Contents: Issue 6: January 2021 |
Featured Artist Featured Author |
Fiction
Flash (501–1,000 words) Hybrids (Haibun Stories) Micro (up to 500 words) |
Faction Announcements Bio Notes CNF, Essays, Etc. Visual Arts | Poetic & Hybrid Forms Ekphrastic Works Haibun Poems, Lineated Prose Poems |
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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Announcements |
Clare MacQueen | Editor’s Choice Award |
◊ | Statistics |
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Anthology Awards Portal: New page, listing links to all of our nominations for anthology awards, including Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, and The Pushcart Prize |
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Creative Nonfiction (CNF), Essays, Etc. |
Guy Biederman | Two-Handed Touch [Micro-CNF] |
Sarah Massey-Warren | Should I Stay or Should I Go? [essay] |
Daryl Scroggins | See Featured Author below. |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Serena Agusto-Cox | Two Poems After Gustave Caillebotte: |
◊ | “Practice” |
◊ | “Apprentice” |
Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Borderland [poem, lineated] |
Karen George | Emily Carr: Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky (1932-35) [poem, lineated] |
Richard Nester | Entitled [poem, lineated] |
Robbi Nester | After Kazakh Winter by Aaron Rands [poem, lineated] |
Gary S. Rosin | [Eclipse] [haiku + photograph by Somak Raychaudhury] |
◊ | Stare Down [micro-poem: cherita] |
◊ | The Glory of the Gods [micro-poem: cherita] |
Lauren Scharhag | Hair Work [poem, lineated] |
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. | |
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Featured Author |
Daryl Scroggins | A Quintet of Works: |
◊ | Giving Up Control [micro-CNF] |
◊ | At the Center of the Universe [micro-fiction] |
◊ | Daddy’s Calling [prose poem] |
◊ | Old Money Takes a Hit [R] [micro-fiction + Author’s Note] |
◊ | Units of Measure [micro-fiction] |
Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works. | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
See also Fiction, Hybrids: Haibun Stories below. | |
Roberta Beary | 20 Things Mother Told Me, Ironing Father’s Shirts as I Peeled Potatoes Waiting for my Boyfriend’s Call [micro] |
Denis Bell | The Acrobat [R] [flash] |
Guy Biederman | Measure [micro] |
◊ | Pride and Joy [micro] |
◊ | Round Trip [flash] |
Arthur Klepchukov | afterglow [micro] |
◊ | Dialing Islands [flash] |
Lorette C. Luzajic | The Chechia Makers [micro] |
Robert Sachs | The Watch [flash] |
Daryl Scroggins | See Featured Author above. |
Francine Witte | Not Again [micro] |
◊ | Trophy [micro] |
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Micro-Fiction, no more than 500 words. These word-counts do include titles! | |
Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works. | |
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Fiction, Hybrids: Haibun Stories |
Roberta Beary | This is Just to Say, or Carly Calls Me for the Fifth Time on Her Birthday |
Cherie Hunter Day | 42R Mill Street |
Rich Youmans | Living Color |
◊ | Redline |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
See also Fiction, Hybrids: Haibun Stories above. | |
Adele Kenny | December in the Trees |
Bob Lucky | Sartorial Relapse |
Marietta McGregor | Auld lang syne |
Gary S. Rosin | Welcome to Minnesota |
Lew Watts | Cruising Downtown Santa Fe |
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Poems, Lineated |
* Note from Clare MacQueen: |
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Serena Agusto-Cox | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
David Appelbaum | The Phone Call |
Roy J. Beckemeyer | Prothalamion |
◊ | The Way Night’s Lapidary Light Burnishes Your Skin |
Ace Boggess | On My Mind |
Kika Dorsey | And There Is Joy |
Scott Ferry | eel [cadralor] * |
◊ | ichor / eschar [cadralor] * |
◊ | Snow Peas |
Karen George | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Lori Howe | Refraction [cadralor] * |
◊ | Ripening [cadralor] * |
Gary LeBel | Husband |
◊ | Madrigal [+ artwork] [R] |
Stellasue Lee | A Ferocity of Mind Lives Here in Silence |
◊ | For Birds Sing Sometimes Without Purpose |
Robbi Nester | On Chaos |
Meghan Sterling | Cyclops |
Lorna Wood | Lion’s Tooth |
Jonathan Yungkans | Anacapa Island |
◊ | Morro Bay [cadralor] * |
Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works. | |
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Prose Poems |
Cherie Hunter Day | Sugarbone |
Margaret Dornaus | Birthright |
Linda Nemec Foster | Lipstick in Geneva |
◊ | The Infant of Prague in Prague |
Adele Kenny | Then and What Happened |
Gary LeBel | Bricks |
Dotty LeMieux | Masks |
Gavin Lucky | undertaking |
Lorette C. Luzajic | Pho |
Kathleen McGookey | Groupon, March 25, 2020: One Acre of Land on Mars: $35 $19 |
◊ | The Quiet in the House |
Daryl Scroggins | See Featured Author above. |
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Visual Arts |
Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
Gustave Caillebotte | See entry for Serena Agusto-Cox under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Emily Carr | See entry for Karen George under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Gary LeBel | See entry for LeBel’s “Madrigal” under Poems, Lineated above. |
Dr. Somak Raychaudhury | See entry for Gary S. Rosin (“[Eclipse]”) under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Cindy L. Sheppard | [A Thousand Candles] [photographs]: |
◊ | Low Country Christmas |
◊ | Ode to Joy |
◊ | Winter Dragon |
Cynthia Yatchman |
Featured Artist: Four Paintings, Mixed Media: |
◊ | Entropy 3 [R] |
◊ | Lambda [R] |
◊ | Landscape 5 [R] |
◊ | [Untitled Shorescape] [R] |
Note: An “[R]” after titles in the Table of Contents indicates reprinted works; or, more accurately, republished works, since this journal is an online publication. |
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