Editors & Readers
Claire Harrison
Founder & Managing Editor
Claire is a commercial copywriter and author. She has a first-class honours degree and a Masters (distinction) in Creative Writing and has published three children’s books. Her prose and poetry have appeared in print anthologies and short story collections. Her plays have been performed at the Stroud Shakespeare Theatre Festival and script in hand at The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. Claire is a part time lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and is currently writing a novel. Her work has been performed at Cheltenham Literature Festival and Stroud Book Festival. You can find her at claireharrison.blog on Twitter and on Instagram; @ClaireHWriter
Rebecca Klassen
Fiction Editor
Rebecca Klassen is an editor from Gloucestershire with a first class Masters degree in Creative Writing. Her stories have featured in publications that include Mslexia Best Short Fiction, Shooter, Popshot, Riggwelter, Ellipsis Zine, Well Read Magazine, Burningword, Barren, The Drabble, Jake Anti-Literary Magazine, New Feathers, Reedy Branch Review, Borderless, Literally Stories, Spell Binder, and The Wild Word. She has won the London Independent Story Prize for flash, and prizes with Gloucestershire Writers' Network and Dean Writers' Circle. She was shortlisted for the Oxford Flash Prize and the Laurie Lee Prize, and her stories have been performed at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stroud Book Festival, and on BBC Radio.
Maura High
Poetry Editor
Maura High was born and grew up in Wales, and graduated from Bristol University (BA) and Columbia University, New York (MA). She is now settled in the North Carolina piedmont, and active in poetry groups and poetry events locally and nationally, as well as in her native Wales. Her books include three chapbooks, The Garden of Persuasions (Jacar Press), Stone, Water, Time (Kinard Publishing), The Field Index (Bolin Press), and the forthcoming full-length collection, Field as Auditorium (Redhawk). Individual poems have appeared in a number of print and online anthologies and magazines, among them The New England Review, Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, Panoply, Terrain, Canary, Comstock Review, and The Phare. She has been awarded a number of prizes for these poems (William Matthews Prize, Terrain.org Prize, and North Carolina Poetry Society awards, among others, as well as "Best of Net," "Editor's Choice," and nominations for the Pushcart). For all the details, see maurahigh.com.