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Founder & EIC: Delphine Gauthier-GeorgakopoulosDelphine is a middle-aged writer, teacher, mother, nature & music lover, foodie, dreamer. She has a weird sense of humour, loves butter, needs coffee, hates 'easy-opening' packaging, and likes to create stories in her head.
Originally from Brittany (Breizh), she grew up in Annecy (France), before moving to Aberystwyth (Cymru) to further her studies, and Manchester (UK) to work. She now lives in Athens (Ελλάδα) with her husband, two sons, the cutest cat, and too many plants, CDs & books. |
After a seventeen-year hiatus, she returned to writing in 2022, founded Raw Lit in 2023, and co-founded The Pride Roars with Marie-Louise McGuinness in 2025. She's currently working on a Flash collection as a way to procrastinate/avoid restructuring her debut historical novel Laundry Day, a Runner-up at the Irish Novel Fair. You can read her publications on her site, and come to say ‘Hi’ on Facebook, Twitter, or Bluesky.
Her stories:
When She Left - Ghost Parachute
When the Music Stops - Bending Genres
The Cat in the Guest Bedroom - Cowboy Jamboree
Work she loves:
Lost in Landscapes by Rachel Canwell
Seas of Static Between Stations by Mathew Gostelow
Love in a Time of Ruin by Katrina Moinet
Find out more:
Interview on Duotrope
Answers to 'Six Questions For...'
Creative Community Sessions (22/3/25)
Her stories:
When She Left - Ghost Parachute
When the Music Stops - Bending Genres
The Cat in the Guest Bedroom - Cowboy Jamboree
Work she loves:
Lost in Landscapes by Rachel Canwell
Seas of Static Between Stations by Mathew Gostelow
Love in a Time of Ruin by Katrina Moinet
Find out more:
Interview on Duotrope
Answers to 'Six Questions For...'
Creative Community Sessions (22/3/25)
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Prose Editor: Marie-Louise McGuinness
Marie-Louise McGuinness lives in rural Ireland and has had work published in numerous literary journals including Banshee, The Forge, Flash Frog, Fictive Dream Bending Genres, Raw Lit and Gone Lawn. She's been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, longlisted and shortlisted in competitions including the Bath Short Story and Flash Fiction Awards. Her flash fiction “When She Falls” (Milk Candy Review) was chosen for Best Microfictions 2025 and her short story 'Homing' was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and Broadcast in November 2025. |
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She is co-founder of The Pride Roars an international collective of women writers.
Her stories:
Life in Colour - Flash Frog
When She Falls - Milk Candy Review
Battleground - The Forge
Work she loves:
Mother-mother, Wasp-mother by Ani King
Trashed by James Montgomery
What is Left by Bunkong Tuon
Her stories:
Life in Colour - Flash Frog
When She Falls - Milk Candy Review
Battleground - The Forge
Work she loves:
Mother-mother, Wasp-mother by Ani King
Trashed by James Montgomery
What is Left by Bunkong Tuon
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Poetry Editor: Katrina Moinet
Katrina Moinet grew up bilingually on Ynys Môn, studied modern languages, lived in Europe and travelled widely before returning to north Wales to raise a family. Katrina’s poetry and fiction explore language, identity, memory, and gendered experience. Their debut pamphlet Portrait of a Young Girl Falling shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. The Art of Silence won Hedgehog’s pamphlet prize. A micro-collection Lessons in Language Learning released in 2026 and State of the Nations is out with Atomic Bohemian. |
Best-of-the-Net and Pushcart Prize nominated, Katrina is published in Poetry Wales, Raw Lit, iamb, Black Iris, Barddas, Ffosfforws, Mslexia and various anthologies including Bath Flash Fiction Anthology and Mslexia Best Women’s Short Fiction. Katrina longlisted in the National Poetry Competition, has won or placed in international competitions, was BBC Radio Cymru ‘Bardd Y Mis’, and had the joy of judging New Writers Poetry Comp 2025.
Katrina is the Cymraeg editor for (un)common magazine, hails from a working-class background, is a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and has volunteered for five years creating spaces for marginalised voices at local festivals and the popular open mic night Versify at Blue Sky café, Bangor. They are working on their debut novel with Seren Books.
