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Mark McLaughlin is an American. Editor of The Urbanite, his stories and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A chapbook of his fiction, Feeding the Glamour Hogs is published by Ministry of Whimsy Press.

Joanna Ashwell is a poet and short story writer whose work has appeared in a variety of magazines. A poetry pamphlet is forthcoming from Flarestack.

C J Allen's poetry has won a number of competition prizes, has been published widely in magazines and broadcast on BBC local radio and Radio 4. He is recipient of a writer's bursary from East Midlands Arts. He has published two full-length collections, The Art of Being Late for Work (Amazing/Colossal Press, 1994) and Elfshot (Waldean Press, 1997).

Cathy Bolton lives in Manchester and works for Commonword community publishers. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and a joint pamphlet collection with Jan Whalen, Cheap Comfort (Dagger Press).

Matthew Caley's first full length collection, Thirst, is due from Slow Dancer in May 1999.

Joanna Watson is a public health doctor who began writing poetry in 1995 in a state of reverse culture shock after three years working as a volunteer in Romania. Currently working toward her first collection, she has had work published in a variety of journals, magazines and competition anthologies.

Gordon Wardman has published two novels (with Secker & Warburg) and five small press collections, including Harlowski (Blade 1998) and Smaller Thoughts (Odyssey 1998).

Kevin Crossley-Holland's Poems from East Anglia (1997) has just been reprinted by Eritharmon, who will also publish his and Lawrence Sail's anthology, The New Exeter Book of Riddles, in May 1999.

Christine McNeill's first collection, Kissing the Night, was published by Bloodaxe in 1993; a second collection is under consideration.

Khan Singh Kumar's poems have appeared in several Magazines.

Barbara Bentley's first collection, Living Next to Leda, was published by Seren in 1996. The 'spine' of her second collection - from which the poems published here are taken - is the reconstructed nursery rhyme.

Hazel Streeter is 11. Her poem, The captured Tiger, won First Prize in the under 14 section of the 1998 Manchester Poets' Young Person's Poetry Competition.