Mark A. Murphy is a marginalized, low income, Ace poet, living with GAD, complex PTSD, and OCD. His work has appeared in The Magnolia Review, ISACOUSTIC and DREICH Magazine. He has poems forthcoming in Cultural Weekly and Synchronised Chaos. Dragonflies Always, there are voices that come unchecked like the sound of water rippling in the stone basin of the night fountain Some effortless like the glad sound of your father digging the earth or mother shouting you in for supper Some apocryphal like the recently dead who come when you least expect to bring you moonstone and memory Invariably, there … Continue reading Mark A Murphy

J.S.Watts is a British poet and novelist who weaves the fantastical and the literary with other vibrant strands to create glowing, multi-faceted writing. Her poetry, short stories and non-fiction appear in a wide variety of publications in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the States, including Mslexia and Popshot and have been broadcast on BBC and Independent Radio. She has edited various magazines and anthologies and performed her poetry across England, Scotland and Wales, but not yet in Ireland (should anyone from Ireland be reading this).  J.S.’s two poetry collections, Cats and Other Myths and Years Ago You Coloured Me, are published by Lapwing Publications, … Continue reading J.S Watts

Satabdi is an ex professor, a bilingual poet and author. Born in Calcutta and living with neighbours from all walks of life, she gained experience mostly from observing them closely. Though spiritually inclined, she protests against injustices, and is drawn to the factors that determine human happiness. She is a humanist and voices her rage and grief at any form of exploitation or oppression, be it in the lowest domestic to national and international sphere. Her condemnation of poverty, racism, colour discrimination, socio-political oppression is loud and clear. She is a romantic as well as an inveterate spiritualist. Satabdi is … Continue reading Satabdi Saha

Hazel Durham is a member of The Writers’ Room in Carlow College in Ireland. She has just completed an excellent, mentoring course with Arthur Broomfield. She has been writing poems since 2010, her poems have been published in Setu / Bilingual monthly journal. Hazel won The Inaugural Borris Focus Centre / Borris House Festival of Writing / Carlow County Library Literary Competition in 2019. She used to work in the horseracing industry for a number of years. Freedom on Slievenamon Would you know a nineteen-year-old girl peeping from the shadows of bird less skies, noisy exhausts, a concrete choker adorning … Continue reading Hazel Durham

William Teets is an author and poet born in Peekskill, New York, who has recently relocated to Waterford, Michigan. He immensely misses New York pizza, the Hudson River, and his beloved Mets. He will write. He will survive. Mr. Teets facilitates a writers’ workshop in Waterford, along with poetry open mics, in hopes of enhancing the literary arts in southeast Michigan. With both published and unpublished writers, and support from the local community, the Waterford Writers’ Workshop has been a success. Temporarily derailed by Covid-19, Teets is confident the workshop will be able to resume soon.  Mr. Teets’ works have … Continue reading William Teets

Sherry Shahan has been facilitating writers workshops for three decades. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and taught a creative writing class for UCLA for 10 years. Her novel in verse PURPLE DAZE: A Far Out Trip, 1965 features a tumultuous time in history. Her short stories, essays, and articles have appeared widely in international magazines and literary journals.  THE RABBIT DIED The year was 1948, in the Southern California town of Long Beach. Sylvia Jean Brunner had just turned sixteen when she met my smooth-talking father, Frank, Webb, Jr., who bragged about being an actor, even producing eight-by-ten black-and-white … Continue reading Sherry Shahan

A native New Yorker, James Penha has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work has lately appeared in several anthologies: Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, Pages Penned in Pandemic, The Impossible Beast: Queer Erotic Poems, The View From Olympia, Queers Who Don’t Quit, What We Talk About It When We Talk About It, Headcase, Lovejets, and What Remains. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits The New Verse News, an online journal of current-events poetry. Twitter: @JamesPenha Allen v. Woody I wrote this poem 35 years ago* when I, like most New Yorkers … Continue reading James Penha

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband Red, two little rescue dogs, and a stray cat. She has discovered that her love of telling a good story can also be written. Dawn has published over 300 stories in many online magazines and anthologies, including Spillwords, Mercurial Stories, Potato Soup Journal, Zimbell House, Black Hare Press, Clarendon House, Blood Song Books, Fantasia Divinity, Cafelit, Reanimated Writers, The World of Myth, Vamp Cat, Runcible Spoon, Siren’s Call, Setu, Kandisha Press, Terror House Magazine, D & T Publishing, Iron Horse Publishing, Impspired Magazine, Falling Star Magazine’s 2019 Pushcart nominee. Blessed are Those … Continue reading Dawn DeBraal

Jenny lives in County Dublin and is originally from the seaside town of Bray. Being near the sea always feels like home. Her husband is Galwegian, and they love to spend time there as often as they can. Always curious and drawn to learning, she has a varied career from media to Montessori teaching and is currently working towards her professional HR qualification. She often says she will stop studying, but never gets around to that. Her biggest achievement to date is being a mother to two lovely people. New to the writing scene and enjoying the practice of it … Continue reading Jenny Byrne