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Wendy Holborow was born in South Wales, UK, but lived in Greece for fourteen years where she founded and co-edited Poetry Greece. She has won prizes for her short stories, notably the Philip Good Memorial Prize, The Aber Valley Competition, The Island Magazine and most recently a first prize in the

William Lewis took early retirement in 2011 after a wide-ranging career in further and adult education, and learned to fly a helicopter. He also joined a samba band and, in 2018, a writing group. Despite recent restrictions, he continues to enjoy the opportunities of life and the possibilities of cr

William Prendiville is the author of Fairlight Books novella Atlantic Winds, published on 11 July 2019. Born in Ireland, William was raised in Canada, in Newfoundland and Ontario. He attended McGill University in Montreal, where he was awarded the Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing. Wil

Yisol Jo was born and raised in South Korea and the Philippines, and later lived and studied in New York City, where she received a graduate fellowship from the NYU Creative Writing Program. A recipient of a translation grant from the Daesan Foundation in South Korea, she continues to be fascinated

Yoon Chung is an emerging writer based in South Korea. Her works are forthcoming in bioStories and Hobart. She studies intimacy at her desk and Comparative Literature in college. Yoon has been writing in English since she was seven – partly because her mom gave her pocket money for the good pie

Yvonne Dykes has lived in London her whole life and is the seventh of nine children. She’s married with two grown-up sons. She’s currently working as a supply teacher in primary school and has been teaching for seventeen years. She studied with the Open University and has recently completed an M

Ziella Bryars is the author of How to Mend a Broken Heart, being published by Fairlight Books in May 2021. Ziella is a writer and producer. She founded the new writing theatre show Love Bites in 2008. Her plays include Blind Date, True Love, A Room on Greek Street and Down in One

Zoe Swenson is a freelance editor and writer. She grew up in northern Vermont in the pre-Internet era – reading, listening to vinyl records, and making things out of snow. She studied English literature and creative writing very happily at Bryn Mawr College (near Philadelphia) and Victorian litera