Editor's Note 6/25

Welcome to our thirtieth and June issue!

In this issue, we have our trademark mix of poetry, prose poetry, and visual art, a review by Dr. Jones Irwin of the newest books in our in-house chapbook series, The Usual Apologies by Sadie Maskery and gulp by Dr. Devon Fulford, along with a creative nonfiction memoire piece and several exciting new music tracks.

We’re also hard at work on our third and 2025 Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association grant chapbook series. If you have a science fiction, fantasy, or magical realism-inspired chapbook manuscript, or know of someone who might be interested, please keep us in mind!

And with that, we have poetry by:

Brian Builta
Susan Page Deutsch
Michael Dunaway
Mark Dunbar
Zebulon Huset
D. R. James

Prose poetry by:

Marc Meierkort
Rebecca Pyle
Brad Rose

Creative nonfiction by:

Travis Stephens

Critical analysis by:

Jones Irwin

Music by:

James Callan
Valeri Lopez
Christopher Sanderson
Yucheng Tao

And visual art by:

Jonathan Borthwick
Jasper Glen
Shelbey Leco
Pia Quintano

All the best and happy reading,

Matthew Bullen
Founder & Editor-in-Chief

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