Bright Light Cafe - Showcased Talent - Writing - L

Presenting the Bright Light Family of Talent

- Writers -

L - Z

Agatha Lai Sarah Lascelles Karen Lethlean B. A. Llewellyn Sheryl Llorente Rebekah Lyell Pierrino Mascarino

Denise Marshall Lesley Mace Ray Malus Debbie McCurry Meenu Mehrotra Gary Mercer Arnold Miedema

Charity Moore Jenny Morgan Fiona Murray Theresa Newbill Du Phong Nguyen Allie Ochs Miaw Hui Ong

Carl Palmer Susan Palmer Alison Pearce Anthony R Pezzula Margaret Phillips Stephen Pray Hallie Jo Price

Kathyleen Rivera Kay F. Ruane Bobbi Sinha-Morey Sky Ian Smith Nisheeth Srivastava Jennifer Steffens

Caroline Stevenson Jason Sturner Reginald Taluah Elizabeth Thomas Shelisa Thomas Wendy Thornton

Christine Tothill Pat Tyrer Tyler Vinal Sheree Ward Geoff Weilert Nicole West Kerry Lown Whalen

Willis Whyte Tony Williams Jim Wisneski Shelly Wiseberg Jack Wodhams Christopher Woods

Sharon Woodward Wendy Wootten Manuela Francesca Yee

Agatha Lai

Agatha is a retired teacher from Malaysia. She started writing poems in 2002 and is now a Laureate Legionnaire of Mosaic Musing.

"I learn the form in 2003 from Yvonne Nunn of Taxes. As a non speaker, I find the guide lines of the form useful. I have won the Golden Pen Award from Amy Kitchener, Angels Without Wings in 2005 and recently my chapbook, The Wind From Mount Kinabalu, came first in a Chapbook Competition.

Poems: No Bird Song

The Bridge

The Wind From Kinabalu

When I Am Not Writing

Sarah Lascelles

Sarah is aged 22.

She says "I already have an addiction to tiger balm, and cheap Asian cigarettes. I spent the last year travelling the world single handedly, until a monkey bit me and I had to go home. I’m fed up with monkey jokes especially, "What did the monkey get?", and don’t ever sing "Tell Me Why I Don’t Like Monkeys" as it sends me into a rabid fit."

Short Stories: Yoga with Fabio

Karen Lethlean

Karen is a successful tri-athlete, having done Hawaii Ironman twice, and would like to write a memoir about this experience. She is also a teacher and writer, who has had a sci-fi story and an essay published in 2010, as well as winning the Froth and Bubble Festival, Torquay for a piece about a surfer - "Long Haired Wierdo".

Short Stories: Therapy

B. A. Llewellyn

B. A. Llewellyn is the resident writer for The Bright Light Café. Her Featured Talent page has links to her extensive written work, and to her biography and photos.

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Sheryl Llorente

Sheryl is a writer and poet from the Philippines.

Articles: And it felt so good, I want to do it again!

Poems: By The Sea

Convictions

Overwhelmed

Rebekah Lyell

Rebekah lives in Northland, New Zealand and studies journalism in Auckland. She is bilingual in Maori and English and most of her stories relate to moments in her life and incorporate aspects of Maori and Pakeha ideals.

Rebekah loves the beach, and the bush and everything that revolves around nature, as you can see in the imagery of her stories.

Rebekah says, "I have been writing for years, my style is 'unique' as many teachers told me, but i write to create vivid images in peoples mind. My sentence structures and the way i use words are quite different to most work that I've seen, but I like to push the boundaries."

Article: The Benefits of Positivity

Short Stories: Allure

Gorgeous

Mesmerise

Radiance

The Day I Re-Met My Father

Pierrino Mascarino

Pierrino is a well known actor with the title role in the heart-warming movie Uncle Nino. His writing has also been published in The Linnet's Wings, Dry Bones Anthology, Bartleby Snopes, Darkest Before Dawn and The Beat.

