D A Angelo (he/him) is a UK-based poet with work in Literary Yard, Rabid Oak, Bluehouse Journal and several other journals. He enjoys reading, movies and enjoying the city he lives in. Idle Foxes Idle foxes spinning away their lives on a playground’s merry-go-round. Idle foxes napping under a football pitch’s sodium light. Idle foxes gawping at wild blackberries ripening like the night. Idle foxes scrapping in bus stop dens. Idle foxes shagging in back gardens while a voyeuristic moon watches. Idle foxes bag snatching away from the glare of hawk-eyed CCTV. Idle foxes coming home to tea, to breathe, … Continue reading D A Angelo

Dr. Matteo Preabianca is a distinguished multilingual expert in global education, language teaching, training, translation, and related methodologies. With a PhD in Education and Socio-Educational Interventions Research, they have contributed significantly to the field. Their teaching experience spans across universities in Australia and China, where they have shared their expertise and knowledge with students from diverse backgrounds. Beyond academia,Matteo has also amassed extensive practical experience as a languages teacher, translator, and writer in various regions around the world. They have worked in North America, Europe, Russia, Australia, and Asia, showcasing their adaptability and cross-cultural competence. Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) and … Continue reading Dr,. Matteo Preabianca

Glenis has been writing poetry since the beginning of the first Covid lockdown rather than take up baking. She does most of her writing at night as she suffers from severe insomnia. When she is not writing poetry she makes beaded jewellery, reads, cycles and sometimes runs 10K races slowly.  She lives near Cambridge, Uk in the flat lands of the Fens with three cats and her long-suffering partner. Chocolate biscuits Disabled by arthritis, grandmother slept downstairs in what had been the front room. She spent her days in a tall padded chair picking horse racing winners and chatting with … Continue reading Glenis Moore

Mark Schueler is a writer and musician from London.   Born on 5th September 1985, Schueler grew up in the London Borough of Harrow.  Schueler graduated from UEA in 2007 with a BA (Hons) degree in History.  He is currently writing several novels as well as a memoir and regularly writes poems and songs, including lyrics and guitar parts.   He previously formed and played guitar in the covers band, The Vagabonds and the indie rock band Vargas.  His favourite writers are Chrisopher Hitchens, John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac.   His favourite musicians include Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, The Strokes … Continue reading Mark Schueler

Stephen Mead is an Outsider multi-media artist and writer.  Since the 1990s he’s been grateful to many editors for publishing his work in print zines and eventually online.  Recently his work has appeared in CROW NAME, WORDPEACE and DuckuckMongoose. Currently he is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and allies predominantly before Stonewall, The Chroma Museum – The Chroma Museum (weebly.com) Longing Water remembers rain, the pooling, the stippling, the surface, the current… It’s like this your face searches, yearns for familiar fingers. They read the skin like a safe cracker, kept the secret code. … Continue reading Stephen Mead

Bio coming soon… About the Garden       She carves the scented air in curves of sleight, in fact, indefatigable delight. Demurely she dallies about the thyme, and gathering her phlox with care; loosestrife runs rife, relents everywhere. She attends the tendrils throughout the vines and thoroughly thins the burgeoning fruit that’s trellis-hung, to stir the deepest root. Ah! She walks in grace, gracefully sublime, threading an oh so easy pace in arcs, inclined along the lines where heart’s-ease hems the skirted rows. Look there! a gossamer-gowned goddess shows about the yard, her arms florally bent along the arbor’s rose-filled scent. Then … Continue reading Jonathan Kinsman

Leonie Jarrett lives in Melbourne, Australia with her Husband of more than 3 decades, her 4 adult children and her 2 Golden Retrievers.  Leonie has variously been a lawyer and a business owner. Now that she is semi-retired, Leonie is loving writing about her life, her travels and her experiences together with writing poetry and fictional stories. The Teacher who Hates her Students Lunch duty was over and Melinda Richards was on the warpath again. She had had to referee a dispute amongst a few catty Year 6 girls and retrieve a footy kicked into a tree. Seriously, was this her … Continue reading Leonie Jarrett

Céline Tcheng is an avid explorer of human connections. Her diverse journey across Europe and Asia through yoga, meditation, facilitation, and literature has honed her understanding of meaningful relationships, be it with the self, others or the world. With this multifaceted wisdom, she sets forth on a literary voyage to articulate the essence of connection in a world teeming with untold stories. You can follow her on Instagram @celine.tcheng or Twitter @celine_writes. baguette & butter Meilan ‘Ahma’ to her descendants eighty-two and counting according to the Christian calendar eighty-three and counting according to her and the Chinese calendar the counting messed up her eightieth … Continue reading Céline Tcheng

Rebecca Watkins holds an MFA in poetry and an MSed from the City University of New York. Her poems have appeared in Sin Fronteras, New Feather’s Anthology, The Roanoke Review, Anderbo among other literary journals. Her creative nonfiction has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Awards. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Field Guide to Forgiveness (Finishing Line Press 2023) and Sometimes, in These Places (Unsolicited Press 2017). Rebecca is a writer and educator based in Nyack, New York. Repairing   My dad came home with holes the size of cigarette burns in his T-shirts from chemicals. Later, when it was a factory he owned, although he was not a young … Continue reading Rebecca Watkins