Contributors
ADV05
ADV05 is a South Florida based producer.
Rick Bailey
Rick Bailey blogs about family and friends, home and travel, food and wine, the odd and ordinary in everyday life. He has published four collections of essays and a memoir. His most recent work, published August 2024, is Drop and Add, a novel about a young college instructor who starts his professional life teaching as an adjunct. Born and raised in the Midwest, Rick is married to an Italian immigrant. He and his wife divide their time between their home in the US and in the Republic of San Marino.
Ivars Balkits
A dual-citizen of Latvia and the USA since 2016, Ivars Balkits lives part of the year in Ohio but mostly in a small mountain village in Crete, Greece. His poems and prose have been most recently published by Pnyx, Punt Volat, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Frighten the Horses, Bear Creek Gazette, Synchronized Chaos, Otoliths, Sulφur Surrealist Jungle, Seneca Review, Anvil Tongue Radio, Harpy Hybrid Review, and Lotus Eater. He is a recipient of two Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, for poetry in 1999 and creative nonfiction in 2014.
Mark Blickley
Mark Blickley grew up within walking distance of New York's Bronx Zoo. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His latest book is the flash fiction collection Hunger Pains (Buttonhook Press).
Nicky Bosman
Nicky Bosman is a psychologist by morning, a PhD researcher by afternoon, and a writer by night from the Netherlands. She has written a novel for which she is currently seeking representation, and her work has been published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine and Tofu Ink Arts Press. In her free time, she can be found climbing things in the forest and/or people-watching.
[Accompanying image by Mays Al-Korany] Mays Al-Korany is a Dutch-Iraqi architect, photographer, and cat mom.
Kevin Browne
Kevin Browne is a psychotherapist and anthropologist, and has lived in both Indonesia and the U.S. His writing has appeared in Book of Matches, Otoliths, The Metaworker, Kelp Journal, Pollux Journal, and other publications. In his spare time he can often be found hiking in the woods or attending blues concerts. He lives near Madison, Wisconsin.
Sergei Burbank
Sergei Burbank is a screenwriter, playwright, performer, audiobook narrator, and producer in New York City. He has been published by Indie Theater Now, NYTheaterNow, Parabasis, Howlround, fwriction:review, and Baseball Prospectus. He is resident playwright with Quick Silver Theater Company, member of Actors’ Equity Association, and has an MFA in Playwriting from the Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph’s University.
Gianoula Burns
A Greek Australian poet and writer. Born on a small Greek island raised and educated in Sydney Australia. She has published poetry and short stories in various online journals. Loves walking and travelling. Loves to blur dreams, memories and experiences to explore our place in the world and the impact of our cultural background on our emotional response and identity.
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.
Natalye Childress
Natalye Childress (she/her) i s a Berlin-based editor, writer, translator, and sad punk. She has an MA in creative writing, and her first book, The Aftermath of Forever, was published by Microcosm Publishing. Find her on Twitter @deutschbitte, Instagram @natalyereads, or https://www.natalye.com.
Acabatha Christie
Acabatha Christie is the alias of a sometimes-writer and full-time student of solidarity based in South London. Other interests include gardening, plotting and the crisps you have on holiday.
Nathan Coles
Nathan Coles was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, but don't hold that against him. A precocious child, he attended the College of Humanities at Carleton University in Ottawa; this was the best time in his life and all else has been entropic decay. He then became a lawyer, working himself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. Realizing that despite selling out his happiness for wealth he would receive neither, he ran screaming from the legal profession and now spends his time in public libraries and schools making sure the next generation is better read than you are. His hobbies include witnessing the inevitable collapse of civilization.
Sean Conforti
Sean is a writer living in Montréal. He's been published in The Void and Kill Pretty Magazine, and his work is interested in partial objects and threshold states, the juxtaposition of memory and the historical and/or fantastic, and the disintegrating boundaries between the virtual and the real. Sometimes he thinks he's writing prose poetry, but can't really tell. He's definitely giving chaos goblin vibes though.
