Courtney Glover is originally from Fulton County, Georgia. She is a writer, published author, editor and amateur photographer. She is the editor of all three of the Sacred Feminine anthologies, as well as the various Open Skies Poetry anthologies including Somewhere Down The Yellow Brick Road. She’s also the editor of Pearls of Poetry and Part of My Life: A Collection of Poetry. Her work has been included in the following anthologies: The Sacred Feminine volumes 1-3, Shards,

Joe Couture is a writer living in rural Nova Scotia. He writes for his health. If you want to connect with him, try here: @ rjcouture.bsky.social Home for the Holidays Her tiny hometown keeps getting smaller Blame rural brain-drain beer, God, outmigration. Leaving folks who know lingering with answers to Life’s greatest questions. So, you can imagine their confusion— A recurring occurrence To the one question that lingers in the absence of her visits: Why won’t she come home

Leonie Jarrett lives in Melbourne, Australia with her Husband of more than 3 decades, 2 of her 4 adult children and her 2 Golden Retrievers. She is also a very proud Grandma to baby Vienna! Leonie has just published her first book, a child’s first reader called “When Harry Got Lost.” My Odyssey “How do I get on that?” “Don’t worry, be happy,” says the guide. “Just relax, keep your arms straight and lean back.” I am petrified. My palms are sweating so much that I fear they wil

I was born in Clones Co. Monaghan in 1962. At 19 years old I joined DUNNES STORES as a management trainee in Dublin and five years later I ended up in Belfast as a Branch Manager where I met my wife Carole Robinson from Portrush, where we now live. I worked in most areas east of Northern Ireland  and as an adult student I achieved an MSc in management change communication from Queen’s University in 2001. I have ran 10 marathons and I have a passion for Darts. I have three gro

Connie Johnson is a California-based writer with four Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry. Her publishing credits include The Iconoclast, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, San Pedro River Review, Cholla Needles, The Muleskinner Journal, Sophon Lit, Voicemail Poems, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Mudfish, Shot Glass Journal, Gargoyle, Oddball Magazine, Glint Literary Journal, Exit 13, Sport Literate, and Sheila-Na-Gig.  She has authored two poetry collections:  Everything i

Elaine is a native of Athens, Georgia, USA, and is a graduate of The University of Georgia with an Honors degree in Journalism. She served as Project Manager on the debut edition of Literary Imagination, The Review of Literary Scholars and Critics. In addition to short stories, Elaine writes poetry and is currently finishing her first novel. Pure Hearts She pulled her black Volvo SUV into the angled space outside the quant French American restaurant in her small suburban town

Haz Joyce is an Englishman living in rural County Down. His writing explores our fragility and fallibility, but also how we manage to muddle through life all the same. Haz is a musician and folk singer, and is drawn to songs with similar themes. Haz’s studies have taken him to Cambridge and the South-West, whilst his work in the legal profession has taken him to London, Belfast and Dublin.  Note This is how my mum tells it. I don’t think it’s how it happened. You’ll never gue

Mark Tarren is a poet who lives on remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. His work has been published in literary journals and magazines in New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, the UK, Indonesia and Europe. Referred to in Italy as “la voce dei Mari del Sud” (“The voice of the South Seas”), Mark’s poems have been translated into Italian and published in Critica Impura, L’Atrove, Pangea and Puntoacapo. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is currently a member of the judging panel for

Tony Dawson, an Englishman living in Seville since 1989, took up writing during the pandemic. He has published widely in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. He has also published three small collections of poetry: Afterthoughts ISBN 9788119 228348, reviewed: https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/06/london-grip-poetry-review-tony-dawson/ Musings reviewed: https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/12/london-grip-poetry-review-tony-dawson-2/  and Reflections in a Dirty Mirror reviewed: https://lo

