Contributors

Brian Morse is the author of Migration (Pski’s Porch, 2016). His work has appeared in Akashic Books, Shotgun Honey, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine and elsewhere.

Britany Schaffer is a native New Mexican living the dream in Colorado. Her day job is a criminal defense lawyer, but she writes short stories and essays to stay sane. She has two amazing dogs, who inspire her daily, and she spends all her time outside of the courtroom outside.

Bruce McAllister's short fiction has appeared in US national magazines, literary journals, and “year’s best” volumes; been translated into a number of languages; and won or been shortlisted for awards like the US National Endowment for the Arts, the Nebula, the Shirley Jackson, and the magazines NARRATIVE and NEW LETTERS. His most recent novel is THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA: A MEMOIR OF MAGIC; his most recent short story collection is STEALING GOD AND OTHER STORIES.

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds
of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto
prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been performed and
broadcast globally.

Raised on a rice and catfish farm in eastern Arkansas, CL Bledsoe is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the poetry collections Riceland, The Bottle Episode, and his newest, Driving Around, Looking in Other People's Windows, as well as his latest novels Goodbye, Mr. Lonely and The Saviors. Bledsoe lives in northern Virginia with his daughter.

Cadeem Lalor is a Jamaican-Canadian writer. His short story “Memory Catcher” was published by Idle Ink on August 1st. He has since had three more short stories published, “Embers,” “Feed” and “Pet Stalker.”

Caitlin Carpenter is a writer in Waterloo, Ontario.

Caleb is a librarian and aspiring writer that can be seen haunting the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. When he's not in the swamplands or raising his chickens, he can be found masquerading the streets as a superhero. Twitter: octoleal

Calla Smith has been writing since a child, and her early publishing career included several published poems in “Dream Girl” magazine as a teenager. More recently she has self-published her collection of short stories “What Doesn’t Kill You”, and her work has appeared in several literary journals.

Callum Norman is a writer who currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. His fiction has appeared in magazines including Horrified Magazine, The Fiction Pool and Horla.

CANDICE KELSEY [she/her] is a poet, educator, and activist currently living in Augusta, Georgia. She serves as a creative writing mentor with PEN America's Prison & Justice Writing Program; her work appears in Grub Street, Poet Lore, Lumiere Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and Poetry South among other journals. Recently, Candice was chosen as a finalist in Iowa Review's Poetry Contest and Cutthroat's Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Her third book releases September '22. Find her @candicekelsey1 and www.candicemkelseypoet.com.

Carly M. Uebel is an emerging writer working in creative nonfiction and experimental flash fiction. They investigate psychological and behavioral intersections between human and non-human animal species, drawing from their research background in primatology and current work as a behavioral therapist. Carly's writing spans themes of sexuality, attachment, matrilineage, and environment. They are working on a forthcoming collection of personal essays, Mellifera, and currently reside in Chicago, Illinois.

Carys Crossen has been writing stories since she was nine years old and shows no signs of stopping. Her fiction has been published by Lunate, Halfway Down the Stairs, FlashBack Fiction, Honey and Lime Lit and others, and her monograph The Nature of the Beast is available from University of Wales Press. She lives in Manchester UK with her husband, their daughter and their beautiful, contrary cat.

Catherine Austen writes books for children, stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Her novels have won the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book Award and the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s Literature. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and other literary magazines.

Cecilia Kennedy (she/her) taught Spanish and English composition and literature in Ohio for 20 years before moving to Washington state in 2016. Her works have been published in Maudlin House, Meadowlark Review, Rejection Letters, Vast Chasm Press, Tiny Molecules, Flash Fiction Magazine, Fiery Scribe Review, Horror Tree, Coffin Bell, Headstuff, Kandisha Press, Ghost Orchid Press, DarkWinter Press, and others. She is a 2022 Sundress Publications Best of the Net nominee and a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee. In addition to writing horror, she enjoys writing humorous essays and posts weekly on her humor DIY blog, Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks. She has two short-story collections: Twenty-Four-Hour Shift: Dark Tales from on and off the Clock (DarkWinter Press) and The Places We Haunt (Baxter House Editions).
You can find her on X: @ckennedyhola, Instagram: @ceciliakennedy2349, Facebook. Websites: Author: https://ckennedyhola.wixsite.com/ckennedyportfolio Blog: https://fixinleaksnleeksdiy.blog/

Cecily Ross is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Zoomer, Chatelaine, The Literary Review of Canada, ON Nature and other publications. Her novel, The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, is published by HarperCollins Canada. A memoir, Love in the Time of Cholesterol, is published by Viking Canada. She lives and writes in Creemore, Ontario.

