Being on the upper side of 50, much of Douglas’ biographical material can be assumed (various careers, relationships and university qualifications [even industrial hearing loss and roaring tinnitus related to playing in Ska bands]), but this may be a little unique – he is still married with a great wife and two children (it does happen) and is seeking to enrol in a PhD (towards producing a speculative notated memoir of a 1st Century CE Greco-Roman author … it is intended to be an innovative project in Creative Nonfiction). To date, a number of his works have been published online … Continue reading Douglas Colston

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline and International Poetry Review. THREE A.M. AND ALL IS WELL With sleep at such cross-purposes with my life, is it any wonder that I rise at odd hours? And, as that same state is so compatible with who you are, no surprise when I hear, from the depths of the darkness, “come back to bed.” I stare through … Continue reading John Grey

Courtney Glover is originally from Fulton County, Georgia. She is a writer, published author, editor and amateur photographer. Her passion for both writing poetry and photography started when she was very young. Three poets that greatly inspired her are Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, and Shel Silverstein. She is the author of four poetry books, including Calypso Dreaming: A Collection of Poetry. Her hobbies include reading, writing, listening to music, and watching movies. She is also the editor of The Sacred Feminine: An Open Skies Collection anthology and the Open Skies Poetry anthology. She currently lives with her family in … Continue reading Courtney Glover

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her bold, textural, colorful images have appeared in various places, including, but not limited to: Bewildering Stories, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Right Hand Pointing, Stone Coast Review, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, Tuck, and Yellow Mama. She uses her trusty point-and-shoot camera to capture the order of G-d’s universe, and Paint 3D to capture the chaos of her universe. Sometimes, it remains insufficient for her to sate herself by applying verbal whimsy to pastures where gelatinous wildebeests roam or … Continue reading KJ Hannah Greenberg

James D. Casey IV is an artist, poet, author, and founder/editor-in-chief of Cajun Mutt Press. His work has been published in print and online by several small press venues and literary magazines internationally. Feathered Hair lizard scales bird brains heartbeat on a spoon what the fuck do i know about Turkish figs shoulder bone frigidaire whole ‘nother creature I don’t answer questions keys exchange hands blood money roots sirens fading into black my teeth will still hurt tomorrow Eden Shoes weight upon his shoulders special brand of self-hate carrying love it’s painful to miss someone that doesn’t miss you back … Continue reading James D. Casey IV

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally. He has poems translated into several languages such as Farsi, Chinses, Spanish, Albanian, Romanian. He has published some poetry chapbooks, and a collection of short stories. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2019 and was also nominated for the Pushcart Price 2020. The Price of Humanism Who is going to make the best offer for the price of humanism? Who is going to buy humanity in one click! Who is going to auction our rights and principles? Money buys happiness … Continue reading Ahmad Al-Khatat

Nancy Machlis Rechtman has had poetry and short stories published in Your Daily Poem, The Whisky Blot, Grande Dame, Impspired, Trouvaille Review, Fresh Words, The Writing Disorder, Discretionary Love, and more. She wrote freelance Lifestyle stories for a local newspaper, and she was the copy editor for another paper She writes a blog called Inanities at https://nancywriteon.wordpress.com. Missing Pieces People swarm around me They’re wasps Pressing in on me Until I can’t breathe. Their voices echo off the walls And buzz angrily through my head As I try to avoid being stung And I spin dizzily Hoping to get away … Continue reading Nancy Machlis Rechtman

Dan Flattery is a writer and musician from rural Ireland. He has inadvertently collected material working as a farmhand, school librarian, life model, cleaner, bar tender, kitchen porter, and music teacher. He has recently completed five years of work as a researcher on Jim Sheridan’s Murder at the Cottage (Sky). Ferries The doctor had been frank. It wasn’t up for debate. He’d said ‘John Joe, if you don’t quit the drink immediately, you’ll be dead by July.’ I asked him was he quite positive. He was. I asked when I’d have to quit to make it to September, so I … Continue reading Dan Flattery

John Patrick Robbins, is the editor in chief of the Rye Whiskey Review his work has appeared in Punk Noir Magazine, Piker Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, Schlock Magazine, Red Fez, The Dope Fiend Daily and Lothlorien Journal Of Poetry.  His work is always unfiltered. Never Double Down On a damn thing, but especially anything involving matters of the heart. It’s cold as truth and simple as the sunrise. You will know much pain, it’s all in how you handle the hand dealt. Drugs never ask anything of you except the destruction of your soul. A woman is a favorite poison … Continue reading John Patrick Robbins

Gina Maria Manchego is a poet, writer, and mixed media artist native to Colorado. She has featured DarkWinter Lit, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and Paragraph Planet. Richard M. Ankers is the English author of The Eternals Series and Britannia Unleashed. Richard has featured in Expanded Field Journal, Love Letters To Poe, Spillwords and feels privileged to have appeared in many more. Richard lives to write. Gina and Richard love to finish whatever the other starts, and then wonder who has written  what. The Winter Lily A bride to the luminescent frost, she moved across the hibernating earth on a bitter midwinter … Continue reading Gina Maria Manchego & Richard M. Ankers