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issue 71 - part 1
part 1, featuring:
jc olsthoorn lottie angell jane ayres amy barnes alexis beale natasha binder steve carr rachael charlotte ashley cline thomas s crane zoe critchley seth crook dah teo eve david greaves sarah hall-murphy |
issue 71 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
frank roger jem henderson louise heywood sarah james e.p jenkins allie kerper suzanne lea laurinda lind j. mitra michelle moloney king jane monach andrew nightingale michał kamil piotrowski winston plowes slawka g. scarso gordon sun ron torrence |
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biographies - issue 71
PART 1
JC Olsthoorn
JC Olsthoorn spends time near Otter Lake, Québec, writing raw poetry, creating coarse art, and cooking scratch food.
Lottie Angell
Lottie Angell is a Sussex based writer who specialises in writing poetry after graduating with a first class masters in Creative Writing from The University of Brighton in 2018. Notably, her poetry has featured in literary and competition anthologies such as Shoreham Wordfest: Poems from the Ten Line Poetry Competition (2020) judged by award winning poet John McCullough and From the Ashes: An International Anthology of Womxn’s Poetry (2019) edited by Amanda McLeod and Mela Blust of Animal Heart Press.
To read more of Lottie’s work visit:
Website: www.mantimoon.co.uk
Jane Ayres
Based in the UK, Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. She enjoys Open Mic events, is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms and has work published or accepted in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria, The Sock Drawer, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Scrittura, Door is a Jar, Marble, Agapanthus, Confingo and The Forge.
Amy Barnes
Amy Barnes has words at sites including: FlashBack Fiction, Popshot Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, X-Ray Lit, Stymie Lit, No Contact Mag, JMMW, The Molotov Cocktail, Lucent Dreaming, Lunate Fiction, Rejection Lit, Perhappened, Cabinet of Heed, Spartan Lit, and others. She is an Associate Editor at Fractured Lit and reads for CRAFT, Taco Bell Quarterly, Retreat West, NFFD, The MacGuffin, and Narratively. Her flash collection, "Mother Figures" is forthcoming in 2021.
Alexis Beale
Alexis Beale is a Black poet and doctoral student at the University of Southern California. She has had the privilege of having her poetry published in Off the Coast, Poetry Pacific, Door is a Jar, Blue Monday Review, and the Apprentice Writer.
Natasha Binder
Natasha Binder is a 29 year old writer living in Cumbria, UK. She has a Master's in Screenwriting and usually writes stage plays and film scripts, but frequently branches out to flash fiction and poetry. She often writes these shorter pieces to express points of view and unravel complex emotions.
Steve Carr
Steve Carr, from Richmond, Virginia, has had over 460 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, reviews and anthologies since June, 2016. He has had seven collections of his short stories published. His paranormal/horror novel Redbird was released in November, 2019. His plays have been produced in several states in the U.S. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. His Twitter is @carrsteven960. His website is https://www.stevecarr960.com /
Rachael Charlotte
Rachael is a poet and fiction writer based in Lincolnshire. She has had recent work published by Truffle, Hedgehog Poetry, Tether's End, The Centifictionist, and others. She is a Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Lincoln.
Ashley Cline
An avid introvert, full-time carbon-based life-form and pop music scholar, Ashley Cline crash-landed in south Jersey some time ago, and still calls that strange land home. Her poetry has appeared in 404 Ink, Okay Donkey Magazine, Parentheses Journal, and SCUM Mag. Her debut chapbook, “& watch how easily the jaw sings of god,” is forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press.
Twitter: @the_Cline. Instagram: @clineclinecline.
Thomas S Crane
Thomas S Crane lives in Bristol, using writing to explore the intersections of economy, ecology, mythology, and memes. He has been previously published by streetcake and Imaginal Futures, and is currently 'translating' Kafka into an internet dialect for dogs in order to see what happens. Find him on Twitter: @TomCranePoet
Zoe Critchley
Zoe Critchley works in the film industry by day, and by night she writes. She has recently started writing short and micro creative fiction alongside working on her first novel. Originally from Yorkshire, Zoe is currently based in Bristol.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi. And in recent anthologies such as Places of Poetry (One World), Declarations (Scotland Street). His word-visual poems have appeared in streetcake, Dreich, Fragmented Voices, The Projectionist's Playground, Selcouth Station, Cerasus Poetry, and
The Centenary Collection (Speculative).
