Lead Editor: Justin Brown
Sub-Editor: Jessica Taggart Rose
Margate Bookie Founder: Andreas Loizou
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First published May 2021.
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WELCOME
Justin Brown Lead Editor
CONTENTS
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The Carpet Melissa Todd
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Melissa Todd is a writer and performer, editor of the Broadstairs Beacon and director of Hags Ahoy theatre company. She writes short stories, book reviews and opinion pieces, and has recently finished her first novel, Naked. She lives in Broadstairs, UK.
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You & Jane Ayres
Maidstone based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. She enjoys open mic events, is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms and has had work published/accepted in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria, The Sock Drawer, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Scrittura, Door is a Jar, Marble, Crow & Cross Keys, Agapanthus, Confingo, Kissing Dynamite and The Forge.
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The Possibilities Are Endless, I Think Cath Holland
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Cath Holland is published in a number of different places including Mslexia, National Flash Fiction Day anthologies, Spontaneity, Bristol Flash Walk, and by Dead Ink Books and Arachne Press. She has performed her work at Chester Literature Festival, Liverpool Everyman Theatre and Verbose Manchester. She also writes non-fiction on feminism, music and class and appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to talk about her writing on working class women and work. She is based in Liverpool, UK.
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The Margate Sands of Time: Reflecting and Recalibrating During the Pandemic Simon Cole
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Simon Cole almost moved to Margate but is still locked down in London, his first love. He's @halfdayholidays here and @hackneytours there. He writes and sometimes performs and he might be a walking artist, but he's never been good with labels.
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Forbidden Realm Dee Allen
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African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California U.S.A. Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early 1990s. Author of 5 books (Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater and Skeletal Black, all from POOR Press, and his newest from Conviction 2 Change Publishing, Elohi Unitsi) and 36 anthology appearances (including the newest from York, England's own Stairwell Books, Geography Is Irrelevant) under his figurative belt so far.
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Flat White Patricia Walsh
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Patricia Walsh was born in the parish of Mourneabbey, in north Co Cork, Ireland, and educated at University College Cork, graduating with an MA in Archaeology. Her poetry has been published in Stony Thursday; Southword; Narrator International; Trouvaille Review; Strukturrus; Seventh Quarry; Vox Galvia; The Quarryman; Brickplight, The Literatus, and Otherwise Engaged.
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‘Stand’ Chris F Clark
Chris F Clark is a Margate based artist, working mainly within painting and collage. The main themes she explores regularly are our own strengths and weaknesses, failures and victories, and the fluctuation between these opposites on a daily basis, as human beings in a world that is increasingly filled with tension and uncertainty.
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No rain, no flowers Louise Usher
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Louise Usher has been blessed during the initial lockdown to edit and publish an anthology about how Covid made us feel. This was an Amazon bestseller and created a fair amount of BuZZ. It even led on to PhD research around this topic! She is currently editing book two, which might even smash the sales again. Louise is also from Kent! A big fan of the Thanet coast (she used to live there during her college days) she now lives in Hempstead.
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Some People Sleep With the Window Shut Carolyn Oulton
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Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University and project lead for Kent Maps Online. Her most recent poetry collection is Accidental Fruit.
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Struggle Fredo Foo Sau Yi
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Fredo Foo Sau Yi lives in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. He enjoys writing essays and flash fiction as he sees literary arts as a great way to improve his language while expressing his thoughts.
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Leaving the Ark Isobel Cook
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Isobel Cook loves playing with language and ideas. She has an MA in Literature, Culture, and Media from the University of Lund, Sweden, for which she wrote a thesis about intertextual poetry and nuclear apocalypse. She is currently living in Ramsgate, UK.
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Lines Penned on Margate Platform Martin Charlton
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Over the last twenty years Martin Charlton has written a number of local history features which were published in True Crime Magazine, Thanet Times, Bygone Kent and more recently Isle of Thanet News. He has also had work published in the New Writer, and a couple of poems have featured on the Thanet Writers website.
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Learning to Live Lucy Hudson
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Having grown up with Congenital Muscular Dystrophy, Lucy Hudson has always had a vision to support others through the power of words rather than physical actions. She has graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University, studying Counselling, Coaching, & Mentoring, and co- authored two self-published collections of poems with Justin Brown, whom she met at University. She hopes to prove that you can do anything with the right motivations and attitudes to life, while spreading her exceptional work through any medium that allows her to channel her creativity.
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Odysseus Edward Picot
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Edward Picot was born in 1958. He earns his living as a Practice Manager in a GP's surgery in Cranbrook, Kent, but in his spare time he has been producing creative work in various media and writing criticism for more than thirty years. His work has been published by Furtherfield, the PN Review, HZ (an online journal based in Sweden) and numerous other places.
