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.
Red Ogre Review Books and Liquid Raven Media just released Ken Anderson's The Goose Liver Anthology (Mother Goose meets Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology). His first poetry book was The Intense Lover. Coffin Bell Journal nominated his poem "Blood Quartet" for 2024 Best of the Net anthology. He was a finalist in the 2021 Saints and Sinners poetry contest. Some British and Irish publications include Impossible Archetype, Impostor, The Lake, London Grip, Orbis, Sideways Poetry Magazine, Skylight 47, and SurVision.
Allen Ashley is proud to call himself a regular contributor to "Sein und Werden" and has guest-edited a few issues over the magazine's storied history. Allen is the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy group Clockhouse London Writers and the online reading group The Cosy Gang. His latest chapbook is the atom punk novelette "Journey to the Centre of the Onion" (Eibonvale Press, September 2023).
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry on unceded Mingo land (Akron, OH). He published his first poem in a non-vanity/non-school publication in November 1988, and it's been all downhill since. Recent/upcoming appearances in Kokako, The Impossible Archetype, and Taj Mahal Review, among others.
Gary Budgen is a London based writer. He has had fiction published in magazines such as Interzone, BFS Horizons and Sein und Werden; and anthologies including BFS award short-listed Humanagerie from Eibonvale Press. He is the author of the collection Chrysalis, the novel Ultraclocks, and the novellas Fragments of Onyx and The Burning of Mathias Jase. For more information visit https://garybudgen.wordpress.com/
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...
B Drew Collier's secret to coping with life's daily thousand cuts is knowing that our shared genetics and the fact that we'll all become, in some way or another, food for a future generation, makes it easy to imagine we're all just slight variations of the same person and really should treat our self with more respect.
Juliet Cook doesn't fit inside an Easy-Bake Oven and rarely cooks. She reads, writes, and submits poetry and her poetry has appeared in many print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks most recently including "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, 2023), "Contorted Doom Conveyor" (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023), with another new chapbook, "REVOLTING", forthcoming from Cul-de-sac of Blood in fall 2024.
Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast. A recent book is 'Body Politic: Nature poems for nature in crisis' (The Cuba Press, Wellington).
Judy DeCroce is an internationally published poet, and flash fiction writer. She has published with her husband, Antoni Ooto, The Posture of Trees, a book of poetry and A Collection of Incidents, prose/flash fiction. Judy is also a professional storyteller and teacher of that genre, as well as offering courses in flash fiction. She lives in upstate New York.
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.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire (USA). He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Cloud Mountain (2024). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.
Stephen Fried teaches English composition at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York and works with the University's Open Educational Resources Initiative to develop creative writing exercises for online and in-person classes, most recently Word Into Idea, a solo and group poetry game.
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, The Room 3, surrealist magazine 2024, sulfur surrealist jungle, Black Scat Review 24, Dreams & Nightmares 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."
John Greiner is a writer and visual artist living in New York City. He was educated at the New School for Social Research. Greiner's work has appeared in Antiphon, Sand Journal, Otoliths, Survision, Sein und Werden, Empty Mirror, Sensitive Skin, Unarmed, Street Value and numerous other magazines. His books of poetry include In An Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky (Arteidolia Press), Circuit (Whiskey City Press), Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press) and Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press).
Venya Gushchin is a poet, literary translator, and PhD Candidate at Columbia University, writing a dissertation on the late styles of Russian modernist poets. His translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Elizaveta Mnatasakanova have received the Columbia University Slavic Department Pushkin Prize. Blockade Swallow, selected poems by Olga Berggolts translated by Gushchin, appeared from Smokestack Books in 2022. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus; Action, Spectacle; Midway Journal, and elsewhere.
Mark Hastings lives in North Manchester, by day he is a mild-mannered librarian. By night he is a mild-mannered librarian.
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.
Paul Hostovsky makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter and braille instructor. His poems and essays appear widely. His latest book is Pitching for the Apostates (Kelsay, 2023).
