Kathy Abrahams: Cycle
Work published in a number of magazines, and my first poetry manuscript was accepted by GINNINDERRA PRESS, of Australia.
I am an active duty medic in the navy currently stationed in San Diego California. I have never taken any art classes in my life I just have always found drawing to be my type of meditation. Most of my work is done in abstract or as I like to call it organized chaos. My tool of choice for my work is a Black ink pen, sometimes adding a splash of another color as you see in my piece "YOUR WORLD ALIVE". Each drawing usually takes me fifteen to twenty hours to complete. Contact: paulandkatieadams@hotmail.com
Fabian Acker:
Fabian Acker spent a lot of his life being told what to do, first as a soldier, then as a merchant seaman and finally as a reporter. He eventually washed up, via many circuitous routes, as senior tutor at the NCTJ, telling other people what to do especially about using clear English. Despite many years at this job, the flow of clichés, dangling participles, and misplaced apostrophes continues to embellish newspapers and magazines. He took an MA recently in Creative Writing, and discovered that there was hardly any difference between fiction and journalism, neither in content nor use of English. He has had a few short stories published, read some of his work on the BBC, and won two prizes - one for travel writing (Sunday Times), one for technology writing. About ships' sewage, if you must know (Safety at Sea). Not for nothing has he been called a "crap writer". He hates the word "currently", loves the word "ineluctable", and threatens to use the latter in a short story as soon as he finds out what it means.
Katie Alford: The Fairy and the Princess
I am a freelance artist specializing in 3d computer generated art. A proud Brit, I graduated from Teesside University with three degrees, all specializing in computer art and animation. I have been writing for many years, mainly in the fantasy and sci-fi genres. My longer works are currently stuck in the editing phase, but I have had short works published in a writing group anthology and have won a couple of small online competitions for short fiction. My current project is a steampunk novel started during my successful 2011 NaNoWriMo attempt. I hope soon to break into the literary world as a published author, so watch this space.
Akili Amina: Candles That Like Wine
Akili Amina, has recently written a book titled, "African Heritage, American Experience" Her work has been featured in three literary magazines, including Main Channel Voices and Budzushammer.
Bill (William) Anderson: The Last Bus to Brickford Lane
I'm old and longtime retired, married 50 years this year. Writing is my hobby, my interest in writing keeps me sane, it is also along with going to the gym twice a week, my escape to anywhere.
I live in southern New Jersey and have written poems and stories over the last five years. Some of them have been published in print and online magazines such as surprisingstories.com, Pablo Lennis and Ceremony: A Journal of Poetry and Other Arts.
Jason Anderson: Life of Addiction Lost Words
My name is Jason Lee Anderson, and I am an aspiring poet/writer. I have been writing poetry for two years, but only as a hobby, which slowly turned into a passion of mine. I share my poetry on my Facebook (facebook.com/APoeticHeart) and also the site FlexWriters Creative Network (flexwriterscreativenetwork.net).
James Anthony: Isolation The Reunion
I have only been writing creatively for a coupe of years, but really enjoy the process. I'm a member of the Rising Brook Writers group and have just sucessfully completed an OU Start Writing module.
Kristina Arrambide: The Gate of Hell
Kerry Ashwin: After the Rains
Kerry writes for magazines, radio and fun. She has been published in print and on-line. Kerry is a bloggist and also a humorous essayist. She can be found at www.kerryashwin.com
Aurlie Asseo: Southern Strand of Time
My name is Aurlie, im 21 I live in Geneva I'm slightly physically handicapped but try to do my best to manage with it with the help of my family and friends. I'll be sitting my baccalaureate exams soon ... I really like poetry and I do think it is magical, I really hope you'll enjoy mine and that it will make you daydream, as I do!
Daniel Audet: Vision
Akili Amina, has recently written a book titled, "African Heritage, American Experience" Her work has been featured in three literary magazines, including Main Channel Voices and Budzushammer.
I am an avid reader and animal lover. Other short pieces published in Long Story Short, Necrology Shorts, and Katha Kshetre. Books include: When Lightning Strikes Back, Corridors in Time, Timeless Barriers, The Magic Ring, Echo of Lies, My House Filled with Many Tails and Stolen Memories. Please visit my website: www.alicebaburek.com
Frank Baburek: The Visit
I live in Oregon. I am 63 yrs old and retired. Back in the 70's I took some writing classes at the local Community college and wrote some stories then but never got anything published. Since retiring I have picked up the passion of writing short stories that are somewhat different then the ordinary.
Matthew Baganz: Adolescent Faculties, a Novella
Matt Baganz spent his early years in the midwest USA and earned a degree in Creative Writing. He later escaped the winters and settled on a south Floridian beach, where he began teaching high school and earned a degree in Education. In his tropical days he spent his time writing, learning to surf, and training alligators. He currently finds himself living in Germany and teaching at an international school.
Rick Bailey: Chemical Neutral
Rick Bailey's work has appeared in Georgetown Review, Chattahoochee Review, Oxford Magazine, and College English. He practiced creative writing a little bit at the University of Michigan, then quite a lot more after finishing his Doctor of Arts degree there.
Sylvia B. Barber: The Zen of Ironing
An artist most of my life, writing seemed a natural progression in pursuit of creation for me. I began with poetry. I write mostly for myself, hardly ever for my family or friends. Thomas Wolfe was right - anyone who writes can't take it home…too many look for themselves and suffer for it.
David Bassano: Altiplano
David Bassano is a PhD candidate at the University at Albany in Albany, NY, and specializes in Human Rights History. His stories often focus on questions of genuineness and honesty, particularly at the moment of a difficult decision.
Erin Baliya: Fly By Night
Erin has been writing since she was a youngster and considers it be her passion. She is a lifelong Jersey girl and is currently working toward going back to college to get a Bachelor's degree in Communications. Erin also enjoys reading and has a number of favorite books in her collection. She also likes spending time with family and friends.
Gary Beck: Emergency Alert
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press and 'The Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press. A collection of his poetry 'Days of Destruction' has been published in 2009 by Skive Press. Another collection 'Expectations' is being published by Rogue Scholars Press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City, where he's busy writing. His poetry and short stories have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines.
John Behan: Cruel Nature - Cruel Life
I am from Dublin Ireland, and i like to write, i have written plays a book and short stories & poems. Writing for me helps to keep my mind active and sharp, i have found that to much of a same routine can dull the mind.
Ariel Bell: Worthy
My name is Ariel Bell, and I am sixteen years old. I have written poems and stories since the 1st grade. I also write for the Huntsville Times and have been published many times since my freshman year. I aspire for many of my future works to be published by well known or growing publishers and to be viewed by a vast audience. I currently attend Lee High School as a Sophomore (10th grader) and it is my second year in the Creative Writing Magnet. Contact information: You can reach me at this email- arielb117@gmail.com
Tandy Belt: Cowgirl Dreams
I am a 58 year old woman, and have been writing seriously all my life. I just love the craft of writing! People love to listen to me read my stories out loud, and I am always surprised by how this "old timey" tradition settles a family into quiet awe.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett:
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15 year old photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic,The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organisation, Winstons Wish, Papworth Trust, Mencap, Big Issue, Wrexham science , Fennel and Fern and and Nature's Best Photography.She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and magazines across the world including the Guardian, RSPB Birds , RSPB Bird Life, Dot Dot Dash ,Alabama Coast , Alabama Seaport and NG Kids Magazine (the most popular kids magazine in the world). She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010.Only visual artist published in the Taj Mahal Review June 2011. Youngest artist to be displayed in Charnwood Art's Vision 09 Exhibition and New Mill's Artlounge Dark Colours Exhibition.
Mike Berger: Smart Assed World: A Collection Screwed Dirty Deed Her Fight With Time 3 Poems by Mike Berger
Mike Berger is an MFA, He is retired and writes poetry and short stories full time
He has been writing poetry for less than two years. His work appear in seventy-one journals. He has published two books of short stories and five poetry chapbooks, He is a member of The Academy of American Poets.
Leeroy Berlin: Namaste
Former English Facilitator and Writing Coordinator for the Rye Neck School District in Westchester County, New York, Carolee Ackerson Bertisch is the author of Who Waves the Baton?, a book of poetry and prose, "Musings about Nature, Marshmallows and Mountain ranges." A leader of two local book discussion groups, she also participates in A Gathering of Poets, a group that meets regularly at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch library to critique poems, and perform Poets' Theaters for local arts organizations. Chair of the St. Johns Country Library Advisory Board for the third year, she was honored in June, 2010, with the EVE (Education, Volunteer, Employment) award for her leadership promoting the library budget in St. Johns County. Former President of the Friends of the Library-Ponte Vedra Beach, Bertisch also served on the Board of Directors of FOCUSCummer, which supports the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, FL, the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, the Board of Directors of Bird Island Park and is the Poetry Chair for The Florida Heritage Book Festival. As Poetry Chair, she has organized and promoted poetry sessions each year, including poets as speakers and teachers of poetry, as well as a poetry contest for high school students. Bertisch has been published recently in an anthology titled Word Trips and in several online zines: The Infinite Writer, Old City Cool and Deadpaper.org. Her poem, Common Ground, won First Prize in the North Florida Writers' Festival.
Barbara Beswick: An Engineer Remembers Away In A Manger, A Baking Pan For A Bed
I was graduated from Kutztown University (PA) in '62 with an Art Education BS and a minor in English. I did quite a bit of educational writing during my 40 year teaching career in PA, NJ, UT and FL. I was published by Prentice-Hall with Every Child An Artist which can still be found on the internet...it's a classic, full of art lessons that anyone can teach to any level student. I co-wrote Save Our Schools with R. Robinson. It is a thoroughly comprehensive school reform plan which should be implemented in every school in the U.S. (I'm not kidding!) You can check my website for info. about both of the above....
thesensuousdisciple.com....that's the name of the novel which I've written in 3 books...and haven't found a publisher as yet. I've had one poem published and have written several short stories. Working on a second novel...a mystery...but still plugging away for an agent for "Disciple," which is my most important task now. I just finished writing up bios for a magazine...the first publication of Chalk Magazine for the 4th annual Chalk Festival in Sarasota, FL (street painters from the world over...all of them with "big" names will compete on Nov.1-7th). Let's hope it doesn't rain! I am also a writing group leader for The Florida Writer's Association. It's called "Sebring Scribblers and Scribes;" and I run workshops and discussions along with securing speakers, published authors and publishers for my local writers here in Sebring, Florida.
Andy Biddulph: They Took My Sky
I am a sixty-year-old trouble causer, who makes his living teaching maths and science. I grow all my own food and recently won the biggest marrow competition in the local show. My hobbies include canoeing and theoretical physics. I campaign on environmental issues; my latest one being against river pollution caused by run off after spraying roads with glyphosate. I ran the Chelmsley Wood Writers' Group for seven years. Since moving to Burton on Trent, I have joined the Runaway Writers and got into performance poetry. We do all the local arts festivals and gigs in pubs. I have one poem published in Angels Breath (United press) and a letter to New Scientist on the mathematical naivety of brain training exercises.
Chris Birrane: My Pen
Born in London, England, of Irish parents. Moved 'home' to Ireland when 14 years. An about and advanced reader, from a very early age, writing was almost a natural progression. I write as my mood dictates; poetry, prose, short stories, etc. I have been published in anthologies, on line magazines and local and national media. It is my intention to publish a book of poetry/prose this year - maybe self-publish, if necessary - I am exploring options. My author page on Facebook is open for perusal; feel free to say hello...our even 'Like'.
Ros Black: I Am From
Having taken early retirement in 2007, Ros is now pursuing her interests of writing, social history and travel. She has had several short stories and articles published and last year self-published A Talent for Humanity - the life and work of Lady Henry Somerset, the biography of an amazing Victorian aristocrat who responded to the scandal of her failed marriage by devoting her life to campaigning on women's issues and the temperance cause. The book is on the WritingRaw store and is available from Amazon.
Stephen Black: Keeping Time
An American who has lived in Asia most of his life, Stephen Black is a writer, artist, videomaker and photographer. He has exhibited in galleries and museums,has worked for huge TV/movie companies and has drunk tiny, beautiful cups of sake in Fukushima. Besides finishing a book about a unique community in Singapore,he is now working with Shoreless on an ebook conversion service that also creates book covers with impact. Currently updating his website, the best place for information about his books, scripts, 3hows, videos and crazy art projects is his Facebook account: Stephen Black/Blacksteps.
Ralph Bland: I Got You Babe
Ralph Bland i a writer living on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to his short fiction, he has written three novels of comic Southern Fiction and recently completed a fourth manuscript.
"Blaze" is a young author hoping to be published someday in a book of her own. Poetry is just the beginning!
Ian Boulton: Hackademic
I am a community mobilization specialist currently living in London, having previously lived and worked in Russia, Ukraine and the USA. I have been professionally involved as an author and editor of several non-fiction works, including Writing For A Change (Jossey Bass 2006). Since 2010 I have been writing fiction, completing one novel and a number of short stories. One of these, Dead Guitarists' Departure Lounge, was published in the inaugural issue of Literary Juice in December 2011.
Jack Bowser: Contemplations of Our Nation
Bowser is an up and coming writer from New York. A lot of his life consists of people telling him how to act and what he "should" and "shouldn't" be doing. He likes to his time shooting the breeze, hanging with colleagues, and taking life how it is. (Note: No breezes were hurt in the creation of this bio.)
David Bridge: Population One
David writes from Bogota, Colombia where he teaches English and tries to stay out of trouble. He has another story out in the Winter edition of Sable Mare Tales.
Steve Brightman: 5 Poems by Steve Brightman
Steve Brightman lives in a one-story, moatless castle in Kent, Ohio. His flank is guarded by his pet parrot and he realizes that sooner or later the night will win. But not tonight...
Jack Bristow: Our Bus Driver, Fred
Jack Bristow is a writer who spends most of his time in California and New Mexico engaging in meaningful conversation with trees. He's written for Inwood Indiana, Indigio Rising, as well as a handful of other zines and magazines. He is also a frequent contributor to his favorite eZine, The New Flesh.
Michael D. Brown: The Cuckoo's Nest
Michael D. Brown, phD teaches English to Chinese undergraduates, graduates, and PhD's at Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing China. Author of 16 books including six volumes of poetry. Recipient of the New York State Senator's award for poetry. Originally from New York, Michael lectures internationally, also provides literary reviews for universities. With numerous literary credits Michael's poetry has appeared in: The Christian Educator's Journal, The Geronimo Review, The Black Scholar, Ascent, Voices, and many others...
Andrea Broxton: Tinnitus On The Shortwave
Andrea Broxton lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Like most writers, she lives alone with her dog. Her mother always nagged her to write. The first story she ever workshopped ended up in a literary review. Sadly, this only encouraged her. Most recently published in Literary House Review, Bicycle Review and Skyline Review.
Mandy Brzenk: 3 Poems by Mandy Brzenk
Ron Bulla: It's In My Head In a Fast Lane The Returned Response Received For Toni Ode to a Sperm Donor Halloween 1 and 2 Smokescreen
Ron Bulla is 48 years old and a college student in Poplar Bluff, Mo... contact: rbulla4630@yahoo.com
Brigid Burke: Senex
Brigid Burke is a new writer, working on both poetry and fiction dealing with hidden emotions and the unconscious. When she's not writing or traveling, she works as a digital archivist and cataloger, and occasionally as a professor. She lives in Hampton, NJ.
Molly Burley: Self Image
Tammy Burley: The Heartache Our Spot
My name is Tammy Burley. I am a senior at Elizabeth City State University. I am majoring in English, and i love to do creative writing on the side.
Salvatore Buttaci: Valentine's Day A Pumpkin Poem From Memory
Salvatore Buttaci is an obsessive-compulsive writer whose work has appeared widely. He was the 2007 recipient of the $500 Cyber-wit Poetry Award. His poems, stories, articles, and letters have appeared widely in publications that include New York Times, U. S. A. Today, The Writer, Writer's Digest, Cats Magazine, The National Enquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Thinking Ten, Pen 10, and Six Sentences. His latest collection of short-short fiction, 200 Shorts, is available in book and Kindle editions at tinyurl.com/3o5w84e He lives with his wife Sharon in West Virginia.
Susan S. Calfee: Burning Barbie Legacy
Susan Calfee is a singer, volunteer and published freelance writer of essays, fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. She is pretty wild about words. Calfee enjoys the many workshops she's been a part of which meet on a Shantyboat, docked at a marina in a beautiful corner of northeast Florida.
I am a bunch of everything, mother, wife, student, lover, activist, and in my free time (what little there is of it) I like to write, sing, dance, act and make jewelry. I became interested in writing when I was very young. I was always misunderstood and so many times writing was the only way to get my point across affectively. sweetnsournique.blogspot.com or email: uniquecarper@gmail.com
Audrey T. Carroll: Brushstroke
My work has previously been published in The Blue Route, The Cynic Online Magazine, the Red Fez Review, Sphere, and others.
Sue Carroll: Farewell
My name is Sue Carroll and I was born in Lancashire in the UK. I am married with one son and am enjoying my retirement. The majority of my poetry is traditional, rhyming poetry and I have an online portfolio at http://www.Writing.Com/authors/ici_sue
Karin Carstens: The Juror
I am an Artist/Writer. My first success with writing was at the age of nine when I won a writing contest in a local Newspaper. I have written two novels and a collection of short stories and poems, some have been published in the RPB forum and Long Story Short.
