Angel-Clare Linton
Angel-Clare Linton is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, and the founder of Spray Paint Magazine. She also graduated from Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing, where she was also the previous co-president of the Kwantlen Creative Writing Guild and the poetry editor of the school’s magazine, pulpMAG.
She is also Surrey Muse’s Web Content Editor and was the social media coordinator and web editor at Delta Literary Arts Society, where she previously read at their 2023 Unbound Poetry Festival and their 2024 COMPOSED Festival of Poetry and Writing.
Forthcoming
Bandages and Bullet Wounds
I thought I wasn’t gonna make it.
As I lay in my bed in the middle of the night with my blanket up to my chin, I wanted to hide from the world, away from the sea of never-ending dark blue ocean. I also wanted an escape, a freedom away from my current life that was a well of thick, black words, and I was at the bottom where I couldn’t see my way out and where people couldn’t hear my screams.
As I lay in my bed with my blanket up to my chin, I thought I wouldn’t make it in life since my life felt like a never-ending downstream river. I thought I’d die in that river before I’d be able to rise to the peak of a mountain, staring down at what I’ve accomplished.
I thought I wasn’t gonna make it, but now I’m going to try because trying and failing is better than not trying at all.
Bandages and Bullet Wounds is Angel-Clare Linton’s third poetry collection.
Writings
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Sugar by Angel-Clare Linton
The light blue sky is now light pink. Hearts float amongst the rain. Sweet-smelling lavender weaves in and out of the thin air and clings on the dust particles that ebb and flow around the living organisms. Sunflowers dance in the field.