www.sighming.com.
Bobby Larsson
I was born in Sweden in 1980. I now live in Durham and work as a primary school teacher. I have a BA in pedagogy from Stockholm and a diploma in Creative Writing from Skurup, Sweden. I´m currently working on a children´s novel, among other things.
Samantha Ledger
As a photographer I am constantly intrigued by the contrast between the lives that we promote and the lives that we feel compelled to hide. Using blank and white as a core of my photography allows the image to be stark in its beauty and honest with its truth. The nature of cross dressing to enable a body to become either feminine or masculine compels me to capture the essence of that person in both forms and analyse through the imagination which "persona" has the stronger presence. Further works of photography can be found at: www.myspace.com/funky_music_art
Vikki Littlemore
Vikki Littlemore is 23, from Cheshire and studying English and Creative Writing at Chester University.
Vanessa Austin Locke
Vanessa, 25, has had one collection of poetry published entitled This Was The Start (PublishAmerica, 2005) and has worked as a writer and editor on national magazines, books and journals for five years. She has a masters' degree in Writing and Authorship from Sussex University and has been accepted for doctorial study in Creative Writing, also at Sussex University where she will specialise in Writing as Mourning. She lives in Brighton, East Sussex, where she is currently working on her debut novel.
Mike Lyne
Mike Lyne was born in 1967, grew up in Ireland and moved to Germany in my twenties where he has lived since. A childhood in Ireland provided memories of a particularly poetic quality but adult experiences were the trigger to begin writing.
Aine MacAodha
My name is Aine MacAodha from Omagh in N. Ireland and my work has been published in TTQ, Arabesque Review, Haiku Ireland, Argotistonline. I have also had published a first collection of poems titled, 'where the there rivers meet' and I am working on a second. I am also an avid photographer with a fondness for old celtic burial sites, I have lived in Omagh all my life and have three grown up children.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1188920.Aine_MacAodha
http://ainemacaodha.webs.com/index.htm
Jonathan Mackenzie
I consider myself to be an old fashioned poet for a modern age. I work almost exclusively in metred verse simply because I adore the euphonious rhythmic quality it provides.
I am as likely to write on the age old theme of love as I am to compose a sonnet about e-mail, a triolet about jellyfish or a villanelle about the wombles. I simply adore formal poetry and believe it should be given more respect by those who govern the publishing of modern poetry books and wonder why their books are not selling very many copies. I believe that giving more respect to formal verse IS the answer. Furthermore, it might encourage more people to master form which I believe is essential in order to write free verse.
I am currently working on a collection entitled Free Verse is an Oxymoron (Formal verse is tautology) which no doubt I will have to publish myself but I am happy to do so because it is not aimed at an academic market - the intention is to sell books! I have completed my first script which I hope to sell as a radio play in 2009 and recently I set up a group on myspace called The Poetry Academy - a forum for writers of all abilities I also provide poetry workshops for beginners on my blog plus feature examples of various formal styles.
http://myspace.com/freeverseisanoxymoron
http://groups.myspace.com/poetryacademy
Chris Major
Chris lives in Stoke, where he works as a staff nurse. Poetry in 100 plus UK mags including Poetry Nottingham, Outposts, Pennine Platform, Sepia, Poetry Monthly etc. Googling his name should bring up a number of ezines his work is in. Free to download Echap book of concrete/visual poetry- http://www.whyvandalism.com (under Echapbooks)
Robert Marsland
Robert Marsland is the editor of Essence poetry magazine and had his first collection of poems out last year from Ettrick Forest Press entitled "Earth. Fire, Air and Water". He lives in Glasgow's southside and has worked for a long time in the voluntary sector - currently at Oxfam books and music. He has a strong interest in astrology and philosophy and art, music and literature. He has a degree in philosophy from Glasgow University and is known to enjoy the odd libation now and then.
Mandy Maxwell
Mandy Maxwell, Scottish poet currently living and working in the Newcastle area. Originally from Glasgow, has taken her work to the lively literary scene in the North East. Completing a Masters degree in Creative Writing at Newcastle University and exploring poetry from page to performance. Previous publications include SQA Scotland and Northern Lines.
Richie McCaffery
Richie was born in Newcastle, 1986. His work has appeared in Magma, Poetry Scotland and Pomegranate and is forthcoming in Envoi, Horizon Review and Succour. In 2009 he was the recipient of an Edwin Morgan Poetry Bursary which allowed him to tour the Hebrides, writing along the way whenever he felt inspired. He lives in Edinburgh and works as a factotum for Chapman publishing. Later this year he'll start his PhD on the poetry of Andrew Young, R S Thomas and Geoffrey Hill.
