dr. Pfeiffer is a senior lecturer at San José State University and a scientific advisor to government, tribal, non-profit and community-based organization. Chapters from her book-in-progress, ‘The Language of Endangered Hearts’, have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, anthologized, and published in the Bellevue Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Guardian, High Country News, Camas, The Citron Review, The Portland Review, Flyway, Between the Lines, Langscape, Medium, Inverted Syntax, Silver Needle Press, Sky Island Journal, The Lowestoft Chronicles and Nowhere. Her poetry has been featured on Dan Robert’s radio show, Rhythm Running River, on Mendocino County Public Broadcasting station KZYX&Z. More at www.jeaninepfeiffer.com
sharon phillips
poetry
West
Sharon Phillips started learning to write poems after she retired from her career in education. Her poems have been published online and in print, and have been shortlisted and commended in a number of competitions, including the Bridport Prize (2017 and 2019) and the Yaffle Prize (2020). Sharon won the Borderlines Poetry Competition in 2017 and was among the winners of the Poetry Society Members’ Competition in November 2018. She lives in Otley, West Yorkshire.
Janet Philo
poetry
laura potts
poetry
Twice-recipient of the Foyle Young Poets Award, Laura Potts is twenty-two years old and lives in West Yorkshire. Her work has been published by Acumen, Aesthetica and The Poetry Business. Having worked at The Dylan Thomas Birthplace in Swansea, Laura was last year listed in The Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also became one of the BBC’s New Voices for 2017. Laura’s first BBC radio drama aired at Christmas, and she received a commendation from The Poetry Society in 2018.
lesley quayle
poetry
Lesley Quayle is a widely published, prizewinning poet, an editor and folk/blues singer. She has a collection, Sessions, (Indigo Dreams) and a pamphlet Songs For Lesser Gods, (Erbacce) featuring her prizewinning series of sonnets of the same name. Her latest pamphlet, Black Bicycle, was published in May 2018 by 4Word Press.
patsy rath
poetry
Patsy Rath hails from Lancashire but has lived in Winchester for almost forty years. As an English teacher and adviser, she spent most of her working life supporting others to write well; since retirement, her own work has taken over. At the moment her poetry is mainly focussed on memories of growing up, of family life, with occasional forays into the world of politics.
ben ray
poetry
A dendrological reaction to National Socialism
Ben Ray is a rising young poet from the Welsh borders whose work ‘reveals a canny understanding of life and language’ (Nancy Campbell). His second collection, What I heard on the Last Cassette Player in the World, is scheduled for release with Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2019.
cLare Read
poetry
Clare Read is a writer of short stories and poems living in the East Midlands. She is a member of Marvellous Writers, a community writing group established in 2016. Her stories have been published in The Cabinet of Heed, Riggwelter and Reflex Fiction.
Caro Reeves
poetry
ART
Caro Reeves is an Irish painter and poet, who studied Fine Art in London, married, and has lived near Winchester for several hundred years.
She has paintings in Irish, British, French and American collections. A writer all her life, she only recently made this fact public. She spends most of her time in the garden.
Johnathan Reid
poetry
Johnathan Reid is a Hampshire writer and poet who put creative pen to paper only four decades after winning a school English prize. Between those milestones he attempted to be a pilot, a doctor and a library cataloguer, but was lured into government sanctioned drugs and corporate computing. Happier communing with nature more than most people, both inspire his poetry and prose. His contactable parts are indexed under ‘reiditwrite’.
frances reilly
poetry
Beside the grave of Abram Wood King of the Gypsies
Frances Roberts Reilly is of mixed Welsh-Romany and English heritage, a direct descendant of Abram Wood the Welsh Romany family of harpists, fiddlers and storytellers.
She began writing in 1972 while working at the BBC in London. After making documentaries on human rights, she earned an honours degree in English Literature from the University of Toronto. Frances is a full-time writer. Her poetry is published internationally and she has been a guest author on CBC radio and WSQR Talk Radio, Sarasota. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
She is currently working on her memoir ‘Underground Histories’, recovering her Romany heritage, hidden for over 100 years.
lisa reily
poetry
Lisa Reily is a former literacy consultant, dance director and teacher from Australia. Her poetry has been published in several journals, such as Panoply, Magma and Foxglove Journal. Lisa is currently a budget traveller with two bags, one laptop and no particular home. You can find out more at
kim ridgeon
poetry
Coots
Kim Ridgeon was born in Cornwall and lived in the old mining town of Camborne throughout his childhood. He worked as a teacher of English and Drama for twenty-five years until retiring early due to ill health. Kim moved to Glastonbury with his family in 1989 and still lives there overlooking the town and the Somerset Levels; an inspiration in much of his poetry.
Upon retirement Kim started to dedicate his creativity to writing poetry and has had three collections published: Middle Age Spread, Uncovering and, this year, Looking Out. There is also a booklet called Twenty + Five.
