Issue 39 | Sept 2019 |

Alec Solomita was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal, and named a finalist by the Noctua Review.

Flight I have been rowed across the Volga and seen the sun breach the waters. Gone in the mist in Delhi late at…

Amphibian Post-MS, my legs are clumsy, half-numb. Dumb to earth’s unevenness, I stumble to the shore. Half-in the water is hardest. Currents pull,…

Jade Riordan is an Irish-Canadian poet, an undergraduate student, and a selection committee member (poetry reader) with Bywords.

Carolyn Martin is the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation.

Grant Guy is a Canadian, writer, illustrator and puppeteer. Currently he is the artistic director of the Circus of Objects.

Mike Lewis-Beck works and writes in Iowa City. He has pieces in Alexandria Quarterly, Apalachee Review, Big Windows Review, Cortland Review, Chariton Review, Guesthouse, Pure Slush.

Gary Glauber is a widely published poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist.

JP Mayer is an emerging writer and a current senior at Brown University, where he studies classics and literary arts.

We’d been to the Gate to watch Barry McGovern do his Beckett thing. A character whose proportions might’ve been dreamed up by Alberto Giacometti….

Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art. She resides in Graham, North Carolina.

It was my fault. Mama always said, “Don’t leave the baby alone. Night time is pretty to look at, but don’t you go out…

Elizabeth McGeown’s first e-pamphlet ”twas’ was e-published by Pen Points Press in December 2018.

Kelli Allen’s is the recipient of the 2018 Magpie Award for Poetry. Her newest collection is Banjo’s Inside Coyote, C&R; Press, 2019.

Tobias Radloff was awarded the Daniil Pashkoff Prize for his short story “Nobody loves you like I do”.

I stole a hen. Not a nice hen. Oh no! Not a cute hen, not a posh hen. A pure useless brown hen. Scrawny….

Everyone knows exactly where they were when the little girl died. It was a momentary intake of breath, the news.

Understanding Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey – by Ada Wofford

Sharp Hills by Chrissie Gittins – Reviewed by Ada Wofford. Along with being a Contributing Editor to the Blue Nib, Ada Wofford is bravely avoiding her inevitable 9-5 enslavement by studying library science at UW-Madison. She holds a BA in English literature and has been published in number of journals.

Marie-Louise Eyres reviews Peader O’Donoghue’s The Death of Poetry for The Blue Nib. Marie-Louise is a poet who has been writing since 1997. Recently short/long listed for the Bridport, Mslexia and inaugural Brotherton Prizes, her poems appear widely in UK and US journals. In previous lives she was an actress, a literary agent, and a BBC cardigan-wearing executive.

Lily hugged her bundle close to her chest.  The lane was crowded, and she was being jostled and pushed.  If she wasn’t careful it…

The title of That They May Face the Rising Sun is essential in understanding the work. When the men are burying Johnny, Patrick Ryan asks, “Does it make a great difference that his head lie in the west?” To which, he himself eventually, and somewhat ironically, answers, “He sleeps with his head in the west…so that when he wakes he may face the rising sun.”

How a Writer Finds Inspiration   Your storage level is almost full! Stuff, I’ve got loads of it: stuff in boxes, stuff in bags, stuff in files,…

STYX AND STONESa Clare born priest-poet and philosopher advises     that one be consoled by      and sure about           one’s own…