Maggie Mackay loves family history, winding it into lyrical poems published in print and online journals e.g., Ink, Sweat &Tears, Prole, Spelt, Southlight and in several anthologies, including ‘MeToo’ and ‘Bloody Amazing!’, both winners of Sabotage awards. In 2018 her pamphlet ‘The Heart of the Run’ was published by Picaroon Poetry and her full collection ‘A West Coast Psalter’, Kelsay Books in the New Year, 2021. The Poetry Archive WordView 2020 competition awarded her poem ‘How to Distil a Guid Scotch Malt’ a place in the permanent collection. She is a MA poetry graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University and a reviewer … Continue reading Maggie MacKay

Beginning writing in 2017 on her return to Northern Ireland from living in France , Mary Farrell is the Facilitator of two Creative Writing groups in Northern Ireland and presents regular Courses for the North Coast Writing Group. She has had both prose and Poetry published. Highly Commended in the Bangor Journal Poetry competition in 2018, she was also published in the 2019 CAP Poetry Anthology ‘Find’, Also that year she had two short stories aired on BBC Ulster Radio on the programme ‘Time of our Lives’ and was interviewed on the programme about her Creative Writing. In 2018/19 she presented … Continue reading Mary Farrell

Niall Lynch was born in Oslo, Norway and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the Arctic Circle.  He has worked in software development for 35 years, though he has always had a vocation to be a writer, and has always written in his spare time.  He moved to Palm Desert in 2018, where he now has a lot more spare time. The Leaf Blowers I shriek at the day and it answers me with silence, she thought.  No, not silence exactly.  But the sound of a nickel that you dropped, that you dropped so exactly that it begins to spin, and … Continue reading Niall Lynch

Peter Glazebrook is a retired Civil Servant who spends his time writing books, tending beehives and hillwalking. He has previously been published in Anthology 2020 and Horror magazine. He has been a semi finalist in the Writers of the Future competition. The Kitchen Sally opened the office door and said in a stern voice, “Tom, come in here please!” Tom started guiltily. The other kitchen assistant stifled a giggle at his discomfort. When the Executive Chef, known as the EC, was away Sally had started to examine his work closely. Any small mistake and he was called in for a … Continue reading Peter Glazebrook

I am a newly published poet and author of the book, Cosmic Poetry From Darkness Comes Light. I write from the perspective of a broken and mended mind. My approach is to find the light and dark in all things and then the beauty in the balance of those energies. I pull my inspiration from my personal and daily experiences. I hope to connect with people from all walks of life by way of the source that connects every single one of us in existence. My poetry can range from abstract and based in the beautiful things of life to … Continue reading Joe Mykut

Margaret‘s 1st poetry collection ‘Fording The Stream’ appeared Sept 2017 under the pen name Jessica De Guyat. She was shortlisted for the Bangor Literary Festival and Crowvus poetry prizes in 2018 and her poems have appeared online, in journals and anthologies, most recently Hedgehog Poetry Press, The Blue Nib, Impspired and forthcoming in Sarasvati. May 2020 saw the publication of her memoir of childhood ‘The Road to Cleethorpes Pier,’ a Haibun fusion of prose and poetry. In July 2020 she won Hedgehog Press’ Full Fat collection competition and ‘Where Flora Sings,’ was published November 2020. Earth Magicke was published by impspired … Continue reading Margaret Royall

Sheila’s writing style can best be categorized as Visual Poetry, blending emotion and vision into a poem or story of color. Her poems and short stories are featured at Spillwords Publications, Literary Yard,  Sweety Cat  Press Anthology, I, The Writer, and Youtube Poetica2 series, cafelitmagazine .uk and Clarendon House Publications  Anthology Poetica 2 and 3. On Migrating to America Migrating to America In the age of Aquarius Envisioning the best from the Land of opportunity where it’s been said Streets are paved in gold Everyone has a white picket fence and A Chevrolet too The corner hop served burgers and fries Soda … Continue reading Sheila Henry

Tanya Farrelly is the author of three books: a short fiction collection When Black Dogs Sing (Arlen House), which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and named winner of the Kate O’ Brien Award 2017, and two novels: The Girl Behind the Lens and When Your Eyes Close (Harper Collins). She holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Bangor University, Wales, and teaches at numerous institutions, including the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, and the People’s College. She is the founder and director of Bray Literary Festival and has recently been appointed Writer-in-Residence at NUIG. Her second short story collection Nobody Needs to Know is … Continue reading Tanya Farrelly

Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary. Earlier books: (szellem)válaszok, A Nap és Holderők egyensúlya . New: Kiterített rókabőr.  English poems published: Quail Bell Magazine, Lumin Journal, Moonchild Magazine, Scum Gentry Magazine, Pussy Magic, The Zen Space, Crêpe & Penn, Briars Lit, Acclamation Point, Truly U, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Lots of Light Literary Foundation, Honey Mag, Theta Wave, Re-side, Cape Magazine, Neuro Logical, The Daily Drunk Mag, Unpublishable Zine, Melbourne Culture Corner, Beir Bua Journal, Crown & Pen, Dead Fern Press, Coven Poetry Journal, Journal of Erato, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillover Magazine, Punk Noir, All Ears (India), Utsanga (Italy), Postscript Magazine (United Arab Emirates), The International Zine Project (France), Swala Tribe … Continue reading Lazlo Aranyi

Dr Arthur Broomfield is a poet and Beckett scholar from County Laois, Ireland. His work has been published in Acumen, Agenda, Orbis, North and in the US, Ireland and India. He has been writing Surrealist poetry for the past two years, inspired by the English surrealist poet Hilda Sheehan and by the writings of Andre Breton. Meditating to Miles You turn your palms to Sirius, under your head a blithe pillow. Eyes closed. Drapes defy the birdchat of a spring morning. Strains of ‘Round About Midnight’ bidden by your breathing. You who know so little know it’s Miles on trumpet, … Continue reading Dr. Arthur Broomfield