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 Name: Stephanie F. Scholz  Contribution: Cover artist for Issue 6  Location: Berlin  Bio: Stephanie Franziska Scholz was born in 1983 in Japan, grew up in Australia and now lives and works in Berlin. She studied drawing and print making at the Unive

Name: Stephanie F. Scholz

Contribution: Cover artist for Issue 6

Location: Berlin

Bio: Stephanie Franziska Scholz was born in 1983 in Japan, grew up in Australia and now lives and works in Berlin. She studied drawing and print making at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin as well as the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and received her diploma in 2012. After completing her studies, she illustrated several books, worked for newspapers and magazines and drew record covers for musicians. She is a founding member of Studio Spektral and has participated in several solo and group exhibitions.

Links: stephanie-f-scholz.com

 Name: Caroline de Verteuil  Contribution: Author of "The Portrait" short story  Location: Trinidad, West Indies  Bio: Caroline is a Trinidadian writer and translator whose short stories have appeared in publications from the UK, New York, the Virgin

Name: Caroline de Verteuil

Contribution: Author of "The Portrait" short story

Location: Trinidad, West Indies

Bio: Caroline is a Trinidadian writer and translator whose short stories have appeared in publications from the UK, New York, the Virgin Islands and the Netherlands. She also writes for Caribbean magazines MACO People and MACO Caribbean Living. While her academic background centres on specialised translation, Caroline has attended various fiction-writing courses in London and New York. Her long-term goal is to write novels from the rainforest abode she is presently building with her fiancƩ.

 Name: Frances Murphy  Contribution: Artist for "The Portrait"  Location: Brighton, England  Bio: Frances is a freelance illustrator living in Brighton. She is inspired by people's stories; big and small and the natural world. Letting a story get und

Name: Frances Murphy

Contribution: Artist for "The Portrait"

Location: Brighton, England

Bio: Frances is a freelance illustrator living in Brighton. She is inspired by people's stories; big and small and the natural world. Letting a story get under your skin, and distilling a message within a picture is what gives this girl thrills. Her main artist challenge is not totally giving way to her love of blue, and letting some other colours onto the page.

Links: franmurphyillustration.com | @FranRMurphy
 

 Name: FJ Morris  Contribution: Author of "In a small pond" short story  Location: Bristol  Bio: Freya Morris is a writer based in Bristol. She's been listed in a number of competitions, and her stories feature in Fiction Desk, Litro’s Friday Flash,

Name: FJ Morris

Contribution: Author of "In a small pond" short story

Location: Bristol

Bio: Freya Morris is a writer based in Bristol. She's been listed in a number of competitions, and her stories feature in Fiction Desk, Litro’s Friday Flash, Popshot, and National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 'Scraps'. When she’s not distracted by shorter fiction, she’s working on her YA novel to send to agents.

Links: freyajmorris.com | @Freya_J_Morris

 Name: Daniel Jamie Williams  Contribution: Artist for "In A Small Pond"  Location: London  Bio: Daniel is an illustrator/artist based in London. He mixes traditional and digital techniques; mostly pencil and software. He enjoys making narr

Name: Daniel Jamie Williams

Contribution: Artist for "In A Small Pond"

Location: London

Bio: Daniel is an illustrator/artist based in London. He mixes traditional and digital techniques; mostly pencil and software. He enjoys making narrative pieces which sometimes take the form of short books or zines as well as editorial and poster illustration.

Links: danieljamiewilliams.com | wishwelliams.tumblr.com

 Name: Steven E. Gonzales  Contribution: Author of "Passing Waves" poem  Location: Vidor, Texas, USA  Bio: Steven is an average college student from Texas who loves writing. He knew that writing is what he wanted to do after reading Fahrenheit 451 by

Name: Steven E. Gonzales

Contribution: Author of "Passing Waves" poem

Location: Vidor, Texas, USA

Bio: Steven is an average college student from Texas who loves writing. He knew that writing is what he wanted to do after reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He is a big fan of Japanese anime and manga. He hopes one day to teach English and literature overseas. Monty Oum, Eoin Colfer, Masashi Kishimoto, Ray Bradbury, and Poe are his biggest inspirations.

