The Bride of Jesus – Michele Markarian
Michele Markarian is a short fiction writer and playwright. The Bride of Jesus is her creative take on the subject of belonging...
There are Fireflies in the Dark – Marzia Rahman
Marzia Rahman is a Bangladeshi fiction writer and translator. Her flashes have appeared globally in many literary journals. Her novella-in-flash Life on the Edges was longlisted in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award Competition in 2018...
Let the Rivers Speak!: Lucia Cupertino and the Poetry of the Global Souths – Pina Piccolo
LUCIA CUPERTINO (1986, Polignano a Mare). Writer, cultural anthropologist and translator. After her degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (University of Bologna), she earned a Masters in Anthropology of the Americas (Complutense University of Madrid) with a…...
Epic Takes (Part One) – Arpan Chakraborty
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...
Gestures Of The Latin American Poetry – Kenia Cano
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...
The Painting in the Cup: El Greco – Nazli Karabiyikoglu
The road became steep as I climbed, then it turned into twistedness in my chest. My growling lungs howled, I was breathless with hard coughs. As I felt it wasn’t attractive anymore to follow the mysteries by acting on Moor’s advice, I saw the man’s garden from the low part of the thick, high walls...
October Creative Nonfiction Contest
The Antonym invites nonfiction writers to enter the October Creative Nonfiction Contest, for which USD 50 will be awarded to the winning submission. The submission, which should be limited to 750 words, can be a personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction,…...
Apropos of Translation – Alexander Shurbanov
Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia, 1941) is author of two dozen books of poems and essays. He has translated into Bulgarian Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s mature tragedies, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dylan Thomas’s poems...
Every Shoe Tells its Own Story – Gonca Özmen
Gonca Özmen was born in Burdur, Southern Turkey. She has published three books of poetry, many essays, and critical articles to date...