"Tamamo no Mai" by Kirsty Greenwood
Kirsty is an illustrator who specializes in Gothic whimsy and creepy beauty. With the advantage of an illustrative mindset, her work is full of ethereal scares and pareidolic adventures. She works primarily in traditional mediums such as pencil and ink, on home-made marbled papers.
Her work has featured in many publications of short story literature, poetry and literary reviews. Kirsty has created an award-winning fabric design, featured with an iconic clothing brand, has exhibited in galleries internationally, and two of her illustrations had Best of the Net nominations for 2024 and 2025. ‘Metamorphosis’, the fabric she designed for and in collaboration with The Monkey Puzzle Tree - art fabrics and wallcoverings, won ‘Best in British Product Design’ at the Hotel Designs Brit List Awards 2021. You can keep up to date and contact her at www.instagram.com/kirsty_greenwoodillustration www.facebook.com/KirstyGreenwoodIllustration www.kirstygreenwoodillustration.com |
ISSUE 17 Editor's Letter | Katie Strine
POETRYThe Barber Chair | Jackie Donaldson
Where We Are Going, We Have Been Before | Jen Hallaman The Body is also a Colony | Simone Reid Building a Home Away from Home | Valy Steverlynck Hallway Medicine | Gordon Taylor Name Him | Matthew Zhao FICTIONAdirondacks | Grace Keir
The Perfect Love Song | Christina Marable Rainbow is a Single Color | Chimezie Okoro What We Were Not Allowed to Keep | Huina Zheng CREATIVE NON-FICTIONLetter to the Boy with a Barrow | Elizabeth Bird
Sketch from Cardiff, 2001 | Michael Fontana The colors of kohl | Shivangi Gajwani Jain MENTORSHIPSVOLUNTEER READERSPoetry | Hannah Dieter and Emily Jarecke
Fiction | Lyle Enright and Ken Rogers Creative Non-fiction | Silvia Iorio and Keely Wotsch |