Julia Colley
IG:@juliacolleyart, Portfolio
Julia Colley is a graphic designer, illustrator, and artist based in Ontario. Ever curious about the world around her, her background in art informs her strong creative instincts and ability to merge concept development with her design and illustration work. She is passionate about using her creative skills to support arts and culture and create a positive social impact.
Daniel Christensen
Daniel Christensen is a caregiver residing in Central Florida. He is an author of poetry, science fiction and high fantasy stories. His poem "Of Colors" was featured on Book XI and his poem "Brooklyn" won the Editor's Choice Award for The Last Stanza Magazine and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2025. His poem "End of Summer" is being published by Bramble Online Journal. His poem "The Urban Wasteland" is being published by A Sufferers Digest. His poem "This Small Universe" is being published by Trollbreath Magazine.
Kellie Denny
Kellie Denny would like to say she is from somewhere exotic and exciting, but she can't - she is born and raised in Ottawa. She looks forward to travelling this summer in search of Irish and Scottish roof dogs.
Ashley Denny Petch
Ashley Denny Petch was born and raised in Ottawa. She is a militant pedestrian, who has lived and walked in Canada, the UK and Greece. She created Vernacular Journal in the pursuit of some creative dignity.
Arthur P. Denton
Arthur P. Denton is an oral surgeon in New Orleans. His Erdos number is 4.
Amir Dotan
Amir Dotan has been living in Stoke Newington, North East London, since 2002 and has been researching the area's fascinating 1000-year history as a hobby since 2011. He shares his findings daily on Instagram (@HistoryOfStokey), Facebook (@StokeNewingtonHistory), and X/Twitter (@HistoryOfStokey), providing insights into every aspect of Stoke Newington. From the evolution of its colorful shops over the decades to the presence of decorative Victorian coalhole covers still found outside many houses, Amir enjoys exploring and documenting the rich history of the area.
M. A. Dubbs
M. A. Dubbs is an award-winning Mexican-American and LGBT poet from Indiana. For over a decade, Dubbs has published writing in magazines and anthologies in nine countries across the globe. She is the author of three poetry collections with her fourth, A Walk to Americana, releasing in 2025 with Dancing Girl Press.
Catherine Economopoulos
Catherine Economopoulos is a Hellenic multidisciplinary creative whose work centers around trauma, the architectural discipline, and healing through mutual aid and collective liberation, among other themes. Based in Athens/Chicago/Toronto, Catherine's practice is sociospatial – fueled by community found in all places. Connect or learn more @ economopoulos.net.
Bart Edelman
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack, Under Damaris’ Dress, The Alphabet of Love, The Gentle Man, The Last Mojito, The Geographer’s Wife, Whistling to Trick the Wind, and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023. He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been widely anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Fountainhead Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson/Heinle, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.
Lucie Eleanor
Lucie Eleanor is a writer from Cambridge, UK. Her fiction and memoir has been published in The Cult Collective and shortlisted for the Scratch A4 flash fiction prize. She writes to find the eerie and the magical in the everyday.
Eli S. Evans
Eli S. Evans publishes his absurdist fictions and other assorted oddities wherever they find a home on the internet. In addition, two books of small stories, Obscure & Irregular and Various Stories About Specific Individuals in Particular Situations, have been published by Moon Rabbit Books & Ephemera. They're pretty cheap and make for great bathroom reading, so you should probably buy them!
Susana Fabre
Susana Fabre is a human who is constantly thinking about other humans and the things they do. And, why do they act so funny? If she could choose one superpower, she would choose invisibility so she could watch people without interfering—thus attaining true objectivity at last. Naively, she thinks this would allow her to understand them better, but we all know this is not true. She draws these thoughts sometimes. Sometimes she writes them down. You can see for yourself http://www.sfab.myportfolio.com
Zary Fekete
Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary. He has a debut novella (Words on the Page) out with DarkWinter Lit Press and a collection of his short pieces (To Accept the Things I Cannot Change) out with Creative Texts. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films. Twitter and Instagram: @ZaryFekete
Sam Francis
Sam Francis is an artist and back yard naturalist who writes. She has had an on-going preoccupation with the colour green for some time. In dialogue with non-human life forms, her work explores themes of aloneness, often set within the landscape, and seen through an eco-feminist lens. Text plays a central role in her visual work, through sound, film, installation, print, and reflections on space and place. Publications include a piece on the anatomy and culture of nettles in Caught by the River, with green and blue poems featured in indie platforms Seedlings and Gilded Dirt.
