GORKO Author Roundup 2024
Can’t get enough Gorko content? Wondering who is actually behind all the mess and mayhem that was The Gorko in 2024? Below you will find links to more work by writers published on The Gorko in 2024! A sincere thank you to all of our contributors. Even I, Raddy, was shocked to learn some of your true identities.
We at The Gorko believe that all artists should be listed in alphabetical order.
ANTOINE BARGEL
Antoine Bargel is a firm believer in last chances. (https://antoine.bargel.eu)
https://bebarbar.com/2024/05/08/miss-misao-misses-a-time-dependent-adaptive-geometry/
MARK BLICKLEY
Mark Blickley grew up within walking distance of New York’s Bronx Zoo and believes pizza contains not only high caloric value but high spiritual value. He is a widely published and produced author and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His latest books are the flash fiction collection ‘Hunger Pains’ (Buttonhook Press) and the text-based art collaboration with artist Amy Bassin, ‘Dream Streams’. https://www.claresongbirdspub.com/featured-authors/amy-bassin-mark-blickley/ Twitter: @Blickwords
‘Pumped Up for Next Gig’
‘So Zoo Me’
‘Leap of Faith’ (based on collage ‘Frog Concerto’)
CHERYL CAESAR
Cheryl Caesar is a writer, teacher of writing and visual artist living in Lansing. She has published a chapbook of protest poetry, Flatman, with Thurston Howl Publications. Cheryl serves as president of the Michigan College English Association.
MICHAEL CERAOLO
Michael Ceraolo is a 66-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) published, and has two more, Euclid Creek Book Two and Lawyers, Guns, and Money, in the publication pipeline.
PETER J. DELLOLIO
A freelance writer, Peter J. Dellolio has published many 250-1000 word articles on the arts, film, dance, sculpture, architecture, and culture, as well as fiction, poetry, one-act plays, and critical essays on art, film, and photography.
Read a review of his latest book, The Confession, right here.
Or just get the book here.
NOLCHA FOX
Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023, 2024, and 2025 Best of The Net. Nominee for 2023 and 2024 Pushcart Prize. Editor of Chewers by Masticadores. Co-Poetry Editor LatinosUSA.
Indulgence
Traffic Ticket
Time Knows How to Deceive
2024 Books:
Finger Painting with Words
Too Much Fun to Be Legal
Words into Elephants
End of Earth
GABRIELLA GAROFALO
Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six
and is the author of these books ‘Lo sguardo di Orfeo’; ‘L’inverno di vetro’; ‘Di altre stelle polari’; ‘Casa di erba’; ‘Blue Branches’; ‘A Blue Soul’, ‘After The Blue Rush’.
https://homeplanetnews.com/issue-17-garofalo-to-s-2/
https://homeplanetnews.com/issue-17-garofalo-to-b/
https://ywjarchive.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/a-blue-chance-by-gabriella-garofalo/
BOB GIELOW
Bob Gielow writes fiction, often using non-traditional formats, that he wishes were real. A college administrator by day, living on the New Hampshire seacoast, Bob (he/him) spins tales in formats we all use when communicating with each other: text messages, diary entries, and fictional Wikipedia posts all allow him to be clinical and thorough in describing his characters, their thinking and actions … without diminishing his ability to explore the resulting human emotions. Bob has over 35 short stories published in numerous online and print publications.
‘Bottom Button’ at Every Day Fiction
‘Snitch’ at A Story in 100 Words
‘A Loaf of Wheat Bread’s Dream is thwarted by Matzo’ at Greener Pastures Magazine
CHARLES HOLDEFER
Charles Holdefer is a writer based in Brussels.
Story collection: Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic
KEN KAKAREKA
Ken Kakareka is an American writer of works of fiction and nonfiction, such as BULLSHIT (Anxiety Press, 2024) and Summer of Irresponsibility (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). He is a 2025 Best of the Net nominee.
“Encounter” by Ken Kakareka – Fast Pop Lit (nominated for Best of the Net)
the incident by Ken Kakareka; poem unrhymed
LIZ LYDIC
Liz Lydic is a mom, writer, and local government employee in the Los Angeles area. She also does theatre stuff.