Mike Huett is a UK writer living in Penacova, Portugal. His work often explores issues related to death, disease and trauma, but sometimes he writes about miserable stuff as well. He is happy to try and answer any queries via e mail at mikehuett@hotmail.com
N A Jackson has carved an unstable niche in Norfolk, England, where he writes fiction and meditates on the futility of existence and the joy of life. His previous literary misdemeanours include two collections of short fiction: "visits to the flea circus" and "the secret life of the panda". He's working on something new but doubts it will ever see light.
Károly Lencsés 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.
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.
Catfish McDaris born in Albuquerque, NM on July 29th, 1953 still alive near Milwaukee, Wi.
Jochen Mühlenbrink (DE, 1980) studied painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2001-2006). Known for his Trompe-l'œil technique, Mühlenbrink leans on theories to investigate reality within the aesthetic principles of modernist painting and classical art. Since 2005 his work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions in Germany, across Europe, in Asia and North America.
Rich Murphy's latest collections Susan Constant by Cyberwit and Inside Stories by Resource Publications were published in 2024, following First Aid and Footholds (2023). His poetry won The Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice for Americana (2013), The Left Behind (2021), and Gival Press Poetry Prize for Voyeur (2008).
A.N. Myers is a London UK based writer of speculative fiction. His recent short fiction credits include The Best of British Science Fiction, BFS Horizons, Sein Und Werden, Confetti magazine by Westchester Writers, and the recent anthology from Jayhenge Publishing, 'Sunshine Superhighway'. His flash fiction has appeared in Flash Frontier, Bag of Bones, and 101 Fiction. His YA science fiction novel, 'The Ides' is available from Amazon. He is a member of Clockhouse London Writers.
Antoni Ooto is a poet whose work is widely published globally in print, online, and in anthologies. He has co-authored two books, The Posture of Trees and A Collection of Incidents with his wife Judy DeCroce.Antoni is also a well-known abstract expressionist artist living in rural upstate New York.
antoni@ooto.org
Mitchell Pluto lives in western Montana with his wife, jewelry designer Julie Burns. Pluto finds pleasure in painting, collage, and writing. He has had artwork exhibited in Chile, Egypt, Portugal, US and Canada. Pluto is a writer for Shunga erotic art magazine, where he examines the provocative world of erotic art. He has self-published two books, both of which examine dark surrealism and existentialism. From The Eclipse explores speculative science fiction, while Cadaver Dogs takes readers on a mystery ride.
Ken Poyner's nine collections of brief fictions and poetry can be found at Amazon and most online booksellers. He spent 33 years in information system management, is married to a world record holding female power lifter, and has a family of several rescue cats and betta fish. Individual works have appeared in "Café Irreal", "Analog", "Danse Macabre", "The Cincinnati Review", and several hundred other places.
Eric Suhem can be found in the orange hallway
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. His haunted house novel Maggie's House is available from the Gravestone Press imprint of Fiction4All.
Kimberly White's latest novel is Waterfall Girls (CLASH Books, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Cream City Review, The CRANK, and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of four chapbooks, Penelope, A Reachable Tibet, The Daily Diaries of Death, and Letters to a Dead Man; as well as two other novels: Bandy's Restola, and Hotel Tarantula. She also dabbles in other arts, and spends most of her time in Northern California with her pens and papers and massive collection of Tarot decks.
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind's Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2024 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2024 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in the book Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).
Kirby Michael Wright was born and raised in Hawaii. He lives in San Diego with his wife Darcy and a cat named Gatsby.
Claudia Wysocky is a Polish poet based in New York, celebrated for her evocative creations that capture life's essence through emotional depth and rich imagery. With over five years of experience in fiction writing, her poetry has appeared in various local newspapers and literary magazines. Wysocky believes in the transformative power of art and views writing as a vital force that inspires her daily. Actively engaging with her community on social media, she fosters a shared passion for poetry and creative expression.
