Editor’s Note
I have been deluding myself for weeks that the Issue 4 Editor’s Note is going to write itself. That I just have to take it easy and let it come to me.
Here’s what happened this morning: Tejaswinee sends me the final draft (minus the editorial), and seeing 265 pages I tell her, “Thought this was supposed to be a lean issue.” To which she says, “It takes time to lose weight.”
There, like that, the Founding Editor has arrived with her vintage savagery, launching a lemon I shall build my lemonade upon.
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Now that I’m rehydrated and there’s no blank page staring at me, something about Issue 4 and other recent stuff since the Founding Editor has been too busy (that’s what she tells everyone) to deliver our monthly newsletter in months:
Murals, our first themed issue, guest-edited by the absolutely fantastic François Bereaud, was a hit—thanks to all who sent work, read the full-colour special, and spread love. But François is not done yet. He is brewing something superb that might actually happen.
The Weekly Features have been going stronger than ever: We have works lined up till October and a good many unread submissions in our inbox as I lie on my back to write this.
We have a new publishing concern, the ASAP Corner, where we invite reviews and promise ASAP turnaround and publication.
There have been discussions to do another Wee Hooghly—our young creatives special. More news will follow soon and Wee Hooghly may switch to year-long submissions for kids around the world.
Issue 4 was supposed to be leaner—thanks to cool new developments in your two editors’ academic careers and the time our new gigs demand. We did receive tons of blew-me-away submissions this time too, and it will always be a pain to send emails nobody likes to see. Still, Issue 4 is brimming with beauty and packs enough pages to be enjoyed for weeks.
And we now have contributors from 60 countries based on all the works we have published and scheduled so far.
And we want to take over the world and for the world to take us over with all its beautiful bounties waiting to be discovered.
And you can always write to us with praise, complaints, suggestions, and anything you want.
And we will always love you.
Ankit Raj Ojha
April 2025
Karnal
Inside the Issue
CURATED BY — Ankit Raj Ojha & Tejaswinee Roychowdhury
COVER ART — Sarang Bhand
COVER DESIGN — Ankit Raj Ojha
INTERIOR DESIGN — Tejaswinee Roychowdhury
EDITOR’S NOTE — Ankit Raj Ojha (ft. Tejaswinee)
POETRY — Ace Boggess | Allan Johnston | Amlanjyoti Goswami | Barnali Ray Shukla | Brandon Arnold | Christian Ward | Elaine Pentaleri | Eugenia Pozas | Gopal Lahiri | Gordon Vells | Jarek Jarvis | John Grey | KG Newman | Kushal Poddar | Michael Mirolla | Namratha Varadharajan | Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad | Richard Collins | Sahana Ahmed | Samuel Faulk | Saraswati Nagpal | Solape Adetutu Adeyemi
MICRO PROSE — Allison Field Bell | Andrea Green | Catherine Rossi | Chitra Gopalakrishnan | Chris Clemens | Clodagh O Connor | Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos | Eve Müller | Jacqueline Goyette | Jahnavi Gogoi | Johannah Simon | Ken Poyner | Laura Eppinger | Rola Elnaggar | Slawka G. Scarso | Vishwas Tanwar
FLASH FICTION — Aditi Dasgupta | Andrea Marcusa | JP Relph | Jennifer Worrell | Josie Turner | Rebecca Field | Roopa Menon | T.L. Tomljanovic
SHORT FICTION — Adédoyin Àjàyí | Aisling Phillips | Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch | C. J. Anderson-Wu | Derrick Martin-Campbell | Gloria Rose-Potts | Juliet Waller | Kavan P. Stafford | Kiran Gandhi | Nicholas De Marino | Nina Miller | Peter F. Crowley | Sai Pradhan | Salma Ahmed | Stuart Docherty
CREATIVE NONFICTION — Jasmina Kuenzli | Maureen Tai | Megan Hanlon | Meredith Toumayan | Susan H. Evans | Suzanne C Martinez
DRAMA — Daniel Gauss | Felix Racelis | Jaime Alejandro Cruz | Richard Newman
ART — Carl Scharwath | Cynthia Yatchman | Michael Moreth | Nuala McEvoy | Sabyasachi Roy
PHOTOGRAPHY — Michael Smith | Winniefred Sharp
MIXED MEDIA — James Diaz | Joshua Diabo