Crimewave

Contributor: Mick Scully

Mick Scully lives and works in Birmingham. His work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. His collection of linked crime stories Little Moscow was published by Tindal Street Press in 2007.

Contributor: Kay Sexton

Kay Sexton’s fiction has been chosen for over twenty anthologies. Magazine publications include Crimewave, Ambit, Frogmore Papers, Lichen (Canada) and Mindprints (USA). She was commissioned to write a short story broadcast on national radio in March, was a finalist in the Willesden Herald fiction contest judged by Zadie Smith, and won the Fort William Festival Contest. Her novel, Gatekeeper, is currently with an agent and she is working on a second novel about pornography and rivers in 1920s Hampshire.

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Contributor: Murray Shelmerdine

Murray Shelmerdine was born in Newport-upon-Tay in the Kingdom of Fife. He has worked as a ferryman, labourer, driver, teacher, computer programmer, actor, theatre director, journalist and drama critic. He has been the prime mover in an environ­mental project in a small remnant of ancient woodland in North London since 1998. He can be seen there at weekends leading groups of small children through the trees in search of treasure or battling to save the planet. He has written and adapted a number of plays, which have been produced in London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Nairobi, New Orleans and on BBC Radio. He taught acting at the City Lit in London for many years. His first collection of poems, Sermons of Sedition, was published by Nettle Press. He presents Poetry Now and Then on Resonance FM.

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Contributor: Darren Speegle

Darren Speegle’s short fiction has appeared in such publications as Black Static, Crimewave, Subterranean, Postscripts, Cemetery Dance and Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy. His futuristic novel Relics was published in 2008 and his third collection A Rhapsody for the Eternal in 2009.