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Everyone deserves a moment to live their dream, so join Your Chance Productions for a special charity concert this October to help raise money for Derbyshire LGBT+ and the Notts LGBT+ Network.

One of my goals for 2025 was to turn my three published books into audiobooks, opening up a brand new opportunity for people to engage with my poems and novels. Today, that goal reaches its completion!

The Burning Ash, July, and 30: A Year of Poems are now officially available from your favourite booksellers. While all three books have been available on Amazon since their original launches, they weren’t available in physical stores or from other sellers. As of July 2025, you can now find books by Richard Kish wherever books…

Yesterday I completed the phenomenal Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It’s a spectacular game with a truly mature and philosophical exploration of grief, community, love, and perseverance. I loved everything about it and it’s very likely to be my Game of the Year for 2025. Upon reaching the end, I was inspired to write a poem…

A poem to mark Pride Month We have always been here. Both in fact and in fiction.Scattered in fragments through time. History is written by the victorFacts etched in stone by those in powerIs it any wonder that our past is missing? From The Satyricon’s Encolpius and GitonTo Heartstopper’s Charlie and NickLike the Emperor Hadrian…

June is Pride Month. Unofficially this has been the case since 1970, but it became official in 1999 thanks to a presidential proclamation by Bill Clinton, and it is marked every year by the global LGBTQIA+ community. We’ve had so much progress in achieving equality and inclusion over the last few decades, but our community…

Depression is a hideous beast of a mental illness, even if you have medication to help. It makes you doubt every positive thing you’ve ever thought about yourself and cripples your self-worth. So, when you’re in a position where you have to sell yourself and promote your skills, knowledge, and services; depression is your worst enemy.

This month has been one of shocks and rejections. At the end of February, I received the news that I was going to be made redundant and I left my job in the middle of March and have been job hunting all the while. It’s not fun. Going from trying to buy a house (which…

East Midlands-based writer, Richard Kish, has this month released his second poetry collection called ‘30: A Year of Poems’. In 2022, the writer wrote a poem a day for a month resulting in the collection, July. 30: A Year of Poems is a spiritual successor with a poem written every day for an entire year…