An Online Magazine of Myths, Legends, Fables, Fantasy, Folklore and Fairytales
Authors
Nathan D. Horowitz is a writer, ESL teacher, translator, and proofreader based in Kansas. In the 1990s, he lived for fourteen months in the Ecuadorian rainforest. He is charming and funny and enjoys talking about himself in the third person.
Born in England with a heritage that is both European and South-East Asian, Nicki Blake is an emerging writer of poetry and short fiction whose work focuses on themes of identity, inclusivity, the natural world, and the interaction between people and their environments. As a teacher of English language and a student of languages other than English, Nicki’s writing is informed by her lived experiences of working with words.
Noa Covo is a teenage writer. Her work has appeared in Reckoning and Newfound, and her microchapbook, Bouquet of Fears, will be published by Nightingale and Sparrow this July.
P Akasaka is a Japanese writer living in the UK. She has published boh in English and Japanese. She is currently obsessed with making a perfect tarte tatin.
Paul Holler is a writer of short stories, poems, articles and interviews with noted authors. His previous works have appeared in Flash, The Macguffin, Freshwater Literary Review, Ekphrastic Review, Copperfield Review, Southern Cross Review, Bookslut, Critique Magazine and other on-line and print journals.
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme. He took early retirement in 2019 to write full time. He is the author of over twenty books, which cover fiction, poetry, and scholarship. His books include the novels Surviving Sting (2001), Kiss Me Softly Amy Turtle (2004), and Do I Love You? (2008); poetry collections, The Right Suggestion (1999), Catch a Falling Tortoise (2007), and An Artist Goes Bananas (2012), and a recent collection of flash fiction, Midnight Laughter (2019). His scholarly work ranges across a variety of disciplines, including American literature, humour, and narratology. His most recent academic books are: Enigmas of Confinement: A History and Poetics of Flash Fiction (2018), Lydia Davis: A Study (2019), and Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Comic (2020). His creative work has won or been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the Ottakars/Faber and Faber Poetry Competition, The Bedford Prize, The Bridport Prize, The John Clare Poetry Prize, the Sentinel Poetry Prize, the Sentinal Short Story Prize, and Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize, and the Pushcart Prize (nomination).
Peggy Schimmelman is a San Francisco Bay Area writer. Her work includes the poetry chapbooks Crazytown (Writing Knights Press) and Tick-Tock (Finishing Line Press) and the novel Whippoorwills. She is co-author of Long Stories Short, by Wild Vine Writers. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in North American Review, Sparkle ‘n Blink, WinningWriters.com, NovellaT, Aleola Journal of Poetry and Art, Pacific Review, Comstock Review, Wild Musette Journal, 100wordstories.org and others.
Peter Gardiner has produced two plays at Brighton Fringe and was shortlisted by New Writing South and won Best Theatre from IYAF festival. He has a Sci-FI podcast 'Whisper Through The Static' and has been published in Popshot Quarterly, Detrius and Cake magazine.
Phil is a dad and a data scientist. He loves sci-fi and fantasy and sketching terrible things that go bump in the night.
Pippa Lewis is a writer living in Brighton. Her short fiction has been included in the Brighton Prize and the 52 Crows project by artist Bonnie Helen Hawkins. She is writing a YA fantasy trilogy, which has been shortlisted for the Joan Aiken Future Classics Prize and longlisted for the Mslexia novel prize. She is also working on two adult novels, both of which are speculative in nature.
Nathan D. Horowitz is a writer, ESL teacher, translator, and proofreader based in Kansas. In the 1990s, he lived for fourteen months in the Ecuadorian rainforest. He is charming and funny and enjoys talking about himself in the third person.
Born in England with a heritage that is both European and South-East Asian, Nicki Blake is an emerging writer of poetry and short fiction whose work focuses on themes of identity, inclusivity, the natural world, and the interaction between people and their environments. As a teacher of English language and a student of languages other than English, Nicki’s writing is informed by her lived experiences of working with words.
Noa Covo is a teenage writer. Her work has appeared in Reckoning and Newfound, and her microchapbook, Bouquet of Fears, will be published by Nightingale and Sparrow this July.
P Akasaka is a Japanese writer living in the UK. She has published boh in English and Japanese. She is currently obsessed with making a perfect tarte tatin.
Paul Holler is a writer of short stories, poems, articles and interviews with noted authors. His previous works have appeared in Flash, The Macguffin, Freshwater Literary Review, Ekphrastic Review, Copperfield Review, Southern Cross Review, Bookslut, Critique Magazine and other on-line and print journals.
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme. He took early retirement in 2019 to write full time. He is the author of over twenty books, which cover fiction, poetry, and scholarship. His books include the novels Surviving Sting (2001), Kiss Me Softly Amy Turtle (2004), and Do I Love You? (2008); poetry collections, The Right Suggestion (1999), Catch a Falling Tortoise (2007), and An Artist Goes Bananas (2012), and a recent collection of flash fiction, Midnight Laughter (2019). His scholarly work ranges across a variety of disciplines, including American literature, humour, and narratology. His most recent academic books are: Enigmas of Confinement: A History and Poetics of Flash Fiction (2018), Lydia Davis: A Study (2019), and Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Comic (2020). His creative work has won or been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the Ottakars/Faber and Faber Poetry Competition, The Bedford Prize, The Bridport Prize, The John Clare Poetry Prize, the Sentinel Poetry Prize, the Sentinal Short Story Prize, and Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize, and the Pushcart Prize (nomination).
Peggy Schimmelman is a San Francisco Bay Area writer. Her work includes the poetry chapbooks Crazytown (Writing Knights Press) and Tick-Tock (Finishing Line Press) and the novel Whippoorwills. She is co-author of Long Stories Short, by Wild Vine Writers. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in North American Review, Sparkle ‘n Blink, WinningWriters.com, NovellaT, Aleola Journal of Poetry and Art, Pacific Review, Comstock Review, Wild Musette Journal, 100wordstories.org and others.
Peter Gardiner has produced two plays at Brighton Fringe and was shortlisted by New Writing South and won Best Theatre from IYAF festival. He has a Sci-FI podcast 'Whisper Through The Static' and has been published in Popshot Quarterly, Detrius and Cake magazine.
Phil is a dad and a data scientist. He loves sci-fi and fantasy and sketching terrible things that go bump in the night.
Pippa Lewis is a writer living in Brighton. Her short fiction has been included in the Brighton Prize and the 52 Crows project by artist Bonnie Helen Hawkins. She is writing a YA fantasy trilogy, which has been shortlisted for the Joan Aiken Future Classics Prize and longlisted for the Mslexia novel prize. She is also working on two adult novels, both of which are speculative in nature.