Links: @sgonzales231 | facebook.com/steven.gonzales.75685

 Name: Linda Yan  Contribution: Artist for "Passing Waves"  Location: Edmonton, Canada  Bio: Hello, my name is Linda! I am an illustrator currently living on the prairies of Canada. I studied Illustration at Sheridan institute in Ontario, where I ear

Name: Linda Yan

Contribution: Artist for "Passing Waves"

Location: Edmonton, Canada

Bio: Hello, my name is Linda! I am an illustrator currently living on the prairies of Canada. I studied Illustration at Sheridan institute in Ontario, where I earned a really expensive piece of paper with the words Bachelor printed on. Since graduating, I've been a freelance illustrator working for magazines/newspapers and various clients on their projects as well as a travelling nerd. My dream is to own a lighthouse/cafe with my pet bunny.

Links: hilindayan.com | instagram.com/hilindayan

 Name: Elizabeth Bruce  Contribution: Author of "Bald Tires" short story  Location: Washington, DC  Bio: DC-based Texas writer/theatre artist /educator Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House

Name: Elizabeth Bruce

Contribution: Author of "Bald Tires" short story

Location: Washington, DC

Bio: DC-based Texas writer/theatre artist /educator Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Award, with distinctions from Texas Institute of Letters & ForeWord Magazine. Co-founder of Sanctuary Theatre and CentroNĆ­a’s Community Arts Producer, she’s published in Firewords Quarterly, Gargoyle-64, Inklette, Bare Back Magazine, Lines&Stars, Gravity Dancers, Long Short Story, and Washington Post. Grants include DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Poets & Writers, Inc., and McCarthey-Dressman Educational Foundation.

Links: elizabethbrucedc.com | performingknowledge.org

 Name: Daniel Garcia  Contribution: Artist for "Bald Tires"  Location: Lisbon, Portugal  Bio: Stop for a moment and turn off the spinning images around.   Daniel's illustrations focus on social, political and human issues. Born in Lisbon an

Name: Daniel Garcia

Contribution: Artist for "Bald Tires"

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Bio: Stop for a moment and turn off the spinning images around.  
Daniel's illustrations focus on social, political and human issues. Born in Lisbon and currently living in Poland, I'm an editorial illustrator currently collaborating with several newspaper and magazines in the UK, US, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Spain among others.

Links: danielgarciaart.com | facebook.com/danielgarciaart

 

 Name: Maeve Norton  Contribution: Artist for "Do dinosaurs taste like chicken?"  Location: Brooklyn, NY  Bio: Maeve Norton is an illustrator, designer and hand-letterer based in Brooklyn, NY. She lives amongst her never-ending collection of children

Name: Maeve Norton

Contribution: Artist for "Do dinosaurs taste like chicken?"

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Bio: Maeve Norton is an illustrator, designer and hand-letterer based in Brooklyn, NY. She lives amongst her never-ending collection of children's book and her cat Voodoo Mama. After graduating from Pratt Institute, Maeve co-founded the all female artists collective Fem Foundry which focuses on creativity through collaboration and mutual support. When not doodling, Maeve spends her days designing children's books at Scholastic, where she hopes to break down gender roles through positive books for kids.

Links: maevenorton.com | instagram.com/maevenn

 Name: Natalia Theodoridou  Contribution: Author of "Soku's New Night" short story  Location: Portsmouth, UK  Bio: Natalia Theodoridou is a media & cultural studies scholar, the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@AdriftPM), and a writer of

Name: Natalia Theodoridou

Contribution: Author of "Soku's New Night" short story

Location: Portsmouth, UK

Bio: Natalia Theodoridou is a media & cultural studies scholar, the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@AdriftPM), and a writer of strange stories. Her fiction has appeared in KROnline, Clarkesworld, Interfictions, Neon, and elsewhere. Originally from Greece, she now lives in Portsmouth, UK, where she teaches critical theory to drama and musical theatre students.

Links: natalia-theodoridou.com | @natalia_theodor

 Name: Karla Alcazar  Contribution: Artist for "Soku's New Night"  Location: Mexico  Bio: Karla Alcazar is a narrative illustrator, currently based in Mexico, where she was born and raised. She grew up among books and pencils and despite of her desir

Name: Karla Alcazar

Contribution: Artist for "Soku's New Night"

Location: Mexico

Bio: Karla Alcazar is a narrative illustrator, currently based in Mexico, where she was born and raised. She grew up among books and pencils and despite of her desire to become an illustrator, she ended up graduating with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Not really convinced with her decision, she moved to Boston where she did an Illustration for the children’s market course and then moved to England to finally obtain a bachelor’s degree in Illustration.

Links: karla-alcazar.com | instagram.com/arla__alcazar

 Name: Gala Ivanovska  Contribution: Author of "The Great House" poem  Location: Skopje, Macedonia  Bio: Gala Ivanovska has been writing for as long as she can remember which led her to her studies of contemporary literature at Sorbonne 3, Paris. The

Name: Gala Ivanovska

Contribution: Author of "The Great House" poem

Location: Skopje, Macedonia

Bio: Gala Ivanovska has been writing for as long as she can remember which led her to her studies of contemporary literature at Sorbonne 3, Paris. There, she discovered her love of the theater and playwriting. Since then she writes short stories and plays that she rarely finishes entirely. She loves to write while traveling, inspired by the discoveries of new cultures and individuals.

 Name: Katherine Diemert  Contribution: Artist for "The Great House"  Location: Toronto, Ontario  Bio: Katherine is an illustrator, designer, and maker. She uses a combination of analog and digital tools to create her work, mixing unique imagery with

Name: Katherine Diemert

Contribution: Artist for "The Great House"

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Bio: Katherine is an illustrator, designer, and maker. She uses a combination of analog and digital tools to create her work, mixing unique imagery with various media to create works that push the envelope. Currently, Katherine works at Sago Sago creating beautiful apps and toys for children, while also working on her very first picture book.

Links: katherinediemert.com | @katherinemakes

 Name: Z.Z. Boone  Contribution: Author of "Can't Sleep" short story  Location: W. Redding, Connecticut, USA  Bio: Z.Z. Boone is the author of Off Somewhere, a 2015 finalist for the INDIFAB Award for Short Stories. His fiction has appeared in New Ohi

Name: Z.Z. Boone

Contribution: Author of "Can't Sleep" short story

Location: W. Redding, Connecticut, USA

Bio: Z.Z. Boone is the author of Off Somewhere, a 2015 finalist for the INDIFAB Award for Short Stories. His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and other terrific places. Z.Z., with wife/novelist Tricia Bauer, lives in Connecticut where he teaches at Western Connecticut State University.

Links: zzboone.wix.com/fiction

 Name: Krishan Coupland  Contribution: Author of "Depths" short story  Location: Norwich, UK  Bio: Krishan Coupland is on the Creative Writing PhD programme at the University of East Anglia. His writing has appeared in Ambit, Aesthetica, Litro and Fr

Name: Krishan Coupland

Contribution: Author of "Depths" short story

Location: Norwich, UK

Bio: Krishan Coupland is on the Creative Writing PhD programme at the University of East Anglia. His writing has appeared in Ambit, Aesthetica, Litro and Fractured West. He won the Manchester Fiction Prize in 2011, and in his spare time he runs and edits a literary magazine.

Links: krishancoupland.co.uk | neonmagazine.co.uk

 Name: Dmitry Bondarenko  Contribution: Artist for "Depths"  Location: Toronto  Bio: Dmitry lives and works in Toronto. He is addicted to books,  drawing, and cycling.  Links:  dmitryillustration.com

Name: Dmitry Bondarenko

Contribution: Artist for "Depths"

Location: Toronto

Bio: Dmitry lives and works in Toronto. He is addicted to books,  drawing, and cycling.

Links: dmitryillustration.com

 Name: PW Lewis  Contribution: Author of "Vector" short story  Location: Birmingham  Bio: PW Lewis is currently seeking a publisher for his debut novel (Watch), completed as part of an MA in Creative Writing at MMU. His short fiction has appeared in

Name: PW Lewis

Contribution: Author of "Vector" short story

Location: Birmingham

Bio: PW Lewis is currently seeking a publisher for his debut novel (Watch), completed as part of an MA in Creative Writing at MMU. His short fiction has appeared in Under the Fable, Avis (pending), The Rusty Nail and the e-books 100 RPM and Inside a Horse. He lives in Birmingham.

