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issue 81
issue 81 part 1, featuring:
cover: morphic rooms amy marques carl alexandersson cole beauchamp anita bell mw bewick david bond leia butler lee campbell anneka chambers rebecca dempsey robert fromberg |
issue 81 part 2, featuring:
cover: pauline mccarthy bob gielow damon hubbs jason ly amy marques thomas mixon leanne moden m. ocampo mcivor brad rose sylvia santiago and jenny wong jp seabright aidan stickles mims sully lydia waites nathan whiting nathan williams |
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biographies - issue 81
Carl Alexandersson
Carl Alexandersson (he/him) is a queer spoken word poet and writer, based in Glasgow. He was selected for the BBC Words First programme in 2021, Highly Commended for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2022, and a runner-up for the Grierson Verse Prize 2022. His work has been published in Atrium Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, Impossible Archetype, and more.
Cole Beauchamp
Cole Beauchamp (she/her) is a copywriter by day and fiction writer by night. She was recently shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and her work appears/ is soon to appear in Ellipsis Zine, Free Flash Fiction, Lost Balloon, Damnation Lit and Bending Genres. She lives in London with her girlfriend, two children and an exuberant Maltipoo. You can find her on twitter at @nomad_sw18
Anita Bell
Anita is a poet, teacher and mother and lives on the Somerset/Wiltshire border in the UK. Anita has always been driven by the urge to write, filling exercise books with stories as a child, but it wasn’t until her forties that it became a focus again. She now has an MA in Creative Writing and has recently been enjoying the physicality of reconstructing her poems using mixed media. She is currently working on a set of poems reflecting on the birth of her first child when she was eighteen. Anita has had poems published in Under the Radar and Ink, Sweat and Tears.
MW Bewick
MW Bewick grew up in working-class West Cumbria on the coast of the Irish Sea. He worked in record shops before studying literature and starting to write. He is a co-founder of the small indie publisher Dunlin Press. Recent publications include pamphlets The Zircon Ferries (Beir Bua Press, 2021), and The End of Music (Black Light Engine Room, 2022).
David Bond
Living in Manchester, David regularly performs poetry and flash fiction at open mics across the city, including Speak Easy in Chorlton. He attends a weekly creative writing group in central Manchester. Publication history includes poems in Impspired Magazine, a short story in the Darker Times Anthology and self-published short stories through Wattpad and Smashwords. When David isn’t writing for pleasure, he is writing in his job as a grants fundraiser for a children’s charity. Insta: davidjamesbond92
Leia Butler
Leia (she/her) is a poet who lives in London and is the founder and co-head editor of Full House Literary Magazine. She has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her debut collection Tear and Share is published with Broken Sleep Books. She is a previous winner of a Streetcake experimental writing prize.
Lee Campbell
Lee Campbell is an artist, performance poet, experimental filmmaker, writer, Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London, Lee had his first solo exhibition in North America of his poetry films, See Me: Performance Poetry Films at Fountain Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A in July 2022 and Publications of his poetry include Hakara: A Bi-Lingual Journal of Creative Expression, The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Untitled. Voices, Gob Jaw Anthology 2019-2022, Issue Two: Wasteland, Powders Press, Issue One: First Times, Powders Press, Otherwise, You Are Here - The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings – A Literary Magazine for Queer Writing and New Note Poetry.
Twitter and Insta: leejjcampbell
Anneka Chambers
Anneka Chambers (she/her) is a Black British poet living in London. Anneka’s work can be found in South Bank Poetry, Vine Leaves Press, Ferel A Journal of Poetry and Art, alongside other notable publications. Twitter: @annekachambers / Instagram: @22poetrystreet
Rebecca Dempsey
Rebecca Dempsey’s recent work is featured in Five Fleas, MacQueen’s Quinterly and Bullshit Lit. Rebecca lives in Melbourne, Australia and can be found at WritingBec.com.
Robert Fromberg
Robert Fromberg wrote the memoir How to Walk with Steve (Latah Books, 2021) and the fictional essays Friends and Fiends, Pulp Stars and Pop Stars (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He contributes regularly to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Bob Gielow
A college administrator by day, Bob Gielow (he/him) spins tales in formats we all use when communicating with each other: text messages, emails, fictional Wikipedia posts, and diary entries all allow him to be clinical and thorough in describing his characters, their thinking and actions … without diminishing his ability to explore the resulting human emotions. Bob utilizes these epistolary styles, and others, to tell tales that frequently explore the most common of human experiences, death.