Short Stories: Love Will Burst Your Heart

Lesley Mace

Lesley hails from the United Kingdom. She has had short stories published in The Lady, Hertfordshire Life, Yours, Writers' Forum, and The Weekly News. She has had a short play produced in London by the Total Beast Theatre Company and she also runs her local writers' group, the Stortford Scribblers.

Short Stories: Eleuthera

Ray Malus

Ray has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on his own page, with links to his written works, his performances, his biography and his photo.

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Denise Marshall

Denise has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on her own page, with links to her written and narrated work, as well as her biography and photos.

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Debbie McCurry

Debbie lives in Queensland, Australia. She is a part time primary school teacher and a part-time aspiring writer. Her goal is to be a full-time writer of published works by the time she retires from teaching in 8 years.

Debbie says: "My inspiration for writing the short story The Kilt came from working with a group of my students on the culture of Scotland. Also, my married name of McCurry has a Scottish background that I have done some research on to make up my family tree."

Short Stories: The Kilt

Chocoholic

Meenu Mehrotra

Meenu lives in Haryana, India. She enjoys fiction writing and is presently writing her first novel.

Poems: Mother and Child

My Ailing Mother

Gary Mercer

Gary is a poet from the USA.

Poems: Love of My Life

Arnold Miedema

Arnold has lived a full and adventurous life. He was raised on the beautiful shores of New Zealand during the 1930's, orphaned when only a child, hitchhiked around Australia then worked his way around the world.

After a two year period in the nickel Mines in Ontario, Canada, Arnold returned to Sydney where he married an English girl. He has two daughters who have two daughters and two boys.

Arnold was a finalist in the Bright Light Multimedia "A Successful Life" writing competition.

Short Stories: Spring Comes to Bosnia

Charity Moore

Charity is married and has one grown son. Her very supportive and loving family have inspired her to write.

"The first seeds of serious writing begun for me only 3 short years ago. I enrolled in our local Writing school and after 2 years completed the part time course. I've only just begun to use all that I learnt from the course to seek publication of my works which has brought me to this stage. So I hope you enjoy reading the story as much as I enjoyed writing it."

Short Stories: Becky's Secret Joy

Jenny Morgan

Jenny is from Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. For as long as she can remember, writing has been a big part of her life.

"Through writing, you can express yourself in so many ways. Its a escape from the outside world when you just need to get away. I like writing about children because I went through a lot as one and have a lot if topics to cover in that area!"

Poems: Friend

Fiona Murray

Fiona Murray is a social work student who lives in Brisbane, Australia. She enjoys rock-climbing, travel, and taking long walks.

Short Stories: The Tragic and Triumphant Tale of Dr Darryn

Theresa C. Newbill

Theresa has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on her own page, with links to her written work.

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Du Phong Nguyen

Du Phong Nguyen lives in Australia.

Poems:

Love is a Very Simple Word

Rain-Rain Drop-Drop

Love By All Means

Allie Ochs

Allie is a relationship expert, coach, speaker and author of "Are You Fit To Love?" Her book has received the honourable mention at the USA 2004 Best Book Awards as well the highest rating (5 star) from Midwest Book Review. She has appeared on TV, Radio and is published in numerous magazines and newsletters.

Articles:

Are Women From Utopia And Men From Wal-Mart?

Loving Without Losing Yourself

Perfectionism - The Dangerous Trap

Stretch Your Soul This Year

The Joy of Being Dumped

The Magic Of Turning Forty

The Power of Being A Woman

Miaw Hui Ong

"My inspiration comes from experiences in life. I write for fun and poetries are a great outlet for releasing my inner thoughts and sometimes, frustrations. "

Poems: Better Days

Pen to Paper

Young and Restless

Carl Palmer

Carl has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on his own page, with links to his written and narrated work, as well as his biography and photos.

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Susan Palmer

Susan lives in Colorado, U.S.A. She was a stay-at-home mom until her children left the nest and, now, she is an artist and writer ... and a grandmother. Susan has been published in several print magazines and is working on a her second novel.