Jon Cass: Vegas I
Jon Cass is three sheets to the wind & headed wherever it blows him. Today, he's holed up in Bum****, Pennsylvania. Tomorrow, who knows? It'll probably depend on a coin flip.
Chris Castle is English but works in Greece; he has been accepted over eighty times this past year. His influences include Ray Carver, PT Anderson and Bill Murray. He can be reached at chriscastle76@hotmail.com
Racquel Charlemagne: Lost In Translation
I am Writer/Poet. I have always enjoyed writing Short Stories and Poetry ever since grammar school. I won an Award and Certificate for Best Short Story Author in 1993 from Whitney M. Young Junior School in Jersey City, NJ My motivation and inspiration keeps me writing and the fact that I really love and respect the Art. I am currently working on a Book of Poetry and a Novel.
Ronald L. Cherry: Probing Feelings
Tichaona Chinyelu: Wanton Woman
Tichaona Chinyelu, poet, writer and mother, currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts. She is the author of three books of poetry; the latest being a chapbook, Contraband Marriage.
David Clarke: 3 Poems by David Clarke Fiery But We Know Just Like Rory Gallagher's Guitar Condemned to Write The Spectacled Scrum The Meaning Of Life I'm More Understanding Than Many Great Men Of History Inscription in Clonmacnois Saturnalia
David Clarke works as a journalist in an Irish newspaper where he runs an historical column. He is also a musician in a cover band but hopes to start writing his own songs soon. The poems are an exploration and study of self in the context of Irish society. If anybody would like to contact David Clarke about his poetry then his email address is davidiclarke@yahoo.ie.
Una Clarke: 2 Poems by Una Clarke Who Are You? End Of Times Beyond The Veil Love Resurrection Sometimes I'm Scared Bitter Root God's School Of Excellence
My name is Una Clarke. I live in the beautiful Burren area of County Clare Ireland. I have been writing poetry, painting, and sculpting wood for the last 20 years. Like myself my poems are radical they are written to provoke stir and challenge. I reject most of what is presenting itself as Christianity in the world today. There is a blue print that I will never compromise on. That is what my poems reflect. My Email address is unaclarke1@gmail.com.
Don Clifford: Transition Destiny Diverted 1 Destiny Diverted 2 Destiny Diverted 3 Destiny Diverted 4
Don Clifford is an armchair historian and archaeologist who has traveled through many of the countries that provide locales for the story's main character, Abel ben Solomon. He is also, a retired USAF officer who trained as a navigator. While researching ancient navigation techniques, which are featured in the story, he learned the old ways are still practical with an added boost from Crichton E.M. Miller's book, "The Golden Thread of Time."
Ariel Cochran: Reason
My name is Ariel Cochran, and I am fifteen years old. I'm a beginner in creative writing especially in poetry. Last year in fall of 2010, I became published for the first time with one of my poems. I aspire for many of my future works to be published by well known or growing publishers and to be viewed by a vast audience. I currently attend Lee High School as a Freshman (9th grader).
Theresa Cocolin: Rachmaninoff Makes Me Cry Transformation
My name is Theresa Cocolin and I write a weekly column for our county newspaper. I have a book of poetry that will be published by Mount Olive College Press in 2010. I have just published a book, The Last Rose of Summer, through Lulu, a print-on-demand company, and am in the process of doing all my PR. Rachmaninoff Makes Me Cry is from my last column in The Harnett County New.
For as long as I can remember, I have always lost myself in putting pen to paper. Before I discovered computers, I filled exercise book after exercise book with my stories. A bad habit though, was always throwing out my finished product- never believing it was good enough. I could kick myself now; I have learnt to believe in myself more and in what I write. I live in Australia with my two sons. Besides writing, I enjoy spending time with family and friends, having a laugh, reading and enjoying life. I really enjoy writing, sometimes surprising myself with the twists it can take on, and I hope you will enjoy reading what I write!
Sonja Condit: Salt
Sonja Condit Coppenbarger is a writer, musician and teacher in Greenville, South Carolina. She plays bassoon in the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, and teaches at North Greenville University and the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. She is a student in the MFA program at Converse College, Spartanburg.
Vivian Conejero: Gone Away… Coming of Age at Brighton Beach
Vivian Conejero was born in Havana, Cuba. She resides in New York City since 1970. She has earned three academic degrees in various aspects of the art of music. Her profession as orchestra conductor takes her to numerous cities around the world and has consistently earned her high praise (maestraconejero.webs.com). Currently, Maestra Conejero is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the D Major International Music Festival (DMIMF-Classical.webs.com). Vivian Conejero always felt the urge to write both fiction and poetry; yet, it was not until late 2005 that she dared to attempt it. In October of that year, some friends encouraged her to set in writing her recollections of her childhood encounter with the ghosts of her paternal great-grandparents. It became, "Gone away…." Shortly afterwards, she discovered and joined the Hunter Writers' Critique Group. She has since written several more stories and even a few poems. "Gone away…" was published in the October 2011 issue of Writing Raw Magazine. Conejero's literary expression inclines towards narratives closely based on her own experiences and those of others in her life. She often writes about rather traumatic childhood events. She greatly enjoys writing ghost stories and short memoirs. Until recently, Dr. Conejero's writing was confined to the academic and musical spheres. Her doctoral dissertation for New York University was on the subject of Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony. Since 2010, she is engaged in a project involving a book and two documentaries on the challenges and accomplishments of Classical musicians with disabilities.
Writer and artist, Ed lives in Encinitas, California. His art and short stories can be viewed and read at www.bergenbugle.com. Email: edcoonce@bergenbugle.com
Heath Corlew: My Rump Hurts Disorder
I have an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte. I live in Asheville, North Carolina where I work all sorts of part-time jobs to support my writing problem.
Gibson Culbreth: The Staircase
Gibson Culbreth is a girl named after a guitar. She is currently living in Chicago, IL where she attends Columbia College Chicago for fiction writing. On her days off she spends her time playing with puppies, drinking lots of coffee and scribbling stories on receipt tape. She has been featured in the Molotov Cocktail and is a contributing member of the I Feel Pretty Writers Collective.
Tony Culver: The Malignant Moor Window Onto A Windowless World
Tony Culver is a painter, potter, sculptor, illustrator, writer, avant garde publisher and one of the 20th century's most prolific, radical and diverse arts innovators. Responsible for - abstract-surrealism; moving paintings (broke with a 40,000 year old tradition); book-decos; books as sculpture; the script in exhibition (broke with a 2,600 year old tradition); infinite image abstracts; pocket art collections (millions of painting compositions one can carry in a pocket or handbag); jazz literature; myriad form sculpture (broke with an 8,000 year old tradition); infinite decorative effect pottery (broke another 8,000 year old tradition); 3-dimensional paintings; a new landscape approach; 25 portrait styles; He is internationally exhibited as writer and illustrator; internationally performed as actor and performance artist - He is also disabled.
Dara Cunningham: Cooling and Heating
Dara Cunningham is currently pursuing a BA in History and hopes to teach. Originally from New Jersey, she now lives in Northeastern PA.
Murielle Cyr: Strays
My work has appeared in MATRIX, THE MOOSEHEAD ANTHOLOGY and COUNTRY CONNECTION.
Kevin Daiss: Three Sheets, to the Wind
Kevin Daiss holds a B.A. in English from AASU in Savannah, GA, where he lives with his wife, son, and dog. He is an English teacher pursuing writing as a creative outlet. He has had poetry published in a number of venues, but this is one of his first pieces of fiction to receive that honor. Kevin also creates personalized stories and poems that can be ordered via email for a nominal fee at kevin.daiss@gmail.com. He calls it "à la carte literature." Simply tell him what you'd like and he'll write it for your special occasion, literary amusement, or whatever other fancy you have.
Katherine Dalton: The Boy and Grandfather
Katherine Dalton is a freelance writer and novelist. She lives with her husband, two daughters, two dogs (hers) and three cats (his) where ever the army has them currently stationed.
Benjamin Daniel: Snapshot
Benjamin, a public relations, marketing, advertising and writing guy with a decade of spotty experience, has written for a number of organizations as well as for print and online publications including New Jersey Conference of Mayors Magazine, Rowan Today, South Jersey Biz Buzz and American Water. A graduate of Glassboro, New Jersey's Rowan University and Rutgers University, Benjamin raises his family in South Jersey.
Allen Davies: Gaijin Skin - Excerpt 1 Gaijin Skin - Excerpt 2 Gaijin Skin - Excerpt 3 Gaijin Skin - Excerpt 4 Gaijin Skin - Excerpt 5
Allen Davies followed his dream of being a writer despite the struggle and so far has been published online in North America This- zine and here- writingraw.com, only English prose on a French zine and in Melbourne UNESCO City of literature- notata.net and greendoorpublishing.com. Hopefully this debut novel, a zen odyssey and love-hate meditation, will be available soon, within the next 6 months. You can reach him on myspace.com/dharmapoet.
Sara Davis: Catch The Air
Sara Davis is a trained Ninja. Ok, not really. But I have been known to make a mean meatloaf and weave a wicked tale or two. I'd also love you to love me, but I know how the song goes. I received my first writing award for "Psalmist" during 6th grade sleepaway camp. I can be found on Facebook, along with a million other Sara Davis..es...
Steve B. Davis: Steve B. Davis
Steve is a published author of nonfiction and fiction. Although he has lived in several different locales, he now makes his home in Calgary, Alberta. He is a do-it-again Dad with five children and two grandchildren.
Vincent Davis: In Perspective Bugs
Vincent Davis is a man of many interests. People call him a "renaissance man", for Davis that's "a term that has about as much meaning as the word awesome does!" In spite of that, Vincent is an avid writer/poet, illustrator, songwriter/musician (vinnydavismusic.com), film maker/actor ("The Empty Man", 2010), t-shirt designer and owner of relictees.com and an art instructor. The latter funds the majority of his other interests. Davis' written work can be found in 20 Dissidents Vol.1, Issue#2 (2007), digitalabstract.com (2006) and the late commonties.com "20 Questions" (2007-2010). He lives in Fleetwood NY with his wife and dog Skip.
Holly Day: 5 Poems by Holly Day
Holly Day is a freelance writer and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her recent books include Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Guitar-All-In-One for Dummies, co-authored with Jim Peterik, former guitarist of the band Survivor. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Oxford American, The Midwest Quarterly, and Coal City Review.
Margaret Deadmon: The Circle
Margaret Deadmon - North Carolina resident, retired hair stylist, full-time potter now. Check out my website at www.blackdachshundpottery.net. Been writing for about 3 years, mostly short essays about whatever seems to pop into my head at the moment. Some of my essays come from something I have experienced, others come from that place inside your mind that houses them until they can typed out. I like to write about things that are in a way, surreal, a little on the "out there" side. Will wake up in the middle of the night and have to turn on laptop to write, it just comes spilling out..no rhyme or reason, can't stay in bed.
Nadine Ducca Deharbe: Providence
Nadine Ducca Deharbe is a translator and English teacher. Originally from southern California, she now lives in Barcelona, Spain, where she studies, works and enjoys great food. Her stories have been published in various e-zines such as The Fringe, Weirdyear, Static Movement and Eunoia Review. She is currently working on her first novel, entitled Making Time. For more information, you can visit her blog at www.nadineducca.webs.com.
Sheryl Douglas: Bedtime for Max
Barbara R. DuBois: Women
James Dye: The Illuminati Frost's Forest It Cosmist Worm The Ghost The State Of Things As They Actually Exist An Inflated Ball [The Scheme Of Currency]
James Dye is currently an undergraduate student working on a Bachelor's in English, and he works as a composition tutor. His poems and short stories have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies such as Aphelion, a webzine of science-fiction and fantasy, The Clockwise Cat, a progressive literary webzine, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Scifaikuest, The Ampersand Review, the greatest literary project of all time, DOGZPLOT, a flash-fiction site, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), an online literary journal, The Cynic Online Magazine, Calliope Nerve, a web log, Shoots and Vines, Outshine, a twitterzine, Pandora's Imagination, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine, mad swirl, Moon Drenched Fables, cc&d magazine, Word Catalyst Magazine (rip), Danse Macabre, The Stray Branch, Sorcerous Signals, Cats With Thumbs, a literary blogzine, (A Brilliant) Record Magazine, Poets for Living Waters, Sorean Gothic Magazine, Midwest Literary Magazine, Girls With Insurance, Raven Images, Kerouac's Dog Magazine, Hazard Cat, Haggard & Halloo, Eunoia Review, Daily Love, Weirdyear, Contemporary American Voices, Zouch Magazine, Raven Images, and the Camel Saloon. In 2009 he won the Django award, and in 2010 and 2011 he won first place awards for the NICC writing contest. MLM awarded him the distinction award for best fiction. He also has work in the Dark Side Anthology, I Swear This is True Anthology, Static Poetry 3 Anthology, A Generation Defining Itself, Winter Canons, and short stories in Soft Corners.
Christopher Eastman-Nagle: Romeo and Juliet Revisited
I am an aging baby boomer who migrated as a child with my family to Australia, where I received by secondary and tertiary education. I am just old enough to remember the world before consumer capitalism colonized the globe and us. I am broadly experienced and have worked in a wide variety of occupations, but am now retired to meditate on our condition and write about it. The conclusions I am drawing are radical and fundamental; that the consumer society is a dangerous blind alley that will destroy us and much of the rest of the web of life if we do not back out as quickly as possible; that the radical ideological social and moral laissez-fairism that has accompanied the consumerist revolution is equally dangerous and threatens to undo us as individuals and as a society; and that if we are to escape the violence and chaos that is undoubtedly coming soon to a place near all of us, we will have to become defensive and conservative in judgment, redefine the meaning of wealth, its building methodology and accumulation, and re-regulate social intercourse. Nothing less than a root and branch break from our past will give us any chance at all of surviving the legacy we are now creating for ourselves. I intend to act as a guide in this struggle to save ourselves, in the extremely dangerous journey into the future that we are about to be forced to undertake. And if none will come with me, I will make that journey alone. The greatest journeys must first be imagined and so trenchant in their intent as to grasp the imaginers by the throat and tell them bluntly: only through travail and trial, by fire and blows can their spirit be reforged. This ordeal can either temper or destroy according to its whim, or perhaps the pilgrims' strength within. Courage can surmount faint hearts, but how can faith presume that having gambled all, there is a way to save us in the end? There are no roads upon the other side, except the ones we make, every step perhaps at stake our lives, every view through soldiers' eyes. And so we wile away our days beside brooding familiarities that will not speak to us for fear that it is not the sun that brightens all that we hold dear, but the bonfire of our vanities; that the deepening darkening shade it castes is not shadow, but decaying sanity. We look for hopeful signs, but at midnight, the clock rings its hands and says in anguished tones, "Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time."
Cathy Eaton: A Degree In Fire Starting
Cathy Eaton, a professor at NHTI, Concord's Community College, tries to ignite passion in her fiction writing and literature students. Returning to Bread Loaf School of English in 2009 was a splendid kick off for her sabbatical to write fiction. She believes that conceiving a story and then living through its many transformations is like being pregnant, giving birth and raising a child: some days a joy, other days a heartache. Eaton's stories have appeared in Bartlby Snopes, Jimston Journal, Literary Magic, and Poor Mojo's Almanac. She is currently under contract with The Chaffey Review, The Write Place at the Write Time, and Zouch Magazine. In addition, she won the Raymond Short Story Prize and received honorable mention in both the (NH) Seacoast Fiction Contest and the Atlantic Monthly student competition. Her young adult novel Curse of the Pirate's Treasure is available Authorhouse.com. Eaton thrives on cross-country skiing or seeking peace through yoga and mindful meditation.
I studied English and Drama and university and have always been quite a keen writer with particular attention paid to short stories and poetry. As I have matured, the more sardonic I have become and my writing is a reflection of that. Email: alexeidedwards@yahoo.co.uk; Twitter: @bloggart84
John Egan: 5 Poems by John Egan 5a Poems by John Egan
By day John is a mild-mannered teacher of English for Academic Purposes at Uniworld College, Chippendale, but by night he does intricate and mysterious things with imagery, meter and metaphor, some of which even get published. He has been writing occasionally since university but, apart from several poems in the Macquarie University student newspaper, has only seriously sought publication in the last few years. He has been successful in some competitions, including a first prize in the Ipswich Poetry Competition in 2006, and his chapbook NOT THE RAIN, THE WIND is published by the Melbourne Poets Union. He is a member of the NSW Greens and divides his time between Sydney, where he works, and the NSW South Coast, where he has a life. John thinks of himself as a poet of water and memory.
Debra Ann Elliott: Deadly Mistake When Beauty Meets Morbid
I am a published author. My publishing credits include a collection of two collections of poetry. I am a contributing author of Heavenly Humor for the Cat Lover's Soul, Hurray God! and God Makes Lemonade. I also author seven blogs. I currently reside in Birmingham, AL.
Karen S. Elliott: The Devil's Passing (In Five Parts) Delaware Shores Losers Club
I want my audience to be frightened, sweating, and enjoying the shivers. I want my audience to read my work and believe in what they cannot see, what they cannot put their fingers on. I want them to be afraid to turn the page, to be afraid to reach out. I want my readers to wonder what might live in deep forests and in their own lush backyards. Do not look out the window. It’s all there - waiting. My favored genre is horror, although I also enjoy reading and writing memoir, historical fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. You can find other examples of my writing at www.karenselliott.wordpress.com. Follow me at www.twitter.com/kselliottwriter. You can also find me on Facebook.