Ceinwen Cariad Haydon lives near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and writes short stories and poetry. She is widely published in online magazines and in print anthologies. Her first chapbook is 'Cerddi Bach' [Little Poems], Hedgehog Press, July 2019. Post-retirement from social work, she is developing practice as participatory arts facilitator. She believes everyone's voice counts.

Celia Lisset Alvarez is a writer and educator from Miami, Florida. She has four collections of poetry, Shapeshifting (winner of the 2005 Spire Press Poetry Award), The Stones (Finishing Line Press 2006), Multiverses (Finishing Line Press 2021) and the upcoming Bodies & Words (Assure Press 2022). Her stories and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently in Last Leaves Magazine, dyst, and Blue Mountain Review. She was also the editor of the literary journal Prospectus.

Charles R. Vermilyea Jr. lives in Mansfield, Conn., with his little dog, Tino. Vermilyea is a retired Hartford Courant news copy editor. B.A. English/history, University of Connecticut (1967). Army veteran, 2/10 Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers (Korea, 1962/63). Son Jon, a West Coast artist. Daughter Elizabeth, an East Coast actress. Literary magazines have published eight Vermilyea short stories and a poem. One story, about NYC Socialist Congressman Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), was called “simply brilliant” by Dissident Voice of Santa Rosa, Calif.

Charles Rammelkamp’s latest poetry collection, The Field of Happiness, has just been published by Kelsay Books. Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books. He contributes a monthly book review to North of Oxford and is a frequent reviewer for The Lake, London Grip and The Compulsive Reader. A collection of flash fiction, Presto!, will be published in 2023 by Bamboo Dart Press.

Charlotte Rahme is an Ottawa local writer inspired by history, archaeology, and the interesting people she meets. She has been published in Common Deer Press and North Literary Journal.

Cheryl isn't anyone famous. She doesn't have any awards to mention ( unless her grade 7 band award counts...) and she certainly wouldn't consider herself a professional author. She is just a regular human who has had a lifelong love affair with creative writing, always has a billion thoughts milling around her brain, and will be thrilled beyond words if even a handful of people read her books. Cheryl lives in Ontario Canada where she is the wife of an amazing guy and the mother of one incredible daughter with whom she spent countless, delightful hours reading and wondering if one day too she could write a children's book. Cheryl has written 6 children's books and is now branching into the exciting world of short stories/fiction. This is her 3rd piece published through Dark Winter Lit.

Cheryl E. Cudmore retired from her interior decorating career and now focuses her creativity on writing short stories and poetry. Cheryl’s published writing credits include the Ontario Poetry Society Ultra-short poetry contest 2023 anthology, Halifax’s Pier 21 website, the biography - ‘Canada, Home at Last’, newsletters and radio PSAs for her favourite charity. She is an active member of the Brant Writes Group and in her spare time she works as a paranormal investigator. Cheryl lives with her husband in Paris, Ontario where she is currently writing her debut novel.

Cheryl Snell’s books include several poetry collections and novels. Her most recent writing has appeared in Switch, Blink-Ink, Eunoia Review, BULL, Ink Sweat &Tears, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and other journals. She has work in several anthologies including a Best of the Net, and has been nominated ten times for Best Small Fictions, the Pushcart, and BOTN. She lives in Maryland with her husband, a mathematical engineer.

Chris Klassen lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the University of Toronto and living for a year in France and England, he returned home and worked the majority of his career in print media. He is now writing exclusively. His stories have been published in numerous journals including Unlikely Stories, Fleas on the Dog, Literally Stories, Vagabond City, Dark Winter, Ghost City Review, The Raven Review, The Coachella Review, Sortes Magazine, Amethyst Magazine, Toasted Cheese, and Mobius, among others. His first novel, entitled "An Individual", is available through Dark Winter Press.

