Allen Ashley's story "Inverlair" featured in "Sein und Werden - Of Human Bondage". Other recent publications include stories, poetry and articles in print and online in "Focus", "BFS Horizons", "Dyst", "The Poet", "Time We Left" (Edited by Terry Grimwood, The Exaggerated Press) and "Terror Tales of the Home Counties" (Edited by Paul Finch, Telos Books). Allen is the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy writing group Clockhouse London Writers and is also President of the British Fantasy Society.
W. C. Bamberger is a writer, editor and translator. Recent translations include works by Paul Scheerbart and Mynona, and Oscar A. H. Schmitz's Hashish (Wakefield Press). Forthcoming translations include Bess Brenck-Kalischer's The Mill. An e-book on the troubled history of Michael Ayrton's large bronze and mirror sculpture Reflective Head will be available this summer. He lives in Michigan, USA.
Julie Blankenship's publications include Blood Bath, London Reader, and the cover of Egaeus Press' Of One Pure Will. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute; and founded/curated Visual Aid Gallery, while leading the arts/social justice organization serving artists with AIDS. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Amsterdam Center for Photography; American Institute of Architects; CHEAP Festival, Bologna; and was recently chosen for Silent Fire, a collaboration between Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Nasty Women Connecticut.
Rhiannon-Skye Boden is a professional freelance writer, poet and spoken word artist, living and working in Leeds. Her work deals with themes of queerness, nostalgia and mental illness, often through the lenses of nature and the monstrous. Her work has been featured in various Yorkshire publications, such as Nice People Magazine, and her poem Harvest Time was most recently included in Green Teeth Press' anthology Unhomely.
Dmitry Borshch was born in Dnipropetrovsk, studied in Moscow, today lives in New York, Dnipro, and Ramat Gan. His works have been exhibited at Russian American Cultural Center (New York), HIAS (New York), Consulate General of the Russian Federation (New York), Lydia Schukina Institute of Psychology (Moscow), Contemporary Art Centers (Voronezh, Almaty), Museums of Contemporary Art (Poltava, Lviv). More exhibitions can be found in the Brooklyn Arts Council registry: http://archive.is/ClMDa
Gary Budgen lives and works in London. His previous work has appeared in various magazines including Interzone, BFS Horizons, Morpheus Tales, Sein und Werden and anthologies from Eibonvale, Boo Books and Horrified Press. A collection of stories, Chrysalis, is published by Horrified Press and the chapbook Fragments of Onyx by Salo Press. A full publishing history can be found at garybudgen.wordpress.com
Cecelia Chapman, ceceliachapman.com
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. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
Holly Day has been a writing instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hubbub, Grain, and Third Wednesday, and her newest books are The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Literary Press), Book of Beasts (Weasel Press), Bound in Ice (Shanti Arts), and Music Composition for Dummies (Wiley).
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities and retired after three decades at Keene State College. His most recent book of poetry is Stirring the Soup (2020). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many journals.
Matt Ellis is a war veteran and global security expert. He is a freelance critic and interviewer for Publishers Weekly and contributor at The Coachella Review. His short fiction has been published at Thought Catalog. He studies fiction at UC Riverside Palm Desert's Low-Residency MFA program for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. Creative portfolio - www.letswriting.com
Aaron W. Fentress is a Vermont College of Fine Arts graduate and, yes, he misses those brutal winter nights where the air froze, ever so briefly, in his lungs. Besides writing and reading, he has a deep love for comic books and cartoons and thinks he should maybe find some outdoor hobbies. He currently resides in Las Vegas.
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, Seinundwerden, 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.
David Charles Gill has performed at numerous venues including Dragon Hall and Oxford Street Waterstone's. Pieces have appeared in various publications including Haverthorn Magazine and Holland Park Press. His first play Nineteen Short Scenes for Sons, directed by Pema Clark, was produced in the UEA Drama Centre, Norwich.
John Greiner is a writer and visual artist living in Queens, NY. His work has appeared in Antiphon, Sein und Werden, Sensitive Skin, Unarmed, Street Value, Horla and numerous other magazines. His books include Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press), Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press) and Shooting Side Glances (ISMs Press). His collaborative work with photographer Carrie Crow has appeared at the Tate Liverpool, the Queens Museum and in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg.
Nick Hadfield spent his childhood in rural Derbyshire. At seventeen he took a job in London with a publishing company and also worked as a reportage photographer. Some years later he relocated to Japan. During this period, at the age of 23 his first short story was published. Ten years later he returned to the UK, living once more in West London before moving to Andalucia for a decade. He is now based on the island of Luzon, Philippines.
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 Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales (BlazeVOX, 2019) and Amorphous Organics (SurVision, 2019).
Paul Hostovsky's poems appear and disappear simultaneously: Voila! He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances, which is the working title of his new collection, which is looking for a publisher and for itself. He is the recipient of such rebukes as You Never Want To DO Anything and All You Care About Are Your Stupid Clever Poems.
NA Jackson is guilty of committing two collections of short fiction: "Visits to the Flea Circus", 2005 and "The Secret Life of the Panda", 2012. He lives is a secret location in the east of England where he is currently meditating a third criminal offence and possibly seeking a partner in crime.
Jessie Janeshek's full-length collections are MADCAP (Stalking Horse Press, 2019), The Shaky Phase (Stalking Horse Press, 2017), and Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). Her chapbooks include Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish (Grey Book Press, 2016), Rah-Rah Nostalgia (dancing girl press, 2016), Supernoir (Grey Book Press, 2017), Auto-Harlow (Shirt Pocket Press, 2018), and Channel U (Grey Book Press, 2020).
