Monthly Contributor Highlights
JULY 2026
CHRONIC ILLNESS AWARENESS MONTH
TRACIE RENEE (she/her) is a librarian, a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, and a BOTN-nominated from sort-of Chicago who has OCD and IBS. She writes across age groups and genres and has published work in both Epistemic Literary (Issue 4: Exclusion) and Nimblewit Lit (Issue 1: Taking a Stand). Her poem, “Pre-Existing Conditions,” earned second place in the 2025 Passionfruit Poetry Prize competition. Find Tracie in Thimble Lit Mag, Orange Blossom Review, on Bluesky (@tracierenee.bsky.social) and at https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
SUMITRA SINGAM’S work can be found in Issues 4: Exclusion and Issue 5: Resistance. Her novella-in-flash “Mother Karma” is available via google form and from Jake. Her other publications can be found on her website https://sumitrasingam.squarespace.com/ or on Bluesky @pleomorphic2. Sumitra’s writing focuses on themes of the body, trauma, motherhood and relationships.
LIA PAS has two poems in Issue 2: Happy Place, an artist feature in Interalia Magazine, interview on Threadstack, and art on an upcoming album called The Comprador (link to come).
CONTRIBUTORS
UTE ORGASSA appears in Issue 6: Nostalgia with the short story “A Day at the Beach,” in Issue 7: Integrity with the short story “About Alice,” and in the National Poetry Month Special Issue with two one sentence poems “Detection” and “Bulbous.” Her short stories have been published by Shortwave Publishing (Irina’s Choice), Haunted Words Press (Ovum as well as A Blessing And A Curse), Alternative Milk Magazine (Your Very Own Personal Celebrity Friend), Punk Noir Press (The Man in the Margins as well as Mind the Flour Dust), Alien Buddha Press (Curses of Old, which was a finalist in the Alien Buddha’s House of Horrors # 7), Infested Publishing (Run!), Cursed Morsels Press (Undefined), Cat Eye Press (Going Home), Pen & Pier (The Sacrifice), Flower Song Press (The Hard Ass), and coming in August, Sliced Up Press (How to get Distracted while Writing an Essay). Her play “A Different Track” was produced by Awkward Pigeons Theater.
RYAN T. POZZI doubled up in Issue 6: Nostalgia with short form pieces “You Are Here” and “Fossil Record.” Ryan’s works have also appeared in Rattle, Fjord’s Review, and Broad River Review, among many others. His debut, The Mess That Made Them, will be released by Bloomsbury on September 3, 2026 and is currently available for preorder.
DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH
NEHA M. SAMPAT appears in Issue 7: Integrity with the photograph “A? or B?” and Issue 8: Righteous Rage with visual art pieces, “Awedacity,” and “Migraine Trigger, MD.” Neha’s works also have appeared in The B’K Magazine, Mouthful of Salt, Copytext Magazine, Beyond the Veil Press’s In Praise of Despair, Mission Belonging’s Art Saves Lives, wildscape. literary journal, SF Storyfest Zine: Villains, and numerous other publications.
MINORITY MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH
FRENCH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
ELIZABETH A. GAUFFREAU writes fiction and poetry with a strong connection to family and place. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines, as well as several themed anthologies. Her short story “Henrietta’s Saving Grace” was awarded the 2022 Ben Nyberg prize for fiction by Choeofpleirn Press. Liz’s novel Telling Sonny focuses on Vermont characters of French heritage. Her novel The Weight of Snow and Regret has a social justice theme that includes various disabilities and chronic illnesses.
JUNE 2026
CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH
CHANDRA PERSAUD appears in Issue 5: Resistance with the poem, “En Route.” Chandra’s latest microfiction piece “Open Secrets” was published by Mouthful of Salt in December 2025 and a poem, “I want to feel alive” was published by Phil Lit Journal in March 2026.
CONTRIBUTORS
MARISCA PICHETTE appears in Issue 4: Exclusion with the poem “Asking” (Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominee 2025), and Issue 2: Happy Place with the poem “I’ve always loved darkness best” (Best of the Net nominee 2025). Her 2023 poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Find over three hundred published pieces of prose and poetry on their website.
LGBTQ+ PRIDE MONTH
ASPEN PLEASANT, contributor from Issue 7: Integrity, feels that bending his gender in different directions has been a profoundly spiritual experience that has guided his writing. He is currently querying literary agents for his queer Southerner, Love as a Portal. In the future you’ll find him delving into speculative fiction, hoping to morph the way witchcraft is represented. Magic could be more feminist, right? More information and publications can be found on his website.
DAVID MCMULLIN appears in Nimblelitwit Issue 2: Trustworthy with his poem “Steps to Win the Race.” His books include Free To be Fabulous, Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby, and the upcoming Percy & Speck early reader series.
