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  • Editoral

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    References: [1] Just Like Us (2021) Growing Up LGBT+: The Impact of School, Home and Coronavirus on LGBT+ Young People; [2] Age UK (2018) Combating Loneliness Amongst Older LGBT People: Exploring Findings from The Sage Programme in Leeds; [3] Susan J. Leonardi and Rebecca A. Pope (2021) ‘(Co) Labored Li(v)es; Or, Love’s Labors Queered’ in…

  • Velvel Gold

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    Velvel Gold is a pseudonym. They’re currently writing a series inspired by stories of their (Jewish) ancestors. Each piece in it is matched to a traditional Jewish remedy.

  • Andrew F. Giles

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    Andrew F. Giles writes poetry, and (non)-fiction. He has recent or forthcoming work in The Selkie, Unpsychology, Dark Mountain Project, Abridged, Boats Against the Current, Feral and Queer Life, Queer Love (Muswell Press, 2021). He was a Spelt Magazine columnist for 2022-3. He lives and works at Greyhame Farm, a sustainability project, creative residency and…

  • David Abbott

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    David Abbott lives high up a hill in Wales with his boyfriend and rescue dog. He is an occasional writer of fiction.

  • Arbër Selmani

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    Arbër Selmani is a journalist and poet from Kosovo. He has published four books and has participated in several literature festivals in Europe, including POLIP International Literature Festival in Pristina, LITERODROM Festival in Slovenia, the XV Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Rome and Thessaloniki, and VERSOPOLIS Poetry Expo 2023. He…

  • Will Kemp

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    Will Kemp has won the Cinnamon Short Story Prize, been highly commended in the Wordsmiths Writing Contest and had work published in various magazines (e.g. Ambit, Dreamcatcher, Idle Ink, Interpreters House). He teaches Creative Writing at York University and his debut collection Surviving Larkin & Other Stories will be published by Valley Press later this year.

  • Isaac Fravashi

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    Isaac Fravashi is a writer, artist, and researcher at the University of Southampton. He is working on a PhD exploring collage and gender in contemporary art and poetry. Isaac spends most of his time climbing, stroking his cat (Shira), and working on his thesis. He can be found in some places @eyeszac

  • Keiron Lee Vine

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    Keiron Lee Vine (he/they) writes to understand his queerness, its relationship with the natural world, as well as the queerness of nature itself. Based on the Isle of Wight, with a background of illustration, millinery and digital art, he is currently focused on exploring the written word. He is also undertaking an ecotherapy course, with…

  • e.r. de siqueira

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    e.r. de siqueira is a Latinx working class poet, originally from Brazil. He read English at UFMG. Poetry works have appeared or are forthcoming in Magma, Under the Radar, The Interpreter’s House, The Cortland Review, and in the anthologies Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c.1985) by Paul Thek and Mein Schwules auge – My Gay…

  • Caleb Parkin

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    Caleb Parkin (he/they) has poems in The Guardian, The Rialto, The Poetry Review and was guest poet on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. His debut collection, This Fruiting Body, is published by Nine Arches Press and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022. He’s published three pamphlets: ‘Wasted Rainbow’ (tall-lighthouse); ‘All the Cancelled Parties’, his…