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MEET THE MAKERS

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Crusts by Erin Jamieson - X/Twitter: @erin_simmer

Erin Jamieson’s writing has been published in over 100 literary magazines, including two Pushcart Prize nominations and two Best of Net nominations. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Fairytales (Bottle Cap Press) and a forthcoming poetry collection. Her debut novel (Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams) was published by Type Eighteen Books.

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Serious Conversations by Lucy Barretto @lucybarretto

Lucy Barretto (she/her) is an aspiring writer originally from Ohlone territory/Oakland, California and living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her special interests include talking about All Fours by Miranda July, tweedy 100% wool yarn, and frozen Maine blueberries. Lucy recently graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in International Development and is reckoning with many things a lot of the time.

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Protect Me, Please by Karina Ten @karinaten_

Karina Ten (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent poet from Kazakhstan, currently studying medicine in Milan, Italy. She writes in her third language and hopes to one day translate the many unpublished poems she has back home. Her work centers on themes of mental health and identity.

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you can never experience too many women by Prahi Rajput @theplatypussies

I am currently in transition and the word holds employable meanings for me in interrelated spaces. I have moved (back) to my home-town which is a peculiar misidentification saddled upon insistence (to passing). I have moved (away) from generic nomenclatures and it's hard for me to think of residence for the reposed, or gender for the enveloped. Maybe anything that holds tightly in name, in relation, cannot hold warmth without noticing it evaporate. My work has appeared in Muse India, Voidspace Zine, Roi Faineant Press, Gulmohur Quarterly, Aze Journal, and elsewhere. 

Your Room by Zhilin Xiang @blueeyelili

Your Room is an ongoing project rooted in the personal migration experiences of the artist Zhilin Xiang. As a diasporic artist, her life has been shaped by constant movement across cities, countries, and emotional landscapes. With each transition, her sense of community, values, and beliefs have been challenged, deconstructed, and reassembled. This fluidity has deepened her emotional attachment to the spaces she inhabits—especially the rooms and homes shared with friends who, like her, are often in motion. In this project, Zhilin visits rooms that are about to be left behind. Entering as a quiet observer, she seeks not only to document the physical space but also to sense the layers of memory, intimacy, and presence embedded within it. Her process is simple and gentle: she spends around twenty to thirty minutes in the room, and with the participant’s consent, takes photographs or video. Before or after this period, she engages in conversation with the resident, learning about their relationship with the space and the stories it holds. This act of listening and observing transforms the room into more than a backdrop—it becomes a living archive of transition, attachment, and change. The resulting photographs are shared online and materialized as postcards and posters in public spaces, allowing these intimate moments to circulate and resonate within broader communities. Each participant also receives a Polaroid photo of themselves with their room—a small, tangible memento of their time together. Through Your Room, Zhilin explores the intimate relationship between people, memory, and space: how they hold one another, how they shift, and how, over time, they blur into one another. It is both a meditation on personal memory and a reflection of collective experiences within global patterns of movement and migration.

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Origami Sheets by Bo Rothenwander @cazimimixedmedia

Bo Rothenwander (they/them) is a queer poet from the South. Their work lives at the intersection of feral, speculative prose, and the esoteric. They view joy as a revolutionary act and the pursuit of pleasure in ritual. Between travels with their chosen families, they can be found with their dog, Ruben, creating art postcards as time capsules to bridge worlds.

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Nugunda by Kai Locario Enriquez 

Kai Locario Enriquez (they/them) is Garífuna writer of mainly pose and poetry based in Los Angeles. They have a BA in Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California, where they were also trained in playwriting, screenwriting, and songwriting. The common themes throughout their work are the isolating feeling of growing up queer and trans, the discombobulating web of grief, the small but significant moments of happiness, and being the child of Central American immigrant parents. Their wish is to become a multi-lingual multimedia artist.

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swirl by Mina Cousins @mcpoetryandart

Mina Cousins is a trans femme lesbian poet and collage artist based in North London. Her work focuses on the connections between ideas (from ideology to fiction and emotions) and the material worlds we live in; often exploring how things fall apart when it's centre can not hold.

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In Search of Sappho by Khushi 

Khushi is a poet from India.

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rooster and doubling by L. Acadia @acadialogue

L. Acadia (acadiaink.com) has writing published or forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, trampset, and elsewhere. An assistant professor of literary studies at National Taiwan University, she lives with her wife and hound in the 'literature mountain' district of Taipei.

