Biographies - issue 23
eleanor leonne bennett
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning
photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic,
The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography,
Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage.
Her photography has been published in English national newspapers
and on the cover of books and magazines in the
United states and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited.
More information can be found here:
lorna callery
Lorna Callery [artist / writer / educator]:
co-founder - Monosyllabic + Polka Dot Punks.
Interests - concrete / site-specific poetry + all things 'pop-up'.
sophie clarke
Sophie Clarke is studying for an MSt in Creative Writing
at the University of Oxford. She was commended in the
'Seeing Further: Poems on the Underground Competition' 2010,
has been published in Pomegranate, Popshot and Fuselit,
and has recorded poems for PoetCasting.
She recently guest-edited an issue of the
Poetry Society's youth magazine.
j. r. clarke
J.R. Clarke is a poet. Poems he has written have appeared
on the internet, anthologies & sewn into the back of bus seats.
You may see him reading poems at some of the more joyous
festivals across the UK in the summertime. He is working on
a poetics essay called I Went To The Edge Of My Mind &
All I Got Was This All Consuming Urge To Write Poems Until Something Disappears.
In his spare time he is an amateur hermit.
william garvin
William Garvin's first poetry collection, no exit, was published
by Arthur Shilling Press in 2010. His work has appeared in
various magazines in the UK and the USA, including Great Works,
Indefinite Space, Moria, Parameter Magazine, Poetalk & the International Poetry Review.
jo langton
Jo Langton is currently studying her MA in Creative Writing at the
University of Salford. Her chapbook entitled [fill the silence] was published
by erbacce-press in 2011, and she has since been published in
3AM, Depart, Bare Hands & Railroad Poetry Project.
siofra mcsherry
Siofra McSherry was born in Northern Ireland and read English
at Christ Church College, Oxford. She has published her poetry
in British and Australian journals and her work has been
anthologised in the Salt Book of Younger Poets 2011 and elsewhere.
She also works as an art critic and publishes regular articles
on contemporary art in the US and Europe.
ali znaidi
Ali Znaidi lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He graduated with a BA
in Anglo-American Studies in 2002. He teaches English at
Tunisian public secondary schools. He writes poetry and has an interest
in literature, languages and literary translation. His work
has appeared in The Bamboo Forest, The Camel Saloon, phantom kangaroo,
BoySlut, fortunates.org, and is upcoming in Otoliths.
He also writes flash fiction for the Six Sentence Social Network -
