Nick Gerrard writes Gritty realism or social realism or as he likes to say ‘Working-class kitchen sink drama!’ His short stories, flash, poetry and essays have appeared in various magazines and books in print and online. Nick has five books published available on Amazon and elsewhere. His latest short story collection is called Struggle and Strife; fifteen short stories covering the political and personal struggles of today, yesterday, and the future. The Anarchist… Tony was always an Anarchist. From the top hat down to his winkle pickers; he never conformed. He always did things his way and usually this way … Continue reading Nick Gerrard

Simon Heathcote is a psychotherapist who has developed a unique way of working, drawing on Jungian concepts, mysticism and archetypal psychology to help return clients to their essence or deep soul. He has been sex and love addiction therapist at The Priory Roehampton, England and senior practitioner of the Conde Nast award-winning The Arrigo Programme. His first career was in journalism. He is an award-winning writer, former newspaper editor and broadsheet travel writer. He has undergone a profound inner journey of meditation which he brings to his work. Simon trained at Broadway Lodge (Britain’s first specialist addiction treatment centre), studied … Continue reading Simon Heathcote

My name is Isabelle and I’m an English Literature student going into my fourth year at the University of St Andrews. I’ve been writing for a lot of my life but never really thought of it as poetry until a few years ago. stevie’s lullaby nobody knew her, the lost girl only ever seen stroking the hair of a young boy who spoke cardboard promises of love with her face turned away and a mouth full of lies, she lay not listening, but having nothing to say lonesome bird when he’d asked if she wanted to fly her wings stretched … Continue reading Isabelle Cory

Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories and poems have appeared in over two-hundred online and print publications. His short story “Aliens” has been nominated by The Zodiac Press for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. His collection of short stories Resilience is scheduled to be published in early 2021 by Bridge House Publishing and Short Stuff a collection of his flash fiction and drabbles will be published by Chapeltown books in 2021. In addition, Something Better, a dystopian adventure, will be published by Paper Djinn Press in early 2021. All of his stories can be found on his blog: www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com. … Continue reading Jim Bates

On returning from S.W. France to live in Northern Ireland, a retired teacher of twenty-six years, Mary Farrell joined her first Creative Writing Group in Flowerfield ArtsCentre in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, in 2017. At present, each week, shefacilitates two independent writing groups, Words Inc in Coleraine, and Sanderlingsin Portstewart called Sanderlings. A regular facilitator for Portglenone Writers, shealso co-ordinates a fourth Writing Group by Zoom for AsIam, an All-Ireland Charityfor Autistic Adults.    Previously a member of CIEP, The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading,UK, she is now in her second year as a member of the Judging Panel for the WeeklyCompetition run by the … Continue reading Mary Farrell – Biography

AND THE BENEFITS OF JOURNALS Books lead to other books. Read one and you’re reminded of something you read the other day. New material refers to past releases, either directly or in roundabout ways. 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 the name of compelling art. Pick up the trail and we end up making extraordinary connections. Welcome to Connection Degree Three … Kafka On The Shore… The Face Of Another… The White Castle. Three outlandish stories on the process of writing and the effect it … Continue reading ON THE FRAGILE DYNAMICS OF IDENTITY