Contents: Issue 7 – May 2016

Poetry

ASTRA BLOOM

• Hot down, cool up. Teaching my sister to dance.

ANNA LAWRENCE

• ‘… he cannot stir a finger, fix his thinking…’

CHERYL PEARSON

• Mam Tor

ROSIE GARLAND

• A New Language
• Dismantled

RICHARD SKINNER

• The Malvern Aviator

MIRANDA PEAKE

• Song for Sharon plays in the kitchen
• At right angles to Rothko
• Manoir Gimone
• Marlene

SUZANNAH EVANS

• The Previous Occupier
• Wholly Communion

DAVID GALEF

• Sk-Bl

ROBIN HOUGHTON

• Alchemnesia
• #WakeUpPhilae
• Four Star

STUART PICKFORD

• Can You Help Me?
• Question

CHRIS SLAUGHTER

• Fly Boys
• A Teacher Holding on to Being Human
• [Vanessa]

ANDREW WELLS

• porn addict hits a mid-run pause

MARIA ISAKOVA BENNETT

• Cara na Mara
• Corinthos at MIMA

BARE FICTION PRIZE 2015 RESULTS

JUDGES’ REPORT

• The results and judges’ reports for the Bare Fiction Prize 2015 for Poetry, Flash Fiction & Short Story.

Fiction

ELEANOR HOOKER

• The Lesson

MAGGIE VENESS

• The Whittling of Animals

PETER JUSTIN NEWALL

• The Mill on the River Drewenz

KRISHAN COUPLAND

• The Sea in Me

NIAMH MACCABE

• This is Unravel

JOHN WILKS

• Homo Bile Pen

WILLIAM PITTAM

• The Dark

AMY VICTORIA GRAY

• Anti-Hero

KATE WEINBERG

• Provenance

Theatre

SALLY LEWIS

• The Listening Project

ROZ WYLLIE

• Trust

KAREN MORASH

• Sprint/Marathon