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The Burning Bush 2 interview

In the lead up to its sixth issue, Burning Bush 2 has been running a series of short interviews with some of its previous contributors. Writers including Afric McGlinchey, Kevin Higgins, Kimberly Campanello and Dave Lordan have responded to a list of questions from BB2 editor Alan Jude Moore, with these interviews appearing on the magazine's website at a rate of two to three per week.

With one writer still to come, my own responses to these questions were published today.

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