Links: @pwlewis007

 Name: Gwendoline Blosse  Contribution: Artist for "Vector"  Location: Nantes, France  Bio: Gwendoline Blosse was born in Brittany and currently lives in Nantes, France. She graduated in 2008 from Agr L'Ʃcole de L'image, where she specialised in illu

Name: Gwendoline Blosse

Contribution: Artist for "Vector"

Location: Nantes, France

Bio: Gwendoline Blosse was born in Brittany and currently lives in Nantes, France. She graduated in 2008 from Agr L'Ʃcole de L'image, where she specialised in illustration, comics and graphic design. As a multi-disciplinary artist, many things inspire Gwendoline, including graphic design, drawing, fine art and music. She truly believes that the social and political sectors are the greatest way of becoming a critical, inventive and relevant individual in the world of today.

Links: gwendolineblosse.com | gwendolineblosse.tumblr.com

 Name: Lynn White  Contribution: Author of "How Will I Know You" poem  Location: North Wales  Bio: Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She i

Name: Lynn White

Contribution: Author of "How Will I Know You" poem

Location: North Wales

Bio: Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. Her poem 'A Rose For Gaza' was shortlisted for the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition 2014 and has since appeared in several journals and anthologies, as have other poems.

Links: facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry | lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot

 Name: Maria Rikteryte  Contribution: Artist for "How Will I Know You"  Location: Edinburgh, UK  Bio: Maria Rikteryte is a UK based creative who draws her inspiration from inner and outer life experiences. Through the use of metaphors and symbols Mar

Name: Maria Rikteryte

Contribution: Artist for "How Will I Know You"

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Bio: Maria Rikteryte is a UK based creative who draws her inspiration from inner and outer life experiences. Through the use of metaphors and symbols Maria creates work that often dances the line between fiction and reality.

Links: mariarikteryte.co.uk | instagram.com/maria.rkg

 Name: Andrew Mackey  Contribution: Author of "The Smile" short story  Location: Sussex, England  Bio: After years of travelling abroad Andrew is now typically found struggling to arrange words in the precise order that will unlock the universe, whil

Name: Andrew Mackey

Contribution: Author of "The Smile" short story

Location: Sussex, England

Bio: After years of travelling abroad Andrew is now typically found struggling to arrange words in the precise order that will unlock the universe, while wondering what's in the fridge. He recently completed a full length childrens' story and is now working on a variety of projects and experimenting with flash fiction, while also doing the boring bits and pieces that enable him to restock his fridge.

Links: @AndrewMackeyUK

 

 Name: Haejin Park  Contribution: Artist for "The Smile"  Location: New York, USA  Bio: Haejin Park is an illustrator from Korea. She studied illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, and now she is freelancing full-time in her small stud

Name: Haejin Park

Contribution: Artist for "The Smile"

Location: New York, USA

Bio: Haejin Park is an illustrator from Korea. She studied illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, and now she is freelancing full-time in her small studio in New York. Her work has published and featured in many magazines and sites. When she is not drawing, she is probably cooking and eating eggs.

Links: haejinart.com | @haejinduck

 Name: Darienne Dickey  Contribution: Author of "Something Borrowed" short story  Location: College Station, Texas  Bio: Darienne Dickey received her degree in English Creative Writing from Texas A&M University in May of 2016. Her work appears in

Name: Darienne Dickey

Contribution: Author of "Something Borrowed" short story

Location: College Station, Texas

Bio: Darienne Dickey received her degree in English Creative Writing from Texas A&M University in May of 2016. Her work appears in The Eckleburg Project, Indolent Books’ HIV Here and Now Project, and The Albion Review. She is an Editor's Assistant at Callaloo, a journal of African Diaspora arts and letters, and also serves as an Assistant Editor for the online literary magazine Bartleby Snopes. She is currently working on her first YA fiction novel.

Links: @dariennedickey

 Name: Anne Anthony  Contribution: Author of "Much Better" short story  Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA  Bio: Anne Anthony graduated with a Masters in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked as a social worker,

Name: Anne Anthony

Contribution: Author of "Much Better" short story

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Bio: Anne Anthony graduated with a Masters in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked as a social worker, technical writer, and software project manager. She's been published in Brilliant Flash Fiction, A3 Review, North Carolina Literary Review and Crack the Spine. She is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network and currently serves as the representative for Orange County.

Links: facebook.com

 Name: Cait Scudder  Contribution: Author of "Expatriate" short story  Location: Ubud, Bali  Bio: Cait loves words, wilderness and the bright life of adventure. After earning her Master's from Smith College in 2012, she worked for three years as a Sp

Name: Cait Scudder

Contribution: Author of "Expatriate" short story

Location: Ubud, Bali

Bio: Cait loves words, wilderness and the bright life of adventure. After earning her Master's from Smith College in 2012, she worked for three years as a Spanish teacher, yoga instructor and literacy consultant in Western Massachusetts before packing up her bags for a journey to Southeast Asia. She now lives in Bali with her fiance freelancing and developing her inspirational venture, Sunskip.

Links: sunskip.com | instagram.com/sun_skip

 Name: Jane Hunter  Contribution: Author of "The Things We Can't Foresee" short story  Location: UK  Bio: Jane Hunter is a lost soul, dancing through the challenges of life, looking for something that seems impossible to define. When she finds that i

Name: Jane Hunter

Contribution: Author of "The Things We Can't Foresee" short story

Location: UK

Bio: Jane Hunter is a lost soul, dancing through the challenges of life, looking for something that seems impossible to define. When she finds that illusive 'something' she'll scream, and shout, from the rooftops of the world. Until then you can usually find her somewhere, occasionally elsewhere, but never nowhere.

 Name: Rondie LI  Contribution: Artist for the flash fiction challenge  Location: Toronto, Canada  Bio: Rondie has been on this planet (in Hong Kong, to be exact, and now in Canada) since 1985. After working in law, trading, printing, marketing, adve

Name: Rondie LI

Contribution: Artist for the flash fiction challenge

Location: Toronto, Canada

Bio: Rondie has been on this planet (in Hong Kong, to be exact, and now in Canada) since 1985. After working in law, trading, printing, marketing, advertising, and writing. He is happiest working in illustration. He also plays mahjong (just for fun.)

Links: rondieli.com | @mrrondie

 Name: Shirley Golden  Contribution: Author of "Fuel" short story  Location: Hampshire, UK  Bio: Shirley Golden’s short stories have found homes in the pages or websites of many magazines and anthologies. She won the Exeter Short Story Competition in

Name: Shirley Golden

Contribution: Author of "Fuel" short story

Location: Hampshire, UK

Bio: Shirley Golden’s short stories have found homes in the pages or websites of many magazines and anthologies. She won the Exeter Short Story Competition in 2013. She’s door person and arbitrator to two wannabe tigers and can sometimes be found on Twitter when she should be writing. Her space fantasy novel, ā€˜Skyjacked’, is due for release by Urbane Publications in April 2016. She’s thrilled to have a piece accepted by ā€˜Firewords’, her favourite literary magazine.

Links: shirleygolden.net | @shirl1001

 Name: Guillermo Ortego  Contribution: Artist for "Fuel"  Location: London, UK  Bio: Born in Madrid and living in London, Guillermo has been inking comic books and illustrating books and magazines ever since he completed a degree in History in 2009.

Name: Guillermo Ortego

Contribution: Artist for "Fuel"

Location: London, UK

Bio: Born in Madrid and living in London, Guillermo has been inking comic books and illustrating books and magazines ever since he completed a degree in History in 2009. Among his clients you can find publishers like Marvel, DC and Valiant Comics as well as Everest, 7th Wave and Graphiclassic; newspapers like EL MUNDO and MARCA and magazines like Mediapunta, Metrópoli or El Papel.

Links: willortego.com | twitter.com/willortego

 Name: Jade They  Contribution: Artist for "The Plough"  Location: London, UK  Bio: I’m an illustrator/printmaker living and working in London. My work is mainly made in relief print and takes inspiration from nature, literature and cultural identity

Name: Jade They

Contribution: Artist for "The Plough"

Location: London, UK

Bio: I’m an illustrator/printmaker living and working in London. My work is mainly made in relief print and takes inspiration from nature, literature and cultural identity. My prints have appeared in a number of publications, with recent features in Structo, Ernest Journal and Delayed Gratification amongst others.

Links: jadethey.com | @jade_they

 Name: Christopher P. Jones  Contribution: Author of "Meteors"  Location: Leamington Spa, UK  Bio: Christopher P. Jones writes fiction and essays. He holds a MA in Art History. He is interested in people and their imperfect search for meaning. In add

Name: Christopher P. Jones

Contribution: Author of "Meteors"

Location: Leamington Spa, UK

Bio: Christopher P. Jones writes fiction and essays. He holds a MA in Art History. He is interested in people and their imperfect search for meaning. In addition to writing, he enjoys to paint and draw.

Links: chrisjoneswrites.co.uk

 Name: Nick Jarvis  Contribution: Artist for "Meteors"  Location: San Francisco, California  Bio: I am an illustrator based in the Bay Area. I am originally from Utah, but California is where I call home. I am a father of 3 and a husband of 1, who lo

Name: Nick Jarvis

Contribution: Artist for "Meteors"

Location: San Francisco, California

Bio: I am an illustrator based in the Bay Area. I am originally from Utah, but California is where I call home. I am a father of 3 and a husband of 1, who loves sports, art and spending time with my family. I also love staying up all night long to illustrate all sorts of fun stuff.

Links: nickdid.com | twitter.com/nckjrvs

 Name: Jehan Yousry Farrag  Contribution: Author of "Follow The Emerald Green Door" short story  Location: East Lansing, Michigan, USA  Bio: Jehan is an attorney, writer, and most importantly, daughter to a father who encouraged her writing from an e

Name: Jehan Yousry Farrag

Contribution: Author of "Follow The Emerald Green Door" short story

Location: East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Bio: Jehan is an attorney, writer, and most importantly, daughter to a father who encouraged her writing from an early age. Her short story Nuisance, Serial Murder, and Sweet Lemonade in Summer, has appeared in the Michigan Bar Journal. She enjoys reading, writing, traveling, scrapbooking, kickboxing and Zumba. She lives in Michigan with her father, with whom she has shared many travel adventures. Their favorite and most repeated trip is visiting their extended family in Egypt.

Links: linkedin.com/jehan-farrag

 Name: Andrea Dalla Barba  Contribution: Artist for "Follow The Emerald Green Door"  Location: Vicenza  Bio: Andrea Dalla Barba has always loved drawings and mixing colours since he was a child. After his diploma from the Liceo Artistico in Valdagno,

Name: Andrea Dalla Barba

Contribution: Artist for "Follow The Emerald Green Door"

Location: Vicenza

Bio: Andrea Dalla Barba has always loved drawings and mixing colours since he was a child. After his diploma from the Liceo Artistico in Valdagno, he specialised in illustration at the International Comics School in Padua. He works for many different magazines, including the Austrian Datum. He took part in the Treviso Comic Book festival and was shortlisted for several national contests. He has recently won second prize at Eurhope ā€œI porti del mareā€ in Genoa and first prixe at Talent on the Rocks in Chiampo. He has experimented with virtally every painting technique, and now favours acrylics, sprays and digital drawing.

Links: andreadallabarba.com | instagram.com/andreadallabarba

 Name: Simon Middleton  Contribution: Author of "Nocturnes" poem  Location: Dorset, UK  Bio: Simon Middleton was shortlisted for the 2015 Elbow Room Competition, and his work has previously featured, or is forthcoming, in The Cadaverine Magazine, Ink

Name: Simon Middleton

Contribution: Author of "Nocturnes" poem

Location: Dorset, UK

Bio: Simon Middleton was shortlisted for the 2015 Elbow Room Competition, and his work has previously featured, or is forthcoming, in The Cadaverine Magazine, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Jawline Review, Firewords, Elbow Room, and the 2007 Bridport Prize Junior Anthology. He currently works as a teacher of English in Dorset, UK, where he lives with his partner and son.

Links: @SimonFMiddleton

 Name: Nick Tayor  Contribution: Artist for "Nocturnes"  Location: Nottinghamshire, UK  Bio: Nick Taylor is an illustrator and graphic artist based in Nottinghamshire. He combines his love of drawing, collage, mark-making and printing with digital te

Name: Nick Tayor

Contribution: Artist for "Nocturnes"

Location: Nottinghamshire, UK

Bio: Nick Taylor is an illustrator and graphic artist based in Nottinghamshire. He combines his love of drawing, collage, mark-making and printing with digital techniques. His background in printmaking constantly informs the image-making process, from the layering of images and textures, to the tactile quality inherent in many printing processes. His inspirations include vintage Penguin books, 70's sci-fi films, discovering unheard vinyl treasures, the mysteries of the cosmos and his small but thoughtfully curated stamp collection.

