Literature

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…

It is said that a good writer can turn their hand to any genre, and with her debut children’s book, Alison Moore has put that to the test. There has always been a child-like innocence to many of the protagonists in Moore’s adult novels.…

Old haunts We spoke of the supernatural. Hands around hot coffee cups, we swapped stories of rented houses with decaying walls but a concrete presence. Of snarling black dogs in dreams and forbidden Ouija boards. I had never been on the…