BIOGRAPHIES - ISSUE 12
iain britton
Most of Iain's poetry is published in the UK, New Zealand and Australia in such
magazines as Agenda, Stand, Horizon Review, Warwick Review, Wolf Magazine,
Nthposition, Blackbox Manifold, Great Works, Harvard Review, BlazeVOX and Jacket.
Oystercatcher Press published his third poetry collection in 2009. His first NZ
collection will be coming out in 2011. Find more information here:
sean burn
Sean Burn's writing - wings are giving out - (isbn 978-1-904646-56-3). Two new artist
booklets of his are now available - let a thousand dictionaries bloom - as a free pdf download or
paper copy (at cost) from Lulu. This is visual poetry by Sean Burn is now available as part of the
chishimba chisala
Chishimba is from south east London. After completing her BA in English at London
South Bank University in 2003, it took six years for her to start her M.A. in Creative and
Professional Writing at Roehampton University. Chishimba is currently a lecturer at a Further
Education college in Surrey.
linda cosgriff
Linda is an Open University graduate who has been published in several online magazines;
one of her poems was turned into a piece of art work for Stockport Art Gallery. She
recently recited some of her work with Manchester Camerata. You can read her humorous
phil latham
Although this piece is as amusing as foreskin cheese, Phil Latham is an unpublished
novelist who wants to be the next Douglas Adams, only without the ridiculous forename.
Phil was born a long, long, time ago back in the moist lice-infested armpit of the dark
ages historians refer to as the twentieth-century. It was a brutal period when tuberculosis
appeared from nowhere but was eliminated, smallpox appeared from nowhere but was
eliminated and Keith Chegwin appeared from nowhere. Two out of three isn't bad. Last
year Phil enrolled on a MA in Creative Writing by mistake, when he sauntered through a
door he thought was the Gents. He spends each day in the sun-kissed English vista of east
Cheshire trying to age more slowly than the day before.
janine mcewan
Janine started writing prose when she was eighteen years of age. She was born
with cerebral palsy and can't walk or talk, so for her writing has always been about
communication and getting the message across.
angela readman
Angela's collection of poetry Strip is out with Salt publishing. Her flash fictions
are in a box under the bed.
geoff stevens
Editor of Purple Patch poetry magazine since 1976, reads often at various venues, poems
published worldwide. Current book, Islands In The Blood. Also has new CD.
orchid tierney
Orchid Tierney is a New Zealand writer and freelance art director within the television sector. Her
particular areas of obsession include codes, systems of language and textual spaces.
She co-edits the woman's anthology, Mapping Me: A Landscape Of Woman's Stories.
kerry-anne tipping
Kerry has just finished the first year of a part-time MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin
University. As a mother of three, she writes short stories at the kitchen table amidst the
conducive chaos of burning food, toddler tantrums and adolescent angst.
