Issue 35

Ping Yi writes poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction. After a three-decade detour in public service, he resumed his lifelong interest in speculative, humour and travel writing. His work has appeared in Impspired , Slackjaw , Little Old Lady Comedy , Defenestration , No Crime in Rhymin’ , The Haven , Orbis (nominated for Forward Prize), Litro , The Stony Thursday Book and La Piccioletta Barca, and is forthcoming in The High Window . Ping Yi lives in Singapore with hi

Jegadeesh Kumar writes, both in English and Tamil, short stories, poems, and Eastern Philosophy. His work has appeared in The Prometheus Dreaming, Indian Periodical, Spillwords Press, The Defunct Magazine, Piker Press, Impspired magazine, Consequence and elsewhere. A Fine Thread and Other Stories - a short story collection in his translation has been published by Ratna Books India in January 2024. Jegadeesh Kumar received the prestigious Translation Prize from the Canada Tami

Joseph Sykes is a writer from Huddersfield and based in Manchester, UK. His short story “Lost in Zektoria” was longlisted in The Phare’s WriteWords competition in 2021, and he has had short stories published in Templeman Review and Leon Literary Review. He has also authored language-learning works for the German publishing house Circon Verlag. He is currently working on his first novel, set in 1989 East Germany and 2010 Yorkshire. He is a former translator and subtitler and i

Gabriella Balcom lives in Texas, works full-time in the mental health field, and has loved reading and writing her entire life. She writes fantasy, horror, sci-fi, romance, literary fiction, and more, and loves great stories, forests, mountains, and back roads that lead who knows where. She has a weakness for lasagna, garlic bread, tacos, cheese, and chocolate, but not necessarily in that order, and adores Chinese, Italian, and Mexican food. Gabriella has had 653 works accept

Ben Macnair is an award-winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter @benmacnair.

LB Sedlacek is the author of several poetry collections including "Unresponsive Sky" (Purple Unicorn Press), "Words and Bones" (Finishing Line Press), "The Architect of French Fries" (Presa Press), "Swim" (Alien Buddha Press), and "The Poet Next Door" (Cyberwit Press).  She has been nominated two times for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry and has also been nominated for Best of the Net in poetry. Her short stories books include “The Jackalope Committee and Other Tales” and “Four

Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Impspired, Typishly Literary Magazine, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and elsewhere. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.  The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, New York.

Sara Stegen is a Dutch poet, equity advocate, and non-fiction author who writes about family, neurodivergence, and the landscape she lives in. Sara is a mother of two neurodivergent sons: a black belt lockpicker and a Dutch bike trial athlete. She is a member of the Poetry Society Germany Stanza group. Sara has an MA in English from the University of Groningen and is a 2022 Rural Writing Institute alumnus, a retreat run by best-selling authors Kathryn Aalto (Writing Wild, The

Poussin’s poetry and photography work has appeared in hundreds of magazines worldwide. His collections In Absentia , If I Had a Gun , Half Past Life, The Temptation of Silence, and Forgive Me for Dreaming , were published in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 by Silver Bow Publishing. Reading in the Cold Darkness like never before a shroud envelopes the saunterer with layers of artificial warmth. The trail is long under the trees life goes on in the shadows furry friends fight

Polly Richardson is living and writing on the Dingle peninsula Kerry Ireland, hosting private mediative writing workshops and poetry walking tours. Her work has been published in various e-zines, lit mags and anthologies both nationally and internationally including her contributors page with Dallas based Mad Swirl, Live Encounters archives and Imspired lit mag. She curates and hosts her collective collaborating creative group Worldly Worders each week with a mighty bunch of