Poetry

Mario Duarte

Mario Duarte is a Mexican-American writer and an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate. His fiction and poetry have appeared in From Whispers to Roars, Jake, Mersey Review, and Ocotillo Review, among others. He is the author of a poetry collection, To the Death of the Author, and a short story collection, My Father Called Us Monkeys.

Donna Kathryn Kelly

Donna Kathryn Kelly [@donnakathrynkelly.com] has practiced law for three decades, primarily in the Illinois criminal justice system. Kelly is the author of the paranormal horror thriller, THE DESCENT: A Halloween Novel, which was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2023 Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project Manuscript Contest. Kelly’s latest supernatural thriller, THE LION AT THE FALLS, was a finalist in the 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award Competition [Supernatural Category] and, it was the third-place award winner in the 2024 West Virginia Writers’ Contest [Book-Length Prose Category]. Kelly's poetry has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies such as 7th-Circle Pyrite, Southern Arizona Press, Pasque Petals, The Gilded Weathervane and North Dakota Quarterly.

Lee Garratt

Lee Garratt is a middle aged high school teacher with delusions of grandeur. Writes prose and poetry, often of the fantastical persuasion.

John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink and Tenth Muse. Latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires, and Covert are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Amazing Stories and Cantos.

Ernest Hilbert

Ernest Hilbert is a poet, librettist, critic, and rare book dealer resident in Philadelphia. His fifth book, Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and appeared in 2023.

Simon MacCulloch

Simon MacCulloch lives in London. His poetry can be found in Altered Reality, Blue Unicorn, The Collidescope, The Dawntreader, Ekstasis...

Prose

Libby Cudmore

Libby Cudmore is the author of Negative Girl (Datura 2024) and The Big Rewind (William Morrow 2016) as well as the Wade & Jacks PI series in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Tough. Her work has been published in Eleventh Hour, Smokelong Quarterly, The Dark, Stone's Throw, Dark Waters, Shotgun Honey, Orca, Monkeybicycle and The Coachella Review, as well as the anthologies At the Edge of Darkness, Burning Down the House, 120 Murders, Shamus & Anthony Commit Capers and the Anthony-nominated Lawyers, Guns & Money, (which I co-edited with Art Taylor). She is a five-year Barrelhouse Writer's Camp alumni, and the recipient of the Shamus Award, the Black Orchid Award, The Eleventh Hour Inaugural Literary Prize and the Oregon Writers' Colony prize.

Nia Vasquez

Nia Vasquez is a Hispanic-German writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She has been previously accepted to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards as well as the Adroit Summer Mentorship for prose. She enjoys writing historical fiction, fantasy, and wearing high heels. She might be too obsessed with Oscar Wilde. When she’s not writing about dead people, you can find her fencing, dressing up, and running a blog (https://historiaunstitched.com/).

Benjamin Larned

Benjamin Larned (he/they) is a creator of surreal fables. Their fiction is featured in Vastarien, NoSleep Podcast, hex literary, and Seize the Press, among others. Their short film "Payment" is streaming on ALTER. To learn more, visit curiousafflictions.com.