



Francesca Teal
is a writer from West Yorkshire, UK. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies from the UK, the United States, and Canada.
Francesca’s published work includes a distressed seamstress in The Ekphrastic Review, a park’s healing power in Oxford Magazine, Ukrainian summer solstice in The Ash, the world of work as a post-grad in Bitter Melon Review, a footballing Yorkshire lad’s dreams in The Vanity Papers, and a relationship in reverse in Ghost Light Lit.
Her poem ‘Red Skies’ won the Sunflower Stories Competition in June 2025, which responded to an exhibition at the Taylor Institution Library of artworks created by war-displaced Ukrainian children.
FUll list of works here

Short fiction




Poetry

Sunflower Stories Competition 2025

Bitter Melon Review

Hinksey Park
Oxford Magazine

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