Algo is from Ireland.
In self-imposed self-isolation,
Algo only wears black and enjoys studying the school of Austrian Economics, reading comic books and meditating.Algo once believed he was a nihilist but now believes in something higher.
Rachael Alonzo lives in the Midlands and has a new hobby of making paper mache frogs. She loves to create weird and unusual artwork, digitally using Procreate. These two pieces represent her life. She loves nature and animals, has a cat who rehomed himself with them and nine fish in an outdoor pond. She is in the process of writing a fictional novel about the life of a woman who had to grow up in a funeral home.
Ken Anderson's poetry books are The Intense Lover and Permanent Gardens. His novel Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle was finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award. His novel Someone Bought the House on the Island was finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. A stage adaptation won the Saints and Sinners Playwriting Contest and premiered May 2, 2008, at the Marigny Theater in New Orleans. An operatic version premiered June 16, 2009, at the First Existentialist Congregation in Atlanta.
Allen Ashley is an award-winning writer and editor based in London, UK. He is the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy group Clockhouse London Writers. He guest-edited the most recent issue of "Sein und Werden" with the theme "Animal Vegetable Mineral". His Atom Punk / Slipstream chapbook "Journey to the Centre of the Onion" was published by Eibonvale Press (UK) in September 2023.
Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.
Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; home to dreams and nightmares. Her fiction and poetry have been featured in numerous online and print publications. Her debut collection of horror poetry, Devil in the Clock, is available on Amazon, followed by Singing the Bones (Cyberwit Publishing, 2022). Her third collection of poetry, Exquisite Corpse, is set to be released in future. You have been warned...
Please visit Alexis' YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@alexischild5456/videos
Norman Conquest is the brains (and the private parts) behind Black Scat Books in Northern California. His most recent book: smells like teen 'pataphysics.
Juliet Cook is brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. Her two most recently published poetry chapbooks are "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023) and "Contorted Doom Conveyor" (Gutter Snob Books, July 2023). She has another new poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards", forthcoming from Ethel Zine & Micro Press in October 2023.
Paul Edward Costa is an award-winning Canadian poet, spoken word artist, and teacher. He is a former Poet Laureate of Mississauga, Ontario and has published many poems in journals worldwide. His book of poetry, The Long Train of Chaos was published by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His book of flash fiction, God Damned Avalon, was published by Mosaic Press. As a spoken word artist, he's featured at many poetry readings online and in-person across Canada and in the U.S.
Poet, writer, performer Phil Doran has been since time when now much less coherent music life central bloody bad dad hip hop and left field lockdown shenanigans instead of a bio proper so to speak. Kludge available is on the spaghettifaction.blogspot.
David Dumouriez narrowly lost out to Daniel Craig for the lead role in Casino Royale in 2006. Wracked by thoughts of what might have been, he took to the road and immersed himself in drink. Barbara Broccoli has already been in touch now that Craig's tenure is over, but Dumouriez took great pleasure in snubbing her and thereby, he believes, enjoying the last laugh.
Helen Freeman started writing poetry whilst recovering from an accident in Oman and got hooked. She has poems published on sites like Snakeskin Poetry, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Clear Poetry, Open Mouse, Red River Review, The Drabble, Visual Verse and Ekphrastic Review. She lives in Durham. Instagram @chemchemi.hf
Steve Fried teaches composition online, synchronously for The College of Staten Island, CUNY and asynchronously for Southern New Hampshire University. To write your poem with his and Samantha Tamburri's Word into idea, go to: https://lucky6-f3de1.web.app/
Ashwini Gangal is a psychologist by training, journalist by profession, and storyteller at heart. Ashwini worked at a business daily in Mumbai, India, as managing editor for over a decade, before migrating to California. In America, she is chasing greener pastures in the world of fiction and poetry.
Richard Gessner is the Author of "The Conduit and other Visionary Tales of Morphing Whimsy" Rain Mountain Press, 2017. Gessner's fiction is published in: Fiction International, Skidrow Penthouse, Sein und Werden, Rampike, Another Chicago Magazine, Air Fish and other magazines. Drawings and paintings published/exhibited at Pleiades Gallery, Hamilton street Gallery, Raw Vision, Asbury Park Press, and the Donald B. Palmer Museum.
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
Giles Goodland is a poet and lexicographer. His last book was Of Discourse (Grand Iota, 2023).
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Santa fe Literary Review, and Sheepshead Review. Latest books, "Between Two Fires", "Covert" and "Memory Outside The Head" are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, La Presa and California Quarterly.
j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.
EF Hay exists in Britain & rather than follow spurious leaders- over the years he's intermittently found it therapeutic to write out various thoughts, feelings & ideas as short stories to be examined, considered, & interpreted by clinical practitioners who may be able to offer professional psychological assistance.
Twitter @EvanFindlayHay
Instagram @EvanFindlayHay
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is the author of Bliss (Alien Buddha Press), Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales (BlazeVOX), Amorphous Organics (SurVision), and the forthcoming poetry collection Lexicartographies (BlazeVOX). His work has been featured in the anthologies Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology and Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism.
Paul Hostovsky's poems appear and disappear simultaneously (voila!) and have recently been sighted in places where they pay you for your trouble with your own trouble doubled, and other people's troubles thrown in, which never seem to him as great as his troubles, though he tries not to compare. He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances.
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections and has won one book and two chapbook awards. His Erdős number is two.
Jane Langan photographs people, animals and landscapes. She originally developed her photos in a dark room under the stairs. Now she sticks with digital. Her work has been featured in several online magazines, most recently Makarelle and Fourth River. Jane also writes poetry and fiction. She recently had her anthology of short stories - The Solstice Baby and Other Stories published by Castle Priory Press. If you Google @Muddynosugar you will find Jane's social media and blog.
Rose Lattimore (she/her) is a writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Rose's non-fiction work centres on disability rights and accessibility law. Rose's poetry centres on queer identity and heartbreak.
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme, before taking early retirement in 2019. He is the author of 20 books to date, which includes fiction, poetry and scholarship. His most recent books include, Don't Use the Phone: What Poets Can Learn From Books (2023), and a poetry collection, 60 Poems (2023), both available from Greenwich Exchange Publishing.
Richard Magahiz went to school to train as a scientist which led to work in various jobs in science and engineering. Through it all, habits of reading, writing, and engaging in other artistic interests have helped in the pursuit of a well-rounded life. He has written speculative and mainstream poetry for over twenty years, which has been featured in publications such as Star*Line, Shoreline of Infinity, Dreams and Nightmares, Mobius: the Journal of Social Change, Bewildering Stories, and Contemporary Haibun Review.
Ted Mico began his career in London as a writer and editor at the seminal weekly music paper Melody Maker. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Time Out, Huffington Post, Forbes, and Spin, while his poetry has featured in Cordite Review, Pure Slush, Okay Donkey, and Cesura. He's edited three books of non-fiction and is a regular at the legendary Beyond Baroque poetry workshop in Venice, CA.
After years of impersonating a Systems Engineer, Ken Poyner has retired to watch his wife break world raw powerlifting records. Ken's four current poetry and four short fiction collections are available from www.barkingmoosepress.com and myriad places.
Michael Loughrey hails from London, but tempted by the irresistible iniquity of Paris indulged in a decade long sejour there. Michael's award-winning short stories have been published in numerous literary revues, and a book of his collected short stories entitled The Parallax Groove is available from Waterstones and from Foyles of London. Recuperating from the unbridled hedonism of his French revelation, Michael now hangs his béret in rural Norfolk.
I.B. Rad lives and writes in Dallas, Texas, and prior to that, in New York city, His work is widely published on the internet. He uses a variety of styles depending on subject and desired effect. Given his background in composing civic poetry, he strives for clarity of expression.
AE Reiff is not offering his recent work Libby: A Vision of Beauty, as an antidote to the black beast. Readers must take it so at their own risk.
Inspired by surreal aesthetics, Nelly Sanchez is a French collagist and writer specializing in late 19th century women's literature. She explores and questions female stereotypes and archetypes. She mixes and plays with symbols and colours to reveal the infinite interpretations of reality. Recently, she has been making sculptures and assemblages. Her artworks are often published as illustrations, as flyers or as coverbooks. Her new creations can be discovered on http://www.nellysanchez.fr or on Instagram : nellysanchezcollagiste
Canadian poet/fiction writer/playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot's arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published 24 books, including A Visit to the Kafka Café (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2018), Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles (Stories/Ekstasis Editions/2019), Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2020), Somewhat Absurd, Somehow Existential (Poetry/Guernica Editions/2021), Acting on the Island (Stories/Pottersfield Press/2022), and As You Continue to Wait (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2022).
Michael Tigchelaar is a freelance numismatist and writer currently working on an experimental novel, in which the key ambitions are boisterousness and range. He completed his MPhil in Classical Reception at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 2020, and prior to that gained a BA in Classics, specialising in Latin literature and philosophy, at King's College, Cambridge. He lives on the south coast of the UK.
David Turnbull is a member of the Clockhouse London group of genre writers. He writes mainly short fiction and has had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies. His stories have previously been featured at Liars League London events and read at other live events such as Solstice Shorts and Virtual Futures. His near fiction novella HUSks is currently on release.
Vincent Wells's latest reincarnation went unnoticed apart from his host and the midwife. Being forced from her well-appointed womb, he used his first lungful of air to protest. When this and his subsequent screams were ignored, he turned to writing them out long-hand. The short-stories gave voice to his disappointments, the novellas petitioned his mother begging to be let back in, and the epic sagas enquired after his absent father. His favourite meal is Freud sausages, eggo and slips.
Kirby Wright holds an MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU. He writes in fits and spurts.
Nick Hadfield documents the residual prints the subconscious mind leaves behind the retina of unblinking eyes.
Mark Hastings lives in North Manchester, by day he is a mild-mannered librarian. By night he is a mild-mannered librarian.
Karoly Lencses is a Hungarian poet and visual artist, born in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, in 1976. He has been writing from a very early age; his first attempts were in primary school, his passion for writing has not faded since. He has numerous publications in most Hungarian literary magazines. He has had two books of poems published, and his poems are included in many anthologies. Recently, he has been granted the Andras Dugonics literary prize, an award granted by the public.
s.d.s. is the pseudonym of a Chester expat who has written five books as well as two chapbooks of visual poetry. The poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of s.d.s. have been published in, among others, the Guardian, Atlantic, New York Times, McSweeney's, Sugar House, fleeting, Mobius, 3 am, Mudlark, Penine Platform, Plume, Storm Cellar, Mercurius, morphrog, mono, Tupelo Quarterly, The Bamboo Hut and Clapboard House, where they won a short story prize.
Martin Heavisides exists. He has even been published, in magazines as diverse as Frigg, Mad Hatter's Review, Oddball, Danse Macabre and The Linnet's Wings, and had staged readings of many of his efforts for the stage. Much of this is in the public record. Attempts to prove Martin Heavisides doesn't exist have persistently failed, and will fail at least until he ceases to.
The stories, poetry and humor of Larry Lefkowitz have appeared in many publications in the United States, Israel and Britain. His two (Jewish) story collections "Enigmatic Tales" and The Varieties of Jewish Experience" are published by Fomite Press. They include many stories that would interest the non-Jewish reader, as well. His humorous Science Fiction book "Laughing into the Fourth Dimension is published by Wayman Publishing.
