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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

(First Time Published Slot) Having worked in local Government in Northern Ireland for forty-three years within the Environmental Health Profession, during my last 10 years in the profession, I served Southern Group Environmental Health Committee as its Group Chief Environmental Health officer. During my career I was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and more recently served as its President in Northern Ireland. One of the highlights of my career

Afra Ahmad is a writer, poet, artist, and calligrapher. Based in Taiwan, she holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. She writes about everything under the sun, from dark societal issues to problems faced by teenagers, imparting chunks of wisdom through her poems, stories, and write-ups. Her works have appeared in various magazines, including Iman Collective, MYM, Rather Quiet, Ice Floe Press, Olney Magazine, The Malu Zine, The Sophon Lit, Blue Minaret, Melbourne Cult

Anthony loves the way words sound through silence. He is inspired by the nature of the world and the expression of art as humanity decrees to discover itself. He writes to express the overwhelming beauty of the natural world with the inspiring admiration of artistic creativity. He has recently been published in, Jerry Jazz Musician, Literary Yard, Shot Glass Journal , and Dear Booze, amongst others. Overcast The weather forecast headlines rain Though it’s only rain at nine Th

RammelkampJC@Gmail.com Doomed Diva Théophile Gautier coined the phrase. The poet called Giulia Grisi, the Italian opera singer, circa 1830s, “goddess” to describe her sublime talent, her soaring arias for Bellini and Rossini. Since then the word’s been used to label any fierce, passionate performer – Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Judy Garland, Diana Ross, Beyoncé, and more: Martha Stewart, Serena Williams. But Grisi? Killed in a train accident on a trip to Saint Petersburg jus

Gareth Nurden was born in Newport, Wales in 1988 and has been writing poetry since his teenage years and has shifted his focus over recent years on the writing of Japanese micro-poetry in the styles of haiku, senryu and haiga. Gareth has had large success with having over one-hundred-seventy pieces published so far in seventeen countries worldwide in journals, websites, e-zines and blogs such as Modern Haiku, Presence, Hedgerow, Under The Basho, Wales Haiku Journal, Tsuri-Dor

Robert Paul Allen lives on a lake near the coast of Maine. He is surrounded daily by the state’s rugged beauty. He has been a serious poet for the past ten years and has published over 50 poems. His second chapbook, Full Circle , was published in June 2025. I Am Green You encounter me everywhere: a lush pasture’s verdant beauty, the lustre of paper money, a treehugger’s passion. The color you turn before you empty the whiskey sours from your stomach into the porcelain throne.

Claude Chabot has published over 20 short stories and has produced four radio plays based on his own stories. He addresses the conflicts and changes his characters experience while traveling, and also writes ghost stories, mysteries and myriad others. He has written one novel and is at work on two others. Hidden Crickets Tom sleeps with nothing but his blond hair curled around his shoulders in the sultry springs and humid summers of New York. Now during the damp winter he ha

Hello, I am an aspiring poet from North West England. I have won two Koestler Arts awards, including a platinum award (which was won for the poem “Birds Revisited”) and have been published in an anthology from 2023. I have been writing poetry since I was 17, it is a great passion of mine and I hope you will accept these poems for publication. Thank you for this opportunity. Afternoons I’ve always hated afternoons That smug grimace smudged across the clouds Relentless limbo be

Zara Lenon is an artist, poet and writer who is based in London. Her work has appeared in magazines and publications such as Anima Loci or The Anansi Archive, in relation to their sixth anthology, The Nine Lives of Billy Nightjar. She has a sharp eye for detail and a weird way with words; the aim being to create vivid worlds for the reader to lose themselves in, and craft colourful, memorable characters to populate them.  Positive Pineapple Smiling nonchalantly on the counter

S.P. Hannaway is drawn to the weird and wonderful. His stories have cropped up in journals such as  Lighthouse, Neon,   The Interpreter’s House,   Ambit,   Stand,  and  The Pomegranate London . His work was selected for the Bristol Story Prize ’21 anthology and the Crossing the Tees Story Prize ’24 anthology. He lives in London. Come the Fox His face, McBane can’t find his face. It isn’t there. Where is his scowl? Buff it! Work it! In his smalls, he trips round the mattre