Micah James Bauman enjoys photography and audio/video production, as well as poetry and word play. He has read his poems at local art galleries and poetry gatherings, including Faustina’s in Lewisburg, The Station Gallery in Lock Haven, and the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. Micah’s first published work was in pages of The Lock Haven …
Sally McHugh lives in Galway and started writing poetry in 2017. She had her first publication ‘Dunmore East’ in 2018 in ROPES2018. She enjoys making art and crafts.
James Walton was a librarian, a farm labourer, a cattle breeder, and mostly a public sector union official. He is published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers. He has been shortlisted for the ACU National Literature Prize, the MPU International Prize, and the James Tate Prize. His poetry collections include The Leviathan’s Apprentice, Walking Through …
PW Covington writes in the beat tradition of the North American highway. He lives in Northern New Mexico, two blocks off of Historic Route 66, and his latest book, a collection of flash fiction, is titled, “North Beach and Other Stories”. www.PWCovington.com
Ron F Berisha lives in London. He has published poetry in the past. His stories have appeared in Literary Heist magazine. They take place in and between two countries: England and Albania. Ron has also a keen interest in filmmaking and has worked in several short films.
Linda Imbler is a Kansas-based Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee. Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. When not writing, Linda is an avid reader, classical guitar player, and a practitioner of both Yoga and Tai Chi. In, addition, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic …
Vivien’s first poetry collection – About Time, Too – was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2010. In that same year, she won the Poetry London Prize. She has completed a second short fiction collection on a theme of women amongst warriors – White Poppies (2012). Her second poetry collection –‘Short of Breath’ – was published in November 2014 by …
dana st. mary is a lifelong devourer of books and tall tales told by strangers, in odd places. he spent over fifteen years as an alaskan deckhand on halibut, black cod, and crab boats. he spent twenty plus years as a traveler and inveterate storyteller. north america is his particular bailiwick. he now sleeps in …
Clint Wastling was born in Beverley, Yorkshire and returned there in the mid-1990s after a spell in London as a chemistry teacher. Five years ago he went part-time and began a career in FE. Clint was born in Beverley, Yorkshire and returned there in the mid-1990s after a spell in London as a chemistry teacher. …
Andrea Potos is the author of eight poetry collections, including A Stone to Carry Home (Salmon Poetry), Arrows of Light (Iris Press), An Ink Like Early Twilight (Salmon Poetry), We Lit the Lamps Ourselves (Salmon Poetry) and Yaya’s Cloth (Iris Press). Another collection entitled Mothershell is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in the fall of 2019. …
Fred Johnston (born 1951) is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers’ Centre in Galway. He co-founded the Irish Writers’ Co-operative in 1974, and founded Galway’s annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature in 1986. His most recent work includes poetry, The Oracle Room …
Steve Cawte has worked as a playwright, poet, teacher and performer. Over the years, he has produced eight of the plays he has written and has directed a collection of stage plays. He went on to win two awards in 2012 – the ‘Our Times New Writer of the Year’ and the ‘Voice it’ Performers …
Jim Bennett has worked at the University of Liverpool. He used to perform regularly with the Dead Good Poets in the Everyman Bistro. He received three DaDaFest awards, and a Silver Stake from the Manchester Slam. He has also won awards for his poetry including the 2006 Frost Award, and the Fante Award in 2002. In 2005 his book The Man Who …
Leanne Neill is a company director, mother of three, and a self-professed ‘composer of words.’ She has over twenty years of experience in public libraries and local government. In 2016, she started her poetry and art inspired Facebook page : LUST for WORDS, and has since been published in many ezines and pages including Spillwords …
John Short was born in Liverpool and studied comparative religion at Leeds university and creative writing at Liverpool university with the poet and lecturer Richard Hill. Later he spent some years in Europe as an agricultural worker, production operative and language teacher before settling for a long period in Greece where he developed a passion …
His next book of poetry out soon is a collection in Merthyr dialect ‘From Aberfan t Grenfell’ ( Culture Matters), with illustrations by Swansea artist Alan Perry. Co-editor of ‘Red Poets’ magazine for 25 years and former editor of ‘Poetry Wales’. Regular blogger on website www.mikejenkins.net . Winner of Wales Book of the Year for collection of …
About the Poet- Sandeep Kumar Mishra is an outsider artist, poet and lecturer in English Literature. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets – Pearls (2002) and written a professional guide book -How to be (2016) and a collection of poems and art – Feel My Heart (2016). Recently his work has published …
Katrina E. Halfaker holds a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently pursuing an Associate’s (and eventually second Bachelor of Arts) degree in Communication Studies. She actively volunteers at local libraries whenever possible in conservation, adult services, and HDP – a program for homebound patrons. …
Carla Scarano D’Antonio moved to England (Lancashire then Surrey) in 2007 from Rome (Italy) and started attending creative writing courses. She obtained a Degree of Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Merit at Lancaster University in October 2012. Her work was published in Shipwrights (an online Swedish Review), Purple Patch, First Edition magazine, Northern …
Ellie has been writing poetry and short stories since primary school and been blogging for ten-plus years. She has had a number of individual works published alongside others in anthologies and journals, has self-published some collections of poetry and short stories herself, and is currently seeking representation for her debut novel.
