Marianne Szlyk is a professor of English and Reading at Montgomery College. Her poems have appeared in of/with, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Sligo Journal, Verse-Virtual, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Sheila-na-gig, and Bold + italic,  as well as a few anthologies such as Green Elephant, The Forgotten River and Resurrection of a Sunflower. Her flash fiction has appeared in Mad Swirl and Visual Verse. Her books Why We Never Visited the Elms, On the Other Side of the Window, and Poetry en Plein Air are available from Amazon and Bookshop.    The Room with a Marvelous View After Sun on South Street by Anna Lee Hafer … Continue reading Marianne Szlyk

Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Analog SF, Cardinal Sins, and New Plains Review, and her published books include Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, Hugo House in Washington, and The Muse Writers Center in Virginia. Fast When you fall in love in space, it’s under every star you ever saw as a child from your bedroom window, the moon swinging gigantic behind you, bigger than it ever was in a Dean Martin ballad. You cannot get closer to another person than here, a thousand … Continue reading Holly Day

Hello, I am G.M.H. Thompson. I have been published in a number of different publications that few people have read or even heard of. I have a chapbook out entitled Yard Sale at the Devil’s Petting Zoo that perhaps 30 people have leafed through. I was nominated for a Pushcart once, but didn’t win it. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. When I was eight, I moved with my family to St. Louis, Missouri. I then received my Bachelor’s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I learned little. Then I learned how to play guitar in empty rooms … Continue reading G.M.H. Thompson

Grzegorz Wróblewski was born in 1962 in Gdańsk and grew up in Warsaw. Since 1985 he has been living in Copenhagen. English translations of his work are available in Our Flying Objects (trans. Joel Leonard Katz, Rod Mengham, Malcolm Sinclair, Adam Zdrodowski, Equipage, 2007), A Marzipan Factory (trans. Adam Zdrodowski, Otoliths,2010), Kopenhaga (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press, 2013), Let’s Go Back to the Mainland (trans. Agnieszka Pokojska, Červená Barva Press, 2014), Zero Visibility (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Phoneme Media, 2017), Dear Beloved Humans (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Lavender/Dialogos Books, 2023). Asemic writing book Shanty Town (Post-Asemic Press, 2022). ALCOHOLISM AT KONDUKTORSKA STREET A world without God is an inhuman world – … Continue reading Grzegorz Wróblewski

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.James Mulhern’s writing has appeared in literary journals over two hundred and fifty times and has been recognized … Continue reading James Mulhern

Tony Dawson was born in the East End of London in 1937 and has lived in Seville since 1989. He was educated at Hampton G.S. (now Hampton School) the University of Leeds, and the University of London. After a successful career teaching in the UK at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) and Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moores University) he took up a post at the University of Seville, retiring in 2007. He started writing in earnest during the pandemic and has published some 100 poems in English in the USA, the UK and Australia as well as a small … Continue reading Tony Dawson

Full name: Jacobus Booij Nationality: Dutch Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Place & date of birth: Djakarta (Dutch Indies); 1950 Education: Gymnasium Alpha, Philosophy, Theology Occupation: retired; writer of lyrics (singer/songwriter), short stories and novels. Languages: Dutch; English Writer’s name (English): James Herald E-mail: jamesheraldmailbox@gmail.com Website: https://jamesherald.com Randolph the city pigeon It is a busy Summer’s Day; the streets are bustling. People are swarming to and fro. In the market, stallholders are hawking their wares in loud voices. And the brass band of the Salvation Army stands firm in spotless uniforms. Standing in a corner, it plays a solemn hymn. The … Continue reading James Herald

My name is Neal Crook. After retirement, I relocated from hectic Los Angeles to serene Cambria, California. Much of my work is inspired by the beauty of the central coast. Involvement in the Cambria Writers Workshop provides the opportunity to explore my past and generates “memoir” poetry and flash memoirs. The rights and struggles of the GLBTQ community and my journey accepting my queerness, influences many of my poems and memoirs. I taught high school for 20 years. I live with my husband, Michael, and our big, noisy cat Rufus. Another Storm Crows fight for position atop a pine. Their … Continue reading Neal Crook

Born and educated in New Zealand, I matured, like a good cheese, for several decades in London and St Petersburg, and aged for several more years in Porto.  Recently, I returned to New Zealand.      I supported my writing habit by teaching adults and children, working as an editor and researcher, and for five years on a project to build a replica frigate in St Petersburg.  It’s now sailing with other tall ships in the Baltic.  My most influential years for writing were in Russia — joyfully ignorant when I arrived, open-eyed and regretful when I left.  The experience of … Continue reading Ann Palmer

Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has appeared throughout over 50 publications in 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Romania, Turkey, India, Singapore and Australia.  His work was also selected for 14 anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books.  He was nominated for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology, and for Spillwords Press Awards in 2020, 2021 and 2022.  His debut novel was The Dogs Don’t Bark in Brooklyn Any More, published in 2013 by Dagda Publishing in the United Kingdom.  He is a past editor for the dystopian literature journal, The Bees Are Dead.  He was entered … Continue reading Eric Robert Nolan