Amy Allen is a writer based in Shelburne, Vermont, where she serves as the town’s Poet Laureate and runs the writing and editing business All of the Write Words. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, earning nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net in 2025, with one of her flash pieces having been selected for publication in Best Microfiction 2026. She’s the author of the poetry chapbook Mountain Offerings (2024).
Coleman Bigelow’s latest flash fiction collection “Man’s Best Friends” digs into the strange, tender, and sometimes absurd ways people and animals collide. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best Microfiction. Recent stories have appeared in Flash Frontier, Cleaver, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, and Your Impossible Voice. You can find more at his website: ColemanBigelow.com.
Eleanor Buffam is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, and musician based in Leith, Edinburgh. She has published short fiction in Fifty Word Stories and Inlandia Journal, and a commissioned essay on Neuk Collective’s website. You can find her on Instagram and Substack: @EleanorBuffam.
Garima Chhikara is a writer from Bangalore, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Forge Literary Magazine, Hypertext Magazine, Hobart, Cherry Tree, Carte Blanche, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Find her at garimachhikara.com.
Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball and Sick Sad Queer. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
Jane Frances Gilles is a writer and former educator living in Minnesota. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English education and a Ph.D. in education policy. Her fiction has been published in The Writing Disorder and Writers Resist.
Mary Guterson’s published work includes novels, short stories, poems, and magazine articles. She lives in Los Angeles.
David Henson and his wife reside in Illinois. His work has been selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2026 longlist, nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and has appeared in various publications including MoonPark Review, Best Microfictions 2025, Ghost Parachute, Maudlin House, and Literally Stories. His website is http://writings217.wordpress.com. His X handle is @annalou8.
Blake HC Mihm is a basketweaver who lives in southwestern Virginia with his two dogs. His work has been featured in Lilac Peril, OUCH! Collective, Dishsoap Quarterly, Short Reads, and West Trade Review, among others. Blake is an alumni of the One Story Writers Conference, a 2026 Abode Press Summer Fellow, and a poet for DC Pride Poems 2024. blakehc.wordpress.com
Travis Park is a poet and photographer whose work has appeared in Haikuniverse, McNeese Review, Route 7 Review, and INverse: Indiana’s Poetry Archive, with poems forthcoming in Modern Haiku, Presence, and Ribbons. He is an oblate novice at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana.
Meg Pokrass has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including New England Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, Five Points, Plume, RATTLE, The Best Small Fictions 2025, andFlash Fiction America (W.W. Norton, 2023). She has published 10 books of fiction and prose poetry. Her new and selected collection First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories is from Dzanc Books. Meg currently lives in the Scottish Highlands.
Jeff Radwell has work featured or forthcoming in Oxford Magazine, Foglifter, Hobart, and elsewhere. Radwell is the 2026-28 literary fellow of the California Arts Council for Los Angeles. Find him at www.jeffradwell.com
Belinda Rowe is an English teacher and short fiction writer. Born in New Zealand, she now lives in Walyalup, Western Australia. Her recent fiction appears or is forthcoming in Fractured Literary, New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur Lit, Okay Donkey and BULL. She was a SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025.
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