Charles Clifford Brooks III

is a poet and freelance writer living in Jasper, Georgia USA. Along with writing assignments for several magazines, Clifford also contributes monthly pieces to the Pickens County Progress concerning political-social issues. He was inducted into the National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College which sealed his fate as a man of letters.

Clifford's poetry has been published in AEGIS, Poor Mojo?s Almanac, Act Two, Awen, HA! Magazine (2006 Honorable Mention Award), Jimston Journal, Writer Within Magazine, Clean Sheets Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Poetry Motel, Star Magazine (Winner of the 2006 Rhyming Poetry Competition(UK)) , Foliate Oak (2005 and 2006), Earth Love(UK), Nuvein Magazine, ChiZine, Gold Dust Magazine(UK), Aoife's Kiss, Secret Attic Magazine, Red Hawk Review ,Twisted Tongue Magazine(UK), Den Writer's Group, Confused in a Deeper Way, resume, Wet Ink (Winner of Wet Ink?s 2005 Poetry Contest), The Chimes, Taste: An Anthology(UK), Pulsar Magazine(UK), Literary Magic (Winner of First Honorary Mention 2006 which earned him a spot as Staff Writer on Literary Magic), Timbuktu, and GreenInk.

His prose has won the Sassafrass Literary Exchange?s writing competition in fiction and nonfiction. Samples of this work can be found in the Jimston Journal, Pitwit Magazine(UK), Ha! Magazine, Poor Mojo's Almanac(uk), Nuvein Magazine, Cloud Nine Magazine, Twisted Tongue Magazine(UK), Ego Magazine(Egypt), Sein und Werden Magazine, The Phenomenological Review(UK), and The Chimes.

Currently, Clifford is represented by Mark Straley of the Writers in the Sky Literary Agency. Together they are putting the last key strokes to Clifford?s first book of verse, Whirling Metaphysics.