Marianne Szlyk’s books include Why We Never Visited the Elms (Poetry Pacific, 2022), On the Other Side of the Window (Pski’s Porch, 2019), and I Dream of Empathy (Flutter Press, 2015). Her poems have appeared in MacQueen’s Quinterly, Verse-Virtual, Red Eft Review, One Art, Scurfpea Press’ anthologies Green Elephant and Dream, and Pure Slush’s anthology Loss, among others. Her stories have appeared in Impspired, Piker's Press, and Mad Swirl. She hopes that this summer will b

Teri Donaghy is an academic and creative writer, living in North County Dublin. Her academic publications focus on her scientific research in the areas of atmospheric and environmental chemistry and education in Science. She is also a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre. A creative project – Daffodils, A Short Play, was published online during the pandemic in 2020. In 2024 she expanded her creative portfolio by publishing a short fiction piece titled The Meeting i

Tanya Mc Ginn is finally utilising her BA in English as she enters the world of writing. A bursary recipient of the John Hewitt Summer School in 2025, and selected for mentorship by the Irish Writer’s Centre in 2026, she is currently editing her first novel with award-winning author and editor, Grainne O’Brien. Tamely feminist, she hopes to raise her three kids as such, with the help of her sidekick/husband John. In performing at Flash Fiction Portrush, she came out publicly

Ian is a writer living on the north coast of Northern Ireland. He has fiction and poetry published in two Anthologies Sea Spray and Woodland Glades (2024), and Caught Alight (2025), Impspired. Dippers Why don’t you jump off the end of the pier, mate? Cyril’s client said, arguing about his comedy material, and Cyril’s aversion to criticism. You couldn’t carry a joke if it were a feather, and you were on the moon, Cyril countered. He was finished as gag writer for end-of-pie

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

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

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 And It Is Clever", “South Wales Outlaw”, “Unciv

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Mexico. His lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles. His poetry has appeared in print and online since the 1980's. His work has appeared in Blue Collar Review, Fixator Press, Impspired, Ink Sweat and Tears, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Mad Swirl, and Nerve Cowboy, Unlikely Stories. His books and chapbooks have been published by Alternating Current Press, Deadbeat Press, Four Feathers Press, KendraSteiner Ed

Stef Bishop is a scribbler and gatherer of wayward thoughts. Based in Lincoln, UK, he often loses track of time in the cathedral quarter when fanciful daydreams have a tendency of taking over. More of his work can be found at Lincs & Inks, Impspired (issue 33), Tales From The Moonlit Path, and Underbelly Press.

Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, Talking River, and New Plains Review, and her published books include Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, Hugo House in Washington, and the Indiana Writers Center.

Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, Impspired; The Comstock Review, 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.

Peter G E Kelly was planted, tended and reaped in Surrey, England, filtered, fermented, racked and bottled in Yorkshire and Greece, and blended, aged, and matured in Mexico. Uncorking is currently being done back in England, and according to many, it is just in time. He is a published author of ESL textbooks and digital educational material. Several of his poems have been shortlisted in competitions run by New Writers. Others have appeared in the Impspired Magazine. Most of h

Mitali Chakravarty can be found on a tropical island with her family, close to where otters swim and devour fish noisily. The island has many parakeets, golden orioles, hornbills, turtles and fishes, is near the equator and it’s eternally summer there. Mitali looks out of her window and dreams of floating on clouds and traveling the world. She has visited more than eighty cities and churned out three books of poems: Flight of the Angsana Oriole (Hawakal Publishers, India, 202

PR Woods has been published by Adda, East of the Web, Ellipsis Zine, Fictionable, Globe Soup, Litro, the Manchester Review, Reflex Press and Westword. She won the Parracombe Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth and Mslexia short story competitions 2021. She lives in London. Find her on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pudsk.bsky.social MENAGERIE ON MARS First, they sent the cats. And, for a while, people missed them. Old ladies were worst hit. No furry sleekn

Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His tenth poetry collection is A Brief History of the Sixties (Alien Buddha Press, 2026). His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Ibbetson Street, Chiron Review, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. Autumn Comes Too Soon My fingers, old and stiff, drag lette

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Midnight Mind, Novus and Calliope. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Levitate, White Wall Review and Willow Review. THE DAY OF A HORSEWOMAN This is a woman who mucks stalls half the day, who comes to the house at sunset smelling of horseshit. But she’s also a woman who saddles those steeds, so her odor is comfortably drenche

