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BROTHERS

After twenty years of teaching, Rebecca Brothers now writes full time for children and adults in her native Kentucky. Her awarding winning essays, poems, short stories, and feature articles appear in places like the Instant Noodles website, Dirty Spoon podcast, Kaleidoscope Magazine, the Gothic Fantasy anthology from Flame Tree Press, and Kentucky Humanities Magazine. She often writes about the folklore and history of her native Kentucky, updating the tales for a modern audience. She has a loyal dog, a lazy lizard, and a school of fish who mostly stay out of her way. Her wonderful husband and two kids help keep all the animals alive when Rebecca is lost in her writing.

CONLEY

Steve Conley writes news, fiction, nonfiction, business content and other things, currently from a small beach town.

FAIRBROTHER

Christa Fairbrother, MA, is a Florida-based writer living with chronic illnesses. She’s the author of the award-winning, Water Yoga (Singing Dragon, 2022). Her poetry has appeared in DMQ Review, The London Reader, and Unbroken among others. Connect with her: http://www.christafairbrotherwrites.com.

FERRELL

Epiphany Ferrell lives on the edge of the Shawnee National Forest, where she spies on creatures of the night via trail camera. Her stories appear in more than 70 journals and anthologies, including Pulp Literature, Ghost Parachute, Best Microfiction, and the anthology Shakespeare Unleashed. She is a two-time Pushcart nominee, and a Prime Number Magazine Flash Fiction Prize recipient. Twitter/X/Whatever it is: @EpiphanyFerrell Bluesky: epiphanyferrell@bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epiphany.ferrell/ epiphanyferrell.com

FITZGERALD

Jane H. Fitzgerald is a retired history teacher turned poet. is a retired history teacher turned poet. She has written four books of poetry including, Notes From the Undaunted. Jane has been featured in many print journals and online sites. A few of these are: Instant Noodles, Your Daily Poem, Isele Quarterly, Little Old Lady Comedy, Green Ink Poetry, and more. Jane hopes that her writing creates a bridge of understanding to others. She loves her family, friends, writing, and working with colors. Jane enjoys living in Florida. Find more of Fitzgerald’s poetry, and follow her.

FLEMING

Robert Fleming is a visual poet from Lewes, Delaware. Robert follows his mother as a visual artist and his grandfather as a poet. Robert is a contributing editor of Old Scratch Press, and member of the Rehoboth Beach and Horror Writers Association. Books: Con-Way in 4 in 1, #4, by Four Feathers Press and 11/2023 White Noir by Devil’s Party Press. Wins: 2022 San Gabriel Valley California-1 poem, 2021 Best of Mad Swirl poetry, Nominations: shortlisted for 2023 Blood Rag Poet of the year, 2 Pushcart, 2 Best of the Net, and Delaware Press Association: 2 honorable mentions. https://www.facebook.com/robert.fleming.5030 .

FOOT

Kate Foot lives in the Forest of Dean with her husband, three dogs and two cats. She is autistic, disabled, and spends an inordinate amount of time arguing with chronic illness about what she’s allowed to do today. She has written one book, about autism and bereavement, titled Life Goes On, which is currently under submission and looking for a publisher home. Her essay “Be Kind” was recently published in Hot Pot Magazine, and she has several short stories under consideration.

FULCHER

R. David Fulcher is an author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. Major literary influences include H.P. Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, Fritz Lieber, and Stephen King. Fulcher’s first novel, a historical drama set in World War II, Trains to Nowhere, and his second novel, a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, Blood Spiders and Dark Moon, are both available from authorhouse.com and Amazon. The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror just released fall 2023. David is a founding member of Old Scratch Press, a co-editor of Instant Noodles, and editor of Samsara Magazine.

GILLIAM

Gabby Gilliam lives in the DC metro area with her husband and son. Her poetry has appeared in One Art, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ekphrastic Review, Pure Slush, Deep Overstock and others. Gabby is a founding member of Old Scratch Press, a co-editor of Instant Noodles. You can find her online or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/GabbyGilliamAuthor.

HAMMERSCHMIDT

Lee Hammerschmidt is a Visual Artist/Writer/Troubadour. He is the author of the short story collections, A Hole Of My Own, It’s Noir O’clock Somewhere, For Richer or Noirer, Flash Wounds, and Pulp Stains. Check out his hit parade on YouTube!

HERON

Robert Lewis Heron is an award-winning author, poet, and artist. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he now resides in Sarasota, Florida. He has won the Sarasota Fiction Writers Short Story Contest twice and the American 2019 National Book Award.

