New Poems: 'Yolk/White' and 'In Case'

While I've been away on my ITEF Fellowship in Istanbul there's been a little flurry of my writing appearing in the world.

This means that you can now read two of my new poems for free online.

'Yolk/White' has been published in The Lampeter Review's Issue 13 (Exit) which can be read online here for free.

'The estate agent posts written requests
to air the space between us
before public viewings.'

'In case' has been published by Ink Sweat & Tears and can be read on their website for free:

Ink Sweat & Tears

May 11 at 9:17am

Susie Wild tickles our fancy today on www.inksweatandtears.co.uk

In case

of fire
exit building
before tweeting
about it...

You can read my new story 'Looks Like Rain' in the Spring issue of The Lonely Crowd (Issue 4) which is out now. Buy it from the website or pop along to the launch at Little Man in Cardiff on the 20th of May where I'll be reading with a number of the other excellent contributors. If you'd like a sneak preview, you can read a little bit about my writing process and the story in my short essay on The Lonely Crowd website.

I'm also pleased to have been offered a short UK residency this summer to concentrate on my writing about more rural locations and place in my fiction and poetry. More on that, and on my time in Istanbul soon.

Stay well lovelies,

Susie x

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