A Thousand Shades of Green

In this 1st Birthday Celebration of “Feasting Upon the Bones”, the debut short story collection from Suzanne Craig-Whytock, Susan reads the story, “Perfect Food”.  

In this finale episode, Susan reads one poem from each of the season's six featured writers, Marcelle Newbold, Derek Coyle, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Paul Short, Sinead McGuigan and Mike Bove,  in response to the theme of water.  

Mike Bove is the author of four books of poetry, most recently EYE. His poems have appeared in Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, and others. He served as a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Acadia National Park and is Editor of Hole in the Head Review, a biannual online poetry journal. Mike lives with his family in Portland, Maine where he was born and raised. www.mikebove.com

Sinead McGuigan, a poet and psychology graduate from University College Dublin, writes poetry that explores the human condition and deepest emotions connected to experience.  Sinead has three collections, “A Gift and a Curse” , "Unbound” and “My Muse of Restless Nights “.. Sinead has been widely published in many magazines and collaborated on projects for women's rights.  Sinead is currently working on her fourth collection.  Further details  Instagram & Facebook  @sineadmcgpoetry  linkt.ree/sineadmcgpoetry 

Paul Short is a poet from Newcastle upon Tyne, currently working on his first pamphlet. His main influences are the heritage of the North East and his working-class background.    Paul's poetry has been published in anthologies from presses including Black Bough Poetry, Broken Spine Arts and Hedgehog Poetry. He has appeared in journals including Dust Poetry Magazine, The Starbeck Orion, Flight of The Dragonfly, Dark Poets Club and several more.   Paul also writes ‘The Book Bag', a weekly showcase of a poetry pamphlet or collection to uplift writers in the poetry community.   Website: https://paulwritespoems.com    Bluesky: @paulwritespoems.bsky.social X: @paulwritespoems Threads/FB: paulwritespoems

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Australian artist and poet of South Indian heritage. Her poetry has been nominated for several prizes, including the Pushcart Prize, the Dai Fry Award for Mystical Poetry, the Best of the Net, and the Glass House poetry awards. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman's Voice Journal. She is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press UK),  A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (winner of The Little Black Book Competition, Hedgehog Poetry Press UK), and three digital micro-chaps books published by Origami Poems Project (US). She lives and works in Lindfield, on traditional Gammeragal land.  Find her on X @oormilaprahlad and www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings

Derek Coyle's Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow (2019) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong 2020 award for best first collection. Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster (2024) is published in a dual language edition in Tranas, Sweden.  His poems have appeared in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, The High Window and The Stony Thursday Book. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick's, Ireland.

Marcelle Newbold is Bridport Prize shortlisted, Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated, runner-up in the Walk.Listen.Create writing competition, and winner of the Poetry in the Arcades competition, Marcelle's poems have been published in online and print magazines including Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Black Iris, iamb, and Fly on the Wall Press, and in recent print anthologies by Black Bough Poetry, Maytree Press, Wild Pressed Books, Icefloe Press, Broken Spine, and Indigo Dreams.  Her hybrid art/poem mini-pamphlet 'City Companions' in collaboration with Karen Pierce-Gonzalez published by Hedgehog Press is forthcoming in 2025. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect, and now tutors at the Welsh School of Architecture and works in community engagement. Her poem 'Arcade hopping' is on permanent display in Cardiff City Centre.

This episode is a celebration of “Smatterings of Cerulean”, a collection of short poems by our host, Susan Richardson, accompanied by the photographs of Ken Whytock, published by Dark Winter Press.  Susan is joined on this episode by a few of her friends and favourite writers, Suzanne Craig-Whytock, Lawrence Moore, Doreen Duffy, Peter Lilly, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Mo Schoenfeld and Steve Denehan.  You can buy “Smatterings of Cerulean” links below.  Amazon IE - https://tinyurl.com/y7uzsmc8 Amazon US - https://tinyurl.com/uhx6t2hb Amazon UK - https://tinyurl.com/8vmpme82 Amazon CA - https://tinyurl.com/ytzf3rf8

In this Epic Finale Episode, Susan reads work from all fourteen Season 4 Featured Writers: Eilin De Paor, Doreen Duffy, Mary Earnshaw, Vikki C, Julie Stevens, Vitor Vicente, Patricia M. Osborne, Eileen Carney Hulme, Merril D. Smith, Robert Frede Kenter, Fidel Hogan Walsh, Hiram Larew, Christopher Butt and Lucy Heuschen.  

