Contributors
Issue #2
Byron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in numerous publications including The Independent, Wasafiri, Poetry Salzburg Review, Cyphers and The Wolf. His most recent collection Nocturne in Blue (Lapwing Publications) was launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, in March 2010. www.academi.org/list-of-writers/i/129541/.
Daniel Bourke is a newspaperman. He was born in 1977 in Aldershot, Hampshire and has lived in Farnham, Surrey, in South Wales and in South, East and North London.
Peter Branson‘s had poems published in magazines in Britain, USA, Canada, EIRE, Australia and New Zealand, including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, London Magazine, Iota, The Frogmore Papers, Interpreter’s House, Poetry Nottingham, The New Writer, Crannog and Other Poetry.
Neil Campbell is from Manchester and currently lives in the Peak District. Collection of stories, Broken Doll www.saltpublishing.com. Chapbook of poems, Birds www.knivesforksandspoons.co.uk
mr clement, born in Hong Kong, living in London, going to China. Make art, tea and love.
Phoebe Coulton is a London-based artist working in advertising. She is a talented doodler and talentless yet persistent cake-decorator.
Catherine Edmunds‘ style is encapsulated in the titles of her poetry collection wormwood, earth and honey and novel Small Poisons (Circaidy Gregory Press). Her artwork mostly comprises exploding dogs and decomposing toads. www.freewebs.com/catherineedmunds/
Bali Engel is a French freelance illustrator and animator based in London, recently graduated from an MA from the Royal College of Art. www.bengel.co.uk
Russell Etheridge is a London based animator and visual effects artist. He recently completed his MA in animation from the Royal College of Art and is currently working at MPC in Soho as part of the FX Studio.www.russelletheridge.com
SJ Fowler is a postgraduate student of philosophy and an employee of the British Museum. His poetry has been featured in over two dozen publications and he edits the Maintenant interview series with contemporary European poets for 3am magazine. www.sjfowlerpoetry.com
Irene Fuga lives and works as a graphic artist in London. Recent graduate from the Royal College of Art, she is interested in storytelling. Borrowing from cinema and photography, she uses drawing and moving image to convey both personal and universal stories. As English writer Hanif Kureishi once said, ‘There is a childish awkwardness in fiction, as it is like taking dreams seriously.’ www.irenefuga.com
Eli Goldstone lives in South London. Her stories about drinking and dreams can be found at www.pauvrelapinou.tumblr.com
Jared Hamilton is trying to live up to the ideal of the romantic expatriate from the States, but so far has only managed to perfect the drinking. He teaches English for his supper and can sometimes be found working on his novel Jack Rabbit. Note: sometimes.
Echao Jiang Illustrator and designer based in London. Interested in the process of how the human mind is affected by environment and circumstances, she creates beautiful visual poetry which reflects thoughts and emotions. Echao works across many disciplines and is currently working on an animation piece. www.echao.wordpress.com
Emanuele Kabu lives and works in Belluno, Italy. An art explorer, he started with graffiti in 1994 and moved on to illustration, painting and music animation. He is part of several bands: hardcore KaiYanWang, electric ENT, noise/ambient GreenMine and black metal Rotorvator. www.emanuelekabu.org
Dimitri Keramitas‘ fiction has been published in many literary journals. He worked as film critic for The Key, a Paris-based bimonthly and La Revue du Cinema. He currently writes for several print and online magazines.
Ju Hyun Lee. Freelance illustrator/designer. Mainly illustrating children’s books. www.ju-hyun.com
Alexandra Lister has recently graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. She is currently writing her first novel, a work of fiction set in Kenya, and a collection of poetry, which she will complete at PhD level at the same university.
Adam J Maynard lives in Oxford. His work has appeared in Lamination Colony, Robot Melon, Pineapplewar, Spooky Boyfriend, Surgery of Modern Warfare, Zembla, Purple, Tank and others. His book of short fiction Stumble was published by Pulp Books. He is the editor of the short fiction/poetry site My Name is Mud. His work recently appeared in Yippee magazine, The Corduroy Mtn. and Pangur Ban Party, and is forthcoming at West Wind Review and Read Some Words.
Paul McGrane misses the ‘technology’ that allows 33 and a 1/3rds to be played at 45. Those were the days, etc. After retiring as a pubic hair stylist, he now works for the Poetry Society.
Casper McMenamin is a London-based writer who resembles Dylan Thomas in cardigan choice, but not poetry. Casper’s ambition is to become a poet-philosopher as irritating as Socrates, bothering people about virtue on local high streets.
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez creates site-specific and time based work that explores parallels between society and biological systems. He currently operates from an old cinema on top of a redundant factory on the outskirts of London. www.plummerfernandez.com
Kat Redstone is a London-based actor, writer and musician. After graduating from Goldsmiths, she went on to study Art and Design at London College of Printing, and then Postgraduate Acting at Mountview. She features as lead in provocative new feature, Break My Fall, and is currently completing a collection of short prose.
Haruka Shinji is an illustrator and storyteller inspired by history and travel. She enjoys observing people’s peculiarities, desires and obsessions to create her characters. Her imagination connects these fragments of real life and historical elements, and then creates stories. www.harukashinji.com
Nikesh Shukla is an author, poet and award-winning filmmaker. His work has been featured in Litro and Pen Pusher. His first book Coconut Unlimited will be published by Quartet Books in 2010. He is poet in residence at BBC Asian network.
Ruvi Simmons lives, writes and makes things in Berlin.
Tiffany Anne Tondut is enamored with poetry, art and vintage photography. On weekends she transforms into a pin-up poet by the name of Miss Mink for Peek! magazine and pens sartorial graffiti for The Chap. www.pinuppoet.wordpress.com
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