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Coming Back Karen Ince
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Karen Ince lives in Canterbury, Kent. She is a freelance editor, proofreader, and writer at www.brangaine.co.uk and a teacher of English as a foreign language. She has had a number of plays and short stories published. You can find her on various social media platforms, including LinkedIn, FB, and Twitter.
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When all this is over... Francesca Baker
Francesca Baker is a writer, marketer and journalist, specialising in the creative world. She is Head of Programming and Marketing and Margate Bookie. She fell in love with her best friend during the first lockdown, and this piece is related to that feeling. Find out more at http://www.andsoshethinks.co.uk
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Resilience Madeleine White
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Madeleine White was born in Germany, with roots in Canada and the UK. A magazine publisher and editor, she has produced national and international web and print magazines, creating a voice for those without one, such as the successful Nina-Iraq, a project she worked on with the World Bank to reach out to Iraqi women everywhere. Since 2019, she has been founder/editor of Write On! magazine and Write On! Extra e-zine, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council NPO organisation. She currently lives in Broadstairs, Kent
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Deflated Stephanie Fields
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Stephanie Fields has dedicated her weekdays to literature as a literary school teacher. Her weekends are dedicated to writing poetry and short stories of science fiction and psychological thrillers. Her poetry is inspired by anguish and trauma and empathy; her short stories are inspired by the vivid dreams she has at night while the world is sleeping. She’s a small-town girl in Lone Oak, TX in Hunt County.
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Weaving through time Elspeth (Billie) Penfold
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Elspeth Penfold (Billie) is a textile artist who combines weaving and performative storytelling. She uses hapticity and psychogeography to explore narratives by hand spinning ropes which are knotted by participants as part of performative events. In 2014, Elspeth formed a group called Thread and Word that delivers funded arts-based projects through performed storytelling. Elspeth divides her time between Wimbledon in London and Tankerton in Kent.
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From Which Stars Have We Fallen to Meet Each Other Here? Jo Gerrard
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Jo Gerrard is currently a Creative Non-Fiction PhD student following an undergraduate and Masters degree in Creative Writing and Ecocriticism. She has recently completed a full-length novel and is just finishing a book of essays. She loves magical realism, the uncanny, the unseen, and the existential. She currently has a blog: thecuckooflower.wordpress.com and is based in Gravesend, North Kent.
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Your Yogurt Maker Kelly Hegi
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Kelly Hegi is a writer, licensed minister and active Spiritual Director living in Minneapolis, MN USA with her husband, kids and dogs. She writes to explore life through a more creative lens and has just recently begun to be published both online and in print.
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Crumb Cake Elizabeth Jaeger
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Elizabeth Jaeger’s essays, short stories, book reviews and poetry have been published in various print and online journals, including The Blue Nib, Capsule Stories, Watchung Review, Ovunque Siamo, Peacock Journal, Boston Accent Lit, and Italian Americana. Newtown Literary published an excerpt from her novel-in-progress. The pandemic has her living temporarily near the beach in Mattituck, New York.
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A New Day Jeffrey Vernier
Ocean City, New Jersey – © Jeffrey Vernier
Jeffrey Vernier is an artist, author and is the founder of Misfit Mementos, currently living in Philadelphia, PA.
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Walker Tali Cohen Shabtai
Tali Cohen Shabtai was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and is an international poet of high esteem with works translated into many languages. She is the author of three bilingual volumes of poetry, Purple Diluted in a Black’s Thick (2007), Protest (2012) and Nine Years From You (2018). A fourth volume is forthcoming in 2021. She has lived many years in Oslo, Norway, and in the U.S.A.
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Taken... Sun Clovis
Living in Longview Texas, USA, Sun Clovis has an awesome husband and three inspiring children. She thinks about life events of others or asks for words on her Facebook and life comes to the ink she spills...
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Because This is My Brave New Self Tricia Waller
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Tricia Waller was a category winner in the recent ‘Stop Loan Sharks’ campaign. Her short story was runner up in the Story Town Corsham writing competition. She had a poem chosen as part of the poetry and COVID online project funded by UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and Universities of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent and her thumbnail piece was chosen for If the tree could online anthology for London Wildlife Trust. She currently lives in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
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‘Heimweh’ Ursula Wildt
Ursula Wildt is an artist living in Ibbenbüren, Germany. Ursula created the accompanying image ‘Heimweh’ (2021), which translates as ‘Homesickness’ in English. Ursula is featured in the Grey Cube Gallery, Colour online exhibition (July, 2020) and the Envision Arts Gallery, Amber: A Contemporary Collection online exhibition (October, 2020).
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Back Then Christopher Greene
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Living in Rainham, Kent, Christopher Greene is a young novelist, playwright, and writer, particularly writing murder mysteries, sci-fi and poetry. He started out when he was at university and has had several pieces of work published through the Creative Writing Society. He is currently working on Life In Words – A Collection of Poems, which should be out later this year.