Anastasia Georgousis
Anastasia Georgousis is a Greek-British Brummie writer and creative. After relocating to Athens from London a year ago, she is still mesmerised by the city: its energy, its quirks and its chaos. She has a BA in Liberal Arts from Birkbeck, University of London and was a British Council Fellowship at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Her interests are in people, place, working-class life, migration and social spaces, with a particular interest in libraries. She loves kebabs and a good negroni (although not necessarily together).
Insta: @thefeelings_mutual
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Cecilia Gigliotti
Cecilia Gigliotti is a zillennial multi-hyphenate artist with an MA in English from Central Connecticut State University and a BA in Creative Writing from the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. Her photography is featured in Quaranzine: A Women* Writing Berlin Lab Anthology and Route 7 Review; her writing has appeared recently in MEMEZINE, Songs of Eretz, Prose Poems, and Scraps. She lives in Berlin.
Jen Green
Jen (she/her) lives in Bristol (UK), where she incessantly fills notebooks trying to find the right words for the moon and her love for trees. Her work has appeared in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, and as part of an artist duo was commissioned to create a sound walk Untold Skies for the Weston super Mare Promenade weekender (2023).
Devon Hansen
Devon Hansen (1988-) is a public servant grateful to be from unceded Anishinaabe territory (Ottawa, ON), and to be living with his husband on unceded Mi'kmaw territory in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS). A classical musician by education, he holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Ottawa (2010), a Certificate in Carillon Studies from Carleton University (2017), and is a Carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (2017). He has written and arranged music for carillon, as well as chamber ensembles, while maintaining a strong interest in poetry and language. A casual writer of poetry throughout his life, this is his first public project.
Tape Hernandez
tape puts out zines and recently a chapbook on their website, www.jesusfishcatnapper.com and several small bookstores, mostly in brooklyn. they also tattoo, and can be found on instagram @jesuscat_fishnapper. it's like the website but nauseous, and you're welcome to visit wherever. they're cpr certified, but it hasn't come up yet
Paul Hostovsky
Paul Hostovsky's poems appear and disappear simultaneously (voila!), and have recently been sighted in places where they pay you for your trouble with your own trouble doubled, and other people's troubles thrown in, which never seem to him as great as his troubles, though he tries not to compare. He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances, which is the working title of his new collection, which is looking for a publisher and for itself.
E Huckleberry
E. Huckleberry (1989-23XX) is a notorious lollygagger and ardent Jacobite. Born and raised in Ottawa, he has seen a very small percentage of Ottawa with his own eyes and knows barely anything about everything. Mr. Huckleberry is eager to write the definitive history of the Tunney’s Pasture Complex, as soon as he can articulate the idea to a publisher without having them fall asleep halfway through the pitch meeting. Eric Huckleberry has been mad online about the Ottawa Senators since 2007. He aspires one day to live in a city with functional rail transit.
Salwa Hussein
I am an art student from Pakistan who paints, sings, and reads. Passions include exploring the outside, watching Indian art films, making posters and writing about all three. I am currently pursuing my BFA from a public university in Lahore and wish to teach children in the future.
Doug Jacquier
Doug Jacquier writes from the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. His work has been published in Australia, the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, India and Turkey. He blogs at Six Crooked Highways and is the editor of the humour site, Witcraft.
