Ani King is the Editor in Chief and founder of Syntax & Salt Magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Strange Horizons, Penny Magazine, and Every Day Fiction. You can find her at thebittenlip.com and on Twitter. I Give it Six Months originally appeared in Jersey Devil Press, May 2016. Thing is, you … Continue reading I Give it Six Months by Ani King
Chelsea Hanna Cohen lives in Brooklyn, works in publishing, and plays piano when she isn’t writing. She is an alumna of the 2018 Tin House Summer Workshop and is the managing editor of Syntax & Salt. Her work has been previously been published or is forthcoming in Split Lip Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, and freeze … Continue reading The Girl with the Butterfly Hands by Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Jennifer Todhunter’s stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. She was named to Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2018, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Pidgeonholes. Find her at www.foxbane.ca or @JenTod_. i am a haenyeo i am a haenyeo was originally published by Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry in September 2015 i am a mother An … Continue reading Three Flash Stories by Jennifer Todhunter
Georgene Smith Goodin’s work has appeared in numerous publications, and has won the Mash Stories flash fiction competition. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the cartoonist Robert Goodin, their four foster children and two dogs. When not writing, she is restoring a 1909 Craftsman bungalow with obsessive attention to historic detail. You can find Georgene … Continue reading Ghost Hunting by Georgene Smith Goodin
Gray has completed two poetry collections, Contested Terrain, FutureCycle Press, 2017 and Overwatch, published by Grey Sparrow Press, 2011. His work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Rattle: Poets Respond, Syntax & Salt, The Good Men Project, Still, and War, Literature and the Arts among many other journals. Gray holds an MFA from The Sewanee School of Letters and … Continue reading Theseus in Baghdad by D.A. Gray
Gemma Mahadeo (she/they) is a Melbourne-based, London-born writer and occasional musician whose poetry and non-fiction has appeared in online and print journals throughout Australia. Gemma blogs drink & zine reviews on eat, drink, stagger and edits reviews for Melbourne Spoken Word when not writing poetry or reviewing books, or reading submissions for Syntax & Salt and can be found online … Continue reading Two Pieces by Gemma Mahadeo
Katelyn Forrest exists in Rhode Island writing SFF fiction. She went to film school, has been a radio disc jockey and a dot com prospector. She has built a nuclear submarine and isn’t allowed to give blood because of that one time with the cow brains out of a vending machine in Europe. She got … Continue reading Payments by Katelyn Forrest
Laura Alexandra Hunter indulges in creative pursuits. She occasionally tweets using the handle @LauraLxH. Ascension was published previously in Grievous Angel in January 2017. Monday Amy could feel the throb of her new tattoo on her thigh. A navy blue pencil skirt covered the anchor adorned with a carmine climbing rose. A light gauze dressing kept it … Continue reading Ascension by Laura Alexandra Hunter
Grant Longstaff is from a small, suitably dismal town in the north east of England where nothing much happens. He had no choice but to write fiction. He now lives in Glasgow. You can find him on Twitter. Abstraction was published previously by Every Day Fiction in January 2018. We are sitting on two iron … Continue reading Abstraction by Grant Longstaff
R. Daniel Lester’s writing has appeared in print and online in multiple publications, including Adbusters, Geist, Broken Pencil, Pulp Literature, Switchblade and, most recently, Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon. His novella, Dead Clown Blues, from Shotgun Honey and Down & Out Books, was shortlisted for a 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novella by the Crime … Continue reading Some Say the World Will End in Fire by R. Daniel Lester