Literature

Coronation By Hannah Summers My gaze sticks to the bubblegum hilt  poking out the bush, shaft sheathed in shrubbery. I tug too hard for the trifle, take an impotent step back, brandishing my foam Excalibur  (rather floppy) at the pigeons.…

  Lucy English is a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University where she is head of the Creative Writing Research Centre. She is a spoken word poet and novelist. She is co-director, with Sarah Tremlett, of Liberated Words, a CIC…

So What Are You Doing Today Mr President? By Louis Antoniou Cadillac one pulls up outside the shop The barbers pole a patriotic salute Out hops Donald for a trim of his mop Leader of the Free World, a beach blonde galoot As the barber cries…

Hate Is A Thing Without Feathers By Ali Whitelock I have always hated my thighs. (is hate too strong a word?) if hate were a thing with feathers, weeping sores from first world infections would decline. when she first married him the worst…

Faceless Hands By Darby Hudson Eight years old, and I’m captivated by the brick-fingered, square hands of a tradesman (tools that could strangle the neck of horse) They flick through a wad of 50 dollar notes then deftly double-noose a…

Danielle Holian is a poet, journalist, and photographer, born in the West of Ireland. She studied digital media of journalism and marketing in college and has since gained substantial experience in the media field branching off into poetry…

Rowan McCabe is a poet and performer from Newcastle upon Tyne. Aware that poetry isn’t a proper job, he decided to create his own and is now the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asks what is important to…

Andy Armitage is a poet and editor from Leeds, West Yorkshire. He won First Place in the Leeds Museum Poetry Competition (2017),  was Highly Commended in the York Literature Festival Competition (2018) and Commended in the Elmet Poetry…

Expansion By Adam Warne by Haughley Road in haw thorn thicket compact in s hape a Red B ull can is nev er lost it’s on ly redistribute d where its vit alized bee gro up vitamins p ollinate the w hite flowers’ future growth Submissions are…

Zillah Bowes is a writer and filmmaker. She has won the Wordsworth Trust Prize and Poems on the Buses Competition, and was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Alpine Fellowship and Listowel Poetry Awards. She has received a…