Gareth Durasow grew up in Castleford, West Yorkshire. He has been a teacher, a tailor, a soldier, and a spy. As well as Neon, his short stories and poetry have been published by The Fiction Desk, Dead Ink, The Rialto, Shearsman, STORGY and Ad Hoc Fiction. His poetry collection Endless Running Games is available from…
Nicholas Hogg is the author of Show Me the Sky, nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Tokyo, for which he received an Art Omi fellowship in New York. His short stories have won numerous prizes and been broadcast by the BBC. Winner of the 2021 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and twice shortlisted…
Matt Pitt is a poet and screenwriter. He has previously published in Acumen, Ambit, The High Window, Ink Sweat & Tears, Prole and Under the Radar. His second feature film, Man of Sorrows, is due to start shooting in early 2022.
Sophie Dumont is a Bristol-based writer whose poetry won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize 2021. Her work has been shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize, the Bridport Prize 2019 and 2021 and the SaveAs Writers’ International Writing Competition. Her poems can be found in The Rialto, The Interpreter’s House, The Moth, BANSHEE and will be…
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 53 of Neon Literary Magazine is our cities themed issue, which comes with its own separate map to help you navigate your way around. Sneak down alleyways, cross boulevards, wander in the shadow of skyscrapers… and as you do so, discover prose, comics and…
That summer they added fluoride to the water. Our parents did not question that the commies who ran New York City wanted us to glow green in the dark. A decade earlier, our fathers had stopped the stain of evil spreading over the Pacific and Europe. They had no patience for the distinction between fluoride…
Alan Bern, a retired Children’s Librarian, is a poet, storywriter, and photographer with three books of poetry: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley from Fithian Press; greater distance published by his own press, Lines & Faces, a fine press specializing in illustrated poetry broadsides, collaborating with the artist Robert Woods, (linesandfaces.com). Alan has won prizes for his poems, stories, and photos…
Ground floor flats mean easy access to the street. There is no lugging your shopping up flights of stairs, no lugging your bins down them. Large windows on ground floor flats let in a lot of light. You really feel in the middle of the action. Selling points. He didn’t mention that ground floor flats…
To celebrate the brilliance of the horror short, we’ve compiled a list of five excruciatingly creepy short stories which you might not have heard of. Settle in, dim the lights, and be prepared to jump out of your skin if the phone rings at just the wrong moment…
Given the sheer number of writing manuals out there it can be difficult to determine which might give the most value for money. For that reason, we’ve compiled this master list of our favourite books about writing. Each of these titles should be considered essential reading for any budding writer…