Anastasia Kalos
Anastasia is a lawyer by day and explores memory, time, connection and place in her writing and art. Her writing has appeared in Bewildering Stories, Every Writer, Boston Poetry Magazine and the NSW Law Society Journal. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
Lena Kamperi
Lena has been living in Exarcheia Athens for the past 14 years, from where along with her 3 cats observes the movements of the clouds around Mt Fuji. They wanted to be an artist, but their parents wouldn't let them.
Janina Aza Karpinska
Janina Aza Karpinska is a multidisciplinary Artist-Poet-Scavenger of materials, ideas and inspiration wherever she goes; seeking and creating the poetry of visual images by whatever means; drawn to colour, pattern, and visual anecdotes. She achieved an M.A. (with Merit) in Creative Writing & Personal Development, Sussex University. Her work has appeared in Grim & Gilded; Shanti Arts; 3 Elements Review; Antler velvet, Quibble, and Rundelania, amongst others. She lives on the south coast of England.
Penn Kemp
Poet, performer and playwright Penn Kemp has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publication of poetry (1972). The League of Canadian Poets has honored her with the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award (2025), as Spoken Word Artist of the year (2015), a foremother of Canadian Poetry, and Life Member. Penn has long been a keen participant/activist in Canada’s cultural life, with over thirty books of poetry, prose and drama; seven plays and ten CDs produced as well as award-winning videopoems. New collections in 2025 are available on
https://www.silverbowpublishing.com/ordinary-moving and https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/new-from-aboveground-press-lives-of.html. Penn is active across the web: www.pennkemp.weebly.com, www.pennkemp.weebly.com, www.pennkemp.wordpress.com and www.pennkemp.substack.com.
Frances Koziar
Frances Koziar has published prose and poetry in over 100 different literary magazines and outlets, and has had over 20 professional-rate publications, including in “Best Canadian Essays 2021” and “Daily Science Fiction”. She has also served as an author panelist, fiction contest judge, and a microfiction editor. She is a young (disabled) retiree and a social justice activist, and she lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Website: https://franceskoziar.wixsite.com/author
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/Frances-Koziar-121428177980368
Vera Kurnev
Vera Kurnev is a poet and critic based in New York. @veraidiot
Allie LaJoie
Allie LaJoie is a young writer with raw, powerful feelings and even grander, stunning dreams. Writing is her passion, and with every new piece she publishes, she claims more space in the world. Currently navigating the fight for a beautiful life while dealing with mental health challenges, she writes about the highs and lows of everyday life and her relentless search for small joys. Find her published work on Chill Subs.
Richard LeBlond
Richard LeBlond is the author of Homesick for Nowhere, a collection of essays that won an EastOver Press Nonfiction Prize in 2022, and was a finalist for general nonfiction in the Spring 2023 San Francisco Book Festival. His essays and photographs have appeared in many U.S. and international journals, including Montreal Review, Weber – The Contemporary West, Burningword, Lowestoft Chronicle, Trampset, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing and Best of the Net.
Eleanor Lines
Eleanor is an artist and artist educator born and raised in South London specialising in screen printing. She now lives and works between Athens and London and is currently working on a book about the doors in her local neighbourhood in Athens. Architecture, geometry, pattern and structure are all prevailing themes within her work. She has founded a screen printing studio; Kypseli Print Studio which is open to the local and international artist community, providing educational workshops and artist residencies.
Instagram: @eleanorlines @doorsofkypseli @kypseliprintstudio
J. David Liss
J. David Liss writes work that poses the question literature was invented to ask. How can one possibly live with a feeling heart?
Liss received an MFA from Brooklyn College. Trained in writing and inclined to politics, he became a speechwriter. Liss has worked in government, corporate, academic, and healthcare centers. He spent 10 years as faculty in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where he still lectures on healthcare policy and politics. Liss has published 25 short stories, including in Caustic Frolic, The MacGuffin, Lake Effect, Blood and Thunder, Inscape, and others.
Emma Long
Emma Long is a writer and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York, with a practice centered on interiority, the body, and connection with the natural world. Her work has been published in Antlers Zine, Antithesis Magazine, The Quarry, and Morningstar Literary.
