H. K. G. Lowery is a writer from Newcastle upon Tyne. He graduated from Lancaster University with a MA in Creative Writing (Distinction) where he was honoured to win the 2021/2022 Portfolio Prize for his work which received the highest mark in the faculty. Lowery has also been published in Poetry Salzburg, Amsterdam Quarterly and Hyacinth Review. Departures losing CO2 in the Jet2 queue,staining Carhartt with heartache, barcodes beep & promises pallbetween staff & sightseers & parents cheering up children & new lovers arrivingchinos & eyes emptyinto a grey tray, passing Saint Peter with an automatic & cutting through pictureless … Continue reading H. K. G. Lowery

IRMA KURTI is an Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator and has been writing since she was a child. She is a naturalized Italian and lives in Bergamo, Italy. All her books are dedicated to the memory of her beloved parents, Hasan Kurti and Sherife Mezini, who have supported and encouraged every step of her literary path. Kurti has won numerous literary prizes and awards in Albania, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Philippines, Lebanon and China. She was awarded the Universum Donna International Prize IX Edition 2013 for Literature and received a lifetime nomination as an Ambassador of Peace by the … Continue reading Irma Kurti

Gabriella Balcom lives in Texas, works full-time in the mental health field, and has loved reading and writing her entire life. She writes fantasy, horror, sci-fi, romance, literary fiction, and more, and loves great stories, forests, mountains, and back roads that lead who knows where. She has a weakness for lasagna, garlic bread, tacos, cheese, and chocolate, but not necessarily in that order, and adores Chinese, Italian, and Mexican food. Gabriella has had 597 works accepted for publication, and won the right to have a novel published by Clarendon House Publications when one of her short stories was voted best … Continue reading Gabriella Balcom

Darrell J. Wiens is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Northern Iowa, now living and writing short stories in Kansas City, Missouri. He grew up on a farm near Inman, Kansas. An award-winning teacher, researcher, and mentor, he is author of 27 scientific papers and 53 research presentations, most co-authored with students from his laboratory. He has previously published eight short stories. Continue reading Darrell Wiens

William Ogden Haynes is a poet and author of short fiction from Alabama who was born in Michigan. He has published several collections of poetry and many of his poems and short stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Losses At eighty, he lost his wife. Then, he realized that more friends and relatives died every year. When he was young, deaths were infrequent, predictable, and inevitable, as with aged parents and grandparents. But the losses began piling up, and each year as his Christmas card list grew smaller. The widowed spend their days alone, fading fast, like frescoes … Continue reading William Ogden Haynes

Uchechukwu Onyedikam Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a poet whose work graces Petals of Haiku: An Anthology, an Amazon best-seller now permanently displayed in the Treasure House of Rinsen-ji Temple, Japan, a revered institution with over 500 years of history. Had 8 … Continue reading Uchechukwu Onyedikam / Christina Chin

Lucie is a self-professed millennial poet hailing from South Shields, with a master’s degree in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. Her interests lie in translation, environmentalism and the concept of combining poetry and music. Living up to the millennial stereotype, she also writes Instagram poems under the alias @andalucina and has a book/music/life blog called Say it by Ear over at http://www.andalucina.wordpress.com I am Painting the Earth on a Napkin with Coffee I am painting the Earth on a napkin with coffee,each smudge is a cloud stirring galaxies softlyas droplets of stardust splash onto the sky,each pool is a birdevery … Continue reading Lucie Wareham

Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct literary magazines and websites and a few, like Ink, Sweat and Tears and Poetry Scotland that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog The Truth About Lies but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and, whenever the mood takes him, next door’s cat. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels: Jim, not the cat. Clever Poem Being clever doesn’t meanyou’re informed or even awarelet alone knowledgeable,insightful, understandingor … Continue reading Jim Murdoch

Petra F. Bagnardi is a writer, a screenwriter, and a poet. She worked for the Italian TV network, RAI, and her poetry was published by various literary journals and magazines including, Masque & Spectacle Literary Journal, Punk Noir Magazine, Poetica Review, Drawn to the Light Press, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Quail Bell Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Sunlight Press, Blydyn Square Review, Knee Brace Press, and more. She was short-listed in the Enfield Poets’ 20th Anniversary Poetry Competition and won second place in the Wax Poetry and Art Magazine’s poetry contest. She is a bilingual author, English and Italian. Myself in … Continue reading Petra F. Bagnardi 

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 43 poetry collections, 18 novels, 4 short story collections, 2 collection of essays and 8 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City. Art is … Continue reading Gary Beck