Mariam Ahmed
Step Aside
Mariam is a Californian poet. Her latest book, Hidden Parts, was published by Broken Tribe Press in 2025. Her poems have appeared in The Elevation Review, Kitchen Table Quarterly, Flint Hills Review, Folly Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from San Diego State University.
Marie Anderson
Epiphany
Marie is a Chicago area married mother of three millennials. Her stories have appeared in dozens of publications, most recently (2024) in Epic Echoes, MetaStellar, Third Wednesday, and Wit Craft. Since 2009, she has led and learned from a writing critique group at a public library in IL.
Scott Beggs
Farewell, Dear Isaac
Scott still hasn’t made it to Beersheba. His short stories have appeared in PseudoPod, MetaStellar, and SANS Press’s “Stranger” anthology. He moves around a lot with his family, and he wants to be Buster Keaton’s best friend. Follow him on IG @notquiteprofessional and www.scottbeggs.com
Warren Benedetto
It’s What’s Inside That Counts
Warren has published in Dark Matter Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and The Dread Machine; and in podcasts The NoSleep Podcast, Tales to Terrify, and Chilling Tales For Dark Nights; and in anthologies from Apex Magazine, Tenebrous Press, Scare Street, and many more.
Jack Bordnick
Something So Beautiful
Jack is an Industrial design graduate of Pratt Institute, New York. His sculptures and photography incorporate surrealistic, mythological and magical imagery often with whimsical overtones — aimed at provoking our experiences and self reflections.
Lawrence Bridges
A Man Stops to Absorb the Colors
Lawrence photos have appeared in the Las Laguna Art Gallery, the HMVC Gallery in New York, and the ENSO Art Gallery in Malibu. He created a series of documentaries for the NEA’s “Big Read” initiative, including profiles of Ray Bradbury, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick.
Rachael Brooks
Rituals
Rachael is a Ph.D. student in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. She spends far too much time looking at code and not enough time reading or writing. She has never been published before.
Victoria Brooks
black holes
Victoria is a queer nonbinary author living in London, UK. Their first queer sci-fi novel, Silicone God, was published by MOIST Books in the UK, December 2023, and was recently published in the US (House of Vlad Press). Their portfolio can be found here: https://www.victoriathewriter.com/
Salena Casha
Once Upon a Time, Husbands Kept Their Wives Diagnoses to Themselves
Salena has appeared in over 150 publications in the last decade. She survives New England winters on good beer and black coffee. Subscribe to her substack at salenacasha.substack.com
Sunny Chan
We Bioluminesce
Sunny has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives in Toronto with two dogs named Mango and Peekaboo. Her creative writing has appeared in Ricepaper, The Ex-Puritan, Abyss & Apex, Barrelhouse Press, Palette Poetry, and more. Find her at @moonandmountainprint
Robin Dake
Lessons in Chaos
Robin has spent her career working as a journalist or non-profit manager while writing essays and poems. Her work has appeared in Amaranth Journal, Snapdragon Journal, Amethyst Review, This I Believe radio program and Trailway News. She lives in N.E. Georgia with two hoodlum cats.
DC Diamondopolous
1952: The Biltmore Hotel
DC is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction writer with hundreds of stories published internationally. DC’s book Captured Up Close: 20th Century Short-Short Stories is her second book. She lives on the California coast with her wife. dcdiamondopolous.com
Joe Farina
pentecost blues
Joe is a retired lawyer and an award winning poet .He draws inspiration from his Sicilian and Canadian ties. He has two books of poetry; The Cancer Chronicles and The Ghosts of Water Street and an e-book Sunsets in Black and White.and his latest book, The beach,the street and everything in between.
Ken Farrell
Stranger
Ken lives and writes in Texas, his work appearing in various anthologies and journals such as Pilgrimage, Sport Literate, and Watershed Review. Ken holds an MFA from Texas State University and an MA from Salisbury University, and he has earned a living as an adjunct, cage fighter, pizzaiolo, and warehouseman.
Cléa Fernandes
I Like Nabokov Too
Cléa is a French poet, writer and lyricist who studied research in Bordeaux, focusing on “Female Youth and Madness” in contemporary literature. She explores female experience, madness, friendship, and queer erotica through her work.
George Freek
I Look At Sky
George’s poem “Enigmatic Variations” was recently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem “Night Thoughts” was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Vidya Hariharan
Limpid
Vidya is an enthusiastic traveller, coffee guzzler and manic reader. She lives and works as a lecturer in Mumbai, India. Her works are in Café Dissensus, Poems India, Contemporary Haiku Online, Pan Haiku Review and elsewhere. She won the Editor’s Choice Award for her haiku in Under the Basho in 2024.
