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Mike Barlow Mike Barlow is a poet and visual artist living in Lancaster. His work is regularly published in magazines and competition prize-winners’ anthologies. His first collection, Living on the Difference, was winner of the Poetry Business Competition and was published by Smith Doorstop in 2004.

Sue Butler Since University Sue Butler has worked for a range of different companies including banks, telephone companies, Opera North, Anglia TV and the Malaysian Rubber Board. An Eric Gregory Award winner, her poems have appeared in many magazines. Her first full collection, Vanishing Trick, was published by Smith Doorstop in 2004.

James Caruth I was born and educated in Belfast before leaving to spend some years in Cape Town. I came to live in Sheffield in 1986. My work has been published in various magazines including The North, Dream Catcher, Poetry Nottingham and Staple. I’m working on finishing a first collection.

Stephan Collishaw Stephan Collishaw lives in Nottingham.

Mark Czanik I was born in Hereford in 1965. My father was a refugee of the Budapest Uprising, and, for convenience, changed his name soon after arriving in England. In 1987 I left a Fine Arts degree in South Yorkshire and somehow ended up in Australia. When I returned three years later I took my father’s Hungarian name back, and returned to college to an English degree in Bath, and later a Masters at Glamorgan where I put together my first poetry collection. I have just completed my first collection of short stories, and am currently working on a novel.

Carrie Etter An American resident in England since 2001, Carrie Etter is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Studies at Bath Spa University College. Her poems have appeared in The Forward Book of Poetry 2005, The New Republic, Poetry Review, Reactions, The Times Literary Supplement, and other journals and
anthologies in the UK and US.

Penny Feeny Penny Feeny has lived and worked in Cambridge, London, Rome and Liverpool, where she has long been settled. Occupations include arts administration, editing, freelance broadcasting and bringing up five children. She has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies and her work has also been broadcast on BBC radio and won several prizes, including the prestigious Mathew Prichard Award.

John Gladwell John Gladwell lives on the North Essex coast where he teaches part-time in Adult Education. He has been widely published in a variety of magazines including The Rialto, Ambit, PN Review and previous editions of Staple.

Gregory Heath
Gregory Heath lives in Melbourne, Derbyshire, and his essays, poems and short stories have appeared in several magazines including Iota, Tears in the Fence, Staple and Poetic Licence. He has had two short stories produced and broadcast on BBC Radio. He has recently completed his first novel.

Andy Hirst I actively shy away from biographical detail and attempt to avoid supplying them wherever possible. I don’t intend this to be
disingenuous nor is it a kind of pop psychology where the mystery might thicken the reader’s interest. But rather it is with the belief that a poem ought to try to remain self sufficient.

Helen Johnson Helen Johnson lives and works as a teacher in
Leicestershire. Her poems have appeared in many magazines. In 2003 Helen was one of 24 writers in the East Midlands who were chosen to take part in the 24:8 project, writing new work based on the region and taking part in a series of readings.

Mary Maher Mary Maher was born to a family of miners in South
Yorkshire. She combines writing with family commitments and teaching and has published three collections of poetry. The Hospice Trust, a rehabilitation centre for recovering alcoholics, and the English Department at UCLA have specifically used her work in their programmes.

Jay Merrill ‘Blue Movie’ is the latest of a number of short stories on the general theme of illusion – especially focusing on delusion – in which the characters frequently turn to fantasy in an attempt to compensate for the disadvantaged life position in which they find themselves. She has just about finished writing her novel, Talking to Lucifer. Jay is editorial assistant on The London Magazine.

David Swann
David Swann has lived mainly in towns with failed football clubs. His
stories have been successful in the Bridport Prize (twice), Northern Stories (four times) and ICA New Blood. In 1997 he was writer-in-residence in Nottingham Prison. He now teaches at University College, Chichester.

Steven Waling Steven Waling’s latest book is Calling Myself On The Phone (Smith/Doorstop 2003) and he is currently working on a new collection. His poems have recently travelled as far as Prague and South Africa.

Gregory Warren-Wilson Gregory Warren-Wilson’s first collection, Preserving Lemons, won the Staple First Edition Award in 1996. Hanging Windchimes in a Vacuum (Tears in the Fence) followed in 1997, and his third collection, Jeopardy, was published by Enitharmon in 2003.

Howard Wright I’m a lecturer in Art History at the University of Ulster at Belfast. I had 12 poems published in New Soundings (Queens University Belfast and Blackstaff Press) last October as part of the Belfast Festival. My last pamphlet was Usquebaugh (Redbeck Press 1997) and more recently I’ve had poems in Poetry Ireland and Black Mountain Review (Belfast).

Dan Wyke My poetry has appeared in a wide range of publications
including Orbis, Oxford Poetry, The Reader, The Rialto, Staple, Thumbscrew and the TLS. I received an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. A pamphlet, Scattering Ashes, was published last year by Waterloo Press and commended in the Poetry Book Society Bulletin.