Issue #2:

Issue #2 is hot off the presses and has been taken straight to the Manchester Book Market that is running this weekend (17-19 July) in St Ann’s Sq. It is being sold all weekend on the Comma Press stall and there will be readings from it at 4.15 on the Friday of the Market.

It has already been put onto the shelves of the Cornerhouse and Blackwells, so you can pick your copy up there or contact us via e-mail (bewilderbliss[@]hotmail.com – remove brackets to send) for a copy of this or the previous issue.More details on this issue will follow as soon as it has been officially launched at the Book Market.

The committee in charge of this issue, who also edited the fiction submissions, consisted of:

Peter Garland & Willow Hewitt

 The poetry was again edited by the rather wonderful:

Julia Buxton

And another beautiful cover was designed and produced by:

Roland LeGood

 The lovely contributors for this issue (bios to follow shortly) are:

Nick Cleary

Danny Bird

Claire Urwin

Stewart McCarthy

J.T. Welsch

Simon Friel

Keith Lander

Mark Piggott

Cora Greenhill

Jackie Kay

Nicholas Murgatroyd

Tracey Martin

Willow Hewitt

Nick Hancill

Chris Gallacher

Natalie Coonan

Eileen Pun

Veronica Turiano

Steve Hollyman

Issue #1:

This issue has arrived and is in stores now. The theme for the issue has been set by Booker-shortlisted M.J. Hyland, she has chosen ‘The Guilty’ as the concept this issue’s writing focuses on.

The contents of the issue are:

Weapons, Claire Urwin (p4)

No Place for Civil Rights, Annabel Wigoder (p6)

Poached Pears, Cora Greenhill (p10)

Republique, K. Brennan (p12)

Sleeping, Not With, Claire Urwin (p16)

Intercourse, Stewart McCarthy (p17)

Window Shopping, Peter Garland (p20)

The Distancing Project, Claire Urwin (p23)

Wednesday, Lu Rahman (p25)

Goyt Valley, near Buxton, Julia Buxton (p29)

A Nice Hot Bath, Willow Hewitt (p31)

Loan Sharks, Keith Lander (p35)

Birdwatching, Will Thacker (p37)

Please Never Take my Boy, Anthony Richardson (p41)

The First Thing That Happened, Daniel Bird (p43)

Thesaurus for a Lady Gum-Shoe, Kate Davis (p45)

A Couple of Avalanches, Claire Urwin (p48)

The Pelagian Heresy, JT Welsch (p51)

This Month’s Horoscopes, Crispin Best (p53)

Look out for the following cover, at the moment you can see it in Blackwells and the Cornerhouse, as well as any Literature Live events and the next No Point in Not Being Friends:

(cover design by Roland LeGood)