Mary Wight lives and writes in the Scottish Borders. Some of her poems have appeared in various magazines & anthologies including The Poets’ Republic, Causeway/Cabhsair, Gutter and New Writing Scotland among others.
Carla Scarano D’Antonio moved to England (Lancashire then Surrey) in 2007 from Rome (Italy) and started attending creative writing courses. She obtained a Degree of Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Merit at Lancaster University in October 2012. Her work was published in Shipwrights (an online Swedish Review), Purple Patch, First Edition magazine, Northern …
Sarah Leavesley/James (http://sarah-james.co.uk) is a prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Author of seven poetry titles, two novellas and a touring poetry-play, she’s been published by the Guardian, Financial Times and in the Blackpool Illuminations. Sarah runs The Poetry Society’s Worcestershire Stanza and V. Press poetry and flash fiction imprint (http://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/). 2018 books: Always Another Twist (Mantle …
Dick Edelstein, born in Chicago, became an Irish citizen in 1999. Now retired and living in Barcelona, he has worked as a writer, editor, translator and journalist and published fifteen books as well as a number of translations and articles. An active member of the Irish-based writing group Poets Abroad, he tours Ireland by bicycle with …
Maximum 200 words. Ana Vidosavljevic from Serbia currently living in Indonesia. She has her work published or forthcoming in Down in the Dirt (Scar Publications), Literary Yard, RYL (Refresh Your Life), The Caterpillar, The Curlew, Eskimo Pie, Coldnoon, Perspectives, Indiana Voice Journal, The Raven Chronicles, Setu Bilingual Journal, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Madcap Review, The …
Peter lives on the southside of Glasgow, Scotland with his wife and three children. He is a scientist working in the renewable energy sector. As well as poetry, he enjoys composing music for piano and spending time in the Isle of Lewis. Peter has been published by Poetry Republic, Writer’s Cafe Magazine, Cadaverous Magazine, Reflections, …
Jonathan Humble has worked as a painter in a corrugated cardboard factory, lettuce picker for East Coast Salads and mechanical engineer in the power industry. He is currently masquerading as a deputy head teacher in a rural Cumbrian school. His poetry and short stories have appeared in a number of publications in print and online …
Maximum 200 words Elly Farrelly lives in Glasgow and works in education. Her poems have been published in journals including The Glasgow Review of Books, Message in a bottle and Atrium and have been included in three anthologies. As well as writing poetry she is also a songwriter and performing musician. www.ellyfarrelly.co.uk .
Sasha Lauren, poet, artist, and dogged patient safety activist, recently completed her first literary fiction, The Paris Predicament. The founder of Epiphany Scripts, Sasha has consulted on feature films scripts, authored a book on organizing, won writing contests, and has many stories, poems, and articles published. Sasha’s goals are to uplift, entertain, and educate. She …
Ruth Ennis completed her English with Drama undergraduate degree at UCD in 2017 and is now studying Children’s Literature at Trinity College Dublin. She is the Administrative and Marketing Assistant for the Dublin Book Festival 2018. She has worked for Children’s Books Ireland, Luath Press and has written for The Blue Nib, The University Observer …
Nigel Burch (born 1954 in Braintree, Essex) is an east London songwriter, musician, poet, and graphic artist now based in the London Borough of Hackney.[1] Musically covering the genres of punk, rock, folk, and anti-folk, Burch has collaborated with Kevin Coyne, John Cooper Clarke, Andrew Ranken (of The Pogues),[2] and had an ongoing pen pal …
Thomas Bailey: Tom is 21 years-old, and lives in London. He is currently studying English at Cambridge, and is editor of his college’s annual poetry publication. His work has been published in Agenda’s Online Broadsheet, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Acumen’s Young Poets Section, Off the Block, and The Cambridge Student, among other places. When he gets …
Initially wooed by the First World War poets and then seduced by the Beats, Dick Jones has been exploring the vast territories in between since the age of 15. Work has been published in a number of magazines, print and online, including Orbis, The Interpreter’s House, Poetry Ireland Review, Qarrtsiluni, Westwords, Mipoesias, Three Candles, Other …
BIO Jerry T. Johnson is a Poet and Spoken Word Artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Jerry often features at a variety of spoken word venues in the New York City area and he currently lives in Danbury, Connecticut with his wife Raye.
