Rachael comments “I have always been fascinated with eyes and faces in all media of my artwork.”
Lulled
the giants are here they mollycoddle me cuddle me feed me a jugful of uncurdled milk they spoon pureed peaches into my gurgling mouth then sing lullabies to soothe me to sleep they promise me the world and everything that’s not extinct by the time I’m old enough to know the difference between a rhinoceros and a hippopotamus then while I dream they go and start a revolution to save the oceans the earth the skies they leave Argus Panoptes to watch over me and I am safe protected unaware a hundred cataracts haunt his dauntless eyes
-Spangle McQueen
See in the Dark
“When what you write about is what you see, what do you write about when it’s dark?” —Charles Wright
Faces of lost loves and my sons when they were small, heat shimmer off a Texas highway when I was a boy, the woman gesturing to no one on the bus this morning. Even with the light off it’s never completely dark: I can see the pale green numbers on a digital clock and streetlight filtered by the blinds and ambient light from who knows where.
-Gregory Luce
Tantalum Lenses ‘I did nothing wrong’—Dominic Cummings
I crossed the polished marble floor and found the politician’s optician at home. His door was always open for eye tests and fittings.
He looked long and hard into my eyes. He’d damaged his own eyesight writing illuminated text by candle light.
He said there was no need to change my prescription— exposure to his line of sight had scratched my tantalum* lenses with his vision.
*Tantalum is a conflict resource used in mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers.
-Kit + CY
Twenty Twenty Vision Masked and long division Nature human fission The World or us… Decision? -Mivvy Tekchandani
Out of blank space gouge out shapes of apples and light, as instrument digs a blister into palm
He cannot afford mistakes, steady handed controls citrus bite of wives and mistresses.
Strong stink of oxidized linseed oil, resins, ground cork, wood flour and pigment all pressed together and flattened. In later life after bull sunned atrocities.
If mistakes made disguise, or begin again. A head on challenge. Black eyes carve the shapes, Print bold red, yellow and green. A still life, unstilled creation.
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
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Bios And Links
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
Merril D Smith Margaret Royall Emily Vernalls Mick Jenkinson
Tim Fellows
Bios And Links
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
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Karen Pierce Gonzalez
is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio shows, and podcasts. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). Writing credits also include several short plays staged through Fringe Festival of Marin (USA).
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. Other current projects include a series of videos based upon 1) original folktales/legends and 2) imagined prequels/sequels to fables and fairy tales.
Her visual artistry focuses primarily upon assemblage art based upon elements found in nature (tree bark, bird nests, etc.). To date, 50+ of her art pieces, including six cover images, have been or are scheduled to be published in a range of literary journals/magazines.
And she gets to do all that in the verdant rural landscape of San Francisco’s North Bay.
Links: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart
Sara Elizabeth Bell
Artist Statement:
Sara Bell has always drawn. As a child, her mother would say, “Go to your room and DRAW something!” when Sara needed a break. She later earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, moved to Northern California, and had 2 children.
Now, she lives in Western North Carolina and embodies the John Muir quote, “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” She ventures off into the mountains and off the beaten path to find beautiful, peaceful places to sit and draw. This provides her with respite from her main task of caring for her autistic son. Then she can return to the hustle and bustle of her world with a clearer mind and peaceful soul. She also develops and completes the drawings using water to lift the inks and watercolor techniques to add color. Once complete, her images capture the beauty and peace of being in the woods
Most recently Sara has been working in a variety of water based mediums. Her primary modality is to go out into the woods, find a magical place that calls to be drawn and sketch it using water based ink pens. Then she returns to the studio and uses layers of water colors and other inks to fully develop the image capturing the peace and beauty of the natural world.
At other times, Sara returns to the discipline of detailed watercolor painting, drawing and intaglio printmaking to develop her images further. Allowing her to explore deeper themes inspired by her exploration of Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and the therapeutic journey she has been on with her ausome son and her neurotypical daughter.
Sara says: “ I hope you can look at my images and find yourself reminded of being in the wild places and through that, connect with the natural peace being in the presence of trees can provide.”
