Connor Doyle is a photographer and filmmaker based in the Chicagoland area. Graduating from Hampshire College’s Film/Photo program in 2016, Doyle’s work focuses on the idiosyncratic details of daily life in Northern Illinois, specifically his native Wheaton, IL. Though often trivial, his subjects capture the formal beauty and potency of these everyday sites, urging his viewers to reflect on the significance of their lived experiences. Connor’s work has been published in the Prairie Light Review, the Hole In The Head Review, the Burningword Literary Journal, and the Parliament Literary Journal. You can visit his website at https://connordoylephotographyfilmmaker.cargo.site
Carter Ayles is a photographer based in Savannah GA. He is currently finishing his BFA in Documentary photography at Savannah College of Art and Design. His work centers around the cyclical relationship between self and space and how our world is affected by human life. To see more of his work check out his instagram @c.ayles.art.
Connor Doyle is an emerging photographer and filmmaker based in the Chicagoland area. Graduating from Hampshire College’s Film/Photo program in 2016, Doyle’s work focuses on the idiosyncratic details of daily life in Northern Illinois, specifically his native Wheaton, IL. Though often trivial, his subjects capture the formal beauty and potency of these everyday sites, urging his viewers to reflect on the significance of their lived experiences. Connor’s work has been published in the Prairie Light Review, the Hole In The Head Review, the Burningword Literary Journal, and the Sheepshead Review.
A retired educator, Dave Sims now makes art and music in the old mountains of Pennsylvania. His digital art and comix appear in over four dozen tangible and virtual publications, galleries, and exhibits. He’s a featured artist at the Raw Art Review/UnCollected Press which recently published his fiction collection The Carcass and Other Stories. Experience more at www.tincansims.com
Harry Longstreet is retired after twenty-five years as a writer, producer and director of filmed entertainment, primarily for television. He’s always looking for images that speak to the human condition and the world around him. He favors ambient light and unposed, unaware subjects. In the last fifteen years, he’s had a number of one-man shows, and his work has appeared in more than two hundred national and international juried exhibitions. Longstreet is twice a Single Image Merit Award recipient from Black & White Magazine and twice a Single Image Merit Award winner from Color Magazine. In 2013, he was awarded the Gold Medal (monochrome) in the International Varna Salon, and in 2014, he took Best in Show in the annual CVG Washington State competition and in 2017 First Place-Photography.
Lawrence Bridges is best known for work in the film and literary world. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums, Flip Days, and Brownwood. As a filmmaker, he created a series of literary documentaries for the NEA’s “Big Read” initiative, which include profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick.
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Issue 119, published October 2026, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Linda K Allison, Gilbert Arzola, Sarah Barbo, Roger Camp, Barbara Daniels, Natalia Danjon, Virginia Doré, Chris Dungey, FruitAndNut, Tom Gdisis, Cleo Griffith, Lesley Hart Gunn, Mark Hendrickson, Zebulon Huset, Romana Iorga, Ryo Kajitani, Carella Keil, Merie Kirby, Grace Lynn, Daniel Moon, Sylvie Oleta, Josh Price, Stacy Rollins, Elizabeth Rosen, David J. Schast, Judith Shapiro, VA Smith, Stefan Sofiski, Lisa Christina St John, Valy Steverlynck, Kathryn Temple, John Walser, Megan Wildhood, Stephen Curtis Wilson, S.E. Wilson, Roberta Winters, Jean Wolff, Jason Youngclaus, Matt Zambito, and Esther Zhang.
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