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unit on creative writing at the University of Malta.

Antae Fifth Issue // Andrew Zammit Montebello has been a lifelong writer and reader. Since he was young, he'd voraciously consumed stories that bridged genres and took inspiration for his own writing. He has honed his craft by writing and publishing short stories online and has taken a [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Farsi, Greek, Spanish, Slovenian and Serbian. After living in Canada for 46 years, now he lives between Canada, Malta and beyond. His latest collection of poetry is entitled The Lost Coyote (2026, Sulfur Editions and Horizons Malta).

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // John P. Portelli is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He has published eleven academic books and twelve collections of poetry, two collections of short stories, and two novels. His works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

seminar (RE-VISIONS) with LAF (Literature Across Frontiers) and Inizjamed in Malta. She has been awarded by the State, the University of Malta and her hometown, Floriana. Maria has 3 children and 3 grandchildren.

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Antae Fifth Issue // Maria Grech Ganado (b.1943) has won National Book Prizes for 4 of her 8 poetry collections in Maltese or English, has been published in English in the USA, UK, Australia and Cyprus, as well as in translation to 15 other languages. In 2005 she coorganised an international [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

shifted, now tending to prefer the likes of Sally Rooney, José Saramago, and Immanuel Mifsud.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Michaela Pia Camilleri is a Maltese lawyer who often contemplates reading for an English degree. An avid reader as a child, having loved anything by Enid Blyton, Anthony Horowitz, and Rick Riordan, her taste has slightly [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

been performed by drama groups throughout Ireland. His first professional production was at INK Short Play festival in 2023.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Mike Guerin is a writer and drama teacher from the mountainous uplands of North Cork. He writes poetry, plays, and prose and has had work published in journals nationally and internationally. In 2022 he won the Listowel Writers Week short story competition. His plays have [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Lavanya Arora is an independent researcher and writer from India. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Soft Union, Muse India, Tamarind Literary, and elsewhere. In a past life, they tried understanding plant and bacterial DNA.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Review, Prosetrics and elsewhere. Meanwhile, her visual art, mainly photography and self-portraiture, is featured in Hominum Journal, Welter, Occulum, Antler Velvet, Bleating Thing and other outlets. She is currently working on her first poetry collection. Tumblr & Twitter: @godstained

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // a.d. is drawn to the sacred, the profane, the mysterious and the mythological, which provides inspiration for her work. She is a Pushcart- and BotN-nominated bisexual poet, writer and visual artist, and her work is published in HAD, Aôthen, THINK, REDAMANCY Mag, ECHO [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Damen's poems can be found in Aesthetica Literary Journal, Arc Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales and other journals. His latest book is Walking the Boundary (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024).

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Damen O'Brien is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. His prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry, and the Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Two pamphlets, Grit 1 and 2, from the lamented Urchik Press. Bilingual book, RSVP, with Michel Borla, just published in France. Substack: substack.com/@jimpaterson...

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Jim Paterson is a Scottish writer who taught in the Highlands for years, before moving to Perpignan. Recent work in City of Poets, Ink, Sweat and Tears and PoetryBus. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

published in collaboration with the British Council. A Rhysling Award and Pushcart nominee, he was selected to be a fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa; was a 2021 Langston Hughes Fellow at the Palm Beach Festival and Poet Laureate for Korea Nigeria Poetry Festival.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Soonest Nathaniel is a poet, digital media strategist, broadcast journalist, and spoken word artist. His poetry collection, Teaching Father How to Impregnate Women, was selected as a winner of the RL Poetry Award. His second book – Burying The Ghost of Dead Narratives – was

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Abigail’s poems, translations and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, CounterText, and mpT, among others. Abigail is currently researching desert landscapes from around four continents and her most hybrid collection :deserere #desertum is forthcoming with Tupelo Press (2028).

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Antae Fifth Issue // Abigail Ardelle Zammit is a Maltese writer, editor and educator. Her poetry collections are Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh (Etruscan Press, 2025), Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (SPM, 2015) and Voices from the Land of Trees (Smokestack, 2007). [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

