contributor bios

Paul Lynch
Paul is a 21-year-old writer from Liverpool, in England. His work has been published by various online and offline publications, and he is currently writing a book about animals. Paul travels a lot and got a job last summer writing for a travel catalogue, taking trains through Europe. Aside from that, he tends to bum around menial jobs he dislikes and writes long rambling letters at three in the morning. You can visit Paul's personal site here. He also composes music, and you can download his album online.

Bob Thurber
In the last few years Bob has accumulated over 200 publication credits and seen his work win a number of contests and awards, most recently, the MARJORY BARTLETT SANGER AWARD sponsored by The New England Writers Association, and short listed for others including Glimmer Train's "Very Short Fiction Award," The Southeast Review's "World's Best Short-short Story Contest," and Writer's Digest's "Short Short Fiction Award" twice. His stories have appeared in 10 anthologies. You can visit his personal site at bobthurber.net.

Steve Potter
Steve's work has appeared recently in mags such as Arson, Blue Collar Review, Knock, Poetry Motel and 3rd Bed. He's currently working on Issue # 2 of his print mag, The Wandering Hermit Review. The online site can be found at www.wanderinghermit.com.

Kathryn Dawes
Kathryn currently lives in the jewel of Westchester (Yonkers) with her husband. She is an amateur writer and a middle school English teacher, and is currently working on a Masters in Writing at Manhattenville College.

Michael A. Kechula
Michael A. Kechula is a retired technical writer. Switching to fiction in 2003, his works have won first prize in four flash fiction contests, including two in a row for Alien Skin Magazine in 2005. His stories have appeared in Bewildering Stories, Bobbing Along, Buddy Tales, Flash Shot, Long Story Short, Lotus Blooms Journal, Miss Saphira’s Strange and Wonderful Tales, and many other publications. In addition, 18 of his tales have been selected for publication in seven anthologies. In 2005, his flash and micro-fiction works were published in four paperbacks and eBooks. He's written a self-study workbook that teaches beginners how to write flash fiction. Michael is Flash Fiction Editor of Apollo's Lyre eZine and Senior Editor of Spec-Fic Journal.

Christopher Barnes
In 1998 Chris won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 he read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology 'Titles Are Bitches'. 2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh. He has a BBC webpage at BBC.CO.UK.

Chris is about to make a radio programme for Web FM community radio about his writing group. In October-November 2005, he entered a poem/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty's Newcastle. He has made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture, which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords. Chris is also working on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which will exhibit at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University.

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The flickr gallery of this Italian photographer can be found here.