Capture This – A Slice-of-Life Anthology is a slice-of-life anthology that will be released on Tuesday, May 12th, 2026.

To read more about the anthology, please visit: www.lintonpress.ca/capture-this-a-slice-of-life-anthology/.

A. M. Linton is a wife and mother of two. She is also the author of Torn Between Love, Religion and Responsibility, A Little on Puberty for Boys, and A Little on Symptoms Associated with Menopause. A few of her short stories were also published in The Barbados Advocate Newspaper.

Jordan Andrew is currently pursuing an MFA at UBC, with which she hopes to write only the chattiest of comic books. She has previously published poetry, a short story, and a novel. When she’s not writing, she can be found at the movie theatre, losing Batman: Arkham Knight, or baking too many sugar cookies.

Lorraine Jeffery earned a master’s degree in library science and managed public libraries for over twenty years. But her real education took place in her home, where she and her husband raised their eight adopted, two biological, and three foster children.
She has won poetry prizes in state and national contests and published over 250 poems in journals and anthologies, including Clarion, Clockhouse, Tahoma Literary Review, Naugatuck River, and Rockhurst Review. Her book, When the Universe Brings Us Back, was published in 2022. Her chapbooks, titled Tethers and Saltwater Soul, were published in 2022 and 2024, both by Kelsay Books.

Eolas Pellor’s work has appeared in a variety of online and print publications. He is an autistic former reporter who taught a wide variety of subjects in inner-city schools for nearly 30 years before retiring. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Lynn Carole Brown is an emerging poet/writer who is currently published in the Missouri Humanities Magazine Winter 2024 edition for her poem titled, River Rats.  In addition, her poetry has been published as part of a Cupertino community anthology titled Celebrate Creativity.  Currently, her haiku poetry has been accepted by Literary Revelations for their anthology titled Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku.  Lynn’s poetry can also be found on online sites that promote creative writing, such as Spark Publications, Ireland Calling, and Paradox Ethereal Magazine.  Lynn resides in Missouri with her family and provides rehabilitation to seniors in her community.

Sharisa Aidukaitis is a writer and college educator in upstate New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Penstricken, Waffle Fried, Moss Piglet, Trampoline, Drifting Sands Haibun, and elsewhere.

Glenis Moore is a poet who currently lives in the flatlands of the Fens just outside of Cambridge, UK, with her partner and three rescue cats. When she is not writing, she reads, makes beaded necklaces, knits, cycles and runs 10K races slowly. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Pond Life and For Paula and Rum Babas, and has had previous work published in a variety of UK, US, and European publications.

MW Lee – I am an emerging writer by night, and a medical case manager with the Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center. My work has appeared in The Scarlet Leaf Review, “The Sea and Debussy,” a short essay “An Unexpected Helper,” in the anthology Dark Night of the Green Soul, and my novella, “Balancing the Weave,” was published by JMs Books.

Elizabeth Iannaci is a widely published poet who grew up in the Los Angeles area in a time when acres of orange groves & strawberry fields lined the 10 freeway. She earned her Poetry MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is partially sighted, which may account for her preference for paisley over polka dots. Her work appeared most recently in Women in a Golden State, Midwestern Miscellany, Interlitq, among others. Her latest chapbook is The Virgin Turtle Light Show: Spring, 1968 (Latitude 34 Press).

Ama Obieziem, born on 24th February 2002, is a native of Awo-Idemili, Orsu LGA of Imo State. A poet and lover of everything arts and language. She resides in Owerri. She is a degree graduate of French Education. She has appeared in Arkore Write blog – www.arkorewrite.com.ng – (2021), 2022 Chinụa Achebe Poetry/Essay Anthology – Achebe, The Soul Brother, Love is a Divine Fragrance: Anthology of World Poetry in Gender Issues (2023) under the name Okoye Frances Chiamaka (Ámá Emmy).

Louis Faber is a poet and writer.  His work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Cantos, Alchemy Spoon (UK), Meniscus and Arena Magazine (Australia) New Feathers Anthology, Dreich (Scotland), Prosetrics,  Erothanatos (Greece), Defenestration, Atlanta Review,  Glimpse, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Borderlands: the Texas Poetry Review, Midnight Mind, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism, The South Carolina Review and Worcester Review, among many others, and has been nominated for a Best of the Web and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His new book of poetry, Free of the Shadow, was recently published by Plain View Press.

Steve Wilson’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies all over the US, as well as in six collections, the most recent entitled Complicity. He lives in San Marcos, Texas.

