We inhabit a pretty wonderful planet, but now we’re living through heatwaves, droughts, floods, people losing their homes, people without enough to eat because crops are failing, people migrating to places where they’re not welcome. Not to mention wars and other human made catastrophes. This sounds gloomy (and it is), but the creative arts are there to soothe us, provoke us, enchant us, alarm us and uplift us. At Thin Skin we do all this and more, through the words of the excellent wordsmiths featured below. They remind us of what being human is like, in all its folly and wisdom. And from this issue onwards, we’re doing it through poetry, as well as fiction.
So we present, with a flourish and a fanfare, the Issue 8 authors, with a couple of repeat offenders and a total newbie. Enjoy.