Contents: Issue 9 – April 2017

Poetry

GAIA HOLMES

• Guests

JANE LOVELL

• Perspective in a Hare’s Eye

MARY JEAN CHAN

• At the Castro

ROBERT PEAKE

• To-Do List

JANE COMMANE

• Script Notes from the lost episode of The Future
• Gasbagging
• Double-exposure

MARA ADAMITZ SCRUPE

• Hard Insulation

JENNIE OWEN

• Alone Together
• I will not teach you

VICTORIA GATEHOUSE

• The House in the Woods
• House of Dolls

JAMES W WOOD

• Courante

MARTIN MALONE

• Content Collapse
• War Poet

REBECCA TANTONY

• Baptism
• My Aunt Maria

CONSTANTIN PREDA

• Why are they laughing?
• A drink with Tom about old masters and young mistresses

JANE BURN

• Nine men on a whale

TOM SASTRY

• Jagannadha

IAN MCEWEN

• Little f-u-ck-o-ff song

JULIE IRIGARAY

• Lipstick Waterproof

HOLLY MAGILL

• Otherwise we’d just stand around like tits
• Ladies

ABEGAIL MORLEY

• The skater on thin ice
• Inside the Hollinger Box

HELEN HARRISON

• Peaceful Company

BARE FICTION PRIZE 2016 RESULTS

JUDGES’ REPORT

• The results and judges’ reports for the Bare Fiction Prize 2016 for Poetry, Flash Fiction & Short Story.

Fiction

PETER JORDAN

• Broody

CONOR HOUGHTON

• Some Nights, Like Tonight

UNA MANNION

• The Frozen Planet

C. G. MENON

• Skin Deep

XANTHI BARKER

• And Yet

LUCY CORKHILL

• Aground

HELEN DE BÚRCA

• The Parrotfish

Theatre

RACHAEL MCGILL

• Dawn

BARRY CHARMAN

• The Room

EARL ROSKE

• Light, Button, Drawer, Repeat

JEN MCGREGOR

• The Special Thing