Links: nicktaylorillustration.co.uk | @nickillustratesthings

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 Name: Stephanie F. Scholz  Contribution: Cover artist for Issue 6  Location: Berlin  Bio: Stephanie Franziska Scholz was born in 1983 in Japan, grew up in Australia and now lives and works in Berlin. She studied drawing and print making at the Unive
 Name: Caroline de Verteuil  Contribution: Author of "The Portrait" short story  Location: Trinidad, West Indies  Bio: Caroline is a Trinidadian writer and translator whose short stories have appeared in publications from the UK, New York, the Virgin
 Name: Frances Murphy  Contribution: Artist for "The Portrait"  Location: Brighton, England  Bio: Frances is a freelance illustrator living in Brighton. She is inspired by people's stories; big and small and the natural world. Letting a story get und
 Name: FJ Morris  Contribution: Author of "In a small pond" short story  Location: Bristol  Bio: Freya Morris is a writer based in Bristol. She's been listed in a number of competitions, and her stories feature in Fiction Desk, Litro’s Friday Flash,
 Name: Daniel Jamie Williams  Contribution: Artist for "In A Small Pond"  Location: London  Bio: Daniel is an illustrator/artist based in London. He mixes traditional and digital techniques; mostly pencil and software. He enjoys making narr
 Name: Steven E. Gonzales  Contribution: Author of "Passing Waves" poem  Location: Vidor, Texas, USA  Bio: Steven is an average college student from Texas who loves writing. He knew that writing is what he wanted to do after reading Fahrenheit 451 by
 Name: Linda Yan  Contribution: Artist for "Passing Waves"  Location: Edmonton, Canada  Bio: Hello, my name is Linda! I am an illustrator currently living on the prairies of Canada. I studied Illustration at Sheridan institute in Ontario, where I ear
 Name: Elizabeth Bruce  Contribution: Author of "Bald Tires" short story  Location: Washington, DC  Bio: DC-based Texas writer/theatre artist /educator Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House
 Name: Daniel Garcia  Contribution: Artist for "Bald Tires"  Location: Lisbon, Portugal  Bio: Stop for a moment and turn off the spinning images around.   Daniel's illustrations focus on social, political and human issues. Born in Lisbon an
 Name: Maeve Norton  Contribution: Artist for "Do dinosaurs taste like chicken?"  Location: Brooklyn, NY  Bio: Maeve Norton is an illustrator, designer and hand-letterer based in Brooklyn, NY. She lives amongst her never-ending collection of children
 Name: Natalia Theodoridou  Contribution: Author of "Soku's New Night" short story  Location: Portsmouth, UK  Bio: Natalia Theodoridou is a media & cultural studies scholar, the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@AdriftPM), and a writer of
 Name: Karla Alcazar  Contribution: Artist for "Soku's New Night"  Location: Mexico  Bio: Karla Alcazar is a narrative illustrator, currently based in Mexico, where she was born and raised. She grew up among books and pencils and despite of her desir
 Name: Gala Ivanovska  Contribution: Author of "The Great House" poem  Location: Skopje, Macedonia  Bio: Gala Ivanovska has been writing for as long as she can remember which led her to her studies of contemporary literature at Sorbonne 3, Paris. The
 Name: Katherine Diemert  Contribution: Artist for "The Great House"  Location: Toronto, Ontario  Bio: Katherine is an illustrator, designer, and maker. She uses a combination of analog and digital tools to create her work, mixing unique imagery with
 Name: Z.Z. Boone  Contribution: Author of "Can't Sleep" short story  Location: W. Redding, Connecticut, USA  Bio: Z.Z. Boone is the author of Off Somewhere, a 2015 finalist for the INDIFAB Award for Short Stories. His fiction has appeared in New Ohi
 Name: Krishan Coupland  Contribution: Author of "Depths" short story  Location: Norwich, UK  Bio: Krishan Coupland is on the Creative Writing PhD programme at the University of East Anglia. His writing has appeared in Ambit, Aesthetica, Litro and Fr
 Name: Dmitry Bondarenko  Contribution: Artist for "Depths"  Location: Toronto  Bio: Dmitry lives and works in Toronto. He is addicted to books,  drawing, and cycling.  Links:  dmitryillustration.com
 Name: PW Lewis  Contribution: Author of "Vector" short story  Location: Birmingham  Bio: PW Lewis is currently seeking a publisher for his debut novel (Watch), completed as part of an MA in Creative Writing at MMU. His short fiction has appeared in