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A Letter to My Love Katherine Abraham
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Katherine Abraham is an Indian Author. She has written three novels Yesterday Once More, Silenced by Love and Some Days are Forever. An Adventist, Katherine is a teacher by profession. She writes poetry and prose for various online publications & International Anthologies. Katherine's fourth novel Every Sunset Has a Story is with the publishers and it has won her a book series contract with a popular publication house in the US.
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Women Rising Madison Meadows
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Madison Meadows is a spiritual blogger. She is the author of the series, Stringing Beads: Making A Beautiful Life Moment by Moment and Shedding the Wife: a spiritual journey through divorce. In her most recent release, The Fire in a Woman's Belly her poetry explores the pain of narcissistic abuse. Madison lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Because No one Came Helen Thomson
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Helen M Thomson lives in Elham, a village on the North Downs and has spent most of lockdown wandering the country lanes while creating poems in her head. She is also the author of Stolen Destinies, a novel set in the Middle East and the Canterbury area.
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Old and New Justin Brown
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Moving Forward Jemma Goodridge
Jemma Goodridge is a LAMDA coach and poet from Milton Keynes. Often writing poems for students to perform. Jemma has a MA in Acting from East 15 Acting school and a BA Hons in Drama and Performing Arts from Worcester University.
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Great Expectations Janis Holm
Janis Butler Holm has been an Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and is now a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the US, Canada, and the UK.
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The Mask Maker Gillian Lunnon The Drouthy Poet
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Gillian Lunnon is a mum of two, living in Tunbridge Wells and working in Education. Before having children, she was an award-winning public affairs professional working in the charity and NGO sector. As a graduate of Arabic and International Relations from the University of St Andrews, she has a long-standing interest in Middle East politics and human rights issues. Her poetry has been featured on BBC Radio Kent Upload and in Pen to Print Write On! Extra.
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Dear Mum Amanda Jane Bayliss
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Amanda Jane Bayliss (Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England) is a new passionate poet who is currently experimenting with different forms of poetic work. Some of her work has already been published by Trouvaille Review and she hopes to get more published in the near future.
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Whispers Through the Trees Sophie Jackson
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Sophie Jackson is an Assistant Project Manager in the transport and development sector. In her spare time, she enjoys writing stories of contemporary fiction, and crocheting. She has had work self-published in a collection of letters at University, but this is her short story debut. Sophie hopes to kick-start her creative journey by writing more fiction-based work.
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'Take me to a better place' Molly Lambourn
Take me to a better place is an indulgent journey back to the psychedelic colours of the 1960s and 1970s, it makes me think of simple times, British summers, floral prints and dancing to music with your friends. There is something joyful and calming about the autumnal sepia tones.
Molly Lambourn is a Fine Artist and is currently studying for her MA in Fine Art at UCA Canterbury. Her practice specialises in drawing, where she explores the contrast between beautiful surfaces against complex realities. She is currently based in Herne Bay, Kent.
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Praise Song for the Invisible Maggie Harris
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Maggie Harris is originally from Guyana and lives in Broadstairs. She is the recent winner of the Wales Poetry Award 2020, has won the Guyana Prize twice and was the Caribbean Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has published six collections of poetry and three short story collections.
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Missed You Natali Spasovski-Ray
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Natali Spasovski-Ray graduated her MA Creative Writing (Nov 2019) at the University of Kent and BA Creative Writing at CCCU immediately before that. She has mainly focused on poetry and has written a collection called ‘Blood Counts’ (about the lived experience of disease). Natali is currently writing a novel (working title ’The Harvest’). Her main academic interests are the medical humanities and poetry in translation. Natali read some of her poetry at POW Thanet last year at the ‘Skeleton Under the Bed’ event, just before we went into lockdown. More recently she had two poems published in the March, and April editions of Dissonance Magazine.
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Turn the Tide Adra Cheery Sumping
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Adra Cheery Sumping is a student of culinary arts at Keningau Vocational College, Sabah, Malaysia. She likes to write poems about her surroundings and the people around her.
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Gagging Order Mark Konik
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Mark Konik is a writer from Newcastle, Australia. His plays and short stories have been published and performed in Australia, The UK, The US, UAE, Canada, India and New Zealand. The short film he wrote, A Million Times Before, was produced in San Francisco and was selected for several film festivals in Europe and North America.
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‘Gravity Grateful’ Mark Blickey
Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and Pen American Centre. His latest book is the text-based art collaboration with artist Amy Bassin, Dream Streams.
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Begin Jessica Taggart Rose
Jessica Taggart Rose is a writer and editor fascinated by human nature, the nature of time and our interactions with the natural world. Her poems have been published in the Letters to the Earth, Storm Chasers and New Contexts anthologies, Confluence Magazine and Three Drops from a Cauldron. A founding member of Poets for the Planet, she’s currently studying an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent. Normally living in Margate, she is in Paris, France as part of her course.
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