The Word's Faire . 6/30/25 The Word's Faire . 6/30/25

‘And Also With You’, ‘I'm Not Well’, ‘Perimenopause?’’, ‘Some Things are About the Kids’ & ‘It's Not Jack's Fault’

Betsy Robertson was a finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry. She is a lecturer at San Diego State University and the mom of five children. Her focus is on women's health and menopause.

The Word's Faire . 6/29/25 The Word's Faire . 6/29/25

‘Being Obscured’

Laura Lambie has published in The Ginosko Literary Journal, The Writing Disorder Literary Journal, The Galway Review, EgoPHobia, The Bookends Review, The New English Review and The Why Vandalism? Literary & Arts Journal. She will be featured in The Meadow: Literary and Arts Journal.

The Word's Faire . 6/28/25 The Word's Faire . 6/28/25

‘Aquaphobia’

Kimberly Oyola Ferreira is a student writer that explores themes of fear and isolation through poetry.

The Word's Faire . 6/27/25 The Word's Faire . 6/27/25

‘In the Absence of Words’

Egale Tolbler is a college student studying journalism and a writer for his college’s newspaper.

The Word's Faire . 6/26/25 The Word's Faire . 6/26/25

‘Between Absence and Desire’

Bhupin Butaney is a poet and writer drawn to the quiet forces that shape human experience—emotion, memory, and elemental change. His work blends lyrical restraint with metaphysical inquiry, often turning to the natural world as a mirror for interior transformation. His poems have been featured in Lone Mountain Literary Society (Duality & Pradox), Antonym, Ariel’s Dream Literary Journal, In Parentheses, Black Works, ParABnormal Magazine, Tales of the Strange, and other literary publications.

The Word's Faire . 6/25/25 The Word's Faire . 6/25/25

‘Poèm Fantastique’

Dakota William Szaniszlo is a poet and prosist from Tucson, AZ. They are a committed practitioner of shower-singing, a volunteer life-coach for the dead, an unlicensed self-surgeon, and an avid collector of tossed-out ideologies. They enjoy contemplating ineffable abstraction, dreams constantly, and spends most of their free time on long drives through various mental landscapes. They have been previously featured in various journals including: The Antonym - A Bridge to Global Literature, Canyon Voices, Punt Volat, LatineLit, and The Ana.

The Word's Faire . 6/24/25 The Word's Faire . 6/24/25

‘A Bumblebee’s Dance’

Jake Wright is a published poet (on the Word’s Faire no less) who is pursuing a minor in creative writing at UBCO. When Jake isn’t writing, he’s usually crying over university, skiing, or gaming. He wrote this story for his girlfriend, who seemed to enjoy it, thank goodness! Jake can be found on his youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@WritingwithWright

The Word's Faire . 6/23/25 The Word's Faire . 6/23/25

‘Avenues’

Matthew Wood is a cum laude graduate of CSULB’s creative writing program. He has had fiction published in Heartwood Literary magazine, Chapter House, carte blanche, Washington Square Review LCC, and El Camino College’s Myriad, where he was awarded the Tom Lew Prize for Fiction

The Word's Faire . 6/22/25 The Word's Faire . 6/22/25

‘I Chewed Through the Curtain’

Abby Pullan is a 21-year-old creative writing graduate and working-class woman from Huddersfield. Her debut collection Bread & Blood is available on Amazon.

The Word's Faire . 6/21/25 The Word's Faire . 6/21/25

‘He hadn’t seen the old man since’, ‘Six Storey High Car Park’ & ‘We might not be lovers’

Ezra James Fiddimore is a writer, artist, musician and Tourette's Syndrome advocate based in Brighton, the bustling queer capital of England. By day, he is calling in sick to work. Ezra grew up between Germany and England, and holds a BA in English and Drama from Royal Holloway. He been published in Bar Bar, Oscurita and The Orbital. He enjoys a subversive approach to spelling, punctuation and grammar, and is not (where possible) prone to briefishness.

The Word's Faire . 6/20/25 The Word's Faire . 6/20/25

‘Lifeboat’, ‘Marks’, ‘Oxide’, ‘Lakeshore Drive’ & ‘Ars Poetica’

A. J. Frantz is from Detroit and currently studies urban planning at Oberlin College. Her work has appeared in Folio, Meniscus, Prime Number Magazine, ellipsis, and elsewhere.

The Word's Faire . 6/19/25 The Word's Faire . 6/19/25

‘In A Flower’, ‘O Orifice!’ & ‘A Conundrum’

O.P. Jha’s works appeared in more than one hundred journals including Rigorous, Mantis, In Parentheses, Shot Glass, Odessa Collective, Backchannels, Poetry Pacific, Five Fleas, miniMag, Iceblink, Infinite Scroll, The Rome Review, Kelp, pulplit, etc. His poems are in anthologies "We were Seeds" and "We are Resilient".

The Word's Faire . 6/18/25 The Word's Faire . 6/18/25

‘Today's Words’, ‘The Songbirds of Descargarmaria’ & ‘The Scoreboard Never Tells the Whole Story’

Harry Bauld was twice first-team All-Ivy shortstop at Columbia and broke Lou Gehrig’s records. (Unfortunately his academic records.) A writer, painter, translator and teacher in the Bronx, he has won awards for work that has appeared in numerous journals in the U.S. and the U.K. He was included by Matthew Dickman in the anthology Best New Poets 2012 (UVa Press) and has performed in New York and elsewhere as a magician and jazz pianist.

The Word's Faire . 6/17/25 The Word's Faire . 6/17/25

‘ONLY THE MAD ARE’ & Collected Works

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published poetry most recently in Espacio Fronterizo (Borderland/ Espace Frontière), and with Moonstone Press and Tofu Ink Press. He is resident Poetry Critic and Columnist with Red Ogre Review. His first Chapbook of poems, entitled 'GHOST TOWN' was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, US, in Summer 2022. His second Chapbook of poems, entitled 'American Haikus', was published in Autumn 2024, also with Moonstone Press. His third Chapbook, entitled ‘Deep Image’, will be published by Tofu Ink Press in early 2025.

The Word's Faire . 6/16/25 The Word's Faire . 6/16/25

‘Two Vines’

Joshua Sabatini was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In October 2002, he moved to San Francisco, California. He's currently on retreat in Katama, Massachusetts. His 2023 published writings include “Jack and the Trumpet” in Rock Salt Journal. In 2024, he published "Cosmic Harmonies," a collection of 49 haiku. The author can be reached at JoshuaSabatini@gmail.com.