John Thomas Allen is a 37 year old poet More recently he's appeared in Sulfur "surrealist" jungle, "Veil: A Journal of Darker Musings", and some more of his work is upcoming in SurRvision. He loves the free image and poets who still produce non sequiturs every now and then. Also, he finds open criticism of Donald Trump to be a refreshing thing. He would like to thank Peter O Leary, Andrew Joron, and just anyone who gets further away from postmodernism.
Crystal Anderson is a poet and nonfiction writer currently living in England. She is originally from Texas, USA. In 2016, she obtained a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester. Her poems have previously been published in Abridged, Lighthouse and Another North. She is currently a guest essayist Happy London Press where she is writing a series of articles on science fiction author Octavia Butler. Crystal is also the author of the blog Poet:Parent.
Allen Ashley is an award-winning writer and editor based in London, UK. He is President Elect of the British Fantasy Society and the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy group Clockhouse London Writers. His latest book is the poetry collection "Echoes from an Expired Earth" (Demain Publishing, UK, 2020) - available as an ebook on Amazon.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Stone of Madness, Thirteen Myna Birds, and Caustic Frolic, among others.
Julie Blankenship is an artist from San Francisco. Publications include Blood Bath, London Reader, Punt Volat; and cover of Farah Rose Smith's Of One Free Will. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Amsterdam Center for Photography; American Institute of Architects; and CHEAP Festival, Bologna. She taught at the SF Art Institute; curated exhibitions; and opened Visual Aid Gallery, while leading the arts/social justice organization serving artists with AIDS. She recently appeared in the film "Mrs. Vera's Daybook."
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
Alexis Child hails from Toronto, where horror in its purest form is a calculated crime against both the aspirations of the soul and affections of the heart. Her fiction and poetry have been featured in numerous online and print publications. Her first collection of poetry, a dark and sinister slice of the macabre gothic, horror, surreal, and supernatural-DEVIL IN THE CLOCK-is available on Amazon.
Visit her website: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/
Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.child.7587
B. Drew Collier isn't bothered by the meat so much as the hair
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.
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.
Steve Gilmartin is the author of a chapbook of mistranslations of Emily Dickinson from the German, Comes Up to Face the Skies (LRL Textile Series, 2013). His fiction and poetry have appeared in many print and online journals, including and/or, Big Bridge, BlazeVOX, Café Irreal, Concis, Eleven Eleven, Mad Hatters' Review, Otoliths, Rivet, and Unlikely Stories.
M Glaser is a writer from London.
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."
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).
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.
David Henson and his wife have lived in Belgium and Hong Kong over the years and now reside in Peoria, Illinois. His work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net and has appeared in numerous print and online journals. His website is http://writings217.wordpress.com/ His Twitter is @annalou8.
Andrew Hook is a UK writer who has been published in a variety of genres over many years. His most recent publications are the fictionalised biography of The Mysterious N Senada, titled O For Obscurity, Or, The Story Of N, written in collaboration with the San Francisco avant-garde art collective known as The Residents (Psychofon Records), and his seventh collection of short stories, Frequencies of Existence, (NewCon Press).
Rhys Hughes has published fifty books, nine hundred short stories and innumerable articles and plays in the past 30 years. He graduated as an engineer but currently works as a tutor of mathematics. His most recent book is CORYBANTIC FULGOURS, a suite of illustrated poems.
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.
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.
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme. He took early retirement in 2020 to write full time. He is the author of twenty books, which cover fiction, poetry, and scholarship. His work has won a number of prizes including the Ottakars/Faber and Faber Poetry Competition, The John Clare Poetry Prize, and the Sentinel Poetry Prize. His most recent book is Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Comic (2020).
Ralph Robert Moore's fiction has appeared in a wide variety of genre and literary magazines and anthologies, including Black Static, Midnight Street, Cemetery Dance, Shadows & Tall Trees, Nightscript, and others. He's been nominated twice for Best Story of the Year by The British Fantasy Society, once in 2013, and again in 2016. His column, 'Into the Woods', appears in each issue of Black Static. His most recent collection is Our Elaborate Plans.
Stephen Oram is a founding curator for near-future fiction at Virtual Futures, a writer for SciFutures and a member of the Clockhouse London Writers. The Morning Star described Eating Robots as a one of 2017's top radical works of fiction. The Financial Times suggested Biohacked & Begging, "should set the rest of us thinking about science and its possible repercussions."
James G Piatt, a Best of Web nominee and three time Pushcart nominee, had had four collections of poetry; "Solace Between the Lines," "Light," "Ancient Rhythms," and "The Silent Pond," as well 1450 poems, five novels, and 35 short stories published worldwide. He earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from BYU
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.
Michael Prihoda lives in central Indiana. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine and small press. His work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology and he is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Out of the Sky (Hester Glock, 2019).
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.)
Benjamin Robinson is a writer and visual artist living in Dublin. Recent publications: Maintenant 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art, Requited Journal, The Elephants.
Robert Ronnow's most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005 (Barnwood Press, 2007) and Communicating the Bird (Broken Publications, 2012). Visit his web site at www.ronnowpoetry.com.
Heather Sager lives in Illinois. Her recent poetry appears in Amethyst Review, Visitant, Door Is A Jar, dreams walking, Harbinger Asylum, The Wild Word, Backchannels, Sandpiper, Writing in a Woman's Voice, Ariel Chart, and elsewhere. Heather also writes fiction, most recently for The Fabulist Words & Art and Slippage Lit.
Eric Suhem can be found in the orange hallway (www.orangehallway.com)
Douglas Thompson's fiction and poetry has appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. He has published 14 novels and collections since 2009, in Britain, Europe and America. His 14th book, 'Barking Circus' is out this year from Zagava.
Kirby Michael Wright's latest book is The Queen Of Moloka'i, a true story adventure based on the life and times of his Hawaiian grandma.
Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina
