Yes, It's 2025, But Here's the Best of 2024!

J.S. is honoured to have her poem "Gull" included in the Lit Shark Best of 2024 Anthology. 

As part of the anthology's stated aim of “Something Old, Something New, Something to Sink Your Teeth Into” the new poem by J.S. included alongside "Gull" is "May".

The anthology is now available as a paperback and hardcover edition.The official announcement and further details of the publication are here. Feel free to check it out. It won't bite.  https://litshark.com/lit-shark-best-2024-anthology

It's 2025!

It's 2025, and to celebrate the New Year J.S. has a new poem, "Yellow, Orange Red",  published on the twelfth day of Ink, Sweat and Tears' annual Twelve Days of Christmas special.

You can read "Yellow, Orange Red" here alongside "Turn, Turn, Turn Again" by KB Ballentine and "This Year" by Terry Dyson.

Happy New Year to you!

Festive Felicitations

 Whichever mid-winter festival you celebrate, here's wishing it's a good one for you.

Hitchin Winter Festival 2024

 

Hello Cambridge Poetry Magazine!

The first 'episode' of the brand new Cambridge Poetry Magazine was launched in Cambridge on Saturday 7th December.

J.S. is delighted to have five new poems included within its many pages, alongside the work of some superb poets.

You can check out the free pdf version via the magazine's website and eventually there will be a printed version to purchase.

Have a Nice but Naughty Christmas!

Tickets are selling fast for the Christmas 'Naughty & Nice' fiction & poetry readings at Hitchin Library on Thursday, 19th December at 6.30pm.

Four local authors (including J.S.), mulled cider and panettone in the run-up to Christmas. What's not to like?

J.S. will be providing a festive sandwich of nice and naughty, poetry and story telling - expect Christmas adorned poems and adult humour as J.S. explores some Christmas traditions and you discover how the fairy got on top of the Christmas tree!

There will also be a range of books to buy for cash if you are stuck for last minute or additional Christmas presents. Remember, one of the easiest objects to wrap is a book.

You can buy your tickets here.

100 Subtexts - 4 New Poems

 The latest edition of 100subtexts is now live and J.S. has four, brand new poems in it:

• Coming To The Castle
• Like Sand Through an Hourglass
• Advancing Backwards Round the Circulade of Nezignan L'Eveque
• Building Blocks

For further details go to: https://100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-issue-out-today.html#more

To buy a copy go here: https://payhip.com/b/Ga6nD?fbclid=IwY2xjawGxwExleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHciPxX8IRQ6BqyNVHOCvvvCmdz3aN1Y19DS7XG7hy16t28o2vtycnoADXg_aem_8wt8mdSJz3RCD3wTkH0zQg