Ari Mazur
Ari Mazur is a graduate of Concordia University’s creative writing program. She finds joy in writing, walking around, and apartment hunting. You can find her work in CrabApple Literary, New Lit Mag, and Headlight Anthology.
Margo McCall
Margo McCall's short stories have appeared in Pacific Review, Heliotrope, Hypertext, Sidewalks, Raven Review, Toasted Cheese, and other journals. Her nonfiction has appeared in Herizons, Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir, Pilgrimage, the Los Angeles Times, and a variety of other publications. A graduate of the M.A. creative writing program at California State University Northridge, she currently calls Winnipeg, Canada home, although still pines a little for Paonia. For more information, visit http://www.margomccall.com.
Brendon IJ McLeod
Brendon IJ McLeod is studying a PhD in English and Writing at The University of Sydney. He was shortlisted for the 2023 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and was awarded a fellowship from The Writers’ Space to Varuna the National Writers’ House. He has read at Sappho Books’ Monthly Poetry Night, and at the Banjo Patterson Poetry Festival. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rabbit Poetry, Overland, Quadrant, Australian Poetry Journal, and Verge. He lives and works on Wiradyuri country.
Mariana Meireles Curado
Mariana is a Lisbon-born Londoner who has a complicated relationship with the Big Smoke, where she moved to in 2016. She is an aspiring class war accelerationist with a passion for political ecology and reclaiming the commons.
Carolin Meyer
Carolin Meyer is an interdisciplinary, conceptual artist & DJ based in London. Shaped by her experience of transracial adoption at birth (from Kurdish Yazidi to German), she is primarily interested in different modes of (dis)embodiment and their translation into multisensory, viscerally affective interventions using video, sculpture, music, sound, installation, writing, and occasionally, performance.Other than embodiment and the body, she is interested in identity, racialisation, techno-social transformations, and climate change (de-anthropocentrism).
Her work has been published in The Sociological Review and STILL POINT JOURNAL. In 2023, she was appointed Creative Fellow at UCL, where she explored music as research. She is an Acme studio holder and currently, part of the alternative MFA 2024/25 cohort at School of the Damned.
Website: https://carolinmeyer.onfabrik.com
Instagram: @euro_kurd
Cynthia Mitchell
Cynthia spent four glorious summers working at LSPP from 2006-2009. She calls Ottawa, ON home but often dreams about swimming in Lake Superior. Cynthia enjoys riding around town on her bicycle, reading stories with her nephews and niece, and eating BBQ chips. Daniel Walker is hands down her favourite radio VJ of all time.
Sherri Moshman-Paganos
A poet, writer and former educator, Sherri Moshman-Paganos lives in Athens Greece where she publishes a travel/culture blog: https://olivesandislands.home.blog/. She has had poetry included in the Remington Review, the SNReview and others, and fiction in BODY Literary Magazine. She is the author of a book of poetry, "Wanderings: Poems of Discovery," and two memoirs: "Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change" and "Miss I wish you a bed of roses: Teaching Secondary School English in Greece.
Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few, like Ink, Sweat and Tears and Poetry Scotland, that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog The Truth About Lies but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and (increasingly) next door’s cat. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels.
Treasa Nealon
Treasa Nealon is a writer and theatre creator from Leitrim. She has had work published in Razur Cuts Zine, Thimble Literary Journal and Free the Verse. She is a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Virtual Attic Artists Supports Programme (2023-24). You can follow her on Instagram at @tnealonxox
Larena Nellies-Ortiz
Larena Nellies-Ortiz (she/her), is a Mexican-American and German poet and photographer from Oakland, California. Her photos and poetry have been featured in Libre Literary Magazine, Wordpeace, Bitter Melon Review, Local Wolves Magazine, 3Elements Review, Stonecoast Review, Change Seven Magazine, Sun Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Eunoia Review and are forthcoming in The Ilanot Review, Dulcet Literary Magazine, and Sunlight Press. She loves to color, texture and shadow hunt in golden hour.