Lucy Heuschen is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, born in London and living in the Rheinland, Germany. Lucy's work appears in journals such as Dream Catcher, Lighthouse, Obsessed With Pipework, The High Window, Green Ink, Skylight 47, The Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears among others, and in anthologies from Black Bough, Sídhe Press, New Contexts and Yaffle. She was commended in the Poetry Society's Stanza Competition 2024 and shortlisted for Ink Sweat And Tears' “Pick of the Month” for October 2024. Lucy is part of Wave 2 of The Broken Spine's “Untamed” anthology series. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: We Wear The Crown (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2022) and Loggerheads (The Broken Spine, 2024). A Thousand Shades of Green special episode featuring Loggerheads BlueSky: @PetiteCreature1.bsky.social Website: http://www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

Originally from Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador, Christopher Butt is a retired member of the Canadian Forces navigating his way to a life of being a writer. His genres include Science Fiction, Fantasy, weird fiction and the occasional humorous piece.   His first collection of short stories, “In the Lair of the Kraken” was published in January 2024. He is currently working on his second collection. Christopher lives in St. Catharines with his wife, Angela. You can find his work on his Wattpad page under the name “Buttster” and on Darkwinterlit.ca

Patchy Way, Larew's sixth collection, was published in 2023 by CyberWit Press.  As founder of Poetry X Hunger, he is bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause.  www.HiramLarewPoetry.com and www.PoetryXHunger.com

Fidel's words have been performed, published & shared wildly.  A limited edition of ‘Words on Water, nature-inspired poems produced for National Heritage week 2023 (Friends of Castle lake Catchment). Is the perfect marriage between poetry, nature & science. She has two full collections ‘Living with Love' & ‘Time' (‘Time' was named in the top 10 non-fiction of 2020 by Dublin City Libraries). Her short stories can be found in ‘Thrice Remembered – An Anthology of Cavan Writings'. Collaborations that Inspire is a series of Fidel's poems paired with various artists.

Robert Frede Kenter is a multiple Pushcart-nominated poet,  a BOTN nominee, a writer of experimental prose, a performer, an editor, a visual artist, a multiple grant recipient, book designer & EIC/Publisher of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net). Books include FATHER TECTONIC (forthcoming, Ethel Zine Press, 2025), & hybrid collections, EDEN (2021), & Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert's in many anthologies incl. Shine #1 (2024 publ. by Samantha Terrell), Kireji /Cutting Words (Nun Prophet Press, 2024), After Hours: Beat Culture Made New (Broken Spine Press, 2024).  The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Reformatting the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time #1 (Black Bough Press, 2021),  & numerous Fevers Of The Mind anthologies incl.: The Chelsea Underground (2023) for John Cale, Warhol & the Factory. Recent journals: Cable Street, Harpy Hybrid, Storms Journal, Cutbow Q, Street Cake,  Feral, Erato, Setu, WatchYrHead, Visual Verse, & others. Robert contributed poetry to the recent 40th anniversary exhibition for the band, Bronski Beat (UK).   

Merril D. Smith lives in southern New Jersey near the Delaware River. Her work has been published widely in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, Feral, Sidhe Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Storms, Fevers of the Mind, Gleam, Humana Obscura, and Nightingale and Sparrow. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Temple University in Philadelphia and is the author/editor of numerous books on gender, sexuality, and history. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was Black Bough Poetry's December 2022 Book of the Month.   Twitter/X: @merril_mds   Instagram: mdsmithnj   https://merrildsmith.org/  

Eileen Carney Hulme is inspired by the big skies and deserted beaches near her home in Findhorn in the north east of Scotland. Over 25 years as well as 4 books she has had hundreds of poems published in magazines, anthologies and ezines. She has been a winner, runner up or commended in numerous poetry competitions including The Crimson Spine Competition, The Cupid's Arrow Competition, The Brian Nisbet Poetry Award, The Federation of Writers Scotland Competition and The Scottish Association of Writers Write up North Competition.  She has read at many poetry events and her work has been set to music, most notably a score was completed by Dr Mark Keane musical director of multi award winning Tribal Chamber Choir and performed at Cork City Hall. Eileen has also been a poet in residence in a gallery where she offered ekphrastic workshops.

