The Needlewriters’ Companion is the online sister publication to The Needlewriters, our print anthology.
Click on a name to read contributors’ stories and poems.
Prose
Alice Owens
Three-Eye John
Ansy Boothroyd
The Surlington Saga
Christine Cohen-Park
That Spark of the Boy
Eleanor Knight
Casualties
John O’Donoghue
Dust to Dust
Julie Corbin
Now That You’re Gone
Miriam Moss
The Blue Tomb
Naomi Foyle
Astra
Nicholas Royle
Muscidophobic
Sue Roe
The Tailor’s Dummy
Tara Gould
The Rough and the Smooth
Umi Sinha
Parvarti
Poetry
Andie Lewenstein
The Night Kitchen
The House of Bread
Andrea Samuelson
The Rambla at Alfaix
Big Fish
Ann Segrave
Mudlark
Run, Rabbit, Run
Caroline Clark
On Looking Out to Hamsey
Saying Yes in Russian
Catherine Smith
I Must Shine Like a Frantic
Sausage Woman After New Skin
With Love, and the Date
Charlotte Gann
The Black Water
Picturehouse
Clare Best
In the Tower
Dewpond
Colin Bell
Why are they of no help to me now?
Running
Grace Nichols
Advice On Crossing A Street In Delhi
Leaf Man
Jackie Wills
As we drive away from Orange Farm
On not making it to the peak, Solomon
James Simpson
Wind from the North
Janet Sutherland
Male écorché leaning against a tree
exposing the anatomy of thorax
and left breast
Apollo, Marsyas, Bone Monkey
Jeremy Page
The Lit Room
All Souls
John Agard
Ancestry
Enemy
Judith Cair
A Visiting Card
In Woods of Alder
Judith Kazantzis
Sister Invention
Home Leave
Kay Syrad
Afternoon Out
Inland
Kim Lasky
Cloud Cover at Herstmonceux
Walking
Lee Harwood
It all comes back to Vassilis Tsitsanis
Lisa Dart
In the artist’s imagination
What we speak of when we
speak of love…
Liz Bahs
The Thinking Chair
Keys
Lorna Thorpe
3a.m. on East Houston
Andromeda imagines choosing
a different author
Marek Urbanosicz
A Good Friday
To Tango ?
Maria Jastrzebska
Wooden Bird
The Jackal Is Considered By
The Meeting
Matthew Stewart
Carnivore
Formica
Instructions for Coming Home
Monica Suswin
Snow Necklace
The interlocking bones of
god’s architecture
Patricia McCarthy
Virginia Woolf’s Angels, 1919
Patrick Bond
For Thine is the Crow
Paul Matthews
Being No One
Breaking News
Peter Abbs
Orange Picking in Paros
Lucien Freud: a Portrait
Rachel Playforth
Cleft
On Not Being Horsey
On Not Smoking
Robin Houghton
Interval
Robert Dickinson
Nocturn
School
Robert Hamberger
Being the Sea
The Pig in the Morning
Ros Barber
Adrift
Sarah Salway
Mystery
Night Letters
Sasha Dugdale
Do you remember …
Sian Thomas
House in Mid-Air
Another October
Sonya Smith
Sea
Hide and seek
Sue Robbins
The Fundamentals
Sample Book
Vanessa Gebbie
Cenotaph, London 2014
The Euston Mob and Caroline