Welcome back after our Christmas break, happy New Year and happy writing to everyone! We thought things would get quiet over the festive season. Luckily, we were wrong and some of our colleagues can start their new year by celebrating new publications of their work.

• Natalie Crick‘s latest publication can be found in the Stirring Lit online magazine with her powerful poem Changeling. She also had two poems published in December issues of Playerist Poetry Magazine and New Welsh Reader.
• Frances Holland‘s short story Magpies is published in the January issue of Horla Fiction, a magazine that focuses on the genre of horror.
• Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana has another publication in Eunoia with Resident Alien,  a poem anyone who has been a foreigner in another country, or become a stranger everywhere, can relate to.

Congratulations to all three talented authors from the Newcastle University creative writing courses. Please keep the news of your achievements, prize winnings and publications coming! Good luck with your endeavours, both personal and professional.