James B. Nicola’s latest of eight full-length poetry collections is Natural Tendencies (2023). His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice award. His poetry and prose have received a Dana Literary Award, two Willow Review awards, one Best of Net, one Rhysling, and eleven Pushcart nominations—for which he feels both stunned and grateful.
Alexis Santos is a poet from South Florida with a deep love for all things green and boundless. A graduate of SUNY Oswego, Santos holds a degree that has yet to find its calling but remains optimistic about the future. Embracing the uncertainty ahead, Santos finds comfort in the belief that the kindness given to ... Read more
H.L. Dowless is a thirty-year-plus veteran writer who loves traveling, writing, and living life on the edge.
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom. His poems have been featured in Unleash Lit, The Pierian, Propel Magazine, Atticus Review, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and elsewhere. He won the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest in 2024 and the Streetlight Poetry Prize in 2024.
H.L. Dowless is a thirty year plus writer who loves traveling, writing, and living life on the edge.
H.L. Dowles, a seasoned writer with three decades of experience, brings a passion for travel and adventure to the literary world. Known for crafting narratives that blend insight with intensity, Dowles’s work reflects a life spent exploring the edges of experience.
Mark Ready repairs kitchen equipment and writes in his spare time. His Book The Journey to New Edgarton is available on Amazon. He has a very understanding wife, a brilliant and beautiful daughter, and four dogs.
L.E. Duchin, a scientist with a passion for prose, has published stories in Eucalyptus and Rose, Everyday Fiction, Small Leaf Press, Medical Literary Messenger, and The Mantelpiece. She is also the author of a children's book, My Name Is Chaac, inspired by her research on monkeys. An avid traveler, Duchin finds joy in hiking and ... Read more
Thompson Emate spends his leisure time on creative writing, particularly poetry and prose. He has a deep love for nature and the arts. His poems can be seen in Poetry Potion, Poetry Soup, Visual Verse, Writer Space Africa magazine, ScribesMICRO, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Borderless Journal and elsewhere. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
David Andersen is a retired computer systems design engineer. He was the lead designer of the first automated catalog ordering system in Europe, the first commercially successful voice-mail system, and many military and air traffic control projects. His previous chapbook story, A Little Kid Remembers WW2, appeared in Written Tales Chapbook XI Nostalgia.
Karen FitzGerald is a genre-fluid writer whose work has appeared in e-zines and print anthologies. Her debut novel is in progress, and she expects it will grace the slush piles of the best publishers in the business before reaching the light of day. She is an undaunted, smiling, idiot savant.
Daniel P. Stokes has published poetry widely in literary magazines in Ireland, Britain, the U.S.A, Canada and Asia, and has won several poetry prizes. He has written three stage plays which have been professionally produced in Dublin, London and at the Edinburgh Festival.
