Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Shawn Archibald

Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Shawn Archibald

Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Dana R Glover

Bio: Writer, reader, photographer. I am no mystery. I worry too much. Sleep too little. I argue too loudly. I praise profusely. I use ink to shed my tears. I am fearless unless left alone to talk to myself. Professionally unpublished but I welcome constructive critique.
Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Nitin Lalit Murali

Nitin Lalit Murali is a poet, flash fiction writer and essayist from Bangalore, India. He also enjoys reading literature of different genres and listening to jazz and neo-classical music. He started writing seven years ago and art has consumed him over the years. He blogs regularly at Fighting the Dying Light.
Let’s say that most of us flicker in silence, David Lohrey is one of the few who flickers in a roar.
Read his amazing piece on Sudden Denouement:
The Invention of Arson
Who started the fires? Many are drawn to the flames – men and women
in equal number. They clamber to get closer. They take off work to travel:
the flames climbing higher, engulfing, filling the skies. The smoke gets in
everything; there are ashes in the houses, on the carpets. Many stand still
and hold out their tongues. They tear off their clothing. They crave the heat. They’re excited by the smell of ruin. They’re delirious…
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/07/01/the-invention-of-arson-david-lohrey/

[David Lohrey is from Memphis, where he grew up, and now lives in Tokyo, where he teaches and writes for local travel magazines. He graduated from UC Berkeley and then moved to LA where he lived for over 20 years.
Internationally, his poetry can be found in Otoliths, Stony Thursday Anthology, Sentinel Quarterly, and Tuck Magazine. In the US, recent poems have appeared in Poetry Circle, FRiGG, Obsidian, and Apogee Journal. His fiction can be read in Crack the Spine, Dodging the Rain, and Literally Stories.
David’s The Other Is Oneself, a study of 20th-century literature, was published in 2016, while his first collection of poetry, Machiavelli’s Backyard, was released in September 2017. He is a member of the Sudden Denouement Collective.]
Jimmi Campkin & Basilike Pappa at Sudden Denouement Literary Collective.
“The sun is hot enough to melt a bank vault and we recline across the monolith of grey in this wasteland; like a mortuary without the building, like a coroner without the science, as loved ones without the care. The stones…”
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/29/double-bind-jimmi-campkin-basilike-pappa/
Originally published on Silent Hour.

Guest Artist: Christina Rusakova at Sudden Denouement Literary Collective

Christina Rusakova is a Russian poet. She can be found at instagram at Polunochnitsaaa.
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Guest Writer: Tofu “Errant Pleasures” on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
“I am lost.
labyrinth in static motion,
kaleidoscope-violated prism,
glass veins and sticky lacerations
amphetamine-laced burrowing into skin
and I’ve forgotten your scent……
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/24/guest-writer-tofu-errant-pleasures/
[photo: Clara Bow]

“I am Tofu, a twenty-one year old poet. I reside in British Columbia, in a rural neighbourhood, surrounded by power lines and open fields. My work is influenced by trauma, uncomfortable sensations, and the people of my past, present, and future. I’ve trekked through periods of poverty, chaos, peace and growth, and weave my experiences into intimate and vulnerable poetry. I hope only to encourage thought and empathy from the people who read my work.”
I also have a personal Instagram at @tofulori.
Her writing can be found at Tofu.poetry.blog.
Instagram: @tofulori
A great story of loud light and bright whisper at Sudden Denouement Literary Collective:
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
They all said the same,
that the light
at the end
of the tunnel
had been switched off.
She didn’t believe it.
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/13/guest-writer-lynn-white-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/

[Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Peach Velvet, Light Journal and So It Goes. Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/]
Sudden Denouement Black & White Photography Contest Extended to 6/23
We are extending submission deadline upon request from several participants.
Submit photos to suddendenouement@gmail.com.
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/17/black-white-photography-contest-extended-to-6-23/

Vicki Wilson, a strong new voice in the secret language at Sudden Denouement:
“The pause
It is the pause
Between heartbeats
Where I await the echo
To signal that it can beat again…
…that I can breathe again…”
Read the whole piece: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/07/guest-writer-vicki-wilson/

I am an amateur poet, published author and professional technical analyst… all of these things mean I basically solve puzzles for a living, and to keep from dying. I know this because I died once. Metaphorically. Six years of a slow death by industrialised decision making. In the end I was so numb to living I ceased to exist. But burn-out has a silver lining, you wake up and all you have left is steel and the rich black of sticky charcoal to make your mark. I am still learning how to hold a pen, how to form words into a living thing, but my scratchings are mine, they are made with the corpse of who I was. I offer them as evidence I exist.
I have recently published a children’s book – written and illustrated by myself – under the banner of dragonflypublishing. You can find me there writing my next one: https://www.facebook.com/dragonflypublishing.au.