Damon Hubbs
Damon Hubbs is a writer and poet living in New England. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Book of Matches, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Dawntreader, Otoliths, Synchronized Chaos, Don’t Submit!, The Chamber Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy and others. He’s interested in microgreens, futurism and vintage ceramic pie birds.
Jason Ly
Jason Ly is an artist and writer based in Virginia. In 2017 he received the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in New Media. He enjoys playing with words, shapes and cats. His work has appeared in Poemeleon, The Vital Sparks, and Milk Carton Press. More of his work can be found at @jason_ly_art and jasonlyart.com
Morphic Rooms
Morphic Rooms is a collaborative collage laboratory founded in 2021 by Allison Anne (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) and Jeremy P. Bushnell (Dedham, Massachusetts, USA). They produce layered, abstract work that utilizes systematic parameters, creative rulesets, chance operations, and collaborative interplay as tools for radically reimagining a collection of images, texts, ephemera, and detritus, drawn from centuries of cultural accretion and mechanical reproduction. Together, they support the expansion of the public domain, cast a critical eye on the mechanisms of capitalized acquisition, aspire to produce convivial tools for the making of art, and work to make these tools accessible to all.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and cultures and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned three children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net by Streetcake: Experimental Writing Magazine and published in many journals including Star82 Review, Jellyfish Review, MoonPark Review, Flying South, and Sky Island Journal. You can find her at @amybookwhisper1 or read more of her words at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline McCarthy is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she love the easy-going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto the canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Thomas Mixon
Thomas Mixon has fiction and poetry in Rabid Oak, Sweet Tree Review, SAND, and elsewhere.
Leanne Moden
Leanne Moden is a poet, writer and educator, based in Nottingham. She’s originally from West Norfolk (because someone has to be) and she writes poignant, funny and accessible poetry about trying to be human in a world that doesn’t always make that very easy. Leanne is currently writing a show about music, and her second pamphlet of poetry, Get Over Yourself, was released by Burning Eye Books in 2020.
M. Ocampo McIvor
M. Ocampo McIvor was born in the Philippines, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Seattle. After a career in technology, Ocampo McIvor has returned to her roots to follow her calling in literature. Her work has been featured in The Bangalore Review, Burningword Literary, and Rigorous, among others. She is the author of Ugly Things We Hide.
Brad Rose
Brad Rose lives in Boston and is the author of five collections of poetry and flash fiction: Pink X-Ray, de/tonations, Momentary Turbulence, No. Wait. I Can Explain, and the forthcoming, WordinEdgeWise. His website is www.bradrosepoetry.com. His blog is https://bradrosepoetry.com/blog/
Sylvia Santiago and Jenny Wong
Sylvia Santiago and Jenny Wong became friends when they attended a 12-hour writing marathon in 2014. For the record, neither of them made it to the end. This is their fifth collaboration. Find them on Twitter: @sylviasays2 and @jenwithwords
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a writer living in their own fevered imagination. They have three pamphlets published, and another, MACHINATIONS is due out soon from Trickhouse Press. Details of their published prose, poetry and experimental work can be found at jpseabright.com and Twitter: @errormessage
Aidan Stickles
Aidan Stickles comes from upstate New York currently residing in Plattsburgh New York. His hobbies (besides writing) would include playing piano, singing karaoke or just singing, making weird faces in the mirror, and squeezing stress balls.
Mims Sully
Mims Sully is from Sussex, England. Her publications include Prole, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, The Ekphrastic Review, Strix, Popshot Quarterly and Streetcake, from whom she received a Best of the Net 2023 nomination. A winner of the Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize 2023, she is currently being translated into Arabic and has recently been anthologised for the first time in Close Up by Orchard Lea Press. Twitter: @MimsSully.
Lydia Waites
Lydia Waites is an East Yorkshire based writer and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Lincoln. She is a fiction editor for The Lincoln Review and Editor-in-Chief of Tether’s End Magazine. Her work has been appeared in Door Is A Jar, Streetcake Magazine, Porridge Magazine, York Literary Review, and more. She can be found at @lydiawaiteswrites on Instagram or @waites_lydia on Twitter, or being dragged around the Wolds by a springer spaniel.
