Issue 40 | December 2019 |

Daragh Byrne writes informed by his background in physics, a dedicated mindfulness practice and a career building technology.

Jenny Blackford scooped the prestigious ACU Prize for Literature 2014

Interview with Helen Moore.

Helen Moore is an award-winning British, Sidney based, ecopoet.

Clare Morris regularly collaborates with the abstract artist, Nigel Bird

Jason Jawando has an MA in Creative Writing from the Open University.

Yvonne Brewer lives in Cork, Ireland and has had poetry published since 2014

Sandra Arnold is an award-winning writer who lives in New Zealand.

Krishna Lewis the Fellows Program Director at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Tracy Gaughan presents the popular arts show ‘WestWords’ on Ireland’s Community Radio Network

Poetry Editor, Clara Burghelea speaks to our featured writer, author & poet Tracy Gaughan

Tracy Gaughan presents the popular arts show ‘WestWords’ on Ireland’s Community Radio Network.

Shinjini Dey has been published in Efiction and Cactus Heart Press.

Andrea Potos is the author of nine poetry collections

Alina Stefanescu was a finalist for the 2019 Kurt Brown AWP Prize,

Irradiated Love How I enjoy seeing you in your  paper shoes and hat and lilac scrubs, Do with me what you will, Aurelia…

Manoj Nair lives in Bangalore, India. He writes short stories, poems and haiku.

Stephen House has won two Awgie Awards (Australian Writers Guild),

Diane’s most recent publications include: Barn House, Notre Dame Review,

Mark Blickley is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Scholarship Award for Drama.

Chris Jansen cares for a disinterested guinea pig named Poozybear.

Chris Christopher Kennedy is a Mandarin scholar, poet, journalist and author.

R.G. Evans published works include Overtipping the Ferryman (Aldrich Press Poetry Prize 2013)

Dana St. Mary is a poet and father and husband living in Portland, Oregon

Alan Britt served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award in 2018

John Berryman said our poetry should be something no one else could do. I’ve tried to focus on that idea.

Jill Neimark is the author of adult and children’s fiction, as well as a journalist

Jack Houston was shortlisted for the Basil Bunting and Keats-Shelley Prizes.

Ivy Ireland was runner-up in the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2019 with her poem, “The Owl Inside”.

Brent Cantwell is a New Zealand writer from Timaru, South Canterbury

Kymm Coveney co-hosts a multilingual poetry recital series in Barcelona, Poémame.

Marc Woodward is an Anglo/American poet and musician living in rural South West England

Jennifer A. McGowan has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Rialto, and The Connecticut Review.

Philip Muir savours the power of words as both a mode of communication and as an art form.

Chloe Marer enjoys gardening, baking, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Nigel Jarrett a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies Award for short fiction and the Templar Shorts award.

Kitty Coles’ poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies