Volume 4 Issue 1

Adam Levon Brown

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Adam Levon Brown is an internationally published poet and author in 14 countries. He has had his work translated in Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, and Afrikaans. Boasting over 300 published pieces, you can find his writing at such publications as Burningword Literary Journal, Firefly Magazine, Zany Zygote Review, Epigraph, Angel City Review, and Ariel Chart. He was long-listed in the 2016 Erbacce Prize poetry competition and received a special mention in the Pangolin Prize 2018 competition. He has recently taken up painting for fun. 

Perforated Stars Speak of Serendipity, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Book Release, Embedded Memories of a Shooting Star

Anxiety, Volume 5, Issue 2

Susan P. Blevins

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Susan P. Blevins was born in England, lived 26 years in Italy, and has now resided in the USA for the past 25 years, first in Taos, NM, and currently in Houston, TX. While living in Rome, she had a weekly column in an international, English-language newspaper, writing about food and restaurant reviews primarily, though not exclusively. Since living in the USA, she has written pieces on gardens and gardening for N. American and European publications, and she is now writing stories of her life and travels, and poetry, and gaining traction in various literary publications such as New Verse News, Feminine Collective, Mused Bellaonline, Write Place at the Write Time, Scarlet Leaf, to mention just a few. She loves reading, writing, cats, classical music, and stimulating conversation.

Murphy’s Law, Volume 4, Issue 1
Beware, The Handyman Cometh, Heavenly Bites, The Joy of Fishing, The Extraction, and Mother’s Toast, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
A Marriage of Convenience, Reverie, Decisions, A Wing and a Prayer, and Yellow does not have a season, Volume 5, Issue 1

The Smallness of It and My Refrigerator, Volume 6, Issue 1

Meredith Bailey

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Meredith Bailey completed an MFA at Goddard College several years ago. Currently, she is a freelance writer and editor based in the Seattle, Washington area. Right now, the focus of her creative work is a series of connected short stories. Bailey’s fiction has previously appeared in several journals such as Shark Reef, Em Dash Literary Magazine, and Autumn Sound Review (the latter two now defunct, unfortunately.) She was also a contributor to the anthology Secret Histories: Stories of Courage, Risk, and Revelation.

Runaways, Volume 4, Issue 1

Wilda Morris

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Wilda Morris is an award-winning poet who leads poetry workshops for adults and children. A past president of both Illinois State Poetry Society and Workshop Chairperson of the latter, she has published widely in journals and websites. Her interests include walking in the woods or wetlands and travel. Her blog at http://wildamorris.blogspot.com/ provides a contest for other poets each month.

Early Spring in the Woods, Volume 3, Issue 2
Fall, 1950s, Volume 4, Issue 1

Mark Hudson

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Mark Hudson is an Illinois poet and artist, who spends most of his time writing and doing art. He has a degree in creative writing from Columbia College, in Chicago, and has been published many times in-print, online, and internationally. To check out his poetry on the web go to Illinoispoets.org.

Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Chicago Fire and Beautiful Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Judith’s Skull, Volume 5, Issue 1

To laugh or cry and What is Life?, Volume 5, Issue 2

Ben Groner III

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry, has work published in Appalachian Heritage, New Mexico Review, Third Wednesday, The Bookends Review, Fourth & Sycamore, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at bengroner.com/creative-writing/

Overpopulation, Volume 3, Issue 2
The Burn; Sunlight, a Jubilation; and Highways Like Frozen Rivers; Volume 4, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination: Highways Like Frozen Rivers)

Darren C. Demaree

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Diode, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Two Towns Over (March 2018), which was selected as the winner of the Louise Bogan Award by Trio House Press. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. Demaree currently lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children.

Emily as We Ensure Our Joy with Practical Water and Emily as Wind Racing from the Corners, Volume 3, Issue 2
Review, Two Towns Over, Volume 4, Issue 1
bone requires bone #55, bone requires bone #56, and bone requires bone #57, Volume 4, Issue 2

Charles Joseph Albert

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Charles Joseph Albert lives in San Jose, California, with his wife and three children, where he works as a metallurgist and writes poetry and fiction on the trolley to and fro. His work has appeared recently in Amsterdam Quarterly, Collective Unrest, First Lit Review, The Apeiron Review, Asissi, The Ibis Head the MOON, the Lowestoft Chronicle, and The Literary Nest.

A Feel for the Water, Volume 3, Issue 2
Evil Indications and For Once, Heaven Opens Up, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Vox Clamanthis in Deserto, I Awoke with the Homeless, In the Valley of the Ohlone, and Found In My Inbox, Volume 5, Issue 1

Updates for Issue 6 and Issue 7

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

We are wrapping up submissions for Issue 6. I hope to have it released by October. Thank you for your patience while I dealt with my personal emergencies this summer.

Issue 7 will be available January 15, 2018. We’ve changed our submission deadline to no longer having a deadline. We will read submissions year round. We will still have two issues a year, available on January 15 and July 15. The optional theme for Issue 7 is fire.