Sophie Ann Hinkson spent much of her life in France, where she worked as a bookseller and literary journalist for both magazines and radio. Now based in Chicago, she teaches French and ESL at various colleges and is currently pursuing a Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at UC Riverside. She’s the poetry co-editor at The Coachella Review. Her fiction will appear in the upcoming fall issue of Midwest Weird and Night Shades. At home, she shares her life with her husband, a black cat, and seven pet rats.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty-odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over 550 stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he squats on the review board.

Eveline Pye is a mathematician and lives in Scotland. Her poems have been published in literary magazines, anthologies and newspapers. Her first poetry collection, Smoke That Thunders, Mariscat Press (2015), explored her experiences in the Zambian Mining Industry. Her second pamphlet, STEAM, was a collection of STEM poems published by Red Squirrel (2022). Her latest publication, Reaching the Light, explores a fractured childhood, Seahorse Publications (2024).

Terri Watrous Berry is a Michigan septuagenarian whose work has appeared in anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers for the past forty years, her prose receiving awards from venues as diverse as The Hemingway Days Festival and the Des Plaines/Park Ridge NOW Feminist Writers Competition, as well as Amelia Islander Literary Competition, Tallahassee Writers’ Association, and Grit Magazine. This past year saw the publication of three more of her short stories, with another one forthcoming, and a nonfiction piece scheduled to be included in THEMA this fall.

Donna J. Gelagotis Lee is the author of two award-winning collections, Intersection on Neptune (The Poetry Press of Press Americana, 2019), winner of the Prize Americana for Poetry 2018, and On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the Seventh Annual Gival Press Poetry Award and recipient of a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art Category. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals internationally, including Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. www.donnajgelagotislee.com

Leslie Ava Shaw writes creative non-fiction, short stories and plays. Her plays have been produced off-off Broadway. Last year, she participated in Narrative’s editor, Tom Jenks’ Advanced Writing Workshop and attended the All Write Columbia Creative Non-Fiction Writers Conference. She is actively writing a memoir entitled NYC: How I Lived It. Leslie currently lives in Northern Virginia.

Mikaela Nuval is a Filipino-Canadian emerging writer and poet based in Richmond, British Columbia. The eldest daughter of Filipino immigrants, she has returned to her first love – writing – after completing business school and working as a human resources professional. She is currently working on a poetry collection on being 29 years old and what 29 years of life means to her.

Brian C. Petti is an award-winning, internationally produced and published playwright. He is also a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Lynn White lives in North Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy, and reality. She has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/.

Andrew Dunn is a Maryland-based writer of fiction whose short stories have appeared in several online publications, most predominantly in MetaStellar. Additionally, he has been a finalist in Writer’s Digest and Killer Nashville competitions.

Leila Kulpas has a degree in Medicine, a fellowship in Psychiatry, and an Honours degree in English. She is the author of a published memoir, Into the Eyes of Hungry: Growing up in the Wilds of Australia, which was a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards. Her prose has been published in The Vancouver Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, a National Voices anthology, and various newspapers, and her poetry has appeared on the Internet, in ten literary journals and five anthologies.

Steve Bowman’s work has previously appeared in Amarillo Bay, The Zen Space, Last Leaves, Southern Arizona Press, and Wicked Shadow Press. When not writing, Bowman seeks inspiration with his little dog, Grummle, in the leaves and hills of Southern Indiana.

Traci Neal is a neurodivergent poet living in the USA- Columbia, South Carolina. Her poetry is featured in Poetry Potion- Poem A Day, Spillwords Press, Wildfire Words- UK, Feminessay, Real South/West Mag, and Moonstone Arts in 2025 and many others since 2021. Neal uses poetry to advocate for those in need and to raise awareness for non-profits worldwide.

Poet/fiction writer/playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk), where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published 25 books, including Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles (Stories/Ekstasis Editions/2019), Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2020), Somewhat Absurd, Somehow Existential (Poetry/Guernica Editions/2021), Acting on the Island (Stories/Pottersfield Press/2022), As You Continue to Wait (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2022), and My Post-Holocaust Second Generation Voice: History/Memory/Identity (Poetry/Ekstasis Editions/2025).

Demi Michelle Schwartz is an author from Pittsburgh, and she primarily writes young adult fiction, focusing on the fantasy and thriller genres, though she explores other genres and age categories in her short stories published in anthologies. Demi graduated summa cum laude with BAs in Creative Writing and Music from Seton Hill University, then earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill in 2022. Along with being an author, Demi is the host of Literary Blend: A Publishing Podcast, a freelance fiction editor through her independently-run services, Amethyst Ink Editorial, an award-winning songwriter, and a classical pianist.