Colin McGuire
A thin 26 year old Glaswegian man, touch giddy in the head, sometimes poet of mangled form and dirty prose, sporadic drummer, drunken grammarian, waffler, painter using crayons, lover, hater, learner, teacher, pedestrian, provocateur, wanderer, confronter of shadows, irritating whine.
David McLean
David McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since 1987. He lives there on an island in the Stockholm archipelago with a woman, five selfish cats and a stupid dog. He has a BA in History from Oxford, and an unconnected MA in philosophy, much later, from Stockholm. Details of his available books, chapbooks, and over 850 poems in or forthcoming at 370 places online or in print over the last couple of years, are at his blog at http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com. He never submits by snail mail since he has little money and since he loves, or at least doesn't have anything against, trees. Among things forthcoming is a chapbook called 'nobody wants to go to heaven but everybody wants to die' from Poptritus Press in summer 2009 sometime. Early 2010 an anthology called 'laughing at funerals' will be appearing with Epic Rites Publications, there's also a 50 poem chapbook from Epic Rites called 'hellbound' which is appearing July 2009. For Epic Rites he edits the chapbook series and the e-zines 'lines written w/ a razor' and 'the thin edge of staring', as well as selecting work for the radio network.
Dave Migman
I'm a writer from Scotland currently living in Greece.
Alan Morrison
Alan Morrison b. 1974. Poetry first appeared in Don't Think of Tigers (Do Not Press, 2001). Three chapbooks followed plus his acclaimed play for voices, Picaresque (2005). Two volumes: The Mansion Gardens (Paula Brown, 2006) and A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (Waterloo, 2009) both highly praised in journals such as The London Magazine, Other Poetry, The Journal and the Morning Star; the latter shortlisted for the Purple Patch Best Individual Small Press Collection. Appearances in over 30 journals worldwide, including The London Magazine, Poetry Salzburg, Poetry Monthly and Stand (2010). His book-length narrative poem, Keir Hardie Street is forthcoming from Smokestack (Feb 2010). Morrison is poet-in-residence at Mill View Psychiatric Hospital, a mentor for Creative Future, and editor of the Recusant.
www.alanmorrison.co.uk
www.therecusant.org.uk
Jessica Maxwell-Muller
My name is Jessica Maxwell-Muller and I have been writing poetry for just over a year now. I am 19 years old and live in Buckinghamshire. I am currently studying Business Management at the University of Winchester. I write on a wide range of topics, and I am not always happy with the end result, but I do feel some of my work is quite good and I wish to improve. A lot of my poems are on animals as I have 4 cats and one dog.
Xi Nan
Xi Nan, official name Nanxi Huang, female, post-80s generation, Chinese independent writer living in London; Graduated in MSc in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Started writing since middle school; Three years experience in Chinese media industry as a reporter and an editor. Xi Nan started bilingual writing in early 2010.
Xi Nans work includes literary creations, commentaries on current affairs, and news reports. Her work has appeared widely in varied Chinese-language media in both the UK and China, including BBC UKChina, China News Service, Nanfang Daily, Yangcheng Evening News, EU Chinese Journal, and UK Chinese Times, etc.
In early 2010, Xi Nan was elected Vice Chief of the Wenxin world-Chinese Literary Association, UK bureau.
Xi Nan's Blog: http://writer-xinan.spaces.live.com/
Xi Nan's Website: http://www.xi-nan.com
Gregory Norminton
Gregory Norminton is an Edinburgh-based writer with four novels published by Sceptre; the most recent, Serious Things, appeared earlier last year.
Helen Overell
Helen Overell attends seminars and workshops organized by The Poetry School. Her poems appear in several magazines including Staple, Other
Poetry and The Interpreter's House. Her first collection 'Inscapes & Horizons' is published by St Albert's Press.
Lars Palm
Lars Palm lives in Malmö where he works too much for too little pay. He's the author of a few chapbooks, among them some hay (Meritage Press Tiny Book Series, 2007) & mispell (ungovernable press, 2008). He spent a few hours in Glasgow when he was but a wee shite.