Zdravka Evtimova: Houses Close To The River
Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria where she lives and works as literary translator from English, French and German. She has lived and worked as a literary translator in Koeln, Germany and in Brussels, Belgium. Her short stories have appeared in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Japan etc altogether 21 countries in the world. The following of her short story collections were published in English: "Bitter Sky", SKREV Press, UK, 2003, "Somebody Else" MAG Press, USA, 2005, "Miss Daniella", SKREV Press, UK 2007, "Pale and Other Postmodern Bulgarian Stories", Vox Humana, Canada/Israel, 2010. Her novel "God of Traitors" was published by Book for a Buck Publishers, USA 2007. After winning the competition for literary translators launched by Elizabeth Kostova Foundation in 2010, Zdravka Evtimova was the fist Bulgarian translator in residence at Open Letter Books to the University of Rochester, USA in December 2010.
Ria Falkner: Chains
Ria Falkner's talents span many artistic disciplines, including, literature, music, and painting. As well as being a versatile performing and recording artist, music educator and award wining composer/lyricist, Ria is also an accomplished writer. She studied English literature, creative writing, and music at the University of Miami, Miami-Dade College, and Capilano College. Ria enjoys writing in many literary genres, including, short story, poetry, and opera libretto. Her article Music Therapy in the Adult Day Care was published in the Journal of Music Therapy, and last year her poem Dear Hamlet was published in the Florida Times Union. In 2008, she co-wrote the libretto for the opera Siddhartha and has just completed a commission to rewrite and edit the autobiography of female composer, Alba Rosa Vietor. A member of The North Florida Writers, the Florida Writers Association, and the Ponte Vedre Poets, Ria has read her poems at the Jacksonville Public Library and the St. Augustine Book Festival. Ria lives with her husband, composer, Dr. Peter Fraser MacDonald, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Antonio Linares Familiar: 3 Poems by Antonio Linares Familiar
Madrid 1962 (Spain). Graduate in English Philology in the Complutense University of Madrid. Teacher of Secondary Education and translator. He has collaborated in the diary ABC and in the magazines Clarín, Alteridad and Poe +, among others. He has taken part in different poetical readings. Co-founder and coordinator of the literary gathering "Claudio Rodríguez" in the Café Comercial of Madrid. Member of the " International Society for First World War Studies ". Coordinator and participant of many workshops of literary creation, as well as of different cycles and literary circles. Author of Investigación en acción, proceso de enseñanza - aprendizaje de la lengua inglesa (Madrid, 1996), of the books of poems Bajo la Sombra de Mil Vidas (Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Ed. Prima Litera, 2001). Part of his work is included in the anthologies: Actas de Poesía Última 2001 (Puerto de Santa María, Fundación Rafael Alberti, 2001) Quinta del 63 (Salamanca, Ed. CELYA, 2002), Rivas Cuenta (Madrid, Ayuntamiento de Rivas-Vaciamadrid, 2002), La Voz y la Escritura (Madrid, Ed. Sial / Contrapunto, 2006) and the VI Cuaderno de Profesores Poetas (I.E.S. Giner de los Ríos, Segovia, 2010). As a translator he has published La Escalera de Caracol y otros poemas (The Winding Stair and Other Poems) of William Butler Yeats (Orense, Editions Linteo, 2010). http://tierradeahulema.blogspot.com
Brian Fanelli's poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, including Chiron Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Blood Lotus, and the anthology Ripasso. His first chapbook of poems, Front Man, was published in late 2010 by Big Table Publishing. He has an M.F.A. in creative from Wilkes University. Visit him at www.brianfanelli.com.
William J Fedigan: Waiting To Be Called
William J Fedigan writes about who he is, what he knows, where he's been. His work appears in Swill Magazine, Metal Scratches, Kerouac's Dog, Muscle & Blood, Yellow Mama, Horror-Sleaze-Trash, Bastards & Whores, Short, Fast and Deadly.
Diana Ferguson is a writer and artist based out of Tampa, Florida. She has been published in the Dunedin Free Press, and Sex and Guts, a publication put out by Gene Gregoratis, and Lydia Lunch. She also participated in the spoken word festival Deep Carnival 2010. She opened for Lydia Lunch and Jerry Stahl, spoken word show at the Orpheum, as well as Jim Carroll at the State Theatre. In 2011, she and her husband will be doing a dual art show "What Real Beauty Is".
I find writing is a wonderful outlet for my creative side. Watching the blank pages fill with my words and thoughts is a release of emotions, it clears my mind and reminds me why I love what I do. I have a beautiful son, a loving husband, a crazy dane and a sooky cat.
M.J. Fievre: Susan's Diary
M.J. Fievre is the author of several novels in French. Her short stories and poems in English have appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Writer's Digest, The Mom Egg, and Haiti Noir (Akashic Books, 2011). She is the founding editor of Sliver of Stone Magagine and a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. She is a contributing editor for Vis.A.Vis Magazine. She is currently a graduate student in the Creative Writing program at Florida International University. M.J. loves coconut shrimp, piña coladas, her dog Wiskee, and a good story. Anton Chekhov is one of her favorite writers.
I was born in Pompei on 13 February of 1977 but I live in an amazing place, Ravello, on the Amalfitan Coast, since I was a child. I gratuated in Amalfi and then at the University of Fisciano, near Salerno, in " Lettere Classiche" I studied violin for nine years too. My passion for writing follows me since I was a child, I still have a part many novels and tales I wrote in the past and never published, idem for the poems. But on the 2009 my fantasy novel, Wolfskin, has been published as an ebook in USA and in English by an editor of Michigan. Wolfskin in set in Italy at our times, between the woods and the mountains of Abruzzo and in the medieval town of Spoleto and it's a story of an impossible love between two enemies, an Italian and powerful witch and a northern European werewolves. All is based on an ancient legend and on a series of tales about the symbol of wolf in the story of Italy and of Europe. Currently I am trying to realize my biggest dream: changing my novel, which is the first chapter of an Italian fantasy saga, into a screenplay and seeing all my characters with bones and skin. I write for an economic newspaper of Naples and work for a television program about foods and typical products of my region.
M. Robert Fisher: Rabbit Hole
M. Robert Fisher grew up the product of a failed IUD and a doctor convinced his Mother would eventually have a miscarriage. When he was finally born, the result of two parents that never wanted him, he was determined to devote his life to depressing people with his own plight - literally and allegorically. He figured writing would be the easiest way to go about it. His short fiction has been published in esteemed publications such as: Notes Magazine, Troubadour 21, and Horrotica Electronic Magazine (coincidentally a story neither erotic nor particularly horrifying). His collection of Short Fiction & Poetry also earned him honorable mention in Grace Books Short Fiction Collection Competition. He also sucks at editing his own writing.
Allison Leigh Flynn: The Favor
My name is Allison Flynn and I currently live in Cambridge, MA where I write fiction and work at Harvard University. I belong to a writing group and take fiction classes whenever I can. I have been a writer my entire life and have a passion for anything creative and strange.
Phoebe Kate Foster: 3 Poems by Phoebe Kate Foster
Phoebe Kate Foster's poems and short fiction have appeared in numerous online and print journals, been selected for several anthologies and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. After a nomadic life, she now calls the Raleigh area home, where she is the assistant editor of The Dead Mule, a Southern litzine.
David Frazier: A Fine Vacation
My name is David Frazier, I am a retired steelworker living in Northwest Indiana. I've been married to my wife Kathie for thirty-eight years and we don't have any children, but we do have a twelve year old Shetland Sheepdog. I wrote this story about an old steelworker who goes on vacation in Montana, and ends up in a fight for his life.
David Frazier: A Fine Vacation
My name is David Frazier, I am a retired steelworker living in Northwest Indiana. I've been married to my wife Kathie for thirty-eight years and we don't have any children, but we do have a twelve year old Shetland Sheepdog. I wrote this story about an old steelworker who goes on vacation in Montana, and ends up in a fight for his life.
Derek Frazier: What I Seen
I currently live in the Piney Woods of East Texas. I guess I'm a textbook polymath- degrees in ecology, visual art, and an MA in English literature- which means I'm educated enough to realize that I know nothing, nothing at all. Nearly all my creative work (sculpture, performance, conceptual, and written) explores the relationship between reason and faith, usually through the protective guise of cryptozoology. If you're interested only in traditional narrative, you won't get me. I have work out there on the web, I dare you to come and find it.
Allegra Freund: Brine
I live with family on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I have enjoyed writing (almost) all of my life and have taken summer courses in poetry and short story writing at Duke University. I have published some of my poetry and prose both in a Duke publication and online. I hope that you enjoy my work! email: agfreund1@gmail.com
Kimberly Fujioka: You Cannot Go Home Again
I am a writer and editor. I am the head academic editor for English Writing Help, Inc. an academic research writing company. I write studyguides for enotes and news commentary for various media outlets. On Nov. 1st some of my essays were published in To Japan with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur (ThingsAsianPress). I live in Honolulu with my husband and son.
Nyck Robert Gallo: No Reception
The style of Nyck Robert Gallo encompasses the elegant flow of classic literature, all while discharging an electricity of youth, and an unconvential approach to revive modern literature. Founding and Publishing under Sexual Intellectual books, it has also grown to be a group of up and coming musicians and writers in the Los Angeles area, who possess an exciting style, and lack of generic irrelevance.
Cassidy Geborkoff: My Façade
Cassidy is a freshman at Northeast Alabama Community College. He is trying to decide between three majors: Journalism, secondary English education and dance education. He graduated from Lee High the Magnet School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Huntsville, Alabama. While there he extensively studied the arts of creative writing and dance. His poetry has been featured in variety of venue's such as: Trellis Magazine, The Limestone Dust Poetry Festival and The Huntsville Literary Association. He was formerly a student columnist for The Huntsville Times. Contact email: cassidygeborkoff@yahoo.com
Dibyendu Ghosal: Dead Letter
Dibyendu Ghosal was born and brought up in Kolkata City, previously known as Calcutta, India to Saradindu and Ranu Ghosal.. A Master's Degree in Computer Sci. & Engg., and having his devoted time in Literature, Arts and world Cinema. A man of literary convictions and having the courage to follow his convictions unmindful of the popular trends. The lifestyle and writings of Dibyendu Ghosal is surrounded and moulded by Elizabethan era British culture.
John Ernest Giffard: Pandora's Box
I am 82 years of age. A retired Police Officer. My poem "The Medal" was selected from an entry of over 300 for inclusion in an anthology of War Poems entitled "Heroes 100 Poems by Contemporary War Poets" compiled by John Jeffcock. The judging panel included the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffey This poem is are present under copyright restriction. It was published in November and is No One in Amazons list of Poetry Book sales. I have also had two books of my own published "The Poetry Circle" and a short play in verse based on Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" intended for use by Schools and Drama Groups. I write Poetry of all types from the humerous to the thought provoking.
Clive Gill: Like Ripening Fruit
Clive Gill's work has appeared in Pens on Fire, the on-line magazine of short fiction and poetry at pensonfire.com, and will also appear in 6 Tales, the on-line magazine of short fiction at 6tales.com in August 2011. Clive has worked as a salesperson, mediator, farm hand, information technology manager and school bus driver. Born in Zimbabwe, he has lived and worked in Southern Africa, North America and Europe. He received a degree in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles and now lives in San Diego.
Gina Goldblatt: West Coast November
I am currently entering into the final semester of an MFA in fiction at Mills College where my thesis is a novel-in-progress entitled It Was All Honey and Berries. I am originally from Westchester, New York. I have a mediocre website where my publications are listed at http://www.wix.com/ginachristy/author-page.
My short stories have been published in over 200 literary reviews such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Underground Voices, Midwest Literary Magazine, Inwood Indiana Literary Review, Hack Writers, Six Sentences, Literary Mary, NexGenPulp, Is This Reality Zine , Darkest Before Dawn, strangeroad.com, FarAway Journal, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Bewildering Stories, Writing Raw, Unheard Magazine, Absent Willow Literary Review.
Eli Graves: Dust and Horns
Eli Graves learnt the art of writing from a delusional trout fisherman in a mental institute just outside of Bracknell. It was a strange form of articulation that didn't include any verbs. Due to the experimental medication he had been taking from a young age there are certain words he cannot see or comprehend. When he graduated from the institute with his Diploma in Sanity (Pass) he entered into the lemonade business whereupon he enjoyed some success. A terrible accident at the plant involving a bag of sugar and the primary citrus fizz injector bought his career to an early end. The three kiloton explosion gummed up most of the keyboards in Pretel the Nordic town which straddled the lemonade plant. He then became active in politics and wrote The Manifesto of Taking things Seriously. The movement snowballed until the UN passed a resolution sanctioning the carpet bombing of the less serious nations of Europe. Eli Graves is now into writing in a big way. What People have Said about Eli Graves:
"Who?" - The Snowgoose www.eligraves.com
John Grey: 4 Poems by John Grey In Charge
Australian born poet, US resident since late seventies. Works as financial systems analyst. Recently published in Poem, Caveat Lector, Prism International and the horror anthology, "What Fear Becomes" with work upcoming in Big Muddy, Prism International and Writer's Journal.
Rose E. Grier: Twenty-Eight Days My Man
Rose Grier is a published writer, illustrator and award-winning artist/writer. Born into a military family, Grier traveled the world. This afforded her the luxury of meeting people. She gives these occurrences credit for her social attributes. Her parents found out quickly that a pencil and paper kept her occupied at a young age and, thus, supplied her with unlimited paper, pencils, crayons, and coloring books. Rose went to college as an Art major with a minor in Psychology. After college, she pursued an entrepreneurial lifestyle. Her perseverance working with sexual abuse survivors won Rose the '08 Sharon Komlos D'Eusanio Award. The Grier years produced two children; a daughter, whom is an amazing artist, and a son, whom is an accomplished jazz musician. Rose includes her children in her career as they show interest. Her daughter has joined her successfully in the art trade.
Jerry Guarino writes short stories and plays. Please visit his website at thedevilsorchestra.us. His work has appeared in 6 Tales, Bewildering Stories, The Chaffey Review Literary Magazine, Daily Love, Eskimo Pie, The Fringe Magazine, Leaning House Press, The Legendary, Piker Press, Postcard Shorts, Ray's Road Review, The Scarlet Sound, Weirdyear, Writing Raw and Zouch Magazine and Miscellany. He is currently working on a murder mystery for the stage.
Anna Guth: 4 Poems by Anna Guth
I live in Des Moines, Iowa where I am a student at Drake University. Currently I am a junior working on two B.A. for both English-Writing and Psychology. My poetry has been published in the 2010 Drake University Relays Edition of the Times Delphic newspaper. I have taken multiple poetry courses in both high school and college and have a passion for creative writing.
Trevor Hackley: The Boy and the Peach
My name is Trevor Hackley. I was first interested in creative writing when I was about nine. I wrote a four page story based on "Star Wars". I started my first novel, which I still haven't finished yet, when I was also, nine. I lost the first three copies of the manuscript, which thankfully wasn't very long for what I was losing. I have written of course, occasionally in school, for an assignment; sometimes it was a fiction piece. I had not really started to go after writing seriously until I was about fifteen, when I started trying to dream up more plots, because I knew I was horrible at mainstream writing, and wanted to save that for later! About a year later, I finished some shorter fiction pieces, several pages each, for school assignments. When I was eighteen, I started sitting down and trying to put a few more words in here and there, trying to push myself. It was a lot harder that I imagined. Finally, during trade school, funny enough, when I was taking carpentry at the North Texas Job Corps, which was interesting experience in of itself (it definitely got me a lot more motivated!), I attacked the writing a lot more seriously. In the beginning, I had expected myself to pursue drawing, going to school for that. I certainly practiced a lot! But then as I wrote, I saw a lot faster development in that. It seemed like I would get faster results there too. I definitely felt like I was a lot better, and more up to par in that. Hence, I started writing another story, it dead ended. I started another. It too, dead ended. I had the hardest time finishing these stories, but I could turn out starts and plots like a gattling gun. I had been attending carpentry school for a while by now, and I had made a lot of progress with that same novel I had started back when I was nine years old. I got several chapters laid out, and I wrote rather a bit into several of them. Still, I could not get myself to finish that one yet. My focus was still hard to keep in that well. I let myself get distracted a bit by the other people around me playing around. There was also a TV in the lounge area, and that was a bit distracting, but the only place that felt at the time like enough space to really let my mind go and evolve and develop this thing. Again though, I ended up putting it to rest again for a while. Finally I got myself focused on a short fantasy story, which I managed to complete in a mere few weeks. Then, I tried again with starting from scratch and writing another short story, longer, but mentally pushing myself to write the best separate sentences I could come up with. One of the weaknesses I seemed to run into a bit was repetitive character sense, having one guy the subject of ten or twelve sentences, and then this one, actually seemed to be of separate subjects for each one, and that lasted about two paragraphs, then I had my mental freeze again. This time, however, I just sat there and thought about it. Things started moving around, and it flowed like hardening concrete. I got a few more scenes; and a few more. The flow was sometimes incredibly hard though, to maintain, and bridge the gaps that sometimes mentally felt more like an abyss. Long and the short of that one, when it was done, it had been about nine months; and that was the finish of my first short novel: forty one pages in length. I am very proud to say here is a copy of it, I would like to submit to your contest. It's been quite an endeavor pulling it off, and an awesome, exhilarating adventure! I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for reading this.
