Christmas 1984
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Moira McPartlin has five published novels. Her latest, Before Now: Memoirs of a Toerag, is written in Fife dialect. Her short work has appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies. Moira’s current project is about Scotland’s Victorian mass concrete viaducts. http://www.moiramcpartlin.com Instagram @moiramcpartlin Instagram @a_thing_so_delicate
The Mistress Replies
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Missing Parts
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Meg Pokrass is the author of First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories (Dzanc Books, 2024) and eight previous collections. Her work has appeared in RATTLE, The Pedestal, American Journal of Poetry, Plume, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Ink Sweat & Tears and elsewhere. She is an American author living and teaching in the Scottish Highlands.
Salt Line
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Simon Ravenscroft is a Fellow of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. He has published poems recently in Osmosis Press, The Penn Review, Full House Literary, Eratio, Apocalypse Confidential, The Alchemy Spoon, Swifts & Slows, Meniscus, Trampoline, and elsewhere.
Departure Lounge
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John White has been commended in the Ginkgo Prize for Eco poetry (2020) and the Magma Poetry Prize (2024). ‘Attachments’ (Templar), won the 2023 iOTA Shot pamphlets competition, and was published in June 2024. He takes wing occasionally at @johncraigwhite.bsky.social
And I loved on your babies like they were mine
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Jessica Boatright’s words have been spotted in magazines including Magma, The Alchemy Spoon and Anthropocene. In 2025 she placed third in the Disabled Poets Best Unpublished Pamphlet Prize and was highly commended in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Poetry Prize.
Are you afraid you might be difficult?
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Julia Webb is a neurodivergent writer/editor based in Norwich. She has four collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016) Threat (2019) The Telling (2022) and Grey Time (2025). She is steering editor of Lighthouse.
The Eighth Floor, Virgen de las Nieves Hospital
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Becky May is a Manchester-based poet who used to live in Spain. Her work has been published in PN Review, Propel Magazine & 14 Magazine, amongst others. She can be found on social media @beckymaywriter
Edward II, Deposed 1327, Visits the Big City
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Heather is a Durham University student. She was a 2023 Foyle Young Poet, and was shortlisted for the 2024-5 Poetry Wales Award. Her work is published in The Garlic Press, Bloodletter, and Carmen et Error. On Instagram, she is @heatherchapman4523.
The Captain
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Hannah Linden’s debut pamphlet, The Beautiful Open Sky (V. Press), was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet 2023. Her 2nd pamphlet, The Gods of Misrule, is due Sept 2025 from Stoat Books. BlueSky: @hannahl1n.bsky.social
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