Patricia M. Osborne is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren. She was born in Liverpool but now lives in West Sussex. In February 2019, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing via the University of Brighton. She is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. When she's not working on her own writing, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and acts as a mentor to fellow writers.  In 2017 she was a Poet in Residence at a local Victorian Park in Crawley and her poetry was exhibited throughout the park. In 2019 her poetry was on display at Crawley Museum.  Patricia has had numerous poems and short stories published in various literary magazines and anthologies. You can find her books here.. 

Vitor Vicente is a Portuguese author who has lived abroad since 2006, between Spain, Ireland, Poland and Hungary, and currently resides in Dublin.  He is the author of 12 published books, with the theme of travelling running through all his work. His latest title is the poetry collection "Harry Kernoff's Guest", which also contains reproductions of the paintings that inspired the writing.  He collaborates with The Echo with a sports column.

Julie Stevens writes poems that cover many themes, but often engages with the problems of disability. She is widely published in places such as Ink Sweat & Tears, Broken Sleep Books and The Honest Ulsterman. She has three published pamphlets: Step into the Dark (2023), Balancing Act (2021) both with The Hedgehog Poetry Press, and Quicksand ( Dreich  2020) . www.jumpingjulespoetry.com     Twitter @julesjumping, Facebook @Julie Stevens, Instagram @jumpingjulespoetry  

Vikki C. is a London-born award-nominated writer, poet, musician and author of ‘The Art of Glass Houses' (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and 'Where Sands Run Finest' (DarkWinter Press, 2024).   Vikki's poetry and fiction are published/forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Amethyst Review, EcoTheo Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Stone Circle Review, Ballast Journal, ONE ART Poetry, Sweet Literary, Emerge Journal, The Hyacinth Review, Harpy Hybrid Review, Cable Street, Boats Against The Current, Salò Press, The Belfast Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Ice Floe Press, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit,  The Broken Spine, Acropolis Journal, The Winged Moon, New Feathers Anthology, Nightingale & Sparrow, Ellipsis Zine, Origami Poems, Lazuli Literary Group, Across The Margin and Igneus Press among others.   Her writing has been nominated for ‘Best of the Net' and the ‘Orison Best Spiritual Literature'.    Twitter: @VWC_Writes Linktree: https://linktr.ee/vikki_c._author Soundcloud: Vikki C. Music https://on.soundcloud.com/TJcu1  

Mary Earnshaw's writing life began in technical journalism as a European editor covering telecommunications and electronic defense for an American company – after a history degree! She has worked in PR, both as a consultant and in-house. Mary has lived and worked in the Netherlands (with Philips), run a small academic press and she has always written freelance. She has spent lots of time in Africa, mostly in Zambia, thanks to marrying an archaeologist. Mary began writing poetry in earnest in 2019. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Bridport poetry prize and Julian Lennon poetry prize. Her poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in various print journals and anthologies. A pamphlet, ‘Belisama', was a prize-winning ‘new alliance' with three other Merseyside poets. Mary spent 2022/2023 writing a non-fiction book based around visiting monastic ruins, ‘Right Awful and Sublime' a sentimental journey among the ruins of belief  which she is currently submitting. 

Doreen Duffy is a Creative Writer and Tutor, with an MA in Creative Writing from DCU, where she graduated with first class honours. She is a Pushcart nominated writer who has been widely published in journals including, Poetry Ireland Review 129 by Eavan Boland, The Storms Journal Issues 1, 3, and the soon to be released Issue 4,  Glisk & Glimmer from Sídhe Press, Black Bough Poetry Christmas/Winter 2022 & 2023, The Galway Review, Flash Fiction USA, The Woman's Way and The Irish Times. She won The Jonathan Swift Award, was presented with The Deirdre Purcell Cup at The Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival, and Shortlisted in The Francis MacManus Competition, with her story, ‘Tattoo' which was broadcast on RTE Radio One.

Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin. She writes short-form lyric and narrative poems and can be found on X and Linktree as @edepaor. Alongside poetry, she works in services for people with disabilities and is currently studying towards a PhD in that field. Her collaborative pamphlet, 'In the Jitterfritz of Neon', written together with Damien B. Donnelly, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. She worked with Damien again as sub-editor for Issue #2 of The Storms: a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. Eilín's poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Our Own Coordinates from Sídhe Press, Black Bough Press Christmas & Winter Volumes 2 & 3, Banshee, The Storms, The Frogmore Papers, Iamb, Skylight 47, Flights, The Waxed Lemon, Belfield Literary Review, Abridged, New Ohio Review, The Night Heron Barks and Raleigh Review, among others.