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Four O'Clock by Shae @doombeans

Shae is a queer, autistic goblin fascinated by speculative futures, the grotesque—why we flinch, what we cast out, and what it reveals about us.

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The Tussar Saree by Oindrila Ghosal @atropa_belladonna10

Oindrila is an emerging author and also a doctoral student at Tata Memorial Centre – Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai. So far, her short stories, “The Harlot’s Veena”, “The Asylum” and “The Jungle Within Me” have been published in Kitaab.

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The Boys Talk in Slang by Leslie Dianne

Leslie Dianne is a poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter and performer whose work has been acclaimed internationally at the Harrogate Fringe Festival in Great Britain, The International Arts Festival in Tuscany, Italy, The Teatro Lirico in Milan, Italy and at La Mama, ETC in NYC.  Her stage plays have been produced in NYC at The American Theater of Actors, The Raw Space, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and The Lamb's Theater, and at Theater Festivals in Texas and Indiana.  She holds a BA in French Literature from CUNY and her writing appears in Lion and Lilac, Decolonial Passage,  Obsidian The Saartjie Journal, Fresh Words, Poetry Superhighway, Bar Bar and elsewhere. Her poetry has been nominated several times for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

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The Garden by Sophia Carroll @menace.lit

Sophia Carroll (she/they) is a chemist, writer, and co-founder of M E N A C E magazine. Her work appears in wildness, SmokeLong Quarterly, Luna Luna, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, I think we should be louder at Dyke March, is forthcoming from Bottlecap Press. Find her on Substack at Torpor Chamber and on Bluesky @torpor-chamber.bsky.social. 

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The Unmaking Is The Making Is The— by Alix Perry @_alixperry_

Alix Perry is a trans writer from the Pacific Northwest. Their work has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and can be found in beestung, The Shore, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. Their chapbook, Tomatoes Beverly, was just released by Querencia Press. More at alixperrywriting.com.​

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Do you remember Britpop? by Kenny Moore

I am a 50 year old working class man who writes about the forgotten people in unfashionable post codes in London.

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[aluminium hush] by Costas Kazantzis

Costas Kazantzis is a London-based artist, writer, and creative technologist whose work explores digital intimacy, the shape of embodied experience within virtual and online platforms, and queer mechanics of narrative through experimental and autofictional methods. Working across 3D design, poetry, and game engines, his practice blends personal narrative with interactive forms to construct fragmented, nonlinear experiences that reflect on longing, memory, and refusal—offering a counterpoint to society’s obsession with optimization.

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Chamois (from Elemental) by Jenn Zuko @jennzuko

Body language consultant, fight director, intimacy coordinator. Author. Movement artist & burlesque badass. Ninja emeritus.

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Four Letters by Kimberly Elkin @globetrotterkimbie

My ambition to be a writer started at age eleven through raw poetry. After experiencing sexual assault at twenty-three, I began to reclaim my voice at thirty. I recently came out as pansexual, and understanding myself was a struggle for many years. Admitting our truths can be terrifying, yet it is essential. My goal is to not only become an accomplished writer but also for my poetry to serve as a guiding lantern for those who face similar traumas and struggles.

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Buffet by Hannah Therese Drury @hannah__therese

Hannah is a writer based in London.  Her poetry has been published in t’ART Magazine,  Between Queer Teeth, the Anthology, Roi Faineant Press and shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Prize.  She is currently writing her debut novel, The Weight of Affection, an extract of which was published late last year. Hannah’s writing examines relationships, mental health, queerness, climate change, addiction, time, morality, love and grief. When Hannah is not writing, she works as a litigation lawyer in London.

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The Shopping Cart Pioneers by Ann Wuehler @oregonann

I'm a writer from Eastern Oregon with a cat and a tiny garden. I have seven novels out and work two jobs until, well, until everything works out and there's a happy ending, of course. 

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Not dead yet Diva by Victoria Glidden @vcglidden​

Victoria Glidden is the music desk editor for The Curio Cabinet Magazine. She studied literature, philosophy and religious studies at Willamette University and now spends her time reading, writing, and hiking up 14ers in Colorado.

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Two types of polyamory by Eve Xin @suitcaseofpoetry

Eve Xin (they/them) is a queer migrant poet who has made homes in London and Singapore. They write and perform poems on home, identity, queerness & decolonisation. Eve Xin’s work is featured in various queer &; global majority publications.