Chris Hadley: The Message
Chris Hadley is a writer/filmmaker living in Louisiana. He is a contributing writer for Film Score Monthly Online magazine, and has also written for the St. Bernard Picayune, a division of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. His short documentary film, "Take A Look", a tribute to the people and places of St. Bernard Parish, has won second place in the documentary short-short category at the recent Nunez Community College Pelican D'Or Short Film Festival. He is currently attending college, hoping to work in the film industry.
Housten T. Hale IV: Contest
I am a nineteen year old full time cook and college student with little free time for anything else but catching up homework and doing what I love, creating worlds and stories of people I'll never meet. I've loved to read and write since I was little and won the creative writing contest at my high school my junior year.
Brian Hartman: Valentine's Day
Brian Hartman lives in Scotch Plains, NJ. He is the author of "Tuesday", a short story published in the December 2010 issue of the Red Fez online literary magazine, and has self-published the short stories "Last Call" and "First Steps" on Amazon's Kindle format.
T.R. Healy: In the Dark: Notes of a Raw Recruit
T.R. Healy was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and my essays have appeared in such publications as Dogmatika, Ducts, Ophelia Street, and The Tower Journal.
Raphael Henaut: From A Distance
My name is Raphael Henaut. I am 20. And I study English in college in France. I write when I have nothing better to do which is quite often. I would like to be published someday and Writing Raw is a great opportunity to have readers and feedback. Don't hesitate to email me if you want to give me feedback: rafimaboul@hotmail.fr I hope you enjoy my works. I want to thank Amazing Amanda Littler for her unconditional support, precious advice and invaluable friendship. None of this would be possible for me without her. Also, a thousand thanks to all the Indonesians, I can't name you all Ladies and Gentlemen but I'll try (Bela for the mutual support, Ernesto whom I admire look up to more than I would to a big brother if I had one, Alberth, Bayu, Divi and Sutris for the laughs, the soccer and the basketball, Dutti, Gendis, Ines, Sandra, Shinta, Trisha and Yvonne for the talks and the amazing food; Lastrie for her kindness, Alfil and Yulia for the only time we met and the great time we had; Appay for the story of the first parachute jump; and Nico for the FBI joke, all the other pushy jokes and all the tears of laughter we shared!) I Love you all! And all the not so foreign anymore students that I've had the luck to meet at and through University. And Fabien, of course, for the laughs, the freak-outs, the talks, in short: the Friendship.
Jason P. Henry: A.T.M. Fly Away Ogre Condemned 'Tis The Season Panes of Blue: 1 Panes of Blue: 2 Panes of Blue: 3 Panes of Blue: 4 Panes of Blue: 5 Panes of Blue: 6 Panes of Blue: 7 Panes of Blue: 8
Jason P. Henry is a freelance writer working and living in Brooklyn, Ohio. He is currently the author of several short stories and the serial entitled Panes Of Blue, found here on Writing Raw. He just recently finished the manuscript for his first short story compilation and his first novel, Thin Ice, is expected to see completion in the near future. Jason has traveled the world and met many people. His life experiences have been tremendous contributors to his writing. His work employs a wide range of styles that vary from suspense, thriller, the supernatural and comedic. You can learn more about Jason P. Henry on his official website www.jasonphenry.com. You can also look for his Official Author page on Facebook and become a fan by searching Jason P. Henry. If you would like to send Jason a message or contact him regarding a writing assignment, you may do so by sending to jason@jasonphenry.com.
Joshua Hess : I Call Bullshit
Joshua Hess resides in a small town in Kentucky where he works for the local hospital. He has multiple poems and short stories published on various sites. Hess finished a compilation of short stories titled Complexity of the Simple Mind in 2011. Hess has most recently started the online literary magazine Decades Review (www.decadesreview.weebly.com).
Gina Hickman resided in California all her life where she produced the most precious creations known to man and can never be replicated. She know resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband, Rian. She has written three novels, two of which were written in the jump seat of their Kenworth going up and down I-5. Gina is now working on getting those novels published.
Jeff Hill: The Elite
Jeff Hill is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, currently teaching high school English for Lincoln Public Schools. An alumnus of the Nebraska Alpha Chapter of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, he is a regular participant of the Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference, National Novel Writing Month, Script Frenzy, and the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. His fiction has appeared in Weirdyear, Postcard Shorts, and Cuento Magazine.
Dag and Maya are a husband and wife writing team residing in Belgrade, Serbia. Maya was raised in Benghazi, Libya, attended Belgrade University and worked as an airline stewardess and later for the ICRC and UNESCO in Bosnia, Kosovo and Montenegro. Dag grew up in Southern California, attended the U.S. Naval Academy and retired from the Southern California Edison Company. Both have traveled extensively. Their poetry has previously appeared in Three Branches Press, Writing Raw, Real Stories Gallery and Aortic Press. Their poetry represents their own life experiences and stories recounted by their friends around the world. Special thanks to the many friends who have contributed stories, pictures and art works to accompany the poetry. Without all of your help and loving support, this book would not have been possible.
Dylan Houle: A Grown Man Crying at Dawn
Dylan Houle is currently living in Brooklyn. He draws inspiration for his stories from his past, present and future experiences.
Gina Iafrate: Nature on Planet Earth He Healed her; " Broken Heart" A Passion for Learning The Glorious Game Of Golf
Gina Iafrate began her studies in Italy her native land.. Later immigrated to Canada , where she studied English literature, psychology and philosophy , at Brock University and Niagara College. She attended many lectures and seminars, in Canada, the U. S. and abroad to broaden her knowledge. Although she dedicated most of her life to business development and administration. An entrepreneur with her husband Mario, and two daughters. Her primary passion was always writing. Gina holds several diplomas from Brock University and her work range, from memoir to freelance, journalism, and creative none fiction. She has traveled world-wide and divides her time living in the U.S, Hollywood Florida, Canada, and Europe. Her work has been posted in the museum of Pier 21, Halifax, Canada. Phonex magazine N. Y. New love stories. Several inspirational newsletters. She is presently producing a book of her own compiled stories.
Gina Iafrate; can be reached at Delsan06@sympatico.ca
Belinda Iziercich: Slightly Off Centre… Secrets and Shame
Belinda Iziercich has almost finished her degree in Writing and Creative Communication and hopes to go on to start her honours in 2011. Belinda works at the University of South Australia in the School of Commerce. When she is not working or studying she enjoys nagging her husband-to-be and referring to herself in the third person.
Robin Jeffery: Scatter
Sadie Jensen in a creative writing student at Southeast Missouri State University. She is an intern at the Southeast Missouri Publishing Press and aspries to one day become a librarian.
Sadie Jensen: Demons and Dinosaurs
Sadie Jensen in a creative writing student at Southeast Missouri State University. She is an intern at the Southeast Missouri Publishing Press and aspries to one day become a librarian.
Vivekanand Jha: My Poem Falters And Falls
Vivekanand Jha is a poet, translator and research scholar from Darbhanga, Bihar, India. He is Diploma in Electronics, Certificate in Computer Hardware and Networking, MA in English, and is also doing Ph. D on the poetry of the noted Indian English poet Jayanta Mahapatra from Lalit Narayan Mithila University Darbhanga. He is son of noted professor, poet and award winning translator Dr. Rajanand Jha (Crowned with Sahitya Akademi Award, New Delhi). He is the author of five books of poetry: Hands heave to harm and hamper, Spam: A Satire on E-Sex, Songs of Innocence and Adolescence, My Poems Falter and Fall and Time Moves Clockwise Only. His works have been widely published in the magazine round the world like 63 Channels, Pagan Imagination, P & W (Poetry and Writing), Danse Macabre, Vox Poetica, Writing Raw, Whisper publication, Tribal Soul Kitchen, Winamop, Literature India, Mother Bird, Retort Magazine, Holy Rose Review(HRR), Munyori Poetry Journal, Flutter Literary Journal, Taylor: Prose & Poetry, The Fullosia Press, Eclectica Magazine, Write Between the Lines, The Adirondack Review, Eudaimonia Poetry Review, Nagaland Post, World Audience Publishers, The Morung Express, Fresh Literary Magazine, Maverick Magazine, Cliterature, Spoken War, Inclement Poetry Magazine, World Salad Poetry Magazine, South Jersey Underground, Mississippi Crow Magazine, Pink Mouse, Censored Poets, Reflections, Future Earth Magazine, Pandora's Imagination, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, CANTARAVILLE Quarterly Magazine, Locust Magazine, Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Bonny Berries, Makata, Exercise Bowler, Masque Publishing, The Greensilk Journal, Gloom Cupboard, Black & white journal of arts, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine, Beyond the Margins, Future Earth Magazine, The inquisition Poetry Magazine, Labyrinth, More than Thought- A scholarly literary journal, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Poetry Explosion Newsletter (THE PEN), You are here: The Journal of Creative Geography, Contemporary Literary Review: India(CLR: I),Daily Love, Poetandgeek Magazine, Weirdyear, Yesteryearfiction, Tributaries DSC's Magazine, The Criterion: An International Journal in English and Pacific Review. Apart from that he got his poems published in the following anthologies: The War Against War Anthology, Ed by Prince Kwasi Mensah ( Mensa Press, USA), Anthology of Canadian Stories IV, Edited by Ed Janzen(Canada), Anthology on the theme of America Ed by Vernon McVety Jr., We come from one place, an anthology edited by Prince Kwasi Mensah ( Mensa Press, USA), Savant 2010 Anthology, Ed by Rose And Alan (England) and Anthology of Science Poetry, Ed by Neil and Zara(Canada) and Poets for World Peace Ed by Dr. Ram Sharma(India).
Denis Joe: Leeds Poem 2: Heather Shipp
I have lived on Merseyside for the past decade or so. I am an active member of North End Writers, in Liverpool. I have poems published in A Different Kind Of Rocking, an anthology of North End poets. Also I am a member of the Spider Project Creative Writing Group and have been published in their journal, Content. I have been writing for over thirty years and have been published in, mainly, small press, but never kept track of what I was doing. The most recent though was in the American poetry Journal, 10X3Plus. I am hoping to work on an anthology of Scouse poetry with the intention of a serious use of the dialect as opposed to the usual humour that is associated with most dialects.
Michael Lee Johnson: 5 Poems by Michael Lee Johnson Kentucky Blue Little White Cat Paws Carl Sandburg, Idols in the Sand, and Galesburg Shacks Picture, Cap and Gown
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He is heavily influenced by: Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Allen Ginsberg. His new poetry chapbook with pictures, titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. The original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. New Chapbook: Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems, by Michael Lee Johnson. He also has 2 previous chapbooks available at: http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy. Michael has been published in over 23 countries. He is also editor/publisher of four poetry sites, all open for submission, which can be found at his Web site: http://poetryman.mysite.com. All of his books are now available on Amazon.com and Borders. Now on You-Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5WJrjqQ18. E-mail: promomanusa@gmail.com. Audio Mp3 poems available; open to interviews. Follow Michael Lee Johnson On: Facebook; Twitter; MySpace.com
Rosa Johnson: The Small Miracle As I See It Lament Of An Aging Whore On Saint Valentine's Day In Praise Of France
Rosa Johnson has been writing for a long time but not seriously until recently. Not a great deal of success or potential. I am an old woman and still learning.
Stephanie Renae Johnson: Ripping Blues From Your Womb
Stephanie is a recent graduate of Flagler College and now works at Xulon Press as a production artist. Her work has been published by the fantastic people at poeticdiversity, Opium Poetry, Orange Sentinel Online, and The Flagler Review. She was previously the intern for Ampersand Books and still does freelance work for them. Stephanie lives in central Florida and is unhealthily obsessed with correcting people's grammar.
Frank Joussen: The Taste of Summer Meeting as Friends Planet A and B The Bici-Taxi 2 Flash Fiction by Frank Joussen The Reading Fee
Frank Joussen is a German high school teacher who writes mostly in English. His poems, flash fiction pieces and short stories have appeared in numerous print magazines and ezines worldwide. His first collection, "Building Bridges", was published by I.D.E.A.S. in India in 2008. Frank also works with local ngos in India and Brazil and is actively involved in various peace groups and anthologies.
John Joyce: You Have the Same Accent as Me The Peak of the Day Ginger Rogers Once Played Tennis in North Vancouver Humour Is A Funny Thing
John Joyce was born at Hampton Court, in England. He held school records for running the mile. Educated in London and Salford, Lancashire where he gained an honours degree in electrical engineering. Subsequent studies were at Dalhousie University, University of British Columbia and Capilano University. He departed England for Montreal to go around the world, living at different times in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Dartmouth. He resides in Vancouver Canada where he is an active sportsman. John Joyce started writing philosophy at school and has been extensively published. Monique's Interview was his first short play and Inside Fleetwood Gym is his latest. Mild Muses is his first book of funny stories available on Amazon.com. He is presently compiling a book of his short stories about the adventures of Anne-Marie and Paul Tulley. The Altus Arts Agency, promotes his works worldwide.
Brian Judge: A New Life
I am Scottish, aged 69 and living now in Malaysia. Having retired from working around the world I have taken up writing, fiction, biography and travel. I have had magazine articles published but not yet a book.
Alex K: Ill-Treatment
Ryan Kauffman: The Game
Ryan Kauffman is a student in the English Graduate Program at Northern Kentucky University. He lives in Crestview Hills, KY with his trusty writing sidekick Wally the dog.
Ann Kavanaugh: The Steering Wheel
J. Kaval: Donkey The Lost Encounter
Joseph Kaval is a freelance writer since 1960. He writes essays, criticisms, book-reviews, short stories and novels both in English and Malayalam his mother-tongue. He has published so far 200 short stories and five novels in Malayalam, and around seventy short stories and a novel in English. He has published prose and fiction in dozens of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other publications in India and abroad. He conducts classes on creative writing for college students. He edits and publishes Katha Kshetre an international literary quarterly in English from Bengaluru since 2000. Email mail: joseph.kaval@gmail.com oe kathalok@vsnl.net. Visit: josephkaval.webs.com
Thomas Kearnes: Lying With Men
Thomas Kearnes is a 34-year-old author from East Texas. He is an atheist and an Eagle Scout. His fiction has appeared in Night Train, Pindeldyboz, Temenos, wigleaf, The Pedestal, JMWW Journal, 3 AM Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly and Pequin, among other journals. I am a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee.
Cassandra Kemper: The Bystander's Introspection
My name is Cassandra Kemper. I enjoy writing poems and stories, though due to computer crashes I keep losing my works (a bittersweet event because it forces me to rethink my ideas and perceptions rather than settle on what has already been written). I am looking to improve my writing ability as well as strengthen my perseverance in this field.
Patricia Kinney: Strangers
Patricia Kinney is 28, and a junior at Keystone College studying Communications. Her poetry has appeared in Indigo Rising Magazine.
Ron Koppelberger: Caravan Dog Days The Flood Midday Rest 3 Flash Fiction Pieces by Ron Koppelberger The Order of the October Chaff Gaunt Worlds 3 Poems by Ron Koppelberger 3a Poems by Ron Koppelberger The Breech at Shade Tree Orchard
I am aspiring to become established as a poet and a short story writer. I have written 90 books of poetry over the past several years and 16 novels: I have been submitting my work for the past year and am thrilled by acceptance. I am always looking for an audience. I have published 227 poems and 54 short stories in a variety of periodicals. I have been published in The Storyteller, Ceremony, Write On!!! (Poetry Magazette), Freshly Baked Fiction and Necrology Shorts. Also I recently won the People's Choice Award for poetry In The Storyteller for a poem titled Secret Sash. I have been accepted in England, Australia and Thailand. I love to write and offer an experience to the reader. I am a member of The American Poet's Society as well as The Isles Poetry Association. E-Mail will806095@bellsouth.net
Rachel Kolman: Trading Candy
Rachel Kolman is pursuing her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida. She has been recently published in Hinchas de Poesia. She lives in Orlando, FL.
David Lashley: Sorrow of Chaos
Hello I am David Lashley I've been writing poems and songs since i can remember I have a cornucopia of talents you could say I love to draw, skate play music from keyboards to guitars to drums ect. I am from Illinois i have been struggling with mental issues the past few years. Also past issues that ream a hole in my soul but who doesn't have hurt nowadays right? The reason I say that is because my emotions are expressed extremely vividly.
Born in Cincinnati, OH, and raised in various towns all over America, David Lawler has always enjoyed writing. In addition to writing short stories, he has written, directed and produced a number of independent films. One of these, Ligeia, was picked up for distribution by Film Threat Video and is currently available from Netflix. A Philadelphia Phillies fan, David now lives in upstate New York. When he isn't writing stories, his wife, daughter and three cats keep him busy.