Janine Pinion
Janine Pinion is based in Wirral, Merseyside. She moved to Liverpool from Belfast in the late 1970s to study at Liverpool College of Art, and has been involved in the arts since then, both as a poet and artist and later in counselling and art therapy. She has exhibited in the North West and in Ireland and founded the Acorn Gallery (now The Egg) in Liverpool in 1984. She now works in education and mental health."I like the intensity and mystery of both reading and writing poems, though I still produce artwork for enjoyment, exhibitions or commissions for book covers etc. I've been published in magazines and anthologies, involved in collaborative projects, and broadcast on radio. My first pamphlet was published in 2003."
Steve Porter
After leaving the International Red Star Hostel in 2006, Steven Porter stowed himself away in a suitcase and made the 24-hour journey across Spain from Barcelona Nord bus station to A Coruña. Now recovered from the ordeal, he still lives in A Coruña. Currently seeking a publisher for a recently finished fictional memoir which combines his Moray Firth childhood with his translator alter ego. Steve is the author of 'The Iberian Horseshoe - A Journey' which can be downloaded from Barcelona-based http://www.badosa.com/ and a chapbook of poetry, Shellfish and Umbrellas (Koo Press, Aberdeen). Short stories and flash fiction have been published by Laura Hird, Parasitic, Dogmatika, Bad Marmalade and Lit Up. His translations of Brazilian flash fiction writers have been published by 3:AM Magazine.
Les Prescott
Les Prescott was born in Glasgow. He has toured as a songwriter extensively in Europe with various bands. His songs have been recorded by himself and other artists in Europe and beyond. He worked with Cabuwazi Theatre Circus and has had exibitions of his drawings in Berlin. He has published his poetry in various journals and magazines including Cannon's Mouth, Innesfree Poetry Journal, Bar Fax, Argitost Online, Aufenthalt, Collagen einer Stadt, Type Poetry Review.
He lives in a cottage on Reiswerder, a tiny island on a loch in Berlin.
Gillian Prew
Gillian Prew is a mother of two living in Scotland. She has a philosophy degree and a succession of low-paid, menial jobs to her credit. Having abandoned her first novel she currently writes poetry. She has been published online at 10K Poets and Eviscerator Heaven, and currently appears in the summer issue of Up the Staircase.
Colin Rennie
Colin Rennie, 45, was born in Aberdeen and now lives in London. He is currently finishing off a creative writing course with the Open University. Although he has been writing for a number of years he is only just beginning to come out of his shell and is of the firm belief that poetry should be shared and performed rather than collecting dust in private notebooks. He has recently been published in Brittle Star.
Carolyn Richardson
Carolyn Richardson is a writer, painter and Senior Lecturer at the University of Cumbria. She reviews poetry titles and interviews literary figures for a variety of literary magazines, and has been a judge of a regional round of a Radio 4 Poetry Slam. She is the Organiser of the Poetry Societys Stanza group in Cumbria and is currently busy supervising PhD creative writing students while continuing with her own writing. Her recent publications include work in "Spring" (Gatehouse Press,2009), American Mythville Vol 15 and has work in progress for Red Squirrel Press.
Dee Rimbaud
Dee Rimbaud is an artist, writer, musician and occasional new age gypsy. He has recently returned to his native Scotland after a year of living mainly in a Mercedes 609d van with his partner and child, travelling round Britain, France, Spain & Portugal. He is author of two poetry collections, The Bad Seed (Stride, 1998) and Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels (Bluechrome, 2004); and one novel, Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God (Bluechrome, 2004). He edited the charity poetry anthology, The Book Of Hopes And Dreams (Bluechrome, 2006). He also edits The AA Independent Press Guide, a free online directory of magazines and publishers, hosted on his website alongside a host of useful writers' resources, as well as a port-folio of his art and a selection of his poetry. His art is frequently used in magazines and internet zines and has graced the book jackets of collections by Janet Buck, Rupert Loydell, Norman Jope and many others. Dee's art is now available on t-shirts, posters, cards and assorted gift items via his CafePress shop. His music can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/captainmelted
Anurag Rudra
I am nineteen, an undergraduate student currently pursuing my graduation in English Literature from Cotton College, Guwahati, India. Poetry is my passion and I've just started out on this long, meandering road. Other than poetry, fiction, magic realism, experimenting with cuisines and regional writings in English constitute the mainstay of my interests and activities. Though I've just started writing poetry, I've gotten published in journals like Kinaara: South East Asian Literary Magazine, Kritya: A journal of Poetry and Melange (The Sentinel). My poems try to address the question of multiple identity and introspective crises that arise within my creative consciousness, and I try to treat them in my own, unique way. As far as my activities are concerned, I spend most of my time sleeping, reading, writing poems, sitting on Chandmari flyover in my city, or on the banks of the Brahmaputra river. Writing is an obsession for me and I aspire to make a name for myself in the literary and poetic arena. I blog at www.anuragunplugged.blogspot.com and can be reached at anuragakarony@gmail.com.