Christian Barragan is a graduate from California State University Northridge. Raised in Riverside, CA, he aims to become a novelist or editor. He currently reads submissions for Flash Fiction Magazine. His work has appeared in the Raven Review, the Frogmore Papers, and Caustic Frolic, among others.

Christina Chin is from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. She writes haiku, short poems, paints for art exhibitions, creates meaningful short videos of her poems and art. She has haiku, haiga, senryu, tanka and gogyoshi featured and published both in print and online with several reputable anthologies and journals.

Christina Hennemann, shortlisted for our 1st Anniversary Contest, is a poet and prose writer based in Ireland. Her poetry pamphlet “Illuminations at Nightfall” was published by Sunday Mornings at the River in 2022. She’s the winner of the Luain Press Prize, was shortlisted in the Anthology Poetry Award, and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. Her work appears in The Moth, fifth wheel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Moria, National Poetry Month Canada, and elsewhere. Twitter: @chr_writer Instagram: @c.h_92 www.christinahennemann.com

A former university instructor, Christine Overall has published books, book chapters, and journal articles in philosophy. Contrary to the expectations of her discipline, some of her publications are based on her experiences as a disabled woman, a mother, and an academic in a field dominated by men. For more than a decade she wrote a weekly column called "In Other Words" for the Kingston Whig-Standard. She is now working on the fifth draft of her memoir, an exploration of the risks, in her life, of choosing to have children and the choice whether to be a care giver. She is also writing short creative non-fiction essays and short fiction.

Originally from Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador, Christopher Butt, shortlisted for our 1st Anniversary Contest, is a retired member of the Canadian Forces navigating his way to a life of being a writer. His genres include Science Fiction, Fantasy, weird fiction and the occasional humorous piece. He lives in St. Catharines, and you can find his work on his Wattpad page under the name “Buttster”. His short story collection In The Lair Of The Kraken is published by DarkWinter Press

Christopher Sworen is an aspiring writer currently living in Poland.

Christopher Waldrop is a writer and library assistant living in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and a horde of wild Dalmatians. He's had work published in the anthologies Static Dreams Volume 2, Feathers 1, a collection of poems about birds, as well as in Unstamatic Magazine, DarkWinterLit, and elsewhere.

Clara Burghelea is a Romanian-born poet with an MFA in Poetry from Adelphi University. Recipient of the Robert Muroff Poetry Award, her poems and translations appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. Her second poetry collection Praise the Unburied was published with Chaffinch Press in 2021. She is Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation.

Clyde Liffey lives near the water.

Colette Maxfield lives in the U.K. near the point where the Thames river meets the Kennet canal. Currently working in a University/union setting. Writing free verse poetry and has poems published via The Broken Spine and the DarkWinter Literary Magazine.

Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying
from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski's Porch Press
and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press.

Collins Aguilar is an Asheville based writer and current master's candidate at Queens University. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Angle Street Review, Touchstone Journal, After the Pause, Unleash Press, and The Rising Phoenix Review.

Courtenay Gillett is a corporate content creator, short fiction, and poetry writer usually found at her desk, engulfed in the latest horror podcast drops for the week while she whips up new copy. Originally from Kansas but took a hop, skip, and a jump over to Northwest Arkansas in 2017 and has not looked back since. She resides with her partner Timothy, doggo Arya, and kitty Athena – they all seem to put up with her pretty well, so it must be a good fit. Courtenay's aspirations for the future include living in a hut in the forest and dancing under the moon more frequently, ultimately rising enough in notoriety to be known as the local witch woman.

Craig Izard is a musician, published songwriter and attorney. He lives in Birmingham, AL, USA.

Craig Kirchner thinks of poetry as hobo art, loves storytelling and the aesthetics of the paper and pen. He has had two poems nominated for the Pushcart, and has a book of poetry, Roomful of Navels. After a writing hiatus he was recently published in Decadent Review, Wild Violet, Last Leaves, Literary Heist, Ariel Chart, Cape Magazine, Flora Fiction, Young Ravens, Chiron Review, Valiant Scribe, Borderless Crossings, The Main Street Rag, Dear Booze, and several dozen other journals.

