Author Showcase

 Edward Whitfield was born in London in 1986. 

He had a brief career as a lawyer, but for the past decade he has taught English, first in Rome and then Paris before moving to Madrid, where he now lives with his wife and young son. He is currently working on his first novel. Like with the rest of his fiction, the aim is to go rooting around inside tragic stories in an attempt to find some scraps of comedy. You can read Freefall here.

 Andrew Spacey has worked as a coal miner, drama teacher and recently as an ESOL tutor in the UK.

He published his first book The Bird, the Beast And Fishes Tail (Dyllansow, Cornwall) in 1985 and has contributed articles to magazines and print over time, featuring in the Guardian's long-running Country Diary.

Recently published books include 21 Bird Poems and Witness the Dust. Poems can be found online at The Starbeck Orion and PoemsIndia.

Andrew is on blue sky at @andrewspacey.bsky.social.

You can read three stories from White Raven here.

 Christopher Walker is a writer and teacher based in the south of Poland. His short story "The Kianda", published by Emerald City, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has self-published a number of volumes, the most recent of which is the first volume of "Witnesses to the World", a collection of stories set in different countries around Europe. The Photograph of My Father is set in Uruguay. Read it here. 

Christopher's webpage can be reached here.

He is on Blue Sky (as we are!) here.

His Amazon author page is here.

Antonia Saavedra Díaz es una escritora, chef y farmacéutica española formada en alta cocina. Su obra combina gastronomía, sátira y espíritu cervantino, siguiendo a «la dama de la cuchara errante», Mari Estrella. Ha publicado la novela «Lo que cuece Mari y la farsa servida en plato de oro» y el libro complementario «Recetas de Mari Estrella: Alta cocina para sanar el alma». Vive en Madrid, donde combina su formación en farmacia y artes culinarias para crear recetas que curan e historias que pican. 

Lee un extracto de Lo que cuece Mari y la farsa servida en plato de oro aquí. 

Puedes leer su obra en Amazon aquí. Está en Facebook aquí y en Linked IN aquí.

Zeina Jana is a PhD candidate. She is particularly interested in the literature of twentieth-century Spain. She had a story published in Issue 3 of The Madrid Review. Read her new story here.