THE EXHIBITION
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‘THE BANANA WHISPERER’ & ‘BITTER HALF’
Daniel Weitzman is co-author of ‘Odd Gods’ (HarperCollins, optioned to be turned into an animated series). His children’s stories have been featured in ‘My Dad’s a Punk’ and ‘Stone-face.’ His film and TV credits include ‘The Pirates of Central Park’ (Children’s Film Winner, New York Film & Video Festival) and ‘Row Your Boat Ashore’ (Nicholl Fellowships Finalist). “Grown-up” material includes ‘The Only American’ (Every Day Fiction) and ‘Oh, Brad’ (Free Spirit). Daniel is author of a number of digital initiatives, including his personal favorite, a multi-media effort created for the US Forest Service. To check it out, visit https://discovertheforest.org/
MOTHER MIRROR
Kenna DeValor (@teadragonz) is a nonbinary + queer writer and current university student residing in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and they are an English Literature major and Creative Writing minor. They have been writing stories since they were eight years old and has always loved a good freaky little book. Kenna has been published in multiple art/literary journals and magazines around the East Coast/Central US, UK, and AUS. They have been on a huge playwriting kick recently. When Kenna’s not writing, reading, analyzing banned books, or performing a silly song on a stage, they are a tattoo artist in their hometown of Bethlehem, PA. Kenna loves to wear all the different "hats'' of the art world.
‘Imbecile’, ‘Kiss Manzanita’ & ‘Sandbox’.
Aaron is a poet and pianist living in Portland, Oregon.
Peach Me, Darling - Kites Up -The Fence - The Man Lounging with Flowerpot Head - A Never Mandatory Title - Bloom Where You Are Planted - Humanoid Gardening - Another Way to Look at It
Based in Borrego Springs California, artist Robin Young currently works in mixed media focusing mostly on collage and contemporary art making. Her focus on collage art using magazine clippings, masking tape, wallpaper, jewelry, feathers, foil etc. allows her to develop deep into the whimsical and intuitive.
From large, life-sized pieces, 3D sculptures, to small postcard-sized arrangements, Robin's keen eye and gripping esthetic guide her viewers into her own semi-readymade world. Repurposing nostalgic images for lighthearted and sometimes disquieting messages; Robin’s artistic universe is strange, funky, sometimes perverse and always alluring.
Celebrity, Variation on "Variation on the Word Sleep," In Preparation & Father's Day.
Katharine Chung is a New York transplant who currently resides in Connecticut. An Assistant Director in an urban public library by day, she enjoys stand-up paddle boarding with her dog, night photography, and movies in her free time. Her poetry has previously been published in Italics Mine. Find her on Instagram @vegancinephile.
The Cog of Love
Rodney Crisp is an Australian author and freethinker who lives and writes in Paris near Montmartre, the favorite haunt of the 19th-century impressionist painters, between the modest lodgings in which Suzanne Valadon gave birth to her son, Maurice Utrillo, and the elegant bourgeois apartment of Paul Cézanne.
The Idiot Savant
Condor Wrights -- Writer, student, cheeky little monkey with a stick. Lives in Nashville, TN and Oxford, GA. Reads in his spare time and lies around with Billy, his dog. Stokes the fire when he can.
A Solitary Affair
Condor Wrights -- Writer, student, cheeky little monkey with a stick. Lives in Nashville, TN and Oxford, GA. Reads in his spare time and lies around with Billy, his dog. Stokes the fire when he can.
‘That’s Absurd!’ Contest Shortlist
‘That’s Absurd!’ Anthology Contest Short-List & Winner Announced!
TACENDA
Jamie Good is an MFA candidate at Western Washington University. Their fiction and personal essays have been published in literary spaces including The Writing Disorder, Waxing and Waning, Wire’s Dream Magazine, and other magazines. Good is patiently waiting to return back home to the fairy world.
Distant Cousins
Jasmine Kasper is a multimedia artist and writer who focuses on nature, environmental stewardship, and health. Her goal is to make learning about the world around us a fun, positive experience. You can often find her outdoors, creating art, or frantically researching something interesting to share with others. Visit her portfolio website jasminekasper.com or get in touch over email at officialjasminekasper@gmail.com!
Blessed Bugs
Jasmine Kasper is a multimedia artist and writer who focuses on nature, environmental stewardship, and health. Her goal is to make learning about the world around us a fun, positive experience. You can often find her outdoors, creating art, or frantically researching something interesting to share with others. Visit her portfolio website jasminekasper.com or get in touch over email at officialjasminekasper@gmail.com!
Relationship Surgery
Brenna Koenig is currently an Embedded Tutor in the English Department at California State University Northridge, where she is completing her Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature (Honors). She has previously worked as a supplemental instructor by co-teaching various levels of composition, rhetoric, and literary analysis to first-year college students. Outside of teaching and tutoring, she has written about a variety of literary topics that encompass both American and British literature in the form of novels, short stories, and poetry. She has also been published in the CSUN Sigma Tau Delta literary magazine, The Scarlet Review.
Mid-Week Ritual
Lucy James is an avid reader and lover of words, a writer of all kinds particularly delicate with poetry and creative nonfiction. Devoting their life to trying to understand the chaos in everything, Lucy documents how it is for her– based in the Midwest.
Nowruz
Ahmad Morid is a young and self-taught poet and artist. They have been writing poetry since May of last year and drawing and painting since they were seven years old. Art and self-expression is what drives them forward in life, and their other hobbies include: screenwriting, analyzing movies, reading books, etc.
New Year?
Shamik Banerjee is a poet from India. He resides in Assam with his parents. Some of his recent works will appear in York Literary Review, Willow Review, Thimble Lit, and Modern Reformation, to name a few.