Carl Beck lives in South Asia where the inspiration for much of his writing comes. He has just completed his first novel, set against Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, and has started the long and arduous task of seeking a publisher.
Jared Booth is 25-years-old and lives in
West Yorkshire with his girlfriend and a lazy dog called Sambo. Recently, they all moved onto a narrowboat.
Vivien Jones was a mature student at the Crichton Campus ( Dumfries) of Glasgow University. She lives on the north Solway shore dividing my time between writing prose, drama and poetry and devising reading events, often with music. She had a chapbook, Something in the Blood, published in February 08 by Selkirk Lapwing Press.
Linda Jackman is the mother of five living in the County of Yorkshire with a fierce love of the written word.
Though children’s rhyme is her first love, she enjoys
writing in many forms. She recently began the
Seventeenth and last Chapter of her first fantasy
novel. It is now certain and an honour to be doomed to
live within the world of children, not only within her
day to day life but also within her writing.
Miša Klimeš is 21 and studies English literature with history at Edinburgh University. His favourite things apart from poetry are boxing, Prague, Edinburgh and journalism. If you ever want to talk to him about any one of them over a good beer, preferably Czech, he'll be happy to oblige.
Chris Lindores has now survived 20 years on this planet, and is currently studying English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is inspired by Edwin Morgan, the pub, Talking Heads, making himself angry, The Doors, reading books that have nothing to do with his course, hangovers, Modest Mouse, and staying up for far too long.
Luke MacLean is a Canadian boy who enjoys wine, women and talking hockey with strangers in pubs.
Kim Moore is 26 years old and works as a Peripatetic Brass Teacher for Cumbria Music Service. Her favourite part of the job is sitting in cafes between schools and drinking cups of tea. She lives with her boyfriend Chris and their two dogs and a cat.
Ciarán O' Rourke is seventeen years old, and lives in Dublin. He has won first place in his age category in The Listowel Writer's Festival in 2006 & 2007 with his poetry, and was the overall winner of The Boyle Art's Festival poetry competition 2008. His poems have been published online in 'The Dublin Quarterly Review', 'Read This' :) (Edinburgh), 'West47' (Galway) and in print by journal 'Crannóg' (Galway). He has poems forthcoming in the Welsh journal 'Envoi'.
William Peacock's poetry and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, ESC! Magazine, Diet Soa, Swill, and elsewhere. He is a Bonpa shaman and studied the black arts in Tibet under the sorceress Anna Ogden-Nussbaum. Approach him and he will lash you across the face with his mojo from a distance of approximately thirteen feet.
J.R. Pearson lives in Idaho with his wife and two pups (he uses the dog angle to publish his work). His work is currently featured or forthcoming in Blood Pudding Press, Niteblade, The Houston Literary Journal , Byline, Blood Pudding Press, The Indie Underground, The Cherry Blossom Review, Dogzplot, Ditch, & Tipton. He was born in Lansing Michigan and still dreams of the Great Lakes.
Kenneth Pobo has a new book of poems forthcoming from WordTech Press in July 2008 called Glass Garden . He teaches Creative Writing and English at Widener University in Pennsylvania . His work can be read online at: Raving Dove, Pemmican, Forpoetry.com, 2River View, and elsewhere. Catch Ken’s radio show, “Obscure Oldies,” on Saturdays from 6-8pm EST at WDNR.com.
Charlotte Runcie is 18 and lives in Edinburgh. She has poems published or forthcoming in journals including Magma, Brittle Star, and Shit Creek Review. Tall-lighthouse will be publishing her first pamphlet in summer 2009, and in the meantime she co-edits Pomegranate, a poetry ezine for young writers. She is a tea and biscuits junkie, but can quit any time she wants.