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Issue 13 - December 2008 - Contributors
Billy O'Callaghan's fiction has appeared in Absinthe: New European Writing, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pearl, Versal, Yuan Yang, and others. He has won the George A. Birmingham Award, the Molly Keane Short Story Award and the Lunch Hour Stories Prize. His short story collection, 'In Exile', was published by Mercier Press in the summer of 2008, and another volume, as yet untitled, will follow in late 2009.
João Coelho was born and lives in Évora, Portugal. He has been writing for three to four years and hopes to always have the passion and the inspiration to do it, along with a sense of accomplishment/improvement throughout the years to come. He is currently enrolled in college, and hopes to have a degree in Foreign Societies, Cultures and Literature in about two and a half years. He enjoys photography, biking, composing and listening to music, and wandering through the countryside.
Alys Conran is from Bangor, North Wales. She studied Literature at Edinburgh and then lived and worked in Barcelona before finally returning home to Wales where she honestly prefers the weather. She now does Welsh language work with children and young people on Ynys Môn, writes as much as she can, and lives in a draughty house by a lovely noisy river that comes crashing straight down from the mountains and almost onto Alys. She'll read anything; right now it's William Faulkner (last week it was evolution - but Alys didn't really get it, and is more into William).
Aditi Machado is a writer and student from Bangalore, India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Soundzine, nthposition and The Chimaera. She is the prose editor of an international journal.
Rob A. Mackenzie lives and works in Edinburgh. His pamphlet, The Clown of Natural Sorrow, was published by HappenStance Press (http://www.happenstancepress.com) in December 2005. His first full collection, The Opposite of Cabbage, is published by Salt (http://www.saltpublishing.com) on 1st March 2009. He blogs at Surroundings (http://robmack.blogspot.com) and is founder of Edinburgh's Poetry at the Great Grog (http://poetryatthegreatgrog.blogspot.com) reading series.
Ariel Parsons is a seventeen year old girl hailing from the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, where she currently survives the boredom of community college. She enjoys writing, creating art, and making music, and hopes to never have to choose between the three. Her work in all media is primarily influenced by surrealism, 80s post-punk, and Saturday morning cartoons.
Phoebe Salzman-Cohen is a sophomore in high school who likes to consider herself a bit of a geek, even though it's hard for her to tell sometimes. She loves science and reading, and readily engages in discussing these things, regardless of whether or not the people around her want to. She lives near New York and is very excited to be in this magazine.
Vincent Turner has been writing poetry since the age of fourteen, finally now at 27 he has begun submitting his for a wider readership. He is influenced by Kim Addonizio, Philip Larkin and Billy Collins to mention a few. Without poetry Vincent firmly acknowledges that he would have been lost a long time ago.
Christian Ward is a 28 year old London based poet. His poetry can be seen in Thieves Jargon and Origami Condom, and is forthcoming in Poetry Wales, Bravado (New Zealand), Pulsar and Sage Trail. A chapbook, Bone Transmissions, will be released in March 2009 courtesy of Maverick Duck Press.
Allie Weatherbee is a seventeen-year-old student and semi-professional bum from Brantford, Ontario. She likes long walks on the beach, curling up by the fireplace, and reading a good book. Future plans are to dominate the world through mass brainwashing, and to learn how to make the perfect cup of tea. This is her first piece to be published, and she looks forward to a long life of pretending to know what she's talking about.