While the World Burns I apply face cream as the world splits open. Soft circles under my eyes while a siren slices through a continent. The jar clicks shut as a mother searches for her son beneath rubble and skyfall. I whisper goodnight while someone wails into silence. In my kitchen, the kettle clicks off. Somewhere else, a breath gives up mid-prayer. What do we do with all this ordinary? The cat still needs feeding, the bins still go out on Fridays, and beauty still climbs

Philip Dunkerley is an active member of open mic communities in the South Lincolnshire area. The former representative of the Stamford Stanza, he runs a U3A Poetry Group in Bourne, where he lives. His poems have been published in impspired , Poetry Salzburg Review , Acumen , Magma , Orbis  and elsewhere, and his translations of poems from Portuguese and Spanish, and poetry reviews, have appeared in Dream Catcher , Acumen  and Orbis . Improbably, he recently became the ‘Good S

Jacob Thomas Roper is a new filmmaker and writer from the Norfolk broads. He graduated from Norwich University of the arts with a degree in film and has since continued making films and writing as a passion and for the love of art and its importance in life.  Mud Island East of the river Yare near a secluded body of water on the Norfolk broads under monochrome skies, the third-generation boat of the Ashworth family slept on the water while its sole helmsman Victor Ashworth wr

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, ditch digger and salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction, essays and plays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. His traditionally published books include 45 poetry collections, 18 novels, 4 shor

JoyAnne O'Donnell is a poet currently writing from Maryland. JoyAnne O'Donnell is an authorette of five poetry books on Goodreads and Amazon. Three chapbooks of poetry published to, one in Scars Publications titled "Sun and Rain, two chapbooks of poetry from The Origami Poets. JoyAnne's latest poems are in Pentacat Press and Ultramarine Review,The Galway Review. Twice Pushcart nominated poet. Dragonfly I often wonder And ponder, Do dragonflies fly From dragon blood, They stit

Nolo Segundo is the pen name of retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia] L.j. Carber, who became a published poet in his 8 th  decade in over 260 literary journals in 21 countries on 4 continents, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for Best of the Net. Cyberwit.net has published 3 collections in softcover: THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE; OF ETHER AND EARTH; and SOUL SONGS. These titles reflect an awareness gained over 50 years ago when he had an NDE whilst

Amir Zadneamat is an essayist and film critic from Iran. His work explores the intersections of cinema, philosophy, and the emotional textures of modern life, often moving between analytical reflection and a more lyrical mode of expression. He holds an M.A. in Persian Literature from the University of Guilan, and his interests include narrative form, cultural criticism, and the philosophical dimensions of storytelling. The Final Miracle: The Secular Sainthood of Fellini’s Cab

I'm Dylan Ng, a final year university student. Contact me at ndylang@gmail.com A Morning Like Any Other I woke up that morning, crying. Not tears, mind you. Never tears. But my lungs were heaving, my eyes were stingray wet, and I was full of snot, nose to throat to the churning in my stomach. What had changed, to put me in such a state? It was hard to say. The morning was like any other. The view outside my window was still that of the leisure centre car park, with the same

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, River And South and Flights. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Levitate, Writer’s Block and Trampoline. FROM THE HEIGHTS OF POETRY TO THE LOWS OF REALITY From a mountaintop,  I bring you flowers, buffeted and swirled, fueled with the passion  of the heights, so put them in water, here in the low country, cool the sweat

Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and flash fiction in many publications around the world. He yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight; this too may pass, yet. His novel “Crazy Like Emotion”, collection of shorter fiction “Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves”, full-length poetry collections “The Dark Side Of British Poetry”, "It Is Big & It Is Clever", “South Wales Outlaw” and “Unci

Dan Holt is a singer/songwriter/recording artist, poet and fiction author from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He has produced 11 albums of original music along with various singles and eps. His poetry has been published widely in the online and print small press and he is the author of "Blank Canvas On Bloody Pavement" and "Motel" (both from Alien Buddha press and available on Amazon). He was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2021. Death Wish He once rode a motorc

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