by Kate Birch | Oct 23, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Childhood’s Cave The worst times were Thursdays. They were the weekly meetings, when things were assigned, calculated, declared. A reprimand or an insult always brought her father home in the worst of moods. Her mother, on edge, the frozen mask of...
by Kate Birch | Oct 12, 2023 | News
APPLICATIONS FOR EDITING INTERNSHIPS FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2024 & EARLY 2025 (to end February) HAVE NOW CLOSED. We will open up for these again in January 2025. Ink Sweat & Tears inksweatandtears.co.uk is an online poetry and prose magazine that...
by Kate Birch | Oct 9, 2023 | Word & Image
Helen Ivory’s sixth Bloodaxe collection ‘Constructing a Witch’ is due in October 2024. She is editor for Ink Sweat & Tears and teaches online for NCW/UEA. Wunderkammer New and Selected Poems is published in the US by MadHat Press. She has...
by Kate Birch | Oct 8, 2023 | Word & Image
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of Strange’s poems and artworks have been published worldwide....
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | Word & Image
Rising Head against cheek, arms holding tight, they rise from the water like disembodied ghosts. No words to explain from where they have come. The sea is a foreign place. Not all will escape. Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s pamphlet with artist Sula...
