Latest book news for 2025
Hemlock and Honey announcement
Impspired Press originally agreed to publish this pamphlet, but sadly the editor, Steve Cawte passed away suddenly, age 42, in August 2024 before the book could be released. I am so grateful to Mark Davidson .if Hedgehog Poetry Press for agreeing to take on publication
I would like to express my deepest condolences to Steve’s family and my gratitude to him for his encouragement of my work and publication of two previous pamphlets, Earth Magicke and Immersed in Blue. Hemlock and Honey is dedicated to his memory.
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Toccata and Fugue with Harp, a new collection from Hedgehog Press
Owl Fetish, a slim chapbook from Dreich
My poetry has also appeared over recent years in anthologies from Crumps Barn Studio
- A Festival of Cats – Two poems in this delightful pocket-size anthology
2) The Wild Night Sky – a short story and 2 poems
September 2022 Announcement – new book!
Thrilled to announce that I have a short ghost story and poetry in a brand new Halloween anthology entitled ’Spooky Ambiguous’, published by Crumps Barn Studio. I have paperback copies to sell direct at a cost of £8.99 + £2 p&p ( U.K. only, please ask re USA, Europe etc). Please email me for further details or to order. Also available from Amazon
as ebook Kindle edition from 15th September :
#litfic #fangs #fairytales # gothic
News Flash! Beyond delighted to learn that #HedgehogPoetryPress is nominating my 2nd collection ‘Where Flora Sings’ for the prestigious Laurel Prize. Thank you #MarkDavidson, editor, who has made so many dreams come true for me as a poet!
Hello and Welcome!
Hello and welcome to my website. My name is Margaret Jean Royall. I’m retired and living in a small Nottinghamshire village on the River Trent in a quaint grade 11 listed cottage. I am a poet and author and most of my time in retirement is taken up with writing, but outside of that I love to go to the theatre, cinema and concerts, meet up with friends, sing in my village choir, visit old churches, museums and galleries. When time and money allow I love to holiday in France and Scotland, particularly in the Hebrides. I go every year to Iona on a creative writing retreat and have fallen in love with the island. I am proud to say that I am now assistant tutor on the course responsible for the technical writing classes, which I very much enjoy leading.
My children are now adults and live away; two are in London, one in Liverpool and my stepson, wife and children live in Norfolk.
Full Author Biography
Margaret is a poet and short story author with six published books to her name: a micro chapbook ‘Singing The Earth Awake’ (Hedgehog Press 2019), two poetry pamphlets, Earth Magicke, (2021) and Immersed in Blue, both from Impspired 2021, two poetry collections, Fording The Stream (2017, independently published), Where Flora Sings (2020, Hedgehog Press) and a memoir in prose and verse, The Road To Cleethorpes Pier (2020, Crumps Barn Studio). She has been shortlisted for several poetry prizes, won the Hedgehog Press’ Full Fat collection competition (May 2020) and Where Flora Sings was then nominated for the Laurel Prize. She has been widely published in journals and webzines, including Impspired, Dreich, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams, Sidhe Press, Eat The Storms, Hedgehog Press, Yaffle and others.
She was recently chosen by Erbacce Press as one of four featured poets for 2024 and her poetry plus in-depth interview was showcased in their autumn quarterly journal.
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