This Semester, we welcome three new editors, who will be helping to shape our literary blog Bridges. Anne Gill and Niamh O’Connell are going to take over from us in April/May with the view that they are going to continue this online magazine next year when we are no longer students. Please give them all your support. We would like to thank all three of them for stepping up and being of great assistance already.

Anne

Anne Gill is on the MA Writing Poetry course. Her poetry has featured in Strix, The Dizziness of Freedom Anthology, and others. She is as a member of the Second City Poets. Their first show, Playgrounds, is featuring at the Verve Poetry Festival. She is a poetry submissions reader at Bare Fiction. Her first pamphlet is forthcoming in 2019 with Bad Betty Press.

Niamh

Niamh O’Connell is an Irish poet, currently a student of the MA in Writing Poetry in Newcastle University. Her work has twice been featured in The Quarryman, University College Cork’s literary journal for students, staff, and alumni. Experimenting widely with traditional form, modern approaches, and contemporary topics she produces a diverse variety of work.

Rose

Born in Athens, Greece, raised in Vienna, Austria, and now UK based writer,Rose McLean is finally fulfilling her dream of doing an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. When she is not busy having emotional meltdowns over fictional characters (both her own and other people’s), she loves reading, weird cinema and bopping to kpop. She is a parent to two furry children of the canine persuasion, a passionate ethical vegan and an avid opposer of fast fashion.