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Fay Atherton is a retired teacher whose work has been published in Smiths Knoll, Iota and other magazines.

Yvonne Baker's poems have appeared in The New
Writer, The Interpreter's House and Iota, amongst others.

Ros Barber's poetry and prose have won her many awards. Her poems have been published in anthologies by Faber, Bloomsbury, Virago and Serpent's Tail. Her first collection How Things Are on Thursday was published by Anvil in October 2004. She was also poet in residence in Herne Bay in 2004, producing a series of eight 'Seaside Sonnets' postcards as part of Canterbury City Council's Arts Development Initiative.

Denise Bennett teaches creative writing in Portsmouth. Her collection American Dresses was published in 2000.

Ex-journalist and TV documentary producer Carole Coates' collection The Goodbye Edition is being published by Shoestring Press. Her poetry has been published in a variety of magazines and she has been the holder of a Yorkshire Arts Award.

Jennifer Copley' s first collection Ice, (prizewinner in the Smith/ Doorstop Book and Pamphlet Competition) has now been joined by a second, House by the Sea, published by Arrowhead.

Michael Curtis was one of the editors of The Scarpfoot Zone: New Poetry from Kent. His sixth collection Long Haul will be published by Redbeck in summer 2005 and an Anglo-French selection, Taking Shape in the autumn. He is currently working on a further collection, In the Affirmative as well as a sequence of poems and a children's book.

Barbara Daniels has published five collections of poetry, one of which won the Poetry Monthly Open Poetry Booklet Competition. Her next full collection, The Cartographer Sleeps, will be published by Shoestring Press in summer 2005.

Barbara Dordi's poetry has been published in magazines, anthologies and on the Internet. She is currently working on poems in French and English for a fifth collection, Entre-Deux.

Hilary Drapper runs workshops and poetry readings for a women's writing group in Thanet, Kent. Her poetry has also been published in Connections.

Val Doyle has been a freelance journalist but began writing poetry only after retirement. Her first collection Paperbacks with Chips in Bell Street was published in 2001, followed by A Pause in Time in 2003.

Creative writing tutor and former journalist, Ann Drysdale has been a visiting lecturer at Cardiff University and UWE Bristol. She is the author of three recent poetry collections published by Peterloo. A Landcape in Waiting , a book published last year as a result of a residency was nominated for the Welsh Book of the Year award.

Alyss Dye took an MA. at the University of Kent where she won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. She now teaches creative writing in Tenterden and Sevenoaks.

June English founded the Split the Lark Poetry Festival in 1999. Counting the Spots , her first collection, has now been joined by The Sorcerer's Arc from Hearing Eye.

John Enright lives in Pago Pago in American Samoa and is currently writing a novel. His last collection of poems Commentaries was published in 2002.

Liz Fincham lives in Brighton. Her poems have been published in North, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Envoi and Museum of Scotland anthology.

Maggie Harris was born in Guyana and lives in Kent. Her first collection Limbolands won the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2002. She is the Director of the Inscribing the Island Literature Festival in Thanet, Kent.

Hazell Hills lives in Stratford-upon-Avon. She teaches creative writing and has read her poetry at the Festival Hall, London.

Jennifer Johnson has had work published in several magazines including Stand, Rialto, Orbis, The Interpreter's House and Poetry
Salzburg Review.

Judy Kendall is currently researching the process of poetry composing for a PhD at the University of Gloucester. Her writings have recently been in Stand and PN Review amongst others.

Anne Kenny teaches English and started writing poetry last year whilst living in Australia. Her work has been published in Blue Dog Australian Poetry; Poetrix and Poetry Monash.

Dennis Leckey hails from the north of England. Imprisoned in 1997, where he gained a degree from the Open University, Dennis has won numerous local and national prison prizes, and has published No, not sonnets...., a series of poems whose fragmentary nature has been said to mirror the psychology of incarceration.

Janet Loverseed has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Staple's Twenty Years of Twentieth Century Poetry and the Biscuit Prize Winners 2002 anthology.

Sally Lucas lives in Kent and has been writing for many years; her poems have been published in several magazines and two anthologies.

William Oxley's poetry has been published world-wide in magazines and journals. Among his recent works have been Collected Longer Poems and Reclaiming the Lyre: New and Selected Poems. He has co-edited the anthology Modern Poets of Europe, and in the autumn of 2004, Hearing Eye published Namaste, his Nepal Poems.

D. A. Prince lives in Leicestershire. Her second pamphlet from Pikestaff Press, Keeping in Touch was published in 2002.

Prize-winning poet Terry Quinn lives in Preston, Lancashire.

Performance poet Claudie Rolland also paints and sings. She is president of the Cultural Association of Alaigne, near Carcassonne in the south of France where she runs a monthly poetry circle, and conducts the village choir.

Ann Rust lives in Kent and has 'always written' but going on a
Creative Writing course has given her 'interest and encouragement'.

Kate Scott's first collection Stitches was published by Peterloo Poets in 2003. She is a creative writing tutor for the Open College of the Arts.

After spending five years in Corsica, psychotherapist Nelly Solinas is now working as an art therapist for the French Ministry of Justice in Carcassonne. She is returning to writing now that her daughter has started school.

Born in Barnoldswick, W. Yorks, Geoff Tomlinson was brought up in Burnley, Lancashire. His pamphlet (A19) was published by Mudfog in December 2004.

Ted Walter has tutored adult 'Writing for Pleasure' for over 25 years; his latest book blue moon is published by Willing Words. Many of the poems he has entertained children in schools with now appear in his Little Book of Poems.

Lyn White has been published in Poetry Nottingham, The New Writer, Connections and in an anthology by Blinking Eye Publications.

Sarah Williams is Vice Principal of a large comprehensive school in Kent. She also teaches English.