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‘Soma’

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‘To My Therapist’ & ‘Sour Spring’

Yazdan Khoshsirat is a 25-year-old teacher from Tehran, who has a deep passion for expression through art. Khoshsirat’s poems have been featured three times in the official English magazine of Al Zahra University, the renowned all-girls institution in Iran.

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‘The Leaf’s Fall’

Robyn Bashaw graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing from SFASU. She’s previously published in Gabby and Min’s Literary Review, 300 Days of Sun, and NUNUM. As an author, she aims to wade into the despairs of humanity and dwell in the deluges. Check out her full list of work at: https://robynbashaw.wordpress.com/.

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‘Squirrel's Nest’

R. P. Singletary is a lifelong writer across genres of fiction, poetry, and hybrid forms; a budding playwright; and a native of the rural southeastern United States, with recent fiction, poetry, and drama appearing in Literally Stories, Litro, BULL, Cream Scene Carnival, Cowboy Jamboree, Rathalla Review, The Rumen, Bending Genres, D.U.M.B.O. Press, and elsewhere. Website: https://newplayexchange.org/users/78683/r-p-singletary

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‘PUPPY BOY’

Michele A. Hromada is a special educator and political blogger. Her work has appeared in: Wild Violet, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Forge, Tower Journal, Gemini Magazine, The Book Smuggler's Den and Coffin Bell.

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‘I am the Wild’

LW Oakley was born and raised in the east end of Toronto.He graduated from RCI and Ryerson. He is a retired accountant living in Kingston, Ontario.

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‘The Grasses of Hölkenstripen’

Vera Tenney was born in 2001 in Oviedo, Florida. She prefers to write prose but has dabbled in a variety of other artistic ventures such as acting, ornamental horticulture, gemology, singing, and drag. She is a new author, having only one self-published piece of literature, her debut novel “The Verdillion,” to Amazon KDP in January of 2024, and has no traditionally published work currently. She studies creative writing at the University of Central Florida and intends to use her writing career to work almost exclusively on her anthological fantasy series “Taçad.”

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‘Passengers’

Martin B. George is a world traveler and writer. He seeks to connect people through the art of story, or simply make them laugh. A proud member of the LGBTQIA community, his interests include painting, reading and exploring international cuisine. Find him at @the_wandering_nickel on Instagram to follow his adventures.

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‘Jessica’ SHORT FICTION CONTEST RUNNER-UP

Madeline Rosales has recently won a Gold Key for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and has publications of poetry and prose with the Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Odyssey Youth Magazine, The WEIGHT Journal, and others. She works as a Senior Editor for Polyphony Lit, and as the Chief Editor for The Cardinal Review

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‘Intergenerational’ SHORT FICTION CONTEST RUNNER-UP

Chloe de Lullington (she/her) is an author and screenwriter based in Manchester, UK. Her debut novel, Cacoethes, a queer satirical sugar baby comedy, will be published with Northodox Press in June 2025, and she has had short fiction and poetry published in The Word's Faire, Bullshit Lit, Powders Press, and For Page & Screen Magazine. A lifelong outsider looking curiously in, she is drawn to the offbeat and eccentric, and the minutiae of peoples' lives that might mean everything - or could mean absolutely nothing at all.