DAH
DAH is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of The Net nominee, and the author of nine books of poetry. DAH lives in Berkeley, California, where he is working on his tenth poetry collection, while simultaneously working on his first collection of short fiction.
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's story 'To Be Seen' won Nottingham UNESCO City Of Literature's MyVoice competition, and has been published in Big White Shed's 2020 Speak Up anthology. Teo has poems due for release in 1010 Press' upcoming Language: The Working Class Anthology and World Jam's forthcoming Us vs Virus anthology.
David Greaves
David Greaves is a UK-based writer whose poetry and fiction has appeared in Lune, Datableed, Tenebrae, and Epizootics.
He mostly doesn’t tweet at @dgrbolith.
Sarah Hall-Murphy
Sarah Hall-Murphy is a Manchester writer, interested in script and prose, and writing about the North. She is currently in her
second year of a Creative Writing degree.
PART 2
Frank Roger
Frank Roger, writer and artist, was born in 1957 in Ghent, Belgium.
His first story appeared in 1975. By now he has a few hundred short stories to his credit, published in more than 40 languages.
Apart from fiction, he also produces collages and visual art in a surrealist and satirical tradition.
Jem Henderson
Jem Henderson is what you get when you mix a crayola set with a library. They live in Yorkshire and have an MA in Creative Writing. They have been published in the Black Lives Matter Anthology, The Writers' Cafe Magazine, Wyrd Words and Effigies, Down in the Dirt, and various publications online. They are working on their first pamphlet.
Louise Heywood
Louise is a Northern writer who loves fantasy, horror and experimenting with visual poetry. Having graduated from the University of Salford with a BA in English Language and Creative Writing, she has since gone on to start her MA in Publishing with UCLan. Louise’s work was first published by streetcake magazine, where she gained the inspiration to begin her own fantasy magazine – Noctivagant Press. You can keep up with the progress of the magazine @N_V_Press on Twitter.
Louise also has upcoming work featuring in British Fantasy Society’s Horizons.
Sarah James
Sarah James is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Her recent projects include an Arts Council England funded multimedia hypertext poetry narrative > Room and The Magnetic Diaries (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), highly commended in the Forward Prizes. She also runs V. Press, publishing poetry and flash fiction.
E.P Jenkins
E.P is a poet and artist based in Kent, a recent graduate of Royal Holloway’s Poetic Practice MA and a founding member of the Crested Tit Collective E.P’s work can be found in the anthology Harpies (2018), Rewilding: An Eco Poetic Anthology (2020) and her debut collection Rituals will be published with Broken Sleep Books (2022). Her book work Splendid Stomach can be found in The Wellcome Collection, Senate House Library, and National Poetry Library. She is a big witchy weirdo inspired by folklore, contemporary and historical medicine, and crafts as a method for poetic generation.
Allie Kerper
Allie Kerper earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Gutter, Fly on the Wall, Neon and elsewhere. She lives in Edinburgh and works as an educational media editor. Twitter: @kerperplexed
Suzanne Lea
Suzanne Lea is a coffee drinking, bleeding-heart liberal, book-worm with an affinity for dark chocolate and swear words. She has been published in numerous ‘zines and journals, including the print anthologies, Crooked Letter i: Coming Out in the South, published by New South Books, Love Letters You’ll Never Read, from Gnashing Teeth Publishing, as well as the online journal, If You Choose Me, featured on Redheaded Stepchild Magazine.
Laurinda Lind
Laurinda Lind lives in the U.S. in New York State. Other poems are at Algebra of Owls, Bluepepper, Gone Lawn, moongarlic, Oxidant | Engine, Triggerfish, and Winedrunk Sidewalk.
J. Mitra
J. Mitra is a non-binary, British Indian punk poet based in East Yorkshire and is currently a student at the University of Manchester and freelance writer for Soundsphere magazine. She is also a part of The Writing Squad development programme and has been published in Beyond Words, Acumen Poetry and Push Magazine.
Michelle Moloney King
Michelle Moloney King is an experimental poet and artist. She has an honours degree in computer science, a post-grad in primary education and a diploma in Hypnotherapy. She has been published in Spillwords, Dream Journal, Artistic Differences Project, Babel Tower, amongst others and was nominated for a Pushcart in poetry. She is a Visual Artists Ireland member.
Her website: www.michellemoloneyking.wordpress.com
Jane Monach
Jane Monach was educated in Belfast and Dublin, worked in Canada, Australia and London before settling in Sheffield, where she writes and explores poetry with a number of local groups. She was active in a number of voluntary organisations, worked in further and higher education, social work, mental health, counselling and therapy; grew a family; enjoys, reading, music, travel, walking, and playing tennis.
Andrew Nightingale
Andrew Nightingale is currently working on a group of poems about the Anatomical Venus. His favourite poet at the moment is Clayton Eshleman. He lives in St Leonards-on-Sea and works for an animal welfare charity.
Michał Kamil Piotrowski
Michał Kamil Piotrowski is a London-based poet who writes mostly experimental, technology-powered, and visual poetry. He enjoys making poetry interactive and he mostly works with found text. His interactive book The Cursory Remix has been co-written by Google Translate and is available to read on issuu.com with a print version forthcoming from Contraband Books. His poetry will be exhibited at the Loudest Whispers 2021 online exhibition. Michał is the founder of artBLAB, the online series of relaxed talks about art and its whereabouts.
Winston Plowes
Winston Plowes shares his floating home in Calderdale UK with his seventeen-year-old cat, Sausage. He teaches creative writing in schools, universities and to local groups while she dreams of Mouseland. His latest collection, Tales from the Tachograph was published jointly with Gaia Holmes in 2018 by Calder Valley Poetry. www.winstonplowes.co.uk
Slawka G. Scarso
Slawka G. Scarso is a copywriter and translator based between Rome and Geneva. She has published several books on wine and a collection of crime stories for students of Italian as a foreign language. Her short stories in English have appeared in Mslexia, Spelk, Ellipsis Zine, and Constellate Magazine. She is currently polishing her first crime novel.
Twitter: @nanopausa
Gordon Sun
Gordon Sun is a surgeon exploring the intersections between healthcare and technology. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Please See Me, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, and other publications.
Ron Torrence
Ron Torrence published his first short story at age 50 and his first poem at age 80. Even so his fiction, non-fiction and poetry
is pretty widely published.
PART 1
JC Olsthoorn
JC Olsthoorn spends time near Otter Lake, Québec, writing raw poetry, creating coarse art, and cooking scratch food.
Lottie Angell
Lottie Angell is a Sussex based writer who specialises in writing poetry after graduating with a first class masters in Creative Writing from The University of Brighton in 2018. Notably, her poetry has featured in literary and competition anthologies such as Shoreham Wordfest: Poems from the Ten Line Poetry Competition (2020) judged by award winning poet John McCullough and From the Ashes: An International Anthology of Womxn’s Poetry (2019) edited by Amanda McLeod and Mela Blust of Animal Heart Press.
To read more of Lottie’s work visit:
Website: www.mantimoon.co.uk
Jane Ayres
Based in the UK, Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. She enjoys Open Mic events, is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms and has work published or accepted in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria, The Sock Drawer, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Scrittura, Door is a Jar, Marble, Agapanthus, Confingo and The Forge.
Amy Barnes
Amy Barnes has words at sites including: FlashBack Fiction, Popshot Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, X-Ray Lit, Stymie Lit, No Contact Mag, JMMW, The Molotov Cocktail, Lucent Dreaming, Lunate Fiction, Rejection Lit, Perhappened, Cabinet of Heed, Spartan Lit, and others. She is an Associate Editor at Fractured Lit and reads for CRAFT, Taco Bell Quarterly, Retreat West, NFFD, The MacGuffin, and Narratively. Her flash collection, "Mother Figures" is forthcoming in 2021.
Alexis Beale
Alexis Beale is a Black poet and doctoral student at the University of Southern California. She has had the privilege of having her poetry published in Off the Coast, Poetry Pacific, Door is a Jar, Blue Monday Review, and the Apprentice Writer.