His work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He is at work on a book of poetry called Choirpunk. He lives on a creek called Second River in Montclair, New Jersey, and teaches at the Juilliard School in New York.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Anthony Lioi has published poetry in Blast Furnace, FAUNA, Now Hear This, Watershed, Environmental Philosophy, The Dark Mountain Project, The Green Humanities, Numinous, Assaracus, and the anthology Poetics for the More-ThanHuman World. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Her novels include Too Much on the Inside and A Place for People Like Us (Oct 2025) Her first graphic novel will be published in 2026.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Danila Botha is the author of three short story collections: Got No Secrets, For All the Men (and Some of the Women I’ve Known) and Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The thematic preoccupation of his works mostly center on poverty, starvation, and bad governance. His poems 'Maraya' and 'Ours' have appeared in LIBER, an anthology of poems, and 'Our Torchbearers' published in ANTAE, a creative writing journal, Malta.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Abdullahi Buba lives in Maiduguri, Nigeria. He had his B. A. English from University of Maiduguri, Borno state. He lectures in the department of Remedial and General Studies, Mohammed Goni College of Legal, Islamic and Educational Studies, Maiduguri. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

[...] Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems with The American Poetry Review, Poetry International, North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Red Rock Review and DIAGRAM. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is a disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father's struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

[...] and Lit Shark and flash at Falling Star Magazine

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Dustin P Brown is a Michigan-born, Spain-based author of poetry and prose. He received his BA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and currently works as an editor and interpreter. He’s published poetry at dozens of journals including Bacopa Literary[...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

˚　.*　.　✦ Antae's Vol. 9 Issue 3 is out now! 　 ˚　.　　. ✦˚　　　　 This edition features a guest editorial by Izabela Morska, a writer, poet, essayist, and lecturer, as well as many other intriguing literary pieces. Happy reading! ₊˚⊹☆

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

[...] dabbles in creative non-fiction, fantasy and comedy. All her stories include elements of nature, identity, and humanity, as these are things that inspire her daily. You can find her on Instagram as @tina_naturaa for updates on her writings and other pursuits.

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Antae Fourth Issue // Martina G. Mifsud is a young Maltese biologist and writer. She's currently completing her Masters in Environmental and Rural Sciences at the University of Malta. A scientist at heart, she experiments with different genres, mainly science fiction and horror, but also [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, River And South and The Alembic. Latest books, “Bittersweet” , “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Rush, White Wall Review and Flights.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

[...] You can also connect with him on Instagram @from__a__poet.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Douglas Thornton is an English teacher living in France. He has published two books of poetry (The Uninitiated, Woodland Poems) and a collection of prose (Seasons Of Mind) while currently maintaining a website: www.fromapoet.com. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

[...] Anthology and others. She is the winner of the Horror Competition in Edinburgh Writer's Club.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Annie ZH Sun is a Chinese Writer who grew up in Malta. She graduated with a Msc in Creative Writing with distinction from the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in Hex, IHRAM Press, Bag of Bones Press 'This is too Tense' anthology, 'Silk and Foxglove’ [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Marie C. Lecrivain is a writer, and co-publisher of, Sybaritic Press, and an ordained priestess in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, the ecclesiastical arm of O.T.O. Her work has appeared in California Quarterly, OMNI Reboot (under the pen name M. Justine Gerard), [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Now, he is retired due to ill health, but occasionally works pro bono as a director of photography on student films. His passion these days is for large-format fine-art photography.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Eamonn Stewart was born in 1964 in Belfast, and, while still at school, won first prize in the Irish Children’s National Poetry Competition, on two occasions. He trained in advertising photography and worked as a curator in a photographic gallery. [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Tint Journal, Coffin Bell Journal, Permafrost Magazine. Find her on Twitter @lbeni894 and Instagram @benignileslie.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Leslie Benigni is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Pittsburgh, PA. She received her MFA from Bowling Green State University and has been published in many publications including, but not limited to: ANMLY, LandLocked, [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

[...] army service in the Arctic. He immigrated to Israel in 1989. Vidgop received a presidential writing grant; his latest book was published by NLO, and his stories appeared in Los Angeles Review and Pembroke Magazine. His piece Nomads won Meridian’s Editors’ Prize in Prose.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Jonathan Vidgop is a theatre director, author, screenwriter, and founder of the Am haZikaron Institute for Jewish family history in Tel Aviv. Born in Leningrad in 1955, he was expelled from university in 1974 and worked as a locksmith, loader, and White Sea sailor before [...]

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Won the Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Sheila E. Murphy appeared in Verse Daily, Fortnightly Review, Poetry, Hanging Loose, and others. Most recent book: Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025). Won the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unnished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003).

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antae @antae.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Antae Fourth Issue // Originally from Boston, Mickey J. Corrigan hides out in the lush ruins of South Florida. She writes pulp fiction, literary crime, and psychological thrillers. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and chapbooks.

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