CONTRIBUTORS

Rosie Adams is 22 and lives in London. She has just finished a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster and is trying to work out what she is supposed to do next. She has been published by a couple of online literary journals and was a runner up in the recent Waterstone's Books Quarterly short story competition.

Viccy Adams is currently completing her creative writing PhD at Newcastle University. She is addicted to reading fiction, drinking tea, and scribbling notes on any paper or paper-related product close to hand when an idea comes into her head. Read more about her work on www.vsadams.co.uk

Grace Andreacchi is an American-born novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent’s Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Elysian Sonnets. Her work appears in Horizon Review, The Literateur, Cabinet des Fées and many other fine places. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books and writes the literary blog AMAZING GRACE. She lives in London. 

Lane Ashfeldt is a writer, editor and teacher who currently lives in Wales. A published short story writer who has won several prizes for her short fiction, she also works as a web editor, and teaches creative writing with the Open University. Her website is at www.ashfeldt.com

Chelsea Ann Blackburn is originally from Wisconsin. She has a creative writing degree from Carroll University and is now living in Dublin.

Becca Bland is a 27-year-old writer living and working Dalston, London. As well as prose she reviews regularly for Murmur Art and The Dalston Howl, her own music blog with writing partner, Amanda Barokh. She is keen on Aikido and Eastern Philosophy and is currently working on her first book, as well as collating a collection of 'First Days' from immigrants. Becca came to public attention with Non-Photography Day, a performance whereby she encouraged the general public to put their cameras down and live in the moment on July 17th.

Paul Blaney is a British short story writer, now living and working in the United States.

Gavin James Bower's first novel, Dazed & Aroused, was published by Quartet Books in July 2009. He has contributed to 3:AM Magazine, FLUX and the Sunday Telegraph, he is working on his second book, Made in Britain, and he tweets at @gavinjamesbower.

J Bradley is the author of Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009), The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot (Safety Third Enterprises, 2010), and My Hands Are As Thick As Dreams (Patasola Press, 2011). He is the Interviews Editor of PANK Magazine and lives at iheartfailure.net.

Kate Brown is a British film-maker and writer living in Berlin. Her films 'Julie & Herman' and 'Absolutely Positive' have been shown at festivals and on television in Europe and the USA. Her short stories are published in The Linnet's Wings, Blue Print Review, Eclectic Flash, Staccato Fiction, BLIP, Cinnamon Press and the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 2010.

Bahar Brunton has written four plays, several short stories and two longer novel-length pieces. She has four stories available to buy from www.etherbooks.co.uk. Three of her short stories have been read out at White Rabbit nights and her 4'33'' story 'Earthly Creatures' was shortlisted for the London Short Fiction Award. She has had an article published by Parsiana magazine is currently working on a play based on the life of Sofka Skipwith which will be performed at The Calder Bookshop & Theatre in mid-2012.

Lana Citron is an actor and the author of five novels, a non-fiction book, short stories, and radio plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her latest book, 'A Compendium of Kisses' was described by the Economist as 'an intellectual and indulgent treat.' Her website is www.oneoffkisses.com

Katy Darby's work has been read on BBC Radio, won various prizes, and appeared in magazines including Stand, Slice and Mslexia. She teaches writing at City University, edits the literary magazine Litro and runs monthly fiction event Liars' League. Her first novel, The Whores' Asylum, will be published by Fig Tree (Penguin) in 2012.

Born and raised within a 4-mile West London radius, Tom Dearden first started writing when he was 6 years old. He completed an MA in Novel Writing at Manchester University and wrote his debut novel The Doctor Bumfleece Experiment. In December 2009 he completed his second novel Stagger. His short stories and links to his novels are at www.tomdearden.org.uk and his blog is at: thesplenicvein.blogspot.com. He's also branching into scripts, having co-written a sitcom called 'The Bradpole Awakening' and a solo studio-based sitcom 'Junk & Disorderly'.

Thomas DeMary, whose fiction has appeared in Up The Staircase, Monkeybicycle and is forthcoming in PANK Magazine, also contributes a weekly column for PANK Magazine's blog. He currently lives in New Jersey. For more information on the author, visit him at www.thomasdemary.com.

David Feela's work has appeared in regional and national publications and in over a dozen anthologies. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Four Corners Free Press and has an MFA from Vermont College. A chapbook of his poetry, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the 1997 Southwest Poet Series, and his first full length poetry collection, The Home Atlas (2009), was published by WordTech Editions.

Dulcie Few recently graduated from an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex. She co-runs Stray Signals, a monthly performance night in Brighton and is also one of the editors of Leaf, a small creative writing journal.

Norman Hadley is a poet from Garstang who also dabbles in prose. He has completed three and a half poetry collections, one of them being both small and collaborative. The most recent, full-sized collection is A Whoop Above the Dust. When things refuse to rhyme, he writes prose - usually short, but including a couple of novel-length stories, The Last Munro and The Lucky Krab. Whilst not making stuff up, he designs heavy-duty diesel engines for ships and trains. His website is at normanhadley.com

Tania Hershman's first book, The White Road and Other Stories (Salt Modern Fiction, 2008) was commended, 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. Tania was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 Binnacle Ultra-Short Contest, and European winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's Short Story competition. Her stories are published or forthcoming in, among others, Smokelong Quarterly, Elimae, the London Magazine, Riptide, BRAND, Dogzplot, Eyeshot, Electric Velocipede and Nature, and a week of her flash fiction was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Tania is currently writer-in-residence in Bristol University's Science Faculty and has just been awarded an Arts Council England grant to work on a collection of biology-inspired short fiction. Her website is www.taniahershman.com and she blogs about writing at TaniaWrites.