Robert Frede Kenter
is a multiple-pushcart-nominated poet, writer, visual artist and the publisher/EIC of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) whose work explores relationships between illness, disability, family & social histories, climate change, dystopia, myths, dreams, hallucinations and the sacred. Robert’s drawings & paintings are collected internationally, & Robert is currently working on a number of upcoming collaborations and VISPO projects exploring hybridity, colour fields, collage, and reader-response links between abstraction and modes of representation. Robert is a participant in the ongoing Wombwell Rainbow Forms-Challenge project and was a writer in the 2023 WR National Poetry Month project. Recently work in: Storms Journal, Otoliths, Fevers Of the Mind , Acropolis Journal, Street Cake Magazine, Watch Your Head, and many other venues, both in-print and online. In anthologies recently incl.: Recalibrating the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time 1 (Black Bough, 2021). Books: EDEN/vispo (2021); Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert lives with ME/CFS, is sometimes down but never out of the game. Twitter: @frede_kenter. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22.
Margaret Royall
has six poetry books. She is published online and in print. Laurel prize nominated 2021 for ‘Where Flora Sings’. Forthcoming in 2024 new collection ‘Toccata and Fugue’ (Hedgehog Press), plus chapbooks from Dreich and Impspired
Website: Margaretroyall.com, X @RoyallMargaret, Instagram @meggiepoet
GP Hyde
was born on the Wirral, Merseyside and lives in Grimsby where he writes poetry and short fiction. He studied fine art at Goldsmith’s and at the Royal Academy Schools. He has published a pamphlet ‘A Gracious Month’ and his short fiction has been extensively published by Pure Slush. His poetry has been published by Black Bough Press, Hedgehog Poetry Press, Bent Key and the Starbeck Orion.
Social media: @gphydeauthor
Emily May,
David Southwell,
Mick Jenkinson,
Mick is a poet, songwriter, musician, and freelance arts practitioner from Doncaster. He runs Well Spoken, a monthly poetry evening at Doncaster Brewery, and delivers songwriting and poetry workshops for community arts projects. His second poetry pamphlet, When the Waters Rise, was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019, and his latest album The Wheel Keeps on Turning was released in December 2023. More info at www.mickjenkinson.co.uk
Donna Faulkner
née Miller spent her childhood between countries. One foot bare and carefree in New Zealand, the other tiptoeing the coal dust and camaraderie of working class England.
Donna lives in Rangiora, New Zealand but likes to roam .She’s published in erbacce, Havik, Fieldstone Review, New Myths, Bacopa Literary Review and others. Her chapbook ‘The Oracle Of Birds : stories for the fireside’ was recently published by Written Tales.
is a guitarist, songwriter and indie musician in the UK, who has published four albums, and two singles – Penthesilea and Democracy – via CD Baby, available on most channels. The craft of writing lyrics interests him. Through creative writing, he is working to improve and explore the human experience, nature, time, love, loss, rejection, hope and injustice, and thus write better songs.
Matt has had two pieces published on thewombwellrainbow.com and a poem included in ‘Starman Oddity: Poetry and Art inspired by David Bowie’, a book published via Fevers of the Mind (David L O’Nan).
is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms,Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green. You can find out more about Susan on her website,
migrant Pakistani of Kashmiri origin, Masters in English Literature & American Studies, Masters in History, Punjab University, awarded a scholarship for distinction in English Language, holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TEFL, AIOU and a Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University UK. An International Award Winner Poet of Merit, Bronze Medal, ISP USA-2000, Short Story Writer, Author of a Novel for Young Adults, “The Adventures of the Multi Colored Lead People” (Unpublished) Educational Manager, former Head of English Department & Professor of English Literature at Pakistan Air Force AIR University Islamabad. Digital Artist with Focus on Ekphrastic Poetry. Her latest contribution – 30 Art work pieces for Upcoming Ekphrastic Poetry Event by Mr Paul Brookes of www.wombwellrainbows.com UK for April 2022 Challenge. Poetry Blog : http://poeticoceans.wordpress.com Short Story Blog : http://storiesmiracles.wordpress.com
Kevin MacAlan,
Kevin MacAlan’s home is in rural Co Waterford. He has an MA in Creative Writing, and has contributed art, poetry and fiction to many journals, including The Waxed Lemon, An Áitiúil, Howl, Recesses, Bindweed, Purple Unicorn Media, Datura, The Fish Barrel Review, and The Martello. Recently long listed fit the Nstional poetry prize.
Emma Datson,
is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.
Ivor Daniel,
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub,Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poem
lives in southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in publications, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, The Storms, and Sidhe Press. Her full-length collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was a Black Bough Press featured book. Twitter/X: @merril_mds Instagram: mdsmithnj Blog: merrildsmith.org
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