MAY 2026
Mental Health Awareness Month
LEE FRASER is in Issue 7: Integrity with her short poem “Queueing”. Poems related to postnatal mental health include “A Wail Weighs” (London Grip), “Baby Baby” (Aotearoa New Zealand national slam piece), “Medicine From Your Preschooler” (Ink Sweat & Tears), “Winging It” (Underbelly), “Lullaby in the Dark “and “Let Me Count the Ways” (Still Here Magazine). More of her work is at leefraserpoetry.com or Instagram @leefraserpoetry
OLIVE TRACY (Olivia Anne Gennaro) has a powerful story in Nimblewitlit: Taking a Stand. Her poems, “Your first manic episode “and “Hypochondria of the Nervous System” can be found in Knee Brace Press.
CONTRIBUTORS
SUMITRA SINGAM’S work can be found in Issues 4: Exclusion and Issue 5: Resistance. Her novella-in-flash “Mother Karma” is available via google form and from Jake. Her other publications can be found on her website https://sumitrasingam.squarespace.com/ or on Bluesky @pleomorphic2. Sumitra’s writing focuses on themes of the body, trauma, motherhood and relationships.
Asian, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
GRETCHEN FILART is a contributor in Epistemic Lit’s Issues 1-4, and 6 with both poetry and CNF works. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist based in the Philippines, where she embraces life while managing bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her work unpacks the complexities of grief, mental health, healing, motherhood, and love, garnering recognition from the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and Navigator’s Global Writing Competition. Connect with her via her website, gretchenfilart.com, and across social media as @gretchenfilart. She is usually friendly.
Jewish American Heritage Month
JOY E. KRINSKY appears in Issue 3: Anticipation with the essay “In One Box” (nominated for Best of the Net 2025) and Issue 4: Exclusion with the essay “Shiviti: Keeping in Front of Me Always.” Joy’s works have also appeared in Herstryblg.com and in Perhaps There Is Hope, A Tisha B’Av Supplement (Academy for Jewish Religion) and will appear in Spring issues of The Linden Review and Multiplicity Magazine.
DAN BERICK has the story “Lights and Companions” in Issue 4: Exclusion with us. He is a poet and fiction writer based in Cleveland, Ohio, whose fiction explores love and loss and loneliness and their unexamined reflections in the quotidian lives of the quiet people around us all. Dan is also a lawyer, a husband, a father, and a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Chicago. His recent work has appeared in The Storms, The Interpreter’s House, and One Art: A Journal of Poetry. Instagram: danberick
International ME/CFS Awareness Day
LIA PAS has two poems in Issue 2: Happy Place, an artist feature in Interalia Magazine, interview on Threadstack, and art on an upcoming album called The Comprador (link to come).
APRIL 2026
Neurodivergent Awareness Month
CONTRIBUTORS
LISA ROULLARD has one poem in Nimblewitlit: Trustworthy. Her work has appeared in widely, including recently in Tyger Tyger. In 2025 she was interviewed by Little Thoughts Press. Follow her children’s poetry on Instagram @LRoullard. Her poetry for adults can be found at lisaroullard.com.
SUMITRA SINGAM’S work can be found in Issues 4: Exclusion and Issue 5: Resistance. Her novella-in-flash “Mother Karma” is available via google form and from Jake. Her other publications can be found on her website https://sumitrasingam.squarespace.com/ or on Bluesky @pleomorphic2. Sumitra’s writing focuses on themes of the body, trauma, motherhood and relationships.
ASPEN PLEASANT, contributor from Issue 7: Integrity, is working on a YA novel called “The Making of Men,” following a queer man and his street savvy best friend Alexis, as they discover sex work in 2005. He is actively querying for his book, “Love as a Portal,” an upmarket fiction that dives into the lives of Ariana and Ayden, queer parents searching for belonging in Trump-era Texas. Because of the author’s experiences, and what he’s witnessed, he would like to improve access to relatable books and media for the excessive amount of LGBTQ+ homeless and incarcerated youth and adults.
MARCH 2026
Women's
History
Month
NEHA SAMPAT‘s art “A? or B?“ is found in our Issue 7: Integrity. Voice, poetry, and artwork are spotlighted in numerous publications and podcasts, including, “Dear NWLs” (Beyond the Page Writing), “Legacy ” (The B’K Magazine), “Oh Inaya…” (Wildscape Literary Journal), “Dis-orient“ (Mouthful of Salt), “Visions of Trespass” and (Mouthful of Salt). Find Neha here: @nehainprint (IG) and @nehaunerased (Substack).
