Edward Lee’s poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, Impspired and Poetry Wales. His poetry collections are Playing Poohsticks On Ha’Penny Bridge, The Madness Of Qwerty, A Foetal Heart, Bones Speaking With Hard Tongues and To Touch The Sky And Never Know The Ground Again. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com THE MUSIC OF AN ENDING The untightened drum beats a muffled tune, that only the lost and their ghosts … Continue reading Edward Lee

DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction writer with hundreds of stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC’s stories have appeared in: Progenitor, 34th Parallel, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, and others. DC’s recently released collection Captured Up Close (20th Century Short-Short Stories) has two Pushcart Prize nominated stories and one nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Her first collection of stories was Stepping Up. She lives on the California coast with her wife and animals. dcdiamondopolous.com 1962: It’s Always the Girl’s Fault Blindfolded, Donna and Wendy … Continue reading DC Diamondopolous

Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, and adopted by New York. His poems appeared, among others, in The American Journal of Poetry, Hanging Loose Press, South Florida Poetry Journal, Louisville Review, and The Paterson Literary Review, in the United States,as well as a number of international publications such as Impspired (UK), The Wild Word (Germany), Hong Kong Review (Hong Kong), Pasaje (Argentina), and Otoliths (Australia). His work received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and an Honorable Mention from the International Rights Human Arts Festival. His chapbook,  “Contraband,” was published in 2022, and, most recently, he was the Guest Editor of the Spring 2023 issue of the Banyan Review. The … Continue reading Juan Mobili

Jonathan Hunter is a Writer from Solihull, UK. He enjoys writing fiction that stretches the imagination and pushes boundaries. Jonathan has had pieces published in the Secret Attic Anthologies, Neuro-Logical Magazine, Bombfire Magazine, Corner Bar Magazine, Arasi Magazine, Written Tales Magazine, Trash to Treasure, Commuter Lit, Pink Heart Magazine, the Serulian Magazine, and the Free Flash Fiction website. Amongst the Sunflowers Mark passed through the sunflower field on his way home from work each evening in rural Norfolk. The solitary oak tree in the middle was where he liked sitting alone. The heatwave that began in June had left the … Continue reading Jonathan Hunter

Geoffrey Aitken writes in Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna land, an awarded industrial minimalist poet who communicates his ‘lived experience disability’ for publishers [AUS] and [UK, US, CAN, Fr & CN]. Recent poetry at ‘Sparks of Calliope’, ‘Impspired Mag’ & ‘StepAway Magazine’ [UK], ‘Maya’s Micros’, ‘The Institutionalized Review’ & ‘Panoplyzine Magazine’, [US], and ‘unusual work’ [AUS]. Nominated for the annual Best of the Net anthology in 2022. A. Test(im)oni¹  i eye with caution the handmade shoes in your shop window meticulously crafted from supple Tuscany leather to symphony my want of accessible rich tradition double-stitched i see a durable statement of … Continue reading Geoffrey Aitken

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her bold, textural, colorful images have appeared in various places, including, but not limited to: Bewildering Stories, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Right Hand Pointing, Stone Coast Review, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, Tuck, and Yellow Mama. She uses her trusty point-and-shoot camera to capture the order of G-d’s universe, and Paint 3D to capture the chaos of her universe. Sometimes, it remains insufficient for her to sate herself by applying verbal whimsy to pastures where gelatinous wildebeests roam or … Continue reading KJ Hannah Greenberg

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Light Journal and So It Goes. Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/ The Last Word … Continue reading Lynn White

Monica lives in Florence, Italy. Her international spirit travels with an American passport. She moonlights as a legal worker when not parenting, project managing, and writing. Monica edits poetry and prose for Open Doors Review out of Livorno, Italy. See all publications and learn more at sharpmonica.com. Apex Traveller His flight from Birmingham to Dubai, then to Bangkok, was exhausting at best. Ghastly, really. He hadn’t been on a long haul like that since backpacking in South Africa five years ago. Fortunately he booked on Emirates, whose economy seats rivaled first class on most other airlines. He needed a place … Continue reading Monica Sharp

Talent Madhuku is a writer from Zimbabwe. His work has been published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Kalahari review and Brittle paper (forthcoming) Standing on the doorway “Mom, where’s baba?” “He’s far away darling, very far away.” “When is he coming back home?” “Soon darling. One day you are going to open that door and there he will be, waiting for you to welcome him home.” It’s happening again. She’s been feeling this way for days. The dizziness is episodic, the spells lasts only for a few minutes. They have already set December as the month for settling the issue … Continue reading Talent Madhuku

Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines 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 (increasingly) next door’s cat. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels. After Pinter I am a great man. People depend on me to say great things. They expect me to say great things. I expect … Continue reading Jim Murdoch