Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of classrooms, judge poetry competitions, and have over 200 hundred writings published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. Andrew Scott has published multiple poetry books, Snake with A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen, The Path, The Storm Is Coming, Whispers of the Calm, Searching and Letter To You, a novella, Redemption Avenue anda book of photography, Through My Eyes. A Walk Through Time is Andrew … Continue reading Andrew Scott

Stephen McQuiggan was the star of such iconic movies as Bullitt, Papillon, The Magnificent Seven and … hold on a second, that was Steve McQueen – so who the hell is this Stephen McQuiggan guy? Hang on, I’ll Google him – turns out he’s the author of the novels A Pig’s View of Heaven and Trip a Dwarf. Trust me; I’m as disappointed as the rest of you. UP TO SCRATCH. ‘I don’t want to see you anymore,’ Ellen told him. Looking back, all his troubles stemmed from there. At first Lloyd had blamed the pure orange he drank with … Continue reading Stephen McQuiggan

Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches has published three volumes of short prose fiction with Pelekinesis since 2013, most recently Whistler’s Mother’s Son (2020). His writing has also appeared in scores of magazines, anthologies and websites, including  Harper’s, Bomb, Semiotext(e), and Fiction International, as well as Billy Collins’ Poetry 180 website and anthology. His latest book is Things (Bamboo Dart Press, 2023). He is a native of Brooklyn, New York. Peter Cherches Fan Fiction I was visiting my friend Carlo in Verona—Italy that is, not New Jersey. Carlo is a translator, English to Italian. Occasionally he gets some plum literary … Continue reading Peter Cherches

Marc Aronoff is an award-winning playwright based in Lenox, MA. His play, THE LANTERN BEARERS won the 2017 Arts and Letters Competition in drama and received a (non-paying) student production at Georgia College in April, 2018.  In 2020, THE LANTERN BEARERS was translated  into Italian as part of the Translating Talent Education Program created by The OnStage! Festival of American Theater in Italy in partnership with the Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori Altiero Spinelli e Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan, Italy.  In 2018, Marc’s dramatic play, A NIGHT IN JERUSALEM, was a semi-finalist in the Screen Craft Competition for Drama. In 2020, the same play … Continue reading Marc Aronoff

Dan Raphael’s poetry collection Maps   Menus   Emanations will come out this June from Cyberwit.  Last year saw the publication of Moving with Every, from Flowstonre Press, and Starting Small, from Alien Buddha Press. Some more recent poems appear in Pangolin, Danse Macabre, Former People, Synchronized Chaos and Ginosko. Most Wednesdays Dan writes and records a current events poem for The KBOOEvening News. Light is Instant; Heat Takes a While Start the year wet, end the year in a week 24 hours to knit a pair of socks 1 minute to get too drunk to drive in labor for 40 hours, dead … Continue reading Dan Raphael

Dorthy LaVern McCarthy, pen name, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, has written and published nine books, five of poetry and four of fiction. Her work has appeared in Writers and Readers Magazine, Meadowlark Reader, Agape Review, Fenechty Publications Anthologies Of Short Stories, From The Shadows, An Anthology Of Short Stories, Visions International, Fresh Words Magazine and others.She is a life member of The Poetry Society Of Texas and National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc. She resides in Blair Oklahoma where she is currently writing her fifth book of short stories. Tommy’s Dilemma It was a fine Monday morning when Tommy got … Continue reading Dorthy LaVern McCarthy

Paweł Markiewicz was born 1983 in Siemiatycze in Poland. He is poet who lives in Bielsk Podlaski and writes tender poems, haiku as well as long poems. Paweł has published his poetries in many magazines. He writes in English and German. The responsive awakening of springtide The springtime wakes up in may glory and dreams in May-tender homeland O! Dreamy moony spring immortalize the enchantment of the Naiad forever! the pensiveness of a feather from crows you are black such a muse-like falchion thinker with many oboli I listen to the obol that thinks in muses-paradise the skepticism is blooming … Continue reading Pawel Markiewicz

Mehreen Ahmed is an Australian novelist. Her historical fiction, The Pacifist, is a Drunken Druid’s Editor’s Choice. Gatherings, is nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction. Her short and flash fiction have won in The Waterloo Short Story Festival, Cabinet-of-Heed stream-of-consciousness Challenge, shortlisted by Cogito Literary Journal Contest, shortlisted by Litteratuer RW for Litt Prize, finalist in the Fourth Adelaide Literary Award Contest. A Best of Cafelit 8,three-time nominated for The Best of the Net Awards, nominated for the Pushcart Prize Award. Also, critically acclaimed by Midwest Book Review, DD Magazine, The Wild Atlantic Book Club to name … Continue reading Mehreen Ahmed

A librarian living by the banks of the Connecticut River in Springfield, Massachusetts, Thomas O’Connell’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Jellyfish Review, Blink-ink, Your Impossible Voice, Live Nude Poems, Hobart, and The Los Angeles Review, as well as other print and online journals. What Tides Do There were articles in the local newspapers about the erosion of the coastline with quotes by somebody from the Army Corps of Engineers and Skip Miller, who runs the local party fishing boats, “That’s what tides do. They come in, they go out.” Longtime residents, encountering each other while out walking their … Continue reading Thomas O’Connell

Michael Igoe, city boy, neurodiverse, Chicago now Boston. Numerous works appear in journals and anthologies (available at amazon.com, lulu.com, barnesandnoble.com). Regular contributor to Spare Change News (Cambridge MA) and feversofthemindpress.com. Instructor at Boston University Center for Psych Rehab. Twitter: MichaelIgoe5: poetry-in-motion.org Woodlawn Where it’s easy to grasp, the will behind the deed. The trick mirrors reflected a figure with baggy pants. The nervous player, and novelty shooter aim the breach load. At blue steel ducks, on man made lakes. I came to realize, the same whorls sit on ten fingers. Saying hocus pocus saying abracadabra. I follow all the rules only … Continue reading Michael Igoe