Issue Thirty-Eight: Contributors

Geoffrey Aitken writes on Adelaide’s unceded Kaurna land, an awarded minimalist poet who communicates his ‘lived experience disability’ for publishers [AUS] and [UK, US, HR, CAN, FR & CN]. Recently, STREETCAKE, Impspired [UK], Panoplyzine Mag [US], ZinDaily [HR] & unusual work [AUS]. Now at StepAway Magazine [UK] & soon at Vilas Avenue, [US] & Social Alternatives [AUS]. Nominated Best of the Net in 2022.

Emma Atkins is a poet and novelist currently studying for her PhD at Middlesex University. She started writing poetry in 2018 and has been finding footholds in the creative world ever since. Most recently, she was published in the Bullshit Lit 2023 anthology and Amsterdam Quarterly‘s ‘Generation’ edition.

Quinn Byrne was born in Dublin and is a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, currently living in Edinburgh.

Dr Lee Campbell is an artist, poet and Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London. Publications of his poetry include The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Otherwise, You Are Here – The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings, New Note Poetry, Streetcake. The New Normal and StepAway Magazine. His debut poetry collection SEE ME: An (Almost) Autobiography will be published by London Poetry Books in 2024. He also has a chapbook of poetry Slang Bang being published by Back Room Poetry in November 2024.  His experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals since 2019. Find him on Instagram and X.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa and Doubly Mad.

Laura Hess lives in Texas with her dog Gracie. Laura Hess enjoys doing yoga, and writing and illustrating children’s books. She taught AP Language and Composition at a high school in China for five years. She currently works as a substitute teacher.

Shaun Hill is a poet and movement artist mapping the shifting mysteries of the earth body. He’s the author of warm blooded things (Nine Arches Press, 2021), and recently completed an Arts Council DYCP project exploring what improvised movement with living systems can teach us about the ongoing climate crisis. His poems have appeared in Magma, Wasafiri, A&U: America’s AIDS Magazine, and on BBC Radio 4. Find him on Instagram @warmbloodedthing.

Joan Leotta plays with words on page and stage telling of food, family, and strong women. She’s internationally published with essays, poems, short stories, novels. She’s been twice nominated for Pushcart Awards and Best of the Net. She was 2022 runner-up in the Robert Frost Competition and has been Poet of the Week on Poetry Super Highway. Her essays, poems, and fiction appear in Ekphrastic Review, Verse Virtual, Gargoyle, Highland Park Poetry, Silver Birch, Yellow Mama, Mystery Tribune, One Art, Ovunquesiamo, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Impspired, and others.

Keith David Parsons is a person who came from West Virginia, lives in Washington, DC and is less conflicted about it than you might think. Believes a poem without a message is like a big hole without spikes at the bottom—why would you dig it? Member of DC Poetry Collective; featured in iNK BLOTS Vols. 1, 2.

Luke Sawczak is a teacher and writer in Toronto. His poetry has appeared in Sojourners, Acta Victoriana, Queen’s Quarterly, the Humber Literary Review, the Spadina Literary Review, Ekstasis, and elsewhere. It has been nominated for Best of the Net and included in Best Canadian Poetry. His creative nonfiction placed in Napoli Racconta. In his spare time he composes for the piano.

Maggie Sinclair is a Scottish writer living in Perthshire. Her work has appeared online and in print in various publications including Write Time, The Drabble, Secret Attic, Wanderlust Magazine and The Anansi Archive. When she’s not writing or trying to coax things to grow in her garden, Maggie loves to travel. She shamelessly steals stories and scenes from the lives of the people she meets and turns them into short fiction.

Patrick Wright has a poetry collection, Full Sight of Her (Eyewear), which was nominated for the John Pollard Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland, The North, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, and London Magazine. His second collection, Exit Strategy, will be published by Broken Sleep Books in 2025.