Ping Yi writes poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction, after a three-decade detour in public service. His work has appeared in Impspired, Slackjaw, Little Old Lady Comedy, Defenestration, No Crime in Rhymin’, The Haven, Orbis (nominated for Forward Prize), The High Window, The Stony Thursday Book, Litro and La Piccioletta Barca. Ping Yi lives in Singapore with his spouse and their son. A Fair Price! The Unbearable Lightness of Retail Loss Prevention “Wh–what year is t

Widely published over many years in various countries in numerous magazines, journals, anthologies, newspapers, and competitions, most recently first prize in the Brian Nisbet award. His last book was ‘History Doesn’t Die’

Peter Mladinic's most recent book of poems, The Whitestone Bridge, is available from Anxiety Press. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.

Guillermo Bowie is a Portland, Oregon based writer. In 2025 he was published in Maryland Literary Review, Maryland’s Academy Of The Heart And Mind, New Brunswick, Canada’s Version 9, Australia’s The Font: A Literary Journal For Language Teachers, United Kingdom’s The Unseen Threads: Let’s Bind Them Together, Anemone, forthcoming in New Brunswick, Canada’s Nashwaak Review, Germany’s Sein und Werden, India’s INNSAEI Journal… He has a B.A. from Lewis and Clark College, studied S

Jeanne Blum Lesinski is a poet memoirist in the wild, unaffiliated with any institution or school of thought. Her works have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Quartet, Midwest Review, MUSE and Literary Mama. Her poetry collection Tethers End debuted from Shanti Arts in 2023. Find her at jeanneblumlesinskiwriter.com.

I am Liz Hanlon, an observer of life’s small moments. As a retired nurse of many years, my attention to detail has stayed with me. My “observations” hopefully reflect the beauty and complexity of relationships.

Tim Law is a writer from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge. A happily married father of three children, family is important to him. Currently working at the Murray Bridge Library as Manager he has dreamed since early high school of becoming a full-time author. Crossing the Harbour Bridge “Would you cross a street if there was a twenty percent chance you could get hit by a car?” The question caught me off-guard, distracting me from the whizzing traffic b

Patrick Kruth is an Irish writer whose work has appeared in Sonder Magazine and Hypertext Magazine. When not writing fiction he works as a newspaper reporter covering everything from crime to politics. His fiction is often characterised by dark, language-driven narratives that explore the lives of ordinary people, with a particular focus on rural settings and the quiet tensions that shape them. FLANKED BY DARKNESS He was conscious of scraps of conversation, soft whispers t

Ethan Goffman is author of the short story collections The Church of the Oversoul and Other Stories (Uncollected Press, 2025) and Realities and Alternatives (Cyberwit, 2023), the poetry collections I Garden Weeds (Cyberwit, 2021) and Words for Things Left Unsaid (Kelsay Books, 2020) and the flash fiction collection Dreamscapes (UnCollected Press, 2021). Ethan has published nonfiction in E: The Environmental Magazine, Grist, The Progressive, The Montgomery Gazette, Greater Gre

R. Loren Moe is a senior-aged poet who lives in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in South Carolina. He has been writing poetry for over forty years and writes about personal experiences, insights, and learnings, coupling them with active imagination. R. Loren feels poems are living entities that grow and take on new viewpoints as one’s experiences change and so are needing continual pruning as we grow . Publishing credits include Animated Blue, Carmina Magazine, B

Zara Lenon is an artist, poet and writer who is based in London. Her work has appeared in magazines, publications and podcasts such as Anima Loci, Spotify’s Scary Shorties Podcast, Impspired Magazine and The Anansi Archive’s 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. SKYLINE I

Mehreen Ahmed is an Australian novelist. Her historical fiction, The Pacifist, is a Drunken Druid’s Editor’s Choice. Gatherings, is nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction. Her short and flash fiction have won in The Waterloo Short Story Festival, Cabinet-of-Heed stream-of-consciousness Challenge, shortlisted by Cogito Literary Journal Contest, shortlisted by Litteratuer RW for Litt Prize, finalist in the Fourth Adelaide Literary Award Contest. A Best of Cafelit

Ron Torrence’s life has been a search since he was a child. For a mother’s love, which he never had because his mother didn’t like him. For understanding of the Holocaust and WWII, which has marked his soul to this day. For freedom from irrational, phobic fears which over the years, with help from others, he’s finally achieved. His search for meaning has led him through world literature, the renowned artists, composers, the clockwork universe, spacetime, the quantum world, st

Ben Macnair is an award-winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.