Realistic Valentine’s Day Movies Where the Woman Doesn’t Get the Guy in the End
Wilson the Volleyball May Finally Be Ready to Accept Chuck Noland’s Apology
Reservations at Cafe bord de Mer
COREY PAJKA
Corey Pajka is a Brooklyn, New York-based writer. He tries to take himself seriously, but his goofy t-shirts and love of Kenny vs. Spenny makes it difficult. His satirical work has been published by Points in Case, The Weekly Humorist, The Broadway Beat, Funny Times and others. He is the founder and editor of the socio-political satire site, The Flak (https://www.the-flak.com/). His plays have been produced at numerous venues Off and Off-Off Broadway in New York, and at regional theatres across the United States. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, playwright D.L. Siegel. http://www.coreypajka.com
‘I Thought it Would Be Easier for You to Drop Everything and Cater to My Needs’ – An Impromptu, Unnecessary Desk-Side Check In With Your Co-Worker – via The Weekly Humorist, September 2024
‘Un Gros Chat Andalou’ – via The Offing’s Wit Tea Subsection, June 2024
‘Take Us to Your Leader, and Someone Who Can Help Us Score Tickets to the Eras Tour!’ – via Funny Times, March 2024, and The Flak, November 2023
STEVE PASSEY
Steve Passey is from Southern Alberta. He is the author of many things, and no one likes him.
Fury of the Gorgons
God Wants You to Be Free and Not have to Put up With Other People’s Shit
Fumbucker
In Line at the Walmart with All the Other Damned: Short Stories
MICHAEL POLLENTINE
Michael Pollentine works outside. His writing is mainly found on the net and occasionally in print. He lives in South Wales with his wife and their cat Gypsy. His first poetry collection Revealing Without Revealing forthcoming January 2025. https://linktr.ee/michaelpollentine
Herdsman published by Urban Pigs Press
Cosmic Joke on Dumbo Press
Desiccated Embryos on the HNW Netlabel
STEEN W. RASMUSSEN
Steen W. Rasmussen was a singer/songwriter and guitarist in Denmark – his native land. He now resides in New York City and is a member of Woodside Writers, a literary forum that meets weekly. His poetry and prose have appeared in Scars Publication, Down and Dirty Magazine, Ekphrastic Review, Dear Booze, Horror Sleaze Trash, Dadakuku, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Sparks of Calliope.
THE PAINFUL SUNRISE
IN THE DYING EMBERS
THE FOOD CHAIN
leonard scott
Leonard Henry Scott is a Bronx born graduate of P.S. 34 who presently lives with his wife, Hattie in National Harbor, Maryland. Len’s work has appeared in; Sci Phi Journal, Mystery Tribune, Crack the Spine, The MacGuffin and elsewhere.
‘New People’ – Piker Press, December 16, 2024.
https://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=10828
‘First Day’ – Rigorous, Vol. 8, October 2024
rigorous-mag.com/v8/leonard-henry-scott.html
LION SUMMERBELL
Lion Summerbell is a writer who was once described. If you squint, he lives in Paris.
T: @lionsummerbell
W: linktr.ee/lionsummerbell
https://minorliteratures.com/2024/11/28/lo-mira-mira-lion-summerbell
https://maudlinhouse.net/escuchamos/
https://ricjournal.com/2024/09/28/hellegat-lion-summerbell/
KEN TOMARO
Ken Tomaro is a writer living in Cleveland Ohio whose work reflects everyday life with depression. His poetry has appeared in several online and print journals and explores the common themes we all experience in life. Sometimes blunt, often dark but always grounded in reality.
My mind is a cherry pit withering in the sun – Bottlecap Press
Interview: The Transgressions of Ken Tomaro by Nolcha Fox – Chewers by Masticadores
Gnashing Teeth Publishing’s Fireside Reading Series
karen walker
Karen Walker (she/her) writes short in a low basement in Ontario, Canada. Her most recent work is in or forthcoming in New Flash Fiction Review, Exist Otherwise, Switch, Misery Tourism, Does it Have Pockets? and EGG+FROG.
Abstract in Weird Lit Magazine Vol 1, Issue 1
Stacey, hurtling through Wisconsin in Cosmorama June 2024
A ragged man, a Chihuahua, and a woman with a lavender latte in Switch September 2024
THEODORE WALLBANGER
Theodore Wallgbanger is a cartoony bearded smile enigma who rampages within the luxurious font pillows of life. His style takes on many forms with one element thrusting a juicy sparkle throughout most of his stories. Wallbanger’s trickle doses of “migraine font” will quell the many dreary moments populating most lives. Mouth breathers experience a series of Hong Kong Phooey strikes to the soul while spinning on planet Earth, why not allow joy to leak from your eye holes while submitting to migraine sparkle fun? Tickets are not golden as Smile Central prefers technicolor printer pops to the mundane singularity of Wonka stylings. Read. Laugh. Smile. Repeat.
Dumbo Press: boomerang
Mustard Gasoline — Little Old Lady
‘Shift’ in miniMAG anthology
COLIN GEE
Colin ‘Raddy’ Gee is founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette.
To the Night Belongs a Tree: The Stories of Guadalupe Dueñas (1910–2002)
3 poems from the Talagaya universe at High Horse
The birthday present that eats hands in Misery Tourism
Left in the Lurch from Dumbo Press: In verse, essay, and found horror, the sordid saga of Lefty Smith’s tumultuous visit to the Land of the Sun lurches back into the light of day.
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