J. D. Harlock
Something So Beautiful
J. D. is an Eisner-nominated American writer, researcher, editor, pursuing a doctoral degree. His writing are featured in Business Insider, The Cincinnati Review, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Queen’s Quarterly, and New York University’s Library of Arabic Literature.
R. Haven
The First Second
R. is a fantasy and horror author hailing from Toronto, Canada. His debut horror novel, The Other Face of Sympathy, comes out September 9, 2025. His website is theirritablequeer.com, where you can find information on his other published works.
Greg Hill
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Greg is a poet and short fiction writer in West Hartford, Connecticut. His work has appeared in Six Sentences, Verse-Virtual, Young Ravens Poetry Journal, Barzakh, and other literary journals and anthologies. He and his wife enjoy the struggle of raising three determined feminists.
Hope Joseph
The alchemist of souls
Joseph is an essayist, and poet from Nigeria. His works are in Notre Dame, Christian Science Monitor, Augur, SolarPunk, Reckoning, The Sunlight Press, MukoliMag, and more. He is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and a joint winner of the SEVHAGE/Agema Founder’s Prize.
Yan Jiang
The Old Men
Yan is a Toronto-based illustrator, artist, and educator. A Chinese immigrant, her work draws on nature and emotion to create immersive, surreal worlds. Combining traditional and digital media, she explores texture and depth, aiming to evoke stillness, empathy, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.
Anastasia Jill
Here I Am
Anastasia is a queer writer living in Central Florida. They have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and other honors. Their work has been featured or is upcoming in Poets.org, Sundog Lit, Flash Fiction Online, Contemporary Verse 2, Channel Magazine, and more.
Alan Keith
Yesterday Morning
Alan is a special education teacher working out of Toronto, Canada. His debut poetry collection, How I(t) Was, can be purchased on Amazon, with all proceeds going towards helping blind dogs and injured Toronto wildlife.
Foyinsayemi Kilaso
Revelations 12
Foyinsayemi is a visual and graphical artist that enjoys creative arts as much as he loves engaging in them. He studies Portuguese and English at the University. He can be found on instagram @foyinkilaso
Claire Lawrence
Eruption
Claire’s stories and artwork have appeared in numerous publications worldwide. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023; and her artwork, Best of the Net 2022. Her goal is to push the boundaries of writing, and not inhale too many paint fumes.
Jill Leininger
Submersion: A Letter
Jill is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Sky Never Sleeps and Roof Picnic Skies, New York. Her poems are in Harvard Review; Circumference; Poet Lore; and Poetry International, and she’s received fellowships from the Banff Centre, Vermont Studio Center, and Lambda Literary.
Hunter Liguore
The 10th Daughter of Mnemosyne
Hunter is an award-winning author and a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health Magazine, and has published in 34 Orchard, Non-Profit Quarterly, The Writer’s Digest, Orion Magazine, The Irish Pages, Northwestern Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and more.
Mack W. Mani
Champagne Remnants
Mack is a PNW based author and poet. His work has appeared in publications such as Story Unlikely, Strange Horizons, and Dark Horses Magazine. In 2018 he won Best Screenplay at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. He currently lives with his husband in Portland, OR.
Thomas C. Mavroudis
Do You Know How to Kill a Vampire?
Thomas’s debut collection, Rabbit Face and Other Awful Encounters, is forthcoming from JournalStone. His short stories have appeared on Creepy A Horror Podcast, The NoSleep Podcast, in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Carpe Noctem, Frontiers of Fright and the anthology Mooncalves.
Priyanuj Mazumdar
my head, your summer house
Priyanuj is a writer from northeast India whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Harbor Review, Allium, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment and was shortlisted for the Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration.
Morgan Melhuish
A Fragment of the Heart of Sappho
Morgan is a queer writer and educator from West Sussex. In 2025 his work is being published by the Slab Press, Graveworm Press, Speculative City, Sentinel Creative and Nine Pens Press. You can find him on X @mmorethanapage and on BlueSky under the same handle.
Tamer Said Mostafa
if you love me for the sake of Allah
Tamer’s work has appeared in Guernica, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, and Freezeray among others. Tamer is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, and a graduate of the Creative Writing program at University of California, Davis.
Brandon Natusch
Chemical Constellations
Brandon is a writer and videographer based in Texas. Having been vice president of his high-school’s writing club, he first started writing in elementary and has since fallen in love with telling original stories. He hopes to one day have his work on the shelves of Barnes and Noble.
