The Word's Faire . 4/8/25 The Word's Faire . 4/8/25

‘mouse’ & ‘the ballad of mona lisa’

Mal Virich is a queer, non-binary, autistic, and disabled poet who tends to ruminate on self-identity, trauma, and the profound impacts of interpersonal relationships. Their debut chapbook a vivid dreaming was published in November 2024 by Bottlecap Press. They are currently in their fourth year of their undergraduate degree, studying creative writing, Spanish, and Chican@/Latin@ studies. Alongside their studies, they are a peer advisor and poetry reader for The Madison Review. www.malvirich.com

The Word's Faire . 4/8/25 The Word's Faire . 4/8/25

‘Chew the Wild Side on the Meat’, ‘Punctuality Prospers’ & ‘Hindsight Can Get Hazy’

Nicholas Viglietti

The Word's Faire . 4/7/25 The Word's Faire . 4/7/25

‘WILD DESIRES’ & Collected Works

Abdulmueed Balogun Adewale is a black poet from Ibadan, Nigeria. A Pushcart prize and BOTN Nominee. He was longlisted for the 2021 Ebarcce Prize, shortlisted for the 2024 Gerald Kraak Prize, finalist 2021 Wingless Dreamers Book of Black Poetry Contest, won the 2021 Annual Kreative Diadem Poetry Contest & the 2024 Dr. Samuel Folorunsho Ibiyemi Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in: Applause Literary Journal, Red Cedar Review and elsewhere. He tweets from: AbdmueedA

The Word's Faire . 4/6/25 The Word's Faire . 4/6/25

‘Art Appreciation’

Robert Eugene Rubino has published prose and poetry in various online and print journals, including Hippocampus, Moonstone, Cagibi, Cathexis Northwest, Raw Art Review and The Write Launch. He's old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and smart enough to solve Monday's New York Times crossword puzzle. Other days, not so much.

The Word's Faire . 4/5/25 The Word's Faire . 4/5/25

‘Never Say Goodbye’, ‘Up On Cemetery Hill Road’, ‘Verdant Cascades’, ‘The Woman In White’ & ‘Follow the Light’

MICHAEL MINASSIAN is a Contributing Editor for Verse-Virtual, an online poetry journal. His poetry collections Time is Not a River, Morning Calm, and A Matter of Timing as well as a chapbook, Jack Pays a Visit, are all available on Amazon. For more information: https://michaelminassian.com

The Word's Faire . 4/4/25 The Word's Faire . 4/4/25

‘Lux Et Veritas’

John Frame was brought up in Wick, Scotland. After earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Aberdeen University, he emigrated to the USA, and worked as a teacher in NYC and Columbus, Ohio. Since 2018, he and his wife Rama have lived and worked in China and Senegal. You can find his work here: https://jrframe.wixsite.com/website.

The Word's Faire . 4/3/25 The Word's Faire . 4/3/25

‘Poem That Begins with Unfinished Business’ & Collected Poems

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet working in film production. His latest chapbook is A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023). Recent poems are in ITERANT, Skipjack Review, and The Indianapolis Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Nashville, Tennessee. (jamescroaljackson.com)

The Word's Faire . 4/2/25 The Word's Faire . 4/2/25

‘The Retreat’

Rama Varma is an IT professional by day and a writer the rest of the time, he finished his Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford in 2015 and subsequently won the KillingIt prize for his crime novel, The Banana Leaf Murder from Harper. These days he is working on his second novel and also writes the occasional short story. His stories have been published in the Obelus Journal (Transformation Manager) and the HOW blog (Mr. Moncieuf goes to town). He lives in the UK and has two boisterous boys.

The Word's Faire . 4/2/25 The Word's Faire . 4/2/25

‘A Three-Dollar Cup of Coffee’

David Larsen is a writer who lives in El Paso, Texas. His stories and poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including Cholla Needles, The Heartland Review, Floyd County Moonshine, The Mantelpiece, Oakwood, Nude Bruce Review, Canyon Voices, Change Seven, Literary Heist, Coneflower Café, The Raven Review, Voices, Sand Canyon Review, The Rush, El Portal, Bright Flash Literary Review and October Hill Magazine.