J.C. TODD can be found in Issue 1: Food with the poem “The Heart Doesn’t Have Four Chambers Yet.” J.C.’s poetry collection Beyond Repair (Able Muse, 2021), is focused on war’s traumatic effect on women, both civilians and combatants, with a special focus on wars in the Middle East and Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. It can be ordered at www.jc-todd.com
DELPHINE GAUTHIER-GEORGAKOPOULOS has stories in Issue 2: Happy Place, Issue 3: Anticipation, and Issue 4: Exclusion. Delphine gives a talk on Creative Community Session by Jennifer McMahon, Mini interviews on The Pride Roars and Trash Lit Cat, and has recent publications with Blood + Honey, Frazzled Lit, Bending Genres, and Ghost Parachute.
FRANCESCA ROLLE is in Issue 7: Integrity with her poem, “If Facts Were Hamburgers.” Find her on Bluesky @francesca-laura.bsky.social.
LIA PAS has two poems in Issue 2: Happy Place, an artist feature in Interalia Magazine, interview on Threadstack, and art on an upcoming album called The Comprador (link to come).
Karen Grose is a contributor from Issue 4: Exclusion. Her debut novel, The Dime Box, was selected by Amnesty International for its 2021 Book Club. Flat Out Lies and All June Left Behind followed. What We Keep Silent, the first novel in The Bri Watters Thriller Series will be released in April 2026. She has flash fiction, poems, and short stories published by Roi Faineant Press, Paddler Press, Punk Noir Magazine, Hooghly Review, Bunker Squirrel Magazine, and Superior Shores Press. Track her down on X: @kgrose2, IG: karengrosewrites, FB, or at www.karengrose.com
Irish
Heritage
Month
CONTRIBUTORS
LORI CRAMER can be found in Issue 6: Nostalgia, with the micro “Sweet Girl,” nominated for Best Microfiction 2026. Her most recent publication is “Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang,” featured in Fictive Dream on February 2, 2026.
LISA THORNTON of Issue 6: Nostalgia, has an interview with JMWW in her role as Senior Flash Fiction Editor in October, 2025. Works include: “Word Count” is available with JMWW, “Glory Days” published in Wild Roof Journal, and “Knights of New Hampshire” in Temple in a City in June, 2025 (a personal favorite from last year).
BUSAYO AKINMOJU can be found in Issue 2: Happy Place with the story “In Two Fingers.” More published works can be read by visiting her website. Two recent works she is proud of are “The Belly of the Rock” with Augur Society and “Lungs” of Inner Worlds.
MEGAN HANLON writes quietly devastating creative nonfiction for people who want to be changed by what they read. She is featured in Issue 4: Exclusion. Her words have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including The Forge Literary Magazine, Gordon Square Review, and Reckon Review, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net anthology. She is currently querying a memoir-in-flash about the meaning of home. Check out her blog.
KIRA COLEMAN‘s poem “I’ll Miss You Aunt Kathryn” is published in Issue 4: Exclusion. You can also find examples of her work in Eunoia Review with “Sofa Days” and “For a Couple of Value Menu Cheeseburgers” and “It’s Just a Tampon, Not a Trojan Horse” published in Text Power Telling.
GARY FINNEGAN is based in county Kildare, Ireland. His story, “Dress-up Night,” was published in Issue 6: Nostalgia. His flash fiction and short stories have appeared in a wide range of journals, and a new piece called “Career Guidance” is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine. “Winter Camp” won the Shooter Flash Competition last November, while “Limbo Nights” won the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2025. You can listen to Gary reading “Limbo Nights” on the Frazzled Lit podcast here. Gary is working on a novel.
MELISSA FITZPATRICK was the cover artist for Issue 5: Resistance. She’s excited to share her comic “Birds of Los Angeles,” hybrid piece, “Matilija” (Temple in a City), and prose works: “On the longest night of the darkest year,” which was short-listed for the Welkin Writing Prize; “Only Water, Then Sky,” in Atlas & Alice; “The Cougar in the Attic,” in Moonpark Review; and “At the Roller Rink on My Last Day in Dublin,” in FlashFlood, in honor of her Irish Heritage.
Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
CONTRIBUTORS
DEE ALLEN. can be found in Issue 4: Exclusion, with the poem “Invisibility.” With two poetry books published, you can read Dee’s work: The Mansion (Gnashing Teeth Publishing), and Boneyard (Phoenix Voices Publishing). Here is one of Dee’s favorite Afrocentric poems: Overcome.
THE APRILCENTAUR published with us for Issue: 4 Exclusion with the poem “Open Eyes.”
JARYD PORTER is included in our most recent Issue 7: Integrity with his story “A Song for Assata.” His most recent publication is “Brother from Another” with Your Impossible Voice in Issue 33, with “Neighborhood Watch” coming soon with Free Flash Fiction and a graphic narrative “Late” featured in Door is a Jar Issue 38 available for pre-order now!
MIKE FLOWERS‘s poem “The Basketball Pass” is found in Issue 2: Trustworthy of our Nimblewitlit Magazine.
