MJ Burns is a queer writer and artist from the North East of Scotland. Careers Adviser by day, they are a published short story writer in a number of literary magazines such as Gutter, Loft, little living room, Shoreline of Infinity and Tangled Web. They were shortlisted for the 2023 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Writing Award, and the 2024 Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction. They also hold Masters degrees in Creative Writing (University of Aberdeen) and Comics & Graphic Novels (University of Dundee) and they studied English Literature at the University of St Andrews. Their passion is developing their … Continue reading MJ Burns

Stephen House has won awards and nominations as a poet, playwright, and actor. He’s been commissioned often, with 20 plays produced, many published by Australian Plays Transform. He’s received international literature residencies from The Australia Council for the Arts to Canada and Ireland, and an Asialink residency to India. He’s had two chapbooks published by ICOE Press Australia: ‘real and unreal’ poetry and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ monologue. His poetry is published often. He’s performed his acclaimed monologues, ‘Appalling Behaviour’, ‘Almost Face to Face’ and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ widely. His play, ‘Johnny Chico’ ran in Spain for 4 years.  … Continue reading Stephen House

Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois USA. Philogynous Quickness Readiness Continue reading Michael Moreth

Currently residing in Greece, George Gad Economou has a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Science and is the author of Bourbon Bottles and Broken Beds (Adelaide Books), Of the Riverside (Anxiety Press), Reeling Off the Barstool (Dumpster Fire Press) and The Omega Of Us All (Anxiety Press). His words have also appeared, amongst other places, in Spillwords Press, Ariel Chart, Cajun Mutt Press, Fixator Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, Outcast Press, The Piker Press, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Rye Whiskey Review, and Modern Drunkard Magazine. The Streets of Fallen Dreams I recall vividly all the streets I spent eight years on; streetsI … Continue reading George Gad Economou

Robert Paul Allen lives on a lake near the coast of Maine. He is surrounded daily by the state’s rugged beauty. He worked  in the medical field in patient care and has seen the gamut of human trials and tribulations. The human condition inspires much of his poetry. He has been a serious poet for the past five years and has published 49 poems. His first chapbook, Between the Panes has just been published. He believes he still has something to say. Spring Vacation She’d hyped up the trip for months. Journey to Alaska after five months of Maine winter? … Continue reading Robert Allen

Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 & 2023 Pushcart Prize in Poetry; nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year; selected as a Judge for the Soundwaves Poetry Contest of Northern Ireland 2023. Her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020” and “2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 16 poetry books, and 1 short story book. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking.  Chris lives with her husband and four cats. … Continue reading Ann Christine Tabaka

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 41 poetry collections, 16 novels, 4 short story collections, 2 collection of essays and 8 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City. Lead Us … Continue reading Gary Beck

The author of ‘Postmarked Quarantine’ and ‘How To Burn Memories Using a Pocket Torch’ has nine books to his credit. He is a journalist, father of a four-year-old, illustrator, and an editor. His works have been translated into twelve languages and published across the globe.  A Murder Two strangers and one angryalley bark and growl. I press a button,and a beep proclaims – it is three.Time listens to a glass of water,spill, to the baying, footsteps, sudden shriek and hush. Mourning tides in the morning. We circle andwonder who may poison a canine.The saddest one is my neighbour.He works for … Continue reading Kushal Poddar

Tobi Alfier’s credits include Arkansas Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Cholla Needles, Gargoyle, James Dickey Review, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Louisiana Literature, Permafrost, Washington Square Review, and War, Literature and the Arts.  She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com). This Undulant Sky Her high soprano cuts the airlike a sniper. This isn’t the songof a fallen angel, thoughshe saw one once,in a graveyard at city’s edge.One wing broken and the otherbedding a feral kitten, she wasa concrete Madonna. And everything was broken.Her full voice rang out over balconiesin the almost-dusk, in the almost-shadow,the heartshock of his sudden … Continue reading Tobi Alfer

 Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022. In Life as in Love, We Must Assist as weInsist, persist or resist To subsist Alternative Sex Old as I am, I often failEven to knock your doorOpen, let alone occupyYour hall of warmth &Tenderness, but thankGod, your femininity is Strong enough to haveMade me pregnant with Twins: documentaryRomance & love poetry Lingua Franco: for Helena Qi Hong With words gushing out … Continue reading Yuan Changming