Dr. Elizabeth V.Koshy is a Professor in English Literature at Dr.A.B.Telang Senior College, Pune, India. Her poems have been published in edited anthologies by Sweetycat Press in ‘Love’, ‘Song’, ‘Beauty’ and ‘Movement’, Clarendon House Press in Poetica 3,4,5,6, Gertrude’s Writing Room, Caesurae.org, The Writers Club (Grey Thoughts), Stacy Savage’s Poetry for a Cause, Lothlorein Poetry Journal, The World of Myth Magazine, Indian Periodical, Literary Yard, Rabble Review, Muse India, The Wise Owl Magazine and Spillwords. Her CNF/memoirs have been published by Academy of the Heart and Mind, Impspired Magazine and Sweetycat Press. A story has been accepted for publication by … Continue reading Dr. Elizabeth V.Koshy

Vatsala Radhakeesoon has been writing poems for 30 years and she is the author of numerous poetry books. She is also an abstract artist and likes to experiment various possibilities that bless Art.Vatsala is a literary translator and currently lives at Rose-Hill, Mauritius. Poet’s blog link related to her books: https://booksbyvatsalaradhakeesoon.wordpress.com Poet On Sunday, burn the midnight Oil! On Monday, between lunch and work you scribble on a visitor card. Your boss says you are mad. On Tuesday, your vintage typewriter rattles against the dead silence of 2 am. Your partner screams “Is your tablet snoozing ?” On Wednesday the flamboyant … Continue reading Vatsala Radhakeesoon

David’s stories have appeared in Duality Books, Friday Flash Fiction, Spillwords Press and performed on Resonance FM radio (UK). He was commissioned to adapt and direct his short story ‘Into The Breach’ for the 2021 Rise of the Resistance festival, screened at Bloomsbury Theatre London, Wellcome Collection and available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzuj1-DJeSc . For several years he has worked in the public sector, mostly with homeless charities, in hostels and supported housing units. David was a founder member of punk band Vee V V (Edils Records). He finds his stories while he’s out and about, or they find him… He lives with … Continue reading David Milner

Tim Law is an author of fantasy, horror, detective and general short story fiction as well as the occasional poem or two. He heralds from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge. A happily married father of three children (plus four cats and a rabbit), family is very important to him. Currently working at the Murray Bridge Library in the role of Library Manager he has dreamed since his early high school years of becoming a full-time author. Working for a library, surrounded by so many wonderful authors it is difficult not to be inspired to write. Tim … Continue reading Tim Law

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). he Mainland (trans. Agnieszka Pokojska, Červená Barva Press, 2014), Zero Visibility (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Phoneme … Continue reading Grzegorz Wroblewski

Peter Lingard, born a Briton, sold ice cream on railway stations, worked as a bank clerk, delivered milk, laboured in a large dairy and served in the Royal Marines.  He has also been a barman, an accountant and a farm worker.  He lived in the US for a while and owned a freight forwarding business in New York.  He came to Australia because the sun often shines here and Australians are a positive bunch who speak English.  Peter (plingaus@bigpond.com) is a member of the Phoenix House Writers.  He has 60+ short stories and poems published, as well as having a … Continue reading Peter Lingard

Nolo Segundo, pen name of retired English/ESL teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia]  L.j Carber, became a published poet in his 8th decade in over 170 literary journals in 13 countries. A trade publisher has released 3 collections in paperback on Amazon: The Enormity of Existence [2020]; Of Ether and Earth [2021]; and Soul Songs [2022]. These titles reflect an awareness he’s had for over 50 years since having an NDE whilst almost drowning in a Vermont river: That he has—IS—a consciousness that predates birth and survives death, what poets since Plato have called the soul. A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS CAROL   Then… it … Continue reading Nolo Segundo

Margaret is an Irish author and writes prose and poetry. She is widely published in journals and magazines and on-line, in four continents. She is a 2023 nominee for The Best of The Net Award for a second year running. She is listed in the Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland, at University College Dublin. Her background is in Human and Social Rights advocacy. She is an activist. She writes Policy Papers on Inclusion and Diversity. Her hobby is painting, in watercolour and acrylics. Her work has been exhibited. Pancakes and Whaling Boats It stands in its special place, shone and … Continue reading Margaret Kiernan

Robert Paul Allen  lives on a lake near the coast of Maine.  He is surrounded daily by the state’s rugged beauty.  He worked  in the medical field in patient care and has seen the gamut of human trials and tribulations.  The human condition inspires much of his poetry. He has been a serious poet for the past five years and has published 31 poems.  His first chapbook, Between the Panes has just been published. He believes he still has something to say. Grandad’s Hands Grandad was a diminutive man. His hands, scarred and mottled with age spots, were in constant … Continue reading Robert Allen

. I am a new writer and have found myself writing poetry as an expression of the process of spiritual awakening I have experienced since April 2022, following a near-death experience fording a river in Scotland’s far north. Since then, my poems have been ‘murmurings from within the chrysalis’ as I have undergone a process of somewhat unexpected transformation that led me from remote corners of the Scottish Highlands to the depths of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Nonetheless my poetry is deeply rooted in Scotland. Geese smell winter closing in it compresses it clarifies the land and you take … Continue reading Jack Capener