Stephen House has won many awards and nominations as a poet, playwright, and actor. He’s had 20 plays produced with many published by Australian Plays Transform. He’s received several international literature residencies from The Australia Council for the Arts, and an Asialink India literature residency. He’s had two chapbooks published by ICOE Press Australia: ‘real and unreal’ poetry and ‘The Ajoona Guest House’ monologue. His next book drops soon. He performs his acclaimed monologues widely. Stephen’s play, ‘Johnny Chico’ has been running in Spain for 4 years.  expired… my passport has expired… and i’m staring at its dog-eared uselessness and … Continue reading Stephen House

I am a 41 year old stay-at-home dad from Haifa, Israel. I’ve published scholarly articles in the field of Christian theology and I enjoy boxing and traveling. Poems Look at them, so dependant on external confirmation they barely have any will of their own. An internal world, fortitude of mind against societal onslaught. Sometimes sleep seems like an unattainable goal, the holy grail of the night. In those times the world is mean, unrelenting, you just want to be buried in the bliss of shuteye. Alas, it eludes you, leaves you staring into space, like a wide eyed vessel full … Continue reading Eugen Spierer

Sienna Black is a young writer from the UK currently studying English at the University of Cambridge. Her poem ‘Measurements’ was longlisted for the Young Poets Network ‘After Sylvia’ poetry competition, and her work has appeared elsewhere in Spring Journal, Salt & Citrus Zine, and CANVAS. Wintering It is an ordinary day that has begun beneath water. Only my nose breaks through the surface. There is no sound. Not even the maples you planted all those years ago rustle. I rise slightly, and the water yawns around me. My eyes align with the brittle grass about a meter from the … Continue reading Sienna Black

-A University teacher and poet from Sousse, Tunisia -The writer of Rebirth, Transcend, Hurricane, The Co-Avid Breath, Number One, Halycon and the Screaming Earth, three volumes in Arabic and three short-stories: “Alone”, “The Moody Bookworm” and “Coincidence” Old Story Stella is still telling the same old stories, Her jaw keeps releasing words, to and fro, Up and down, forward and backward, Evacuating dangerous scenes Of a man, sober and obscene, Of fairies, dreamy and serene, Her mind is crammed with the same folk tale, Her contemplating eyes, fixed like the gaze of a starving tiger or a famished whale, Her … Continue reading Anissa Sboui

Sreekanth Kopuri Ph.D. is an Indian poet, Current poetry editor for The AutoEthnographer Journal Florida, Alumni Writer in Residence, Athens, and a Professor of English from Machilipatnam, India. He recited his poetry in Oxford, John Hopkins, Heinrich Heine, Caen, Banja Luka, Gdanski, and many universities. His poems appeared in Arkansan Review, Christian Century, A Honest Ulsterman, Chicago Memory House, Two Thirds North, Heartland Review, Tulsa Review, Digging Through the Fat, Expanded Field, Contrapuntos IX, Untethered Review, A New Ulster, Liquid Imagination, Vayavya, Wend Poetry, Stray Branch, American Diversity Report, Litbreak Magazine, Plants & Poetry, Burro, Rational Creature, Lannang Achieves, Better … Continue reading Sreekanth Kopuri

Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. His latest poetry collection, A Magician Among the Spirits, poems about Harry Houdini, is a 2022 Blue Light Press Poetry winner and has just been published.A collection of flash fiction, Presto!, will be published in 2023 by Bamboo Dart Press. Another poetry collection entitled Transcendence has also just been published by BlazeVOX Books. The Divine Doda I was a freshman at San Francisco State, come to California from a farm in Iowa, when some friends took me to the Condor Club in North Beach, corner of Broadway and Columbus. I mean, I was a … Continue reading Charles Rammelkamp

Keith E. Sparks Jr. has been writing from a young age. He has had his work published in various literary journals and magazines and has been nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize. More recently he has published various solo collections of poetry that are available through Amazon and other venues. Shadowfall, a Collection of Darkly tinted Sonnets, being his most recent. Keith resides in West Virginia with his wife and three children whom are the epicenter of his existence. Ally And Sally May I met my new best friend one day while playing hide and seek. The best of friends … Continue reading Keith E. Sparks Jr

David Estringel is a Xicanx writer/poet with works published in literary publications like The Opiate, Azahares, Cephalorpress, DREICH, Somos en escrito, Ethel, The Milk House, Beir Bua Journal, and The Blue Nib. His first collection of poetry and short fiction Indelible Fingerprints was published April 2019, followed Blood Honey and Cold Comfort House (2022, little punctures (2023), and Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink (scheduled for July 2023). David has also written six poetry chapbooks, Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves, Sour Grapes, and Blue (late 2023). Connect with David on Twitter @The_Booky_Man and his website http://www.davidaestringel.com.  … Continue reading David Estringel

Darrell J. Wiens is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Northern Iowa, now living and writing short stories in Kansas City, Missouri.  A newcomer, he loves to create stories that involve believable characters involved in college life, long distance running, coming of age, travels in Spain, bicycle touring, biological research, and social issues.  An award-winning teacher, researcher, and mentor, he is author of 27 scientific papers and 53 research presentations, most co-authored with students from his laboratory.  He is a pacifist Mennonite who enjoys cooking, tinkering with hot rods, bicycling, choral singing and discussions of books and stories. … Continue reading Darrell J. Wiens

Scott Waters lives in Oakland, California with his wife and son.  He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.  Scott has published previously in Impspired, Main Street Rag, Better Than Starbucks, The Blue Nib, The Pacific Review, Loch Raven Review, Adelaide, A New Ulster, The Courtship of Winds, Scarlet Leaf Review, and many other journals.  Scott’s first chapbook, Arks, was published in 2021 by Selcouth Station, and his poem “I Could Be Anybody” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Real Once the thought crosses your mind that a bot may have written this poem you begin to question … Continue reading Scott Waters