D A Angelo is a UK-based poet with work in Sage Cigarettes, Flights of the Dragonfly, Impspired, The Amazine and Petrichor Mag. New work is forthcoming in Autumn Sky Daily, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Moss Puppy, SurVision and Skipping Stone Review.

D.C. Nobes is a physicist, poet, and photographer who, aside from 2 years on Vancouver Island, spent his first 39 years in or near Toronto, Canada, then 23 years based in Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 years in China, and has since retired to Bali. He used to enjoy winter but admits that he doesn’t miss the snow or the cold. He thinks almost all poetry is meant to be read aloud. His poetry and art photographs have been widely published, including in Consilience Journal, Dreich, Fevers of the Mind, Heterodox Haiku, miniMAG, Moss Puppy Magazine, Paddler Press, Porch Literary Magazine, The Hooghly Review, Transients Magazine, and Whimsical Press. Twitter:@sebon521 Instagram: sebon52

Damian Anastasia Onyinyechi is a creative writer and blogger who loves to tell stories and infuses a witty style into her writing. Her stories are usually fiction but can feature non-fiction works based on real events or past life experiences. When she's not writing, she's watching a movie, drawing, reading a book or two (biased to Mythology and crime novels), or designing. What each hobby does for her, aside from relaxation, is serve as an avenue to recharge her creative side. Feeding her mind with ideas. In her spare time, she runs a personal movie blog which is her journal for movies she has seen. There's also a design blog where she shares her design ideas and stories with others, and finally a WordPress blog where she updates readers on new stories or life events. Check out her blogs: stasiascolumn.wordpress.com
thewittyreview.medium.com
stacemelda.medium.com

Damon Hubbs: gardener / casual birder / lapsed tennis player / author of the chapbooks "Coin Doors & Empires" (Alien Buddha Press) and "The Day Sharks Walk on Land" (Alien Buddha Press) / recent work appears/is forthcoming in Dreich, Cutbow Quarterly, Broken Antler, Crab Apple Literary, Eco Punk Lit, and elswhere. On the bird @damon_hubbs

Dan MacIsaac’s short stories have appeared in a wide variety of Canadian and U.K. journals, including The Dalhousie Review, Grain, Stand and The New Quarterly. His work was short-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize. Brick Books published his poetry collection, Cries from the Ark.

Dana Brewer Harris is a voiceover artist, British tv fan, and lover of every dog everywhere. She currently lives in New York City and writes about things that frighten her. Her work has appeared in Atticus Review and the Stanford Writer’s Spotlight. She’s on Twitter @DBrewerHarris

Daniel A. Rabuzzi (he / his) has had two novels, five short stories, twenty poems, and nearly 50 essays / articles published (www.danielarabuzzi.com). He lived eight years in Norway, Germany and France. He has degrees in the study of folklore & mythology and European history. He lives in New York City with his artistic partner & spouse, the woodcarver Deborah A. Mills (www.deborahmillswoodcarving.com), and the requisite cat. Tweets @TheChoirBoats

Danila Botha (she/her/hers) is a Jewish fiction writer based in Toronto, Canada. She’s had two collections of short stories published, Got No Secrets, and For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature and the ReLit Award. She has a new collection coming out with Guernica Editions, called Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness in 2024. She’s also the author of the novel Too Much on the Inside, which won a Book Excellence Award for contemporary fiction. She has a new novel coming out in 2025 called A Place for People Like Us. Danila teaches Creative Writing at the Humber School for Writers and at University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.

Dave Cline writes fiction and software from atop the lowliest mountain in the Northwest US. The software for money, the fiction for fun, although someday he wishes that reversed (at which point he will no doubt cease writing code).

Dave Cuzzolina is a published, award-winning fiction writer and former journalist. His published fiction includes: “Off the Hook” by The Dark City Crime and Mystery Magazine, “First One’s the Hardest” by The Dark City Crime and Mystery Magazine, “Loose Ends” by Propertius Press Short Story Anthology, “The Girl Who Liked Cats” by Short Circuit and “The Debtor” by Short-Story.me. He has captured honorable mentions in both the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition in the Genre Short Story category.