Poems: Halloween 2008

Horsey Whickers

New Liver

Alison Pearce

Alison is a mother of four who formerly worked at Berrinba East State School as an English and Maths tutor. After suffering a long term illness she decided to turn her efforts towards the writing career she'd have always dreamed of. Since 2006 Alison has won seven awards for her short stories and two for her poetry.

In July of 2007, Alison released a self published ebook of poetry titled "Touching Blue", and in September, Infinitas bookshop published the first short story that she submitted for publication. It was a small, humorous sci-fi piece titled "Live From Phobos". Her short story "Jongari", based on the old Murri legend of the Yowie has also been accepted in a new, yet to be named, cross genre anthology.

Short Stories: A Formal Occasion

Poems: Blue Rose

Anthony R Pezzula

Anthony is a retiree who took up writing in his retirement years. He has had short stories published in various print and on-line magazines including Midnight Times, River Poets Journal, The Fringe, Aphelion, Pulse Literary Journal, The MacGuffin, Pulp Empire and Crimespree Magazine among others. He has also written several one act plays, two of which have been performed at local theatres.

Anthony lives in upstate New York with his wife of thirty-six years.

Short Stories: Cat

Margaret Phillips

Margaret Phillips specializes in short stories with quirky characters and unexpected endings. She divides her time between writing and working in healthcare. Presently, she lives with her husband and three cats in California.

Short Stories: A Jarful of Love

Stephen Pray

Stephen has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on his own page, with links to his written and narrated work, as well as his biography, interview and photos.

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Hallie Jo Price

Hallie graduated from New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire with a Creative Writing degree in 2011. At NEC, she was a writer and a editor for the campus Newspaper, "The New Englander" as well as the annual literary anthology, "The Henniker Review". Hallie currently resides on the Oregon coast with her pomeranian, Grubby.

Short Stories: Violet and the Big Bed

Kathyleen Rivera

Kathyleen is a freelance writer who dabbles with fiction and feature articles. She has been writing since high school and has a compilation of original poetry. She has also written 5 songs as well as several essays, with works posted on Philippine websites such as pinakamaganda.com and peyups.com.

“I also maintain a writing group for beginning writers called NOVICEWRITERS, and update my blogsite frequently.

My poem “Don’t” was recently published in a print anthology called “New Pegasus”.

Articles: The Pit of the Ex-Boyfriend

Poems: I Will Be

Short Stories: Between The Sheets

Kay F. Ruane

Kay is a sixty eight year old grandmother who celebrated her 50th Wedding Anniversary in 2005. She has been writing poetry since childhood.

Kay joined a creative writing group in 1991 and has since had many poems and stories published in local newspapers and literary magazines and on ABC radio. Kay has self published several books of poetry and is presently writing a book of family history.

Poems: After

Golden Memories

On The Farm

The Nectar

Bobbi Sinha-Morey

Bobbi hails from the United States and is a poet and reviewer for the online magazine Specusphere.

"My poetry can be seen in places such as Orbis, Sage Trail, Recovering The Self, Gloom Cupboard, and Poet's Espresso, among others. Plus my book of poetry, White Tea, is available at www.writewordsinc.com."

Poems: An Early Spring

The Heart Of July

The Shape Of Serenity

Sky

Sky is an exciting new composer of experimental music, which beautifully complements art and the written words throughout the Bright Light Café. His rich, deep voice adds extra beauty to the poems and stories he has also chosen to perform.

Sky was born in 1981, is 6ft 7" tall, lives in Queensland, Australia and is a fire-twirler when he's not creating music, being a late-night DJ on Brisbane's community radio ZZZ or playing keyboards in his Prog-Metal band "Mythology" or working in the IT industry.

Articles: Sky's Music Reviews

Music: Pretty Thingy , Glitched , All Systems Go

Performance: Her Fella , Not This October , The Opportunist

Ian Smith

Ian is currently a History and English major at Guilford College in North Carolina.

Short Stories: The List

Nisheeth Srivastava

Nisheeth is a 21 year old undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, who wishes to go to Harvard or Cornell to take a Masters in Social Anthropology. He has an IQ of 160.

