Stephen House has won many awards and nominations as a poet, playwright and actor, including two Awgie Awards from The Australian Writer’s Guild, Rhonda Jancovic Poetry Award for Social Justice, and The Goolwa Poetry Cup, and nominations including, a Greenroom Best Actor Award, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, Patrick White Playwright Award and Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. He’s received several international literature residencies from The Australia Council for the Arts and an Asia-link India residency. His chapbook “real and unreal” was published by ICOE Press. His next book is out soon. He performs his acclaimed monologues widely. built to offer wherever … Continue reading Stephen House

Marianne Szlyk is a professor of English and Reading at Montgomery College. Her poems have appeared in of/with, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Bourgeon, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sligo Journal, Verse-Virtual, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Sheila-na-gig, Bold + italic, and Mad Swirl as well as a few anthologies such as The Forgotten River and Resurrection of a Sunflower. Her books On the Other Side of the Window and Poetry en Plein Air are available from Amazon and Bookshop.  She is working on a new chapbook as well.  In addition, she has led workshops where poets write tributes to both survivors of COVID-19 and those whom we have lost. Words and Music The … Continue reading Marianne Szlyk

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Award. They are the editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project, from 1913 Press, and their work has appeared in the Fence, Boston Review, APR, Volt, Lana Turner, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. An Excerpt from – Midnight’s Talking Lion and the Wedding Fire When outside of prison doesn’t look much worse than life in, routine security community, just another neighborhood. Wish resentment gets their children present. … Continue reading Adam Day

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

Glenn Hubbard lives in Madrid, where he teaches an English which is often rather ugly. Perhaps for this reason he started writing poetry. He has had work published in a large number of online and paper journals. One of his poems was submitted for the Forward Prize in 2019 and this year he won the Bangor Literary Journal’s FORTY WORDS competition with his poem Thirlage. He can occasionally become a little obsessive about a poem but this is amply compensated for the marvelous experience of losing all sense of time while he writes. His poetry owes a great deal to that of … Continue reading Glenn Hubbard

My name is Robin Michele Michael Payne. I’m a native Californian who grew up loving to read and write from a young age. I wrote poems and short stories and have always dreamed of writing for a living but am happy enough to share what I create. I lost my creative self over the years and have just recently delved headlong into it once more. I currently reside in Giza, Egypt, for almost 12 years now, but am looking to relocate to England to learn more about the literary arts and perhaps becoming a playwright. I am inspired by the … Continue reading Robin Payne

Diana Raab, PhD, is an award-winning memoirist, poet, blogger, speaker, and author of 10 books and is a contributor to numerous journals and anthologies. Her two latest books are, “Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life,” and “Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal.” Her poetry chapbook, “An Imaginary Affair,” is forthcoming in July 2022 with Finishing Line Press. She blogs for Psychology Today, Thrive Global, Sixty and Me, Good Men Project, and The Wisdom Daily and is a frequent guest blogger for various other sites. Visit: www.dianaraab.com. The Legend In the heart of this … Continue reading Diana Raab

Stephen McQuiggan was the original author of the bible; he vowed never to write again after the publishers removed the dinosaurs and the spectacular alien abduction ending from the final edit. His other, lesser known, novels are A Pig’s View Of Heaven and Trip A Dwarf. BAMBOOZLED. ‘There’s no need to panic, it’s obvious it’s not you they’re after.’ Barry allowed himself a wry humourless laugh. The three other people slumped around the room, bound as he was hand and foot, regarded him with dinner plate eyes. ‘Think about it for a second – why would anyone bother with a bunch of nobodies … Continue reading Stephen McQuiggan

Jake Sheff is a pediatrician in Oregon and veteran of the US Air Force. He’s married with a daughter and whole lot of pets. Poems of Jake’s are in Radius, The Ekphrastic Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cossack Review and elsewhere. He won 1st place in the 2017 SFPA speculative poetry contest and a Laureate’s Choice prize in the 2019 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. Past poems and short stories have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize. He’s also published translations of poetry and reviews of translated poetry collections. His chapbook is “Looting … Continue reading Jake Sheff

Marc Darnell is an online tutor and lead custodian in Omaha NE.   He received his MFA from the University of Iowa, and has published poems in The Lyric, Rue Scribe, Verse, Skidrow Penthouse, Shot Glass Journal, The HyperTexts, Candelabrum, The Road Not Taken, Aries, Ship of Fools, Open Minds Quarterly, The Fib Review, Verse-Virtual, Blue Unicorn, Ragazine, The Literary Nest, The Pangolin Review, and elsewhere. Pink Baby On Yellow Bed Sheets And the world outside screams and swirls, but the room celebrates its own cubism, drapes angular, aquamarine, protective of the Jesus girl, clementines in a chain off the corner … Continue reading Marc Darnell