 Name: Gwendoline Blosse  Contribution: Artist for "Vector"  Location: Nantes, France  Bio: Gwendoline Blosse was born in Brittany and currently lives in Nantes, France. She graduated in 2008 from Agr L'Ʃcole de L'image, where she specialised in illu
 Name: Lynn White  Contribution: Author of "How Will I Know You" poem  Location: North Wales  Bio: Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She i
 Name: Maria Rikteryte  Contribution: Artist for "How Will I Know You"  Location: Edinburgh, UK  Bio: Maria Rikteryte is a UK based creative who draws her inspiration from inner and outer life experiences. Through the use of metaphors and symbols Mar
 Name: Andrew Mackey  Contribution: Author of "The Smile" short story  Location: Sussex, England  Bio: After years of travelling abroad Andrew is now typically found struggling to arrange words in the precise order that will unlock the universe, whil
 Name: Haejin Park  Contribution: Artist for "The Smile"  Location: New York, USA  Bio: Haejin Park is an illustrator from Korea. She studied illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, and now she is freelancing full-time in her small stud
 Name: Darienne Dickey  Contribution: Author of "Something Borrowed" short story  Location: College Station, Texas  Bio: Darienne Dickey received her degree in English Creative Writing from Texas A&M University in May of 2016. Her work appears in
 Name: Anne Anthony  Contribution: Author of "Much Better" short story  Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA  Bio: Anne Anthony graduated with a Masters in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked as a social worker,
 Name: Cait Scudder  Contribution: Author of "Expatriate" short story  Location: Ubud, Bali  Bio: Cait loves words, wilderness and the bright life of adventure. After earning her Master's from Smith College in 2012, she worked for three years as a Sp
 Name: Jane Hunter  Contribution: Author of "The Things We Can't Foresee" short story  Location: UK  Bio: Jane Hunter is a lost soul, dancing through the challenges of life, looking for something that seems impossible to define. When she finds that i
 Name: Rondie LI  Contribution: Artist for the flash fiction challenge  Location: Toronto, Canada  Bio: Rondie has been on this planet (in Hong Kong, to be exact, and now in Canada) since 1985. After working in law, trading, printing, marketing, adve
 Name: Shirley Golden  Contribution: Author of "Fuel" short story  Location: Hampshire, UK  Bio: Shirley Golden’s short stories have found homes in the pages or websites of many magazines and anthologies. She won the Exeter Short Story Competition in
 Name: Guillermo Ortego  Contribution: Artist for "Fuel"  Location: London, UK  Bio: Born in Madrid and living in London, Guillermo has been inking comic books and illustrating books and magazines ever since he completed a degree in History in 2009.
 Name: Jade They  Contribution: Artist for "The Plough"  Location: London, UK  Bio: I’m an illustrator/printmaker living and working in London. My work is mainly made in relief print and takes inspiration from nature, literature and cultural identity
 Name: Christopher P. Jones  Contribution: Author of "Meteors"  Location: Leamington Spa, UK  Bio: Christopher P. Jones writes fiction and essays. He holds a MA in Art History. He is interested in people and their imperfect search for meaning. In add
 Name: Nick Jarvis  Contribution: Artist for "Meteors"  Location: San Francisco, California  Bio: I am an illustrator based in the Bay Area. I am originally from Utah, but California is where I call home. I am a father of 3 and a husband of 1, who lo
 Name: Jehan Yousry Farrag  Contribution: Author of "Follow The Emerald Green Door" short story  Location: East Lansing, Michigan, USA  Bio: Jehan is an attorney, writer, and most importantly, daughter to a father who encouraged her writing from an e
 Name: Andrea Dalla Barba  Contribution: Artist for "Follow The Emerald Green Door"  Location: Vicenza  Bio: Andrea Dalla Barba has always loved drawings and mixing colours since he was a child. After his diploma from the Liceo Artistico in Valdagno,
 Name: Simon Middleton  Contribution: Author of "Nocturnes" poem  Location: Dorset, UK  Bio: Simon Middleton was shortlisted for the 2015 Elbow Room Competition, and his work has previously featured, or is forthcoming, in The Cadaverine Magazine, Ink
 Name: Nick Tayor  Contribution: Artist for "Nocturnes"  Location: Nottinghamshire, UK  Bio: Nick Taylor is an illustrator and graphic artist based in Nottinghamshire. He combines his love of drawing, collage, mark-making and printing with digital te
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