Contents: Issue 12: March 2022 |
Featured Author |
Fiction
Flash (501–1,000 words) Micro (up to 500 words) |
Faction Bio Notes Nonfiction Statistics Visual Arts | Poetic & Hybrid Forms Cheribun Challenge Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga & Hybrids Poems: Micro Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Forms |
Content Warning: MacQueen’s Quinterly (aka MacQ) contains an eclectic range of literary and artistic works, many of which are suitable only for mature adults. However, an “[R]” after titles below simply indicates reprinted works (or, more accurately, republished works, since MacQ publishes online and not in print). Unless otherwise noted, all works published in this journal are copyrighted by their respective authors and artists, and may NOT be reproduced without written permission from individual copyright holders. Thank you for respecting copyrights. Works by an individual may appear under multiple genres below. For a complete list of works by each person, see Index of Contributors. |
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Cheribun Writing Challenge |
Clare MacQueen | Results [+ links to six cheribun]: |
Charmaine Smith | “Cheribun of the Infinite Remainder” [First Place Winner] |
Peter Jastermsky | “Fishboy” [Second Place Winner] |
Hazel Hall | “Culture Shock” [Third Place Winner] |
Peter Jastermsky | “Solid, Not Solid” [Finalist, unranked] |
Marietta McGregor | “Magus” [Finalist, unranked] |
Jane Salmons | “Blue Velvet” [Finalist, unranked] |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Mikki Aronoff | Split Apart [micro fiction], after a line drawing in ink by Toyen |
Karen George | The moss-breasted Queen Luna [poem], after a painting by Andrea Kowch |
◊ | Kandinsky, Movement, 1935 [poem] |
Anita Lerek | Jazz Paradiso [poem], after Chris Botti’s performance of “Love Theme” from Cinema Paradiso |
◊ | Return Blue [poem], after a painting by René Magritte |
Kurt Luchs | Homunculous [R] [poem] |
Lorette C. Luzajic | The Poetry of Darkness [prose poem], after the painter George Ault |
Michele Morris | The Alchemist [prose poem], after a painting by María Blanchard |
Robbi Nester | Cloudfarming [poem], after a photograph by Omid Armin |
Jane Salmons | The Weightlessness of Love [micro fiction], after a painting by Marc Chagall |
Jonathan Yungkans | And He Can See Quite Clearly Into the Needle [poem], after mixed-media artwork by Caroline Bacher |
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 Author |
Roberta Beary | But We’re Family [haibun story] |
◊ | Cousins on My Mother’s Side [micro fiction] |
◊ | Dealing With Rejection [R] [essay] |
◊ | Gap Year [flash fiction] |
◊ | Midnight @ Broadway Magic Diner [micro fiction] |
◊ | Summertime Blues [R] [poem] |
◊ | Up Down Sideways [micro fiction] |
Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Dave Alcock | Fall [micro] |
◊ | Gaps [micro] |
◊ | Seed [micro] |
Mikki Aronoff | Fossils [micro ] |
◊ | Old Chestnuts [micro] |
◊ | Spurt [micro] |
Roberta Beary | See Featured Author above. |
Guy Biederman | Terrycloth Monk [micro] |
William Cass | Anniversary [flash] |
Doug Jaquier | Angus, 10, Finds Love [micro] |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | The Pilot [micro] |
Louella Lester | Tiny and Sharp [micro] |
Kurt Luchs | Sweet Mystery of Life [micro] |
Todd Mercer | December D.I.Y. [micro] |
◊ | Jane’s Real Haunted House [micro] |
◊ | Marco Polo [micro] |
◊ | The Key Event [micro] |
Jacqueline Parker | Edge of the Atlantic [flash] |
Jane Salmons | The Ruddocks [micro] |
Daryl Scroggins | Outreach [micro] |
◊ | Spring [micro] |
Stuart Watson | A Light From Within [flash] |
◊ | Bad Intersection [flash] |
*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 Cheribun Challenge above; and Tanka Forms below (the latter, for a new hybrid: tanku sonnet). | |
Cynthia Anderson | Et Tu, Brute? |
Roberta Beary | See Featured Author above. |
Cherie Hunter Day | Vocation |
Kat Lehmann | Embodying the In-Between [braided haibun] |
◊ | Hiraeth |
◊ | Mermaids |
Dotty LeMieux | On the Day the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on the Case That Might Overturn Roe v. Wade |
Bob Lucky | My cousin and I [haibun story] |
◊ | One Version of Romance Gone Awry |
◊ | The History of The Shelled Pea Cookbook [haibun story] |
Marietta McGregor | Game Over |
Peter Newton | Rosebud [braided haibun (also haibun story)] |
◊ | Suds Land USA [anomalous haibun] |
Keith Polette | Axis Mundi |
◊ | Baseball |
R J Sobel | The Last Time I Ate Paris |
◊ | Winter’s Eve Cantabile [haibun story] |
Harriot West | L’Ennui |
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Haiga & Hybrids [poetry + visual art] |
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Cindy Bousquet Harris | Kingdom of Barberries [chaiga: visual art + cherita] |
Simone Opdam & Gary S. Rosin |
Lente (Spring) [sha-haibun: photograph + haiku + prose poem variation] |
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Nonfiction |
Roberta Beary | See Featured Author above. |
Linda Petrucelli | Things I Wish I Had Asked the Wizard of Wazoo [CNF] |
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Poems: Micro* |
Cynthia Anderson | Four Micro-Poems: |
◊ | “[wildfire summer]” [cherita] |
◊ | “[analog]” [cherita] |
◊ | “[a tiny house]” [inverted cherita] |
◊ | “[elderberry jam]” [inverted cherita] |
Margaret Dornaus | See Tanka Forms below for a new hybrid form, the tanku sonnet. |
Scott Ferry | split dippers |
Peter Jastermsky | [black holes] [monoku-cherita dyad] |
R W Mayer | After W.C.W. |
*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 |
Peter Jastermsky | Scuttlebutt |
Dotty LeMieux | I Remember: Me and Glenn |
Lorette C. Luzajic | The Unforgettable Fire |
Kathleen McGookey | Inside Out |
◊ | Where the Heart Is |
Michele Morris | Still Standing |
Daryl Scroggins | Leverage |
Charles D. Tarlton | Honestly |
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Tanka Forms |
Pris Campbell | No More... [tanka sequence] |
Cherie Hunter Day | Tasks in the Basket of Summer [tanka prose] |
Margaret Dornaus | Mayday [tanku sonnet] |
Barbara Sabol | Distant Harvest [tanka prose] |
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Visual Arts |
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Caroline Bacher | Cross My Heart [R] [mixed-media artwork] |
Maria Blanchard | Woman with a Fan [R] [painting] |
Cindy Bousquet Harris | Kingdom of Barberries [chaiga: visual art + cherita] |
Simone Opdam & Gary S. Rosin |
Lente (Spring) [shahaibun: photograph + haiku + prose poem variation] |
Note: The “[R]” after titles in the Table of Contents indicates republished works (aka reprints). |
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