Selected Contributors:

Gary Allen was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Recent magazine acceptances include Agenda, Ambit, Edinburgh Review, London Magazine, Poetry Review. He has five full-length collections; the latest is The Bone (Lagan Press, 2008).

Jon Glover works with Stand. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Bolton and an Honorary Fellow of the School of English, University of Leeds. His last book, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Carcanet, 2008) was Ian McMillan's ‘book of the year’. Glass Is Elastic (Carcanet, 2012) is out now.

Ira Gold grew up in Brooklyn, in the only ultra-Orthodox communist family in the city. He has published over two-dozen short stories and is currently working on a novel about the great anarchist hero, Herman Himmelman.

Perie Longo has published three books of poetry: Milking the Earth, The Privacy of Wind With Nothing behind but Sky: a journey through grief. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Connecticut Review, International Poetry Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner and others.

Martin Malone is author of five novels, a short story collection and a memoir of his military service in Lebanon and Iraq. He has written for TV and his first stage play, Rosanna Nightwalker: the Wren of the Curragh, recently enjoyed a successful run. His novel, Us, won the John B. Keane / Sunday Independent Award,

Kim Moore is 28 and works as a peripatetic brass teacher for Cumbria Music Service. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Met and has been published in Poetry Review and the TLS. Kim won an Eric Gregory Award this year.

Jonathan Taylor is the author of Take Me Home: Parkinson's, My Father, Myself (Granta Books, 2007). His writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines including TLS, Times Higher, Guardian Family. His novel, Entertaining Strangers, will be published by Salt in 2012, and his poetry collection by Shoestring in 2013.

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