Present Poetry

SP Singh, an army veteran, is a novelist, short story writer and painter.

His debut novel, ‘Parrot under the Pine Tree’ was shortlisted for the Best Fiction Award at the Gurgaon Literary Festival and nominated at the Valley of Words Literary Festival in 2018.

His short story, ‘Palak Dil,’ won the South Asian Award for Micro Fiction in 2019.

He is the Best of the Net nominee. His writings have been featured in Penguin Random House SEA, Adelaide Magazine, Austur, The Brussels Review, Freshwater Journal, The Seagulls Post, Lit eZine, Aksolotl, EgoPHobia, Phoenix, Delyon World, Rio Grande Poetry Festival, Embark, Shine Anthology, Ultramarine Review, Compassiviste and MacKenzie Publishing.

Pat Raia is a journalist who has covered international business, crime and politics in Chicago, Welfare, litigation and legislation in the equine industry and various topics for national print magazines.

She has been writing poetry since childhood.

**TRIGGER WARNING for mentions of female circumcision***

Iwuagwu Ikechukwu is an African poet, Essayist, Screenwriter, and Dramatist.

A native of Umunkwo in Imo state, Nigeria, His reviews and short stories have appeared in several literary magazines across the world both online and in print.

He was a recipient of an honourable mention in the IHRAF Creators of Justice award in New York - 2020 & 2022 editions respectively, and was also shortlisted for the 2022 Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize in London, as well as the ANTOA essay prize in Africa.

When he is not writing, he can be found researching, teaching, or reading the works of Christopher Okigbo, Isidore Diala, Soyinka, Adichie, Buchi Emecheta & Ifesinachi Nwadike.

His publications "The Baptism (A Collection of Three Short Stories)", " After Dusk Comes Dawn", "See History" & "Shakespeare Speaks Pidgin" are available on Amazon.

Ava Yang is a teenage self-published poet with a deep passion for expressing the complexities of emotion through verse.

Ever since she first discovered poetry, she has been captivated by its power to give voice to what often goes unspoken.

Her writing explores themes of anxiety, depression, love, insecurities, and hope—capturing both the heaviness and the light that come with being human.

As she embarks on her journey as a poet, Ava hopes her words will help others feel seen, understood, and less alone.

BERNARD PEARSON: His work appears in over one hundred and thirty publications worldwide, including; Aesthetica Magazine , The Edinburgh Review, Crossways, and The York Literary Review.

In addition he is the author of three published novels. In 2017 a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019 he won second prize in The Aurora Prize for Writing for his poem Manor Farm.

San Lin Tun is a poet, writer, lyricist, literary translator, literary guide, writing coach and editor. He was a former short story instructor and literary translator of Hidden Words/Hidden Worlds short story project and a former coordinator-translator of My Yangon My Home Art and Heritage Festival and a former translator of Goethe Institute Yangon web page.

His writings appeared in local and international publications such as Asia Literary Review, Borderless, Countercurrent, Global Poemic, Kitaab, Litehouse, Litterateur, Mad in Asia Pacific, Mekong Review, Myanmar Times, My Yangon Magazine, Myanmore, New Asian Writing Anthology (NAW), PIX, Ponder Savant, Pure Haiku, South East of Now, Strukturriss, Trouvaille and several others.

He was an editorial member of Beyond Words issue 5, a guest fiction editor of Ambrosial Literary Garland online magazine, a guest editor of Open Leaf Press Review and a reader at Prism International.

His academic qualifications are a certificate in AmPox.3, a certificate in Start Writing Fiction, B.E (Metallurgy) and M.A (BDh). He is the first prize winner of poetry of Wales National Day in 2015. His other keen interests are photography, playing guitar and drawing cartoons.

His debut novel “An English Writer” is at Goodnovel and he is now working on his second novel titled “A Classroom for Mr K.T”.

He lives in Yangon with his wife and two sons.

Blog – www.writersanlintun.blogspot.com

Edward Vidaurre is the author of ten collections of poetry.

He is the 2018-2019 City of McAllen, TX Poet Laureate and publisher of FlowerSong Press.

His book, Jazzhouse, won the Award of Merit 2020 by The Philosophical Society of Texas for Best Book of Poetry by a Texas Author.

His book Pandemia & Other Poems was a finalist for the Writers' League of Texas Book Awards.

AXTON N.O. Mitchell is an AFAB transgender poet stuck in the hell known as Ohio.

His work covers gender identity, political issues, nature, and mental health. He has a passion for cultivating change to promote a future where equal rights for all and basic human needs are recognized as rights, not privileges.

He connects with the world around him through poetry and other works of literature.

Hiking, camping, and losing track of the day exploring with his dog are some of the ways he spends time when he’s not working—trying to make the starving artist gig less hungry.

Emily Newman is an 18-year-old high school graduate who loves to write and weight lift and hopes to empower people with her writing.

Shannon lives outside of Cleveland, Ohio, where she homeschools her two children.

Since she was young, she has loved running off into the woods to write stories and poems, look for spaceships, and dance fairy rings.

Her work can be found at CoffeeHouseWriters.com.