Patricia Walsh was born and raised in the parish of Mourneabbey, Co Cork, Ireland.  To date, she has published one novel, titled The Quest for Lost Eire, in 2014, and has published one collection of poetry, titled Continuity Errors, with Lapwing Publications in 2010. She has since been published in a variety of print and online journals.  She has also published another novel, In The Days of Ford Cortina, in August 2021. Uht Rummaging in darkness before the dawn I find pharmaceuticals dull the air An even keel, stricture to rhyme A righteous anger at technological bliss. I am at … Continue reading Patricia Walsh

Profile coming soon… Cluck Police have pulled me over twice this week about my orchids. They think I can’t see the road through the forest on the dashboard and the trellises over the back windows and the pots hanging from the wing mirrors. I say jungle predators have the best eyesight on the planet. They say not on the bypass to Grinshill. Both times I’m let off because Mr Car smells so much of fertiliser and my laundry and sleeping bag. And I keep the windows up because chids need body heat, especially in winters like this. All the same, … Continue reading Matt Ingoldby

Jared Morningstar is a high school English teacher and adjunct English professor at Saginaw Valley State University and Delta College. He writes about his interests and observations of the world around him. Morningstar has published three collections of poetry and prose (American Fries, American Reality, and A Slice of American Pie) through Alien Buddha Press, and he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2020. He lives in Michigan with his wife and children. Make Art Dangerous Again Like Twain roasting the KKK, at the height of its powers, calling them cowards who only find courage in a crowd with … Continue reading Jared Morningstar

Jegadeesh Kumar is a student of Eastern Philosophy, Mathematics teacher, writer, and translator, raised in Southern India, now living in South Carolina, USA. He writes, both in English and Tamil, short stories, poems, and Eastern Philosophy. His work has appeared in The Impspired Magazine,The Prometheus Dreaming, Indian Periodical, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Spillwords Press, The Piker Press, Defunct magazine, and elsewhere. Appadurai Muttulingam Appadurai Muttulingam was born in Sri Lanka and has published numerous books in Tamil, including novels, short story collections, and essays. Stories translated into English have appeared in the anthologies Many Roads Through Paradise and … Continue reading Jegadeesh Kumar

Bradford Middleton lives in Brighton on the UK’s south coast.  When he ain’t working his part-time supermarket job he can often be found either drinking at one of the many local bars or at home working at the words he dreams will let him escape this life.  All his poetry chapbooks have sold-out now but he does have several new ones planned and under consideration.  Since 2020 he’s been working on his first proper novel ‘All the Way to the End of the Line’ which he hopes someone will get to read soon.  He tweets occasionally @BradfordMiddle5. A SUNNY CORNER … Continue reading Bradford Middleton

Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Roshi San Francisco, was just published by Norfolk Publishing. Starting from Tu Fu   was recently published by Encircle Publications. A new collection, Something to Be and a novel are forthcoming. He is very fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Miles Davis, Kafka and Dante. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster where he made his marginal living pointing out pretty things. Now, he’s looking for work again. He has published 2 novels and three chapbooks and four … Continue reading Mark J. Mitchell

Paul Kimm writes short stories. He has had publications in Literally Stories, Northern Gravy, Fictive Dream, and Fiction on the Web, with further upcoming publications in Mono and Potato Soup Journal. Birthday books I can’t name the writer because of what happened later. Not to say the writer’s name can’t be worked out from what I’m about to tell you. If this writer is one of your favourites, you’ll cotton on quite quickly who he is. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be hard to work out anyway. Other writers will be named in the telling of the events resulting from the books my wife bought me for … Continue reading Paul Kimm

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. doomsday 100 seconds to midnight chimes the doomsday clock calculated by experts and scientists to somehow give knowledge on the ending of planet ten score … Continue reading Stephen House

Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a corporate controller in rural Pennsylvania. His poetry has been published in The Inflectionist Review, The Delmarva Review, Blue Unicorn, ubu, and The Ghost City Review, among others. He is Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. His work was included in the 2022 Dwarf Stars Anthology, and he is the first-place winner of the Haiku Society of America’s 2022 Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award. 5 Haiku fledglings teeter and fall back into the nest rumspringa tie temple what he sacrifices on the altar daylilies one by one at dusk … Continue reading Joshua St Claire

Ramzi Albert Rihani is a Lebanese American writer. His poems have been published in several publications including Goats Milk Magazine, Poetic Sun, Last Leaves Magazine, Cacti Fur Journal, Ariel Chart International Literary Journal, Poetry Potion, The Piker Press, Active Muse, Ephemeral Elegies, and The Silent Journey Anthology. He is a published music critic, wrote and published a travel book “The Other Color – a Trip Around the World in Six Months” (FMA Press, 1984). He lives in Washington, DC. Feathers In a forest of lush shades of green Like a Rousseau painting With ferocious lions, apes and tigers And children’s … Continue reading Ramzi Rihani