Nisheeth has been published in national newspapers and magazines and his work has been awarded several prizes in the past decade. Nisheeth hopes to eventually make writing his professional career.

Poems: Finger Chips for the Lonely Soul

In-cell-ubrious

The Defiance of Prometheus

When a handkerchief cries

Jennifer Steffens

Jennifer Steffens is a Floridian (United States) who is still in college and is trying to find the right career path. This piece was written for a creative writing class, something she hopes to continue taking throughout the rest of her studies, and perhaps pursue as her major.

Short Story: Flash Fiction Travel

Caroline Stevenson

Caroline is an environmental scientist who has only been writing a short while. She is also a very talented photographer.

"I write true crime stories to pay the bills but would like to move onto fiction. This is my first effort that has made it past the editing stage. I am a mother with two children and live in a regional area of Queensland."

Short Story: The Unexpected Angel

Till Death do us Part

Jason Sturner

Jason has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on his own page, with links to his written work.

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Reginald Taluah

Taluah Reginald Asangba hails from Ghana in the Upper East Region. He was born on the 14th of April, 1984. He received his first degree in English and Sociology from the University of Ghana-Legon. He is a budding poet and playwright, currently working as a teaching assistant in the Department of English, University of Ghana. The renowned Ghanaian poet, Kofi Awoonor, is his father figure, mentor and teacher.

Poems: A Look At The Endless Sea

She is a Smile

Elizabeth Thomas

Elizabeth Thomas is a published author, an illustrator and a housewife. Elizabeth is presently writing and illustrating children's books. She loves poetry - anything that rhymes! Her poem "Huntsman" won a Highly Commended prize in the Bright Light Multimedia Fun, Happy Poetry Competition.

Poems: Huntsman

Shelisa Thomas

Shelisa is from the United States.

Poems: You're Never Alone

Wendy Thornton

Wendy is a writer from the United States. She is the President of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville and Newsletter Editor of the WAG Digest, as well as having been the Invited Reader for the Saw Palm print magazine lauch party in the Winter of 2009.

Some of her recent publications include:
Rigged to Blow, chicagopoets.com, Summer 2010.
Buddha Light, Broken Plate, Ball State University, Spring 2010.
Shipbreakers, Hiram Poetry Review, Hiram College, Ohio, Spring 2010.
Saving Your Life: Victoria Bryant – Main Street Rag, Jan. 2010.

Short Stories: Margaret and the Two-Inch Tomato

Christine Tothill

Christine is British and lives in Spain. She writes fiction - mostly short stories and flashes.

Short Stories: Blue Skies

Common Land

Remember?

Yesterday Was Wednesday

Pat Tyrer

Pat teaches American Literature at West Texas A&M University. She writes poetry, essays, and short fiction. Her work has appeared in Quiet Mountain: New Feminist Essays, Reader’s Digest, Journal of the College Conference of Teachers of English, and The Southern Literary Journal. She has recently completed her first novel, "Maddie’s Crowd", with co-writer Pat Nickell.

Short Stories: The Coffee Shop

Tyler Vinal

Tyler hails from the United States and was a college student who studied writing, but has recently graduated and been accepted to Albany Law School.

Short Stories: When It Rains, It Pours

Sheree Ward

Sheree is 24 years old and lives in Darwin, the capital of Northern Territory, Australia. She describes herself as "an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world".

Poems: The Truth

Tonic

Geoff Weilert

Geoff has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on his own page, with links to his written and narrated work, as well as his biography.

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Nicole West

Nicole has been in the entertainment industry for many years as a dancer/entertainment supervisor and is now branching into writing, a lifelong passion. She is currently studying Travel Writing in order to combine an exciting world travel history with a desire to inform, excite and help others along their travelling paths.

