Monica lives in Florence, Italy. Her international spirit travels with an American passport and adores languages and literature. She can’t shake loose those late-sleep dreams. She moonlights as a legal worker when not parenting, project managing, and writing. In 2023, her work has appeared in Across the Margin (Asheville, NC), Writer’s Block (Amsterdam), Mediterranean Poetry, The Florentine, Rome-ing: Firenze, and the Bosphorus Review of Books, in addition to Fevers of the Mind (2021), Adamah (2021-2022), and Synapse. She currently edits poetry for Open Doors Review. Find out more at sharpmonica.com. Letterpress Click down, click in, Like a lover, wanting, wanting. … Continue reading Monica Sharp

Karen Schauber’s flash fiction appears in ninety-five international literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, with a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, four Best Microfiction nominations, and a spot on The Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. She is editor of the award-winning flash fiction anthology The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage House, 2019). She curates Vancouver Flash Fiction, an online resource hub, and Miramichi Flash, a monthly literary column. In her spare time she is a seasoned family therapist. https://KarenSchauberCreative.weebly.com  Dream Vacation We did not reach the water’s edge before Billy slipped beneath the surly waves. We … Continue reading Karen Schauber

Melanie Garfinkel ~ has been blessed and fortunate, to have traveled extensively meeting dynamic people as well as capturing Nature’s beauty and purity, both in photography and verse. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, emigrated alone to Israel, eventually finding love in the snow… Canada! When she’s not writing, she devotes her time to elderly dementia patients, as well as tutoring young students in creative writing. Her mottos for living:#Having FunWhilst Doing Good#OwnYourNow & #SpreadTheCare A number of her poems have been aired on Fine Music Radio Inc, published online at Spillwords.com, printed in Open Skies Poetry Vol 1, Wheelsong Poetry … Continue reading Melanie Garfinkel

Polly Richardson (Munnelly) Polly is a Dublin born poet now living and writing on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland. She has been published both nationally and internationally in many anthologies and e-zines under the surname of Munnelly and more recently Richardson. A contributing poet to US-based poetry forum Mad Swirl and Europe’s Live Encounters digi mag with poems featuring in Boston’s Nixes Mate review, Porter Gulch Review Cabrillo college US, Italian based Lotus Eater mag and member of and co-runs Navan creative writers group: The Bulls Arse. She has been heard reading at national and international poetry festivals from 2013 to … Continue reading Polly Richardson-Munnelly

Gordon Ferris was born in  Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in many publications.  He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem ‘Mother’, and won the winter competition for his poem ‘The Silence’. Poetry Ireland awarded Gordon a Poetry Town Bursary in 2021. In January of 2023, Gordon had his short story collection Echoes published by Impspired. At two When I was small our house seemed huge the hall a skating … Continue reading Gordon Ferris

Paul Dance is an ex prison tutor who concentrates on stories about the people who don’t fit into society, sometimes positively, often not. He has met many of them in his prison tutoring and seen the effects of not fitting in. he hopes his writing can throw a light and some understanding. He has previously worked as a chef and with adults who cannot read. He lives in Cambridgeshire. DANCE, STONED The stones were much smaller than Sarah had expected. The information board at the perimeter spoke of “this historic monument” and “the mystery” and “incredible journey from the Preselli … Continue reading Paul Dance

Ken Cathers as a  B.A. from the University of Victoria and a M.A. from York University in Toronto.  He has been published in numerous periodicals, anthologies and has just released his eighth book of poetry, entitled Home Town with Impspired Press of England. He has also recently published a chapbook with broke press in Canada and has another chapbook, entitled “Legoland Noir” forthcoming from Block Party Press in Toronto.    His work has appeared in publications in Canada, the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland  and Africa. Most recently it has appeared in Zoetic Press, Wool Gathering Review and  thewildword. … Continue reading Ken Cathers

The 3 Men 1. SCENE:  Three men (strangers to one another) are seated at separate corners of the stage (a tavern setting with a hearth). One of the men (MAN 1) rises from his seat to crack the window. Another man (MAN 2), seated closest to the fire, thanks MAN 1 before returning to his reading. The man farthest away from the warmth (MAN 3), seated pensively, appears to be dissecting something in his mind. The man who had opened the window to air out the room (MAN 1), once returning to his corner, recommences his writing, dropping a coin … Continue reading Domonique

Colleen Machut is a teacher and a writer from Sheboygan, WI. She lives there with her husband, Trent, and their son, Desmond. Colleen and Trent write and perform songs in the lakeshore area of Wisconsin. Colleen has poems published or forthcoming in Whimsical Publications, Impspired, Open Skies Quarterly Edition 1, Open Skies Quarterly Edition 3, Jalmurra, Creation and the Cosmos Anthology, Anxious Times Magazine, Today’s Caregiver, and CORE: Dance Poems Volume III. Memory Sand In early mornings, softly lit, you sift from the catacombs of my consciousness. My preoccupied eyes empathize with past iterations of you and I; High on … Continue reading Colleen Machut

Margaret’s work has featured widely in print and online, recently in Black Bough Poetry, The Dawntreader, Impspired, Dreich and anthologies by Crumps Barn Books.  She has six published books: 2 poetry collections and 3 pamphlets plus a memoir in prose and verse. She has won or been shortlisted in several competitions including jointly winning Hedgehog Press’ collection competition in May 2020. Her memoir ‘The Road To Cleethorpes Pier, ‘ published by Crumps Barn Studio has sold successfully on three continents. She has also featured as a guest on various popular blogs. Her latest publication, ‘Immersed in Blue’, from Impspired Press, … Continue reading Margaret Royall