The Blue Nib Literary Magazine

‘Where Oceans Meet’ Heather McQuillan Reflex Press www.reflex.press/product/where-oceans-meet ‘Where Oceans Meet’ is a collection of flash fiction that reflects on family lives, particularly difficult mother daughter…

Mary Mulholland founded and co-runs Red Door Poets and lives in London.

A SMUDGE OF CINDERS My teacher looked at me as if breezeblock wasn’t a word she knew. I had pushed my sock down. It was itching the scabs…

Beatrice Szymkowiak is the author of RED ZONE, a poetry chapbook

AQUARIUM I dreamed of an aquarium fixed into my back a miniature box with tetras and an angel fish, its glass sunk deep instead of memories, I had to ask each…

Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington (New Zealand) and now lives in Melbourne (Australia). She is a poet and playwright who also writes prose.

Four poems by Franca Mancinelli one can play dead: arms spread, the backbone for a keel, nothing in the mind, motion like a memory of water. …

HOW I WANT PICASSO TO SKETCH ME This is how Pablo Picasso sketched Ella Fitzgerald. Her breasts like the waves of Hokusai, hair…

The return of the artist It was that kind of a once-in-a-lifetime snow and hailstones day so dreamed of by smug artists and Yale dons, dendrological in a…

Carolyn Martin is the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation.