Congratulations Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s Pushcart Poetry Prize Nominee; Christine E. Ray

Christine E. Ray (She/Her) lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A former Managing Editor of Sudden Denouement Publications, she co-founded Indie Blu(e) Publishing with Kindra M. Austin in September 2018. Ray is author of Composition of a Woman and The Myths of Girlhood. Her writing has also been featured in But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness, Through The Looking Glass: Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within, As The World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad, SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art, Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, Swear to Me (Nicholas Gagnier), and All the Lonely People (Nicholas Gagnier).

Christine is a passionate fiber artist who has rarely met a craft supply she doesn’t like or a pattern she can’t alter. Currently yarn obsessed, over the decades she has learned to knit, crochet, quilt, weave, bead, and has dabbled in mixed media. Christine doesn’t have a spinning wheel… yet.

Darker Objects is available for purchase through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and other major online book retailers.

Congratulations Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s Pushcart Poetry Prize Nominee; Basiliké Pappa

Basiliké Pappa lives in Greece. She is a translator and copy editor, and writes poetry and prose in both Greek and English. Her work can be found in Dark Passions Magazine, Heron Tree, Carmina Magazine, Ubu., Sledgehammer Lit, Glitchwords, and other journals, as well as in the anthologies Hidden in Childhood (Literary Revelations, 2023), Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (Experiments in Fiction, 2022) and Shaping Water: Erotic Haiku and Tanka (Moth Orchid Press, 2022).

Darker Objects is available for purchase through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and other major online book retailers.

Congratulations Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s Pushcart Poetry Prize Nominee; Sun Hesper Jansen

Sun Hesper Jansen (she/they) is a poet, writer, and artist from Madison, Wisconsin, who works in the darker genres of fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism. Her collection of poetry and artwork, Fairy of Disenchantment, was published in 2023 by Indie Blu(e) Publishing, and she blogs as literary therapy for Multiple Sclerosis on WordPress at Fairy of Disenchantment. Her work has appeared in The Winged Moon Magazine, The Chamber Magazine, and the Indie Blu(e) Publishing anthologies As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad, and But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and Other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness. You can find her on Instagram @sunhesper.

Fairy of Disenchantment is available for purchase through Amazon , Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-a-Million, and other major online book retailers.

Congratulations Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s Pushcart Poetry Prize Nominee; Dom Wynette

Most pieces you read from Dom Wynette are fragments of her in breadcrumb poems and rants, that are begging her readers to follow the trail to her soul. As a stage four cancer survivor, the mother of four is most recognized for her transparency through her words, she is also unafraid to go against the grain to release her thoughts. Learn more at DomTheBlogger.com 

Darker Objects is available for purchase through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and other major online book retailers.

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Basiliké Pappa


This is a wine fit for philosophers — and you, sweet prince. What did you ever give me besides talk, talk, talk? Drink, and when you drain your cup, pray talk some more — say, can you taste me on your tongue? Wild hemlock and nightshade: such are the flowers of my heart. No roses left — they withered you know when. Or perhaps you don’t, busy as you are crying over the dead. Drink, my love. Your self-indulgent aches, your oh-so-profound thoughts this wine will ease. Drink, sweet prince, and leave me in peace.

For you, no more Ophelia,

father,

king,

lover.

I am my own Ophelia.


Basiliké Pappa, Excerpt from ‘Songs of Ophelia,’ Darker Objects

“In Darker Objects I found myself again. It’s that simple, and at the same time so hard to express what the joining of our voices over the years, over lands and seas, means to me. So let me just say I am grateful to be in this circle of light – of darker objects burning bright.

This book is spellwork. Read it and you’ll see.”

–Basiliké Pappa

Basiliké Pappa lives in Greece. She is a translator and copy editor, and writes poetry and prose in both Greek and English. Her work can be found in Dark Passions Magazine, Heron Tree, Carmina Magazine, Ubu., Sledgehammer Lit, Glitchwords, and other journals, as well as in the anthologies Hidden in Childhood (Literary Revelations, 2023), Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women (Experiments in Fiction, 2022) and Shaping Water: Erotic Haiku and Tanka (Moth Orchid Press, 2022).