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The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
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Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
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Queer writer of odd things: stories/poems/hybrids. New hybrid CNF book coming 2025. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
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Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
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The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
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Poet: 'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian, 2024) | Alpine Fellowship Prize SL '23 | Ginkgo Prize SL '22 & '21 Composer: North Sea Navigator | Holmes + atten Ash Art-photographer: Paul atten Ash Bristol, Europe https://campsite.bio/northseanavigator
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Poet Devon, UK 1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html
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Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'The Telling' (Nine Arches press, 2022). https://juliawebb.org/ https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/ https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
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Poet, Historian, Works published here and there. Lover of river walks and the sea. Cat Lady. Poetry Collection: River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press)
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Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
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Poet | Poetry Foundation: bit.ly/3BydKOn | PennSound: bit.ly/3DfAvHk | she/her ❦ In service of the heart.
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Writer Debut Collection COLD TOAST available now for preorder from Dahlia Publishing Wigleaf Top 50 & Winner of Bath Flash Fiction Award, The Forge Flash Nonfiction prize, Manchester Writing School's QuietManDave prize kamwords.com
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Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
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Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales Bridport shortlist, Best of Net & Pushcart nom. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe… Architect | Editor | Tutor https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
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Writing in the Cornish wilds. Author of Cornish Folk Tales of Place
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London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW. https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
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Featuring the best short stories, poems, essays annually since 1976. http://pushcartprize.com/
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2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆 Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️ 🏳️🌈♿️🥄☘️🇮🇪⚔️📝🇬🇧🍉
@julianday.bsky.social
Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
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linktr.ee/victoriaspires Commended Ledbury Poetry, TPW Prize. Shortlisted Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award. Contributing editor - The Winged Moon. Debut pamphlet Soi-même available from Salo Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/