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issue 67, featuring:
carl scharwath (cover) lindsey alimodian jana andrea miriam balanescu henry bladon nora blascsok zoe broome chiara crisafulli seth crook darren c. demaree deborah-zenha adams teo eve lucy hurst samantha fain mike james claire louise johnson kylie lohrenz beth longman declan lloyd joan mcnerney japhy mitchell j. d. nelson michael sutton a j ward nathan williams issue 68 - out august 2020
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biographies - issue 67
Lindsey Alimodian
Lindsey Alimodian is a Filipino writer living in England, who specialises in fantasy and romance. She's currently a
third year student studying Creative and Professional Writing with her most recent work being a 30-page fantasy screenplay.
Lindsey also had the opportunity to be a co-writer for the Murder Mystery Trail event, which was held at
Margate for the Being Human Festival 2019. As well as co-writing the script, she also played the role of a detective inspector,
aiding the audience to unravel the culprit's identity. In addition to novels, scripts and screenplays, Lindsey also writes poetry,
posting her poems on a dedicated Instagram account.
Jana Andrea
Jana Andrea is originally from Singapore and has been living in London for 4 years. She is studying for a BA in
English Literature & Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. She likes writing contemporary poetry about everyday things.
She is inspired by poets such as Emily Berry, Anthony Anaxagorou, and Jack Underwood. She has a cat named Zelda.
You can find her on Instagram: @petitebleuu or at: moodyshewrote.tumblr.com
Miriam Balanescu
Miriam Balanescu is a freelance journalist, illustrator and writer. Her short stories and prose poems have appeared
or are forthcoming in The Airgonaut, Polyglossia and Stand Magazine. Her journalism has been published in The Guardian,
The New Statesman and The Independent. She tweets from @BalanescuMiriam.
Henry Bladon
Henry is a writer of short fiction and poetry based in Somerset in the UK. He is the author of several poetry collections and
his work can be seen in a variety of places.
Nora Blascsok
Nora is a Hungarian writer and poet living in Brighton. She has work coming out on Cypress and Mineral Lit Mag in July,
as well as in a Broken Sleep Books anthology early next year. Nora has been writing poetry for four years and was selected
to take part in a mentoring scheme run by award-winning poet Dean Atta in 2019. She loves playing with words.
Zoe Broome
Zoe Broome is a Yorkshire based poet who is currently sheltering due to the coronavirus. Broome’s poetry collection,
Back To Yesterday was published by Three Drops Press. Broome has had poetry and prose published in the UK, the USA
and in Ireland. Broome enjoys making art, reading and playing board games. Broome's style tends towards the
experimental in format.
Chiara Crisafulli
Originally from Sicily (Italy), Chiara has experienced living in different countries including Ireland, Holland, Greece and
Canary Islands (Spain). Her poetry and travel writing has been previously published or is forthcoming in lascrittrice lit mag,
Uppagus, and Backpackers Travel Magazine. She's working at her first experimental poetry book and currently resides
in Lisbon (Portugal).
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal, lives on Mull. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi,
Firth, The Journal, The Interpreter's House. And in recent anthologies such as Port (Dunlin), Green Fields (Maytree), Declarations (Scotland Street). His concrete poems have appeared in Streetcake,
The Projectionist's Playground and a forthcoming anthology celebrating Edwin Morgan.
Darren C. Demaree
Darren C. Demaree is the author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently “So Clearly Beautiful”, (November 2019,
Adelaide Books). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from
Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the
Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Deborah-Zenha Adams
Deborah-Zenha Adams is an award-winning author, a naturalist, and the executive editor of a small regional press.
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's poetry has been included in 404 Ink Magazine
and Voices Poetry Blog; his short story 'To Be Seen' was one of the winners of the 20-25 category for Nottingham UNESCO
City of Literature's MyVoice competition. Teo is currently editing the second issue of Voices.
Samantha Fain
Samantha Fain is an undergraduate student studying creative writing at Franklin College. Her work has appeared in
Rattle Poets Respond, The Indianapolis Review, SWWIM, Utterance, and others. She tweets at @samcanliftacar.
Lucy Hurst
Lucy Hurst is a poet residing in Lincolnshire, and is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing at YSJ.
She specialises in queer and disabled poetics.
Mike James
Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee and has published widely. His many poetry collections
include: Journeyman’s Suitcase (Luchador), Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse),
First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places (Stubborn Mule), Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog),
My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle), and Peddler’s Blues (Main Street Rag.) He served as an associate editor of
The Kentucky Review and currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.
Claire Louise Johnson
Claire Louise Johnson is from Yorkshire and has spent the past three years travelling. A snowsports lover, she has been
chasing the snow in Canada and Australia. She cites John Cooper Clarke, Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith as her poetry heroes.
Claire can be found on Instagram at @lioncakee.
Declan Lloyd
Declan Lloyd is from Lytham St Annes in England, and is just about to finish his PhD in English Literature at
Lancaster University, where he also teaches undergraduates World Literature. He loves to escape from the world of
literary criticism by writing poetry and playing dungeons and dragons.
Kylie Lohrenz
Kylie Lohrenz is a senior Honors candidate in English and creative writing at Kenyon College, and studied abroad at the
University of Exeter. She writes auto-theoretical poetry that explores lesbian trauma through the application of queer
trauma theory into experimental forms. She has worked as a Student Associate at The Kenyon Review for the past four years
and is the Head Press Poetry Editor at Sunset Press, an undergraduate-run independent publishing press based at Kenyon College. She is originally from Houston, Texas.
Beth Longman
Beth Longman is a freelance writer from Manchester, UK and EIC of Re-Side zine. You can find more of her writing
at her website: http://contentcactus.uk/
Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the
Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals,
and numerous Spectrum Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title, The Muse In Miniature, is available
on Amazon.com and Cyberwit.net. She has four Best of the Net nominations.
Japhy Mitchell
Japhy Mitchell is a poet and librarian who lives with his dog Tarkovsky. His poems have been published in several
print and online publications, including Spiralbridge, Scissors & Spackle, and The Legendary.
J. D. Nelson
J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words and sound in his subterranean laboratory. His poems have appeared in many
small press publications, in print and online. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City
(The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). Visit www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work.
Nelson lives in Colorado, USA.
Carl Scharwath
Carl Scharwath, has appeared globally with 150+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art photography (His photography was featured on the cover of 6 literary journals.) Two poetry books 'Journey To Become Forgotten' (Kind of a Hurricane Press).and 'Abandoned' (ScarsTv) have been published. His first photography book was recently published
by Praxis. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine, poetry editor for TL Publishing Group, a competitive runner and
2nd degree black- belt in Taekwondo.
Michael Sutton
Michael Sutton is a writer and artist based in Liverpool. The work published here is from his poetry collection 'music/lyrics'
out 17th July from Hesterglock Press. He is the winner of the 2019 Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize.
AJ Ward
Anthony chooses to write because he has no choice. He writes in order to rid himself and lay his thoughts to rest. He derives
most of his inspiration from listening to Classical Music and Jazz since it is often the mood which invokes him.
He has recently had work included at Shot Glass Journal and Mad Swirl after a lengthy hiatus from writing.
Nathan Williams
Influenced largely from post modern American movements such as The Beat Generation and The New York School of Poets,
Nathan attempts to translate working class sentiments, struggles and philosophies. He enjoys exploring relationships between context, semantics, language and page space, with an emphasis on slang and working class Northern dialect.
Lindsey Alimodian
Lindsey Alimodian is a Filipino writer living in England, who specialises in fantasy and romance. She's currently a
third year student studying Creative and Professional Writing with her most recent work being a 30-page fantasy screenplay.
Lindsey also had the opportunity to be a co-writer for the Murder Mystery Trail event, which was held at
Margate for the Being Human Festival 2019. As well as co-writing the script, she also played the role of a detective inspector,
aiding the audience to unravel the culprit's identity. In addition to novels, scripts and screenplays, Lindsey also writes poetry,
posting her poems on a dedicated Instagram account.
Jana Andrea
Jana Andrea is originally from Singapore and has been living in London for 4 years. She is studying for a BA in
English Literature & Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. She likes writing contemporary poetry about everyday things.
She is inspired by poets such as Emily Berry, Anthony Anaxagorou, and Jack Underwood. She has a cat named Zelda.
You can find her on Instagram: @petitebleuu or at: moodyshewrote.tumblr.com
Miriam Balanescu
Miriam Balanescu is a freelance journalist, illustrator and writer. Her short stories and prose poems have appeared
or are forthcoming in The Airgonaut, Polyglossia and Stand Magazine. Her journalism has been published in The Guardian,
The New Statesman and The Independent. She tweets from @BalanescuMiriam.
Henry Bladon
Henry is a writer of short fiction and poetry based in Somerset in the UK. He is the author of several poetry collections and
his work can be seen in a variety of places.
Nora Blascsok
Nora is a Hungarian writer and poet living in Brighton. She has work coming out on Cypress and Mineral Lit Mag in July,
as well as in a Broken Sleep Books anthology early next year. Nora has been writing poetry for four years and was selected
to take part in a mentoring scheme run by award-winning poet Dean Atta in 2019. She loves playing with words.
Zoe Broome
Zoe Broome is a Yorkshire based poet who is currently sheltering due to the coronavirus. Broome’s poetry collection,
Back To Yesterday was published by Three Drops Press. Broome has had poetry and prose published in the UK, the USA
and in Ireland. Broome enjoys making art, reading and playing board games. Broome's style tends towards the
experimental in format.
