FROM THE EDITOR




 
Hello everyone

Welcome to the website for Crystal, The Magazine For Writers.  Crystal is an A4, 40-page, bi-monthly, print only magazine with colour images.  Issue 140 has a few more pages.

Crystal is full of good stories, poetry and articles.  There's an opportunity to share writing successes and anything of interest to writers.  Also there are usually pages of letters, which indicates readers have had an enjoyable experience if they have taken the time to write.  The rule for letters, as stated in Guidelines on the back page, is: kind comments or none at all.

£3.50 for one issue  or subscribe for £21.   You will receive six issues of my very popular magazine.  Why not consider joining the Crystallite family.

Or just enter the new Surprise Competition 'Write a Sonnet'.  Please email your postal address if you require an information flyer.

Happy writing.
 
Warm regards

Christine Carr
Editor

CURRENT ISSUE



MARCH 2024




CONTENTS

Welcome 

Roy Hewetson: Serial

Linda Howe: Whatever the Weather 

Nicky Wheeliker: Spring Comes to Ulley 

Wendy Webb: The Heavens Priesting Peace. Gone 

Wendy Webb: Polyamorous Flight of Bobolinks 

David Norris-Kay: Dandelions 

Michael Newman: From the Heart 

Brian Webster: Is Smoking Grounds For Divorce? 

Michael Newman: Josephine Bruce. Cut Flowers 

Sue Hassett: A Yorkshire Winter 

Nicky Wheeliker: Whatever the Weather 

Bernard M Jackson: Jepson The Beeston Barber 

Bernard M Jackson: A Blot on One’s Escutcheon 

Richard Dobbs: Joke 

Jill Rundle: The Unwelcome Visitor 

Heather Buswell: Ivory Sonnet 

Michael Newman: The Voice of Music 

Ryan Coull: In the Room Above 

Heather Buswell: Floods and Torrents 

Peter Davies: O Sylvan Wye! 

From the Editor: Haiku 

Letters 

Keith Taylor: Sonnet From the Shakespeare Country 

Phil Wilson: Wordsmithing 

Richard Dobbs: Wordwise 

Heather Buswell: March into a Book 

Felix Sefton: Nothing Special 

David Norris-Kay: Dark Earth 

Roy Hewetson: Outsider Chance 

Brian Webster: Bread of Love 

Richard Dobbs: The Beach Hut 

Don White: Tales From a Solo Traveller 



 


NEW SURPRISE COMPETITION

WRITE A SONNET

Email your postal address to receive a flyer giving details.

christinecrystal@hotmail.com

Competition closes 1 November 2024

NEWS

 

NEWS

www.bookguild.co.uk ISBN 9781915603975 NATURE £9.99

Veteran environmental tutor and retired countryside ranger Keith Taylor seeks out spiritual and visual riches as he undertakes a year travelling to locations that have always intrigued him or may offer a fresh relationship with the outdoors, both through his own seasonally aware eyes and those of equally restless colleagues.

Here, in The Seasonal Eye, he takes the reader through extreme parts of Britain, from the foot of an oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, to the caves of a Nottingham border ice age sanctuary, our coastlines and nature reserves now managed by our county naturalists trusts, and the varied terrains of the Cairngorms.

This inquisitive man invites us to join him in his quests to discover how the compulsion to merge supposition with reality provides a clearer understanding of the precarious yet adaptive environmental issues that surround us all.




An enchanting seasonal tour of Britain, written by a retired countryside ranger.


This is a joint effort between Keith and myself. Through my word processing service (see inside-back page of magazine) I typed up a manuscript from handwritten notes. I truly enjoyed reading the resulting 242-page book. Christine

SINGLE ISSUE





 Don't want to receive six issues of Crystal a year but would like to see your work in print?  There is the option to purchase single issues for £3.50.  

I publish stories, poems, articles.  Send me something and I'll let you know if I'd like to include it.  

In due course I will tell you which issue it is in.  Then either send me a cheque, payable to Mrs C Carr, for £3.50 or click the PayPal button.

You can send work by email: christinecrystal@hotmail.com 

Post: 3 Bowness Avenue, Prenton, Birkenhead CH43 0SD


Note

You can only be called a Crystallite if you subscribe.


DESCRIPTION AND HOW TO GET COPIES

Crystal Magazine  is intended for subscribers (called Crystallites).  They receive six issues a year for £21. 


If you do not wish to become a Crystallite you may still send in work and can purchase the issue it appears in for £3.50. There is a PayPal button on this website.  The price is the same as a Crystallite would pay for one issue.

An A4, 40-page, spiral-bound, print only bi-monthly.  Full of stories, poems and articles with colour images.  Pages of letters, an opportunity to share writing achievements and anything of interest to writers.

There are yearly Surprise Competitions open to all. Entry is £1.23 and you don't know what you could win (it's a surprise). Prizes are only small but winners have been very happy.

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HOW TO GET COPIES

You can send a cheque to Mrs C Carr, Editor, Crystal Magazine, 3 Bowness Avenue, Prenton, Birkenhead CH43 0SD.  Please make it payable to Mrs C Carr.  See below for cost options.


PayPal Buttons

£21 to become a Crystallite and get sent six issues within a 12-month period.

£2 for a sample copy.

£3.50 for non-Crystallites to purchase a copy of the issue their work appears in.


GUIDELINES

Poems, stories (true and fiction) and articles. Any style, length and theme, except erotica. Handwritten material accepted.

Also very long stories which could be turned into serials.

Short fillers, joke etc.

Copyright remains with the author.

Letters: kind comments or none at all. Deadline is 15th of the month prior to the month of publication.

News: Share publication successes.




PAYPAL BUTTONS


If you use the payment button to subscribe to Crystal Magazine, PayPal can set up a Payment Profile with automatic recurring payment. This means in a year's time your subscription will be automatically renewed.  You don't have to do anything.

Of course, if you no longer wish to receive Crystal Magazine you can either contact PayPal direct to cancel or I can cancel your Payment Profile.

There is a PayPal button for a sample copy.  This is intended for writers thinking about taking out a subscription.

I have set up a single issue button.  Should I accept any poem, story or article from a non-Crystallite they may purchase the issue it appears in.

The yearly Surprise Competitions have an entry fee button.

ISSUE 100 JULY 2017

The special 'golden' 100th issue. 

More colour, more pages.

Golden covers (not shown).












Only £3

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