Nicholas Hogg was nominated for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award for his début novel Show Me the Sky. Winner of the New Writing Ventures award for fiction, and prizes in the Bridport and Raymond Carver short story contests, his writing has also been broadcast by the BBC and now features on the Ether Books app. His second novel, The Hummingbird and the Bear, is due to be published in spring 2011. His website is www.nicholashogg.com.

Richard House’s novels, Bruiser and Uninvited are published by Serpent’s Tail. His collaborative projects with Chicago-based group Haha are documented online at hahahaha.org. His fiction and co-authored short films have received support from the Arts Council and the UK Film Council. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Birmingham.

Gavin Inglis lives and works in Edinburgh. He uses linear prose, hypertext, music, photography and immersive games to tell stories, and performs with the spoken word collective Writers' Bloc. His feedback score on eBay is currently 105. His website is: www.gavininglis.com.

Thomas Legendre is the author of The Burning, which was longlisted for the Warwick Prize, and Half Life, a play performed as part of NVA’s art installation in conjunction with The National Theatre of Scotland. He is currently at work on a novel and a radio drama. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham.

Kirsty Logan is a writer and editor based in Glasgow. She has an MLitt (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Glasgow University, and her writing has appeared inelimae, Pear Noir!, Wigleaf, Gutter, and other publications. She's the founder and editor of Fractured West magazine and the reviews editor for PANK.

Pauline Masurel's stories have have been recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and online at New Fairy Tales. She frequently reads her own work with the Bristol-based Heads & Tales storytelling group, and her website is www.unfurling.net.

Shaylen Maxwell emerged from the womb penning novels.  Her short fiction has appeared in over a dozen publications, most notably: Reflection's Edge, New Works Review, and Wild Violet. She is editor-in-chief of State of Imagination and currently resides in exile with her menagerie of wild animals: two red wolves, two deranged felines, four blood-thirsty bunnies, her husband Beldoe, and her infant Sneaky.

Lynsey May lives, loves and writes in Edinburgh. She is the author of the chapbooks A Taste and It Starts So Sweetly. Her frequent musings and occasional creative work can be found on her blog and she babbles on Twitter a little. Her website is at lynseymay.com.

A. L. Michael is currently writing her first novel. She has written features and reviews for online film magazine The Film Pilgrim, and writes a popular blog, Cafe Disaster inspired by how much she hates her day job.

Brian Mihok has had work published or forthcoming in Hobart, Wigleaf, >kill author, Bartleby Snopes, Necessary Fiction and elsewhere. He edits matchbook, a journal of indeterminate prose.

Nora Nadjarian is a poet and writer from the island of Cyprus. She is the author of three collections of poetry and a book of short stories, Ledra Street. Her work has been published in Cyprus, Israel, the UK, the USA and elsewhere, most recently in Litro magazine, BluePrintReview and Southword. Her micro-novel The Republic of Love was published by Blue Print Press in the summer of 2010 and a chapbook of her short stories is forthcoming from Folded Word in 2011. She blogs at www.bettyboopinspired.blogspot.com

Sally O is a Liverpool-based artist and writer who likes Soviet kitsch, sparkly things, Dia de los Muertos and dead things in jars.

Emer O’Toole is studying for a PhD in theatre studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She teaches and lectures in fun stuff like phenomenology, postcolonialism, Marx and Bourdieu. She edits Platform, Royal Holloway's postgraduate theatre journal. Emer is also a member of a writing group called New Voices who will showcase their work in the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, RADA on 27 September. She also writes comedy for the comedy group Bubble and Squeak. In her spare time Emer writes short stories, poetry, terrible terrible songs and a secret sex blog.

Sam Parker is an unaffiliated, unknown and unknowing man who writes in his spare time about nothing at all in particular. For no particular reason, he has a blog of such stories: krazmaz.wordpress.com

Lindsay Parnell is studying for her MFA and living in London. She enjoys writing fiction when the mood strikes her, which can be quite often. She met Amy Winehouse once in Soho and is happy to report she was absolutely lovely.

Dominic Perry lives and writes from his home in London after recently spending some time in Australia and New Zealand. Aside from writing he has a keen interest in photography and contemporary art. After years of threatening to put words onto paper he is now finding a voice and socially tweets @dominicperry01. 4'33'' is his first publication.

Mark Piggott’s first novel, Fire Horses, was published in 2008 and his second novel, Out of Office, came out in 2010. He has been published in magazines and literary websites including Aesthetica, Pulp Books and 3:AM. As a journalist he’s had dozens of major features in the Times, Guardian, Express, Independent, Telegraph, Observer and many others. His website is: www.markpiggott.com.

Tom Ryan was born in London and has lived in England, Slovenia and Spain.

C J Spataro is fiction editor and co-publisher of Philadelphia Stories. Her fiction has been published in Mason's Road, The Baltimore Reivew, XConnect and Wild River Review.

Marcus Speh lives in Berlin. 'Finnegan Flawnt' was a pseudonym he used previously. Marcus curates the One Thousand Shipwrecked Penguins project, serves as maitre d' at the kaffe in katmandu and has nothing to flawnt otherwise. His short fiction is scattered all over the place.

Penn Stewart lives and writes in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Mike Wendling is a radio producer, writer, and the majordomo of 4'33''.

Recent graduate of the Royal Holloway Creative Writing MA Eley Williams is 24, lives in London and is Deputy Editor of The Literateur online literary journal. Winner of the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize and the Hackney Citizen's Valentine's Day competition, she measures out her time scribbling, cadging free WiFi from the capital's cafes and listening to Radio 4 - she hopes she hasn't done the continuity announcers too much of a disservice with her story.

Gregg Williard lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Tattoo Highway, Wisconsin Academy Journal, Anemone Sidecar and Diagram, among others, and he reads fiction three Fridays a month on Fiction Jones, WORT community radio, 89.9 FM.

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