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The 16th episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 1st June 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Gary Gauiter

Gary Gautier has taught university writing and literature and given numerous radio interviews. His previous poetry book, Schematics and Assemblies of the Cosmic Heart, was shortlisted for the Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Prize, and his novels have earned a #1 Amazon bestseller rank in two categories. His latest novel, Alice, was selected for the Innovative Fiction Book Club, and a screen adaptation of his novel, Mr. Robert’s Bones, made the second round at the Austin Film Festival. Gary’s forthcoming book of poems, The Day We Met in Earthly Time, like his previous book, builds a landscape that is rich in emotion and intimacy, yet resonant with the archetypal, the eternal, the mythical. The poems in the new book rely more heavily on the local imagery of particular places, but the mood and manner of sculpting the language will be familiar to readers of Gary’s previous poetry. Gary has hitchhiked through 17 countries and 35 US states, and currently lives in the pueblos mágicos of Mexico

Follow Gary on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaryGautier1

For more information on Gary check out https://garygautier.weebly.com/

Meg Freer

Meg Freer grew up in Montana and received music degrees in Minnesota and New Jersey, where she later worked in book publishing. She now lives in Ontario. Her photos, poems and prose have been published in journals such as Ruminate, Madrigal, Poetry South, Eastern Iowa Review, and Burningword Literary Review. She has published two poetry chapbooks, Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy, and A Man of Integrity. 

Meg’s recent publications of photos or writing can be found on her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010014006034

Substack Newsletter Finding the Colors https://megfreer.substack.com/

Caroline Fernandez

Caroline Fernandez is an Indo-Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Dubai. Her writing has appeared in Ghost City Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, and Torchlight. Her reporting is featured in Time Out, Communicate, and Hype Magazine. She was a Tupelo 30/30 Poet and an artist-in-residence at Buinho Creative Hub. She founded Kerosene Digital, an arts and culture news platform and content house and in 2024 she will graduate from her MFA in writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Follow Caroline on X at https://x.com/caro2point0

For Kerosine Digital check out http://www.kerosene.digital/

Dan Raphael

Dan Raphael is the author of 26 poetry books, including the recent In the Wordshed (Last Word Press,) Moving with Every (Flowstone Press) and Manything (Unlikely Books.) Newer poems are available at Alien Buddha, Mad Swirl, Moss Piglet and Impspired. Most Wednesdays dan writes and records a current events poem for The KBOO Evening News.

Mary Anne Abdo

Mary Anne Abdo is an author, poet and photographer. She graduated magna cum laude from Luzerne County Community College with a degree in Human Services. With a background in freelance journalism; she uses her poetry as a source of creative expression, which reflects on many facets of what it means to be a human being living in these modern times. Her self-published poetry book, “Fractured Lollipop Poems of Brokenness Healing and Hope is now on Amazon. Mary Anne has a passion for art, culture and literature. Her work has been featured in The Edge of Humanity Magazine, Moonstone Press,Grit and Grace Magazine, Orenaug Mountain Publishing,Pennsylvania Bards,Local Gems Press,The Avocet, Calla Press,Scranton Poets Live, and  Studio B’s annual poetry anthology. Mary Anne placed second for her photography and short story submission in the Museum of Family Prayer’s 2022 Mary Garden contest. She has also collaborated on several children’s book, Creative Gems Volumes 2&3, and has been featured internationally in Bindweed Magazine’s seasonal anthology. She has appeared on the local talk show PA Live, along with several stage appearances. She is currently working on her first children’s book due in September 2024. Mary Anne resides in Pennsylvania with her family

Follow Mary Anne on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/maryanne.abdo/

Find out more about Mary Anne at https://blue-stained-glass.com/

David O’Sullivan

David O’Sullivan always had an interest in writing, be that short stories, poems, songs, or even jokes. He spent most of his career working in marketing and advertising and was founding Director and Copywriter for Ignition, an independent agency he established in 1999. Sadly they ceased trading after Covid. Since then, he has taken writing more seriously, but hasn’t submitted any poetry for publication, or broadcast until now.

Rochelle Hanslow

Rochelle Hanslow is a Scottish born and based neurodivergent poet and writer. She has self-published three children’s books and has written for many publications both online and in-print. Rochelle’s poetry has been widely anthologised and she was recently featured in Witch Magazine. She has regularly performed online with some of her favourite writers: Laurie Ogden, Helen Mort, Rebecca Perry, Molly Naylor, and Simon J Keenan. She is currently working towards her first pamphlet publication under the editorial guidance of poet Laurie Bolger.

Follow Rochelle on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thestingingbelle/

Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet

Damien B Donnelly is a 48-year-old Irish, adopted, queer writer and podcast producer who spent 23 years living in Paris, Amsterdam, and London working in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2020. He is the host and producer of the poetry podcast Eat the Storms and the editor-in-chief of The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. His debut pamphlet, Eat the Storms, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured on the Poetry Book Society Winter List 2020/21, followed by a Pushcart Prize nominated Stickleback (micro collection) and In the Jitterfritz of Neon, a conversational pamphlet co-written with Eilín de Paor. His first full collection Enough! was published by Hedgehog in August 2022. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, both online and in print. His 2^nd full collection Back from Away was published on the 8th May 2024 with Turas Press

The Storms journal is available at https://eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/

He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/deuxiemepeau and instagram at both @damiboy and @weshallalwayshaveparis

You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/

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