Us? You want to know who we are? How flattering!

I'm the editor, I go by the monicker of "ed" if I'm making snide corrections to someone's copy, or by the sig of DA if the stuff is mine. I write for a national magazine, run some web-sites and, err... that's it really.

The Doktor is a wit, a musician and songwriter, a poet, a photographic artist, a sarcastic bugger, a doctor of english. His recent near-death experience has given him food for thought alright!

Our senior contributor is JBP. He's a much published author and award-winning poet who is, quite frankly, slumming it here in our company. He's had a film made from one of his his novels you know!

The Weevil has the benefit (or handicap) of youth. He did the art-work (except for the crappy bits I did) and he writes and records music. He can write too. He designs web-sites and does what students do, he's available for hire...

Miss Winamop has mop number five. And why not indeed! She even wrote a story.

JA is a contemporary of JBP (i.e. very, very old). He is a novelist, a literary biographer, a poet and he has penned a script or two.

BGZ was a thinker with a devilish sense of humour. Life was cruel to him and he liked to get his own back through his writing. He died in 2001 and that shouldn't have happened. (We couldn't send him a mop as we don't have his current address...)

Wayne H.W Wolfson is a California based author. He recently completed a collaboration with Boston based producer composer Grenadier on a CD The Last Martini. For more information on Wayne, or to buy the CD, go to www.waynewolfson.com

JH is a teacher of history, an avid reader and a Shakespeare enthusiast. She is currently studying for an MA in the bard's work.

Chris Major is the proud owner of Mop 9, he sent us some poetry, so could you!

TEXTBEAK is Mopmaster number 10. He supplied "Nets The S'ize of Souls" & others

Sean McGahey is from Wolverhampton and contributed several poems to us including "Threesome", "Day dream" and "Inflamed"

Marc Fiszman lives in Cornwall and is the author of the Teleport Chronicles. Chapter one of book 1 is featured on Winamop.

Unlucky Alf was awarded his mop for not sending us any of his terrible poetry. The mop was damaged in the post and Alf cut himself on the splintered remains after which he rushed to the bathroom, banged his head on the cupboard, fell into the bath which he'd forgotten to empty and caught a chill. His brand new Girls Aloud T-shirt was ruined. Aren't you glad you didn't get mop 13?

Ashok Niyogi was born and educated in Calcutta and now divides his time between Delhi, Moscow and California. His works have appeared in Books ("Reflections in the Dark" and "Crossroads" by A-4 Publications, India), magazines in the UK, the USA, New Zealand and Australia and on-line. His book of poems is on sale in in the USA as of March 2005.

Marion Hudson lives in Croydon, South of London, and is an enthusiastic and erudite supporter of the performing arts. She sent this.

Jane Wright is from the West Midlands of England and sent her first story to us... and won a Mop!

Al Baker is a musician (he used to play in the same bands as The Doktor) and writer. He now lives in the North of Scotland. Not too far from the Old Man of Stoer...

Claudio De Luca has been writing poems and stories since his school days. He lives in South Africa.

Martin Friel lives in London and writes for "Spark Plug Monthly" or somesuch publication. He has penned a few page 94s and some excellent stories and poems for us.

Nancy Gauquier is from California and has contributed a comedy piece and some poetry to Winamop. She likes mops.

Clifford K. Watkins, Jr. also known as RoTun, has sent us many poems over the last few years for which we are very grateful. Check out his web-site at http://www.myspace.com/rotun.

Eleanor Watson is from Northern Ireland. She has sent us some excellent poems. We like her.

P.L. George is a writer based on Oklahoma. He has sent us several pieces and this is one of them.

Pete Lee's former occupations include: army sergeant/counterintelligence agent, federal intelligence operations specialist, private investigator, newspaper reporter, and social worker. He now enjoys a relatively serene life in the middle of nowhere. His poetry has appeared in hundreds of electronic and print publications.

Michael Estabrook earned mop 25 with these poems. He writes: "I love poetry but I love my wife more and am interminably grateful that she has not yet run off with the UPS guy."

Martin Green is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, CA. He's had over 300 pieces in local and senior papers and over 100 short stories in lit and online magazines. His self-published short story collection is available online at iUniverse.com.

Daniel S. Irwin sent us some comic poetry. He explains: "Et moi? I'm an artist/writer (some would argue about either or both) who works as a medic in a maximum security prison 'cause my creditors expect to be paid and I gotsta eat."

Josh is a man , who once was a boy. This boy loved and learned, held close and tightly but never forgot to let go lightly. He grew and changed, developed and adapted. Josh is the one some called friend and others will never understand. He writes and reads, tells stories and his point of view. Josh is South African and has been writing for a long while now.

Iranian born Sheema Kalbasi is a human rights activist, a poet, and literary translator. She is the director of Dialogue of Nations Through Poetry in Translation, director of Poetry of Iranian Women, the poetry editor of Muse Apprentice Guild and the associate director of the Other Voices International Project. Furthermore she has created the horizontal and vertical poetry and is the first Iranian poet to have co-authored in English. Her works have been published and translated or are forthcoming in various anthologies, literary journals and on line magazines. Her latest collection, Echoes in Exile is due publication this fall. Kalbasi has worked for the United Nations and the Center for non Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, and in Denmark.
Today she lives with her husband and daughter in the United States.

Maxwell Chandler is Our Man On The Coast bringing you insights into music of many colours, from Fado to Bebop and beyond. His fame has now spread far and wide and he writes for several journals.. but we had him first!

Laurel Sparks writes radio advertising copy for a career, but composes personally for love, money, chocolate and any other interesting pursuits she deems necessary (perhaps eating and paying rent?). Her work has been seen in Seven Seas Magazine, Denver Syntax, Cautionary Tale, and Willow Lake Press.

David McLean has an e-chapbook at whyvandalism.com, a chapbook on sale at Erbacce Press at erbacce-press.com. He has a full length poetry collection forthcoming at Whistling Shade Press out around April 2008. There are round 500 poems now in, or forthcoming in, just over 210 magazines online and/or in print. Details are at his blog at http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com. He is a wicked man.

Many more contributors are waiting in the wings. If they see us crash and burn they'll fade away, if it's a success they'll claim it was their idea... c'est la vie. Come and join us if you dare!

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