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To the Man Sitting in Front of Me Who Had His Chair Pushed All the Way Back from Before Take Off for the Duration of the 10-Hour Flight

Too good to listen to the flight attendants, are we? A real etiquette revolutionary, hmm? You have made a very powerless enemy with a lot of time to stew in your inconsideration. You are a yellow-toenailed sponge brain, a crumple-testicled beaverbutt. You are a hangover at work, a champagne flute…

Public Education

“Be a teacher!” they said. “It'll be fun!” they said. “It's rewarding!” they said. “June, July and August!” they said. Off to college I went with a revolutionist mindset Stay away from the parties, the drunkies, and flunkies “I'll change the world one child at a time, no child left…

How Thirteen Famous Men Performed Cunnilingus

I. Beethoven Badly. Blame deafness, his inability to hear the gasps of his audience, to glean their favored chord and tempo. But wasn't he always stuck in the sonata of his own mind, his faith in movements so grandiose, no mere man could play them? II. Abraham Lincoln With his…

If I Can Hear You Chew, I Have Fantasized About Your Death

Oh, Facebook, rollercoaster of my anger and self-righteousness, hermetic mental sandbox overstuffed with cat turds, it is a friend, a real life friend, who posts this; and it's in character, and that comes as a surprise because he is my friend, and because when I chew, there are noises. I…

Nina Thilo

Theresa Sowerby

Theresa Sowerby has written plays, poetry, and short stories. She has had poetry and flash fiction published in several UK-based magazines and anthologies, including Orbis and The High Window. Her poem, Migration, won first prize at the 2017 Huddersfield Literature Festival. Her one-act plays and monologues have made the finals…

R.D. Simmons

R.D. Simmons currently lives and works in London, where he is a journalist for a trade magazine. Realising his articles about Serious Business Issues were becoming increasingly flippant and filled with pop culture references, a couple of years ago he made a concerted attempt to write and illustrate his own…

Mick O Seasnain

Mick Ó Seasnáin has continually attempted to farm his quarter acre lot in the small town of Wooster, Ohio while catering to the diverse and often unanticipated needs of his tripod-ish dog and three rowdy children. His wife tolerates his creative habits and occasionally enables his binges of writing and…

Cayla Printz

Cayla Printz is from a suburban town north of Philadelphia. She received her M.B.A. from Florida Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree in special education from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. This is the first time she has been a finalist for a writing contest and is beyond ecstatic. She…

Michael Meyerhofer

Michael Meyerhofer’s fifth book of poems, Ragged Eden, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press. He's also the author of a fantasy series and serves as the Poetry Editor of Atticus Review. His work has appeared in Rattle, Hayden's Ferry, Ploughshares, DIAGRAM, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and other journals. For more…

Jeanne Lutz

Jeanne Lutz grew up on a small dairy farm in southern Minnesota, attended the University of Ireland in Galway, and spent two years in Japan. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net nominee, and Loft Mentor Series winner for poetry, she is the author of the chapbook Hearts and…

Beatrice Lane-Smailes

Beatrice Lane-Smailes is a 15 year old student in 9th grade studying in Melbourne, Australia. Her poem “My 5 year old nephew pushes my buttons” was inspired by a car trip with her younger brother. This is Beatrice's first published work and she continues to write. Other passions include music,…

Erin Kirsh

Erin Kirsh is a writer, performer, rant maker, and funnyman from Toronto. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, subTerrain, Cosmonauts Avenue, Geist, EVENT, Pulp Literature, Noble/Gas Quarterly, and more. In 2017, she won the Shadow Award from The Molotov Cocktail. Kirsh…

Lori Jakiela

Lori Jakiela is the author of five books, most recently the memoir Belief is its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books), which received the William Saroyan prize for International Writing from Stanford University, and the essay collection Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker (Bottom Dog Press). She…

Laura Burrow

Laura Burrow was born in Marietta, Georgia but recently moved to Ontario, Canada where it is very, very cold. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Kennesaw State University and is currently transitioning into selling her artwork full time. Earlier this year her poem “Last Words” won second place in a…

Sarah Cannavo

Sarah Cannavo is a writer of prose and poetry living in southern New Jersey, a short trip from the Pine Barrens. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Where the Mind Dwells, Carrying On, and Untimely Frost, and will be included in the upcoming collection Darkling's Beasts and Brews.…

Madeleine Jackman

Madeleine Jackman is a recent graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.A. in English, where she successfully drank hundreds of late-night coffees while completing her honors thesis: Break It Down With Joy, an original poetry collection. Motivated by the caffeine in her system and a desire to…

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