HOLM

Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

JACQUIER

Doug Jacquier writes from the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. His poems and stories have been published in Australia, the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and India. He blogs at Six Crooked Highways.

LOLENG

Stephanie Grace Loleng is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Southern Maine. Her writing has appeared in Gastropoda literary magazine and the anthology Expat: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad. She also produced a segment for the Peabody-award winning radio documentary Crossing East, the first public radio series on Asian American history. She’s working on a collection of short stories inspired by Filipino American culture and folklore. Stephanie lives in New York City with her husband. Follow Stephanie.

MARIL

Nadja Maril is a former magazine editor and journalist living in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine and her short stories, poetry and essays have been published in literary journals and anthologies that include Lunch Ticket, Across the Margin, and The Compressed Journal of Creative Arts . She blogs weekly about writing and life at Nadjamaril.com. Her twitter handle is SNMaril and facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/nadja.maril.

MERRIGAN

Kat Merrigan, a published author, blogger, podcaster and actress, was born and raised in New York. Her weekly blog is available at http://www.katmerrigan.com. Her work has been featured in Calla Press and Academy Of the Heart and Mind. She narrated one of her pieces for the Story Unlikely podcast. This summer her work appeared in a Cloaked Press anthology. A one-act play she wrote will be included in an upcoming theater festival. She can be found on IG: Kat Controversy and FB: Kathy Merry.

MILLER

Kelly P. Miller is an English instructor at a community college. She has her master’s in English/Creative Writing and has been published in 101words.org and freespirit.com. She is currently writing a novel.

PRATT

Judith Pratt’s experiences– actor, director, professor, fundraiser, and freelance writer–inspire her novels, stories and plays. Her stories were most recently published in “The Gateway Review” and “Fifth Di Magazine.”. Her novel “Siljeea Magic”, was published in 2019. In 2018, she self-published her first novel, “The Dry Country.” Her plays have been produced in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Cape Town, South Africa. “Maize” was selected for the Louisiana State University SciArts Prize. Her play “Losing It,” appeared in Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020.

SHY

Shoshauna Shy is the founder of Woodrow Hall Editions and the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program. One of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021, and another longlisted for the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2022. Her poems have been made into video, produced inside taxi cabs, and even decorated the hind quarters of city buses. Not a monogamous writer, she works on 7-11 pieces at the same time. She is also a flash fiction author— but that’s another story!

STOROZYNSKI-TOLL

Jacquee Storozynski-Toll is a writer and actress. She has published three novels and won poetry competitions. She writes for a theatre magazine and website . Her hobbies are acting in period and modern drama. Travel and visiting art galleries. She is married with two adult children and three grandchildren.

SUPRANOWICZ

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is a Jar, The Phoenix, and other journals. Edward is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.

UKAH

Jonathan Ukah is a graduate of English and Law. His works have been published by the department of English, Ohio State University, Ohio, and the Black Writing Review of the Edgehill University, Edgehill, UK. His poems have also been published online by the Sparrows Trombone, Discretionary Love, State of Matter, New Note Poetry, New Reader Magazine, Wildfire Words Literary, the Poet, Fresh Words International Literary Magazine, Boomer Literary Magazine, The Pierian, the Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Whiskyblot Literary, Compass Ross, and Aloko.

WALKER

Nancy North Walker is an award-winning “second act” short fiction writer from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, who took up creative writing following a long career as a business communications executive in Chicago, New York, and New Jersey. She’s partial to speculative fiction, especially sci-fi, horror, and magical realism, but also dabbles in rom-com and contemporary fiction.  Her short stories have appeared in several mid-Atlantic anthologies and Devil’s Party Press’s (DPP’s) online literary magazine, Instant Noodles. Walker’s first horror story, Insecticide, which appeared in DPP’s Halloween Party ’21 anthology, won second place for single short stories in the 2022 National Communications Contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women. It also won first place in the 2022 Delaware Press Association’s Communications Contest.  Her sci-fi flash fiction story New Year’s 2044 With George, which appeared in DPP’s Instant Noodles, won second place in the same contest. Another of her sci-fi stories, The Companion, won a Judge’s Award in the 2021 Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest. It was published along with other contest winners by Cat & Mouse Press in their fall 2021 anthology, Beach Secrets.  Walker was a winner of the same short story contest in 2019 and was published in Cat & Mouse Press’s Beach Dreams.  Walker is currently working on a provocative sci-fi short story collection about the many unexpected ways advanced technology will change people’s lives in the coming decades. For more information about Walker see: nancynorthwalker.com.