Jen Feroze is a UK poet living by the sea. Her work has been widely published, featuring in Under The Radar, Poetry Wales, iamb, Butcher's Dog, Stanchion, Okay Donkey, Magma, Berlin Lit, And Other Poems, Black Iris, Chestnut Review and more. She won the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition in 2024 and placed second in the 2022/2023 Magma Editors' Prize. Jen has edited anthologies for Black Bough Poetry and The Mum Poem Press, and her pamphlet Tiny Bright Thorns was published in 2024 by Nine Pens. Find her on X @jenlareine and on Instagram @jenferoze.   Signed copies of Tiny Bright Thorns are available here (UK only): https://jackdaweditorial.com/product/tinybrightthorns/   The pamphlet is also available from Nine Pens: https://ninepens.co.uk/shop#!/products/tiny-bright-thorns---jen-feroze  

Lesley Curwen is a poet, broadcaster and sailor who lives in Plymouth. She writes about loss and rescue, and is drawn to the sea as a source of comfort and deep joy.  Her new collection 'Rescue Lines' deals with traumas around forced adoption and coercive control. It is about finding, and losing a sister.  She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize, was a finalist in the Wales Poetry Award and has an eco-chapbook, 'Sticky with Miles' from Dreich Press.  Her poems have been published by Bad Lilies, Black Bough, Broken Sleep, Atrium, Spelt, The Alchemy Spoon and Ice Floe Press.     Her website is www.lesleycurwenpoet.com and she is often on X (Twitter) as @elcurwen.  'Rescue Lines' is available from Hedgehog Poetry Press here:   

Emma McKervey is originally from Holywood, Co. Down, and now lives in a fishing village on the Ards Peninsula with her artist husband and their son.  She has been writing poetry since childhood.  Her debut collection, The Rag Tree Speaks, was published by Doire Press.  Highland Boundary Fault, published by Turas Press in May 2024, is her second collection.   

The Season 3 Finale of A Thousand Shades of Green highlights the diverse and beautiful writing from all of our Season 2 featured writers: Julian Day, Rhona Greene, Paul Brookes, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Bojana Stojcic, Marty McKenna, Mo Schoenfeld and Peter Lilly.

Peter Lilly is a British Poet who grew up in Gloucester before spending eight years in London studying theology and working with the homeless. He now lives in the South of France with his wife and son, where he concentrates on writing, teaching English, and community building. His debut Collection 'An Array of Vapour' is available with TSL publications, and his second collection 'A Handful of Prayers' is forthcoming with Wipf & Stock.

Mo Schoenfeld's work appears online and in print at Irisi Magazine, Haiku Crush's The Best Haiku 2021-23, Tiny Wren Lit, Pure Haiku's blog, Annick Yerem's Advent Calendar, Fevers of the Mind, the Wombwell Rainbow and The Storms, as well as the Sídhe Press anthologies, Our Own Coordinates: Poems About Dementia, Glisk and Glimmer, and To Light the Trails: Poems by Women in a Violent World.

Marty is an independent Irish poet, born in Tyrone, now living and writing in Belfast. Marty works for the Belfast Trust and has poems published widely in both online and print journals. He won the Matrix Poetry prize in 2017. He has published three chapbooks 'silent stigma, loud leaf' October 2021 (Button Press), 'gently, but a dream' October 2022 (Button Press) and 'sleeve notes' February 2024 (Button Press).    He is currently submitting work for publication which will inform his first full collection. Awarded grants from DfC, UoA and Arts Council in December 2021 and December 2022, he has appeared three times as a guest on Eat the Storms podcast. Marty is a neurodivergent poet.

Join Susan for this Special Episode, where she celebrates the brand new collaborative poetry collection, “Pivot Points and Portals”, from Karen Mooney and Caroline Johnstone, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.  You can buy your very own copy here 

Serbia-born and Germany-based, Bojana Stojcic has work published widely across print and online journals, including Burning House Press, Down in the Dirt, Entropy, GLITCHWORDS, Indian Periodical and MockingHeart Review, among others. When not teaching, writing or reading, she can be found swimming or making chocolate cakes with her darling young one.

