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Authors
Michael Morris has published short stories in Youth Imagination and Fudoki magazines. He has taught about environmental science at universities in China, Japan and New Zealand. This story represents one of those 'teachable moments'.
Michelle Christophorou recently won the Strands International Flash Fiction Competition, and the Retreat West Fire-themed flash fiction competition in 2019, for which she received a 'Best of the Net' nomination. She was also runner up in Funny Pearls' 2019 short story competition. Her fiction has appeared elsewhere in print and online, most recently in Splonk, Lunate, Virtual Zine, 100 Words of Solitude, Pendemic and FlashFlood. In an earlier life, Michelle practised law in the City of London.
Michelle lives and writes in Geelong, Australia. She works as a Community Outreach Nurse. She has a short story in Pure Slush 'Birth' Anthology 2021 and the '2020 Geelong Anthology.' She is a lover of nature, the nana nap, crafternoons and gin. A true piscean.
Michelle Houghton is a 2018 graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art with an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Ferrisburgh, Vermont USA with her two children and one goofy dog.
Mike Finley has been writing and performing in St. Paul, Minnesota for over 50 years. He has authored over 160 books.
Miriam Fisher has been published in Australia, as well as India and Nepal where she wrote her first book on climbing in the Himalayas. Navigating the zeitgeist questionably, she recently returned to fiction after a lengthy hiatus immersed in the complexities of the non-fiction world.
Morgan lives, writes and teaches in North West England. She started writing in June 2020, and fell in love with flash fiction for its wonderful breadth, and glorious brevity. Her stories have recently won third prize at Flash 500, and 4th prize at Reflex Fiction. She also has flash fiction published or forthcoming—online and in anthologies—with Crow and Crosskeys, Funny Pearls, FlashBack Fiction, NFFD and Bath Flash Fiction.
Myna Chang writes flash and short stories. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, New World Writing, Reflex Fiction, FlashFlood, Atlas & Alice, Writers Resist, and Daily Science Fiction. Anthologies featuring her stories include the Grace & Gravity collection Furious Gravity IX; and the forthcoming This is What America Looks Like anthology by Washington Writers’ Publishing House.
Nadia Staikos lives in Toronto with her two children. Her work has previously appeared in Montréal Writes, perhappened mag, Blue Lake Review, and elsewhere.
Natalie Clair has recently begun her writing journey. Based in Hertfordshire, she is an air stewardess and avid collector of vintage postcards.
Michael Morris has published short stories in Youth Imagination and Fudoki magazines. He has taught about environmental science at universities in China, Japan and New Zealand. This story represents one of those 'teachable moments'.
Michelle Christophorou recently won the Strands International Flash Fiction Competition, and the Retreat West Fire-themed flash fiction competition in 2019, for which she received a 'Best of the Net' nomination. She was also runner up in Funny Pearls' 2019 short story competition. Her fiction has appeared elsewhere in print and online, most recently in Splonk, Lunate, Virtual Zine, 100 Words of Solitude, Pendemic and FlashFlood. In an earlier life, Michelle practised law in the City of London.
Michelle lives and writes in Geelong, Australia. She works as a Community Outreach Nurse. She has a short story in Pure Slush 'Birth' Anthology 2021 and the '2020 Geelong Anthology.' She is a lover of nature, the nana nap, crafternoons and gin. A true piscean.
Michelle Houghton is a 2018 graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art with an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Ferrisburgh, Vermont USA with her two children and one goofy dog.
Mike Finley has been writing and performing in St. Paul, Minnesota for over 50 years. He has authored over 160 books.
Miriam Fisher has been published in Australia, as well as India and Nepal where she wrote her first book on climbing in the Himalayas. Navigating the zeitgeist questionably, she recently returned to fiction after a lengthy hiatus immersed in the complexities of the non-fiction world.
Morgan lives, writes and teaches in North West England. She started writing in June 2020, and fell in love with flash fiction for its wonderful breadth, and glorious brevity. Her stories have recently won third prize at Flash 500, and 4th prize at Reflex Fiction. She also has flash fiction published or forthcoming—online and in anthologies—with Crow and Crosskeys, Funny Pearls, FlashBack Fiction, NFFD and Bath Flash Fiction.
Myna Chang writes flash and short stories. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, New World Writing, Reflex Fiction, FlashFlood, Atlas & Alice, Writers Resist, and Daily Science Fiction. Anthologies featuring her stories include the Grace & Gravity collection Furious Gravity IX; and the forthcoming This is What America Looks Like anthology by Washington Writers’ Publishing House.
Nadia Staikos lives in Toronto with her two children. Her work has previously appeared in Montréal Writes, perhappened mag, Blue Lake Review, and elsewhere.
Natalie Clair has recently begun her writing journey. Based in Hertfordshire, she is an air stewardess and avid collector of vintage postcards.