Steve Berman
Steve Berman is a young writer living amid the wild suburbs
of NJ. His collection of short stories, Trysts,
has received great acclaim and was nominated twice for the
Gaylactic Spectrum Award. The characters of Frank Manes and
Bobby Drale, as featured in "A Different Trick"
will return in a continuing series of investigations into
supernatural threats facing gay boys everywhere.
Visit him online at: steveberman.com
Read A Different Trick
Rodney Collins
The Author Rodney Collins studied Esoteric and Occult practices
at Tenyuji temple Isahaya Japan and Esoteric Buddhism in Pusan
Korea and Mahayana Thai Buddhism for the last 22 years and
as the first westerner holds the title of “JikidoBosatsu”
for Dark Jewel Ch’an ManiZen Tradition. He currently
resides in the USA and Japan and is currently translating
Japanese Occult text into English. 'Stiria-Metus' is part
of a larger body of text and word exploration in the tradition
of French Dadaist and to some extent the Surrealist movement
that took shape over a 10 year period of Kabalistic study.
The Author sincerely hopes this work may stimulate others
to explore their own inner hidden dialogs.
Read Stiria-Metus
Decker
Decker hails from New England and is busily working on his
doctoral degree. His erotic fiction has appeared in the serial,
“Mandate,” the anthology, “Latin Boys,”
and on the web at www.opheliasmuse.com
and www.deckerotica.com.
His comix scripts have appeared on www.popimage.com.
Visit him online at: deckererotica.com
Read Nine Holes
Laura Gomez
Laura Gomez is a twenty four year old writer based in London,
England. She is due to be published in several literary journals
in 2003, and is currently editing her first novel 'Slumber'
- a story of gardeners, rentboys and sleepwalkers.
She can be reached at laura_h_gomez@yahoo.com
Read Tadzio - A Boy in Venice
Travis Jon Mader
Travis Jon Mader is currently enjoying life in his home town
on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he is working on a novel. He
spent the last ten years in Houston, where, among other things,
he studied playwriting with Edward Albee, wrote and performed
with the now-defunct Queer Artist Collective and served for
six years as the Alley Theatre’s resident dramaturg.
His writing has shifted from plays to performance text to
fiction (with video art projects scattered throughout), and
his recent work has seen publication in print and online by
the University of Houston Virus Board, Stanford University
Masque, Velvet Mafia,
Duct Tape Press, Outsider
Ink, suspect
thoughts, Catalyzer, Red River Review
(Pushcart Prize nomination), 3am
Magazine, *spark-online and muse apprentice
guild. His latest project is a digital video adaptation
of his prose poem the bifurcation of me.
Read Be Prepared
Sean Meriwether
Sean's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects
rooted in the grotesque nature of everyday life. His work
has been published in Of
the Flesh, Best
Gay Erotica 2002 and Best
Gay Erotica 2001, and has appeared online in 3AM
Magazine. He is currently working on a collection
of short stories and a novel. In addition to writing, he has
the pleasure of editing Outsider
Ink and Velvet
Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction. Sean lives
in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits,
and their two dogs. Together they form Blowsquish.com,
an internet design company.
Visit him online at: seanmeriwether.com
Read exhibition
Wendell Ricketts
Wendell Ricketts was born on Wake Island, an atoll in the
Pacific Ocean, and raised in various small towns on O'ahu,
Hawai'i. His fiction and poetry have appeared in New Millennium
Writings, Blithe
House Quarterly, James White Review, POZ,
Blue Mesa Review, Salt Hill, Harrington Gay
Men's Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Doing
It For Daddy (Pat Califia, Ed.), The Dark Shade
of Our Desire: A Queer People of Color/ Mixed Blood Anthology
(A. T. Bodhrán, Ed.), and Bum
Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (T. Medina and L.
R. Rivera, Eds.). For his translation of the plays of Natalia
Ginzburg from Italian, he was awarded the 2000 PEN American
Center Renato Poggioli Prize, and his poem, "Elegy for
Matthew Shepard," was nominated for a Pushcart. He is
the editor of the forthcoming anthology, Everything I Have
Is Blue: Short Fiction about Working Class Life by More-or-Less
Gay Men. You can email him at
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Read Units of Measurement: A
Pornographic Morality Tale
Van Scott
My name is Van Scott and I have a Masters degree in Philosophy
from New York University. I've had work published in Modern
Words 7 (short story; the publication is now defunct);
SpoonFedAmerika.com
(an on-line journal; short story, recent Fall issue); and
Harrington's Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly (short story,
issue--3). These are all US journals. I am a native of New
York and of Irish/Italian extraction.
Read Piggy
Taylor Siluwé
Taylor Siluwé is a web designer who studied Creative
Writing at New York University. Founded CraZySeXyCool
Writers Group and lives in downtown Jersey City with his
dogs Taco & Mickey. He's currently working on a novel.
Visit him online at: CraZySeXyCool
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Read When Romeo Wakes
Jack Slomovits
Jack Slomovits is a commercial and portrait photographer as
well as a graphic and web designer. Maturing sexually during
the 80's, in an age of AIDS, Jack's lust for adventure was
tempered by his fear and awareness of the disease. He refocused
his sexual energy into his art and his camera became his wand
of control. Jack's work has been collected by galleries in
New York and Los Angeles, and have been published in two photographic
anthologies.
Visit him online at: jackny.com
Check Out his Photography
Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, is the author of
the novel Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003), and
editor of Tricks
and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients
(Haworth 2000) and Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on
Surviving (Haworth 2003). His writing has been widely
published, in places as diverse as Best American Erotica,
Best American Gay Fiction, Women and Performance,
and Slingshot. He is an instigator of Gay Shame: the
Virus in the System, the radical queer activist group that
celebrates resistance by fighting the monster of assimilation.
He lives in San Francisco, where he is at work on a new anthology,
Resisting Assimilation: Alternatives to the Gay Mainstream,
and a second novel.
Read the Interview with Matt
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