Natasha Binder
Natasha Binder is a 29 year old writer living in Cumbria, UK. She has a Master's in Screenwriting and usually writes stage plays and film scripts, but frequently branches out to flash fiction and poetry. She often writes these shorter pieces to express points of view and unravel complex emotions.
Steve Carr
Steve Carr, from Richmond, Virginia, has had over 460 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, reviews and anthologies since June, 2016. He has had seven collections of his short stories published. His paranormal/horror novel Redbird was released in November, 2019. His plays have been produced in several states in the U.S. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. His Twitter is @carrsteven960. His website is https://www.stevecarr960.com /
Rachael Charlotte
Rachael is a poet and fiction writer based in Lincolnshire. She has had recent work published by Truffle, Hedgehog Poetry, Tether's End, The Centifictionist, and others. She is a Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Lincoln.
Ashley Cline
An avid introvert, full-time carbon-based life-form and pop music scholar, Ashley Cline crash-landed in south Jersey some time ago, and still calls that strange land home. Her poetry has appeared in 404 Ink, Okay Donkey Magazine, Parentheses Journal, and SCUM Mag. Her debut chapbook, “& watch how easily the jaw sings of god,” is forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press.
Twitter: @the_Cline. Instagram: @clineclinecline.
Thomas S Crane
Thomas S Crane lives in Bristol, using writing to explore the intersections of economy, ecology, mythology, and memes. He has been previously published by streetcake and Imaginal Futures, and is currently 'translating' Kafka into an internet dialect for dogs in order to see what happens. Find him on Twitter: @TomCranePoet
Zoe Critchley
Zoe Critchley works in the film industry by day, and by night she writes. She has recently started writing short and micro creative fiction alongside working on her first novel. Originally from Yorkshire, Zoe is currently based in Bristol.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi. And in recent anthologies such as Places of Poetry (One World), Declarations (Scotland Street). His word-visual poems have appeared in streetcake, Dreich, Fragmented Voices, The Projectionist's Playground, Selcouth Station, Cerasus Poetry, and
The Centenary Collection (Speculative).
DAH
DAH is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of The Net nominee, and the author of nine books of poetry. DAH lives in Berkeley, California, where he is working on his tenth poetry collection, while simultaneously working on his first collection of short fiction.
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's story 'To Be Seen' won Nottingham UNESCO City Of Literature's MyVoice competition, and has been published in Big White Shed's 2020 Speak Up anthology. Teo has poems due for release in 1010 Press' upcoming Language: The Working Class Anthology and World Jam's forthcoming Us vs Virus anthology.
David Greaves
David Greaves is a UK-based writer whose poetry and fiction has appeared in Lune, Datableed, Tenebrae, and Epizootics.
He mostly doesn’t tweet at @dgrbolith.
Sarah Hall-Murphy
Sarah Hall-Murphy is a Manchester writer, interested in script and prose, and writing about the North. She is currently in her
second year of a Creative Writing degree.
PART 2
Frank Roger
Frank Roger, writer and artist, was born in 1957 in Ghent, Belgium.
His first story appeared in 1975. By now he has a few hundred short stories to his credit, published in more than 40 languages.
Apart from fiction, he also produces collages and visual art in a surrealist and satirical tradition.
Jem Henderson
Jem Henderson is what you get when you mix a crayola set with a library. They live in Yorkshire and have an MA in Creative Writing. They have been published in the Black Lives Matter Anthology, The Writers' Cafe Magazine, Wyrd Words and Effigies, Down in the Dirt, and various publications online. They are working on their first pamphlet.
Louise Heywood
Louise is a Northern writer who loves fantasy, horror and experimenting with visual poetry. Having graduated from the University of Salford with a BA in English Language and Creative Writing, she has since gone on to start her MA in Publishing with UCLan. Louise’s work was first published by streetcake magazine, where she gained the inspiration to begin her own fantasy magazine – Noctivagant Press. You can keep up with the progress of the magazine @N_V_Press on Twitter.
Louise also has upcoming work featuring in British Fantasy Society’s Horizons.
Sarah James
Sarah James is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Her recent projects include an Arts Council England funded multimedia hypertext poetry narrative > Room and The Magnetic Diaries (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), highly commended in the Forward Prizes. She also runs V. Press, publishing poetry and flash fiction.
