Samantha Chasse is a graduate of Lindenwood University with my MFA in Writing. Chasse graduated from Quinnipiac University with a Bachelors in Theater. Previous writing experience includes two ten-minute plays which were featured in off-off Broadway festivals. Chasse’s work has also been published in Better than Starbucks Poetry Magazine and Inkling Magazine.
Lucy, Volume 3, Issue 1
how to spell balloon, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Pool Escapades, Volume 6, Issue 1
In addition to making poems, Marjorie Bloom loves to translate Apollinaire’s calligrams. Her translation of one such calligram, “The Fountain and the Dove,” appeared online in Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations, (Spring 2014). Marjorie is a Registered Nurse who lives in South Florida.
Hospice Nurses Say, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview
Sarah Bigham teaches, paints, and writes in Maryland where she lives with her kind chemist wife, their three independent cats, and an unwieldy herb garden. Her work appears in Bacopa, Entropy, Fourth & Sycamore, Melancholy Hyperbole, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, and elsewhere. Find her at www.sgbigham.com.
When you first start to lose your mind, Volume 3, Issue 1
Marie-Andree Auclair’s poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications in such as In/Words Magazine, Bywords, The Steel Chisel, filling Station, Contemporary Verse 2, Structo UK, Apeiron, Canthius, The Tule Review, and others. Her first chapbook, Contrails was released by In/Words Magazine and Press/Ottawa in 2013. She lives in Ottawa Canada and is working on her next chapbook.
Concession Lines, Maps, Echo, and Imperfect Codes, Volume 3, Issue 1
Devon Balwit is a poet and educator from Portland, Oregon. She has a chapbook, Forms Most Marvelous forthcoming with dancing girl press (summer 2017). Her recent poems have appeared in numerous print/on-line journals, among them: Oyez, Red Paint Hill, The Ekphrastic Review, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Timberline Review, The Journal of Applied Poetics, Vanilla Sex Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Rising Phoenix Review, Rattle, and Rat’s Ass Review.
The Old Familiar (Equivalencies 7=7), Volume 3, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
Interview
For the fifth issue of The Magnolia Review, 0 artists submitted 0 pieces of art and photography, 2 creative nonfiction writers submitted 2 creative nonfiction pieces, 21 fiction writers submitted 21 stories, and 32 poets submitted 147 poems.
The Issue will be available on January 15.
We are accepting submissions for our sixth issue! Deadline is May 15, 2017. The optional theme is: balloons. We are hoping to publish some comics in this issue.
Check out our Submit page for more information.
The deadline is approaching!
The theme: Depression. Show us the diagnosis, dealing with depression, overcoming depression, anything to do with depression. Give us artwork, stories with depressed characters, poems with depressed speakers, comics, and so on. Interpret it yourself and show us what you created.
Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!
Phil Temples lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and works as a computer systems administrator at a university. He has published over one hundred works of short fiction in print and online journals. Blue Mustang Press recently published Temples’s full-length murder-mystery novel, The Winship Affair. And his new paranormal-horror novel, Helltown Chronicles, has just been accepted by Eternal Press.
Those Two Legs, Volume 2, Issue 2
Susan Speranza is in her last year of the MFA Writing program at Lindenwood University. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals, including The Literary Yard and The Voices Project. In 2012, she was a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The same novel was on the short list of finalists in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition. It was subsequently published as The Tale of Lucia Grandi, the Early Years by Brook House Press. It has since garnered favorable reviews and has been compared to the American classic, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Lord of the Song, Volume 2, Issue 2
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