One way to New York Cheugy
By Erica Crompton In 2002 I booked a one-way ticket to New York City with no plans to return. I took a job at the late Santa D’Orazio’s photographic agency and spent my time eating Burritos in Brooklyn by night, while chugging photographic portfolios around magazines based in Lower Manhattan in the day. With my […]
Guest Post by The Last Skeptik
Memories of the Rave By The Last Skeptik I love performing anywhere in California. The vibe of being in the sunshine, playing music in LA – the city which birthed so many of my favourite records is a mad concept, and there is no better feeling. Everything feels like you’re in a movie. Even just […]
Identity lost, a poem by Jim Leftwich
By Jim Leftwich, CEO NoLongerLonely.com Clasping at air All thought in celestial space My thoughts I do not own All originality is banal It makes no difference Locked inside or put upon the page Puncturing the rind of the mind Thoughts flow in But others are sucked out I stand alone Solidarity is a paltry […]
Online dating by Joe Tuesday
By Joe Tuesday Having recently come out of a relationship and feeling sorry for myself I decided it would be a good idea to see if the stuff I’m made out of is still somewhat sought after by the opposite sex. I’ve never been great at dating and forming relationships, my last relationship was the […]
Flames of the furnace, a poem by DARREN HOBSON
The writing community on Twitter is a place where you can read beautiful words, showcase your work and meet lovely people. Just last week, while promoting my zine on twitter, I checked all three when I stumbled across poet Darren Hobson. The below poem, Flames of the Furnace chimes with me, and with Darren’s permission […]
A splendid isolation: why I’m enjoying lockdown and how you can too
The Easter prior to lockdown was a long sunny weekend. Families got together, couples went for romantic meals – I had nothing planned. I was just lay on my bed in my room listening to the parties outside and feeling a deep sense of regret that I not only didn’t have a family of my […]
Buy a Hopezine today
Dear friends, family and colleagues, Hello from a sparklingly frosty Staffordshire. I’m delighted to present issue 4 of Hopezine today, attached, which is hot off the press. You can buy yours today. And past issues as well as paintings can be brought here. In this special winter 2020 edition of Hopezine, there’s a spiritual theme, […]
Hope when all hope is lost
By GC In early June 2019, I came home from hospital without the twins I was expecting. My beautiful son and daughter were born alive, but too small to survive for long. I can’t find adequate words or phrases – in this language at least – to describe how dark and devastating that sort of […]
Excerpt from ‘The Seeds of Selfless Service’
By Stevie Saranga One day a wandering holy-man, a mysterious mendicant visited our hill-top ashram. He had taken a vow of staying no longer than three days in any one place and like a bumble bee, travelled the earth taking a little nectar from each tiny flower, pollinating as he went. He was somehow aloof […]
How self-isolation has evened the playing field for people with severe mental illnesses
By Erica Crompton Today, as coronavirus sweeps across the globe, everyone is staying at home and it feels like the playing field has evened out for people with severe mental illness (as well as the elderly and disabled). It’s made hermits of all of us. There are various things I do in my self-imposed exile […]