Janette Ayachi has a Masters in Creative Writing from Edinburgh University and has been published in a variety of magazines. She is a member of 'Words On Canvas' writing group at the National Gallery. Her first chapbook A Choir of Ghosts is published by Red Squirrel 2011 and her first full-length book collection will be published by the same publishers in 2012.
Vivienne Blake, obsessed mainly with writing and quilting, in her tranquil retirement in rural Manche, writes mainly poetry, some of which has been published. At her age, contentment is her principal state of mind. What winds her up? Bad writing, politics and snow. What makes her glow? Good writing, good food, and sunshine.
Eddie Castellan is a writer and musician, based near Carcassonne, southwest France since 2002. A former daily newspaper sub-editor, his work includes poetry and song writing. He was recording engineer on Stanley Adler's electric cello album Arias Under Curves, released in May 2009.
Angela Croft worked as a journalist and press officer and has been published in a range of magazines including Equinox, Iota, Other Poetry, 14, the Delinquent; Obsessed with Pipework, South, The Rialto, the Interpreters House, Orbis, Lighten up on Line and several anthologies - and was recently a guest poet at the Torriano Meeting House.
Michael Curtis is widely published in magazines and anthologies and has given readings and workshops in England, Ireland, France, Belgium, finland, Latvia and Germany. Walking Water, an English/French sequence by Editions des Vanneux, appeared in 2009 and Melnais suns, Latvian translations of his poetry and prose was published in 2010.
Marylin Donovan's poems appear, along with the work of other poets, in the collection Missed Heartbeats (2010). She was recently short-listed in the Cinnamon Press collection competition.
Barbara Dordi edits two literary journals. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines, anthologies and newspapers. Her latest collection Moving Still was published by Cinnamon Press in 2009.
Russi Dordi, painter and sculptor, has exhibited worldwide. He has illustrated Equinox - a poetry journal since its inception and has designed book covers and has illustrated fiction and non-fiction for over 30 years.
Gareth Durascow lives in Huddersfield, England. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines; most recently, Shearsman, The Rialto, The Red Ceilings, Sunfish and the Cambridge Reading Series' publication That Merciless Gang of Cold-Blooded Slaves and Assassins, Called, in the Ordinary Prostitution of Language, Friends. He has an MA in Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds and teaches creative writing around Yorkshire.
Peter Eustace moved to Verona, Italy, in 1976, working as a translator for over 30 years. He began writing poetry at 17 but first came into print only with Vistas (English-Italian) in June 2006, then the pamphlet Brink (English) by erbacce press, Liverpool in 2009, and lastly Weathering, again English-Italian, in 2010.
Richard W. Halperin lives in Paris. His first poetry collection, Anniversary, has just been published by Salmon Poetry Limited (Ireland). His second collection, The Crepuscular Theory of Light is scheduled to appear in May 2012.
Anna Hodgson has worked in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe for over ten years, editing, teaching English and developing resource centres. She now lives in London and combines running an online retail business with writing.
Christopher Jackson is 31 and lives in Hackney. He has recently published work in Ambit, The Interpreter's House, The Journal, and Poetry Cornwall. He is working towards a first collection. Antony Johae (Ph.D. Comparative Literature,1980) has taught in England, Germany, Ghana, Tunisia and Kuwait. In 2009 he moved to Lebanon withhis family and is now researching and writing freelance.
Fiona Joyce is also published as Fiona Wilde, Fiona Dunscombe and Max Aniane. She has written successful radio plays, poetry, short stories, essays and a novel (The Triple Point of Water, Polygon). She runs creative writing work shops for anglophones in the Hérault region of southern France where she lives and is writing a second novel.
Thelma Laycock lives in Leeds. Published widely in magazines and anthologies, her work has been translated into Hebrew, Italian and Romanian and broadcast on Radio Romania Cultural. Her latest collection, A Persistence of Colour, is just out from Indigo Dreams Publishing.
Olivia McMahon, poet, is also a writer of novels, novellas and text books for English as a foreign language. English of Irish origin, she lived for seven years in France but for the last 35 years her home has been in Aberdeen, Scotland. Her chapbook Domestic Verses, was published in 2005 by Koo Press. Her novel Love as a Foreign Language, is based on her experience of teaching EFL in France and Scotland.
Clarissa Palmer was born to a French mother and an English father and was raised in East Anglia speaking only French until she went to school. Running away from university in the 1970s she became a textile conservator, an Alexander Technique teacher, a singer and a mother. She is currently writing a double biography of Malesherbes and Olympe de Gouges. She is also co-writing a play on Olympe de Gouges to be performed at the Guichet Theatre, Montparnasse in 2012.
Kate Ruse has had poetry published in magazines both in the UK and USA. She has two collections The Mountain Poems and Witches and has a poem in The Virago Book of Love Poetry. She lives and works in the Midlands.
Chat Robinson trained as a fine artist and has worked in visual art since 1981. He has been writing poetry for fifteen years. 'Visual work and poetry sometimes overlap when one doesn't quite manage to do what he wants it to do'.
John Short studied Philosophy and Religion at Leeds University. He spent most of the 80s as an agricultural worker in southwest France, including several stints at a wine bottling factory in Lezignan-Corbières, near Narbonne. Later, he lived in Barcelona and Athens, working as a language teacher and musician. His stories and poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
Wisty Thomas is an English graduate, teacher and herbalist. Her poetry has been published in various magazines, including South, Equinox, Envoi, The Interpreter's House and the anthologies Seeking Refuge and Ordinary Magic.
Vivienne Tregenza, a former teacher, (B.A. French, Durham University), is a Cornish poet. Published widely in U.K. and listed in the Bridport Prize in 2007, she was a winner in the Poetry on the Lake competition (Orta, Italy) in 2008 and 2010.
Linda Yeaton is a Cornish based writer and poet. She has published four collections of poetry published by Anne Miniver Press, the most recent being White Nights.
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- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
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- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
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- Modern Poetry in Translation
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- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
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- Orbis
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- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
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- Poetry Salzburg Review
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- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
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- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
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- Staple
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- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
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- Wolf, The
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