SUE LEWIS is an award-winning South London writer of poetry, haiku and flash fiction.

Sometimes

after windswept phases
there is healing salt

the moon’s serenity
will pour into the street

and for a moment

you’ll be startled by your insight

how the taste of it seems
scarlet in your mouth.

Rare grace
to brush against that music

touch the tenderness
of transient things.

(‘Kairos’—Written down in pencil)

She has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and haiku journals. She was short listed in the Bridport Prize poetry competition in 2022  and 2023  and was winner of the Cinnamon Press pamphlet competition in 2019, 2021 and 2024. Her  pamphlet Written down in pencil, published by Hedgehog Press in 2024, raised £500 for local charities. She was a finalist in Mslexia magazine’s 2025  Flash Fiction Competition which was judged by Amanda Saint.

Sue has read her poetry in libraries, wine bars, bookshops, at the VENT festival and at NT Leith Hill Place. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is a member of the British Haiku Society, Sutton Arts Network and the Kith writing community. She reads regularly with Mole Valley Poets, Sutton Writers and Croydon’s Poets Anonymous and is a member of the Surrey haiku group ‘Leaves to a Tree.’        

Journey, Texture and Between the Words are available from Cinnamon Press and from all good online bookshops and Amazon. Written down in pencil is available as a print copy from Amazon or as a PDF from Hedgehog Press.

Between the Words was published in March 2025 by Cinnamon Press in their 20th year as an independent publisher.