THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘EGGS AND ICED TEA’
Andrew Sarewitz has published a number of short stories (website: www.andrewsarewitz.com) as well as having penned scripts for various media. Mr. Sarewitz is a recipient of the City Artists Corp Grant for Writing. His play, 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.
‘Wicked’
Michelo Isola is senior gentleman residing in Fayetteville, Georgia with his husband of 20 years and three lively canines. Michelo hold a degree in Environmental Engineering from Lake Superior State University and relishes attendance in creative writing classes at nearby Clayton State University (free for seniors in Georgia). Michelo won first prize in fiction at Clayton State in 2023 for his story "Flight from Egypt", published in "Cygnet", the literary journal of Clayton State.
‘Making Deals’
Harvey Huddleston's short fiction has appeared in The Word's Faire, RavensPerch and Mystery Tribune, among many others.
‘The Love Song of Child-of-Water’
Tommy Cheis is a Chiricahua guide, diyyin, and Cochise descendant. After traveling extensively through distant lands and meeting interesting people, he resides near the Cochise Stronghold with his horses. His stories (will) appear in Yellow Medicine Review, Rome Review, After Dinner Conversation, NonBinary Review, Maine Review, Invisible City, University of New Mexico Look to the Mountains Anthology, and more than twenty other publications. He is the winner of the Colonel Darren L. Wright Memorial Writing Award, and his work appears on the CLMP Reading List for Native American Heritage Month November 2024. He is a PEN and Pushcart nominee. His first novel, RARE EARTH, is on submission; his second, CHILD OF WATER, will follow shortly."
‘Giving Away the Kingdom’
Ryan Rahman is a writer based in Orlando, Florida. His previous works (all poems) have appeared in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Stardust Review, Half and One, BarBar Literary Magazine, and Humans of The World. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.
‘Red Light’
Alex Passey is the author of the novel's Mirror's Edge and Shadow of the Desert Sun. His short fiction, poetry and journalism have been featured in many publications, most recently in the graphic novel Twilight of Echelon, the Apocalypse anthology from Dragon Soul Press, and the Winnipeg Free Press.
‘Lillian Singer’
Erich von Neff is a San Francisco longshoreman. He received his master’s degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University. He is well known in both French avant-garde and mainstream literary circles. In France, he has won awards such as Prix 26, given readings at the Cafe Montmartre, and published over 1295 poems and 289 short stories. In 2023, Editions Unicite published his book, 6 Affaires rèsolues par Frieda et Gitta: notre duo de charme de la police parisienne.
‘The Armory’, ‘Buttercup and the Afterlife’ & ‘ At the Pinnacle’
Alan Hill has been writing like his life depends on it; because it does. He cannot imagine there is a better way of trying to make sense of the world that follows him around with its bad breath and big hairy fists. His latest book 'In the Blood' was published by Caitlin Press in 2022.
‘Right Here, Right Now In My Childhood Home’, ‘The Stranger at the Record Store’ & ‘The Basement’
Julia Frederick is currently an undergraduate student at the Pennsylvania State University studying English. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, growing her record collection, and writing poetry and creative nonfiction. Her work appears in Ink Nest Literary Magazine and Folio (a chapbook edition of Penn State's Undergraduate Literary Magazine). She has two pieces forthcoming in BarBar.
‘Holly Blood Stains Our Palms’, ‘Down the Drain’, ‘The Night Sky Is A Grave’ & ‘The Crane and The Flower’
Quinn Marley Garcia is a writer and part-time cowboy. She was the first youth playwright to have a piece virtually performed at the Little Fish Theater in LA, and has been published in multiple literary magazines.
‘Fragmented’
Chloe Kultgen graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a BFA in Creative Writing. When she’s not reminiscing on the past or speculating about the future, she enjoys spending time by Lake Michigan looking for hidden treasures that wash ashore.
‘Tender’
Jovi Aviles is a teen writer whose work has appeared in The Malu Zine, PWN Teen, and Pen&Quill. Her favorite authors are Madelaine Lucas and Sylvia Plath. She is often found at her favorite cafe writing.
‘Nothinginsomuch’ & ‘Like Chicken Pox or Poison Oak’
Justin M. Bushey is a poet who settled in the DC Metro area after enjoying the adventures and misfortunes from one coast to the other.
‘The White Pony’ Contest Winner
Kelsey Stewart’s work often engages with fractured systems and the emotional cost of survival within them. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing at Harvard. Originally trained as an opera singer, she performs with the Houston Grand Opera and hold a BA in music from Loyola Marymount University. Her fiction blends dark humor, social critique, and elements of absurdism, drawing inspiration from writers like George Saunders and Nikolai Gogol.
‘A Eulogy for Rincon’ Contest Finalist
Jill Bronfman was one of 12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025, was the Barnes & Noble, National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, placed second in the Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest, was named a semi-finalist for both the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and The Waking’s Flash Prose Prize, and received an honorable mention in the Storm Cellar Force Majeure Flash Contest. Her work has been accepted for publication in five collections and over thirty literary journals. She has performed in The Bay Area Book Festival, Poets in the Parks, The Basement Series, Page Street, Washington Square Annual Livestream, and LitQuake, and had her story about a middle-aged robot produced as a podcast by Ripples in Space. She has been accepted to residencies and conferences including Looking Glass, WonderMountain, and LitCamp.
‘Climate Change’ Contest Finalist
Arria Deepwater (she/they) identifies as white, invisibly disabled, queer and faithfully middle-aged. Her work appears in In Between Spaces: A Disabled Writers Anthology, and she runs a newsletter, “Together, Between Worlds,” offering notes on a bad breakup with modern society. Arria shares a home by a lake with her mother near Perth, Ontario, Canada on unceded Algonquin Omàmìwininì Territory, where they regularly remind each other that they can, in fact, live without a dog. www.arriadeepwater.com