Susie Gharib is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde with a Ph.D. on the work of D.H. Lawrence. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in multiple venues including Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Curlew, The Ink Pantry, A New Ulster, Down in the Dirt, the PLJ, and Mad Swirl. The Poetry of Virginia Woolf: Words Robed in Beauty from The Waves -II- Pebbles Illumination Let me talk. The bubbles are rising like the silver bubbles from the floor of a saucepan, image on top of image. I have little aptitude for reflection. I require the concrete in everything. A good phrase … Continue reading Susie Gharib

Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan’s prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine. Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian mad creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists, The Hooghly … Continue reading Christina Chin & Uchechukwu Onyedikam

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

Wayne Russell is a creative jack of all trades, master of none. Poet, rhythm guitar player, singer, artist, photographer, and author of the poetry book Where Angels Fear via Guerilla Genius Press, it is available for purchase on Amazon. There is a Strength in Knowledge Sunlight creeps between the blinds and into my eyes. I know now that morning has broken the sky wide open. The drone of traffic, tires gripped upon faded grey asphalt motorway. Children chat with their friends while waiting for the warm yellow cocoons of school busses. I yawn like a weary old dog, arms and … Continue reading Wayne Russell

Keith E. Sparks Jr. has been writing from a young age. He has had his work published in various literary journals and magazines and has been nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize. He has appeared in venues such as Skyline Magazine, Timeless Reflections, Open Skies, to name a few, and has managed to remain in the Top 10 most read for 20 consecutive months through Impspired Magazine. Keith has published multiple collections of poetry, with his most recent releases being “Shadowfall,” and “The Subtle Ways of Memory and Dream”. He is the creator and former editor of, the now archived, … Continue reading Keith E. Sparks Jr

Ben Macnair is an award-winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter @ benmacnair A Probationary Ghost Two characters. Ext: Daytime, in a park. LINDA, female, any age. BOB, male any age, slightly nervy. BOB (Quietly) Boo LINDA (She is sat reading a book, intently) BOB (Slighly louder) Boo LINDA (she is still reading a book, still intently) BOB (Very loudly) BOO LINDA (she drops the book, and looks in BOB’s direction) BOB (Sitting down next to LINDA) I said Boo. LINDA Why? BOB I felt like it. LINDA Well, it’s not really nice, … Continue reading Ben Macnair

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. His first poetry collection from Cajun Mutt Press is now available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6W2YZDP . fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online. CARVED IN THE MOON Your face that I carved in the moon, that night when magic brought out the ladder, the one that reached the moon, the one I climbed with you, now ten years ago and still, tonight, long after the magic has dissipated, ladder fallen, fog lifted, snow melted, revealing the bodies strewn, the bitter battlegrounds, the moon brings down its special light, that old magic … Continue reading John Tustin

The author of ‘Postmarked Quarantine’ has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of ‘Words Surfacing’. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.  Twitter- https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe Evolution of Restlessness At the school gate a lady asks me about my experience with the institution. I shrug. My daughter still studies here; doesn’t she? A new mother, she confirms, “My son is ten days old. I feel time ran away already.” This, and the fact that the cockroaches are immuned to our household pesticides wrap me in restlessness at night. Draw The … Continue reading Kushal Poddar

If you are looking for something different, something weird and wacky, conceived in the mind of someone with more than a few screws loose and madder than the Mad Hatter himself;Welcome. We have been expecting you.My passion is writing children’s picture books, which help to convey a deeper spiritual or emotional concept in an easy-to-understand way.I am working on more elaborate novels, and am undertaking a degree in Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Hopefully, by the end of the course, I will be able to more eloquently articulate my thoughts and get them out to the world. My website: http://www.tjhayesbooks.com … Continue reading Taylor Jay Hayes

James Mulhern’s writing has appeared in literary journals over one hundred and fifty times and has been recognized with many awards. In 2015, Mr. Mulhern was granted a writing fellowship to Oxford University. That same year, a story was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize. In 2017, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His novel, Give Them Unquiet Dreams, is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019. He was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021 for his poetry. Recently, two of his novels were Finalists for the United Kingdom’s Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Brother Mike You rarely speak your feelings, silent, perceptive, and broody. When we were children, we knelt … Continue reading James Mulhern