A Thousand Shades of Green

Lucy Heuschen is a British poet living in the countryside near Bonn, Germany with her family and rescue dog. She came back to reading and writing poetry after a twenty-year legal career and a life-changing breast cancer diagnosis in 2018.

After her cancer treatment, in 2020 Lucy founded The Rainbow Poems, an online poetry community for anyone going through major life change. During the pandemic and the years afterwards, The Rainb...

Pratibha Castle, an Irish born poet living in West Sussex, is widely anthologised and published in journals and ezines including Agenda, The Friday Poem, High Window, Orbis, Spelt, Stand, Tears in The Fence, and One Hand Clapping. A Pushcart nominee, short listed in The Bridport Prize 2023, her work has additionally been highly commended and shortlisted in numerous poetry competitions including Indigo Press, Repton, King Lear Award...

Jude Marr (he, him) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet, editor and teacher. Jude’s full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and he admires the press’s founders so much that he now also works with them, as a reader, editor, and social media person. Jude also has a chapbook, Breakfast for the Birds (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and he is currently putting together a new, as ye...

Karen herds sleepless night notions to shear and tease apart from the heart before attempting to knit them into a garment that others can slip into.   The Hedgehog Poetry Press has published some of those garments; more recent work can be found in The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. Karen’s work has been published in the UK, USA and Ireland and is included in several anthologies. She co-wrote ‘Penned In’ with Gay...

Basiliké Pappa lives in Greece. She writes poetry, myth retellings,  and sometimes, short stories.  Her work can be found in Heron Tree, Carmina Magazine, Dark Passions, Otoroshi Journal, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, and others. You can also read her in the anthologies Darker Objects (Indie Blu(e) Publishing, 2023), Hidden in Childhood (Literary Revelations, 2023), Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (Exp...

Sue Finch likes all kinds of coasts, peculiar things, and the scent of ice-cream freezers. She lives with her wife in North Wales. Her first published poem appeared in A New Manchester Alphabet in 2015 whilst studying for her MA with Manchester Metropolitan University. She won second prize in the Wild Words Single Poem contest in 2020 with ‘Flamingo’, a poem which then went on to be included in her debut collection, ‘Magnifying Gla...

Gaynor Kane, from Belfast in Northern Ireland, had no idea that when she started a degree with the OU at forty it would be life changing. It turned her into a writer and now she has a few collections of poetry published, all by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. Her latest chapbook, Eight Types of Love, was released in July 2022. You can contact Gaynor on Facebook here and Twitter here and read some poems on her website www.gaynorkane.com

Annick Yerem is a German/ Scottish poet and EIC of Sídhe Press, who lives in Berlin. Her book, St Eisenberg and the Sunshine Bus, was published with Hedgehog Press in 2022. She has work in a few wonderful places, among them The Storms, iamb, The Dirigible Balloon, Anti-Heroin-Chic, Green Ink Poetry, Feral and Stanza Cannon. Annick´s goal  is to collaborate with other poets/artists and to try keeping workshops, readings and festival...

Suzanne Craig-Whytock is the author of four novels: Smile, The Dome (English version, 2019; international Arabic translation, 2022), The Seventh Devil, and The Devil You Know, all published by Bookland Press, two short story collections: Feasting Upon The Bones and At The End Of It All, both published by Potter’s Grove Press, and the humorous non-fiction publication What Any Normal Person Would Do. Suzanne is also the editor-in-chi...

Damien B. Donnelly is the award-winning author of the poetry pamphlet Eat the Storms, a Stickleback micro-collection and the conversational pamphlet In the Jitterfritz of Neon, co-written by Eilín de Paor, all published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. He’s the host & producer of Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and editor-in-chief of The Storms, a printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art. His work appears in various journals...