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MEET THE MAKERS

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White dream by Nasta Martyn @nasta.martyn33

Nasta Martyn is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design.

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The first personal exhibition "My soul is like a wild hawk" (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories.  She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man - a bird - Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines: Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection "The 50 Best Short Stories", and her poem was published in the collection of poetry "The wonders of winter".

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Hardly Human by Andrea Wagner @redpandrea

Andrea Wagner has a Master's in English and Writing Studies. They've been a long time submitter and editor in the lit mag world.

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The Future of Mental Health is Mutual Aid by Fiona Broadhurst @Fionarchist

Fiona Broadhurst is a queer, trans, disabled, poet who writes poems on various topics not limited to queer-love, anarchy, disability, social justice, and emotional shit™.

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She published her first chapbook, Apocalyptic Aphorisms, has been published with Ink Sweat & Tears, t'ART Press, Vita and the Wolf, and in the Back Room Poetry anthology "Rebel Poetry'', and has featured at Incite, and Process.

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Rooms with Doors by Margaux Williamson @margauxreadit

Margaux Williamson (she/her/they/them) is a Black, Queer reader and writer. Her work has appeared in Complete Sentence, Stone of Madness Press, EDGE CITY, and elsewhere. She lives in the Midwest with her wife and cat.​

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fuck me again     & I’ll buy you a drink by Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell

Simon Maddrell appears in Gutter, SAND, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Moth, Under the Radar, and many others. Their sixth pamphlet is Patient L1 (Polari Press, Feb 2025).

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I Turn Your Plants by Stephen Mead

Resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI figures and allies before Stonewall, https://thestephenmeadchromamuseum.weebly.com/ ,Stephen Mead is a retiree whom, throughout his employment still found time for creativity.  Occasionally he even got paid of this. Currently he is trying to sell his 40-year backlog of unsold art, https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/stephen-mead

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The COVID Card Players by Donald Patten @donald.patten

Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine.​

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Black Like Me by Alina Moore @alinamoorewrites

My name is Alina Moore (she/her). I am black lesbian writer from Chicago. The themes that fuel my writing mainly centers the BIPOC identity, the (L)GBT community and feminist thought. You can find her on Instagram @alinamoorewrites & Substack @Alinaistyping.

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Open by Jess Wright @sublunam

​Jess Wright is a writer, teacher, and historian based in Leeds. Their work has appeared in streetcake magazine, Queerlings, Foglifter Journal, and t'ART, among publications. They have written two books, one on the history of psychiatry and its relationship to classical antiquity, and the other on late antique ideas about the brain. When not writing, Jess teaches academic skills at the University of Leeds, runs occasional creative writing workshops around Leeds, and tries to keep the cats from digging up the rhubarb.

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October Break-Up Poem by Aish Humphreys @aish_humphreys

Aish is a poet, curator, host & collage maker living in Bristol. He is currently making work about trans, disabled & mad bodies through words & visuals.

 

Fanfiction by Joshua Jones @joshuajoneswrites

Joshua Jones (he/him) is a queer, disabled writer & artist from Llanelli. Local Fires, (Parthian, 2023) was shortlisted for a number of awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize. He has published various pamphlets of poetry, including A Fistful of Flowers in collaboration with Caitlin Flood-Molyneux (2022), Three Months in the Zebra Room (Hello America Stereo Cassette, 2024), and The City on Film (Bread and Roses, 2024).

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I am all; them and the monsters by Karla Diaz

Music enthusiast, art lover, architect by day and aspiring writer /filmmaker by night. Always keen on having walks in the park, a cool beer with friends, old and new. 

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Glasgow Hues by kay Fulbrook @leafykayart

Kay (or Kaykay, if you love her) is a twenty-seven year old lesbian poet and artist living in a frankly tiny house in Manchester, England, with her partner Sarah and teddy bear Kafka.

You can find her on Instagram @leafykayart, or locked away in a tower somewhere.

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Technogender by J.J. Carrey @ vinesthruconcrete

J.J. Carey is a poet and writer in Leeds, UK. They were a finalist for the inaugural Tempest Prize, the Oxford Poetry Prize and runner up in the Banyon Poetry Prize in 2024. They are published or forthcoming in Queerlings, Propel, The Dionysian Public Library, Anarchist Fictions, Beyond The Veil press and elsewhere. You can find more of their work at jjcarey.com.

