Kate has been living in Porthleven since 2009. She is still a city lover after many years living in London and periods of time living and working in Prague and Barcelona.  She is particularly interested in fiction which conveys an atmosphere through poetic and sometimes experimental language rather than conventional story narrative. Her own fiction often has a strong sense of place. She has published her writing in fanzines, online literary journals, an online anthology and the print magazine Confluence. She has abandoned the idea of being a commercially successful writer but as a voracious reader aspires to write high … Continue reading Kate Whitehead

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Soundings East, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review. Latest book, “Leaves On Pages” is available through Amazon. THE WHALE HUNTERS lilting gargantuan refrains of music that cross Bach with Schoenberg, millions of frequency modulations crisscrossing the deep-sea –   the largest creature to ever have existed, the biggest brain on earth, giants of self-awareness, empathy and expression, behemoths of playing, teaching, learning, inventing, leviathans of love, colossi of caring –   okay so let’s kill one shall we –   those that remain: goliaths of grief, mammoths of mourning. … Continue reading John Grey

I am a housewife from India, mother of two boys, aged 12 and 11. I have a master’s degree in English literature. Till my boys were born I worked in various sectors of BPOs as motor claims and health insurance handler and was also content writer for simulation management entrance examination papers in the field of deductive logic and reasoning in English. I have also worked for a short term in the hospitality industry as a receptionist at a five-star hotel, while awaiting results of my English honours examination.  I love life, like tumbling headfirst into it, and then doing … Continue reading Amrita Valan

Kate Garrett’s writing is widely published – recently or forthcoming in Dreich, Frost Zone Zine, Riggwelter, Fragmented Voices, and The Spectre Review – and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of several pamphlets, including The Density of Salt (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2016) which was longlisted for a Saboteur Award, Losing interest in the sound of petrichor (Black Light Engine Room Press, 2018), and most recently, A View from the Phantasmagoria, which was published in September 2020. Born and raised in rural southern Ohio, Kate moved to the UK in 1999, where she … Continue reading Kate Garrett

Abasiama Udom is a poet and writer with polymathic tendencies.  The writer of Pose and Coloured Tales with her poetry scattered across magazines and journals. She is constantly chasing new adventures but appreciates the constancy of food, music, books, family, sleep, and football in her life. She tweets @AneuPoet May dawn never come If this was what night was meant to be, may dawn never come. With all its roaming evil and constant ills May I blink and slumber in peace And may the dawn never come. They who pray for a new day, heaven disappoint may they wake to … Continue reading Abasiama Udom

Lorette C. Luzajic is from Toronto, Canada. Her prose poetry and small fictions are widely published, with recent or forthcoming appearances in Gyroscope, Free Flash Fiction, Bright Flash, Club Plum, Red Eft, and Indelible. A recent story won first place in a contest at MacQueen’s Quinterly, and she has been nominated several times each for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent of five poetry collections is Pretty Time Machine: ekphrastic prose poems. Some of her works have been translated into Urdu. Lorette is founder and editor of The Ekphrastic Review, a journal devoted to literature … Continue reading Lorette C Luzajic

Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review. Hassan Bees cross borders as they see fit   like the wind or flying saucers.   They gambol about like stuntwomen on motorcycles   as my own relevance falls and falls. Their tiny brakes   give them courage.   One of the bees calls out to me, “Hassan! Your sadness is bullshit!” For some … Continue reading Glen Armstrong

Sunil Sharma is a Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 22 published books: Seven collections of poetry; three of short fiction; one novel; a critical study of the novel, and, nine joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and, one joint poetry collection. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award—2012. His poems were published in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, in the year 2015. Sunil edits the English section of the monthly bilingual journal Setu published from Pittsburgh, USA:— https://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html    For more details, … Continue reading Sunil Sharma

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. TWO VERSES OF HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Owen rubbed the sliver of soap over his hands and between his fingers, timing his ablutions by singing two verses of Happy Birthday to himself just like the Public Health notices had advised. It seemed pointless now when everyone was either quarantined or dying of the Krieg, but it had become a … Continue reading Stephen McQuiggan

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.   Terror in town They recall clouds of a dense earth snaking through the vales at high noon and stopped in awe at the puzzling rage. Behind the peeling wheel of that eerie race horse resolved to another aimless journey she bore a well-known frown as fixture. When her kin sat in repose near … Continue reading Fabrice Poussin