Nathan works as a support worker in community aged care. Fantasy and Sci-Fi are his favourite genres that he enjoys reading and wants to write about. Nathan wishes that the process of writing a short story was the same as eating a bowl of ice cream- every spoonful is a pleasant experience, and it’s all over in about five minutes. Sending all my hate I’m on the rooftop of the Sip Sup cafe. Besides me is a duffle bag stuffed with as much hate mail as I could fit into it. That’s only a small portion of the hate mail … Continue reading Nathan Niche

Duke LaRance ~ I was born a long time ago and raised on the High Plains of the Rocky Mountain Front in Northern Montana.  I am a poet,  photographer/artist, vocalist and a Gentleman.  I flew under the radar and toiled in obscurity for many years.  I’m now at  www.allpoetry.com/Duke_LaRance and am very happy at my new home where I had six pieces added to the recommended list on the homepage in six months and earned awards in two contests. About the time I joined AP I was invited to join, private FB poetry pages, Open Skies Poetry where I was … Continue reading Duke LaRance

Dorthy LaVern Spencer McCarthy has published five books of short stories and five books of poetry. Her short stories have appeared in Meadowlark Reader, Anthology Of Short Stories edited by Jilly Snowden, From The Shadows, edited by Amanda Steele, Writer’s Cache and other publications. Her poetry has been published in many publications such as Encore, Home Life, Cappers and Poetry Society Of Texas book Of the Year. She has won over five hundred state awards for her poetry and thirty four national awards. She is a life member of Poetry Society Of Texas and is a member of several other … Continue reading Dorthy LaVern Spencer McCarthy

  I am Johanne Lee, proud Mancunian and mother to three grown. I am published in several  anthologies namely Soul Poet Society and The Poetry Kingdom and Open Skies. I am an author of Children’s picture books and have been shortlisted and published in a 2020 lockdown anthology named Coast and Waters. Also pleased to be included in Impspired’s upcoming collection ‘ Heart of the Matter’. Beginnings I will not write of ends Or on the morrow write of drought, bearing Sahara sentences.. Wandering aimlessly about gasping on the lack of grammar, without a logical thought to grace a distant horizon … Continue reading Johanne Lee

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem ‘Mother’, and won the winter competition for his poem ‘The Silence’. Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland. Putting the words down all I … Continue reading Gordon Ferris

Of Indian origin, Sultana Raza’s poems have appeared in 100+ journals/anthologies, including Columbia Journal, The New Verse News, Vita Brevis, Entropy, London Grip, Classical Poetry Society, Dissident Voice, and Poetry24. Her fiction received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Review, and has been published in Knot Magazine, Coldnoon Journal, Setu, impspired, and Entropy. She has read her fiction/poems in India, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, England, World Con Dublin, the PCA/ACA conf. (USA), and at CoNZealand. Her creative non-fiction has appeared/will appear in numerous journals including Literary Yard, Literary Ladies Guide, Litro, Vector (BSFA), Focus (BSFA), and File770. Her 100+ articles (on … Continue reading Sultana Raza

Books lead to more books. Read one and you’re reminded of another. New material refers to past releases, either directly or in roundabout ways. Genres cross over, involving similar concepts, tropes, devices. Writers lift, pay tribute, re-imagine, claim as their own and take it a step further in the name of compelling art. Pick up the trail and we end up making extraordinary connections. Welcome to Connection Degree Three … Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Graham Greene: three writers who love to explore the exalting highs and crushing lows of the human condition, paying tribute to an unlikely power. In The … Continue reading ON THE POWER OF THE CHILD

In ‘Contraband’, Juan Pablo Mobili poignantly and introspectively reflects on his past; not dwelling on it but returning to key pivotal moments of his life, into vignettes that have shaped his life experiences and making sense of his memories and echoes of the past, to learn from and to carefully document moments that some of us might share or relate to; from our own cultural, social and spiritual experiences in this earthly existence. In Mobili’s own words, he states, “What we will read and has become quite true for him; is that he doesn’t so much write about the past … Continue reading Don Beukes Reviews ‘Contraband’ by Juan Pablo Mobili

Books lead to films. Read one and you’re reminded of something you watched the other day. New material refers to past releases, either directly or in roundabout ways. Genres cross over, involving similar concepts, tropes, devices. Writers and directors lift, pay tribute, re-imagine, claim as their own and take it a step further in the name of compelling art. Pick up the trail and we end up making extraordinary connections. Welcome to Connection Degree Three … Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein… Rupert Goold’s True Story… Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster. Three stories that concern unlikely couples, pairs brought together through a set of … Continue reading ON THE DANGER OF CRUSHING DUALITIES

I am a first time unpublished writer, who after almost eight years, has just completed my memoir and am getting ready to start submitting to literary agents. In the meantime, I have decided to submit some of my work and excerpts to writing contests.  I am sixty years old and live in Lunenburg, Massachusetts with my husband and three rescue dogs. I love pasta, baking, and anything chocolate. And, when I’m not working on my book, I love spending time with my family, especially my new granddaughter, and my mother,  who has not been well. I also enjoy gardening, reading, … Continue reading Theresa L Prokowiew