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Afterimages is a paying literary magazine by Thirty West Publishing House. Essays, reviews, short fiction, newsletters, & special submissions. ISSN: 3066-2621

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  • thirtywestph

    Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania. Read indie lit. www.thirtywestph.com

  • Mallory Smart

    THE ONLY LIVING GIRL IN CHICAGO• Editor-in-Chief @MaudlinHouse \ud83d\udcda • Person who talks about music @PodHealing \ud83c\udfa7 • Horror movies @horrorpod666 \ud83c\udfa5

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    Josh Dale is the author of Duality Lies Beneath, The Light to Never Be Snuffed, and RAGE: Stories. He is the publisher of Thirty West Publishing House. Support indie lit. www.joshdale.co www.thirtywestph.com

  • Joseph Edwin Haeger

    Joseph Edwin Haeger is the author of the disjointed crime novella BARDO (Thirty West Publishing House) and the experimental memoir LEARN TO SWIM (University of Hell Press). He lives in Spokane, WA.

  • Jason M. Thornberry

    THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • novel & memoir forthcoming • Anti-AI

  • Swetha Amit

    Swetha is a writer/author in California with an MRA from USFMFA who writes mostly flash fiction and now working on 2 novels. https://swethaamit.com).

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  • Liz deBeer

    Brief Bio: Reader, Flash Writer, Beach Walker, Cat Lover, Educator. Substack: A Lizard's Tale Website: https://www.ldebeerwriter.com

  • Dave Gregory

    Editor of Doric Literary: doric-literary.com & Fiction Editor at Exposition Review: expositionreview.com (For the moment, I'm using this Substack to reprint all my published work that, for whatever reason, is no longer available online.)

  • Mike Bagwell | Ghost Harmonics

    Reading and performing arts series in Philly

  • Lori Barrett

    Writer limping around Chicago. Find my work in Citron Review, The Pinch, Maudlin House, New World Writing and Little Engines, or crumpled lists in trash cans at the grocery store. Assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.

  • Stephanie Jones

    Stephanie is a writer & editor living in NYC. Her poetry & fiction appears in Midway Journal, Pine Hills Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Hollow & Sky, Nulla & elsewhere. She is a 2025 Rhysling Award Finalist in the long poem category.

  • allison whittenberg

    Allison Whittenberg's novels are Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored (Random House 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010). She is the author of the full-length short story collection, Carnival of Reality (Loyola University Press, 2022) .

  • Damilola Oyedeji

    Poet, essayist, and literary scholar!

  • MG Allan

    MG Allan spent nearly two decades publishing horror and suspense under a different name, but now he has shifted focus to work of a more personal nature. He is a queer writer who wants to tell queer stories.

  • David Mulry

    David is a writer from the UK. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He lives and teaches in Georgia.

  • Yuna Kang

    Yuna Kang is a queer, half-deaf, Korean-American writer based in Northern California. She loves postcards, crows, God(x), and cats.

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