Oladosu Michael Emerald
Oladosu Michael Emerald (The Sky Split Open) is a writer, artist, and educator. Author of Every Little Thing That Moves. His works are in Chestnut, Lolwe, FIYAH, and elsewhere. He is the Pioneer Fellow of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency. He is on X and IG @garricologist
Sherry Shahan
Waiting For the Band to Start
Sherry is a teal-haired septuagenarian who studies pole-dancing in a laid-back California beach town. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Happily, her art has appeared in Zoetic Press.
Samantha R. Sharp
A Different Ending
Samantha is a neurodivergent writer and Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton. She serves as Poetry Editor for Midway Journal, and her creative work has been published or is forthcoming in Cleaver Magazine, Dipity Lit Mag, Wild Roof Journal, and others.
Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel
The Curious Face
Boluwatife is a talented realist artist renowned for his extraordinary attention to detail and captivating visual narratives. Born and raised in Ogun state Nigeria, Sholanke developed a passion for art from an early age, inspired by the rich cultural heritage of his community.
J. D. Simpson
Canopic
J. D.’s works have been featured in Triangulation’s Hospitium, Whisper House Press’ Costs of Living, and Black Widow Press’s Halloween Horrors anthologies. His campfire tales of terror–written as John Beardify–have appeared in audio form on the Nosleep Podcast, Creepypod, and many other channels.
Josh Stein
Urbane Epiphany IV
Josh’s artwork has been exhibited in the Pop and Contemporary Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia; the CICA Museum in Seoul, Korea; Adas Israel in Washington DC; Burning Man in Blackrock, Nevada; and Gallery 1064 in Seattle, amongst many others.
James T. Stemmle
A Gathering of Spirits
James has published in The Octillo Review, Evening Street Review, The Raven’s Perch, Deep South Magazine, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, Literary Veganism: An Online Journal, Cheofpleirn Press, Seattle Star, Poetry Superhighway, and Open Arts Forum.
Iphigenia Strangeworth
burn your bloodied birth-sheets
Iphigenia was created by committee, although, unlike most lowest-common-denominator group projects, this one turned out to be the kind that was far beyond both the sum of its parts and past the dreams of any of its individual creators. We should all be so lucky.
Natalya Sukhonos
Ars Poetica with Spider and Peaches
Natalya’s poems are published by the American Journal of Poetry, Naugatuck River Review, etc. Nominated for the Pushcart in 2015 and 2020, Natalya published Parachute, Aldrich Press, 2016, and A Stranger Home, Moon Pie Press, 2020.
Yucheng Tao
Blue Horse
Yucheng is from Nanjing and an international student studying songwriting at MI College of Contemporary Music in Los Angeles. His works have been published in Wingless Dreamer (2024 contest), Synchronized Chaos, Moonstone Art Center, and Spillword.
Veronica Tucker
After the Beep, the Universe
Veronica’s poetry has appeared in redrosethorns and Medmic, and she writes as a physician about medicine, memory, and the surreal. She enjoys running, time with family, and sipping matcha lattes beside her dogs.
Fendy S. Tulodo
The Thirteenth Step in Tunjungan
Fendy is based in Malang, Indonesia. His work explores memory, everyday surrealism, and emotional fractures. His fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in House of Long Shadows, Across the Margin, Horrific Scribblings, Farmer-ish, CafeLit Magazine, and others.
Dana Wall
The Echo Chamber
Dana writes speculative fiction that explores the thin places between psychological realities and metaphysical possibilities. Her work examines how perception shapes existence, often through characters navigating uncanny circumstances that reveal deeper truths about consciousness and connection.
Timothy Wilkie
Midnight in Paradise
Timothy is a legend in the Hudson Valley because of his art and story telling. He has published four novels and countless short stories. His pictures have been featured in many magazines and in galleries around the world. He has two grown sons Justin and Blake and currently lives in Eddyville NY.
Beth Winegarner
Red Deer
Beth has contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is the author of several books, most recently San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History.
Christine Wolfram
Bloom for Me
Christine is a queer writer who makes her home in the Pacific Northwest. When she’s not dreaming up new stories, you can catch her at her local Renaissance faire, playing Bloodborne, or geeking out on her Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/whimsydearest.
Ellen June Wright
Abstract #1440
Ellen an artist, photographer and poet, was born in England but raised in New Jersey. Her watercolors have been published online by Gulf Stream Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, Hole In The Head Review, Oyster River Pages, Kitchen Table Quarterly and others.