Contributors

Brahmani is a Indian based writer in the United States of America. She loves writing and reading short stories and poetry and is planning on majoring in communications. In her free time, she plays the piano and loves to watch stand up comedy.

Brandon Everett is a fiction and non-fiction writer. The genres he writes include: science-fiction, paranormal, noir, thriller, and the supernatural. He is the author of the novel The Undoubtedly True Narrative of the Yetiman, and the short story collection Release the Kaizen! Stories and Poems from an Evolving Writer. His works have been featured in THE CHABOT REVIEW and LIVINA PRESS. Everett graduated with a master's in English from California State University East Bay and currently serves as the Administrative Support Coordinator for Cal State East Bay's Student Center for Academic Achievement. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and resides there still to this day with his wife, Cristina.

Brandon Shane is a poet and horticulturist, born in Yokosuka, Japan. You can see his work in trampset, The Chiron Review, IceFloe Press, The Argyle Literary Magazine, Berlin Literary Review, Acropolis Journal, Grim & Gilded, Ink in Thirds, Dark Winter Lit, among others. He graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a degree in English. Find him on Twitter @ Ruishanewrites

Brian Michael Barbeito is a Canadian poet, writer, and photographer. Recent work appears
at The Notre Dame Review. Still Some Crazy Summer Wind Coming Through, a book of prose poems and landscape photography, is forthcoming at Dark Winter Press

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.

Bryony Lorimer is originally from Scotland and lives in Edmonton. Her main loves are running, reading and writing short stories.

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.

Catherine Kay lives in the wild and beautiful Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal, Ireland. Her writing has been performed in the Waterside Theatre, Derry, Greencastle’s Words by the Water events, Flash Fiction Armagh and Ten x 9 events. She was long listed for the Cúirt New Writing 2023 and highly commended in the Frances Browne Festival 2023. Her poetry has been published in the Storms Journal Anthology 4 and in Caught Alight: An Anthology (published by Impspired).

Cecilia Kennedy (she/her) taught English and Spanish in Ohio for 20 years before moving to Washington state. Since 2017, she has published stories in international literary publications. Her short-story collections include The Places We Haunt (Baxter House Editions/DarkWinter Press) and Twenty-Four-Hour-Shift: Dark tales from on and off the Clock (DarkWinter Press).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 Cosgrove is a writer and lecturer from Liverpool. She has published two collections of poetry and is the editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal.

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 Carrel writes speculative fiction and other odd things from somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. He has been published at JAKE, Flash Fiction Magazine, Idle Ink and A Thin Slice of Anxiety, has work forthcoming at Literally Stories and eMerge Literary magazine, and posts occasionally at ccarrel.bsky.social.

Chris Cottom lives near Macclesfield, UK. His work has been published by 100 Word Story, Fictive Dream, Flash Frontier, NFFD NZ, NFFD UK, Oyster River Pages, Roi Fainéant, The Phare, The Lascaux Review, and other fine places. In the early 1970s he lived next door to JRR Tolkien. chriscottom.wixsite.com/chriscottom

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.

Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, THE DREAM PATCH, a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY. His novella, HEARTS IN THE DARK, was published in an anthology by RUNNING WILD PRESS in Los Angeles. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. He has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation.

Gallery - https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283

Clyde Liffey lives near the water.

Cole Bisson is a literary fiction, sci-fi, and literary horror fiction writer from Fergus, ON. He's been published by Broken Pencil Magazine and the White Wall Review. He graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University, and he is currently an academic advisor for medical and veterinary programs.

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.