Sheena was born in a small town in Northern Ireland and went to University in Dublin. She spent five great years in Liverpool and has now lived in Nottingham, longer than anywhere else. She worked as a Radiologist in Grantham, Lincolnshire for 22 years, and since retirement has been writing, mostly poetry but really anything – except radiology reports. She completed her BA in English Lit. with the OU in 2016. She loves words and images, but also mountains, bogs, beaches, (she goes to Kerry in the West of Ireland for all those) birds and clouds, which luckily she can … Continue reading Sheena Bradley

Linnet Phoenix is a poet who currently resides in North Somerset, England. She has been writing poetry for years. Her work has previously been published in several places online and in print, including: Impspired Magazine, Poetica Review, Fearless, New Verse News, Rusty Truck, Rye Whiskey Review, Punk Noir, Opens Skies, Heroin Love Songs and others. Her first poetry chapbook ‘Rusty Stars’ is published by Between Shadows Press. Her first full collection ‘Urban Mustang’ will be published by Impspired summer 2021. She has work coming up in Rust Belt Review, Gasconade Review and in Cultural Weekly in December 2021. She also … Continue reading Linnet Phoenix

I am a housewife from India, mother of two boys, aged 12 and 11. I have a master’s degree in English literature. Till my boys were born I worked in various sectors of BPOs as motor claims and health insurance handler and was also content writer for simulation management entrance examination papers in the field of deductive logic and reasoning in English. I have also worked for a short term in the hospitality industry as a receptionist at a five-star hotel, while awaiting results of my English honours examination.  I love life, like tumbling headfirst into it, and then doing … Continue reading Amrita Valan

With a passion for the geological processes that shape the earth and the stories that shape our lives, Weston expresses herself in poetry, non-fiction, and photography (www.volcanoes.com). She completed an MFA in Creative Writing in creative non-fiction from Lesley University in 2008 and has studied the craft of poetry with Richard Blanco, Kevin Pilkington, and Ellen Bass. In January 2020 Meg retired after 8 years as President of Maine Media College, where she established The Writers Harbor® program to complement media arts curricula in photography, filmmaking, and book arts. She is the co-founder of The Poets Corner www.thepoetscorner.org. Meg led businesses in … Continue reading Meg Weston

Lynne Schmidt is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. She is the winner of the 2020 New Women’s Voices Contest and author of the chapbooks, Dead Dog Poems (Finishing Line Press), Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press) which was listed as one of the 17 Best Breakup Books to Read in 2020, and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West), which was featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week.In 2012 she started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne … Continue reading Lynne Schmidt

Music leads to more music. Listen to a song and you’re reminded of another. New releases refer to past ones, famous and obscure. Styles cross over, involving similar motifs, treatments, themes. Musicians lift, pay tribute, re-imagine, claim as their own and take it a step further in their effort to tell gripping, original stories. Pick up the trail and we end up making extraordinary connections. Welcome to Connection Degree Three … The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. The Original Four Seasons And The Devil’s Trill Sonata by Vanessa-Mae. Requiem For A Dream (OST) by Clint Mansell … Three sweeping  albums/compositions by … Continue reading ON THE FLOW OF THE SEASONS

Books lead to other books. Read one and you’re reminded of another. New publications refer to past ones, famous and obscure. Genres cross over, involving similar concepts, tropes, devices. Writers lift, pay tribute, re-imagine, claim as their own and take it a step further in their effort to tell gripping, original stories. Pick up the trail and we end up making extraordinary connections. Welcome to Connection Degree Three … The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is the story of a respectable public servant in pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russia. The story examines Ilyich’s life on the backdrop of a progressive … Continue reading ON GOING DEEP TO KNOW OURSELVES

My dad had a Toyota Catharsis and it was a terrible ride, so I write for the simple reason that writing is easy, writing is a bumpless road paved with good inflections… once you don’t concern yourself with quality… or critique… or self-awareness… manage that, and writing is easy, honestly, so simple that even I can do it. Plays are hard though, as in technically, as in remembering who said what and to whom, that sort of thing, and poems, poems are hard, not just the rhyming, but the non-rhyming ones as well, and novels, they are sooooooo long and … Continue reading Robbie Taylor

I am a poet of people and place; the transient and the eternal. I make:  – home, faith, work, words and dinner. Itchy preacher, always Mama. Independent organiser for High Street Poetry: signposting you to the best of local poetry and spoken word. I live in Ely in Cambridgeshire with my family, where I’m part of the Fen Speak team – running Elys main poetry night. Someone invited me once and this is where it led.I have been published previously by: Allographic, Edgewords, Periwinkle Literary Magazine and a piece of mine will be on Idle Ink in the next month. … Continue reading Beth Hartley

Carson Pytell is a Pushcart nominated writer living outside Albany, NY whose work has appeared widely online and in print, including in Ethel Zine, Perceptions Magazine, Rabid Oak, Backchannels and White Wall Review, among others. He is Assistant Editor of the journal Coastal Shelf and participated in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project in December 2020. His first two chapbooks, First-Year (Alien Buddha Press, 2020) and Trail (Guerrilla Genesis Press, 2020), are now available and his third, The Gold That Stays (Cyberwit Publishing, 2021) is forthcoming. Must as Madeleine Cakes You couldn’t imagine the length of you: millisecond heavier than a … Continue reading Carson Pytell