An award-winning writer, Karen Pierce Gonzalez's work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio and podcast shows. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press) and Moon Kissed, Earth Wrought, Vision Drunk (with a North American publisher).     With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art' blogzine on FolkHeart Press.    An intuitive artist, her work is primarily upon assemblage (3D) based upon elements found in nature. To date, 50+ of her art images, including six cover images, have been published in a range of literary journals/magazines  

Handpicked by Alan Parry, these poems discuss love in its myriad forms.  Untamed Love explores the terrains of affection, longing, and resilience.  From intimate whispers to the stark realities of life's challenges, each piece navigates the depths of the heart.  The Whiskey Tree; Untamed Love (Wave 1) is a celebration of love's enduring spirit, making it a must-read for anyone captivated by the strength and vulnerability of the heart.  https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/about/

Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include Wolf Eye, (Red Ceilings Press, 2023), Wolf Eye Territory,(ImpSpired, 2024). Forthcoming Ever Striding Edge, (Dark Winter Press, 2024). He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews and challenges and a new substack webzine, The Starbeck Orion. He has had work broadcast on BBC Radio 3 The Verb and BBC Radio Sheffield. Nominated for the Rhysling Prize, and twice for the Pushcart Prize. Recently, guest edited for the second time Setumag's "Some British Working Class Poets". https://thewombwellrainbow.wordpress.com https://substack.com/@thestarbeckorion7

Rhona Greene is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer from Dublin is addicted to poetry and loves to read and celebrate the work of the wonderful online poetry community. She is published in several Black Bough Poetry editions, was shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award and her poem in Afterfeather gave the edition its name. She was the featured prose writer in The Storms Journal Issue 2 and has appeared in Sarah Connor's Advent Poems, Karen Pierce Gonzalez's Get Ekphrastic With Folk Art and The Wombwell Rainbow's Not Advent. She is honoured and delighted to feature on A Thousand Shades of Green podcast. Thank you Susan. Twitter & Instagram @rhona_greene & Bluesky @rhonagreene.bsky.social

Julian Day is a writer currently based in Surrey. His poetry has been published by Blackbough Poetry press, in their online spring and print winter 2023 anthologies. He was their featured poet in the spring edition and has been one of their guest readers on Zoom. Julian has been nominated for a Best Of The Net by Blackbough Poetry. His work has also been published by The Storms Journal and his work was featured three times in season 7 of Eat The Storms podcast. In 2024, Julian was a featured guest writer on Patricia's Pen Blog and was a guest reader on Zoom with Lime Square Poets. 

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Back From Away, the striking new poetry collection from Damien B. Donnelly, published by Turas Press.  You can buy your very own copy of Back From Away here, and find out more about Damien on floweringink.com.

Lucy Heuschen is a British poet living in the countryside near Bonn, Germany with her family and rescue dog. She came back to reading and writing poetry after a twenty-year legal career and a life-changing breast cancer diagnosis in 2018.   After her cancer treatment, in 2020 Lucy founded The Rainbow Poems, an online poetry community for anyone going through major life change. During the pandemic and the years afterwards, The Rainbow Poems hosted over 140 poets, from first-time writers to prize-winning poets. Lucy was also the Editor of the Sonnets for Shakespeare anthology, raising funds for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust during lockdown. She is the Poetry Society's Stanza Representative for Germany.   Lucy's poems have appeared in The High Window, Ink Sweat & Tears, Obsessed With Pipework, Lighthouse, Skylight 47 and The Storms among many others. She loves anthologies for the community they foster and she has appeared in anthologies by Black Bough, Dreich, Sídhe Press, Orchard Lea, Yaffle and New Contexts. Lucy's debut pamphlet “We Wear The Crown” was published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2022 and her second, “Loggerheads” — the subject of this episode of A Thousand Shades of Green — won The Broken Spine's annual chapbook competition in 2023. “Loggerheads” will make its way into the world in late April 2024. Lucy's first full collection, bringing together her love of history, storytelling, family and feminism, is due to be published by Yaffle Press.    You can find Lucy at her website:  www.lucyheuschen.co.uk and via X and Bluesky at PetiteCreature1.

