Prose, Poetry, Paras and Prayers

Good gracious, I have some catching up to do.



I had the flashest of flash fictions published online in Spilling Ink Review,

here: http://spillinginkreview.com/issue-5/flash-fiction/joanne-mckay/



I am alleged to have a poem currently residing in the Biggar Poetry Garden, but not having made it over there this summer I can't confirm with a visual sighting. More about the Garden and getting your poems in it (really!) here:

http://biggarpoetrygarden.weebly.com/index.html



And I kept up my Gutter record by getting into no. 5 with The M8 Gantry's Lament, a concrete poem.

And a strange thing happened. The magazine printed it wrong. Now, that's actually quite an interesting experience. One's first response is, obviously, "Oh no, they've fucked up my poem." Then you ponder what to do. Magazine's out already. Upon sober reflection, you realise that no one else knows it's wrong, probably no one else cares or would have actually realised that the pattern of the letters was meant to exactly reproduce the failing original gantry messages, and finally that even considering complaining about it is prima donna plus.

So I did nothing. Except mention it here...

All that said, it's still a brilliant magazine and the equally brilliant Marion McCready is in this issue too. Plus lots of other folk.

To purchase or submit, see here: http://www.guttermag.co.uk/



And for the live experience you can hear me next Saturday! I'm reading at the Callender Poetry Weekend. Catch me in the Kirk Hall opposite the shop (that's what it says) at some point between 10.15am and 12noon this September 3rd.

Full details here: http://www.desktopsallye.com/page22.htm

Next, in 15 days time my husband (over 50) is going to run 10 miles over difficult terrain near Catterick wearing army boots and trousers whilst carrying a 35lb rucksack.





Why? Because I told him to. No, actually because he wanted to. It's the P Company Challenge, he's doing it for the charity I work for, and if anyone would like to sponsor him you can do so here: http://www.justgiving.com/Craig-McKay



And the prayers are for those of you on the East Coast of America. God protect you all.