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Before the Year Ends by Cindy Ziyun Huang @cindaymorning

Cindy Ziyun Huang is a London-based writer and translator. She contributes to art magazines including ArtReview and film festivals such as London Short Film Festival and Queer East. Her creative writings can be found in literary magazines such as Sine Theta Magazine and Tiny Molecules.

 

​Witch’s Broomstick by Rachel Gambling @gambling.addicted99

Rachel Gambling is a bisexual writer from Southend-on-Sea, UK. She has a lot of thoughts on some things. Her poetry has been published in Where the Land Forgets Itself, t’ART Queerlings, and Kamena, and she has written copy for Brook, JustWatch, and Cliterally the Best. Her website, girlblog!, is a celebration of intersectional riot grrrl culture, and is currently looking for contributors. She is the daughter of a vicar, a third-generation South African immigrant, and a born-and-bred Essex girl. She works full-time as a sex educator.

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Frogs in dresses by Jac Clinch @jacclinch

Jac Clinch is a BAFTA-nominated director, illustrator and writer. Alongside a career in animation, he enjoys telling stories through comics, children’s picture books and developing projects for television.

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Hot to the Touch by Xoey Fourr @xoeyfourr

I recently wrote an interview piece about online censorship for Gay Times and a profile piece for Little White Lies. I was also Creative Director of Trans+ agency/club night WIMP and post regularly on my Substack - Millennial Doll.

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Cloverdale and A Good Liar by Peter Mladinic @petermladinic

Peter Mladinic's most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock is available from UnCollected Press. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.

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Cat’s Cradle by Amy Adshead @amy_adshead

Amy Adshead is a queer writer based in rural Norfolk, specialising in short fiction and poetry. They have been published most recently by Butch Femme Press, Antlers, Field Project Zine and Boundby, and frequently release work on their Instagram @amy_adshead.

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Living Dolls and Their Parts by Emma @3mt34

Emma is a trans writer and printer in Toronto. She wishes Hubert Selby Jr got to meet HER

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The Fleapit by Katie Kenney @katieelizkenney

Katie Kenney is a writer from Northern California. She studied publishing at University of Denver's Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. Her poems have appeared in Grub Street Literary Magazine, Merion West, Beneath the Garden Magazine among others. She lives in New England with her cat Mabel.

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The Bear and Ragged Staff by Mary Foxx @maryfoxxwrites

Mary Foxx is a fabulist, poet, and storyteller whose work draws on folk and familial traditions of storytelling as a way of resisting dominant modes of knowing, with a particular interest in the unregarded/disregarded knowledge of women and queer folk throughout history.

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tomboyish by Nicola Warner

Nicola Warner (she/her) is a musician and emerging writer/performer from Hertfordshire. She is a CRIPtic Arts Associate Artist and is currently writing her debut opera with composer Zhenyan Li for Second Movement Opera's 'rough for opera'. Her poetry has been published in FLARE Magazine and broadcast across the East of England on BBC Upload.

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drawing lessons by Finn Brown @finnlbrown

Finn is a queer and non-binary writer and artist, and an editor, the designer, event producer and a curator at t'ART. Finn's writing has been published in journals and anthologies including Queer Life, Queer Love 2 (an anthology by Muswell Press), Pony Press, Booth Journal, Annie Journal, Meniscus Journal, The Bombay Review and Snowflake Magazine.

 

Visit their website here, to read some of their writing and find out about the editorial services they offer. 

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Bury Me by Jordan VanDerLinde @jorvanderlinde

Jordan VanDerLinde is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her writing often explores grief, chronic illness, and queerness. Her work most recently appeared in The Gateway Review, and via Tadpole Press. When she's not writing or shimmying in her kitchen she is at the mercy of her dogs, Venus and Atlas, and her ball python, Sibelius. Keep up with her on instagram @jorvanderlinde​

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​She said I thought it was the sunrise by Lexi Herbert @lexihh

Lexi Herbert (she/her) is a Melbourne-born writer living in New York. Her work has appeared in MORIA, CWYR, Swim Press, and Farrago, and is forthcoming from Agapanthus Collective. She was a Brooklyn Poets Fall 2024 Fellowship finalist.