Contents: Issue 5 – March 2015

Poetry

LIZ VENN

• Let’s send our lovers into orbit (First Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014)

STEPHEN DEVEREUX

• The Last of England (Second Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014)

BETHANY W POPE

• Wild Thorn (Third Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014)

EMMA SIMON

• Laid

MARK RUSSELL

• Learning to Swim

CHRISTINA THATCHER

• Brushing Teeth

AMY McCAULEY

• Learning the Body in German
• Oedipa Schooled

VICTORIA KENNEFICK

• Visiting Sylvia
• On the Publication of Les Terres de Ciel (1884)

KATE HENDRY

• Spending Time

ROWENA KNIGHT

• Flotation

MICHAEL DOOLEY

• Iallach

RACHEL MANN

• Eve

ANNA LAWRENCE

• The Taming of the Shrew

MAURICE DEVITT

• The Man at the Shop

JOANNE KEY

• Seams

IAN TROMP

• North-South

RICHARD MOORHEAD

• When North Korea Attacks

BARE FICTION PRIZE RESULTS

JUDGES REPORTS

• The results and judges’ reports for the Bare Fiction Prize 2014 for Poetry, Flash Fiction & Short Story.

Fiction

DAVID McGRATH

• Ger Sheen and the Satanists (First Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2014)

ALLIE ROGERS

• Trout Quintet (Second Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2014)

ANNE CORLETT

• The Clay Baby (Third Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Short Story 2014)

AKI SCHILZ

• Count the Words, Hold your Breath (First Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014)

KIT DE WALL

• I am the Painter’s Daughter (Second Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014)

CHRISTOPHER NORTH

• At 10.59.59 (Third Prize Winner in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014)

JULIE MARTIS

• Pronouncing Ellie

CHRIS CLARKE

• Death and Rebirth of the Stag

GISELLE LEEB

• Even Birds Dream

Theatre

MICHAEL KRAS

• For Kiera

JOHN O’DONOVAN

• Rogue: A True Story about a Dog

ALLAN JOHNSON

• The Capital

Articles

FORGETTING

• Claire Hazelton in interview with philosopher Simon Critchley, author of ‘Memory Theatre’.

PERFORMING ART

• Amelia Forsbrook paints a portrait of Jim Grover, the playwright who harnessed The National Gallery’s Rembrandt season to put the Grand Master on stage.

NOTHING TO HOLD BACK THE SPINNING

• Jennifer A. McGowan reviews ‘#1Poetryanthology’ from Vanguard Editions.

A CHOIR OF VOICES

• Bethany W Pope reviews ‘Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History’.

A MIDLANDS ODYSSEY

• Polly Stoker interviews Kit de Waal, one of the contributor’s to ‘A Midlands Odyssey’ (Nine Arches Press).