Chiara Crisafulli
Originally from Sicily (Italy), Chiara has experienced living in different countries including Ireland, Holland, Greece and
Canary Islands (Spain). Her poetry and travel writing has been previously published or is forthcoming in lascrittrice lit mag,
Uppagus, and Backpackers Travel Magazine. She's working at her first experimental poetry book and currently resides
in Lisbon (Portugal).
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal, lives on Mull. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi,
Firth, The Journal, The Interpreter's House. And in recent anthologies such as Port (Dunlin), Green Fields (Maytree), Declarations (Scotland Street). His concrete poems have appeared in Streetcake,
The Projectionist's Playground and a forthcoming anthology celebrating Edwin Morgan.
Darren C. Demaree
Darren C. Demaree is the author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently “So Clearly Beautiful”, (November 2019,
Adelaide Books). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from
Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the
Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Deborah-Zenha Adams
Deborah-Zenha Adams is an award-winning author, a naturalist, and the executive editor of a small regional press.
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's poetry has been included in 404 Ink Magazine
and Voices Poetry Blog; his short story 'To Be Seen' was one of the winners of the 20-25 category for Nottingham UNESCO
City of Literature's MyVoice competition. Teo is currently editing the second issue of Voices.
Samantha Fain
Samantha Fain is an undergraduate student studying creative writing at Franklin College. Her work has appeared in
Rattle Poets Respond, The Indianapolis Review, SWWIM, Utterance, and others. She tweets at @samcanliftacar.
Lucy Hurst
Lucy Hurst is a poet residing in Lincolnshire, and is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing at YSJ.
She specialises in queer and disabled poetics.
Mike James
Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee and has published widely. His many poetry collections
include: Journeyman’s Suitcase (Luchador), Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse),
First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places (Stubborn Mule), Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog),
My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle), and Peddler’s Blues (Main Street Rag.) He served as an associate editor of
The Kentucky Review and currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.
Claire Louise Johnson
Claire Louise Johnson is from Yorkshire and has spent the past three years travelling. A snowsports lover, she has been
chasing the snow in Canada and Australia. She cites John Cooper Clarke, Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith as her poetry heroes.
Claire can be found on Instagram at @lioncakee.
Declan Lloyd
Declan Lloyd is from Lytham St Annes in England, and is just about to finish his PhD in English Literature at
Lancaster University, where he also teaches undergraduates World Literature. He loves to escape from the world of
literary criticism by writing poetry and playing dungeons and dragons.
Kylie Lohrenz
Kylie Lohrenz is a senior Honors candidate in English and creative writing at Kenyon College, and studied abroad at the
University of Exeter. She writes auto-theoretical poetry that explores lesbian trauma through the application of queer
trauma theory into experimental forms. She has worked as a Student Associate at The Kenyon Review for the past four years
and is the Head Press Poetry Editor at Sunset Press, an undergraduate-run independent publishing press based at Kenyon College. She is originally from Houston, Texas.
Beth Longman
Beth Longman is a freelance writer from Manchester, UK and EIC of Re-Side zine. You can find more of her writing
at her website: http://contentcactus.uk/
Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the
Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals,
and numerous Spectrum Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title, The Muse In Miniature, is available
on Amazon.com and Cyberwit.net. She has four Best of the Net nominations.
Japhy Mitchell
Japhy Mitchell is a poet and librarian who lives with his dog Tarkovsky. His poems have been published in several
print and online publications, including Spiralbridge, Scissors & Spackle, and The Legendary.
J. D. Nelson
J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words and sound in his subterranean laboratory. His poems have appeared in many
small press publications, in print and online. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City
(The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). Visit www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work.
Nelson lives in Colorado, USA.
Carl Scharwath
Carl Scharwath, has appeared globally with 150+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art photography (His photography was featured on the cover of 6 literary journals.) Two poetry books 'Journey To Become Forgotten' (Kind of a Hurricane Press).and 'Abandoned' (ScarsTv) have been published. His first photography book was recently published
by Praxis. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine, poetry editor for TL Publishing Group, a competitive runner and
2nd degree black- belt in Taekwondo.
Michael Sutton
Michael Sutton is a writer and artist based in Liverpool. The work published here is from his poetry collection 'music/lyrics'
out 17th July from Hesterglock Press. He is the winner of the 2019 Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize.
AJ Ward
Anthony chooses to write because he has no choice. He writes in order to rid himself and lay his thoughts to rest. He derives
most of his inspiration from listening to Classical Music and Jazz since it is often the mood which invokes him.
He has recently had work included at Shot Glass Journal and Mad Swirl after a lengthy hiatus from writing.
Nathan Williams
Influenced largely from post modern American movements such as The Beat Generation and The New York School of Poets,
Nathan attempts to translate working class sentiments, struggles and philosophies. He enjoys exploring relationships between context, semantics, language and page space, with an emphasis on slang and working class Northern dialect.