Mark Kirkbride is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan's Fan Club. Game Changers of the Apocalypse was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019. His short stories can be found in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Poetry credits include the Big Issue, Morning Star, Daily Mirror and HWA chapbooks.
Pam Knapp lives in the UK's rolling countryside of the Sussex Downs, close enough to London to feel the heat, far enough away to avoid being burnt. Optimism is her greatest asset. Her recent writing can be found in Dreich Magazine, Green Ink Poetry, Owl Hollow Press and In Parentheses Literary Magazine.
Brian Jerrold Koester is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net Anthology nominee. His collection is titled What Keeps Me Awake (Silver Bow Publishing) and his chapbook is called Bossa Nova (River Glass Books). His work has appeared in Agni, Streetlight Magazine, Delmarva Review, Right Hand Pointing, Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts and has been a freelance cellist.
With a background in archaeology, N.K. Leullier's writing is grounded in experience and history, but also drawn from unfettered imagination and the weight of emotion. She has published most recently at Circlet Press, Literary Orphans, and Beat to a Pulp and is a reader for Strange Horizons. She lives in Boston and Quebec City. You can find her here: https://www.facebook.com/NatashaLeullier and here https://www.instagram.com/natasha_leullier/
Ellaraine Lockie's recent poems have won the Poetry Super Highway Contest, the Nebraska Writers Guild's Women of the Fur Trade Poetry Contest and New Millennium's Monthly Musepaper Poetry Contest. Her co-authored collection, TRIO, has been released from Poetrylandia. Ellaraine's poems have found their ways onto broadsides, buses, rented cars, bicycles, cabins, greeting cards, key chains, bookmarks, mugs, coffee sack labels, church bulletins, radio shows and cable TV. She also serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, LILIPOH.
Catfish McDaris has been in many magazines, books, and broadsides. He's a 30 year small press and 3 year Army artillery veteran, from Albuquerque and Milwaukee. Currently Cat's selling wigs in a dangerous neighborhood in Milwaukee.
Kate Meyer-Currey was born in 1969 and moved to Devon in 1973. A varied career in frontline settings has fuelled her interest in gritty urbanism, contrasted with a rural upbringing. Her ADHD also instils a sense of 'other' in her life and writing, whether folklore feminism or urban myth. Her chapbook County Lines (Dancing Girl Press) (forthcoming 2021) juxtaposes these realities. Other poems include Family Landscape: Colchester 1957 (Not Very Quiet, September 2020), Invocation (Whimsical Poet, forthcoming) and Cailleach (SageWoman, forthcoming).
Rich Murphy's latest poetry collection is Practitioner Joy (2020 Wipf and Stock). His collection of essays is Prophetic Voice Now (2020). His poetry collections have won two national book awards: Gival Press Poetry Prize 2008 for Voyeur and in 2013 the Press Americana Poetry Prize for Americana. Other collections included Asylum Seeker (2018); Body Politic (2017); Americana (2013); The Apple in the Monkey Tree (2007); Great Grandfather; Family Secret; Hunting and Pecking; Phoems for Mobile Vices; and Paideia.
Andrew Nightingale (@andrenothingale) is currently working on a group of poems about the Anatomical Venus. Other recent poetry has appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, Street Cake and Neon. He lives in St Leonards-on-Sea and works for an animal welfare charity.
Toti O'Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. Born in Rome, living in Los Angeles, she is an artist, musician and dancer. She is also the author of Other Maidens (BlazeVOX, 2020), and An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise Press, 2020).
Antoni Ooto is an abstract expressionist painter and poet living and working in Western New York. He began his career as a stonemason. During that time he began exploring Realism and Impressionism, first in a series of still lives and landscapes, followed by life model studies and experiments in collage and digital media. Along the way, he began to abandon elements of his early work, moving entirely into abstract and sculptural works that placed an emphasis on the fundamentals - color, composition and form.
Ken Poyner's collections of brief fictions, "Constant Animals", "Avenging Cartography", "Revenge of the House Hurlers", and "Engaging Cattle"; and poetry, "The Book of Robot" and "Victims of a Failed Civics", can be located widely at 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 cats and betta fish. Individual works have appeared in "Café Irreal", "Analog", "The Cincinnati Review", and myriad other places.
I.B. Rad is an independent New York City poet. Much of his more recent work is available on the internet. His latest book, "Dancing at the Abyss," was published by Scars Publications and is available from Amazon or it can be downloaded free of charge from the Scars' site. He believes a wide range of subjects can be accommodated by poetry, from potty training to love to war and peace and accordingly, stylistically, his philosophy is "Let the punishment fit the crime…" or, to put the matter another way, "Form follows function" (but that still leaves "more than one way to skin a cat" - a rather gruesome thought.)
George Rawlins has recent publications in New Critique, New World Writing, and Nine Mile. His forthcoming poetry collection, Cheapside Afterlife (April 2021, Longleaf Press), reimagines in 57 sonnets the life of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton.
Rachel Rodman is the author of the food-themed collection Exotic Meats and Inedible Objects (Madness Heart Press). Her work has appeared in Fireside, Analog, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and elsewhere.
David Stevens lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and those of his children who have not yet worked out the locks. His fiction has appeared amongst other places in Crossed Genres, Not One of Us, The Literary Hatchet, Vastarien, and Cafe Irreal.
Canadian writer 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 21 books, including An Unauthorized Biography of Being (Stories/Ekstasis Editions/2016), Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be (Poetry/Guernica Editions/2017), A Visit to the Kafka Café (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2018), Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles (Stories/Ekstasis Editions/2019), and Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2020).
Eric Suhem can be found in the orange hallway (www.orangehallway.com)