Discover more: @kmoinetwrites | katrinamoinet.com
Katrina’s writing:
The cost of living – iamb ~ wave 24
Vertigo – Black Iris, issue 3
Nowhere else I need to be – Globe Soup
Poems that thrill them:
Ice Baby – Amy Acre, from Mothersong (plus Amy’s Lucky 13 mixtape of poetry hits)
My body tells me she’s filing for divorce – Kathryn Bevis, from Flamingo (Forward Prize ‘How I did it’ article)
Hurricane Season in Virginia Beach – Kelly Michels, from American Anthem
Katrina is the Cymraeg editor for (un)common magazine, hails from a working-class background, is a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and has volunteered for five years creating spaces for marginalised voices at local festivals and the popular open mic night Versify at Blue Sky café, Bangor. They are working on their debut novel with Seren Books.
Discover more: @kmoinetwrites | katrinamoinet.com
Katrina’s writing:
The cost of living – iamb ~ wave 24
Vertigo – Black Iris, issue 3
Nowhere else I need to be – Globe Soup
Poems that thrill them:
Ice Baby – Amy Acre, from Mothersong (plus Amy’s Lucky 13 mixtape of poetry hits)
My body tells me she’s filing for divorce – Kathryn Bevis, from Flamingo (Forward Prize ‘How I did it’ article)
Hurricane Season in Virginia Beach – Kelly Michels, from American Anthem
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Prose and Poetry Reader: Hilary Ayshford
Hilary lives in a cluttered house in rural Kent (England) with her rescued cocker spaniel Louie, who shares her dislike of mud. Raised in the days of black and white television with only two channels and shared telephone landlines, she has nonetheless embraced modern technology but draws the line at anything AI generated. She loves Baroque music (preferably in a minor key), canals, animals and walking. She abhors designer brands, anything with 'celebrity' in the title, and food with strings in (think celery, rhubarb and asparagus). |
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She has worked as a translator, journalist and magazine editor, covering industries as diverse as agriculture, packaging and pharmaceutical manufacturing. She now spends most of her time writing fiction and indulging her obsession with words and language.
A founding contributor to The Pride Roars, her flash fiction has been widely published and she has received several nominations for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net. She is currently writing her first novel, which started out as a 1,000 word story and has now expanded to more than 100,000 words because the characters kept nagging her to tell their story.
You can read her work on her website or keep in touch on Facebook, Threads, BlueSky or X.
Her stories:
Terminus – Sundial Magazine
Our Lady of Sorrows – Temple In A City
Five Fascinating Facts About Jellyfish - The Phare
Stories she loves:
Unwanted Things by Alison Wassell
Black Annis by Matt Kendrick
Uncle Dave Fell Through a Rainbow by Sharon Boyle
A founding contributor to The Pride Roars, her flash fiction has been widely published and she has received several nominations for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net. She is currently writing her first novel, which started out as a 1,000 word story and has now expanded to more than 100,000 words because the characters kept nagging her to tell their story.
You can read her work on her website or keep in touch on Facebook, Threads, BlueSky or X.
Her stories:
Terminus – Sundial Magazine
Our Lady of Sorrows – Temple In A City
Five Fascinating Facts About Jellyfish - The Phare
Stories she loves:
Unwanted Things by Alison Wassell
Black Annis by Matt Kendrick
Uncle Dave Fell Through a Rainbow by Sharon Boyle
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Prose and Poetry Reader: Joyce Bingham
Joyce Bingham lives with her partner in a suburb of Manchester, UK. She spends time in her garden talking to her multitude of plants. She enjoys the sights and sounds of Manchester, and is a frequent visitor to Manchester Central Library. Originally from Scotland she moved south to Manchester where she worked for the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist. |
She started writing seriously in 2021, and has been published in Flash Frog, WestWord, Molotov Cocktail, Bending Genres, and Ghost Parachute. She has been trying to fit novel writing into her intense schedule of cactus wrangling, so it could be some time.
Her stories:
Hunger Three Ways - Ghost Parachute
The Monetary Value of Fish - Bending Genres
A Few Stones Out of Place - WestWord
Work she loves:
Rewind by Cole Beauchamp
Trick or Treat by Alison Wassell
Popman’s bin by Maria Thomas
Her stories:
Hunger Three Ways - Ghost Parachute
The Monetary Value of Fish - Bending Genres
A Few Stones Out of Place - WestWord
Work she loves:
Rewind by Cole Beauchamp
Trick or Treat by Alison Wassell
Popman’s bin by Maria Thomas