Hayley Lawson-Smith: The Lie Bridesmaid
An emerging writer, with two unpublished novels and a dream to write professionally, this is Hayley's first poem, which she wrote in the Botanical Gardens when she was supposed to be at uni. Contact Details: singing_nanny@live.com.au
Sean J. Lee: marvinmuskrat.com
I'm Sean J. Lee and I'm a cartoonist from West Virginia. I've been drawing since I was very young, and for years, have been building upon an idea for a series about a teenager named Karl, who is living a life that mirrors my own. My style has been inspired by many artists, the most obvious would include Matt Groening and Gary Larson. For the past four years I've been doing mostly single-panel cartoons, and have attempted a couple full length comics. The ultimate goal for my series is television, but that may be long down the road, if ever. You can find more of my projects at marvinmuskrat.com
Mattie Lennon, was born in the middle of the last century (1946 to be exact, but who's counting?) in Kylebeg, Lacken, Blessington, Co. Wicklow. He wasn't at any stage called the Black Sheep of the family; this was simply because he was and still is an only child. Nor was he at any stage interested in sport. But he has always had some interest in writing; and, as a young lad (and up to this day), if accused of anything in the wrong, he'll compose some sort of uncomplimentary doggerel about his accuser. But he hasn't been faced with many false accusations in his lifetime and consequently hasn't been a very prolific songwriter. Mattie writes the occasional humorous article and has contributed to The Irish Times, Sunday Independent, The Irish Post, Irelands Own, Irelands Eye, The Wicklow People, Kerry's Eye, Leinster Leader and many more. He also writes for a number of on-line magazines. , He has compiled and presente radio programmes for numerous stations and on 18th March last, he co-hosted Ceol Na nGael on WFUV Radio in the Bronx. . He has spent most of the past 40 years in Dublin and is now retired from Dublin Bus after 37 years. When asked "Will you ever go back to Kylebeg?" he quotes James Joyce's reply when asked the same question about Dublin: "I never left." His play "And All his Songs Were Sad" based on the life and works of the late Sean McCarthy was staged by the Pantagleize Theatre Company, at Fort Worth, Texas in October 2010. His website is: mattielennon.com
Robert Levin: How to Make a Baby
Robert Levin is the author of “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories and Commentary” (The Drill Press), and the coauthor and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the '60s: "Music & Politics" (World Publishing) and "Giants of Black Music" (Da Capo Press).
P.A. Levy: 3 Poems by P.A. Levy
Born East London but now residing amongst the hedge mumblers of rural Suffolk, P.A.Levy has been published in many magazines, both on line and in print, from 'A cappella Zoo' to 'Zygote In My Coffee' and many places in-between. He is also a founding member of the Clueless Collective and can be found loitering on page corners and wearing hoodies at www.cluelesscollective.co.uk
Tiffany Lewis: Newsworthy
Tiffany has been writing since her adolescence. Her passion for writing took a backseat to a career in Education as well as her personal education. Although her love for children is unwavering, she is determined to start her career as a writer. During the celebration of her recently launched Literary Magazine in May 2011, she was honored to have her work published for the first time. She will continue to seek publication opportunities while also giving the same opportunities to others.
William H. Libaw: Life and Death at the Rejuv Club
My name is William H. Libaw, my e-mail address is bill_libaw@msn.com. If you publish the story, I would like the following brief bio to appear. My published work includes the books "How We Got To Be Human" (2000, Prometheus Books) and "Painting in a World Transformed" (2005, McFarland & Company). Prior to my present work as a writer, I was an electronic design engineer.
Peter Lingard: Downturn
Peter Lingard (plingaus@bigpond.com) sold ice-cream, worked as a bank clerk, a bookkeeper, and a barman. He delivered milk, served in the Royal Marines and 'bounced' leery customers in a London clip-joint. After 25 years in the US, he went to Australia because the sun frequently shines there and he didn't have to learn a new language.
Suzanne Little: The Cat
Suzanne has taught in High Schools-English and Literature-and more recently was a partner in a certified organic farm and vineyard. Now she lives in town in Margaret River, Western Australia, writing, reading and gardening.
Jamie Littlefield: It's All About the Numbers
My name is Jamie Littlefield, and I am currently a sophomore in college, studying English (writing) and Psychology. My experience in writing comes from writing songs when I was younger, as well as classes throughout high school and college. I am an animal lover and have had a passion for reading books ever since I was a little girl.
Duncan Long: Artist - http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
Duncan Long is an illustrator who has created over a thousand cover and interior illustrations for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Fort Ross, Solomon Press, Paladin Press, etc., as well as many self-publishing authors. Long's artwork has appeared in international magazines including the Sun and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Talk-show host Victor Thorn named Long one of the three "best graphic artists in the entire world." Long has also authored 13 novels (Avon Books, HarperCollins) and over 80 technical and how-to manuals, many of which he's illustrated. You can see Long's illustrations at http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
Richard Lutman: I Like A Little Bit of the Handsome Americans Myself Photographing Jesus Last Of The Singing Cowboys
Richard Lutman has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. He currently teaches short story classes as part of Coastal Carolina University's Lifelong Learning program. His fiction has appeared in Crazyquilt, Verdad, Slow Trains, Dark Sky Magazine, The Green Silk Journal, The Pettigru Review, The Bicycle Review, WritingRaw and The Newport Review. Non fiction has appeared in The Journal of the West and the Association of Tropical Lepidoptera Newsletter. He has also won awards for his short stories, nonfiction, and screenplays. He was a 2008 Push Cart Nominee. A chapbook of his flash fiction was published in June of 2009 by the "The Last Automat Press."
Scott Lutz: Cottonwood
Scott Lutz currently works with adolescents as a counselor. His 16 years of experience includes practice as a group facilitator in the areas of domestic violence, families of divorce, and survivors of abuse, as well as individual counseling with adults and youth. He has contributed to two videos produced to support children of divorce and survivors of violence and abuse. He is a student of life, constantly asking questions and developing new ones about the human condition and the human journey. He balances his counseling career with writing, photography, trail racing, and down-hill mountain biking. Scott is a writer of fictional short stories, nonfictional essays and poetry. Most recently he has co-authored and published with Melissa Studdard a narrative essay entitled For the Love of All, part 5 of Mark Miller's ONE Series from Trestle Press, now available on Amazon.
Robert D. Lyons: ED
I have been published in about fifteen different literary journals across the U.S. and England, not that the phony professionalism bullshit is done, lets get down to the dirty deets as only mother would describe. Apparently I am a sex, drug, and alcohol addicted high school drop out who is going nowhere in life except for the local nut house, which I have visited, I might add. I am currently working on a novel, and shamelessly trying to seduce a crystal eyed journalist who I am placing all my hopes and dreams with, so I am trying to put my life togther, but I find myself drowning in a sea of meaningless pussy while everyone else moves on with there shallow lives.
Peter Fraser MacDonald: Deus Ex Machina Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Peter Fraser MacDonald is an active composer, guitarist, and music educator. He received his Doctorate in Music Composition at the University of Miami and his Master's in Jazz Studies at Western Washington University. In addition to music composition, Peter is an avid writer of short stories, poetry, and opera libretti. He resides in Jacksonville, Florida, where he is Assistant Professor of Music at Florida State College.
James Mackie: Fearful Night
Abulele Mafuya: Loving To Own
My name is Abulele Mafuya. I am an aspiring narrative artist.
Naseeha Mahir: Bid Me My Love; I Will Hold Thee
Rick Maloy: Seeing Things
After a career in financial services, Rick Maloy turned to writing full time in 2004. Bare-knuckles workshops and critique groups ingrained enough of the craft that his stories took first (2007) and second (2008) at Florida First Coast Writers' Festivals. Other works have appeared in Write Corner, Stone's Throw Magazine (twice) and deadpaper. He is currently submitting his first novel, Evenings and Mournings, while working on a second, Replacement Children. Rick and his first-and-only wife, Ann Marie, live in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL while their vast family freezes in the NYC area. He can be reached at: ramaloy@gmail.com.
Scott Malley: Dark Deadly Red
Rattan Mann: Silence with the Storm 1 Silence with the Storm 2 Silence with the Storm 3 Silence with the Storm 4 Silence with the Storm 5 Silence with the Storm 6 Silence with the Storm 7 Silence with the Storm 8 Silence with the Storm 9 Silence with the Storm 10 Silence with the Storm End
Before the advent of the internet, all my literary works lay under my pillow. But then my short story "Self Analysis" (written in 1978) made it to the 2004 Top Ten List of the new Million Writer's Award from Storysouth.com after it appeared on spoiledink.com in 2003. Then my autobiography "Silence With The Storm" (written in 1975) and my novel "The Prime Minister" appeared in serial form on oraculartree.com beginning ca 2003-04. My novel "The Prime Minister" is my life work on which I spent ca 30 years beginning 1975 and ending ca 2005 when it started appearing in serial form on oraculartree.com. Its theme is terrorism, long before any of present writers or experts had heard the word. The idea of many of my stories has come in dreams. I have 2 BSc's in electronics and physics and a MSc in physics, all from Norwegian universities. I have passed a total of 50 exams in science from Norway without attending a single lecture or talking to a single "scientist" for a single minute all my life. But since decades Oslo university (my Alma mater) is telling me that I will not be allowed to work in Norway or join any university abroad because I will not get the 2-3 letters of recommendation that are absolutely necessary. My research interests are in superstring theory and quantum gravity. I am unemployed since decades, but nobody dare say a word about it.
Eric L. Marsh: You People Burn My Ass Four Short Stories in a Morning What the F--K Does It Take? First Violin Chair 9 Flash Fiction Pieces A Walk Down Memory Lane
Eric L. Marsh is a Boston born and bred, writer, poet, comic, story teller, thespian, playwright and all around nice guy.(really he is) Eric served nearly a quarter of a century as a Non Commissioned officer in the U S Army in both hot and cold wars. Thanks to our great uncle Sam, Eric has enough material for all aspects of his life to write about, laugh about and act out about and share with his fellow man (and woman) until his last mortal breath is drawn. He will be celebrating his seventy first year on the planet come Feb sixth 2011. Eric lives with his two eight year old canine companions, CHANCE and OWEN in his self built writers retreat in the forest of Central New Hampshire where he grinds out at a minimum a short story or poem or both on a daily basis. That is the daily warm up for his continuing toil on his many unpublished full length novels. Eric L. Marsh and his DEER friend can be seen on facebook.
Brian Martinez: A Good Clean, a Harsh Clean
Brian Martinez lives on Long Island with his wife Natalia and their dog Frankie. He has written one novel, A Chemical Fire, and can be found at www.bloodstreamcity.com.
Pierrino Mascarino: Read These Stories at Your Peril
I have pub. about 45 pieces so far on line this year. I’ve appeared on Nat. TV over 6000 times as an actor. See the IMDB. I am the sole support of 200 hummingbirds who drink ½ gal of my nectar everyday and chirp me many valuable hints about my writing. I have no degrees except from Fahrenheit. I have taught writing privately in my group, Writers Helping Writers, for the last 12 years. Taught acting for the last 30 years and now want to combine acting and writing exercises. I’ve got some really innovative techniques. I published Invertebrata, a journal of bug husbandry, for a number of years—how to propagate and maintain invertebrates, tarantulas, scorpions and such. I recently played the title role in the highly praised film Uncle Nino. I wrote many portions of the film. Hundreds of my paintings and sculpture are in many private collections and in the permanent collections of two museums. I have two reputedly intelligent dogs, Australian Shepherds that are supposed to be so smart, but I can still beat them 3 games out of 4 at chess.
Gale Massey: Read These Stories at Your Peril
I am a writer of non-fiction and known for my work on grief and loss. This is my first short story. I am currently working on a novel and will soon be attending the Writing Below Sea Level workshop led by Connie May Fowler. Please feel free to contact me via my email address: galemassey7@aol.com. Gale Massey, M.S. owns and operates grief-remindersforhealing.com a web site that offers her booklet on grief. Healing Grief is a video on Youtube. http://bit.ly/ets9h You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Nancy May: The Living Chair
My name is Nancy May and I am twenty six years old. I am an aspiring author and, love nothing more to write and read. I attended Ashton - on - Ribble High School for my secondary Education. I am a Librarian in training and volunteer in Oxfam. As an animal lover I am a vegetarian.
Malcolm McBride: The Bow Hunter
Born in Nottingham , England, in 1944, the son of an engraver, I grew up in southern UK, to become an engraver myself in the Photogravure printing industry, where I remained for practically all of my working life. Unlike my father I moved around mainland Europe for 25 years of that time, gaining experience about people, places and life on the way. I started writing relatively late in my life, concentrating firstly on poetry, a skill that I was able to develop whilst working at the bench. The concentration required for engraving being just the kind of a tribute that helps one get things down onto paper. Stories came a little later, and are chiefly based on tales told me by my father and of his life in London. This backdrop does wonders for the imagination, and inspiration is aroused when one can put people and places like this together, to form the basis for a story. It interests me to wander around the neighbourhood of Lambeth, where my father grew up, and where I once worked for a short period of time. Lurking in what shadows remain of those old streets, is found material that will eventually, I hope, produce even more tales.
Mac McGovern was born in Dubuque, Iowa and lived there most of his youth. Most of his adult life he served in the US Navy, retiring in 1995. Currently, he is an executive with the largest home improvement company in the panhandle of Florida and is a licensed roofing contractor. Mac writes poetry from the heart and is influenced somewhat by what he sees, feels, hears, and to a larger extent, what is gleamed from his minds eye. Today, Mac resides in Pensacola, Florida with the inspiration and love of his life, his wife Sandra.
Andrew McGregor: Worker Bee Strikeprice
Mhairi McIntyre: A Gorgeous Mistake
John McKernan: Tracking The Blues 6 Poems by John McKernan
John McKernan - who grew up in Omaha Nebraska - is now a retired comma herder after teaching 41 years at Marshall University. He lives - mostly - in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is a selected poems Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Journal, Antioch Review, Guernica, Field and many other magazines
Sem Megson: The Tilted Axis
Sem Megson's work currently explores how people both raise and/or lower themselves to deal with our ever-changing world. Sem's fiction has been published in American and Canadian journals and has been produced on stage in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Toronto. For more info visit semmegson.com.
Dean Meredith: Little Lamb The Hand
I live in Perth, Western Australia and write poetry that's usually quirky and often deeply personal. My favourite poets are Alfred Noyes, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Sylvia Plath and Edgar Allen Poe.
Caroline Joanne Merrill: God of the Amoebas
I live in Perth, Western Australia and write poetry that's usually quirky and often deeply personal. My favourite poets are Alfred Noyes, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Sylvia Plath and Edgar Allen Poe.
David Meuel: A Perfect Fifty-Fifty Split
David Meuel has published more than 100 poems and numerous print and online articles on subjects ranging from theater to marketing communications. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Islands in the Sky and Realms of Gold. He currently lives and works in San Jose, California, where he spends far too much time watching films noir and fretting about global warming.
Jordan Elizabeth Mierek: Times Square
My short stories and poetry are published in Dark and Dreary Magazine, Storyhouse, the Magical Library, RiverSedge, and AboutTeens. My work has won awards in The XPress and Utica Writers Club. I am now the vice president of the Utica Writers Club and have my Bachelor's degree in elementary education.
Kristopher Miller: Gold Muse Sugar Paper Cut The Annoying Office Plant The Idol on the Square Broken Room, Fixed Photoare Woodland Stalker
Kristopher Miller is a budding writer, blogger, and scholar who graduated Peru State College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in English. He is currently working on his masters-level program in technical communication, but until then, he is working to release his first novella in fall 2012 and scribbling drafts of other novella, short story, and poetry material to keep himself from going crazy. He has also reviewed for Adventure Classic Gaming and he is also a writer on Helium.com. Apart from being featured in Writing Raw, Kris is also featured in Peru State College's Sifting Sands 2008 magazine, Chadron State College's Tenth Street Miscellany 2008 magazine, and the April 2010 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine. You can visit his abode at The Catacomb's Bookshelf at http://catacombsbookshelf.blogspot.com
Elaine Rosenberg Miller: The Pomegranate Like In Ramallah Words The Twin Towers The Silent Lion Until He Came
Elaine Rosenberg Miller lives in West Palm Beach, FL. Her essays, memoirs, poems and short stories have appeared in Allgenerations; Best of Wilderness House Literary Review; Deep South Magazine; Dispatches From The Vanishing World; Dos Yiddishe Kol (WURL 1060 AM); Jewish Magazine; Israel Commentary; Lit Up Magazine; Miranda Literary Magazine; Mississippi Crow Magazine: Museum of Family History; Poetica Magazine; Robin Falls Magazine; The Binnacle (University of Maine at Machias Press); The Brooklyn Voice; The Cartier Street Review; The Forward; The Jewish Woman; The Writing Room Literary Anthology; Up The Staircase Literary Review; Wilderness House Literary Review; Women and The Holocaust; Women In Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (University of Toronto); World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Writing Raw.
Fred Miller: Real People
Fred Miller is a South Carolina author. His works have appeared in Dew On The Kudzu: A Southern E-zine, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, Oxford Town, Puckerbrush Review, Skive Magazine [print], Static Movement, Troubadour 21, The Cynic Online Magazine, Rosebud, and in. Fred's stories have also been featured in issues of The Houston Literary Review and Front Porch Review (both July 2011), and accepted by Cantaraville.
Nick Millini: Station of Mind Over Matter
Nick Millini is a 22 year-old writer out of Maryland who mainly specializes in short stories and poetry. As of now, though, he is currently working on a novel, Brave Fighting Sun, which he hopes to complete. For a sample of Nick Millini's other works, check out his DeviantArt: nocturnal-movement.deviantart.com
Samuel Mills: When the Moon Flashes Signals The Man Lying In Bed
Moonjean: A Stone Wall
My name is Moonjean; I'm a disable veteran living in the State of Nevada. Originally a native Californian, and since being disable I have been writing off and on for the past twenty years. My inspiration has been life itself and whatever my imagination has conjured up. I love writing about life, abstract babble, poetry, and Short Stories. I haven't written or published anything; it would be a surprise to me if my writings became a reality, it would be a dream come true. I realize that my writings are diverse and somewhat incoherent at times, I have no control over my inspiration, it's forceful and spontaneous and so I go ahead and post as it spills. I want to thank you all for visiting and taking the time to read.
C.G. Morelli: Plastic Echinacea
C.G. Morelli's work has appeared in Highlights for Children, Chicken Soup for the Soul, SI.com, Long Story Short, Jersey Devil Press, House of Horror and Monkey Puzzle Press. He is the author of a short story collection titled In the Pen (2006).
Juliet Mullett: Harvest
I taught high school English and art for 22 years. I took a leave of absence for two years to research and write my family's history and never went back to teaching. I have had an essay published in our local paper, The Columbus Dispatch.
Christina Murphy: Letters
Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old house along the Ohio River. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals including, most recently, Fiction Collective, Jersey Devil Press, Short, Fast, and Deadly, Right Hand Pointing, Flash! Anthology, and Cup of Joe: Coffee House Flash Fiction Anthology.
Keith Murphy: Road Trip Report: Part 1 Road Trip Report: Part 2 Road Trip Report: Part 3 Road Trip Report: Part 4
Keith Murphy was born and "raised" in South Georgia during the Jim Crow era, then blasted with a very liberal arts education during the late '60's, which was then watered down with a more practical law degree. Once stabilized, he married, had children, and finished a successful 30 year law career in his small hometown of Moultrie. Keith retired to the North Georgia mountains around the turn of the century, and very acutely invested his life savings in real estate, which proved to be an excellent way to polish his appreciation for the simple, basic things in life.....this education provided by the recent real estate market bust. Keith discovered the Blues a few years back, and is rediscovering the South, its historical culture and realism. A majority of his time currently is spent on developing and promoting Cooter Brown Emporium, a recreated setting from the early 50's, where blues is occasionally performed live, and poker and pool is played weekly. Keith may be contacted in Blairsville, or at kmurph1@windstream.net.
Amita Murray is a writer and dancer. She has lived in London, Delhi and California, and often writes about the comedy of personal and cultural relationships. Read more of her writing on London Festival Fringe, Radia, the Playground, and Asia Writes. Check out her blog on www.amitamurray.blogspot.com
Steve Myers: Trivia Lost & Found in Ohio
I've been writing for some time. My children's book "The Enchanted Sticks" is still in print in the Ju nior Great Book series. Within the last few years I've had stories in SKIVE, ROSEBUD, and NY Times online.
Andy N: Womb Sunrise
Andy N is a 39 year old writer, writer, performer and sometimes experimental musician from the Manchester area of England. He has published one book of poetry through N Press 'Return to Kemptown' in 2010 and his second book, a split book with Jeff Dawson (aka Jeffarama) 'A Means to an End' has also just been printed. He has been published in numerous books and magazines and has been performing since 2006 and regularly since 2008. More details of his experience can be seen here - andyncreativecv.blogspot.com He is also vocalist and keyboardist in the spoken word collective 'A Means to an End' (httpameanstoanend.yolasite.com) His official website is www.andyn.org.uk
Christopher Nagle: Lucky Studies from a Writing Workshop Meditations on the Road to a Post-Modern Age Bosnia Bathroom Wars: Operation Cloaca Storm - Battle of the Bowl Paean To His Wife Death Squad Assignations with a Golf Course Death in a Garden Satan Speaks
I came to Australia as a child migrant with my family in the late '50s. I went to Uni in Melbourne and did an arts degree, going on into teaching in secondary schools. After around 11 years I went into Real Estate and followed a diverse range of callings as I got older. I am now retired and writing full time, concentrating mainly on the problem of dealing with the emergence of post-modern times. 'Lucky' is a precursor story to this emergent period, when normality and ordinary behavior is violently intercepted by larger historical events.
Peter Neville: (To read the complete series of Toy Soldiers, contact WritingRaw.com) Toy Soldiers: 18 Toy Soldiers: 19 Toy Soldiers: 20 Toy Soldiers: 21 Toy Soldiers: 22 Toy Soldiers: 23 Toy Soldiers: 24 Toy Soldiers: 25 Toy Soldiers: 26 Toy Soldiers: 27 Toy Soldiers: 28
Peter, whose real name is Patrick Neville, was born in March 1933. His boyhood was spent with his mother and three brothers at Pomphlett, Plymouth, Devon, where they survived the blitz and witnessed the build up of the American armed forces readying themselves for D-Day. After serving five years in the R.A.F., during the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency, and with memories of the Far East still fresh in his mind, in 1955 he wrote the first draft of his first novel, much later published as ‘The Awakening of the Lion: Singapore,’ and republished by Monsoon Books of Singapore under the title, ‘The Rose of Singapore.’ See Rosemary Sayers review, http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/article.php?article=642. He went on to lead an equally adventurous life travelling the world working for the rich and famous on ocean-going private motor yachts, during which time he immigrated to the U.S.A. and met and married June, an English girl. They settled in Surfside, Florida, and have a son and a daughter. His latest novel, ‘Toy Soldiers’, is partly fiction but mainly historical facts on WW2. His other unpublished works are, ‘Around the World on the Motor Yacht Shemara,’ a log he kept of his year long voyage during 1959/1960. Much later, from places taken and described accurately from this log, he wrote his first completely fictitious adventure story, ‘The Adventures of James Perkins in ‘The Gods of Guan.’ His latest novel, ‘Toy Soldiers’, is partly fiction but mainly historical facts on how his mother and her four sons survived the blitz on Plymouth, England during WW 2. It ends on D.Day. He is a member of the South Florida Writers Association. Although he loves Florida, he still thinks of Plymouth as his home and returns there periodically.
Diane Nelson: Purple Shroud
Diane Nelson was a technical writer and recently retired to write fiction full time. She specializes in Young Adult and paranormal romance.
Anna Noneya: Untitled
Christine Northern: The Woman [Whom They Paid to Go Away]
Christine Northern is a young freelance writer and editor living in Nashville, Tennessee, and a recent graduate of Belmont University's Master's English Program. She is also a writer and A&R coordinator for MusicbyConverge Entertainment Group. She has been published numerous times in the Belmont Literary Journal and has received honorable mention for her contributions to Glimmer Train Press. Besides writing Christine enjoys music, film, television, cuisine, travel, studying Christian theology and apologetics.
Sandy Nutter: 2 Poems by Sandy Nutter Anger Artificial Sunshine Emotion One Snake Exultation The First Time
My name is Sandy Nutter. I am a 32 year old mother of two children, and is a native of Western North Carolina. I am currently attending college in hopes of becoming a nurse. I enjoy writing, reading and piano.
Kim Offenburger: Pal Joey
Although I've been in love with short stories all my life, I never took a writing class until last year. I haven't put down my black Sharpie fine point since. I live in western Kentucky and write about some things I see everyday and some that I make up. I'm proud that WritingRaw.com is publishing my first piece of flash fiction.
Casey O'Malley: Flower Press
Casey O'Malley is currently a student at the University of Maine at Farmington, majoring in Creative Writing. You can read more of her work at www.caseyomalley.com
Dion OReilly: Seattle 1979
Dion OReilly is a teacher, writer, artist, and mother who has spent most of her life on a small ranch in the Soquel Valley in Santa Cruz California. Her writing and/or artwork have been published in the Cerise Press, Porter Gulch Review, Lily Literary Review, The Doula, Mothersong Magazine, Antithesis Common, Dark Sky Magazine, The Psychology Quarterly, The Lifeline, and the Istanbul Review. Her essay about the death of Michael Jackson was anthologized in the text, Goodbye Billie Jean. Currently she teaches English, Spanish, and ESL at a local high school.
Chukwudum Okudarue: U-Turn The Very Singular kind of Love
I am a 29year old writer living in Lagos, Nigeria. I have a collection of short stories on Amazon.com - CLICK HERE.
Radek Ozog: The truth Is
Radek Ozog is a student at Washtenaw Community College and a member of the poetry club at the school. Radek has always been interested in creative writing, as well as 3-D Animation, which is his major. Not fearful of any obstacle in his way he wishes to explore different types of art especially creative writing. He originally came from Poland to the United States at a very early age. His poems appeared in twisted tongue magazine ,issue 15, The hell gate review,Blood Orange,and blood moon rising,Mirror Dance. plus in many very rare chapbooks. He is a new Staff Writer/Reader, editor, of Macabre Cadaver (A major horror fiction magazine) http://www.weirdyear.com/search/label/Radek%20Ozog
My name is Matt Panetta. I'm a 20 year-old aspiring poet/musician from Markham, Ontario, Canada. I've been writing poetry for six years and have been published and featured in anthologies across Canada and the United States. I'm also a member of the Markham Village Writer's Group. And my song Cherub was used in a 2011 Awareness video for the non-profit organization, CHERUBS. I'm currently editing my manuscript and I hope to publish a collection of my work as soon as possible so I can share my words and music throughout time in itself.
Tonn Pastore: Cellophane Blinders Bad Day at Bikram Yoga? The Fifteen Percent Daddy The Little Girls Are Selling Dope Again She is a Stainless Steel Bar Almost a Sonnet for the UberModels In Their Underwear
Tonn Pastore lives and works in Ponte Vedra Beach Fl. He is consistently writing poetry but today is trying to learn the art of short story writing. He has one collection of poetry published, "Convergence" (Closet Books 2003)
Bruce Payne: Luz De La Concha
Bruce Payne has flown his aircraft in Baja for many years. For a short time he bought and sold abalone from villages on the Pacific side; villages so poor they had no electricity. He listened to the native's stories at night. From these he was able to combine a little history with characterization.
Juan Manuel Perez: 3 Poems by Juan Manuel Perez Are You An American Citizen?
Juan Manuel Perez, a Mexican-American poet, is the author of Another Menudo Sunday (2007), the e-book O’ Dark Heaven: A Response To Suzette Haden Elgin’s Definition Of Horror (2009) and six poetry chapbooks, including the horrifically acclaimed Dial H For Horror (2006).
Andrew Pezzulo: Dog Days of Autumn
I have been writing since I was a teenager. I was was raised in the beautiful countryside of northwest New Jersey, and moved to Florida when I was 22 years of age. I reside on the east coast of Florida. I have 1 son who is a song writer/musician that is married, and I am a proud grand mother of a 2 year old girl. I have worked in the medical field most of my life and as a Director of Purchasing in a hospital setting. I write mainly poetry, and have quite a collection of several pieces.
Daniel J. Pool: D-117, Spark-Songs
Daniel J. Pool is a writer and blogger from the Southern Midwest. His work has been featured at The Trend, Weirdyear Magazine and Fringe Magazine. He is an avid reader, B-movie watcher, and philosopher. In his spare time he runs Larks Fiction Magazine.
Jolene Poole: The Translucent Boy
Jolene Poole has been writing since she could hold a notebook, and recently decided that that was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She has a novella being published and is working on getting her novels published.
Dorin Popa: My Death - My Life
Dr. Dorin Popa is Professor of Journalism & Communication Sciences - at University "Al. I. Cuza", Iasi, Rumania. He did his B.A. in physics in 1984 and post-universitary studies of journalism, with the disertation "Media about the politology in Romania after '89 " in 1994 - 1996 After doing M.A. in Journalism he did Ph.D. in Letters. He is member of (i) AZR -The Association of Romanian Journalists (ii) USR - The Association of Romanian Writers (iii) PEN - Club (iv) IFLAC ( ISRAEL, Haifa), president for Romania (v) Amnesty International (vi) AC - Civic Alliance (vii) Member of the Romanian-American Academy (viii) President of the XXIInd World Congress of Poets held under the auspices of the World Academy of Arts and Culture, in IASI, ROMANIA, 2002. His poems has been published in Italy, France, India, Luxembourg, Canad, USA, Ivory Coast, Venezuela, Spain, Korea, Portugal, England, Israel, Japan, Marocco, Slovakia, Poland Books published : 14 books of poetry in Romanian, English, French, Spanish, Germain, 4 books of poetry, 3 books of interviews with the most important intellectuals of Romania, 4 books of journalism' studies. He has got several literary awards and was nominated for Nobel Prize 2001 (by International Poets Academy - Madras/Chennai, India) and 2002 (by World Academy of Arts and Culture, CA, USA) Email: dpopa@uaic.ro. Visit this site for peace and understanding: www.umfps.co.cc
Chuy Ramirez: Toy Soldiers
Chuy Ramirez is an attorney who practices law in McAllen, Texas and is a partner in the firm Ramirez & Guerrero, LLP. He is currently corporate legal counsel for Lone Star National Bank, a Texas national bank with branches throughout South Texas and more recently in San Antonio. He grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and is no stranger to the strawberry fields, to which he traveled over the years with his family and thousands of families from South Texas. Ramirez attended Pan American University at Edinburg, Texas and is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. At the law school, he served as Articles Editor for the International Law Journal and published a note entitled, "Altering the Policy of Neglect of Undocumented Immigration from South of the Border, Vol. 18 in 1983. Strawberry Fields is his first fictional work. Ramirez lives in Texas with is wife of 39 years Aida, who is a retired public school teacher.
Emma Eden Ramos: War Pigs of Suburbia
Emma Eden Ramos is a writer from New York City. Her fiction has appeared in BlazeVOX, The Citron Review, The Legendary and Down in the Dirt Magazine. She has pieces forthcoming in Yellow Mama and The Better Book Anthology."
Pearanotta Ransome: Confuse Me
Emma Eden Ramos is a writer from New York City. Her fiction has appeared in BlazeVOX, The Citron Review, The Legendary and Down in the Dirt Magazine. She has pieces forthcoming in Yellow Mama and The Better Book Anthology."
Thea M. Read: Avatar
I've tinkered with writing my whole life, although for various reasons it never occurred to me to take it seriously until the last two years or so--mainly when I finally faced the fact that I'm just not the sort to thrive in a conventional work environment. Ouch! In the meantime, I've managed to earn a bachelor's in Sociology, I read voraciously, and I'm the single mom of a lovely 5 year old boy--the two of us live in a small house with three apple trees in the back yard, smack in the middle of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. One small message I'd like to eventually get across to one or two others is that it's important to at least take a good look at those niggling little ghost thoughts floating around in the back of your mind that are typically overrun by daily life and mainstream cultural imperatives. But also, don't slap me if you do! I'm just the messenger...
My name is Marrilynn and I am very involved in Creative Writing, Education, and Theatre. I plan to share all the creativity in my being with my theatre students to help them learn and grow as people. I am a member of Quill and Scroll, The National Thespian Society; I have attended the American College Theatre Festival the last 3 years, and have received director and respondents choice from the Texas Community College Speech and Theatre Association festival. I very much in joy all aspects of art, one that I have greatly excelled in is Creative Writing. I have received my Associate of Arts and am planning to get my Bachelor's degrees in education and theatre. My Grandmother instilled in me at a very young age the undying need to create. I paint, I draw, I act and sing, but most importantly I write. I have a much easier time going into another world sometimes than living in this one.
Rib:
Partner and writer for WritingRaw. After years of trying to get published we (the Poker Sisters) decided that the best way to get out work out into the public eye was to start doing it ourselves. It only took us until middle age to figure this out!
Joe Riley: 4:30 The Green Eyed Monster of It
A few stories and poems published in magazines and ezines, live and love in San Francisco, working on a novel, start MFA next fall.
Vivian Rinaldo: Nannie's Cat
Born in Georgia, I spent most of my life in Kentucky. I have written short stories and poems since I was a teenager, and have had a number of them published online and in print. "Nannie's Cat" was based in part on my beloved grandmother who lived in Eastern Tennessee. I am married and have a wonderful adult daughter with Down syndrome.
Angela Stevenson Ringo: If It Wasn't For Your Love
Angela Stevenson-Ringo a Cleveland, Ohio native a published Author, Writer and Poet. Angela brings her words to life like a flow of a river as she writes each page with passion and power. Words that define who she is but what lies deep down in the depths of her heart and soul. Through Angela eyes she captures passion, energy, hope, sadness, joy, inspiration and love in the essence of each of her poems. Angela made her first debuted in 2008 with "Poems For Your Soul" collections of poems dealing with real life situations with varieties outcomes. In 2009 she released her second poetry book entitled, "Poems of Love Volume One" captures Love between Friends and Lovers, Types of Love and Love a Husband and Wife share. Winter of 2012 Angela will come out with her best seller Autobiography "Through It All Miracles Can Happen" and "Demon Within."
