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Artist Spotlight: Naomi Fisher

Canadian/American artist Naomi Fisher on a decade of environmental body art, building costumes from Spanish moss and chlorophyll, and why what we discard is still part of us.

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The Valiant Alliance: Christopher Valentine Completes His Hero Trilogy

Christopher Valentine completes his Damara/Valiant Knight trilogy with The Valiant Alliance: a 1960s sci-fi hero story about hope, DC mythology, and what modern superhero stories have forgotten.

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Artist Spotlight: Evgenia Smirnova

Saint Petersburg-born artist Evgenia Smirnova on her ongoing watercolor series: imaginary nocturnal landscapes inhabited by whales, bulls, and black cats, painted from feeling rather than plan.

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What I Learnt Publishing My First Book

Self-published author Tye Burroughs on the six steps he wished he'd known: planning, drafts, formatting, ARCs, storefronts, and the soul-crushing part nobody warns you about.

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Tattoo Artist Spotlight: Ashish Gupta

Mumbai-based tattoo artist Ashish Gupta on fine line realism, ten years of skin-as-canvas, and why reading a client's comfort level is half the job.

Guest Author 8/25/26 Guest Author 8/25/26

Collecting Decay: Why My Monthly Postcards Travel Without an Envelope

German artist Claudia Schmidt on Candy Decay: surreal paintings where skulls sit next to strawberries, and monthly postcards that travel without envelopes because they were never meant to arrive untouched.

Guest Author 8/24/26 Guest Author 8/24/26

Why Your Attention Is Your Most Valuable Creative Asset

Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on attention as creative currency: why inspiration doesn't disappear, why protecting your focus isn't selfishness, and why you're the one holding the hourglass.

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Artist Spotlight: Sada Stavrum

Self-taught artist Sada Stavrum on intuitive painting, daily studio practice, and the Eastern traditions that brought him back to making art in the south of France.

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Indie Author Spotlight: Jonah Baird

Autistic indie author Jonah Baird on using generative AI as an accessibility tool, writing three novels, and finally finding a creative process that fit the way his brain works.

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Experimental Techniques: The Art of Not Knowing

Australian digital watercolour artist Phillip J Gordon on using mistakes as method, disrupting the grammar of a medium, and following the work past the point where it feels safe.

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Back to the Oral Tradition

A high school English teacher and oral traditions scholar makes the case that podcasts, social media, and spoken word aren't new — they're humanity circling back to its oldest form of storytelling.

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Ninja Girl Is Out: Anthony Sturmas on Building a Street-Level Hero from Scratch

After 26 years boarding other people's stories, storyboard artist Anthony Sturmas launched Ninja Girl: a hand-drawn, street-level hero built for young girls, across Roblox, Webtoon, and beyond.

Guest Author 8/10/26 Guest Author 8/10/26

If I Was an Art Critic

Photographer William Josephs Radford reviews his own catalogue as a hostile critic would, dissecting the provocations, the try-hard concepts, and the grief that runs underneath it all.

Guest Author 8/7/26 Guest Author 8/7/26

Artist Spotlight: Stephen Willard

Graphic designer Stephen Willard lives in two creative worlds: strict design by day, and abstract digital art that maps the neurological chaos of epilepsy. On order, memory, and release.

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From Ukraine to the Las Vegas Strip

Circus and pole artist Yaroslava Slonova on her path from Ukrainian rhythmic gymnastics to the Las Vegas Strip, and writing one of the first practical books on creating original circus acts.

Guest Author 8/3/26 Guest Author 8/3/26

My Life, My Quest, and the Nature of Reality

Fine-art photographer Madhur Dhingra on spirituality, consciousness, and the search that took him through Himalayan monasteries from Ladakh to the ghats of Varanasi.

Guest Author 7/31/26 Guest Author 7/31/26

Tattoo Artist Spotlight: Laura Arroz

Berlin and Barcelona-based tattoo artist Laura Arroz on starting in handpoke, her anime-influenced "cute tattoos," big back pieces, and why kindness is the bare minimum.

Guest Author 7/29/26 Guest Author 7/29/26

What Arthurian Knights Can Teach You About Writing Heroes

A writer's guide to crafting noble, aspirational protagonists, drawn from four Knights of the Round Table: Gawain, Galahad, Percival, and Tristan.

Guest Author 7/27/26 Guest Author 7/27/26

Love in Full Effect

Painter Ilya Black on "Love in Full Effect," an acrylic work about presence, love, and the quiet fear that everything beautiful can vanish in an instant.

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Tattoo Artist Spotlight: AnEcho

Puerto Rico-based tattoo artist AnEcho on illustrative blackwork, the apprenticeship she didn't know she was getting, and the tattoo she couldn't charge for.