E.P Jenkins
E.P is a poet and artist based in Kent, a recent graduate of Royal Holloway’s Poetic Practice MA and a founding member of the Crested Tit Collective E.P’s work can be found in the anthology Harpies (2018), Rewilding: An Eco Poetic Anthology (2020) and her debut collection Rituals will be published with Broken Sleep Books (2022). Her book work Splendid Stomach can be found in The Wellcome Collection, Senate House Library, and National Poetry Library. She is a big witchy weirdo inspired by folklore, contemporary and historical medicine, and crafts as a method for poetic generation.
Allie Kerper
Allie Kerper earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Gutter, Fly on the Wall, Neon and elsewhere. She lives in Edinburgh and works as an educational media editor. Twitter: @kerperplexed
Suzanne Lea
Suzanne Lea is a coffee drinking, bleeding-heart liberal, book-worm with an affinity for dark chocolate and swear words. She has been published in numerous ‘zines and journals, including the print anthologies, Crooked Letter i: Coming Out in the South, published by New South Books, Love Letters You’ll Never Read, from Gnashing Teeth Publishing, as well as the online journal, If You Choose Me, featured on Redheaded Stepchild Magazine.
Laurinda Lind
Laurinda Lind lives in the U.S. in New York State. Other poems are at Algebra of Owls, Bluepepper, Gone Lawn, moongarlic, Oxidant | Engine, Triggerfish, and Winedrunk Sidewalk.
J. Mitra
J. Mitra is a non-binary, British Indian punk poet based in East Yorkshire and is currently a student at the University of Manchester and freelance writer for Soundsphere magazine. She is also a part of The Writing Squad development programme and has been published in Beyond Words, Acumen Poetry and Push Magazine.
Michelle Moloney King
Michelle Moloney King is an experimental poet and artist. She has an honours degree in computer science, a post-grad in primary education and a diploma in Hypnotherapy. She has been published in Spillwords, Dream Journal, Artistic Differences Project, Babel Tower, amongst others and was nominated for a Pushcart in poetry. She is a Visual Artists Ireland member.
Her website: www.michellemoloneyking.wordpress.com
Jane Monach
Jane Monach was educated in Belfast and Dublin, worked in Canada, Australia and London before settling in Sheffield, where she writes and explores poetry with a number of local groups. She was active in a number of voluntary organisations, worked in further and higher education, social work, mental health, counselling and therapy; grew a family; enjoys, reading, music, travel, walking, and playing tennis.
Andrew Nightingale
Andrew Nightingale is currently working on a group of poems about the Anatomical Venus. His favourite poet at the moment is Clayton Eshleman. He lives in St Leonards-on-Sea and works for an animal welfare charity.
Michał Kamil Piotrowski
Michał Kamil Piotrowski is a London-based poet who writes mostly experimental, technology-powered, and visual poetry. He enjoys making poetry interactive and he mostly works with found text. His interactive book The Cursory Remix has been co-written by Google Translate and is available to read on issuu.com with a print version forthcoming from Contraband Books. His poetry will be exhibited at the Loudest Whispers 2021 online exhibition. Michał is the founder of artBLAB, the online series of relaxed talks about art and its whereabouts.
Winston Plowes
Winston Plowes shares his floating home in Calderdale UK with his seventeen-year-old cat, Sausage. He teaches creative writing in schools, universities and to local groups while she dreams of Mouseland. His latest collection, Tales from the Tachograph was published jointly with Gaia Holmes in 2018 by Calder Valley Poetry. www.winstonplowes.co.uk
Slawka G. Scarso
Slawka G. Scarso is a copywriter and translator based between Rome and Geneva. She has published several books on wine and a collection of crime stories for students of Italian as a foreign language. Her short stories in English have appeared in Mslexia, Spelk, Ellipsis Zine, and Constellate Magazine. She is currently polishing her first crime novel.
Twitter: @nanopausa
Gordon Sun
Gordon Sun is a surgeon exploring the intersections between healthcare and technology. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Please See Me, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, and other publications.
Ron Torrence
Ron Torrence published his first short story at age 50 and his first poem at age 80. Even so his fiction, non-fiction and poetry
is pretty widely published.
