Stories and The Other End of the Rainbow (short story collections), Sirat and Engineering Paradise (novels) available from Amazon. Competition wins + stories in anthologies, magazines & newspapers. Presently turning part of Engineering Paradise into a stage musical as an ‘Open Source Project’: davidgardiner.net/EPOpen.html. Interests include Founder: Omma Velada science, ecology, travel, philosophy, folk music, Omma Velada lives in London with her two chil- scuba, cooking, communes & alternative lifestyles. dren. Her short stories and poems have been Website: davidgardiner.net published in numerous literary journals and an- Email: sirat@davidgardiner.net thologies. She came second in the UK Authors 2004 short-story competition and was elected Lorraine C. Brooks resides in Maryland, US. Writer of the Month at EditRed. She has three She is a founding member of ‘Red Round Group’, published novels, The Mackerby Scandal (UKA which produces documentary, art films and videPress, 2004), Sun, Sea & Pilots (Lulu, 2014) and os. She is resident poet of the radio show How to Steal A Goat (From A Witch) (Lulu, 2014), ‘Diabetes Latenight’, producing and performing all available from Amazon poetry of interest to diabetics. Lorraine is the author of Riding the Wave, a poetry collection (BTS Prose Editor: David Gardiner Books, 2010). Child of the 1960s, retired electronic engineer, teacher and other things living in east London with I. W. Smythe (a pseudonym) has had internationpartner Jean. Has been Gold Dust’s prose editor al reviews and interviews in Be About It, published since its inception. The Rainbow Man and Other by Alexandra Naughton and elsewhere. Wings', a poetry collection. She is Co-Founder, Editor and Publisher of BTS Books (Between These Shores). Her work has been published in numerous anthologies, magazines and literary journals, and performed on radio in both her countries. https://www.facebook.com/BTSBOOKS
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As well as the magazine itself publishes occasional ‘best of’ anthologies in which we reprint the finest stories or poems submitted over a period of (typically) four years. Not only great collections by any standard but if you would like to submit to the magazine these provide an insight into the kind of thing we’re looking for. All our publications can be purchased from: lulu.com/spotlight/golddustmagazine
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