Donald R. Vogel is a fundraiser by profession, writer by aspiration, who lives in Long Island, New York, with his wife and son. He holds a master’s degree in English from Stony Brook University and has published both fiction and nonfiction in several literary journals.

Betty Stanton (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer who lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and collections and has been included in various anthologies. She received her MFA from The University of Texas – El Paso and holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership.  She is currently on the editorial board of Ivo Review.

Lori Levy’s poems have appeared in Rattle, Paterson Literary Review, Passager Journal, ONE ART, Poet Lore, and numerous other online and print literary journals in the U.S. and abroad. Two of her chapbooks were published in 2023: “What Do You Mean When You Say Green? and Other Poems of Color” (Kelsay Books) and “Feet in L.A., But My Womb Lives in Jerusalem, My Breath in Vermont” (Ben Yehuda Press). Levy lives with her husband in Los Angeles near their children and grandchildren.

Miles Whitney is a queer, trans, Jewish attorney and writer living in Sacramento, California.  Miles’s work has been published in OfTheBook Press, The Courtship of Winds, Current, Slate, Liberal Currents, Assigned Media and Counterpunch, among others. His novel, Midlife Musical, is due out in 2026.

Queen-Onensi is a passionate writer who uses storytelling as a powerful instrument to communicate salient messages that inspire reflection and drive social change. She believes deeply in the power of words to influence minds, foster community development, and sustain positive values in society. Through her writing, Queen seeks to illuminate perspectives that encourage empathy and understanding, showing that the world becomes truly beautiful when we learn to see through the eyes of others and appreciate our shared humanity.

Kiyoshi Hirawa is a poet and writer whose work focuses on resiliency, hope, and providing a voice for the unheard, ignored, and overlooked. Hirawa’s work has been featured most recently in Synkroniciti, AvantAppal[achia], Jelly Bucket, and Hole in the Head Review.

Diane Funston has been published in journals including Lake Affect, F(r)iction, Tule Review, and Still Points Quarterly, among others.  Diane served as Poet-in-Residence for Yuba-Sutter Arts and Culture.  Her chapbook, “Over the Falls,” was published by Foothills Publishing.  Diane is a visual artist in mosaic, collage, and felting. She has worked with adults and children with disabilities. After leaving her hometown of Rochester, New York, she lives in California with her husband and three rescue dogs.

Sandra Arnold is a novelist, short story, flash fiction and non-fiction writer. Her work has been broadcast on national radio, published and anthologised in New Zealand and internationally and has won and been short-listed for several awards. She has an MLitt (High Distinction) and a PhD in Creative Writing from Central Queensland University, Australia. She has worked as a teacher, editor, book reviewer, PhD examiner, literary judge, reviewer of academic papers, and has been an invited speaker at conferences and literary festivals. With poet David Howard, she co-founded Takahe Literary Journal and was its fiction editor from 1989 to 1995.

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines, both online and in print. She has fifteen published chapbooks, the latest being: not your piñata (Alien Buddha Press, June 2025).

Philip DiGiacomo is a former painter and actor from New York. He studied creative writing with Lou Mathews, Colette Sartor, and Ben Loory at UCLA. He lives with his wife, the painter Hilary Baker, in a 100-year-old farmhouse in Ojai, California. It’s where he writes, reads, cooks, and sometimes races an old Porsche. His work has been published in The Nervous Breakdown, Literary Manhattan, The Examined Life Journal, Fleas on the Dog, Halfway Down the Stairs, Fish Food Magazine, Inkwell, Delmarva, and other online journals.

Becky Nicole James has received two Honorable Mentions in the Lena M. Shull Book Award, the Fieldstone Review Poetry Prize, and a Best of the Net nomination. Her first chapbook, Saxophones and Dripping Faucets, is forthcoming in summer 2026.

DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as “a cosmopolitan poet” and another as “prolific, bordering on incontinent.” His work has been nominated thirteen times for BOTN, ten for the Pushcart, and once for the Forward Prize, and released in three collections: “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016), “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022).

Marc Sorondo lives with his wife and children in New York. He loves to read, and his interests range from fiction to comic books, physics to history, oceanography to cryptozoology, and just about everything in between.  He’s a perpetual student and occasional teacher. For more information, go to MarcSorondo.com.

