January 2021 | visual art
Pregnant Tree Nymph
Dave Sims
A retired educator, Dave Sims now makes art and music in the old mountains of Pennsylvania. His digital art and comix appear in over four dozen tangible and virtual publications, galleries, and exhibits. He’s a featured artist at the Raw Art Review/UnCollected Press which recently published his fiction collection The Carcass and Other Stories. Experience more at www.tincansims.com
January 2021 | Best of Net nominee, visual art
Before the Storm
Just Take Me Home
Harry Longstreet
Harry Longstreet is retired after twenty-five years as a writer, producer and director of filmed entertainment, primarily for television. He’s always looking for images that speak to the human condition and the world around him. He favors ambient light and unposed, unaware subjects. In the last fifteen years, he’s had a number of one-man shows, and his work has appeared in more than two hundred national and international juried exhibitions. Longstreet is twice a Single Image Merit Award recipient from Black & White Magazine and twice a Single Image Merit Award winner from Color Magazine. In 2013, he was awarded the Gold Medal (monochrome) in the International Varna Salon, and in 2014, he took Best in Show in the annual CVG Washington State competition and in 2017 First Place-Photography.
January 2021 | visual art
Cactus
Independent Boy
Lawrence Bridges
Lawrence Bridges is best known for work in the film and literary world. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums, Flip Days, and Brownwood. As a filmmaker, he created a series of literary documentaries for the NEA’s “Big Read” initiative, which include profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick.
January 2021 | visual art
Gourd Houses
In A Cold Rain
Adam Coulter
Adam Coulter is a native of Western North Carolina. He works in the medium of photography and is a self-taught artist, devoting much of his time to exploring new ways to photograph. After completing several workshops in photography he began submitting his photos to local art galleries. Since then his work has been displayed in galleries across the country. He continues developing his photography skills and has lately begun learning darkroom technique, opening a new door of possibilities for his photography.
January 2021 | visual art
Surprisingly Nobody Noticed the New Neighbors
Dogwood
Still Life with Twig and Frost
Martha Nance
Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota whose iPhone has a wandering eye. Her photographs have been published previously in journals such as The Esthetic Apostle, Wanderlust, Northwest Review, and the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review.
January 2021 | visual art
Sunlight Remedios Cuba
Jeanne Julian
Jeanne Julian has shown her photography in Eastern North Carolina galleries and in juried exhibits. Her images also have been featured in journals such as Iris Literary Journal, Pearl River Quarterly, Minerva Rising, Kakalak, and Snapdragon, and in two Nature Inspired anthologies. Her travels have led her to all fifty of the United States. She now lives in Maine. www.jeannejulian.com