Keev (Boyle Darby) Ó Baoill
Keev (Boyle Darby) Ó Baoill (They/He) is an Irish poet, writer, artist and researcher. His work explores the affectual realities of mundanity. In particular, how mundanity is navigate through embodied experiences of transness and how the affectual reality of those mundane experiences might impact our capacities to build resilience and form resistance through trans, t4t community and relationships. Keev is the Co-founder of tinycrowdcollective (@tinycrowdzine). Their work has been published by SEXTANT, Channel Mag, Powder Press, The Places Zine and Gay Community News, among others. You can find him and their work @keevobaoill on Instagram and @kvrbyrl on Twitter.
Jake Onyett
Jake Onyett is a U.S. Navy veteran who was born in Canada, raised in the United States, and currently lives in Italy. He is a graduate of Niagara University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Bologna. His poetry appears/will appear in Ink in Thirds, Lone Mountain Literary Society, and Stone Poetry Quarterly, among other publications.
Louis Perron
Louis Perron is *every* thirty-something musician and artist from Montréal who likes to walk and bike. When he’s not feeding the insufferable yet hip hive-mind smokey scotch whiskey and weird books, he is either playing with his band S T O U T, teaching beginner guitar classes at Vanier College, or cosplaying as an adult who works at a financial institution. He also enjoys arguing about urban design and taking photos of fun looking buildings. Please Note: Louis is fuelled by home-made flatbread pizza and should be kept away from pub quiz nights unless you like, want to totally lose.
Pravasan Pillay
Pravasan Pillay is a South African writer who now lives in Sweden. He has published two poetry chapbooks, Glumlazi (2009) and 30 Poems (2015), as well as a collection of co-written comedic short stories, Shaggy (2013). His short story collection Chatsworth was published in 2018, and was translated into Swedish in 2020. His latest publication is a chapbook of short stories, Aiyo! (2023).
Virginia Reebs
Virginia was born and raised in Ottawa. She enjoys word-based board games, yoga and weightlifting and has a dog named Wyatt. She is vegetarian and looks forward to puttering around in her garden in the summer.
Lennie Roeber-Tsiongas
Lennie Roeber-Tsiongas is a writer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, CA. She recently graduated from McGill University, where she studied Psychology and Environment. She has written for Counterpoint Music Magazine, Montreal’s CKUT Radio Station blog, and you can find more of her published work online at vignetta.substack.com.
Tomilyn Hannah Rupert
Tomilyn Hannah Rupert (she/her) is an American and British author who lives in SE London. She is fascinated by how cities shape our lives and literature. Her writing has appeared in Porter House Review (shortlisted for the 2025 Editor's Prize), on Lucy Writer’s Platform and as part of Deptford Scratch. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature and Cultural Anthropology, and an MPA, all from the University of Washington. She is currently writing a collection of short stories centered around Overground stops. You can find her on BlueSky.
David Segaert
David Segaert is a freelance procrastinator from Ottawa, winner of 43 Golden Globes, and Eastern Ontario's only registered Jedi.
Emma Sheppard
Emma Sheppard (she/her) is an English professor, teacher educator, and writer living in Toronto, ON. She is a haver of (arguably) too many opinions, a lover of memoir, of poetry, of terrible television and better books, of finding new corners of the world to explore. Her work can be found in Stonecoast Review, The Bookends Review and forthcoming in Prism International as as on Substack and Instagram @emma.out.loud.
Ellis Shuman
Ellis Shuman is an American-born Israeli author, travel writer, and book reviewer. His writing has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of The Virtual Kibbutz, Valley of Thracians, The Burgas Affair, and Rakiya. His short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in Isele Magazine, Vagabond, The Write Launch, Esoterica, Jewish Literary Journal, San Antonio Review, and other literary publications. You can find him at https://ellisshuman.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @ellisshuman
Lena Shumnaya
Lena Shumnaya is an autofiction and creative non-fiction writer from St. Petersburg. She is travelling the world and writes about life. The author of the «Letters from Seoul", has several published works, including the foreign zines. Member of the WLAG community.