Deborah Blenkhorn is a settler-scholar on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. A strong commitment to coaching others to achieve their potential as writers inspires her teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and the University of British Columbia. Deborah’s creative work traces a path through her childhood in rural Ontario, summers in Canada’s Maritime provinces, and mid-life in the Pacific Northwest. Fusing memoir and imagination, her poems, essays, and stories since 2023 have been featured in over thirty publications in Canada, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, India, and Indonesia.

Lee Marcus is a high school English teacher from Brooklyn, NY.  His work has appeared in several online publications.  When not encouraging young people to engage in academic discussions about poetry and prose, he enjoys yoga, walking his dog, Chef, and the joys of being a new parent.

Issy Jinarmo is a pen name for writing trio Jill Baggett, Narelle Noppert, and Maureen Kelly OAM. We live in Australia and far apart, Mudgee, Picton, and Adelaide, but started writing never-ending stories by email during the lockdown. We have been published in anthologies and magazines from such diverse areas as Australia, India, England, and the USA. Also, we have released a book of detective stories. We never tire of seeing where our next story will take us. Some of the stories which have been published by online magazines can be read from the Issy Jinarmo Facebook site.

Ashmi Ahluwalia is 38, of Indian origin, and based out of Malta. A sensitivity towards ‘belonging’ informs a lot of her writing experience. After completing her graduate education in English Literature at St. Stephen’s College, she did her Master’s degree in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics. She has edited a compilation of Indian-English poetry called Writing Love (Rupa, August 2010) and was recently featured in 55 Faces (Michelle Gardiner, February 2023), focused on showcasing the stories and experiences of women globally. Her creative work has featured in The Huffington Post, The Pioneer, The Glasgow Review, and Quirk.

Stephen McQuiggan was the original author of the bible; he vowed never to write again after the publishers removed the dinosaurs and the spectacular alien abduction ending from the final edit. His other, lesser-known, novels are A Pig’s View of Heaven and Trip a Dwarf.

Janet Chand has retired from a management career in Health and Social Care.
Published poet and writer advocate for women. Part of 1 in 3 gender based violence project and a performer at Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton Arts Centre, Raising Steam Festival, Script Haven Worcester, and many open mics.

Ann Howells was raised on Chesapeake Bay. In 1979, she moved to Texas, where she edited Illya’s Honey for eighteen years. Recent books are: So Long As We Speak Their Names (Kelsay Books, 2019), about Chesapeake Bay watermen, and Painting the Pinwheel Sky (Assure Press, 2020), persona poems in the voice of Van Gogh. Two chapbooks were published through contests: Black Crow in Flight, Editor’s Choice in Main Street Rag’s 2007 competition, and Softly Beating Wings as the 2017 William D. Barney winner (Blackbead Books). Ann’s work appears in many small presses and university journals. She is a multiple Pushcart nominee.

Amy Cipolla Barnes is an award-winning author of three collections: Mother Figures, Ambrotypes, and Child Craft. She has words at The Rumpus, The New Territory Mag, In Short, Literary Namjooning, The Citron Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Spartan Lit, JMWW Journal, Paragraph Planet, Complete Sentence, X-R-A-Y Lit,  -ette review, Reckon Review, and many other sites. She’s been included in Best Microfiction 2025 and Best Small Fictions 2022, and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top50 in 2021-2025. She’s a Fractured Lit associate editor, Gone Lawn co-editor, Ruby Lit assistant editor, Narratively Chief Submissions Reader, instructor for the Narratively Academy, and reader for The MacGuffin.

Lennart Lundh (American, b. 1948) is a poet, photographer, historian, and short-fictionist. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.

Souad Zakarani is a poet, writer, and literature translator from Morocco.  Her works have appeared in many anthologies worldwide.  Her poems, short stories, essays, and articles can be read in a variety of international publications, including WELL READ Magazine, Hooligan Street Poetry, Revista Sofón, RESEARCH PLANET Journal, and others.  In 2025, her poem “Weiß” was shortlisted for Ulrich Grasnik Lyrikpreis.

Jack Granath is a librarian in Kansas.

Moona Wu is a Chinese author and illustrator who has lived in the United States for over 20 years. She has published eleven books in China and two English-language titles on Amazon. Moona is a columnist and illustrator for Washington Chinese Daily, where she writes about the lives of Chinese immigrants in America. Her fiction often explores themes of identity, dislocation, and resilience, with many stories set in the American South. Also an exhibiting visual artist, she finds inspiration in the landscapes of South Carolina—oak trees, muscadines, and all. When words fail, she turns to color, line, and light.