The Hemlock: A Literary Arts Journal
The Hemlock: A Literary Arts Journal is an online international journal established in 2023. They publish poetry, prose, art, and reviews, and they welcome submissions from writers and artists around the globe. Their aim is to provide a global platform to help writers advance their careers, and to publish works that reflect a wide variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and styles. They have published writers and poets such as Ruchi Acharya, John Muro, Jacob Fortino, Sophia Jamali Soufi, Gerard Sarnat, and Pragya Gogoi. Both the journal and website include works of visual art as well as writing. A few of the featured artists are Irina Tall Novikova, Zhen Pardo, Simarjit Kaur. You can find more information about The Hemlock, online features, and all issues of the journal at https://thehemlockjournal.org/
Duane L. Herrmann
Herrmann, a prairie poet with a global conscience, and mystic, is a survivor who lived to tell, a writer who exposes lies and a lover of the pure light of the moon – and trees! He is a contributor to the prose anthologies It’s About Living, Summer Shorts, Twisting Topeka, The Way We Were, and Corners: Voices on Change. He is the recipient of the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award and the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship, and is included in American Poets of the 1990s, Kansas Poets Trail, and Map of Kansas Literature. His work is published in print and online in the U.S. and elsewhere. He spends time on the rolling prairie reflected in his poetry collections Prairies of Possibilities and Ichnographical: 173. He has a collection of devotional poems entitled Praise the King of Glory, and his science fiction murder mystery is Escape from Earth: the Journal of a Planetary Pioneer, or Murder on Makana. These were accomplished in spite of dyslexia, ADHD, cyclothymia and, now, PTSD. More information about Herrmann and his books is available on his website: https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home.
Yuu Ikeda
Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet. She loves writing, drawing, drinking sugary coffee, and reading mystery novels. Her poems can be found in Nymphs, Selcouth Station Press, Sublunary Review, Remington Review, Whispers and Echoes, Sad Girl Review, and more. She also writes poetry on her website: https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com. Her previous poetry collection is Living in Nightmares with Few Dreams, published under the pen name D. Rose. She posts on both Twitter and Instagram under @yuunnnn77.
Divyank J.
Divyank J. writes stories about animals, mountains, and broken people on their journey to healing. He dives into the psyche of his characters while narrating their mundane, everyday human experiences. Growing up as a child in Ogna, a town near Udaipur, he always admired the beauty of nature, a simple lifestyle, and solo traveling, and his writing also reflects this. Some of his stories fortunately found a deserving place in various national and international magazines, journals, and anthologies. Currently, he resides in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India with his family. In 2022 he earned his master’s in English literature and started a quarterly literary arts journal, The Hemlock. Apart from writing, he teaches accountancy to young students, draws pencil sketches, spends time with his daughter, and on weekends often goes out on trips with his dog.
M. B. Manthe
M. B. Manthe was born and raised in Massachusetts, attended graduate school in Arizona, and now lives in Kansas. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Smith College, and an M.A. in Library Science from University of Arizona. She and her husband have two college-age sons, one dog, and two cats. She also has nearly 1500 books (not counting the digital To-Be-Read Mountain!), and never enough time to read. More information about Manthe and her work is available on her website at https://mbmanthe.com, and you can find her on Twitter where her handle is @heathmocha.