Uel Aramchek is a writer, mathematician, and explorer of strange forces currently residing in Oakland, California. He creates short bursts of fiction as @ThePatanoiac on Twitter, and publishes somewhat longer pieces three times weekly at

UEL ARAMCHEK

Diana Dupu studies English and Japanese in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the European Youth Capital. At this moment, if you look her way, you can probably see the steam rising from her head as she struggles with her BA on the philosophy of alienation in Joseph Conrad’s novels. Writing mostly for herself, rarely sending anything out into the world, she is honored to have you set eyes on these poems. If you ever happen to be in town, remember that she enjoys sipping wine at a corner table in Insomnia café and has never turned away a traveler with stories to share. Enjoy.

DIANA DUPU

Luke Hilton is a writer of fiction from London. He writes about alienation, anxiety and the limits of human experience. He holds a Masters degree in contemporary literature and culture from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently finishing his second novel.

LUKE HILTON

Patrick Johanneson writes science fiction & fantasy. His work has been published in InterText, Ecclectica, On Spec, Tesseracts 14, and Daily Science Fiction. He won the Manitoba Short Fiction contest in ‘04. Other fascinations include website programming, teaching judo, Canadian and indie cinema, and Norse mythology. He lives in Canada with his wife Kathleen.

Henry King studied at the University of Glasgow, and now teaches at Malmö Högskola. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in PN Review, Stand, Modern Poetry in Translation, and elsewhere. He blogs (or used to) at

HENRY KING

Kirsty Logan is a writer, book reviewer, and writing mentor for WoMentoring and the Scottish Book Trust. She also write a column on the X-Files for The Female Gaze.
Her short fiction and poetry has been published in print and online, recorded for radio and podcasts, and exhibited in galleries. Her books are The Gracekeepers and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales and you can read about them here. She’s 31 and live in Glasgow, where she mostly hangs out with her wife Annie and her rescue dog Rosie, reads ghost stories, drinks coffee, crochets things, listens to riot grrrl, & dreams of the sea.

KIRSTY LOGAN

@WORD-O-MAT, 2017

THE AUTHORS

DARRAN ANDERSON

Darran Anderson is an Irish writer, focusing primarily on urban themes. He is the author of 'Imaginary Cities' (Influx Press) and the forthcoming 'Tidewrack' (Chatto & Windus). He currently lives in Scotland with his wife and son.

IRELAND

JAKE MIKE BOY

JAKE MIKE BOY is a writer from Oakland, CA. He went to the same high school as Huey P. Newton but they don’t call it Huey P. Newton High even though that would be super tight. They could also call it the Marshawn Lynch Beast Mode Academy because that would be super tight too. Most of JAKE’s writing is set in mid-2000’s hyphy-era Oakland because he can’t unsee the world that way. He currently lives in Malmö, Sweden and is trying his best to bring them the slap.

OAKLAND / SWEDEN

LIZ BASSETT

UK

Liz Bassett is a poet based in Sheffield. Her poems have won prizes in the Bridport competition and been published in magazines and anthologies in print and online. Her pamphlet "How to wire a life for love" is published by Knucker Press.

ZOË MEAGER

NEW ZEALAND

Zoë Meager writes from Christchurch, New Zealand. Her short stories have been published at home and abroad, with recent work nominated for Best Small Fictions 2017, and included in To Carry Her Home: Bath Flash Fiction Volume One. There are stories at zoemeager.com and tweets @ZoeMeager

BEN GALLAGHER

Ben Gallagher is a poet and essayist, currently splitting his time between Toronto ON and Scotch Village NS. He is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where he is researching poetry, ecology, and grief in informal learning environments. He has worked as a wedding caterer, landscaper, sailing instructor, and arts facilitator. Current fascinations are karaoke, tarot, and his pet bacterial culture Kefir Sutherland.

CANADA

NETHERLANDS / UK

Emma Rault is a writer and translator who belongs to many places, including Cologne in Germany, the Netherlands, LA, and a canal boat on the waterways of London. Her writing has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, British, American and Hungarian publications including Bitch Media, The Collapsar, Rivet Journal and Budapest Local.

SRI-LANKA / UK

Rushika Wick is a writer and doctor living in London. Her work has been published including in Litro magazine, Visual Verse and VerseWrights. She performs at literary and spoken word nights and runs an online clinic prescribing poetry. She is currently exploring themes of humanity- technology and embodiment in her work. She values her democratic rights, her senses and open air swimming. She is necessarily a feminist.

SCOTLAND

ROMANIA

ENGLAND

SWEDEN / UK

USA

CANADA

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SIOBHAN SHIELDS

SCOTLAND

Siobhan Shields is a writer and filmmaker. She read at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016 as part of Story Shop and has contributed to the Dangerous Women Project.
Her award winning Twin Peaks themed film ‘Diane’ has been screened in at the Twin Peaks Festival US and festivals in London and Malta. She likes scary stories and has a three-legged cat named after one of the Ramones. She tweets @Siobhan_Shields

JANE FLETT

GERMANY / SCOTLAND

Viccy Adams writes prose and consults on literary research projects. Her creative non-fiction collection There & Now: a writer’s perspective on everyday life in South West China was published by Cargo in 2015. She tweets @ViccyIsWriting and occasionally blogs

MEGAN CROSBIE

VICCY ADAMS

NINA SEAEDI

ROSIE
NEWMAN-JONES

SCOTLAND

SCOTLAND

ENGLAND

SCOTLAND

Nina graduated from Kings College London with an MA in Eighteenth Century studies and then started a PhD on William Blake before deciding to become a jeweller, musician and poet. She now sings for the band Lowen and is releasing her first collection of jewellery in 2018.
She is also a music journalist and live photographer, having worked for Metal Injection, Demon Pigeon and several other sites since she turned 16. She also runs her own publication on the musical world called Kadaverine Zine.

Rosie Jones Newman is a visual artist and a poet. She can often be found strolling the beaches and fields of Cromarty, in the North Highlands of Scotland, where she lives. Though she may look serious, if not a little sad, she is in fact happy and probably thinking about making art. She may also be making up songs, poems or stories in her head or drawing and recording sounds on her phone. She is immune to boredom when left to run feral. Born in Liverpool, she did her honours degree in Fine Art in London and has taught in Further Education Colleges in Scotland for over 12 years. She is a painter and installation artist, showing work in galleries and in exhibitions, as well as outside public spaces, including bus stops, carparks and forests.

Jane Flett is a philosopher, cellist, and seamstress of most fetching stories. Her writing features in the Best British Poetry 2012 and has been commissioned for BBC Radio and performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She's one half of the riot grrrl band Razor Cunts, the poetry editor for Leopardskin & Limes, and a founder of Queer Stories Berlin. Jane is also the recipient of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, and was voted Berlin's best English-language writer in 2015 by Indieberlin.

Megan Crosbie is a queer writer and occasional performer from Edinburgh, who often writes in the boundary between flash-fiction and poetry. Her writing has been published in journals such as Firewords Quarterly, Northwords Now and Litro. In her free time, she enjoys travelling, drag shows, and too many vegan donuts.

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