Craig Smith
Craig Smith is a novelist and poet from Huddersfield, UK. Smith's work has appeared on/in Writers Rebel, Magma, Mechanics' Institute Review, iamb, and The North. He was a winner of Poetry Archive Now WordWise 2022, and was cited as a rising star in the 2023 London Independent Story Prize Anthology. He was long-listed for the Brotherton Poetry Prize 2024, and obtained a First in his Masters in Creative Writing from Birkbeck. He blogs occasionally at clattermonger.com and tweets sometimes @clattermonger.
John Thomson
Vancouver journalist John Thomson comes from a news and current affairs background, initially trained as a reporter and then a writer of documentaries for broadcasters CBC, CTV and Discovery. He is currently a columnist for Galleries West, a bi-weekly compendium of west coast art shows and events (he can tell you anything you want to know about post painterly abstraction if you’re interested). He has also been published in Westworld, Y.A.M.,THIS, Reel West, Vancouver magazine and WordWorks, among others.
Stelios Tigkas
Hello w0rld! My name is Stelios. I am an information security geek. I am very interested in music, animal welfare, philosophy and health. I spend most of my time leading the Greenbridge project - a nonprofit initiative aiming to bring the computer security, creative arts and animal welfare communities closer to each other.
Terry Trowbridge
Researcher & farmer Terry Trowbridge’s poems are in Carousel, Lascaux Review, Kolkata Arts, Leere Mitte, untethered, Snakeskin Poetry, Progenitor, Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Pinhole, Big Windows, Muleskinner, Brittle Star, Mathematical Intelligencer, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, New Note, Hearth and Coffin, Synchronized Chaos, Delta Poetry Review, Literary Veganism and ~100 more. His lit crit is in BeZine, Erato, Amsterdam Review, Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts& Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review. HisErdös number is 5.Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant.
Ant Veal
Ant writes fiction as a way to look busy at work.
He lives in the most average part of London and finds this very appropriate.
He is a member of the Sad Man Tapas Club.
Ananya Venkateswaran
Ananya Venkateswaran currently lives in Abu Dhabi, with roots in Tampa and India. Her writing has been recognized/published by The Pulitzer Center, Harvard's Write the World, The Blue Marble Review, and Bennington College, among others. Ananya is passionate about the crossroads between the arts, culture, and global citizenship. In her free time, she enjoys kayaking, oxford commas, and pretty skies.
Stephan Walke
Stephan Walke lives in the Yukon spending time between the traditional territories of the First Nations of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (Mayo) and Kwanlin Dün and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council (Whitehorse). He's been writing poetry and whatnot since highschool, learned a great many things from brilliant writers and thinkers during his time in Newfoundland between 2010 and 2017 and continues to learn a great many things from the lands he is privileged to live on and the people who have kept them for countless generations.
Liam Walke
Liam was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He’s lived in a variety of places that never felt quite like home. He’s been reading and writing since he could read and write; running since he could walk, and railing and bubbling since he could talk. Usually in awe, but also usually at a loss (or a glut) of words to express his feelings, he’s trying to make writing a practice again. So thank you for reading.
Debra White
Debra's social work career ended on 1/6/94 due to brain trauma from a pedestrian car accident. After a long recovery in upstate NY, she moved to Phoenix in 1997 where she found new life in creative writing and volunteer work. Her newest book, All Shook Up: Finding Purpose After Traumatic Brain Injury, was released in October 2024. She has a story in the new Chicken Soup for the Soul book, What I Learned From My Dog.www.debrawhite.org
Lawrence Winkler
Lawrence Winkler is a retired physician, traveler, and natural philosopher. His métier has morphed from medicine to manuscript. He lives with Robyn on Vancouver Island and in New Zealand, tending their gardens and vineyards, and dreams. His writings have previously been published in The Montreal Review and many other literary journals. His books can be found online at www.lawrencewinkler.com.
