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BOOKS
Wanderland
Poetry Book Society Summer 2025 Listing
Limited edition of 75
"Sarah-Clare Conlon’s Wanderland (Red Ceilings Press) is full of gorgeous observational poems about nature that are lovely to read and greatly skilled. Poems like ‘Colour by Numbers’ and ‘Thoughts on Silence’ have beautiful, memorable lies that conjure precise visual images." Will Mackie, New Writing North’s New and Recent Poetry from the North: Spring 2025
Lune
Poetry Book Society Winter 2023 Selection
Limited edition of 40 – SOLD OUT!
"Inspired by rivers and seas, these are dextrous and playful poems that feel alive and urgent." Will Mackie, New Writing North’s Recent Poetry from the North: Winter 2023 round-up
Using Language
Limited edition of 100 – SOLD OUT!
Marine Drive
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Poetry Book Society Winter 2022 Selection
poetry pamphlet with Contraband Books (September 2022; ISBN 978-1-910319-41-3) - more here – SOLD OUT!
Long Poem Magazine (FORTHCOMING! May 2025) - Repetitions and Pauses
Firmament (FORTHCOMING! Spring 2025) - Difficult Guest | Operatic Marriage | Shooting Interiors
aswirl (Autumn 2024, issue 7) - B L O C K S
Spelt Magazine (Spring 2024) - Roars
Litfest Histories Map (March 2024) - Scars
Blackbox Manifold (Winter 2023, issue 31) - Untitled, a collaboration with Robert Sheppard
Doubt Wisely anthology, ed Tom Branfoot (November 2023) - Horizon Gazing
Confingo, guest ed Nicholas Royle (issue 20, October 2023) - An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Manchester - order here
the modernist magazine (June 2023) - Oil Platforms (The North Sea) - a specially commissioned poem - order here
Litfest From Source To Sea (March 2023) - See Us Drop From Eden
Outcrop Poetry (issue 1, March 2023) - Drawings From A Sculptor’s Landscape
Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2022 (Broken Sleep Books, 10 December, 2022; ISBN 978-1-915079-77-0) - order here
Lancashire Stories Anthology (Uclan Publishing, November 2022) - Proceed With All Due Caution short story - read via Borrowbox
Ilkley Literature Festival (November 2022) - Ilkley Moor Poetry Map
Mercurius (3 October 2022) - Let's Go Round Again
Litfest This Place, This Planet (March 2022) - Drinkwaters
All Becomes Art Joan Eardley Centenary Collection (Speculative Books, edited by Colin Herd and Sam Small, January 2022) - Place Setting
The Interpreter's House (#76, October 2021) - Will Finches Inhabit Me?
WalkCreate Gallery (October 2021) - Words, Numbers & Everything & Nothing In Between - online launch event 3 November, free tickets here
Firmament from Sublunary Editions (issue 3, Summer 2021) - Navigation Is Difficult, More Now Than Ever Perhaps
Splonk (issue 5, May 2021) - The Lookout
Poetry Scotland (Spring 2021) - Essential Non-essentials
Osmosis Press (April 2021) - Daily Permissible Exercise in Style: N=N
Litfest Places of Poetry (March 2021) - Moorland Fog
Confingo (issue 14, November 2020) - Words, Numbers & Everything & Nothing In Between
Wild-On-Medlock, a hidden nature zine by Victoria Baths (September 2020) - Flight Silhouettes
Postcards From Malthusia (New Boots and Pantisocracies) (June 2020) - Guidance Avoidance
Ellipsis (June 2020) - The Wild (400 words)
Mid Life Crisis Zine Series "The Virus Edition" (April 2020) - Daily Permissible Exercises In Style
Lighthouse Journal (issue 20, Autumn 2019; ISSN 2056 9165), flash fiction special edited by Christopher Allen & Helen Rye - Warning Signs (600 words) - BUY HERE
Ellipsis (June 2020) - The Wild (400 words)
Mid Life Crisis Zine Series "The Virus Edition" (April 2020) - Daily Permissible Exercises In Style
Lighthouse Journal (issue 20, Autumn 2019; ISSN 2056 9165), flash fiction special edited by Christopher Allen & Helen Rye - Warning Signs (600 words) - BUY HERE
Port anthology, Dunlin Press (November 2019; ISBN 978-0-9931259-6-6) - The General Synopsis At Midday (1,000 words) - BUY HERE
Love Bites anthology, Dostoyevsky Wannabe (August 2019; ISBN 978-1686089596), edited by Andrew Gallix, Tomoé Hill & CD Rose - The Institute (400 words) - BUY HERE
Mid Life Crisis Zine Series "Alice" issue (August 2019) - Let's Go Round Again (510 words)
Story Cities anthology, Arachne Press (June 2019; ISBN 978-1-909208-78-0), in association with the University of Greenwich - Feet In A Yard (250 words)
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette Sampler #31 (April 2019) - various
Reflex Fiction (January 2019) - Here Once All Fields (200 words) - Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019
Flash Fiction Festival Two (November 2018; ISBN 978-1-912095-59-9) - Inside Out (250 words)
Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Manchester (July 2018; ISBN 978-1723215674) - Flight Path (1,500 words)
