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Mike Barlow’s first collection Living on the Difference was overall winner of the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 2003 and has just been published by Smith Doorstop.

Ross Bradshaw is Nottinghamshire’s Literature Officer. In his spare time he runs Five Leaves Publications (www.fiveleaves.co.uk) whose best selling title – in Barcelona at least – is Catalonia: history and culture.

Peter Day lives near the river Trent in Nottinghamshire and has published reviews, essays and poems. His work has appeared in several magazines including Poetry Nottingham International, Iota, Poetry Monthly, Envoi and Staple. He is a member of the Nottingham Poetry Society and was chair of Fosseway Writers, Newark.

Roberta Dewa was born in Nottingham in 1954. She published three historical novels in the 1980s but in the last few years has written shorter forms, both poetry and short stories. Recently she returned to fiction and is now working on her first (contemporary) novel. She teaches creative writing at the University of Nottingham.

Sean Elliott grew up in Devon and lives in London. He wrote his PhD on Robert Lowell. He teaches part-time at the London South Bank University and also works at the National Theatre. His essays and poems have been widely published and he is now putting his first poetry collection together.

Penny Feeny is an award-winning short story writer whose work has been broadcast on Radio 4 and published in several literary magazines including Atlantic Monthly, Cadenza, Mslexia, The Reader and Staple. She has also contributed to anthologies
published by Arc and Tindal Street Press and to Route’s forthcoming Naked City.

Since 1999 Sally Festing’s journalism – five non-fiction books and plays – has been supplemented with many published poems. Her pamphlet, Swimming Lessons, is the basis of a second play, September 2005 on Radio 4. As chair of Leicester Poetry
Society, she edits their magazine, Stanza,
see www.poetryleicester.co.uk

Cliff Forshaw has been a Hawthorden Writing Fellow; Welsh Academy John Tripp Award winner; a Blue Nose Poet-of-the-Year; and Hydro-Tasmania International Writer in Residence in Hobart. His fifth collection, Trans, is due from the Collective Press, Wales. Recent anthology appearances include The Pterodactyl’s Wing: Welsh World Poetry (Parthian, 2003)

Gregory Heath lives in the village of Melbourne, Derbyshire. He has had a large number of poems, short stories and essays published in the small press, on BBC radio and on the Internet. He is currently writing his first novel.

Rob Hindle lives in Sheffield where he works for the WEA. In developing a course on urban writing earlier this year, he became interested in the idea of a series of poems which could explore the effects of an historical disaster – the Sheffield Flood of 1864 – through an engagement with the ordinary features of the lives of
some of its victims.

Gaia Holmes lives in Halifax and is completing her final year of a BA in English with creative writing at Huddersfield University.

Nigel Jarrett works in South Wales as a freelance journalist and music critic. In 1995 he won the Rhys Davies Memorial award for contemporary short fiction, since when his poetry and stories have appeared widely. He has also co-edited a collection of journalism by Victorian writer Arthur Machen (Village Publishing).

Helen Johnson lives in Leicestershire. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including Rialto, The North, Smiths Knoll and Magma. A pamphlet, Things that Fall, was published by Waldean Pressin 1998 (copies available £3 inc. p&p.
email: [email protected])

Shaun Johnson lives in Leicestershire. His work has appeared in Tears in the Fence, Understanding, Poetry Monthly, Iota, still, Candelabrum, Poetry Nottingham, and in many other small press publications. He is currently editor of LAMPpost, the magazine of
the Leicestershire Action for Mental Health Project.

Trafalgar Jones lives in Cairo.

Jenny King has written poetry for many years and published widely in magazines, with a short collection from Mandeville. In October 2003 she won second prize in the Bridport Competition. She lives in Sheffield.

Brian Lewis lives in Swindon. Some of his prints also appear in Staple 59 and 60. Field delays, an occasional series, was photographed in Heathrow and North Woolwich between 2000 and 2002.

Lucie McKee has published poems in: Poetry Review, Iota, Seam, Pennine Ink, Fire and forthcoming Poetry Nottingham in the UK; in the US: The Southern Review, The Paterson Literary Review, New Delta Review, Puerto del Sol and other magazines; also Poets Against the War Anthology. She lives in Vermont.

Jessica Penrose is a former lawyer now happily scraping a living as a creative writing tutor, studying part-time for the MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University and helping run an Arts Centre in a converted magistrate’s court in her spare time.

W.H.Petty is a Yorkshireman living in Kent where he was Chief Education Officer. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and have been successful in a number of national competitions. His latest collection is No-one Listening.

John Saul was born in Liverpool in 1948. He has published a novel, Heron and Quin, and over fifty short stories, a number of which have appeared in the New Writing series and books put out by Serpent’s Tail. A collection entitled The Most Serene Republic: love stories from cities was well received by Time Out.

Michael Shcherba is of Russian origin. Born 1956 in Ekaterinburg (es-Sverdlovsk), Urals Region. Moved to Shymkent, South Kazakhstan in 1971. Graduated from the International Kazakh-Turkish University in 1989. Works as an accompanistaccordionist
at the Shymkent City Centre of Additional Cultural Education. His
poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies around the world.

Knute Skinner lives in County Clare, Ireland. His most recent collection is Stretches, from Salmon Publishing. He has recently won the 2003-04 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award for The Other Shoe, which will be published later this year.

Deborah Tyler-Bennett lives in Loughborough. Her first collection is Clark Gable in Mansfield (King’s England: Rotherham, 2003), and she also has a substantial selection of her work in Take Five edited by John Lucas (Shoestring: Nottingham, 2003). She edits the magazine, The Coffee House.

Carolyn Waudby is a journalist/poet who lives in Sheffield. Her most interesting journalistic assignments have been covering a flood disaster in Pakistan and the funeral of the Princess of Wales. Poems have appeared in magazines such as Other Poetry and Seam.

Linda Lee Welch has had poems published in The New Writer, Mslexia and Proof Magazines, among others. Her novels The Leader of the Swans and The Artist of Eikando are published by Virago Press. She teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam
University and plays in a band called Sneaky Peek.