Theme Reveal: Greed Issue 6: 19 December to 30 January For this issue, we’re looking for work that explores the intersection of greed and human experience. The desire to take more than you’re owed. The people who get crushed under someone else’s wanting. The need to be needed. Hoarding comfort.

Hey! I have a new story, 'Fish' published in Bel Esprit - to read for FREE! follow the link below, and if you like physical media, you can also subscribe to the literary paper - also, 2 min read - like all great literature😂🤣😂 www.belespritproject.com/post/_fish

Check it out! To read full story click: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Key Worker by Emyr Payne @emyrpayne.bsky.social It's a visceral piece with a resonant narrative voice that blends the grit of Underbelly with the mood of autumn beautifully. With Issue 6 opening for submissions soon, now’s the perfect time to have a taste of Emyr’s short fiction.

The first novel, is my all time favourite novel, the second I bought based on a recommendation, with no knowledge that Yuko Tsushima was his daughter - for soke reason this makes me very happy.

On line edits for my debut novel, 50 Reasons to Live with Barnard Press - think this is draft 10, over two years since I wrote the first draft - the only way out is through!

Eryri / Snowdonia

On a landscape kick at the moment - Eryri

Getting my landscape on - Eryri

So chuffed to have my short story, 'Key Worker' included in issue 5 of Underbelly Press - there are some stellar pieces in this issue and I highly recommend anybody who is interested in the underbelly of existence to check it out - just follow the link below to download a PDF copy free!

I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press! Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Studying texture in Eryri / Snowdonia

Eryri

Supper chuffed to be included in issue 5 of Underbelly Press with my VERY first short story publication! Stay tuned for release date and link to read! Thanks @underbellypress.bsky.social for including me again 🙏🙏🙏

Short Fiction Amy Leacy ☆ @deniseb.bsky.social ☆ Derek Jennings☆ @emyrpayne.bsky.social ☆Heather Walker ☆ Ian Johnson☆ John Storey☆ @jupiterjonz.bsky.social ☆ @darkonelf.bsky.social ☆ @lozzawriting.bsky.social ☆ @madeleinewrite.bsky.social ☆ Rebecca Tiger ☆ Scott MacLeod☆ @tednorthodox.bsky.social ☆

Super chuffed to have my poem, 14k included in issue 4 of The Scumrag, published by Scumbag Press. On to more submissions!

For all you poetry lovers out there - my poem, Ectopic has been shortlisted for the Apoetical poetry prize - you can follow the link on my profile to read it and other entries - you can vote for your favourite as part of the poet's choice award, so if you have a favourite, please click like!

Llandudno, North Wales 2024

Just sent draft 8 of my debut novel, 50 Reasons to Live to my publisher - Barnard Press - next step: edits and cover design 👍 I am feeling a strange mixture of excitement and anxiety after 15 years or so of trying to write this book!

An old B side I took in Llandudno, probably 2021 when I was still finding me feet (I'm still finding me fight but you know what I mean)

Another memorable afternoon at @orielcolwyn.bsky.social An exhibition opening and talk by Dafydd Jones, focussing on his New York photography in and around the 1990’s. (Also with a shout out to @unofphoto.bsky.social for some of Dafydd’s wider commissioned work).

Super chuffed to have my poem, Pot Washer published in issue 4 of Underbelly Press' magazine! Here's the link to download a free pdf copy of the issue! underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Rhyl NW

Rhyl, Ventines.

Something about the colour red and Ektar ....

Nothing better than walking around the British Coastline during the off season - Towyn, North Wales

Bangor NW

I have travelled up and down this high street hundreds of times in search of a feeling, or a point of view. Never ceases to amaze me how different light, colours, textures can combine to create different images of the same place. Bangor, North Wales.

Bangor, NW

Penguin Cafe, Bangor North Wales

Sidoli's, Rhyl NW - operating since 1910!

The British High Street today. Bangor, North Wales.

Why do I find chippies so interesting? Valla's Bangor North Wales

Chilling with an old favourite.

Maybe I should do a Valla's Chippy zine .....

Valla's Chippy, Bangor North Wales. You don't always need good light, or light at all!

Street portrait - Bangor North Wales

Valla's chippy Bangor North Wales - there's something about the font in the menu that I just can't resist.

Valla's chippy, Bangor North Wales. Spent an afternoon eating lovely burger and chips and photographing the staff on a busy Saturday - they were very kind and accommodating 🙏🙏🙏

The Piazza Rhyl, North Wales - I love those tables.

Just read an article about Gen Zers taking the piss out of millennials for being old. That was interesting. In other news, here's a photo of Heron Foods in Rhyl, North Wales. Happy Friday x

Rhyl North Wales - the beat milky coffee in town (and chips) 👌👌👌

Rhyl, North Wales

There's a dog there somewhere, sniffing things under the rainbow. Pensarn beach, North Wales.

I love a street portrait - nothing compares for me (photographically anyway) - this is Rob, taken in Bangor, North Wales

Waitress service in Rhyl, North Wales - great chips, great people ❤️

Taken in Rhyl, North Wales 2022 with some looooooovely Ektar

God I hate social media, but here I am, shouting 'me me me!' with a thumb-sized photo I took in a corner of the world most people don't care about.

I started out taking black and white landscape, then I discovered Tom Wood and everything changed

Rhyl 2024 - knew that fish background would pay off in the end ......