JL Morin

Novelist and rooftop farmer, JL Morin grew up in inner city Detroit and wrote her Japan novel, Sazzae as her thesis at Harvard. It was a Gold medalist in the eLit Book Award, and a Living Now Book Awards winner. She took to the road, traveling around the world, worked as a […]

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JL Morin – Nature’s Confession (Honorable Mention)

This short story is part of a book by the same now that will come out in January. Teaser That Porter left his family and flew off with another woman was later erased from the history books. Nothing went as planned. He hadn’t even kissed Any, yet. He began to […]

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Olajide Aaron

Olajide Aaron is a Nigerian student of law whose interest in art is replicated in his love for writing and doing music; he is presently working on finishing his short story collections. He’s a passionate person who loves outstanding creativity. www.facebook.com/olayinkuz

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JoeAnn Hart

JoeAnn Hart is the author of the eco-novel Float, a dark satire that combines conceptual art, marital woes, and the fishing industry with plastics in the ocean. Float was published in 2013 by Ashland Creek, an environmentally aware press out of Oregon. Hart lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, America’s oldest seaport, […]

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Charlene D’Avanzo

I am a marine ecologist and I taught ecology and environmental science for 35 years at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. I am also an award-winning environmental educator and editor of several journals. My piece about environmental mysteries appeared in Sisters in Crime’s First Draft in April 2014. I am […]

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In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation, Jennifer Ellis

Thanks to Jennifer Ellis: In a world torn apart by economic collapse, Natalie and her husband Richard have established an island of relative safety on a communal farm. Death—by starvation, raiders, or sickness—stalks them daily, and their survival hinges on working together for the common good. But in a lawless […]

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Survival Colony 9, Joshua David Bellin

This book is out September 23, 2014. In a future world of dust and ruin, fourteen-year-old Querry Genn struggles to recover the lost memory that might save the human race. Querry is a member of Survival Colony Nine, one of the small, roving groups of people who outlived the wars […]

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M.E. Cooper

Megan Cooper is an undergraduate in all things English at a hometown university in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She juggles three jobs, helps save the turtles in Costa Rica, and plasters her walls with sticky notes of her favorite songs and quotes in the meantime. She’s published poems in the scholastic […]

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