Nathan Whiting
Nathan Whiting has been a distance runner, dancer, meditator and finds free concerts in the city. His new method of writing appears in Otoliths, The Decadent Review, Home Planet News, Quarter After 8, and the South Dakota Review.
Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams is a poet whose work focuses on working class life, observational writing and the human condition. He is an ex-creative writing student of Salford University.
Carl Alexandersson
Carl Alexandersson (he/him) is a queer spoken word poet and writer, based in Glasgow. He was selected for the BBC Words First programme in 2021, Highly Commended for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2022, and a runner-up for the Grierson Verse Prize 2022. His work has been published in Atrium Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, Impossible Archetype, and more.
Cole Beauchamp
Cole Beauchamp (she/her) is a copywriter by day and fiction writer by night. She was recently shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and her work appears/ is soon to appear in Ellipsis Zine, Free Flash Fiction, Lost Balloon, Damnation Lit and Bending Genres. She lives in London with her girlfriend, two children and an exuberant Maltipoo. You can find her on twitter at @nomad_sw18
Anita Bell
Anita is a poet, teacher and mother and lives on the Somerset/Wiltshire border in the UK. Anita has always been driven by the urge to write, filling exercise books with stories as a child, but it wasn’t until her forties that it became a focus again. She now has an MA in Creative Writing and has recently been enjoying the physicality of reconstructing her poems using mixed media. She is currently working on a set of poems reflecting on the birth of her first child when she was eighteen. Anita has had poems published in Under the Radar and Ink, Sweat and Tears.
MW Bewick
MW Bewick grew up in working-class West Cumbria on the coast of the Irish Sea. He worked in record shops before studying literature and starting to write. He is a co-founder of the small indie publisher Dunlin Press. Recent publications include pamphlets The Zircon Ferries (Beir Bua Press, 2021), and The End of Music (Black Light Engine Room, 2022).
David Bond
Living in Manchester, David regularly performs poetry and flash fiction at open mics across the city, including Speak Easy in Chorlton. He attends a weekly creative writing group in central Manchester. Publication history includes poems in Impspired Magazine, a short story in the Darker Times Anthology and self-published short stories through Wattpad and Smashwords. When David isn’t writing for pleasure, he is writing in his job as a grants fundraiser for a children’s charity. Insta: davidjamesbond92
Leia Butler
Leia (she/her) is a poet who lives in London and is the founder and co-head editor of Full House Literary Magazine. She has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her debut collection Tear and Share is published with Broken Sleep Books. She is a previous winner of a Streetcake experimental writing prize.
Lee Campbell
Lee Campbell is an artist, performance poet, experimental filmmaker, writer, Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London, Lee had his first solo exhibition in North America of his poetry films, See Me: Performance Poetry Films at Fountain Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A in July 2022 and Publications of his poetry include Hakara: A Bi-Lingual Journal of Creative Expression, The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Untitled. Voices, Gob Jaw Anthology 2019-2022, Issue Two: Wasteland, Powders Press, Issue One: First Times, Powders Press, Otherwise, You Are Here - The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings – A Literary Magazine for Queer Writing and New Note Poetry.
Twitter and Insta: leejjcampbell
Anneka Chambers
Anneka Chambers (she/her) is a Black British poet living in London. Anneka’s work can be found in South Bank Poetry, Vine Leaves Press, Ferel A Journal of Poetry and Art, alongside other notable publications. Twitter: @annekachambers / Instagram: @22poetrystreet
Rebecca Dempsey
Rebecca Dempsey’s recent work is featured in Five Fleas, MacQueen’s Quinterly and Bullshit Lit. Rebecca lives in Melbourne, Australia and can be found at WritingBec.com.
Robert Fromberg
Robert Fromberg wrote the memoir How to Walk with Steve (Latah Books, 2021) and the fictional essays Friends and Fiends, Pulp Stars and Pop Stars (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). He contributes regularly to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Bob Gielow
A college administrator by day, Bob Gielow (he/him) spins tales in formats we all use when communicating with each other: text messages, emails, fictional Wikipedia posts, and diary entries all allow him to be clinical and thorough in describing his characters, their thinking and actions … without diminishing his ability to explore the resulting human emotions. Bob utilizes these epistolary styles, and others, to tell tales that frequently explore the most common of human experiences, death.
Damon Hubbs
Damon Hubbs is a writer and poet living in New England. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Book of Matches, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Dawntreader, Otoliths, Synchronized Chaos, Don’t Submit!, The Chamber Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy and others. He’s interested in microgreens, futurism and vintage ceramic pie birds.
