The Avalon Literary Review
Fall 2024 Contributors:

Author of seven collections of poems, Mark Belair’s most recent books are two works of fiction: Stonehaven (Turning Point, 2020) and its sequel, Edgewood (Turning Point, 2022). He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize multiple times, as well as for a Best of the Net Award. Please visit www.markbelair.com

Constance Brewer is the editor of Gyroscope Review poetry magazine and the author of Piccola Poesie: A Nibble of Short Form Poetry, co-author of Prayer Gardening (Kelsay Books). She’s a big fan of Welsh Corgis, weekends, and whiteline woodcuts. Find out more at constancebrewer.com

Nancy Buonaccorsi lives in her hometown of Lafayette in Northern California, where she and friends rode horses down the main street decades ago. Retirement from her career in special education gives her more time to write, as well as hike the East Bay hills, Mt. Diablo, and the Sierra. A participant in Diablo Writers Workshop for the last few years, Nancy’s work has appeared in Minnow Literary Magazine, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Where The Meadows Reside, among others. Her love of animals includes her dogs, cat, hives of honeybees, and most other creatures. 

Jack Coey is seventy-seven years old, and often times, first thing in the morning when he goes into the kitchen, he has to ask, "I'm sorry, could you tell me your name again?" 

Anita Durkin’s poems stretch language to find new possibles. She grew up in Hartford, Connecticut and currently lives in exurban West Hartford. Her poems have appeared in Atlas and Alice, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Fairfield Review, New Square, and various anthologies, most recently, Of Hartford in Many Lights. She is the unit chair for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center union, Local 2110 UAW. When not writing, you can find her strumming her guitar, working for social justice, raising her children, and in trees.

David A. Goodrum is the author of Vitals and Other Signs of Life (The Poetry Box) and Sparse Poetica (Audience Askew). Recent publications include Tar River Poetry, Gyroscope, San Antonio Review, I-70 Review, Cirque, Banyan Review, Tampa Review, among others. David lives in Corvallis, Oregon. See more at www.davidgoodrum.com.

Tayler Koppenaal is a recent graduate of Columbia College and an aspiring poet from Missouri. She plans to pursue an MFA in the future.

Michael J. LaFrancis is a trusted advisor, advocate, author and connector supporting individuals, groups and organizations aligning purpose and capabilities in service of their highest ideals. Writing poetry is a contemplative practice providing him with insight and inspiration for living a creative life. His poems are also appearing in Amethyst Review, City Key, Mocking Owl, One Art and Last Leaves, Seraphic Review now or in the coming months. @michaeljlafrancis on Instagram

David Langlinais’ stories have appeared in South Dakota Review, Los Angeles Review, Concho River Review, The MacGuffin, and many others. He’s published two story collections (UL Press), and has just finished a novel.

 
Maureen Mancini Amaturo, NY-based fashion/beauty writer with a Creative Writing MFA, teaches writing, founded and leads Sound Shore Writers Group, and produces literary and gallery events. Her more than 100 publications globally include fiction, essays, CNF, poetry, and comedy. A handwriting analyst diagnosed her with an overdeveloped imagination. She’s working to live up to that.

Elizabeth Morse’s fiction and poetry have been published in literary magazines such as Kestrel, The Raven’s Perch, and Blue Lake Review. Her story was shortlisted in the Panurge Tale of Two Cities Fiction Competition (UK). A poetry chapbook, The Color Between the Hours, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her full-length poetry collection, Unreasonable Weather, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in 2025. She has her MFA from Brooklyn College.

Donna Myers is a mom and writing consultant whose work has appeared or is forthcoming The Ecological Citizen, The Milk House, Reverie Magazine, and elsewhere. She has a master's in writing and is currently completing a memoir about the four years her family spent raising poultry and Bretonne Pie Noir cattle in the Haute-Vienne department of France. You can find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/donna-myers-writing-consultant.

 
Penny Nolte is a writer and educator.  Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in literary magazines and academic journals.  She lives and works in Montpelier, Vermont.

 
Kevin Novalina has published two short story collections, Death Roll and Ink On Wood, and has had fiction, non-fiction and poetry published in over 200 literary journals, magazines and anthologies.  He has won numerous writing competitions and was nominated for multiple prizes and awards, including three Pushcart Prizes.

Cathy Porter’s poetry has appeared in Plainsongs, Homestead Review, California Quarterly, Hubbub, Cottonwood, Comstock Review, and various other journals. She has several chapbooks available from Finishing Line Press, Dancing Girl Press, and Maverick Duck Press. Bodies Of One Breath is forthcoming in 2024 from Dancing Girl Press. Cathy has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Omaha, NE.

 
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, and novels. His stories have been accepted more than 550 times by journals, magazines, and anthologies including The American Writers Review, Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He was nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes and once for inclusion in Best of the Net anthology. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.

 
Anne Savage is from New York state.

Greg Sevik is a poet, translator, and English professor at the Community College of Baltimore County. His poems and translations have been published in Big Windows Review, Ekphrastic Review, Inventory, Vagabond City, and elsewhere. He is working on his first book.

Harvey Silverman is a retired old coot who writes nonfiction primarily for his own enjoyment. He lives in New Hampshire. 
Paul Smith writes poetry & fiction.  He lives in Skokie, Illinois with his wife Flavia.  Sometimes he performs poetry at an open mic in Chicago.  He believes that brevity is the soul of something he read about once, and whatever that something is or was, it should be cut in half immediately.

 
Eric Subpar is a poet from Washington State where he lives with his wife and three sons. @EricSubpar on Twitter. 

Sharon Whitehill a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems in various literary magazines, her publications include two academic biographies, two memoirs, a full collection of poems, and three poetry chapbooks. Here latest, This Sad and Tender Time (Kelsay Books) appeared in December 2023.

Sam Woods is from Ontario, Canada.

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, a conga drummer/percussionist who plays for dance classes and rumbas, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fiction. He has published five chapbooks and his writing has appeared in hundreds of literary journals, more recently in Hibiscus, The Raven's Perch, Ranger, Orange Juice, and many others.