Kim has worked for NGO’s in Greece, Kosovo, Iraq, Palestine and Macedonia. He likes painting, art, bullfighting, photography and architecture, which might explain why this Australian lives in Madrid. 178 of his stories have been accepted by 103 different magazines. Breaking Away Screaming woke a dozing Mick, the car shaking in a road-train’s wind, big, black tyres approaching, Cathy and Margaret in the front shrieking, two-metre-high rubber circles nearing, Cathy battling a delirious steering wheel, thirty-metre-long, four-metre high metal looming up, steering-wheel hands swaying, Mick’s window rubber black then THERRRUMPPPP!  The car zigzagged into the road’s centre after clipping gravel, … Continue reading Kim Farleigh

Emiliya Ahmadova was born in the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Emiliya is a compassionate and spiritual person, devoted to the well-being of other people. She writes in order to highlight the social issues that are happening throughout the world in hope to bring positive changes. Emiliya has diplomas in business management, as well as a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in human resources management. She also has International diplomas in the advanced study of the theory and practice of management, administration and business management, communications, hotel operations management, office management and administration, and Professional English from the Cambridge … Continue reading Emiliya Ahmadova

Dennis Moriarty is fifty-six years old and originates from London. He has lived in South Wales for over thirty years. Married with five grown-up children and grandchildren, Dennis enjoys reading, writing and walking the Welsh countryside. He has been published in The Rye Whiskey Review, Setu Bilingual, Spillwords, The Blue Nib, Our Poetry Archive, and numerous anthologies In 2017 he won the Blackwater poetry competition and has read his work at festivals and gatherings around the UK and Ireland. Betrayal. We are siblings of a past detonation The fall out From a split atom of memory.   Decades of unspoken … Continue reading Dennis Moriarty

Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com.  When not writing, Linda is an avid reader, classical guitar player, and a practitioner of both Yoga and Tai Chi.  In, addition, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic guitars.  She lives in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. Linda enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her 20-year-old yellow tang.  A retired teacher, who began writing in earnest in January, 2015, Linda believes that poetry has the potential to add to the beauty of the world.  Much of this beauty she feels can be found in the night sky … Continue reading Linda Imbler

Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry  https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/ reveal a maverick playing his saxophone in warm solitude. His poetry has been published in the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Wales, France, Spain, India and Switzerland in numerous publications including mgv2 Publishing Anthology; And Agamemnon Dead; Deep Water Literary Journal; The Huffington Post USA; The Stray Branch Literary Magazine; Crack The Spine Literary Magazine; A New Ulster/Anu; Outburst Poetry Magazine; The Galway Review; The Honest … Continue reading Strider Marcus Jones

Of Indian origin, Sultana Raza is an independent scholar, and has presented papers on Romanticism (Keats) and Fantasy (Tolkien) in international conferences in Europe and the US. Her non-fiction features, entitled, ‘Keats and the Coronavirus’ was published in The Society of Classical Poetry, ‘Social Isolation – What’s the Alternative?’ was published on The Beautiful Space – A Journal of Mind, Art, and Poetry, and ‘Making Silence Sing’ was published in LitroNY. Keatsian Mosaics – 1817:2017 Introduction John Keats: Bicentenary Diary is appealing not only to Keats researchers, but to anyone who appreciates the young poet’s verses. A limited edition was published in 2016 by Peter Philips. In addition to … Continue reading Sultana Raza

Vaidehi Soni is a teacher by profession. She heads the Primary section of a renowned educational institution in India. She is an amateur poet and painter. Her poem was recently published in issue 6 of Impspired. A Lone Traveller- A Lone Woman Traveller… Bare Of All Her Belongings… With Baggage Full Of Hope … Excitement…. Apprehension… Questioning Her Own Want… To Be Free.. To Shrug Away Her Worries …                                                                       Worries of Stares, Of Ogling Eyes, Of Askance Glances… If She Crosses All The Barriers Barriers Unseen , Invisible Stronger than  The Walls Of Stone                                                                            Hurting More Than The Barrier Of … Continue reading Vaidehi Soni

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in Soundings East, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review with work upcoming in West Trade Review, Willard and Maple and the MacGuffin. DEAR READER REGARDING MRS LACEY She drinks her tea to the sound of traffic and wind outside her third-floor apartment.   A photograph of a dead husband keeps her company. A check from the government pays her rent, her food bill, little else.   She listens to the radio, watches television, meets up with an old friend once a month.   She’s not unhappy with her life. That’s … Continue reading John Grey

Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and elsewhere. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies. The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, New York. He is retired from doing whatever he was doing before he retired. His book, Mark the Dwarf is available on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Dwarf-Jack-D-Harvey-ebook/dp/B019KGW0F2 Boat Song           (after Martin Codax)   Waters of the sea of Vigo, Hast thou seen my … Continue reading Jack Harvey

Jim Ward has previously been published for poetry in English and Irish, for one short story in Irish and for ‘Smoke’ his story published in The Blue Nib. His play Just Guff won ‘Best in the West’ award at Galway Fringe Festival, 2017 and has toured locally including Town Hall Studio, Galway, Kilkee Playwright Festival and Liberty Hall, Dublin as part of MayFest 2019. His poem 2016 Proclamation was runner-up in the Galway Bay FM/Thoor Ballylee Yeats Poetry Challenge,2017. His memoir piece Begging from Beggars will appear in The 32 in 2021. He has just finished a first novel. His artwork has appeared in various outlets including Ropes and Dodging the Rain literary publications, … Continue reading Jim Ward