Jason Ly
Jason Ly is an artist and writer based in Virginia. In 2017 he received the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in New Media. He enjoys playing with words, shapes and cats. His work has appeared in Poemeleon, The Vital Sparks, and Milk Carton Press. More of his work can be found at @jason_ly_art and jasonlyart.com
Morphic Rooms
Morphic Rooms is a collaborative collage laboratory founded in 2021 by Allison Anne (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) and Jeremy P. Bushnell (Dedham, Massachusetts, USA). They produce layered, abstract work that utilizes systematic parameters, creative rulesets, chance operations, and collaborative interplay as tools for radically reimagining a collection of images, texts, ephemera, and detritus, drawn from centuries of cultural accretion and mechanical reproduction. Together, they support the expansion of the public domain, cast a critical eye on the mechanisms of capitalized acquisition, aspire to produce convivial tools for the making of art, and work to make these tools accessible to all.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and cultures and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned three children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net by Streetcake: Experimental Writing Magazine and published in many journals including Star82 Review, Jellyfish Review, MoonPark Review, Flying South, and Sky Island Journal. You can find her at @amybookwhisper1 or read more of her words at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline McCarthy is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she love the easy-going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto the canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Thomas Mixon
Thomas Mixon has fiction and poetry in Rabid Oak, Sweet Tree Review, SAND, and elsewhere.
Leanne Moden
Leanne Moden is a poet, writer and educator, based in Nottingham. She’s originally from West Norfolk (because someone has to be) and she writes poignant, funny and accessible poetry about trying to be human in a world that doesn’t always make that very easy. Leanne is currently writing a show about music, and her second pamphlet of poetry, Get Over Yourself, was released by Burning Eye Books in 2020.
M. Ocampo McIvor
M. Ocampo McIvor was born in the Philippines, raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in Seattle. After a career in technology, Ocampo McIvor has returned to her roots to follow her calling in literature. Her work has been featured in The Bangalore Review, Burningword Literary, and Rigorous, among others. She is the author of Ugly Things We Hide.
Brad Rose
Brad Rose lives in Boston and is the author of five collections of poetry and flash fiction: Pink X-Ray, de/tonations, Momentary Turbulence, No. Wait. I Can Explain, and the forthcoming, WordinEdgeWise. His website is www.bradrosepoetry.com. His blog is https://bradrosepoetry.com/blog/
Sylvia Santiago and Jenny Wong
Sylvia Santiago and Jenny Wong became friends when they attended a 12-hour writing marathon in 2014. For the record, neither of them made it to the end. This is their fifth collaboration. Find them on Twitter: @sylviasays2 and @jenwithwords
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a writer living in their own fevered imagination. They have three pamphlets published, and another, MACHINATIONS is due out soon from Trickhouse Press. Details of their published prose, poetry and experimental work can be found at jpseabright.com and Twitter: @errormessage
Aidan Stickles
Aidan Stickles comes from upstate New York currently residing in Plattsburgh New York. His hobbies (besides writing) would include playing piano, singing karaoke or just singing, making weird faces in the mirror, and squeezing stress balls.
Mims Sully
Mims Sully is from Sussex, England. Her publications include Prole, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, The Ekphrastic Review, Strix, Popshot Quarterly and Streetcake, from whom she received a Best of the Net 2023 nomination. A winner of the Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize 2023, she is currently being translated into Arabic and has recently been anthologised for the first time in Close Up by Orchard Lea Press. Twitter: @MimsSully.
Lydia Waites
Lydia Waites is an East Yorkshire based writer and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Lincoln. She is a fiction editor for The Lincoln Review and Editor-in-Chief of Tether’s End Magazine. Her work has been appeared in Door Is A Jar, Streetcake Magazine, Porridge Magazine, York Literary Review, and more. She can be found at @lydiawaiteswrites on Instagram or @waites_lydia on Twitter, or being dragged around the Wolds by a springer spaniel.
Nathan Whiting
Nathan Whiting has been a distance runner, dancer, meditator and finds free concerts in the city. His new method of writing appears in Otoliths, The Decadent Review, Home Planet News, Quarter After 8, and the South Dakota Review.
Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams is a poet whose work focuses on working class life, observational writing and the human condition. He is an ex-creative writing student of Salford University.
