Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, The Coachella Review, Maudlin House, Still Point Arts Quarterly, B O D Y, Ruminate, Wilderness House Literary Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and more.
How dilemma, decisions and the birth of Death figure in a story from the Mahabharata – Arpan Chakraborty explored the concept of death as articulated in the Mahabharata in this intriguing take.
Malinovskaya’s poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish. Her most recent documentary poetry project is based on testimonies of French–Ivorian clashes survivors. A Time of its own is a poem based on the testimonies of the French citizen who survived the civil war in Ivory Coast
The Antonym invites nonfiction writers to enter the November Creative Nonfiction Contest, for which USD 50 will be awarded to the winning submission.
An award-winning poet, essayist, and translator, Andrew Joron started writing science fiction and then expanded his scope to include innovative techniques in poetry. Joron’s later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov. Andrew talked with The Antonym on his writing and the craft.
Born in Mexico City in 1972, Kenia Cano lives in Cuernavaca. Some of her poetry books are Prayer of birds, The birds of this day (Carlos Pellicer Ibero-American Poetry Prize); An animal for the eyes and Diary of uncomfortable poems, the latter published by the Editorial Fund of the Autonomous University of Querétaro in 2017.
Swapnamoy Chakraborty’s work is both critically acclaimed and well-received by readers. Holud Golap is a seminal, monumental work about the LGBT community and its relationship with larger society. Here is a short story translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
Saroj Bal (b-1976) writes poetry and fiction in Odia language. He has 14 poetry collections, 4 collections of short-stories and 1 novel to his credit. Translated from the Odia by Bibhu Padhi who is a distinguished poet from Orisha.
Nâzım Hikmet Ran,commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the “lyrical flow of his statements”. Described as a “romantic communist” and “romantic revolutionary”, he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated from Turkish by Neil P Doherty.
Sudheer Raj (b 1982) is a well known Malayali Dalit poet who records his poems on social media sites. A vociferous supporter of the Dalit cause, he is a powerful performer of his own poetry.