Antae Third Issue // David McVey lectures at New College Lanarkshire in Scotland. He has published over 150 short stories and a great deal of non-fiction that focuses on history and the outdoors.

Antae Third Issue // Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/they) is the author of Through the Lens of Time (2026), a fiction collection with Thirty West Publishing, and These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things (2022), a book of poetry from Really Serious Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in [...]

Antae Writing Advice// W.B Yeats on Writing W.B Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright widely considered one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, whose early work was deeply influenced by Irish myths and folklore. [...]

Antae Third Issue // Roshni Marath Jairaj is a Non-Resident Indian poet and writer currently based in the UK. Her work reflects her experiences growing up in Dubai, Singapore, and Kerala, exploring themes of identity, family, and belonging. She is a PhD student at the University of Leeds, [...]

Antae Third Issue // Steven Fortune is a resident of Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) and a graduate of Acadia University (English Literature/History). He has released five poetry collections to date, edited several works for others, and has also appeared on CBC Radio, [...]

Antae Writing Advice// Junot Diaz on Becoming a Writer Junot Diaz is a critically acclaimed Dominican-American author. Known for his fiction that explores the immigrant experience, identity, and diaspora, his major works include the short story collection 'Drown' and [...]

Antae Third Issue // Srinjay Chakravarti is a writer, editor, and translator based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. He was educated at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and at universities based in Calcutta and New Delhi. University degrees: BSc (Economics honours) and MA (English). A former [...]

Antae Third Issue // Crafting short fiction that moves the reader is Rory Doherty’s passion. In addition to being a writer, Rory is and has been many things: son, brother, student, athlete, soldier, bartender, teacher, husband, father, business owner, pet lover, etc.

It's that time of year again! Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more! ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.

Antae Third Issue // Susana H Case Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love (Broadstone Books) and co editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press). The first of her five [...]

Antae Third Issue // Claudia Wysocky, a Polish writer and poet based in New York, is known for her diverse literary creations, including fiction and poetry. Her poems, such as ‘Stargazing Love’ and ‘Heaven and Hell’, reflect her ability to capture the beauty of life through rich descriptions. [...]

Antae Third Issue // Jennifer Choi is a passionate high school student. Her love for poetry began at an early age, and she finds inspiration in exploring themes of identity, love, and the complexities of the human experience through her writing.

Antae Third Issue // Iliria Osum is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works on unceded Kumeyaay land in Southern California. Prose and poetry have most recently been published in Glint, Welter, and OFIC, while dramatic and interactive work has been produced in La Jolla, [...]

Antae Third Issue // Abdullahi Buba was born in Hambagda, Gwoza, Borno State, Nigeria. He has a B.A English Language from University of Maiduguri. He lectures in the Department of Remedial and General Studies, Mohammed Goni College of Legal Islamic and Educational Studies. He resides in Maiduguri.

Antae Third Issue // Roger B. Rueda moves with ease between the rigor of grammar and the lyricism of poetry. His books, A Plain & Practically Lucid English Grammar and Vines and Verges: Short Stories, reflect his fascination with language—its rhythms, its subtleties, its power. [...]

Antae Third Issue // Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. He has received recognition in [...]

Antae Third Issue // HR Harper is a writer living in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, California. A student of meditation and the emptying traditions, he writes to understand the nature of human consciousness in a natural world humans seem to be destroying. He began to publish in 2021.

Our submission window is now open! We look forward to receiving your flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and more over on [email protected]. Submission guidelines are available over on website.

Antae Third Issue // Giles Goodland's books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022.

Antae Third Issue // Marcon De Giorgio is a Maltese writer whose love for language led her to pursue a study in English. Although she loves most genres, she mainly enjoys writing fantasy stories. Her love for myth and monsters has moved with her since her youth, but only recently has she [...]

Antae Third Issue // James "JT" Beatty is a double-major in Religious Studies and Journalism at Louisiana State University. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he drills in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and works at a children's museum.

Antae Third Issue // Maria Grech Ganado (b.1943) has won National Book Prizes for four of her eight poetry collections in Maltese or English and co-organised an international seminar with LAF and Inizjamed in Malta in 2005. She has been translated into 12 other languages and published in many [...]

Antae Third Issue // Grant Shimmin is a New Zealand writer and poet who grew up in South Africa and prizes humanity and the natural world as subjects. He is an editor for the US-based literary journal Does it Have Pockets? [...]

Antae Third Issue // Anita Howard is a writer, storyteller and actor living in Passage West, Co. Cork, Ireland. Her work features in many publications including HeadStuff, Poetica Review, the Querencia Press Autumn 22 Anthology, the December 2022 Mslexia Moth, Literature Today, [...]

Antae Third Issue // Paul Stephenson’s first collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in 2023. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Polari Book Prize. He published three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), [...]

Antae Second Issue // Greg Roensch Greg Roensch writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His writing has appeared in Dream Noir, 365 Tomorrows, Defiant Scribe, and elsewhere. [...]

