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Get to know our team of Editors and Readers at Spare Parts Literary.
Spare Parts Literary is a magazine seeking to provoke thought and inspire our readers by discovering and promoting diverse and cerebral works from emerging and established creatives alike. We publish Art, Fiction, Photography, Poetry, Play Extracts and Novel Excerpts.
Oak Ayling
Editor in Chief
DEC '21 - Present
Oak Ayling (She/Her) is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet and semi-professional human.
Her debut pamphlet 'With Love from the Curator' was released to a locked-down audience in 2021, through Indigo Dreams Publishing.
Oak's other works can be found in various literary magazines and in print anthologies 'For the Silent' from Indigo Dreams Publishing & 'Light Through the Mist' from author Helen Cox.
More can be read about her either at her website oakaylingwriter.co.uk or on any of her socials: Twitter // Insta
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
Poetry Editor
NOV '23 - Present
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, a Nigerian black poet, won the 2024 Deconflating Surveillance with Safety contest and received commendation at the 2024 HART Prize for Human Rights. He was a finalist in the Hayden's Ferry Review Poetry Prize '23, secured second runner-up in the 2023 Wingless Dreamer's Contest, and was shortlisted in the Thomas Dylan Poetry contest. He has received nominations for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Awards. His work is featured or forthcoming in POETRY, Heavy Feather Review, Strange Horizons, Paper Crane Journal's 'Outstanding Young Poets '23', and Blue Earth Review, among others.
Jonathan D. Garcia
Flash Fiction Editor
NOV '23 - oct '25
Shaldeen Gorthi
Reader
NOV '23 - NOV '25
"I'm looking for voices focused on perfecting their craft, who seek to explore the limits of language and discover new ways to express the deepest questions which stir the souls of mankind."
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