CURRENT ACCOUNTS

About the Magazine

Current Accounts is the magazine of Bank Street Writers, Bolton, UK (see the link below).

We publish two issues a year, featuring work by members of Bank Street Writers and also by outside contributors from all over the world.

We have published work by new and established writers, including Gerald England, M.R. Peacocke, Pat Winslow, Geoff Stevens, and many others.

There are usually 48 pages per issue.

From the latest issue (No. 13):

Sheila Clift

THE BRINGING HOME

She stood sleeves rolled
pulling back the canes, risking nettle stings.
In one hand a white bowl filling slowly,
stained with dark juice from the bruised fruit.

The currants hung plumply in clusters
like grapes beneath the leaves, each batch glistening.
She threaded red fingers between the stems
to gather handfuls.

Behind her a starling in the apple tree preened
and waited for the gleanings.
Across the lane bees stitched the hedgerows
in a murmuring warp and weft.

Deftly her hands worked the bushes.
When she stood inside a pool of shadow the bowl was full.
Cupped within the porcelain rim
the berries settled.

Framed by the open window he watched,
loving each movement of the harvester,
trusting his dreams to the gathering hands,
waiting for the bringing home.


(c) Sheila Clift

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND SUBMISSIONS

We welcome subscriptions - price £4.00 (sterling only) per year. Cheques or POs should be made out to "Bank Street Writers" and sent to:

Current Accounts
16-18 Mill Lane
Horwich
Bolton
BL6 6AT
England

Single copies are available at £2.00 each (inclusive of postage).

SUBMISSIONS: WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY NEW WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS UNTIL MAY 2002 - we have become seriously overloaded!
However, we're willing to consider graphics (e.g. cover designs or small drawings, etc., for use as page decorations).

If you'd like to submit poems or prose (stories, reviews, non-fiction) for possible publication in future, please follow these guidelines:

1) No more than 6 poems or 2,000 words of prose at a time.

2) Submit by email to the address below, or by snail mail. If submitting by post, please enclose an s.a.e. or International Reply Coupons for our reply - otherwise your submission won't be considered.

3) No gratuitously offensive language is accepted.

4) We prefer work that has not been published elsewhere - and since we are only human, we prefer work by people who subscribe to the magazine, or have at least read it!

Anyone whose work is accepted will receive a free copy of the issue in which it appears.

We are also looking for original graphics to enhance the magazine. Same conditions as for written submissions.

Further details from the above address or from our email address at:

bswscribe@cs.com

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