Contents: Issue 11: January 2022 |
Featured Form: Cheribun |
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“Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Clare MacQueen | Results (with background
and commentary) [+ links to 13 works]: |
1. Linda Allison | “Anatomy of an Inspired Chef” [prose poem] |
2. Roberta Beary | “The Ultimate Guide to Exercise, or How I Spend My Weekend” [micro-fiction] |
3. Guy Biederman | “Quite” [lyrical micro-prose] |
4. Gabby Gilliam | “Dinner Suggestion” [poem, lineated] |
5. Susan Hayden | “John Muir Warned You This Could Happen” [poem, lineated] |
6. Nancy Ludmerer | “Open Wide” [flash fiction] |
7. Marietta McGregor | “Terror Australis”[haibun] |
8. Robbi Nester | “Inquest”[ekphrastic poem], after a photograph by Ann Leshy Wood |
9. Kathryn Silver-Hajo | “Aurora” [flash fiction] |
10. Renée Jessica Tan | “Thumb” [flash fiction] |
11. Anne Marie Wells | “Clam Chowder”[prose poem] |
12. Rebekah Wolman | “Our Years With the Latvians” [nonfiction] |
13. Jonathan Yungkans | “Le Grand Matin” [ekphrastic poem], after the painting by René Magritte |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Michele Morris | Here’s to Life [prose poem], after Viva la Vida by Frida Kahlo |
Robbi Nester | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Gary S. Rosin | Out of Service [micro-poem: cherita], after the photograph by Michael A. Blanchette |
Gary S. Rosin | Two Micro-Poems: |
◊ | “I-ku” [micro-poem: senryu] |
◊ | Untitled [senryu], after a photograph by Ari Rex |
Charles D. Tarlton | Suzanne Valadon’s The Bath [R] [tanka prose] |
Jonathan Yungkans | Two poems, after paintings by Magritte: |
◊ | La Victoire (The Victory) |
◊ | Le fils de l’homme (The Son of Man) |
Jonathan Yungkans | See also Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Note: If you’re interested in submitting ekphrastic works to us, wonderful! We hope you’ll take a few minutes to read our tips in KYSO Flash, Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide for Verbalizing Art, which include additional examples of what we’re looking to publish here in MacQueen’s Quinterly as well. | |
Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Featured Form: Cheribun [cherita + prose] |
Clare MacQueen | MacQ’s First Cheribun! (an informal intro) [+ links to eight works, listed in order received]: |
1. Margaret Dornaus | “The Writer’s Cabin” |
2. Jackie Chou | “Kismet” |
3. Peter Jastermsky | “Pathways” |
4. Peter Jastermsky | “On the Runway” |
5. Amy Small-McKinney | “This Is Being Alive” |
6. Kath Abela Wilson | “greeny flower” |
7. Gary S. Rosin | “Designated Driver” |
8. deb y felio | “Breaking Through” |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Roberta Beary | How to be Remembered [flash] |
Roberta Beary | See also Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Guy Biederman | End of Story [flash] |
Guy Biederman | See also Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | Goodwill and the Renaissance [micro] |
Nancy Ludmerer | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Marilyn Morgan | Hoboken [micro] |
Rebecca Pickens | Intervention [flash] |
Mark Russo | You Should Know... [micro] |
Karen Schauber | Final Entries [micro] |
Kathryn Silver-Hajo | She-Wolf [flash] |
Kathryn Silver-Hajo | See also Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Andrew Stancek | Entomology [micro] |
Renée Jessica Tan | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Mary Hannah Terzino | The Bernese [flash] |
◊ | The Duet [flash] |
Stuart Watson | Anything for You [micro] |
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Micro-Fiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles! | |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
See also the new-to-MacQ Featured Form, Cheribun, above. | |
Cynthia Anderson | Doctor, My Eyes |
◊ | Garbage Out |
Rick Christiansen | Into the Can |
◊ | Sharp Encounters |
Kat Lehmann | Crossing [braided haibun] |
◊ | Long Exposure |
Michael H. Lester | Trouble in the Attic [R] |
Bob Lucky | Bar Talk |
◊ | Coping |
◊ | The Grammar of Boredom |
Marietta McGregor | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Alice Wanderer | Ripples in a Mirror |
Lew Watts | Anathema |
Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Haiga [poetry + visual art] |
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Mike Moats and Gary S. Rosin |
Untitled [“pack ice melts”] |
Alan Peat and Gary S. Rosin |
Waymark |
Poesy Sestina | It’s Now or Never [R] [with haibun + LivePhoto image] |
Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Nonfiction |
David Blumenfeld | Clouds of Garlic [flash CNF] |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | If my grandfather walked toward me with two arms, I wouldn’t recognize him [micro CNF] |
Janet McMillan Rives | Two Linked Works: |
◊ | “Reynolds School” [micro-poem] |
◊ | “On Spring Hill” [lyrical memoir] |
Kayann Short | Chemo Chat [flash CNF] |
Rebekah Wolman | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
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Poems: Micro* |
Cynthia Anderson | Now or Never [split sequence] |
◊ | Yin/Yang [split sequence] |
Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
*Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (which is the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the Twitter limit), with each word containing an average of 5.5 characters. The limit of 51 words includes punctuation, spaces between words, and the title if the micro-poem has one. Haiku, senryu, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. | |
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Prose Poems |
Linda Allison | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Roberta Beary | Two Worlds |
Guy Biederman | Hang a Lantern on the Carpenter’s Mistake |
Guy Biederman | See also Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
Todd Mercer | It’s Terribly Easy to Use Up This Precious Life |
Elaine Terranova | Angel, Sleep |
◊ | Before the Trip |
Anne Marie Wells | See Results: “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge |
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Tanka Prose |
Michael H. Lester | You Know, It Don’t Come Easy [tanka tale] |
Charles D. Tarlton | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Visual Arts |
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Michael A. Blanchette | See entry for Gary S. Rosin under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Becky Erdman | Three Art Quilts: |
◊ | The Guitar Man [R] |
◊ | Hope [R] |
◊ | Why oh Why Can’t I? [R] |
Suzanne Valadon | See entry for Charles D. Tarlton under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Ann Leshy Wood | Cloud Confetti [photograph] |
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