September 2019
September 2019
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The Question of Location: Childhood in Angshuman Kar’s 25 Poisar Itihas Boi
Ankur Konar is an Assistant Professor of English in Sir Rashbehari Ghosh Mahavidyalaya. He has authored Cultural Poetics: Poetry, Society, Theory (2012) and Kolkata and Narrative Geographies (2019).
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Thoroughfare
Shikhandin is the nom de plume of an Indian writer, whose recent published books include a story collection, Immoderate Men, published by Speaking Tiger Books, India, and a children’s book, Vibhuti Cat, published by Duckbill Books, India. Shikhandin has won awards and accolades for her poetry and fiction in India and abroad.
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Micro fiction
The author of Postmarked Quarantine, Kushal Poddar has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of Words Surfacing. His works have been translated into twelve languages.
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A City Poet
Gaurav Monga is a writer originally from New Delhi. He learned German to read the works of Franz Kafka and Robert Walser. He writes prose poetry and short fiction, much of which has appeared in literary magazines such as the Fanzine, Juked, Birkensnake, The Fabulist, among others. Family Matters, a collection of short stories, is published by Eibonvale Press. A City Poet is part of a forthcoming collection of prose fragments, entitled, Ruins, published by Desirepaths Publishers. He has taught literature, German and creative writing at schools and universities in India, Nepal, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Currently he resides in Bangalore. He is fascinated with the relationship between fashion and literature and is currently working on a poetry collection about clothes.
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Sweet Shop
Pramila Tripathi is a post-graduate (M.A) in English Language and Literature from the University of Calcutta. She is a poet and a voracious reader. She has dabbled in editing and has been working as an English Language Expert for some time now.
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The Low Passions: Poems
Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press and founding editor of Harbinger Asylum. He is author of the poetry collections The Daunting Ephemeral, The Future of Poetry of NOW: bones picking and death’s howl, Salt and Sorrow, Knows No End, Frenetic/No Contest, The Alderman: spurious conversations with Jim Morrison, and O’Riordan: spurious conversations with Dolores. He is the author of the book on aesthetics, A Matter of Degrees. His short story collection, The Madman and Fu, was recently released along with his novella, Be Not Afraid of What You May Find. He is a former contributor to Huffington Post. He has essays in Cafe Dissensus, The Statesman, and Journal of Liberty and International Affairs. He is also a musician, visual artist, and reviewer. He has been placed as a finalist in Adelaide Literary Journal’s first short story contest and is a Pushcart nominee for 2019.
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The Wild Essential
Melissa Chappell’s first chapbook is Rivers and Relics and Other Poems (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Her newest, Light, Refracted (Finishing Line Press), will be published this year.
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Indelible Fingerprints
Sarbajit is a poet, painter, translator, and critic. He is passionate about working in a variety of creative medium, and often engages his work in an ongoing dialogue between different art forms. His creative style is largely expressionist and postmodern. Sarbajit has authored seven books of poetry and three short story collections. He lives in Calcutta with wife Mridula, and two sons.
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When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays
Juveria Tabassum is presently pursuing Maters in Journalism, St Francis College for Women, Hyderabad. She is an avid reader and writer. Poetry has always been her refuge from life.
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Burrito Deluxe
Koushik Sen is a post-graduate (M.A) in English Literature (University of Calcutta). His works have been published in Harbinger Asylum, NY Literary Magazine, The Statesman, Lost Coast Review, among other places, and one of his short stories was published in an anthology by Yking Books, Jaipur. Sen is an avid book reader and loves to write a review only when he feels like writing for a book.
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A conversation with Dustin Pickering by Jhilam Chattaraj
Jhilam Chattaraj is an Assistant Professor at R.B.V.R.R Women’s College, Department of English, Hyderabad, India. She has authored the books, Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers (2018) and the poetry collection, When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays (2018). Her works have been published in journals like the Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Asian Cha, Frontier poetry, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine and The Pangolin Review among others. She has received the CTI Excellence Award (2019) in “Literature and Soft Skills Development,” from the Council for Transforming India and the Department of Language and Culture, Government of Telangana.
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Flash Fiction: Mannequin
Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press and founding editor of Harbinger Asylum. He is author of the poetry collections The Daunting Ephemeral, The Future of Poetry of NOW: bones picking and death’s howl, Salt and Sorrow, Knows No End, Frenetic/No Contest, The Alderman: spurious conversations with Jim Morrison, and O’Riordan: spurious conversations with Dolores. He is the author of the book on aesthetics, A Matter of Degrees. His short story collection, The Madman and Fu, was recently released along with his novella, Be Not Afraid of What You May Find. He is a former contributor to Huffington Post. He has essays in Cafe Dissensus, The Statesman, and Journal of Liberty and International Affairs. He is also a musician, visual artist, and reviewer. He has been placed as a finalist in Adelaide Literary Journal’s first short story contest and is a Pushcart nominee for 2019.