Featured Writer: Scot Young

In another life Scot Young used to be a construction worker but for the last 19 years he has been paid to hang out with kids. He started writing poems again after a 30 year absence and has published one or two. He may be the only school principal in America to have all of Christopher Robin's books and occasionally teaches a poetry class to the Breakfast Club. He once sang with Kenny Loggins and wrestler Dirty Dick Murdoch, but mainly he just puts bread on the table.

Read more by Scot:

The Last Lonesome Poem Ever Written in Chocolate Zomby
It is the Last Verse that Nobody Knows Blues in Side of Grits
Bukowski Drank Here in Outsider Writers
Open All Night in Gloom Cupboard
Butterflies on the Rocks in Six Sentences
Stones Section 60 on Sketchbook

Scot's homepage

Alan Kelly

Serious, ridiculous, overblown, pretentious & warped, Alan K has written for Film Ireland, Streetwise, The City Guidebook, Pretty-Scary, GCN, Penny Blood, 3:AM and ButcherQueers. His fiction has appeared in Beat the Dust, Lit Up Magazine, Gold Dust, Parasitic, Dogmatika, The Bloodied Quill and forthcoming in Sein and Werden

Steve Ely

Extracts from Steve Ely's massive poem JerUSAlem, have been published in a range of litzines, including Beat the Dust, Laura Hird Showcase, Dogmatika, Black Mail Press & Paper Cut. Other poems and short stories by Ely have been published in Literary Chaos, Lit Up, Lilies & Cannonballs Review, the Savage Kick, The Slab of Fun, Magma and elsewhere.

Paul Corman-Roberts

Paul Corman-Roberts toils in a boiler room next
to the edge of a major-interstate highway. "At least
it's job security!" Shoot him if you get a chance. Or
check out his site & stuff at
www.paulcormanroberts.com.

Donna D. Vitucci

Donna D. Vitucci lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio, helping raise funds for local nonprofits. Since 1990 her stories have appeared in dozens of print and online journals. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Front Porch Journal, Juked, Night Train, Ginosko, Insolent Rudder, Smokelong Quarterly, mourning silence, and Another Chicago Magazine. Abacus was written after walking the shore of Lake Michigan during a very special artists’ retreat this past September.

Ben Tanzer

Ben Tanzer is the author of the novels Lucky Man (Manx Media, 2007) and Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine (Orange Alert Press, 2008) and the short story collection Repetition Patterns (CCLaP, 2008). He also blogs at This Blog Will Change Your Life, which is the centerpiece of his vast, albeit faux, media empire, and edits This Zine Will Change Your Life, which you should totally submit to. Cool?

Charles Brooks III

Charles Clifford Brooks III is a poet and freelance writer living in Georgia USA. He was inducted into the National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College where he also obtained a BS in History\Political Science with a minor in English Literature. Along with his creative endeavors, he also contributes articles to several magazines and a newspaper. He was recently brought on as Poetry Editor for Literary Magic Magazine. In August of 2008, Ghost Shadow Press picked up his first book of poetry “Whirling Metaphysics” to publish in 2009.

Aleathia Drehmer

Aleathia Drehmer is currently trying to hibernate for the winter, but not having much success. She is an active staff member for The Guild of the Outsider Writers. She lives with her darling daughter and crazy cat, Carrot, in rural Painted Post, NY. She has been lucky enough to be published in many online and print journals over the last few years. She is even luckier to have great friends and one damned patient boyfriend.

William D. Freeman

I graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 2006 with a BA in English
Literature. My poems have previously appeared in The Duke's Dispatch,
The Stylus and online in LitUp Mag. My freelance work has appeared on
linux.com. In addition to poetry, my interests include travel,
photography, blues and jazz guitar and free software advocacy and I
currently work for a web hosting company.

David Erlewine

David Erlewine has approximately 30 short stories and flashes published in numerous print and web lit journals, some of which can be viewed at

http://www.sunoasis.com/movingon.html, http://webdelsol.com/InPosse/erlewine15.htm, http://issuu.com/dlbarringer/docs/whathappenedtous

For a person generally (if mistakenly) viewed as happy, his fiction certainly would never be described that way. He often thinks about Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment and other such happy things.

Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan writes short essays from his home in the Pacific Northwest. His writing has recently appeared in a number of webzines and magazines, including Bad Idea Magazine (UK), Eleventh Transmission (Canada), The Short Humour Site (UK), Backhand Stories, and The Externalist. Thomas is the author of Life In The Slow Lane, which recounts a hair-raising summer spent teaching driver’s education (available at lulu). Contact the author at tmpsull@hotmail.com.

Mikael Covey

Mikael Covey is editor of Lit Up Magazine. His writing has appeared in a number of on-line and print journals, including Storyglossia, 3AM Magazine, Laura Hird Showcase, Word Riot, and Dogmatika.

See more from Mikael Covey at
Mikael Covey on blogspot
Bookchapters
Literary Monthly

Crystal Folz

I live in rural Indiana with my husband and two sons. I work as a bookkeeper for a small Carnegie library.

I never shared my work with anyone except a few friends. They urged me to write and show instead of write and hide. Thanks to those friends, I now have the courage to show others what has been inside of me for so long.

During the submitting process, I discovered work by fantastic writers I might never have had the pleasure of viewing, but places where I could see their work were very few.

I decided to create a place where I would enjoy visiting everyday to see quality work by writers who have remained hidden over the years.

I am co-editor of Shoots and Vines Zine. We have a great team of folks who love to read and want to promote underground writers who haven't made it to the mainstream (and even if they do we will still love them).

I hope you enjoy our zine. We want to post new work everyday but that depends on how often you feed us the good stuff.

Publications:
The Guild of Outsider Writers - Mirrors
Lit Up Magazine - Olive Water
Gloom Cupboard #60 - No Fear
Pleasure on Six Sentences

Read more from Crystal:
Uncovering Crystal


Did I mention rollerderby gals get special treatment? ;)

Our Compost

The purpose of this site is to promote writers and artists who have been published in Shoots and Vines Zine. Inside, you will find bios and links to your favorites from our zine and where to find them on the net and in print.