Ordinary Woman
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Lisa Falshaw lives in West Yorkshire, but dreams of living in Kefalonia. She has several micro poems published in Black Bough anthologies. She has had poems placed in several competitions and won the Wakefield postcode prize in The Red Shed competition in 2021.
Last Supper
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Abigail Ottley writes poetry and short fiction from Penzance, Cornwall. This year she was placed both third and Highly Commended in the Frosted Fire Pamphlet Award with two separate pamphlets. In June, she won the Wildfire Words Flash Competition. https://www.facebook.com/abigailelizabethottley/ https://www.instagram.com/abigail_elizabeth_ottley/
Miraculous
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Naoise Gale is a poet from Yorkshire. She was the winner of the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2022, and her debut pamphlet After the Flood Comes the Apologies is published with Nine Pens. Naoise is currently studying an MA at UEA.
Scots Pine
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Sophia Argyris was born in Belgium to an English and Greek family, grew up mostly in Scotland, and now lives in England. Her work has been published in Ink Sweat & Tears, Magma, Spelt, and Under the Radar amongst others.
His Funeral
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Ann Heath lives in York. She has been published in Aesthetica and Dreamcatcher. She previously won the local writer’s prize in the Yorkmix Poetry Competition.
Suddenly last Summer
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Black Country poet and musician Heather Wastie moved to Kidderminster in 2006 where she was Writer in Residence at the Museum of Carpet in 2013. She is a former Worcestershire Poet Laureate and has published eight poetry collections. Website http://wastiesspace.co.uk/ Twitter, Instagram @heatherwastie Facebook group: Wastie’s Space
Learning from a Stranger
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Charles G Lauder Jr grew up in Texas and has lived in south Leicestershire since 2000. He has two pamphlets Bleeds (CCC, 2012) and Camouflaged Beasts (BLER, 2017). His debut collection is The Aesthetics of Breath (V. Press, 2019): https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-aesthetics-of-breath.html His website can be found at http://www.charleslauderjr.com
The Mouse
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Sam Szanto lives in Durham, UK. Her poetry pamphlet, ‘Splashing Pink’ was published by Hedgehog Press in 2023. She is published in literary journals including ‘The North’, and won the Charroux Poetry Prize and the First Writer International Poetry Prize. Find her at samszanto.com or on X (Twitter) at sam_szanto
Antidotes to imposter syndrome
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Elizabeth Osmond is a neonatal doctor and a poet. In 2021 she won third prize in the Hippocrates competition for poetry and medicine. She uses poetry to reflect on clinical work. Twitter: @bethosmond
Soulscabber
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Emma Simon first collection, Shapeshifting for Beginners will be published with Salt in September 2023. She has previously published two pamphlets: The Odds (Smith|Doorstop, 2020) and Dragonish (The Emma Press, 2017). She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and has won the Live Canon, YorkMix, Ver Poets and Prole Laureate prizes.