Short Stories: Meeting Julian

More Than a View

Poems: Worldly Success

Kerry Lown Whalen

Kerry is a writer from Australia. She grew up on the cliffs of Coogee Beach, New South Wales, and, therefore, feels that the sea, in all of its moods, is an element that consistently pervades her writing. She also feels that having had the good fortune to have a weekender in the southern highlands of New South Wales has instilled a love of the country with its native gums and shrubs, its earthy smells and the the sounds of wildlife.

Short Stories: Arcadia

Poems: A Prayer To The Gods Of Writing

Willis-Whyte

Willis is an award winning director, writer, and actor. She is also an Honors Graduate of the University of Vermont at Castleton.

Her full-length play (with music) "In the Footsteps of Moses; the story of Harriet Tubman" was produced Off-Broadway, by Animated Theatreworks, in 2001. Her short story "Nancy and the Pagan Babies" will appear in the second issue of The Petigru Review Literary Journal this fall.

Willis who wrote, directed and performed as “on-air” host for “Thoughts On Food” a popular R.I. radio program, is a native New Yorker who now makes South Carolina her home.

Short Stories: Flying Solo

Tony Williams

Tony is a spare time short fiction writer and poet from the ACT in Australia.

“Some of my work has been published, and some has won me success in writing competitions. I write for both myself and my audience. It is a joy to write and a compulsion to create. My golden aims in all my work: to achieve a mood, to tell a story, and to please both myself and my reader. ”

Short Stories: Too Sweet the Wine

Poems: Away From The Crowds

Jim Wisneski

Jim Wisneski is an author, musician, and poet living in Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently writing plenty of short stories, putting the final touches on his first novel, and working on his second novel.

Visit http://www.JimWisneski.com to see some of Jim's writings -
and visit http://www.myjonesmusic.com/code/music/band/3021 to hear Jim's newest album titled THE WORDS.

Short Stories: When Love Strikes

Shelly Wiseberg

Shelly has achieved Featured Artist status at The Bright Light Café and is now showcased on her own page, with links to her creative work, her biography and her photos.

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Jack Wodhams

Jack was born in England and was a World War II evacuee. He migrated to Australia in 1955 where he became "a fairly ordinary working Joe".

Jack sold a science fiction short story to Analog in 1965 and 1966 and tells us that he was "world famous in Melbourne for five minutes as Guest of Honour at their Science Fiction Convention".

Jack stays young with his love of writing. He says, "I am one of those rare pensioners who still possess some of their own hair and teeth."

Short Stories: The Entertainer

Christopher Woods

Christopher lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas. He is the author of a prose collection, "Under a Riverbed Sky", and a collection of stage monologues for actors, "Heart Speak".

Christopher is also an artist and photographer with an online gallery, Moonbird Hill Arts (www.moonbirdhillarts.etsy.com) which he shares with his wife, Linda.

Short Stories: Billy, Elvis and Jesus

Sharon Woodward

Sharon is an independent film/video maker, originally trained in documentary. She later went on to direct drama with a major interest in improvisation. Sharon studied at both Newport Film School and the National Film and Television School and trained in the cutting rooms of BBC Wales and Tyne Tees Television.

She currently works as a freelance filmmaker and at VOXinc where she supports volunteers aged 16-25, with Learning Disabilities to use video and drama.

In 1996 Sharon formed Mischief Pictures with Producer Richard Duriez to make lo/no budget drama productions on digital video.

Sharon continues to work on her own productions as well as productions for other organisations and individuals.

Poems: Thank You Skinhead Girl

Wendy Wootten

Wendy is 42 year old. She is deaf, losing her hearing when she was only 12. Bourbon was the dog who helped her accept her deafness.

Short Stories: Bourbon

Manuela Francesca Yee

Manuela is a picture book illustrator and a writer of adult fiction. For over 13 years, she was a full-time English, Literature, and Art secondary teacher. In her first degree, she majored in printmaking and so she specialises in relief, intaglio, and silk screen printing. Currently, she is undertaking a Professional Writing & Editing degree at RMIT University.

Manuela's illustrative website can be seen at: www.thestylefile.com/show.php?illustrator_id=211

Short Stories: Finding Stillness