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella. In this episode, we celebrate, “Welcome to The Museum of a Life”, the new poetry collection from Sue Finch, published by Black Eyes Publishing.  You can buy your very own copy of Welcome to the Museum of a Life here, and find out more about Sue Finch on floweringink.com

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella.  In this Special Episode, we celebrate Dawn's Incision, the new forthcoming poetry collection from David Hanlon,  published by Ice Floe Press.  You can learn about David on floweringink.com and find him on Facebook, Twitter (X) @DavidHanlon13.

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating The Breadcrumb Trail, the new poetry collection from Lawrence Moore, published by JC Studio Press.  You can buy your very own copy of The Breadcrumb Trail Amazon UK, and find out more about Lawrence on floweringink.com.

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Charybdis, the newest novel from Suzanne Craig -Whytock, published by JC Studio Press.  You can buy your very own copy of Charybis here , and find out more about Suzanne on flowerinignk.com 

The Season 2 Finale of A Thousand Shades of Green highlights the diverse and beautiful writing from all of our Season 2 featured writers: Gaynor Kane, Sue Finch, David Hanlon, Basilike Pappa, Karen Mooney, Beth Brooke, Jude Marr and Pratibha Castle.

Pratibha Castle, an Irish born poet living in West Sussex, is widely anthologised and published in journals and ezines including Agenda, The Friday Poem, High Window, Orbis, Spelt, Stand, Tears in The Fence, and One Hand Clapping. A Pushcart nominee, short listed in The Bridport Prize 2023, her work has additionally been highly commended and shortlisted in numerous poetry competitions including Indigo Press, Repton, King Lear Award and the Welsh Poetry Competition. Her latest pamphlet, Miniskirts in The Waste Land, a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection 2023, takes the reader on a trip through Notting Hill and India in the late 60s/early 70s. She is currently working towards a full collection.

Jude Marr (he, him) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet, editor and teacher. Jude's full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and he admires the press's founders so much that he now also works with them, as a reader, editor, and social media person. Jude also has a chapbook, Breakfast for the Birds (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and he is currently putting together a new, as yet unnamed, collection. Jude's work has appeared in many journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic; most recently in Reed Magazine, Leavings, Cutleaf Journal, and in Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices just out from Broken Sleep Books. After a checkered early career and ten years of living, learning and teaching in the US, Jude is now in England, working as a freelance editor and writing coach, and sometimes teaching an evening class in creative writing at the local art college. But cold winters and creeping intimations of age do not agree with Jude; he is plotting another move, hopefully to a warmer climate, next year. Here's to the next adventure. For more about Jude's work and to contact him, go to his website judemarr.com or find him on social media.

Beth is a Dorset based writer. She has three published pamphlets- A Landscape With Birds (2022), Transformations (2023) - both published by Hedgehog Press and Chalk Stories, also published in 2023 by Hobnob Press. Beth feels that writing is a compulsion; sometimes she sees something and the words just come, sometimes it's very slow and almost painful work but it is always joyful.

Karen herds sleepless night notions to shear and tease apart from the heart before attempting to knit them into a garment that others can slip into.   The Hedgehog Poetry Press has published some of those garments; more recent work can be found in The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. Karen's work has been published in the UK, USA and Ireland and is included in several anthologies. She co-wrote ‘Penned In' with Gaynor Kane, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2020, publisher of her recent debut pamphlet ‘Missing Pieces' and of her forthcoming pamphlet ‘Pivot Points & Portals', co-written with Caroline Johnstone. 

Basiliké Pappa lives in Greece. She writes poetry, myth retellings,  and sometimes, short stories.  Her work can be found in Heron Tree, Carmina Magazine, Dark Passions, Otoroshi Journal, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Rat's Ass Review, and others. You can also read her in the anthologies Darker Objects (Indie Blu(e) Publishing, 2023), Hidden in Childhood (Literary Revelations, 2023), Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (Experiments in Fiction, 2023) and Shaping Water: Erotic Haiku and Tanka (Moth Orchid Press, 2022). In 2023, she was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her poetry in Darker Objects.

David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. He is co-poetry editor for Broken Spine Arts. You can find his work online in over 80 magazines, including Rust & Moth, Barren Magazine, The Lumiere Review & trampset. His first chapbook Spectrum of Flight is available at Animal Heart Press. You can follow him on twitter @davidhanlon13 and Instagram @hanlon6944