CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
ALL AUTHORS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
THEIR NAMES ARE LINKED TO THEIR PUBSLISHED WORKS
FEATURED AUTHOR: DEEPTI BALANI
Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over three hundred stories and poems published so far, and six books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of six review editors.
https://twitter.com/bottomstripper
https://www.facebook.com/EdAhern73/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.instagram.com/edwardahern1860/
Dee Allen is a writer of poetry.
With nine years of professional writing career, Deepti has written many blogs, edited magazines, written marketing copy for businesses and organized literary events in the past. One of her realistic fictions won a writing contest and is now a part of an anthology called ‘Blooming Tales’, as one of the recommended reads. She adores turning ideas into words and wishes to contribute some heartwarming stories to the world of literature. Through her stories, she explores the various moods of human emotions.
The author, formerly of New York City and South Florida, is currently a resident of Southwestern Michigan, and has published essays in the Hartford Courant; short stories in Florida Literary Foundation’s hardcover anthology, Paradise; with the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education; in the 1996 Florida First Coast Writers’ Festival and in Britain’s World Wide Writers. “The Note in the Wood,” was a semi-finalist in the 2003 Nelson Algren Awards and was published in the June 2008 issue of Shore Magazine.
Charis Buckingham is a Creative Writing MA graduate and full-time ghostwriter. She specialises in romance and fantasy, although she dabbles in thrillers and one day hopes to write a cosy romance. She lives in England with her partner and dog, and dreams of life in the country.
I am a Boston-area writer, author of “Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges” Oxford University Press, 2019. My young adult novel “Kimiko Chou: Girl Samurai” will be published March 15th by Atmosphere Press.
Called the “blue collar writer” by peers at the University of Central Florida, Bill Cushing moved to California by way of Puerto Rico after earning his MFA from Vermont’s Goddard College. His poetry collection, A Former Life, was recently honored with a Kops-Featherling International Book Award. He is currently working on a memoir focused on his days serving in the Navy and working on commercial ships.
Adrian David writes ads by day and short stories by night. The genres he explores include slice-of-life, suspense, psychological drama, historical fiction, and everything in between, from the mundane to the sublime.
Ted Garcia is a teacher living in New Jersey who enjoys writing short stories in various genres. When he isn’t writing, he enjoys hiking, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
Shamik, from Kolkata, India is a short story writer from India who has written some 40 odd stories in different genres. He has been writing for the last 24 years and also works as an IT professional in a research organization in India. Hopefully you will enjoy his work.
Debbie Hewson lives near the beach in Dorset, she loves to write and is currently learning to surf, very badly.
Writes short stories and poetry in his spare time.
Karin Venables has been writing full time for two years since she retired. Anything that catches her interest becomes a short story, flash fiction, poem or even a novel. I’m dabbling in it all.
C.A. Love joined the United States Army in 2005. Before the winter of 2006 he had graduated basic training, graduated airborne school, and found himself deployed to Afghanistan. His experiences have changed him forever. He writes short stories, novels, and poetry as healing mechanisms.
Daemon Manx is a journalist for the Rutgers Observer Newark whose stories have also been featured in the faculty run ezine Newance Magazine. He was currently offered an internship with Princeton University in the Shakespeare and Company program. He writes fiction under the pen name Daemon Manx and lives in New Jersey with his sister and their cat Sydney.
Candace Meredith earned her Bachelor of Science degree in English Creative Writing from Frostburg State University in the spring of 2008. Her works of poetry, photography and fiction have appeared in literary journals Bittersweet, The Backbone Mountain Review, The Broadkill Review, In God’s Hands/ Writers of Grace, A Flash of Dark, Greensilk Journal, Saltfront, Mojave River Press and Review, Scryptic Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, The Sirens Call Magazine, The Great Void, Foreign Literary Magazine, Lion and Lilac Magazine, Snow Leopard Publishing, BAM Writes and various others. Candace currently resides in Virginia with her two sons and her daughter, her fiancé and their three dogs and six cats. She has earned her Master of Science degree in Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC) from West Virginia University.
Arik Mitra lives in Kolkata, India. An IT professional by day, he has been writing for a little more than two years. He writes mainly poetry and short stories in English and Bengali (mother tongue). His works have been published by Clarendon House Publications, Red Penguin Books and literary journals like Lothlorien Journal, The Quiver Review, Writers and Readers magazine and more.
Sinéad Mongan is based in Galway, Ireland where she has been writing poetry for three years. In 2019, she won Galway University Hospital Arts Trust ‘Poems for Patience’ competition and was placed 3rd in the Ceathalbui poetry competition in 2020. She has been published in a variety of journals and has been invited to be a featured reader at both ‘Over the Edge’ and ‘Not the Time to be Silent’.
My online name is 17mysery. I’m a teenager who loves making art and writing poems and romance novels. When I’m not doing one of the three, I’ll be hanging out with my good dogs whom I love very much or reviewing someone else’s poetry which I have developed as a recent passtime.
