Nikki Dudley and Michelle Moloney King chat experimental poetry, lockdown life, mum-life-balance, journal admin, the pain of rejection sending, and she recites from her upcoming poetry pamphlet.

Nikk Dudleyi is Managing Editor of streetcake magazine, which she started with Trini Decombe in 2008. streetcake publishes an online issue every 2-3 months and in 2019, launched the streetcake experimental writing prize for 18-30 year olds, supported by the Arts Council England. The prizes include mentoring from published writers, personalised feedback and developmental support, publication and book bundles.

Nikki studied for her BA and MA at Roehampton University. Her dissertations focused on changing her writing practices, experimentation and the long poem. She grew up in inner city London and attended state school in Camden. Nikki has been in love with words since she wrote short stories in her scrapbook at primary school and discovered what a metaphor was.

https://twitter.com/nikkidudley20

https://www.nikkidudleywriter.com/aboutnikkidudley.html

Chatting to Beir Bua editor Michelle Moloney King, who is a tad tired after the first day teaching in the classroom during Ireland's third lockdown. I hope I made sense in this video. And when I was referring to PFOs I didn't mean that's what I'm telling people who are not accepted into an issue of Beir Bua Journal but I meant it as in that's how it feels to send them and I don't like rejecting people's work because you are all so brilliant. Being alive and putting pen to paper is brilliant....that's why I'm stopping sending them because you are enough as you are. I find if people read an issue of two they get a vibe for the journal and usually get an acceptance then. www.twitter.com/moloneykingwww.MicheleMoloneyKing.com