Mark Rittmann: Skandalon
Mark writes from a cubicle in the tree stands of the Red River Valley; always with a head wind. He is 56, soon to be divorced, and wooing Russian brides. Email: bambam1252@yahoo.com
Jeff Rivera:
Jeff Rivera is the the founder of GumboWriters.com, a firm based in New York City. He is a highly-respected book publishing professional who writes regularly for GalleyCat, Mediabistro and Huffington Postand his work has been featured or mentioned in the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, New York Observer, Fast Company, TMZ, NPR, Billboard Magazine and many other publications. Rivera interviews high profile power players such as Janet Evanovich, Jeff Kinney, Seth Godin, Philippa Gregory and James Patterson. He is one of the most sought-after book publishing industry young professionals in the business, often invited as a panelist on writers conferences and a published novelist (Grand Central Publishing). Rivera has assisted over 100 aspiring writers in taking that first step of crafting the right query letter and has a 100% track record of getting top agents to request their manuscript. Agencies such as William Morris Endeavor, ICM, UTA, and Writers House are just a few of the literary agencies who have requested his clients' work. Many of Rivera's clients have gone on to sign with top literary agencies and even secure book deals.
Jeff Rizvi: Kirby
Jeff Rizvi was born in central New Jersey and has lived there for all 21 years of his life. He is currently a student seeking a degree in English. "Kirby" is his first attempt of getting published. He has always had a passion for writing and creativity and aspires to make a career out of writing.
Debra Jean Roberts: Port
I grew older (all the while and still refusing to grow up or old) in the area surrounding the Puget Sound (that is located in the Great Pacific Northwest, Washington, to be exact.) I grew with the delights of newspaper routes, strawberry and raspberry fields to be picked, babysitting jobs and chopping wood with dad. I am the oldest of five children - three sisters and the eternal 'baby' brother, no matter how old he gets. (He just turned 40!) We had chores, rabbits, dogs and cats and a horse named Lady, who hated any order of water, having once nearly died in a bog. But, back to "being the oldest." I can ascribe (the nicest term found for "blame") the inclination to be mothering, hovering, bossy and, sometimes, over-protective due to rank and file of eldest - particularly being eldest daughter. Mothering for me began prior to my second birthday when the next was brought home - early, small and premature, just like myself - a mere 16 months after my arrival. Before I was talking I was mothering. I've moved a lot in the past 16 years - mostly work related, and with the first major uprooting taking place in the context of a corporate move halfway across the country. I've ceased being enamored with the big idea of "Adventure", unless, of course, someone is paying for a vacation. Any one inclined to interpret "adventure" as always on the move is cut from a fabric different from my own. It no longer works for me. I am a nester. Not afraid to say so. I miss roots, friends, and my own home with the requisite gardens to plant and clean and keep and preserve from. (yes, I know that is bad grammar, but it works here.) I am middle aged and waiting to plant - somewhere. It can be seen in my writing. A fellow poet recently said, "We think, therefore, we write." It can also be said, "We feel, therefore, we write." I hope you can enjoy all the feelings. In relating we can find our health, context and wealth of fellow sufferers , worshipers, thinkers, analysts, and travelers. Life is difficult. Life is good. Life is complicated. Write on, I say. And read.
Jane Robertson: No Regrets
Edward Rodosek: 3 Poems by Edward Rodosek 3a Poems by Edward Rodosek
D.Sc. Edward Rodosek a Senior Professor in University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Beside his professional work he writes science fiction. More than hundred of his short stories have been published in magazines in USA, UK, Australia and India as well as about dozen of his poems. Recently he published in USA the collection of short stories "Beyond Perception".
Derek G Rogers: A Lost Weekend A Fading Star
I am retired, live in England and have been married 53 years (To the same lady). I have three daughters, a son and eight grandchildren. I enjoyed a successful career at director level marketing UK national newspapers and magazines. I still maintain contact with the industry. I am an amateur genealogist and often carry out research for people now living in many parts of the world but who have roots in England. Currently I am writing the history of my own family that I have traced back to 1537. I also write a weekly blog under the name of The Marketing Dinosaur for a UK marketing consultancy called cariadmarketing.com. I have written four children's novels, one of which "Blackmore's Treasure" has recently been published, many short stories and some poetry. I particularly enjoy writing stories for my grandchildren in which they feature as the main character. Other work has been published on several internet sites. I have travelled widely, met many leading politicians and people in the public eye. I am a keen gardener and collect British stamps up to the year 2000. I am a close follower of football and cricket; a lifelong supporter of Arsenal Football Club and Middlesec County Cricket Club. I am by nature and inclination a monarchist, opposed to the establishment of the United States of Europe and believe that Great Britain neither needs or wants to become a part of that ever widening state. I dislike and distrust most politicians.
Jessie Rose: Roxy
My name is Jessie Rose. I live in a rural city in New South Wales, Australia. I grew up in a small country town with a population of no more than 8000 people. I am currently studying a Bachelor of Education at one of the local Universities which will give me the qualifications to teach primary and secondary schools. I am classified as a full time student but most weeks I only have classes two days a week so I also have a part time job to help pay my bills. I only started learning about and reading poetry in a subject that I am doing at University at the moment, so I have tried my best to write some pieces. As part of an assessment we are to write some poetry or short stories, submit them and try to have them published.
Brian D. Roth: Approaching Deaths' Doorstep Where Are You?
I am thirty years old living in Clearwater, Florida. Originally from upstate New York, I have been writing both poetry and fiction since the age of ten or maybe it was eleven. I can't exactly remember which. I write about the supernatural and the human condition. Stephen King has always been one of my greatest inspirations.
Billy Rutter: My Fishing Story
I'm currently attending graduate school at Des Moines University. Even at age 28 I am still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up! Over the years I have had sporadic bouts of inspiration to write as I've struggled through personal trials, rediscovered the essence of my humanity and been stuck by the thorns of love. The majority of my completed pieces are in the form of raw poetry or brief explosions of thought during those 'aha' moments of my life.
Rosa Saba: Sleepover In A Strange Place
My name is Rosa Saba. I am a (Canadian) student with a passion for poetry and old music. I have only been writing seriously for a few years but I plan on making it my career someday. I love writing both from personal experience and about things I know nothing of. I hope for people to see their own emotions in what I write. I have work posted on figment.com and writing.com
Jorge Salavert: 4 Poems by Jorge Salavert Walking Back Home Senior Lecturer and Convenor A Commercial Transaction Not a Happy Birthday Words For A Dead Daughter
Jorge Salavert was born in Valencia (Spain) where he completed a degree in English Philology. He migrated to Australia in 1996 and currently lives in Canberra. He has worked as a translator and used to teach Spanish. He reads and writes in his spare time.
Vicki Sala: Hair Die
Vicki Sala is a sensible, flat-shoe-wearing Mum of two with a sensible job and a sensible car. She wants a very fast Ferarri, a job as a stunt woman, a puppy and more than anything, to be a worthy writer of strange, dark comedy who can survive the critisism this kind of writing evokes.
Charles Sanchez: Parable
Charles Sanchez grew up the youngest of 4 in a terrifically loving family in Phoenix, Arizona. At 19, he moved to Manhattan to pursue a career as an actor. After 11 years, he moved to West Hollywood and then Little Rock, AR, expanding his creative pursuits to include directing, musical directing (he did a whole lot of dinner theatre in AR!), teaching and writing. Now 41, Mr. Sanchez is downright giddy to be back in the Big Apple, continuing his artistic life in the most energetic and creative city there is.
Mike Sauve: Everything You Can Think of is True
Mike Sauve has written non-fiction for The National Post, The Toronto International Film Festival Group, Exclaim Magazine and elsewhere. His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen online publications. Upcoming stories will appear in print in Palimpsest, Infinity’s Kitchen and Kitty Snacks. Read all of his published fiction and non-fiction at scorpionofscofflaw.wordpress.com
Adam Schirling is drunken pervert who lives against his will in a cold and rocky New England town. He writes bad poetry and lousy short stories, and somehow convinces people to publish them. He suspects they just feel sorry for him. He constantly tries to start writing the next great American novel, but always just ends up drunk watching porn. If you like his shit, or hate his shit, he'd love for you to tell him, as he is a whore for attention. drunkenabsurdity@gmail.com
Paula Sophia Schonauer: Nothing is Free Terminal Virginity
Paula Sophia Schonauer is a graduate from the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Central Oklahoma where she focused on developing her craft for fiction. She's been published in numerous online and print magazines. Her novel, "Shadow Boxer" has been accepted for publication by Etopia Press and is due to be released in early 2012.
G. David Schwartz: What Are You Thinking Now It Was So Amazing I Finished One Book My Eyes Are Full Of Tears
G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered on Amazon. Check out my book on Midrash.
Nancy Scott: Bev Says "Write a New Poem"
Nancy Scott, Easton PA, is an essayist and poet. Her over-500 bylines have appeared in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and newspapers, and as audio commentaries. Her third chapbook, co-authored with artist Maryann Riker, is entitled "The Nature of Beyond."
Dean Scurlock: Macilroy, the Reluctant Dad
I am a married father of three young children, a law graduate and now home carer, living in Penarth, South Wales. Relatively new to writing, I am working on a number of short stories at the moment, as well as my first novel.
Anna Shaffer: In the Moment
Anna Shaffer was first introduced to writing when she was seven, and has loved it ever since. As a junior in high school, she finds herself aspiring to become a novelist. Through the years, her love for writing has grown, and has continued to grow as she continues to write novels, and short stories.
Michael Shannon: Edibility
Michael has a B.A. in writing and works as a technical writer. He's been published in print and online and is seeking a publisher for his first novel.
Dr. Ram Sharma: Worship
Dr. Ram Sharma[B-1974] is an accomplished poet and writer both in English and Hindi in the field of literature. He has added many feathers to his cap. As a student he has been exceptionally brilliant student from class first to M.Phil He did his doctorate on ` Post-Modernist Trends in Indian Novels in English: A Study of Anita Desai ,Arun Joshi, Amitav Ghosh and Vikram Seth.. He is a renowned poet, critic, reviewer and translator. His poetry is indeed of very high order which is read throughout the world. He has several research papers , articles, poems and reviews published in esteemed journals , magazines and newspapers of India and abroad including Poets International[ Bangalore] , Bizz Buzz[ Mysore], Rock Pebbles[ Orissa],Contemporary Vibes[ Chandigarh]Skylark[ Aligarh]Shine[ Tamilnadu] Poetcrit[ Himachal Pradesh]Indian Book Chronicle [ Jaipur], The Vedic Path[ Haridwar] Metverse Muse[ Vishakhapattnam], Young Poet[ Tamilnadu]Poetry Today[Kolkata] Storm [Kolkata] Samvedna[ Mangalore]Pegasus[Agra] Hyphen[ Shimla]IJPCL[Kerala], Indo-Asian Literature[New Delhi]Replica[Cuttack],Bridge-In-Making[Kolkata]Cyber Literature[Patna] Points of View[Ghaziabad],Kohinoor[Bihar],Voice of Kolkata[ Kolkata],Re-Markings[Agra] Besides this his works has appeared in such web journals like Muse India,Boloji.com, Literary India, Neo-poet, Academic India, Indian English Literature Forum, Impressions Online Journal, Creative Saplings .His poems are showing presence in foreign e-journals like Poems-hunter.com,Voices-net.com, Coffe-connection.com, Autumn Leaves, The Houston Literary Review, Asian-American poetry.com, PoetrySketch Book etc. He has to his credit two poetry volumes Muse[2002] and Serene Moments[2008] At present he is working as a senior lecturer in English in J.V.P.G. College, Baraut, Baghpat, U.P., India
Tom Sheehan: Sacrifice Fly Milan Carl Liskart, Coalman The New Balkan Empire The Sentencing of Madrigal Orpic The Raggedies
Sheehan served in the 31st Infantry Regiment in Korea, 1951. His books this century are A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, from Pocol Press; Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, from Press 53; and Korean Echoes and The Westering from Milspeak Publishers, with 8 more titles in the latter series locked up in the barn.
Niko Sheffield: The Tree
Nequine "Niko" Sheffield is a young writer from Richmond, VA. He is currently a junior at Elizabeth City State University where he majors in English with a concentration in Creative Writing.
VL Sheridan: The Dead Travel Quickly
VL Sheridan is a writer from New Jersey. Her work has been featured on DrunkenAbsurdity.com, and in print in The Kelsey Review, Daily Flashes of Erotica Quarterly, published by Pill Hill Press, and will be featured in the next issue of The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Additional writing may be found on her blog, Sinsoftheflash.blogspot.com. When she isn't writing, she doesn't exist.
Since 1988, one hundred four of Ken Sieben's stories have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Pig Iron, Words of Wisdom, The Crucible, AIM, Skylark, and Sensations Magazine. One of his stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1997. Ken's first novel, Joanie M, was published in 2007. His second, Idyll of the Kings, is scheduled for publication as an e-book in the spring of 2011. Ken served as fiction editor of Northwoods Journal from 1993 to 2002.
Maliya Mzyece Sililo: The Death of Love Creativity
Marcella Simmons: See Exercise/Tips Page Snakes are Snakes, No Matter How You Dice Them! Writing with Grandma Savvy Anywhere But There 1 Anywhere But There 2 Anywhere But There 3 Anywhere But There 4
Marcella Simmons has been writing since 1988 - she has over six hundred published credits in several hundred publications nationwide including several local newspapers that she writes for on a weekly basis. She has a book of poetry published called Bittersweet Morsels and four completed romance/suspense novels she is marketing at this time. She also has a completed reference guide being critiqued and will soon be marketed as well. She is a member of the Shreveport Writer's Group and leader of the Ark-La-Tex Writer's Group. She is the editor/publisher of Housewives' and Husbands' Writers Network
Amanda Sington-Williams: At Number Twenty Two
This story evolved from the idea that anyone who behaves or appears differently automatically creates suspicion. I have an MA in Creative Writing and Authorship from Sussex University and teach Creative Writing in Brighton, UK. Many of my short stories have been published in anthologies, magazines and digitally. My first novel 'The Eloquence of Desire' was published in 2010 by Sparkling Books. amandasingtonwilliams.co.uk
Alessandra Siraco: Sidestep
Alessandra Siraco recently graduated Trinity College and is currently an M.F.A. student at Emerson College. She recently moved to Boston and loves everything about the city, especially the North End.
BT Smith: The Other Sort of Monster
My name is Bryan Thomas Smith and I'm a 21 year old college student from Lake Elsinore, California. My goal is become a successful novelist and as of now I'm going to school for writing and film.
Bob Smith: Election Fraud
A brief bio? My initials are BS (Bob Smith) so how can you expect me to be brief? Actually, I figure those are pretty good initials for a writer of fiction. Of course, when I was a kid, they called them lies but now I get to say 'No, no it's fiction, so I'm allowed to make up stories.' I was born ... No, I can't start there. I live in a remote area of central Ontario and have a campsite in an even more remote place, where there is no electricity, running water, or even cell phone service. It's a wonderful place to write (summer of course) until the laptop battery goes dead. Then I am forced to simply lie back in the sun, watch the loons on the lake, and enjoy the peace and quiet. (It's a motorless lake, far from civilization.) I've self-published three novels (I have no illusions about becoming a major seller, and would rather write than go through the time and energy-draining process of the agent/publisher song and dance). As well, I have had a few short stories accepted for publication, both in 'traditional' publications and electronic format. My most recent project was two CD's of Christmas short stories that my wife (who has an exceptional reading voice) and I recorded at a local radio station for them to use Christmas Day. (We took the sound files, from which CD's were burned.)
Jamison Smith: CatskillPainter.com
I'm Jamison Smith. I'm a painter from upstate New York. I began painting in acrylics in 1985. By the late 1990's, I had achieved some success in the local arts scene in Glens Falls, New York. My brightly colored, aggressively psychedelic paintings were a source of controversy. In 1997, an exhibit of my work in the lobby of a local business was deemed offensive and removed. It was the style that offended, and not the content. The local newspaper put the story on page one. I had become the most hated painter in Glens Falls, which of course helped my sales ! In 1999, a house fire destroyed several of my paintings, and my studio space. Although I continued painting on a limited scale, It was years before I was able to re-establish myself as an artist. I currently live and work in Catskill, New York. I began painting digitally in 2006, and never looked back. My paintings range from impressionistic depictions of historical buildings, to abstract expressionism. My influences range from Thomas Cole, to Alex Grey. My unique brushwork and palette have been my trademarks. They are the only constants in my ever changing approach to art.
Kristine Y. Snow: Tintagel Revisited Pantoum Wild Woman Prayer Tea and Tulips Geode Shadorma Driving To Work Early In The Morning Blaze Of Light Sunrise and The Chill
My name is Kristine Y. Snow. I live in Alton Bay, NH near the "Big Lake" and serve as handmaiden to my two cats. My house and I have a lot in common - we are both older and in need of some work. I love to read and I write poetry, short pieces, and have been doing some writing for a local publication. I do community theater and lately we have been writing and performing burlesque/vaudeville shows which have been lots of fun.
Mahalia Solages: Cheap Message in a Bottle A Conversation with Culture One Rocking Chair The Rise and Fall of Dave The Almost Kept Woman
Mahalia is the author of a children's book "What Morning is This?", the first of a five book 'Sessie' series. She has been featured at Barnes&Noble in NY and Florida, reviewed in Rebelle Haiti and continues to find time to edit her novel with a four year old running around the house.
Patrick Somervell: The Definition of Reality
My name is Patrick Somervell and I'm 18 years old. I moved to England 2 years ago from my home country, Paraguay, in South America. Since coming to England I have developed a love for writing short stories. I had always loved reading so I thought to myself why not give it a go?