Mairi Sharratt
Mairi Sharratt is a 30 year-old poet originally from the Black Isle, who now lives in Edinburgh, with her husband and 18 month-old daughter. She works part-time in Public Affairs and Public Relations. Mairi originally started in poetry as a performance poet, reaching the dizzying heights of performing at the Glastonbury Festival. After a break from performance she has started writing again, deciding to concentrate on page poetry - so far, with only a little success. Mairi is also an occasional guest blogger on One Night Stanzas and has been published on the Read This website.
Emily Smith
Emily Smith is a second year English Literature student at the University of East Anglia. She is the creator and co-editor of the online magazine, Sparkbright, which is just preparing to release its fourth issue. She splits her life between Norwich, London, and her home town of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, and seems to spend an ever-increasing amount of time on trains.
Kenneth Steven
Kenneth Steven is first and foremost a poet; Saint Andrew Press have just brought out his selected poems, Island. But over the last few years he has been writing more short fiction; in 2010 Argyll will publish a first volume of his work, The Ice and other stories. He lives in Dunkeld and travels widely to give readings and writing workshops for both adults and youngsters alike.
www.kennethsteven.co.uk
Bethan Townsend
Bethan Townsend is 21 and plans to stay that way for the rest of her life. She lives in North West England but changes location too frequently to pinpoint a particular 'home'. She is still (unfortunately) a student but doesn't like to admit this and in an ideal world she'd be based in Ireland writing for a living. Her favourite writers are Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and Dylan Thomas.
Steve Viner
Steve Viner lives with his wife Donna and daughter Athene. He is predominately a digital artist, using various found and made objects to create very dark gothic images. He is currently working on illustrating a children's book with Petra Whiteley, and has other projects pending. He has had a successful exhibition, which surprisingly due to the artistic content, was well received by a broad cross-section of attendees. His cover art has been published in the first issue of Deep Tissue Magazine, and on the covers of chapbooks, Tinted Steam and Holy Hermaphrodite. His art has been published in Fissure #5 and Unlikely 2.0.
http://www.myspace.com/visionpig
P.A. Voglis
P.A Voglis was born in 1972. He hates bios and to talk in first and third person about himself. He also thinks that "men are as the time is". You can find his work in Eviscerator Heaven and in Counterexample poetics (under his alias, Ray Dunkle) and you can contact him on his facebook profile.
Petra Whiteley
I was born in the Czech Republic in 1975. I studied Economics, Czech, English and Literature. I come from a family with history in political activism, although my grandfather was jailed for his political opinions during the 1950's, the family has always leaned towards the left wing. I emigrated to England in 1993 and have worked in a variety of jobs. I've lived in Berkshire, Devon - where I have been involved with politics of ICC (International Communist Current), although they are not my political conviction, those being of anarcho-communism, it has been a great experience. Presently I am living in North Dorset. I am passionate about poetry, literature, journalism (such as of Robert Fisk and John Pilger), art, science and music as well as politics and history.
Hope Estella Whitmore
I grew up in a small, grey, cobbled town called Kirkby Lonsdale where everyone knew everyone's name. I would wander around the streets and my Mother always knew where I was because the chemist and the newsagent and the grocer and all the other shopkeepers in town would say 'Oh, I just saw your Hope playing on the street'. As I grew up I thought I hated Kirkby Lonsdale. I went to school there and lived there worked there as a waitress at weekends. I couldn't wait to get away.
However, when I left Kirkby Lonsdale to go to University, I missed it terribly. My family moved away from the area and I didn't go back there for three years. When I did go back my hair, which had been blonde had turned a lightish brown, my puppy fat had fallen away and I was two inches taller than I had been. Everyone was still there, just the same, and I went to the newsagents expecting the woman behind the counter to recognise me, but she didn't. No one recognised me.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas. He has published a prose collection, 'Under a Riverbed Sky', and a book of stage monologues for actors, 'Heart Speak'. Moonbird Hill Arts is a gallery that he shares with his wife, Linda - http://www.moonbirdhill.exposuremanager.com/
Catherine Woodward
Catherine Woodward, originally from Lancashire, currently studies Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her debut poetry collection Delusions of Grandeur is available from Ettrick Forest Press (http://www.efpress.com)
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