Issue 8: | 12 June 2021 |
The ECA was selected from a list of 16 finalists, which in turn were chosen from a total of 101 works that appear in MacQ-8. A world of thanks to everyone who sent me so many wonderful pieces to consider!
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A tip of the hat (plus a small cash prize of $100 USD) to Douglas Cole for this fiction with flashes of Conradian menace:
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And my other finalist faves, listed in alpha order by last name of contributor:
⚡ A tie between Metaphorically Speaking [prose poem] and Untitled [5] [acrylic painting] by Claire Bateman
⚡ Clapping Like Mad [micro-fiction] by Roberta Beary
⚡ Swallowtails [poem, lineated] by Kika Dorsey
⚡ The Irish Guest at the Wedding in Krakow [prose poem] by Linda Nemec Foster
⚡ Squirm [flash fiction] by Robert Scotellaro
⚡ A Friend From School [flash fiction] by Garrett Stack
⚡ Three Entangled Abstracts by Ann Knickerbocker [prosimetra, ekphrastic] by Charles D. Tarlton, with visual artworks by Ann Knickerbocker
⚡ Title VII [haibun] by Alison Woolpert
⚡ Women in Black [poem, lineated, ekphrastic] by Jonathan Yungkans
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