Shalisa Spence: Spectrums
Shalisa Marie Spence is a native of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Currently an English major at Elizabeth City State University and enjoys writing poetry and short stories. Falling in love with poetry at a young age, she knows the power of words and has a passion to leave the world a better place through them. She ultimately believes that poets are the unacknowledged legislatures of the world.
L.J. Stark: A Lost Art Awake
Myla Stauber: Glimmer
Myla Stauber has been writing literary fiction from the depths for twelve years, but this would be her first publication in the surface world. She's often found playing on the Oregon coast. You can contact her at mylafox@msn.com.
Patrick J Stephens: Laura
After living in a small town in Georgia for my entire life, Patrick Stephens recently moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to attend the University of Edinburgh's MSc program for writing. He has previously published fiction with the Blue Lake Review - the most recent being "To a Dreamer, Night's the Only Time of Day"- and non-fiction with various news sources such as Patch- Tucker (GA) and other local periodicals.
Tyler W. Stinson: 2 Poems by Tyler W. Stinson Pages from One's Diary Unphased On The Outside Perfectly Home In My Head, Part 1 Today The Road to No Where My Darkest Hour I'm Tired Tears That Fell Good Bye My Angle Noises Behind His Eyes
My name is Tyler W. Stinson, I have been writting since I was nine or ten years old. I have found such beauty and love in my work. My poems, short stories, and novels are very dark and unforgiving. Many days I've sat at my small desk and pondered on the thought of my death as if it was only a dream and that such a fate would never find me. I am published by Llumina Press and my book(s) are sold on thier web page Lluminapress.com. CLICK HERE to view the cover of - Dark Poetry of Mine.
Richard Styles: Inside
Rich Styles has recently completed a degree at De Montfort University, Leicester, and starts another very soon. These academic pursuits enable him to write short-stories and avoid living with his mother. His Dinner Date Preparation website - lennoxleroy.podbean.com - has now helped over two hundred lucky gentlemen.
Ray Succre: 4 Poems by Ray Succre
Ray Succre is an undergraduate currently living on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son. He has had poems published in Aesthetica, Poets and Artists, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across as many countries. His novels Tatterdemalion (2008) and Amphisbaena (2009), both through Cauliay, are widely available in print. Other Cruel Things (2009), an online collection of poetry, is available through Differentia Press. For inquiry, publication history, and information, visit me online: http://raysuccre.blogspot.com
Thomas Sullivan’s writing has appeared in Word Riot and 3AM Magazine, among others. He is the author of "Life In The Slow Lane", a memoir about teaching drivers education. For information on this title, please visit his author website at http://thomassullivanhumor.com.
Sabrina Sumsion: Empath
Sabrina Sumsion is a former literary publicist and voracious reader. She enjoys creating stories, jewelry, lotions and tasty food. Jasmine: Energy Book 1 is her first foray into writing a novel - Jasmine only wants stability, friends and possibly a boyfriend. Who knew aliens would complicate things? Sabrina published Produce, Publish, Publicize: What every writer needs to know to create an amazing product, avoid publishing traps and scams as well as increase sales to assist writers in making good choices in publishing to help authors navigate the publishing waters. She presents to writers and business groups across the nation teaching topics such as branding, building a platform, developing hooks, publicity and marketing.
Alicia Taylor: Desert Rush
Alicia has completed a degree in Professional and Creative Writing. She works in the publishing industry and is also studying a Masters of Criminology.
Gail Taylor: Tornado
Gail Taylor is a Canadian writer whose short fiction won the Random House of Canada student award and was short listed for both the Random House award and the Marina Nemat award at the University of Toronto. Her non-fiction has appeared in the ezine Canadian Actor Online, and she has produced several reports and studies for government. In 2010 and 2011, her short fiction appears in several literary journals in Canada, the UK, Turkey and the USA including Cantaraville, Dark Coast Press, The Evansville Review, Full of Crow, Halfway Down the Stairs, Ink Monkey Magazine, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Menda City Press, Piker Press, Short Story Library, THEMA, Twisted Tongue (UK), and Ygdrasil (Canada.)
Molly Templar: 'Twas the Night before Halloween The Cable Box Gremlin
Molly Templar is a retired teacher who writes poetry and short stories. She and her husband live in Virginia and California.
Shelby Thomas: Words
Shelby Thomas is currently a junior at a university in eastern North Carolina. She has always enjoyed writing poetry, but has recently become more serious with it. Shelby loves art, movies, and most of all books. She believes without poems and stories, the world would be nothing.
Called a hundred names in a dozen cities. A twenty-something English teacher in the city of brotherly love born in the town that begins with Love. Returned from a year of self-discovery in the birth place of the three monoliths. Drunk on Bedouin whiskey, high on Chefchaouen mountain air.
Milton Trachtenburg: Sagging Middles: The Intimidating Space between Beginnings and Endings. AND… Plot Outlines: Who Could Ever Remember The Machinations of These Weird Characters?
I do not consider myself a writer. I am a psychotherapist and former actor who writes. If I have a gift, it is the ability to see the world through a prism rather than a balance sheet so that more of its colors and nuances can be opened for examination. My writing has taken a variety of directions, mostly looking at what I have learned as a professional and positing solutions to problems. However, I do firmly believe that one thing you have to know in order to be a successful writer is the rules of the writing road...even if you choose to break every single one of them to accomplish your purpose. I wrote a textbook in the form of fairy tales and metaphors and a self-help book, partly in the first-person voices of the protagonists. I was told by academicians that, "It can't be done that way." My greatest pride is that each of my three books sold to the first acquisitions editor to see it and I credit that as much to doing my market research as to any writing skill I may possess. If I have any worthwhile advice to offer---as a therapist, I am in the advice business---it is: The reader is your boss and your judge. You exist only to please her. However, your only limitation is the walls you erect within yourself to block out your imagination. All you have to say to open them is, "S'posin'... Publishing History - Books: Stop the Merry-Go-Round: Stories of Women Who Broke the Cycle of Abusive Relationships, HSI/Tab Books, Inc., A Division of McGraw-Hill; Journeys to Recovery: Therapy with Addicted Clients, Springer Publishing Co.; How to Get off the Merry-Go-Round. e-Press. Many short stories (mostly e-pubs) and journal and magazine articles (hard copy) as well as writing a bi-weekly newspaper column for 3 years. I also wrote a screenplay that was optioned but never produced and a one-act play that got a brief run far-off-off-off Broadway. Presently, I am developing a series of articles on the art and craft of writing of which this is one.
Kila Tristesse: A Grey State of Survival
After the traumatic events that split both my family and world view in half, I had decided to take my passion for writing that much further and actually write a book partially based upon what I've been through. My first novel, 'A Grey State of Survival', exposes some of my deepest and most personal thought's and goes further into the human psyche, placing it upon a shaky pedestal where God is in our mind and we are but slaves in mortal body. The main character of my book has huge elements of the author within her but it is not a biography and I am not the main character, I am just a part of her as I venture into a world where my past had not been inspiring as it has been in reality, but instead fatal. Creative writing is my passion as it lets me drift off into worlds unknown and unreal, and through my writing I can thus make them known and real. The cathartic ability is reassuring.
Patrick Trotti: My New High
Patrick Trotti is a 25 year old writer, editor and student. When everything is going well it's in that order.
Nicole E. Turiano: Plastic Extravagance
Nicole E. Turiano, is a writer and also contributes her time as the editor of the online publication, Paragon Dream, for The New Writers. She is an active member of writing programs online and in her community, especially those which aim to further support non-profits and small presses, as well as work for artists and those which promote literacy. She has had work published via some of the online publications she supports over the past couple of years though her most recent devotion has been focused on helping other, new and established writers, expose their creative expression.
Elizabeth Tyrrell: What The Eye Doesn't See
Elizabeth was born and educated in England. She moved to Canada in 1979 and lives with her family near Toronto. She is a keen amateur genealogist and artist. Her paintings are donated to the cancer charity Ribbons of Hope, which was co-founded by her daughter, and she is also privileged to record audio books for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto. Her debut novel, The Strangling Angel, was published earlier this year and is available from Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge, and a preview can be seen online at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Elizabeth is currently hard at work on a sequel. elizabethtyrrell.com
Lorraine (Raine) Voss: Civil Duty A Collection of Random Shorts Avarice Three Short Words Age; Wisdom and the Ever Evolving Valentine Jimmy Dante's Cradle of Filth
Lives in Llanwrtyd Wells, Mid Wales, Previously the owner and manager of a small tailoring buisness in Gwent, she sold up and moved to Mid Wales with the intention of spending more time writing. Examples of her previous work can be found in a number of anthologies, predonimently PoetryPages.com's Voices from Around the World series. She has recieved a number of Eisteddfods Prizes and her first solo collection: Duct Tape and Dafodyls, was self published through DiggoryPress in 2005. She is currently working on a second collection of poetry and short stories and is also studying toward a BA(hons) English Literature degree with the O.U.
Kristen Walker: In My Past Life
Kristen Walker was born on February 24, 1983, in Gadsden, Alabama. She attended a small high school and experienced a typical Southern upbringing. At age eighteen, she matriculated at the University of Alabama, where she earned her bachelor's degree in English and took several creative writing classes, which inspired her interest in poetry. After graduation, Kristen moved to New York City and worked at Long Island University, Brooklyn, as a writing tutor. Although she enjoyed city life, being away from home made her realize she is a true Southerner. In spring 2008, Kristen moved back to Alabama and decided to pursue her master of fine arts in poetry writing. Kristen began this degree in fall 2009 at North Carolina State University, where she taught English composition and studied under John Balaban and Dorianne Laux. Kristen graduated from N.C. State in the summer of 2011 and currently plans to attend law school while continuing her writing career.
Kristin Walker: Twelve
Kristin Walker has been running her own software design business for the last fifteen years. Writing is her escape from the, at times, mundane world of software development. She can be reached at kristin.s.walker@gmail.com or on her blog at http://kristinswalker.wordpress.com.
Alex Wardwell: Truth
In this sadistic declarative society many would label me as an inexperienced fifteen year old boy, but in reality there is more to me than people perceive. My adversely uncommon view on society makes me (in many ways) superior to my fellow narrow-minded ignoble politicians and officeholders. Many who meet me see me only as they want to see me and not as I am intended to be seen. If only everyone knew about the strange upbringing that has brought the knowledge to make me who I am. If you feel like you must know more about me or my writing you can contact me at alexwardwell@aol.com
Merv Webster: The Passing of Stumpy Shore
I was born in the Queensland border town of Goondiwindi, Queensland, and, as my dad was a banker, his work took us to a number of towns throughout Queensland. I received my education to Junior level and then tried my hand at various occupations such as a Lad Porter on the Railway, then as a Clerk for the Commonwealth Bank, an Accountant, and the Toowoomba City Council. In 1996 I met Neil McArthur, a fellow poet, who encouraged me to try performing my poetry at the Bundy Mob's Bush Poets Muster. This was the beginning of my career as a Performing Bush Poet. I have been fortunate over the years to be able to perform and win numerous awards for my performance bush poetry and my written bush poetry, which were included in the eight books of bush verse and yarns I have published along with three CD albums. I have been a finalist on four occasions at the Golden Gumleaf Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth with my books and once with Chris for our CD, 'Chris and The Grey, A Selection of Bush Verse'. In 2005 I began song writing and have picked up a number of nominations and a few wins in the Lyrics Only section of the Northern Territory National Country Music Song Writing Awards and the Tamworth Song Writer's National Country Music Song Writing Awards. These days my wife and perform our own show called Bush Verse, Ballads and Yarns that reflect the Laughter and Tears of our Country. We have our own website www.users.tpg.com.au/thegrey
Kenneth Weene: Fat Sex: Alice in Cyberland Valentine's Day
Kenneth Weene is a novelist and poet. CLICK HERE to learn more about his latest novel, Memoirs From the Asylum.
Rebecca Jane Weinstein: Fat Sex: Alice in Cyberland
Rebecca Jane Weinstein is the founder of PeopleOfSize.com, an online community and social networking site which provides information, support, and interaction for "people of size." She has been working as an advocate and writer for nearly twenty years. This is her second book. (A more extensive bio can be found at http://www.FatSexTheBook.com).
Robert Welsh: Olde Camden Road
Robert Welsh is a new author who graduated from Yale University in 2001 with a degree in English. Born in Philadelphia, he is an avid fan of suspense and travel writing. He is currently a licensed attorney in northern New Jersey but left the field to spend more time writing and coaching children. He lives with his wife, Joanna, in Hoboken, NJ.
Born and raised on the Southwest Coast of Canada I started writing at the age of fifty. As a young adult, I moved to Mexico for eight years and inevitably, married a lovely Mexican girl. Thus, it happens that I am fluent in English, Spanish and sarcasm; though my mother claims that last is genetic. I am a cabinetmaker by trade and have had several short stories and non fiction articles published in the now defunct, literary, print magazine Eclectica. (Not my fault.)
Martin Willoughby: It Can Be Done, It Should Be Done
My name is Martin Willoughby and I live in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK. I'm 47 years young with three kids, encroaching baldness and a bad back. I currently work as a PC technician but moonlight as a non-nerd writing SF(!). I have had two stories published in the late lamented Pantechnicon and am a regular book/DVD reviewer for Hub Magazine. My one aim in life is to avoid dying for as long as possible and be a nuisance to my kids when I'm old.
Megan Willoughby: Chemistry
Megan Willoughby is currently studying English and California State University: Northridge. When she isn't hitting the textbooks, she spends her time chasing squirrels and writing in orange groves.
Rick Wilmot: The Gherkin English
Retired and living in Spain with my wife of 45 years; ex Merchant Seafarer, ex Postman, ex Bus Driver, ex Trade Union Officer. Father of two daughters and Granddad to two boys and two girls. Hobbies. Family History, collecting vinyl records, esp. 10" jazz, philately, reading English Classics and auto/biographies, learning Spanish, writing poetry and short stories.
Letty Wilson: Block
Letty Wilson is a creative writing student in Aberystwyth University, Wales. As a young writer just starting out, she doesn't have a list of published works so much a list of works in progress, generally scrawled on the back of actual productive work.
Scott D. Wilson: pro-jec-tile
Scott D. Wilson writes all day every day as a lawyer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His law degree is from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been published in an online poetry journal and won prizes for his paintings.
Traci Wingfield: Broken Rib
My name is Traci Wingfield and I am a junior at Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. This is a story I wrote for my Creative Writing class this semester.
Charles Hugh Winstead: Last Date
Hung up in the 60's, poet and publisher Charles Hugh Winstead is a 1995 graduate of the University of Tennessee's Creative writing program. His poems appear in various small press chapbooks, anthologies, and zines, including--Poets for Peace and Justice; The Small Town Poetry; Green River Portfolio; The Phoenix; among others. Charles has given readings in Seattle, Washington; Kansas City, Missouri; as well as Clarksville, Knoxville, and Nashville, Tennessee. He currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with wife, Paula; budgie, Spencer; and cockatiel, Tucker.
J.L. Wright: Her Breath
J.L. Wright, M. Ed. is a passionate educator, with more than 17 years teaching children and adults. J.L. grew up in Minnesota and has lived an interesting life so far. From a middle class foster home to happy homelessness and wedded disasters, tales are meant to be told through prose and poetry. Believing "Ignorance is not bliss" J.L. hopes to impact the world by sharing universal messages of life, love, and the importance of keeping what you like and leaving the rest behind.
Stephanie M. Wytovich: Necro-Let-Me-Feel-Ya
Stephanie M. Wytovich is a senior at Seton Hill University where she is a double major in English Literature and Art History, yet is secretively a Creative Writing Major. She plans on attending graduate school to pursue her doctorate in art history and creative writing with aspirations of teaching at a graduate level, so she can spread the disease of the horror world to her students through both art and literature.
Peter Yates: Necro-Let-Me-Feel-Ya Life In The Old Town Yet Down by the Seaside The Bonding Autumn Morn Leprechaun
I'm Peter from Northern Ireland but I have now been living in Edinburgh for twenty years. I belong to various writing groups in Edinburgh, and have had some of my poems published in the local magazine 'Bugle'.I enjoy writing poems, short stories and at the moment I am working on a stageplay 'Postcards' which i hope and pray shall get staged in The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh one day. My genre is comedy but i have been known to write the odd tear jerker or two. I would welcome any feed back, contact details: peter296@hotmail.co.uk
Alan Zacher: Burgermen
After having been a "struggling" actor for many years in Los Angeles, I returned home to St. Louis, Missouri, and returned to college. In December of 2010, I graduated from Lindenwood University's MFA program, Writing. I have had several stories published at Kalkion and at The Fringe Magazine. Post Mortem Press is presently considering publishing my detective novel "I'M NO P.I.".
Mel Zimmerman: The Next Reich: A Novella
This former corporate marketing manager found a different creative outlet. One that led him to publish unLikely Enemies, a satirical novel about parenting adultlings living large at home (not theirs). His newest effort is a novella titled: the Next Reich. A worrisome tale of a man, who understands the mistakes made by a historical tyrant he admires. He must avoid them as he prepares the political strategies necessary to begin the Next Reich-without firing a shot.
bi·og·ra·phy (bi'ägr?ee), Noun: An account of someone's life written by someone else;
Writing of such a type as a branch of literature.
ar·chive ('är,kiv), Noun: A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people; Verb: Place or store (something) in such a collection.
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