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Jan Sargeant

Jan Sargeant has been writing for many years but only since retiring from university lecturing in 2016 has she found the time to devote to her own fiction and poetry. Co-writer and co-editor of an anthology of poems, “Jigsaw”, in 2020, she is emeritus poetry editor for The Quiver. Jan is an accomplished artist, painting as WWS – Woman with Stick - who discovered painting after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2016 but she has gone on to have work included in exhibitions across the UK and in New York. Poet and artist first; Parkinson’s sufferer second; she lives with a husband, three cats and a very small dog in a beautiful conservation village in West Yorkshire, England.

Features

Locust Hill: Chapter VI

Two Scribblers

Joni Mitchell’s Influence on Prince

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Ampat Varghese Koshy

Spotlight On Writers – Jackie Harvey

Interview Q&A With Elaine Nadal

Locust Hill: Chapter VI

A Summer’s Day at The Beach

Some Odious Thoughts of a Man

Santa and an Old Fellow on the Christmas Eve

I wish you the best day of your life

Every Christmas, I Grow

Finland

Lost

A Love Letter to Coffee

Concentrate

The Summer of War

Two Scribblers

Pearly Lady Earth

A Suicide Attempt and a Hidden Pandemic

Wild Horses

Pleas From Unbalanced Traits

HOPE

Recurring

Farewell to The Woman I Loved – and Love Still