The Word's Faire . 4/1/25 The Word's Faire . 4/1/25

‘What can’t be explained’, ‘Notes on online therapy’ & ‘Unraveling’

Ellen White Rook is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher living in southern Maine. She offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds an MFA from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended, her first collection of poetry, was released by Cathexis Northwest Press in May 2023. Visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.

The Word's Faire . 4/1/25 The Word's Faire . 4/1/25

‘The New Romantics’

S. A. Viau holds an MFA in poetry from Louisiana State University. He is the winner of the 2019 William Jay Smith Award for Poetry, judged by Douglas Kearney. His work has appeared in The Hong Kong Review of Books, The Colorado Review, HASH, New Delta Review, among others. He lives in Maryland with his family.

The Word's Faire . 3/31/25 The Word's Faire . 3/31/25

‘Across Daughette’s Meadow’, ‘Bluetick Evening’ & ‘Crow Song*’

Paul Pruitt is a law librarian by trade, an historian by training, and a writer by compulsion. He writes poetry in order to experience, over and over, the wonder of words colliding. His publications include poems in Literary Heist, In Parenthesis, Triggerfish Critical Review, The Dillydoun Review, and the Birmingham Arts Journal.

The Word's Faire . 3/30/25 The Word's Faire . 3/30/25

‘SILVER DAGGER’

Andrew Sarewitz has published more than 70 short stories (website: www.andrewsarewitz.com. Substack access is @asarewitz) as well as having penned scripts for various media. Mr. Sarewitz is a recipient of the City Artists Corp Grant for Writing. His play, Alias Madame Andrèe (based on the life of WWII resistance fighter, Nancy Wake, the “White Mouse”) garnered First Prize from Stage to Screen New Playwrights in San Jose, CA; produced with a multicultural cast and crew. Member: Dramatists Guild of America. Insta: @andrewsarewitz. Twitter/X: @asarewitz/twiter

The Word's Faire . 3/29/25 The Word's Faire . 3/29/25

‘On the Glitter Crescent’, ‘Leave the Geode’ & ‘Cotton Candy Fluffs’

Mercury Sunderland (he/him) is an autistic gay trans man. He's been published by University of Amsterdam's Writer's Block, UC Davis' Open Ceilings, UC Riverside's Santa Ana River Review, and UC Santa Barbara's Spectrum.

The Word's Faire . 3/29/25 The Word's Faire . 3/29/25

‘Down in the Depths’

Rachel Racette, Metis, born 1999, in Balcarres, Saskatchewan. Interested in creating her own world and characters. Writes science-fiction and fantasy. She has always loved books of fantasy and science fiction as well as comics. Lives with her supportive family and cat, Cheshire. Lives vicariously in fantasy settings of her own making. Website: www.racheldotsdot.wordpress.com Twitter: Rachel S Racette - Author

The Word's Faire . 3/28/25 The Word's Faire . 3/28/25

‘Dead Mango Trees Go to Heaven’

Adeeb Chowdhury is a 22-year-old aspiring writer from Chittagong, Bangladesh. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, where his written works of fiction and nonfiction have received the 2023 Feinberg Undergraduate Research Prize, 2024 Skopp Award on the Holocaust, 2024 North Star’s Best Nonfiction Writing Award, 2024 James Augustus Wilson Award on an African-American Topic, among others. His personal essays and nonfiction papers have been selected for preservation on the SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR), a collection of notable work by students and faculty. He has also written extensively for publications such as Brown History Magazine, Pluto Literary Magazine, and Shuddhashar Publishing House, which received the 2016 Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award from the Association of American Publishers. Adeeb works as an investment advisor representative in Binghamton, New York and is also a weightlifting enthusiast.