Travis Flatt (he/him) is an epileptic teacher and actor living in Cookeville, Tennessee. His stories appear or are forthcoming in Flash Frog, JMWW, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Bending Genres, and other places. He is a Best Small Fictions nominee. He enjoys theater, dogs, and theatrical dogs, often with his wife and son.

Coleman Bigelow's stories have appeared recently in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Bending Genres, Cleaver, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, and Your Impossible Voice. His latest story collection "Man's Best Friends" will be published on 10/21. Find more at: ColemanBigelow.com

Ani King (they/them) is a queer, gender non-compliant writer and artist from Michigan. They are the first place winner of the 2024 Blue Frog Annual Flash Fiction Contest, a SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023 finalist, and have additional work featured in SmokeLong Quarterly Review, Split Lip Magazine, Fractured Lit, Exposition Review, Wigleaf, and other terrific publications. Most recently, Ani is a 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Fellow, with work forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2025 and on the Wigleaf Top 50 Long List. Family Night: Stories (Mason Jar Press) coming in 2026.

Kleopatra Olympiou is a writer from Cyprus. Her writing has appeared in swamp pink, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, and elsewhere. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction and nominated for the 2026 Best of the Net. 

Elizabeth Rosen mourns the loss of Tab and still wants her MTV.  Her stories have appeared in journals such as the North American Review, Baltimore Review, Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, and others. Some of her stories have been nominated for Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net awards. Colorwise, Liz is an autumn.You can learn more about that and her writing at www.thewritelifeliz.com. 

Fiona McKay is the author of the novellas-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead, Ad Hoc Fiction (2025), The Top Road, Ad Hoc Fiction (2023),  and the flash fiction collection Drawn and Quartered, Alien Buddha Press (2023). She was a SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow in 2023. Her flash fiction is in Bath Flash, Gone Lawn, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, The Forge, Variant Lit, Ghost Parachute, trampset, Bending Genres, Fractured Lit, Peatsmoke and others. Her work is included in Best Small Fictions 2024. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Lucas Flatt's work has appeared in X-R-A-Y Lit, Pithead Chapel, Ghost City, and other fine establishments. He teaches at Volunteer State Community College and lives with his wife and children in Middle Tennessee.

Bio: Mario Aliberto III is the author of All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury (Chestnut Review, 2025), and his short fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, The Pinch, and other fine journals. A graduate with a Creative Writing degree from the University of South Florida, he lives in Tampa Bay with his wife and daughters, and yet the dog still runs the house. Find him online at marioaliberto3.com