This is Medha here. I have been involved in creative writing for almost a decade now. Currently working as a Content creator and seo analyst, I have been a part of  several anthologies by Sweetycat press and my short stories have been published in online journals. I would like to publish a novel some day. I am a film buff and an avid traveller. I have a travel blog too. It is What It Is Alex D’Costa was sitting on his bed, staring at the maroon and green carpet covering the floor. The alarm on his bedside table went off. It … Continue reading Medha Godbole

j.lewis is an internationally published poet, musician, psych nurse practitioner, and Editor of Verse-Virtual, an online journal and community. When he is not otherwise occupied, he is often on a kayak, exploring and photographing the waterways near his home in California. He is the author of four full length collections and several chapbooks. https://www.jlewisweb.com/books.asp stick men don’t have shoulders, don’t have hearts or sleeves to wear them on either don’t have to worry about dress codes or workouts for six-pack abs don’t have hair to style or emotions to hide from scrutiny don’t have shoes to lace or tie or … Continue reading J.Lewis

Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is the winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year, her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020 and 2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 15 poetry books, and 1 short story book. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking.  Chris lives with her husband and four cats. Her most recent credits are: Eclipse Lit, Carolina Muse, Sparks of Calliope; The Closed Eye Open, North Dakota Quarterly, Tangled Locks Journal, Wild Roof Journal, The American … Continue reading Ann Christine Tabaka

South African born, Luke Beling, left home at 19. In 2007, he graduated from Campbellsville University with a BA in English.  Luke has had several short stories published in journals and magazines, including: Quiet Shorts (2012), Eyelands Flash Fiction (2019), Academy of the Heart and Mind (2021), New Reader Magazine (2021), The Salt Weekly Magazine (2022), and Impspired Magazine (2022).  Luke is the director of tennis for a private club on the Big Island of Hawaii and an indie-folk singer-songwriter. http://www.lukebeling.com Fingerprints of the Heart Temby had eyes for Jane’s silver ring the day she cut his umbilical cord. Jane … Continue reading Luke Beling

Sharon Waller Knutson is a retired journalist who lives in Arizona. She has published nine poetry books including My Grandmother Smokes Chesterfields (Flutter Press 2014,) What the Clairvoyant Doesn’t Say and Trials & Tribulations of Sports Bob (Kelsay Books 2021) and Survivors, Saints and Sinners and Kiddos & Mamas Do the Darndest Things (Cyberwit 2022.) Her work has also appeared recently in Lothlorien, GAS Poetry, Art and Music, The Rye Whiskey Review, Black Coffee Review, Terror House Review, Trouvaille Review, ONE ART, Mad Swirl, The Drabble, Gleam, Spillwords, Muddy River Review, Verse-Virtual, Your Daily Poem, Red Eft Review and The Five-Two. … Continue reading Sharon Waller Knutson

Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, and adopted by New York. His poems appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Worcester Review, Thimble Magazine, Otoliths (Australia) Impspired (UK), and Bosphorus Review of Books (Turkey)among others. His work received an Honorable Mention from the International Human Rights Art Festival, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, in 2020 and 2021. His chapbook,  “Contraband,” was published this year. For Him para Enrique to have been poor sinks its teeth in you, like a dog that won’t let go. Years pass, —you are rich!— but the … Continue reading Juan Pablo Mobili

Ethan Goffman is the author of the poetry collections I Garden Weeds (Cyberwit, 2021) and Words for Things Left Unsaid (Kelsay Books, 2020) as well as the flash fiction collection Dreamscapes (UnCollected Press, 2021). I Garden Weeds is 2nd place winner of the Taj Mahal Review Poetry Prize. Ethan is co-founder of It Takes a Community, which brings poetry to Montgomery College students and nearby residents, and is founder and producer of the Poetry & Planet podcast on EarthTalk.org. Ethan also writes nonfiction on transportation alternatives for Greater Greater Washington and other publications. The Book of Joe Joe had had the … Continue reading Ethan Goffman

Duke LaRance ~ I was born a long time ago and raised on the High Plains of the Rocky Mountain Front in Northern Montana.  I am a poet,  photographer/artist, vocalist and a Gentleman.  I flew under the radar and toiled in obscurity for many years.  I’m now at  www.allpoetry.com/Duke_LaRance and am very happy at my new home where I had six pieces added to the recommended list on the homepage in six months and earned awards in two contests. About the time I joined AP I was invited to join, private FB poetry pages, Open Skies Poetry where I was … Continue reading Duke LaRance

S.F. Wright lives and teaches in New Jersey. His work has appeared in Hobart, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and Elm Leaves Journal, among other places. His short story collection, The English Teacher, is forthcoming from Cerasus Poetry, and his website is sfwrightwriter.com. POWDER Sixty-dollar grams; Small chunks To be ground With a nickel. In a stall, Residue from A line On the notebook Positioned on my lap; Classmates’ voices speaking Bravely, Sarcastically Spuriously A few feet away— Another galaxy. The drip. The blissful Possibility; That paradoxical, Blitzed Stupefaction: Hand Against Chest, Detachedly befuddled, Numbly amazed That my heart Did What it did. … Continue reading S.F Wright

Clair Chilvers was a cancer scientist, and latterly worked for the UK National Health Service. She divides her time between writing and volunteering for the charity Mental Health Research UK that she co-founded. She lives in Gloucestershire, UK.She has had poems published in online and print magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Allegro, Amaryllis, Artemis, Atrium, the Ekphrastic Review, Impspired, Ink Sweat and Tears, Live Encounters. Poetry Atlas, Reach Poetry, Sarasvati and Snakeskin. She won second prize in the Poetry Kit Ekphrastic Competition 2020 and her poems have been longlisted or commended in the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Prize 2020, and Poetry Kit … Continue reading Clair Chilvers