Lucy Mackarel is a teenage aspiring writer from rural Ireland. She has always been passionate about writing and uses personal experiences to gather her inspiration. Lucy has been making solid plans to attain her dreams of attaining a future in creative writing, having been offered a place in University to study the subject.
Michael Brockley is a pseudo-retired school psychologist who still works in rural northeast Indiana. His poems have appeared in Atticus Review, Gargoyle and Clementine Unbound.
Maximum 200 words. Frances Browner grew up in Dublin, spent twenty years in New York and now resides in County Wicklow. She has been writing fiction for over twenty years and has had short stories shortlisted for competitions and one took 2nd prize at the Dromineer Festival in 2010. Others have been published in Ireland’s …
Novelist, short story writer and critic. Works include The History of Luminous Motion and The People Who Watched Her Pass By. Stories and reviews have appeared in Triquarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Times Book Review, The Baffler, and numerous “best of” anthologies. He lives in California and London
Maximum 200 words. Jacqueline Knight has lived in Spain for 28 years. She is a writer, mother of 4, committed activist for environmental protection, equality and voting rights and Deputy Mayor of her small village. She has had poems published in various anthologies and online journals and in her poetry blog. http://blog.healingwordspoetry.com/
Dermot McGarthy was born and grew up in Dublin. He started writing short stories in his teens and had some of these were published in local magazines. He got the poetry bug in his mid-thirties, and has since self-published 4 books, Standing Room Only (2004), Goldfish Logic (2006), Building Work (2008) and his current collection, …
Megan’s work can be read in Shot Glass Journal, Runestone Journal, North Dakota Quarterly and Weasel Press’s anthology: How Well You Walk Through Madness. She currently attends Northwestern Health Sciences University in Minneapolis, Minnesota for Massage Therapy.
Jude studied English at Aberdeen University and now lives near Belfast with her very tolerant husband and a gang of spoilt rescue-animals. She has tutored students and taught EFL in local schools, and now writes poetry, flash fiction and short stories in her spare time. Some of her poetry has been featured in The Blue …
Susan was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, her flash-fiction Talk of Armadale trees was featured in the anthology My Favourite Place, published by the Scottish Book Trust in 2012, several of her short stories were published by Aphelion Webzine in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Susan has been featured on the cover of Aphelion in March and July 2017, February and …
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems published by boxofchalk, 2017. For more information including free e-books and his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com. To view one …
I have an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and numerous publications, including Cutbank and three in The Sun Magazine.
Brian Kirk is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Dublin. His children’s novel The Rising Son was published in December 2015. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013 and highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2014 and 2015. His first poetry collection After The Fall was published …
Deborah Harvey is a poet and novelist. Her three poetry collections, Communion (2011), Map Reading for Beginners (2014), and Breadcrumbs (2016), are published by Indigo Dreams, while her historical novel, Dart, appeared under their Tamar Books imprint in 2013. Her fourth collection, The Shadow Factory, will be published in 2019. Deborah runs workshops and read at …
Having worked in Andalusia since 2000, Clare Morris has recently returned to the UK and now lives in South Lincolnshire. She is currently working on an anthology, arising from her collaboration with the abstract artist, Nigel Bird (www.nigel-bird.com). Although much of her poetry is written in response to the environment, she also enjoys incorporating more …
Karen Poppy has work published or forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, ArLiJo, Wallace Stevens Journal, and Young Ravens Literary Review, among others. She has recently written her first novel, is at work on her second novel, and is an attorney licensed in California and Texas. She lives …
I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had an idyllic childhood. I went insane when I was eighteen and struggled with mental illness for many years. It wasn’t until I went to live on a farm in Western Massachusetts that I truly began to heal. The act of my rebuilding my psyche was …
