WELCOME TO THE WILD WORD
Annie Mark-Westfall on being a foreigner in a foreign land and the true meaning of home
COLUMNS
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on empowering the next generation of women and how it starts with how we raise our daughters
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on thoughts on the brink of climate disaster and rethinking our relationship with Mother Earth
Soapbox
Mike Hembury on the spectacular fall of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam
Letters from Berlin
Annie Mark-Westfall on a life of striving, on being a foreigner in a foreign land and the true meaning of home
The Book Doctor
Caroline Donahue on why a varied resume and a life of experience can feed your creativity
From the Inside
Emilio C. Fernandez on searching for moments of hope, peace and meaning behind bars
Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on life after death and the problem with angels
FICTION
POETRY/ART
Jamie Etheridge
Jamie Etheridge’s short story ‘Vacuum’
Nightsongs
John C. Mannone’s multimedia project and ode to the heavens – Nightsongs
FICTION ADVENT CALENDAR
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 1
In Episode 1 Holly finds a mysterious person unconscious under the Christmas tree
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 2
In Episode 2 Holly and her brother Noel believe that the “dead Santa” is their dad
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 3
In Episode 3 Holly and Noel’s parents walk in on the gruesome scene
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 4
In Episode 4 Granny stuns everyone with a big relevation
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 5
In Episode 5 Granny announces that the body under the tree is her secret boyfriend Brendan
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 6
In Episode 6 Joe finds out more about his mother’s love-life than he wanted to know
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 7
In Episode 7 Holly figures out that the body under the tree is not the real Santa, but then, who is he?
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 8
In Episode 8 after a reported disturbance the police arrive to add some spice to the scene
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 9
In Episode 9 Noel mourns Christmas while the police check on the lifeless body under the tree
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 10
In Episode 10 Granny tells the police how she met the man lying under the tree on Tinder
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 11
In Episode 11 things hot up as Marie and Garda McNamara realise their Tinder connection
The Night Before Christmas – Episode 12
In Episode 12 things become clearer as Granny shares a little secret about her and her boyfriend
POETRY
Adesina Ajala
Adesina Ajala’s poem ‘How My Void Takes Form’
Connie Backus
Connie Backus’s poem ‘Sanctuary’
Eric Paul Shaffer
Eric Paul Shaffer’s poem ‘A Full Moon on Your Birthday’
Julia Pileggi
Julia Pileggi’s poem ‘Bird’s Eye’
Daniel Hudon
Daniel Hudon’s poem ‘Diary of a Russian Cosmonaut’
Sophia Cannizzaro
Sophia Cannizzaro’s poem ‘irrelevant’
Barry Peters
Barry Peter’s poem ‘Constellations’
Misha Penton
Misha Penton’s poem ‘New Planet’
Melissa F. Kaelin
Melissa F. Kaelin’s poems ‘The color of my experiences’ and ‘a space’
Laura Murphy
Laura Murphy’s poem ‘Visit from an incubus’
Feby Joseph
Feby Joseph’s poem ‘Planning an itinerary to visit the moon’
Linda Ferguson
Linda Ferguson’s poems ‘Pluto Speaks’, ‘These Summer Nights’, and ‘From the Imaginary Journals of Venetia Burney’
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