Will Nuessle holds a third-degree brown belt in ninjitsu, rides a Harley, primary caregives a five- and two-year-old (with brother three arriving in April) and claims he can recite the alphabet backwards in less than ten seconds. He also writes occasionally; besides multiple books on Amazon his work may be found in Boundless Journal, the Short Humour Site, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal and will shortly grace the first issue of Portmanteau Magazine
Shiloh Osheen has written poetry their entire life. They also write stories, primarily in the fantasy genre, but they have dabbled in other genres as well. For them, writing is like breathing – it is both essential and instinctual. They adore their cat daughter, Cinnamon, and hope to have more pets and some human kids after they marry their fiance. They have published one poetry anthology so far, As Viewed By a Poet Protagonist. They hope to publish more of their works in the future.
Carl “Papa” Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington.
He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as “Papa”
to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.
PAPA’s MOTTO: Long Weekends Forever!
James Pyles is a published Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror author as well as the Technical Writer for a large, diversified business in the Northwest. He currently has over 30 short stories published in various anthologies and periodicals and has just sold his first novella. He won the 2021 Helicon Short Story Award for his science fiction tale “The Three Billion Year Love” which appears in the Tuscany Bay Press Planetary Anthology “Mars.”
ldo Quagliotti is a London-based Italian poet. In 2019 He published his first collection of poems, Japanese Tosa, published by London Poetry Books. The anthology debuted in October 2019 at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall and has then been promoted throughout the London open mic nights such as Flo vortex, Paper Tiger, Poetical Word. Last October He published his second Poetry collection, Confessions Of A Pregnant Man (AlienBuddha Press).
His poems have also been published in italian anthologies, such as Il suono del silenzio 2008 and 2008, and Brazilian magazine (Revista Torquato). Nationally, his work has been included in English anthologies such as Reach 253, Murmurations, Cannon Poet Quarterly, Poetry In The Time Of Coronavirus, The voices Project, The Writers Club, Fleas on the dog, The Materialist , The Essential anthology, Word Doodles, Ponsersavant, The Raconteur Preview, The Orange Blush zine, Lion and Lilac, Unheard Poetry, Poetic Unity, and Literary Magazine. Recently, He has been selected as one the poets representing the Poetry Corner as part of the Kesington+ Chelsea Art Week in London (1-11 October).
With a diploma at the London College of Media and Publishing, He also reviews music and writes live reports on Peek-a-boo magazine and Gigsoup. He also offers reviews and genuine feedback to emerging poets/musicians on https://quaquaversalweb.wordpress.com/.
I am a storyteller and not a professional writer. But I do try to write. It is either that or I will die a writer only at heart. In the meantime, I have fun and invest a lot of my time putting into words the stories that passionately emerge in my imagination. I say a lot of my time because I am not a native English speaker. But I do not mind because if at first, I don’t succeed, I sit down and write some more. Even if my only gain will be building up my vocabulary. What I truly wish is for my stories to reach the readers and leave them feeling good because they spent an hour of their time in the company of my characters.
Jamie Santomasso is an author from Kansas City, Mo. A writer from the age of five, she has recently returned to the literary arts after a 25 year hiatus.
Specializing in free verse and narrative poetry, Jamie takes inspiration from both life experience and imagination to paint vivid pictures of love, heartbreak, fantasy, darkness, and other residual works. Her works receive praise for their ability to evoke emotion, paint pictures and tell stories that the reader can lose themselves in.
John Tavares’ short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines, alternative publications, literary journals, quarterlies, chapbooks, and anthologies, online and in print, including Blood and Aphorisms, Plowman Press, Green’s Magazine, Filling Station, Whetstone, Broken Pencil, Tessera, Windsor Review, and more.
Following journalism studies, his short stories and creative nonfiction were published in The Siren, then Centennial College’s student newspaper, and his articles and features were published in various local news outlets in Toronto, including community and trade newspapers like the East York Times, the Beaches Town Crier and Hospital News, where he interned as an editorial assistant.
Born and raised in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, John is the son of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores. He worked as a research assistant for the Sioux Lookout Public Library and as a research assistant for the SLKT public works department and regional recycle association. He also worked for persons with disabilities at the Sioux Lookout Association for Community Living.
Eric Gershman’s short stories have been featured in The Red Penguin collection of short stories: The Roaring 20s, as well Behind Closed Doors. His fiction has also been featured in Active Muse, and Monnath Books’ Short Story Anthology Tabula Rasa as well as Weaver Magazine. He is the founder of Standard & Poors Published Image whose publications reached more than 50 million readers. Currently, Mr. Gershman is completing his MFA degree at Queens College in Charlotte, NC, as well as his first novel The Visitor. He resides in Vermont with his wife.
Andrena enjoys writing very much.
The Green Shoe Sanctuary 