S.J. Ladds is a writer of everything and in between. She slips between genres as they call to her, using threads of queerness, creativity and chronic illness to stitch her stories into the patchwork quilt that she calls an imagination. Her work has been published in multiple journals such as Short Vine, Queer By Gum and AC|DC lit as well as being longlisted for the Cymera 2025 prize for speculative fiction. She has wanted to be a writer since she found out the books she stayed home from school to read were written by real life people. (And later made … Continue reading Sami Ladds

Widely published over many years in various countries in numerous magazines, journals, anthologies, newspapers, and competitions, most recently first prize in the Brian Nisbet award. His last book was ‘History Doesn’t Die’ A LEADER JUSTIFIES WAR Our tanks are just templesmoving their languageamong those who are lost.Our soldiers are voicespersuading the disbelieversours is the promised land.We know the cause is just,our way of life confirms it,their weakness is our strength,casualties we leave behindrise into a single statementexplaining our strategies.The families at homeare on a learning curve as they pick over daily news,while these young menare marching to a futurethey dare … Continue reading Gordon Scapens

Stef Bishop is a newly emerging writer who scribbles strange poems and, on rare occasions, pieces of flash fiction. Much more the autodidact than the academic and influenced more by everyday observations rather than the giant figures of literature. His work has appeared online in Lincs & Inks anthologies and Underbelly Press. Stef lives in Lincoln, UK, where he sometimes draws creative ideas from the cathedral quarter of the city. Lowry’s Ghost God Up the gallery stairs, take the far right from the noon-lit landinginto a faded room to see it – Lowry’s painting of Lincoln. A typical scene on … Continue reading Stef Bishop

I am a Freelance Writer/ Researcher, with a lifelong passion for good books and writing. I studied English Literature and American Studies at the University of Manchester, and I have spent my time over the last 2 years travelling Latin America and working Freelanced in numerous roles, including as a Personal Assistant to a Stylist, copywriting for Medical Practitioners, London-culture article reviews, and currently as a Neighbourhood Researcher and Copywriter. I am super keen to develop my experience within the Publishing Industry, and put my communication, writing, and organisational skills to practise in a business that is ever-changing and adapting … Continue reading Violet Cannon

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet of high acclaim, with his work published in 46 countries or republics. He is also a song lyricist with several published poetry books. His talent has been recognized with 7 Pushcart Prize nominations and 7 Best of the Net nominations. He has over 653 published poems. His 336-plus YouTube poetry videos are a testament to his skill and dedication. He is a proud Illinois State Poetry Society member, http://www.illinoispoets.org/, and an Academy of American Poets member, https://poets.org/.  His poems have been translated into several foreign languages. Awards/Contests: International Award of Excellence “Citta’ Del Galateo-Antonio De Ferrariis” … Continue reading Michael Lee Johnson

Author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure (Story Line Press, 1986; reissued April 2022 by Red Hen Press) and Happiness (Story Line Press, 1998), and four collections, A Poverty of Words (Prolific Press, 2015), Landscape with Mutant (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018), The Beautiful Losses (Better Than Starbucks Books, 2023), and The Liberator (Survision Books, Ireland, 2024). In print, Pollack’s work has appeared in Hudson Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Manhattan Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Main Street Rag, Miramar, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Fish Anthology (Ireland), Poetry Quarterly Review, Magma (UK), Neon (UK), Orbis (UK), Armarolla, December, and elsewhere. Online, his poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Diagram, BlazeVox, Mudlark, Occupoetry, Faircloth Review, Triggerfish, Big Pond Rumours (Canada), Misfit, OffCourse and elsewhere. Is It Hot In Here? A hundred galaxies away,the only silicon-based … Continue reading Frederick Pollack

Nolo Segundo is the pen name of retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia] L.j. Carber, who became a published poet in his 8th decade in over 240 literary journals in 21 countries and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for Best of the Net. Cyberwit.net has published 3 collections in softcover: THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE; OF ETHER AND EARTH; and SOUL SONGS. These titles reflect an awareness gained over 50 years ago when he had an NDE whilst nearly drowning: that he has—is–a consciousness predating birth and surviving death, what poets since Plato have called the soul.  To a Friend … Continue reading Nolo Segundo

Catherine Kay lives in the wild and beautiful Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal, Ireland. Her writing has been performed in the Waterside Theatre, Derry, Greencastle’s  Words by the Water Event and at Ten x 9 events. She was long listed for the Cúirt New Writing 2023 and highly commended in the Frances Browne Festival 2023.  Her poetry has been published in the Storms Journal Anthology IV. She has had work published in Caught Alight: An Anthology.  Hawthorn a true faerie tree   bereft of protection fat droplets of pain  soak dank    primal soil forsaken by magic she howls on a hillside … Continue reading Catherine Kay

Leonie Jarrett lives in Melbourne, Australia with her Husband of more than 3 decades, 2 of her 4 adult children and her 2 Golden Retrievers. Leonie is a lawyer who has owned several businesses. Now that she is semi-retired, Leonie loves writing rivers of words. She hopes that the reader likes floating in her rivers! Living I wriggle a bit and lift my sweaty legs off the coarse, cotton deckchair. To think I used to just spread a towel on the grainy sand, lather myself with coconut oil and lie there all day! Now, I can’t seem to stay comfortable even reclining in my bougie deck chair.  The … Continue reading Leonie Jarrett

Ben Hramiak is an author with a Bachelor’s Honours in English Literature and Creative Writing living and working in Yorkshire. He has written prose fiction from an early and has been published in Young Writers’ Tales from the Crypt, a 2016 short horror anthology. He was also published on one website for his poetry submission and has even started a blog. He is currently writing a historical fiction novel set in feudal Japan. Continue reading Ben Hramiak