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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


The street - David Gairdner
The concrete kerbside is not the least uncomfortable of substances. Ahoy Sailor You are amorphous matter Sit on this concrete. Sit on...
David Gairdner
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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The Garden – Michael Sheridan
The garden was so much better when we got home. At least, that’s what the dog would have us believe. There is now a convenient path...
Michael Sheridan
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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Garden – Kevan Smith
Octopus’s Garden is a very shady grotto. Cedric hides in the back and nibbles on small larvae and crustaceans he has gathered this...
Kevan Smith
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Garden - Carolyn Rudinsky
Worms slithering, bees buzzing and cicadas chanting. I wish I didn’t have to walk this way. I should have gone to the cinema with Gertie....
Carolyn Rudinsky
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Garden – Ashley Poole
Pink, red, white, blink the rhododendrons Like the flush of sunwarmed shoulders As we clamber under the leaves into our own private fort...
Ashley Poole
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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The Garden – Kate Sullivan
Do you have a safe space, real or imagined in which to retreat when the world is crowding in, the lights too bright, or everything is...
Kate Sullivan
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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The Garden - Michael Collins
at first luxuriant now overgrown in its time replete with a goodness that only the Earth could provide the shadow falls across the garden...
Michael Collins
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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Garden - Vesna McMaster
Shit. What am I going to do if this goes tits up? It’s my first proper heist with the Barnsley Boys and I have everything to prove. Got...
Vesna McMaster
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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