CONTRIBUTORS

Issue #1

Bruce Barnes is an escapee from North London, now living in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He has recently won the 6th Leeds Peace Poetry Competition and the Torriano Poetry Competition 2008/09.

Alvise Bittente is a prolific artist from the Lido of Venice, Italy. His punctilious, provocative work has been exhibited in London, Athens, New York and Shanghai among other cities.

J. L. Bogenschneider www.abctales.com/user/jlb

Claire Booker is a south London playwright. Her work has been produced in Britain, Australia, France and Spain. She enjoys the fluidity and immediacy of making poetry happen. These are her first published poems. www.bookerplays.co.uk

Catherine Edmunds, poet/novelist/illustrator, has a literary style best encapsulated in the title of her poetry collection: wormwood, earth and honey (Circaidy Gregory Press). Her artwork veers between delicate portraiture, exploding dogs and decomposing toads. www.freewebs.com/catherineedmunds.

Alice Falconer works for The Man but writes stories on Sundays. She has stopped smoking but still bites her nails. She likes walking along the canal to Victoria Park while dreaming about living in a houseboat.

Michael P. Ferrari is the author of the dark comedy Assault on the Senses published in 2007. He spends his free time making his girlfriend shake her head with confusion. He lives and works in Philadelphia. www.assaultonthesenses.com

Emma Fitzgerald: Illustrator by degree, animator by employ. Visit www.emmafitzgerald.co.uk for stop-frame animations about ghosts and dinosaurs, drawings of matchboxes, and the most time-consuming music videos made for £200 you will ever see..

Emma Hamshare, designer from the London College of Fashion, won a scholarship from Marchpole for her collection revolving around simple geometric shapes that fit together as musical notes in a melody. www.arts.ac.uk/showtime/788

Siobhan Maguire is an illustration, animation, embroidery, bird and bow enthusiast.www.siobhanmaguire.blogspot.com

Helena Michaelson studied English at Cambridge, and completed an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths. She works as a freelance writer, reader and tutor and is studying towards becoming a counsellor.

Rebecka Mustajärvi is possibly the world’s youngest pensioner, in love with wool, (finger) waves, and words.

Daffni Percival lives in Wales with two collies, three sheep, an old cat and some ducks. She writes and publishes poetry and children's stories, paints and occasionally teaches languages to keep the wolf from the door. www.merilang.co.uk/shop.htm

Lettie Ransley studied English at Oxford, and subsequently at Queen's University Belfast, where she edited a collection of student poetry and prose entitled Tidelines. She now works for a London-based literary agency.

Kat Redstone is a London based actor, writer and musician. She studied English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths and graduates from Mountview School of Theatre Arts this year. She has co-written a play, The Bee, with Alexander Eisenthal, and is currently working on a book of poetry.

Colin Reed is a London based actor from Blackpool. Currently on tour around Spain, he can usually be found haunting the streets of E1. It is an ambition of Colin's to run his own theatre company.

Martino Sorteni, artist and flâneur, lives between Venice and Milan. He recently acquired an oversized chopper bicycle with which he moves through the Venetian maze.

Alan Spencer lives in Oldham and writes poetry and short fiction. His poems have appeared in various magazines and an anthology Transparency (Crocus, 2005).

Heba Zaytoun studies Film in New Zealand. Her hobby and passion is creating digital art with an open interpretation of the use of colour.

Davide Zucco is a young artist from Belluno, Italy. His works are mainly paintings and drawings, but he also produces installation pieces, often accompanied by live music performances. www.rekal.org