Image by Candice Seplow
Dear writers, readers and friends,
Welcome to a brand new year. We have survived New Years Eve in Berlin, dodging the amateur fireworks that take over the streets here (not a health and safety regulation in sight) and finding ourselves full of hope and determination for the coming year. What better way to start 2018 than with a little puff of smoke from photographer Candice Seplow – may it ignite your writing spirit.
We are proud to bring you three wonderful voices to celebrate the new year issue. These writers are brave, poetic and uncompromising, so fasten your seatbelts and get ready for some Visual Verse gold.
First up we have the excellent Niven Govinden, author of four novels including All The Days And Nights, a beautiful examination of something we are obsessed with at VV: humans, art and how to write about them. The others are Black Bread White Beer, Graffiti My Soul, and the stylish, youth rush, New Years Eve appropriate We Are The New Romantics. Niven tweets at @niven_govinden (https://twitter.com/niven_govinden) , go find him.
Tomoé Hill is a senior editor at the wonderful online magazine Minor Literature[s]. Her thought provoking essays and other writing can be found there, and at Numéro Cinq, 3:AM, New Orleans Review, RIC Journal, The City Story, and an excerpt from a memoir in progress is forthcoming at Lunch Review. Follow her @CuriosoTheGreat (https://twitter.com/CuriosoTheGreat) .
And on page 3 we have Divya Ghelani who grew up in Leicestershire and holds an MA in Creative Writing and an MPhil in Literary Studies. Her novel-in-progress has been longlisted and shortlisted for four literary awards. She was a 2016 Word Factory Apprentice and has published stories in Litro: India and the BareLit Anthology to name a few. She lives between Berlin and the UK. Visit her at divyaghelani.com (http://www.divyaghelani.com) or follow @DivyaGhelani (https://twitter.com/DivyaGhelani) . She’s a risk-taker with a sense of humour fitting to start the year.
So, dear readers you know the score. Sharpen your wit and your pencils: the image is the starting point, the text is up to you. Happy New Year!
Kristen and Preti
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