Kim finds the natural world forever fascinating and combines this influence with themes which consider time and memory. Writing poems is a liberating experience and having them read by other people is so gratifying.
alun robert
poetry
Alun Robert is a prolific creator of lyrical free verse. He has achieved success in poetry competitions across the British Isles and North America. His work is published regularly by literary magazines, anthologies and webzines in the UK, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Kenya, USA and Canada. He is a member of the Federation of Writers Scotland for whom he was a Featured Writer in 2019.
andrea robinson
poetry
Early Summer in the Community Gardens
Andrea Robinson is an artist, writer and printmaker. She was poet-in-residence at Share Community Garden for Open Garden Squares Weekend 2017. Her work is inspired by found artefacts and family histories – birds often appear. Her writing has been published in DIVERSIFY – Poetry and Art on Britain’s Urban Birds (Fair Acre Press), In Transit: Poems about Travel (The Emma Press), Smeuse magazine, Coast to Coast to Coast, two Tate anthologies, Will Jennings’ artists’ book Extending Ley Lines, online for Hercules Editions and Visual Verse, and in a sound installation for Protein Dance at The Place.
Mary Robinson
poetry
Mary Robinson grew up off-grid on an isolated smallholding in Warwickshire. Her first collection is The Art of Gardening (Flambard 2010). She won the Mirehouse/Words by the Water Poetry Prize in 2013 and the Second Light Poetry Prize (short poem category) in 2017. Her work includes two pamphlets, Uist Waulking Song and Out of Time, the latter to accompany a poetry/photography collaboration with Horatio Lawson exhibited at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick in 2015. Her poems have appeared in several magazines including Poetry Review, The Yellow Nib, Stand, The North, Artemis, Envoi, The French Literary Review and Long Poem Magazine. Her sequence of alphabet poems will be published by Mariscat Press this year. She lives on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales. Her blog is Wild about Poetry:
isabel rogers
poetry
Isabel Rogers’ first poetry collection, Don’t Ask, came out in 2017 with Eyewear Publishing. Her work has appeared in various magazines including Poetry, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar and Mslexia, and has also been widely anthologised. She won the 2014 Cardiff International Poetry Competition and collaborates regularly with the composer Ian Stephens.
jane R rogers
poetry
The Dreamworld Drips with Reality
Jane R Rogers is a member of Greenwich Poetry Workshop and co-edited Magma Issue 65. Jane’s poems have appeared in Atrium, Prole, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Curlew, Long Exposure Magazine, Tears in the Fence, Obsessed with Pipework, Tate Gallery Website poetry anthology 2012 among others. Jane lives in London but misses the West Country.
diana rosen
poetry
Nectarines! It’s a Heckuva Fruit!
Diana Rosen’s essays, flash fiction, and poetry appear in many online and print journals and anthologies. In 2020, an essay will appear in Far Villages from Black Lawrence Press, and poems will be published in “he Book of Sighs and the journals Existere Journal of Art & Literature, Poesis Journal, and The Reform Jewish Quarterly. Red Bird Chapbooks will publish her flash and poetry as Love & Irony.
ruth sabath rosenthal
poetry
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal is a New York City poet, well published in the U.S. and, also, internationally. In October 2006, her poem “on yet another birthday” was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Ruth has authored a chapbook Facing Home and 5 full-length books: Facing Home and beyond; little, but by no means small; Food: Nature vs Nurture; Gone, but Not Easily Forgotten and Of My Labor.
Ruth’s websites: https://newyorkcitypoet.com and https://bigapplepoet.com and
her blog: https://poetrybyruthsabathrosenthal.com
william ruleman
poetry
William Ruleman recently retired from college teaching to devote himself to writing, painting, translation, and (when possible) travel. His poems have appeared most recently in The Amethyst Review, Mused: The Bella Online Literary Review, and Nature Writing. His Verse for the Journey: Poems on the Wandering Life, a collection of his translations of poems by the German Romantics, and his Salzkammergut Poems (both from Cedar Springs Books) focus on his experiences in the natural realm. His website is:
guy Russell
poetry
Guy Russell was born in Chatham, UK, and has been a holiday courier, purchasing clerk, media analyst and fan-heater production operative. He currently works in Milton Keynes for the Open University. Stories in Somewhere This Way (Fiction Desk), Brace (Comma Press), To Hull And Back 2018, Madame Morte (Black Shuck), Liars League and elsewhere. Poems in Troubles Swapped For Something Fresh(Salt), The Iron Book of New Humorous Verse (Iron), The Rialto, The Interpreter’s House and elsewhere. He reviews sometimes for Tears in the Fence.
Sally Russell
poetry
Sally Russell left a career in IT to spend more time on writing and music. She writes poetry and short stories that examine social relationships and family. She reads at poetry events in London and Hampshire and is a member of the North Hampshire Stanza.
mark rutterford
fiction
Mark Rutterford writes and performs his short stories in towns and cities across the South West – stories with a love interest, a bit of humour and, quite often, told with a prop in hand.
Although a proud member of Stokes Croft Writers in inner-city Bristol, Mark is most at home in the countryside. He has a thing about badgers.