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Submissions

You are welcome to contact us if you are a writer, whether of fact, fiction or poetry. We enjoy helping writers, and will endeavour to answer your query, either from our experience or from our network of contacts. If you already have a manuscript, then we would love to read an extract. However, at this current time due to a major relocation project, we are not accepting your poems or prose extracts for consideration prior to publishing. It is planned to resume normal services during the course of 2022. Please watch this space!

Recent Publications

‘I can stick anything for two years’ she said, and ended up staying forty-two!’

So said former OMF worker Miriam Davis, whose new book Utterly Amazed: Following the call of God in Japan tells the story of how those two years became forty-two as well as the surprising challenges of retiring to the UK in 2017. In that time, as OMF Japan Field Director Chris Pain says in his foreword, ‘Miriam has experienced the joys, challenges and pitfalls of missionary life. She tells the story of those years with honesty and a keen eye for how God was at work sustaining her, changing her and using her for his purposes . . . The way in which she has shared her feelings, weaknesses and struggles gives testimony to God’s work in her life, and ultimately gives God the glory.’

Join Miriam on her journey of following the Good Shepherd through all the twists and turns of sharing the good news of Jesus cross-culturally. Discover his faithfulness through culture shock, heartbreak, burnout and the joy of this journey. Find comfort, challenge and spiritual food for your own life.

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The Best of Squiffy Gnu 2020

Poems from the waterhole

‘Squiffy Gnu’ began as a Facebook Group with regular prompts from in-house and guest poets, and quickly developed into a supportive writing community across the UK, and further afield. The name is an imaginary rhyming slang parallel for Jo Bell’s very successful ‘52’ project, which pioneered the model used by the group. During 2020, members were invited to write poems in response to twenty universal themes ranging from “Passion” to “Taste and Smell”, and from “Childhood” to “Armed Conflict”. Sixty of the best poems selected by Sarah L. Dixon (aka “The Quiet Compère”) are presented in this anthology..

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Explorations in Poetry

Colin retired from his career as a successful professional engineer, and set about applying his design and problem-solving skills to the field of creative writing. He tried a variety of different forms and explored elements which distinguish poetry from prose - the sound of the spoken word, rhythms and meter, free verse patterns, emotion, imagery and resonance with our subconscious.

32 of his early poems are to be found in this book, now available on Amazon here.

Subsequently he has had poems accepted by ‘The Stare’s Nest’ and ‘Obsessed with Pipework’.

The Hesperian Dilemma

An adventure and love story

Maura is an oceanographer who hoped to find life under the ice on Europa. But she didn’t expect to discover an alien society with paranormal powers; nor that the colonists from Earth would to try to destroy it. She teams up with a computer scientist called Geoff, a specialist in Artificial Intelligence. Together they strive to save the aliens from extermination—a mission which threatens to tear apart both their relationship and their home planet.

If you enjoyed 'Avatar', you'll love this book.

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