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Antae Second Issue // Wayne Russell is a creative jack of all trades, master of none. Poet, singer, artist, rhythm guitarist, photographer, and author of the poetry books Splinter of the Moon and Waves of Lucidity [...]

Antae Second Issue // Marianne Tefft is a poet and voice-over reader who daylights as a Montessori teacher in Toronto, Canada. Her poems and short stories have appeared online, in print and on air in North America, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.

Antae Second Issue // Priscille Nyeck is a Cameroonian 20-year-old student at the Faculty of Education. She is a playwright, poet and short story writer.

Antae Second Issue // Emecheta Christian is a vivid writer whose work explores themes of selfactualization, belonging, and the complexities of the human experience. His works have appeared in esteemed literary journals and anthologies such as The Potter's Poetry, Indiana Review, Oxford American,

Antae Second Issue // Annie ZH Sun is a writer born in China but grew up in Malta. She graduated from the Msc Creative Writing programme at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in Bag of Bones Press’s This is Tense anthology, Band of Bards’ Dark Side of Purity zine, and was [...]

Antae Second Issue // Poet-translator Lorraine Caputo’s works appear in over 500 journals on six continents. Caputo has 24 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023). She also writes travel narratives, articles and guides.

Antae Second Issue // Bernard Pearson's work appears in over one hundred publications worldwide, including Aesthetica Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, and Crossways. In 2017 a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press.

Antae Second Issue // Noah Galea is currently a postgraduate student with the Department of English at the University of Malta. He has recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English with Philosophy which complements his passion for creative writing.

Antae Second Issue // John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Tenth Muse. Latest books - Between Two Fires, Covert and Memory Outside The Head - are available through Amazon.

We are very pleased to announce that the two winning entries of ANTAE's New Talent Competition, themed around 'Heat', have been posted. Mark Anthony Cassar and Alessia Camilleri have written amazing pieces of speculative fiction, well worth the read! They have been awarded 70 and 30 euros [...]

Antae Second Issue // Peter A. Witt Peter A. Witt is a Texas poet and a retired university professor. His work has been nominated twice for Best of the Net. His work has appeared on a variety of online poetry and in print publications including: The Wide Owl, [...]

Antae Second Issue // Dee Allen African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California U.S.A. Active in creative writing & spoken word since the early 1990s. Author of 10 books: Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, [...]

☼ Antae's third issue is out now! ☼ As summer inches closer, we would love to share a cluster of writing that will surely spark your enjoyment. A big thank you to our creative contributors! You can view our issue through the link in our bio.

Antae Second Issue // Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s work can be found in Think Journal, Able Muse, The Lyric, Great Weather for Media & other venues. She has been nominated for The Best of the Net, Pushcart, Elgin & Rhysling Awards. Her latest book is Curses, Black Spells & Hexes (Alien Buddha).

Antae Second Issue // Declan Jones is an emerging Irish writer experienced in theatrical and literary writing, looking to contribute to LGBTI+ promotion and positive change within the literary, theatre and film industry. Graduating from the University of Galway in 2016 with a degree [...]

Antae Second Issue // Richard Oyama’s work has appeared in Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, The Nuyorasian Anthology, Breaking Silence, Dissident Song, A Gift of Tongues, About Place, Konch Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, Buddhist Poetry Review and other journals.

Antae Second Issue // Cynthia Gallaher, a Chicago USA-based poet, is author of four poetry collections, including Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs and Spices, and three chapbooks, including Drenched. Her award-winning nonfiction/memoir/creativity guide is [...]

Antae Second Issue // Tommy Cheis is a Chiricahua guide and diyyin. He resides near the Cochise Stronghold with his horses. His short stories (will) appear in Yellow Medicine Review, After Dinner Conversation, Invisible City, University of Mexico’s Look to the Mountains anthology, and others.

Antae Second Issue // Corrine Zahra is a 25-year-old creative nonfiction writer from New York and Gozo. She recently graduated from the M.A. in the humanities program at the University of Chicago.

Antae Second Issue // Ken Poyner’s nine collections of brief fictions and poetry can be found at Amazon and most online booksellers. He spent 33 years in information system management, is married to a world record holding female power lifter, and has a family of several rescue cats and betta fish.

Antae Second Issue // Rebecca Clifford holds a B.A. in English Literature and a certificate in Creative Writing. She is a member of Tower Poetry Society, The Ontario Poetry Society, and the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers.

Join Antae this Thursday 10th April for Serving Kotba on Campus! 📚 Our workshop, "Creating Memorable Characters: A Creative Writing Workshop", will be held around noon, and we look forward to seeing you there! The link to the event: fb.me/e/9RgeM81JS

We are delighted to announce our first ever New Talent Competition! The competition is open to local writers and offers prize money for the most outstanding submissions. Submission is also free! Please visit our Special Events page for further detail: www.um.edu.mt/antae/events...