"Adept at establishing and sustaining precisely the right tone - mock-heroic, self-deprecating, at once sceptical and credulous"
- Tim Shearer, editor, Confingo magazine
Flash Fiction Festival One (December 2017; ISBN 978-1-912095-67-4) - Giving Up the Day Job (250 words)
The Bolton Review (May 2017; ISSN 2398-1938) - Where The Other Half Live (150 words)
The Other Room Anthology (April 2017; ISSN 2040 3143) - Sweet Green Tavern I & II (400 words)
Flash Magazine anthology Funny Bone: Flashing for Comic Relief (March 2017; ISBN 978-0-9931822-2-8) - Do Birds Die Flying? (150 words)
Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology volume 1: To Carry Her Home (February 2017; ISBN 978-1-912095-00-1) - Are You Afraid Of The Dark? (250 words)
Live From Worktown Anthology #3 (December 2016) - Wish You Were There? (200 words)
FlashFlood (June 2016) - The Clock Struck One (350 words)
The Bolton Review (April 2016; ISSN 2398-1938) - Wish You Were Here? (200 words) & The Clock Struck One (350 words)
TubeFlash (March 2016) - And Sons (300 words)
Paragraph Planet (March 2016) - I Don't Want To Mess Up His Floor (75 words)
Spelk (July 2015) - Personalities Don't Make Good Screensavers (300 words)
Stand (March 2015, Volume 13(1) - #205; ISSN 0038-9366) - various (I See Electric, Off The Grid)
The Manchester Anthology (September 2014; ISBN 978-0-9926284-1-3) - various (Clean Me, Everyone Has A Favourite Spot, extract of novel A Note On The Type)
Merry Gentlemen (December 2013) - Clandestine Cake Club (100 words)
The Ofi Press (November 2013) - Off The Grid (150 words)
Aka Hige's Opening (September 2013) - Aegis (300 words)
The Salt Anthology Of New Writing 2013 (August 2013; ISBN 978-1-84471-919-8) - Clean Me (180 words)
Thick Jam (December 2012) - Taking Work Home Again (350 words)
Flash: The International Short-short Story Magazine (October 2012; ISSN 1756-5200) - Everyone Has A Favourite Spot (278 words)
FlashFlood (October 2012) - The Luckiest Man Alive (300 words)
Now Then (October 2012) - Such A Natural (150 words)
Featherlit (July 2012) - Landscape Portrait (250 words) - "playful and beautifully observed"
Comma Press / Literature Northwest The Hat You Wear (June 2012 - available for Kindle via Amazon) - Poster Girl (333 words)
Ferment Literature Zine (June 2012) - If You Can't See My Mirrors, I Can't See You (300 words)
Lancashire Writing Hub (May 2012) - Preston Bypass (250 words)
FlashFlood (May 2012) - Rock Paper Scissors (175 words)
Jawbreakers: National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology (May 2012 - available for Kindle via Amazon or as hard copies via the NFFD website; ISBN 978-1-84914-285-4) - Natural (150 words)
Paragraph Planet (May 2012), NFFD special reissue - Beth's Husband Worked For The Gas Board
Flash365 (February 2012) - Names Have Been Changed (204 words)
Games Perverts Play (February 2012) - Dirty Books (297 words)
Paragraph Planet (19 January 2012) - Beth's Husband Worked For The Gas Board (aka 69 Words About The Fire Service) flash fiction (75 words)
Top Ten (January 2012) - Top Ten Discarded Shopping Lists creative non-fiction
Duality (December 2011) - The Moths flash fiction (400 words)
Spilling Ink Review - I See Electric (December 2011)
330 Words (October 2011) - Solid Foundations Are Of Paramount Importance flash fiction (330 words)
Paraxial Tales (September 2011) - Microfiche - Paraxis Library Wall flash fiction contribution (150 words)
The Pygmy Giant (September 2011) - Dress-down Friday flash fiction (400 words)
Spilt Milk magazine (September 2011) - Names Have Been Changed flash fiction (204 words)
330 Words (September 2011) - Her Fancier Man flash fiction (330 words)
NYC Midnight (August 2011) - Revolve micro fiction (15 words)
Rainy City Stories (August 2011) - Poster Girl flash fiction (333 words)
We Hate Words - Issue 4 creative non-fiction; editor since July 2011
330 Words (July 2011) - Bird Strike flash fiction (330 words)
Other magazine (June 2011) - The Taxonomy Inspector #2 creative non-fiction
330 Words (April 2011) - White Rabbits flash fiction (330 words)
Roy Keane's Lucky Scarf (March 2011) - The Luck Department flash fiction (400 words)
330 Words (November 2010) - Jane Doe flash fiction (330 words)
Roy Keane's Lucky Scarf (November 2010) - Glasshouses flash fiction (323 words)
Other magazine (August 2010) - The Taxonomy Inspector #1 creative non-fiction
330 Words (August 2010) - Hope flash fiction (330 words)
Ask Ben & Clare creative non-fiction; editor since August 2010
Bad Language (June 2010) - Cracking The Flags poem
330 Words (April 2010) - An Accident Waiting To Happen flash fiction (330 words)
Angels Of Anarchy (October 2009) - Poem 27 poem (line 2)
Rainy City Stories (September 2009) - Hawthorn Lane poem
