Sally Bunch

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Sally Bunch lives in Boston with her daughter, works as a grant writer, and plays guitar in the rock band Thrust Club. Her short fiction has appeared in Litro Online, The Binnacle, Bird’s Thumb, and elsewhere. She has also contributed to The Review Review, a website devoted to literary journals.  

Regifted, Volume 4, Issue 1

Adam Levon Brown

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Adam Levon Brown is an internationally published poet and author in 14 countries. He has had his work translated in Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, and Afrikaans. Boasting over 300 published pieces, you can find his writing at such publications as Burningword Literary Journal, Firefly Magazine, Zany Zygote Review, Epigraph, Angel City Review, and Ariel Chart. He was long-listed in the 2016 Erbacce Prize poetry competition and received a special mention in the Pangolin Prize 2018 competition. He has recently taken up painting for fun. 

Perforated Stars Speak of Serendipity, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Book Release, Embedded Memories of a Shooting Star

Anxiety, Volume 5, Issue 2

Susan P. Blevins

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Susan P. Blevins was born in England, lived 26 years in Italy, and has now resided in the USA for the past 25 years, first in Taos, NM, and currently in Houston, TX. While living in Rome, she had a weekly column in an international, English-language newspaper, writing about food and restaurant reviews primarily, though not exclusively. Since living in the USA, she has written pieces on gardens and gardening for N. American and European publications, and she is now writing stories of her life and travels, and poetry, and gaining traction in various literary publications such as New Verse News, Feminine Collective, Mused Bellaonline, Write Place at the Write Time, Scarlet Leaf, to mention just a few. She loves reading, writing, cats, classical music, and stimulating conversation.

Murphy’s Law, Volume 4, Issue 1
Beware, The Handyman Cometh, Heavenly Bites, The Joy of Fishing, The Extraction, and Mother’s Toast, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
A Marriage of Convenience, Reverie, Decisions, A Wing and a Prayer, and Yellow does not have a season, Volume 5, Issue 1

The Smallness of It and My Refrigerator, Volume 6, Issue 1

Meredith Bailey

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Meredith Bailey completed an MFA at Goddard College several years ago. Currently, she is a freelance writer and editor based in the Seattle, Washington area. Right now, the focus of her creative work is a series of connected short stories. Bailey’s fiction has previously appeared in several journals such as Shark Reef, Em Dash Literary Magazine, and Autumn Sound Review (the latter two now defunct, unfortunately.) She was also a contributor to the anthology Secret Histories: Stories of Courage, Risk, and Revelation.

Runaways, Volume 4, Issue 1

Theme for Issue 8!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

We are currently reading submissions for our eighth issue! The theme for the eighth issue is: comics, be it drawn in sequential images or just plain funny. See the Submit tab for details on how to submit. We accept photography, art, comics, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash fiction, experimental work, and poetry.

Announcing The Magnolia Review Ink Award for Volume 3 Issue 2

by Suzanna Anderson Creates
When I was kindly asked by Suzanna to be the judge for the ink award for the Volume 3 Issue 2 of the Magnolia Review I replied, I’ll give it a go. I thought picking a winner would be easy enough. Sure, I’d have a winner in no time. But as I read the first piece, a concrete poem, “Early Spring in the Woods” by Wilda Morris, I realised picking a winner wouldn’t be so easy.
 
I continued to read with the theme balloons featuring strongly. The writing interspersed with Leah Givens‘ beautiful colour photographs of balloons. I continued to read. Who would have thought balloons would bring up so much? There were notable reads like the comic, “The Book Harvest” (Dom Fonce, writer; Vincent Butka, penciller; Jared Burton, inker and colorist; and Kaleena Spackman, letterer), complete with word balloons. The haunting “Ghosts” by Rachel Edford. “First Day” by Bill Trippe had me invested in the characters and bursting out laughing. “Hypnophobia2 #1357″ by Ellie White shocked and lingered.
 
But the one piece of writing that really struck me was “Breakthismf.com.” The story never loses sight of what it’s about, broken, complex characters. “Breakthismf.com” really engaged me as a reader, paying wonderful attention to detail and character. At times it is not what is said but implied that works so well. It’s full of humour and at the same time, the story never loses sight of real life and the people in it. 
 
So yes, drumroll please, the Magnolia Review Ink Award goes to Buffy Shutt for “Breakthismf.com.” An excellent, thought-provoking piece of writing! Thanks to Buffy for such an engaging read and thanks to all the authors for putting their writing out there for us to read. Thank you for such a good issue.
Taidgh Lynch is a poet from the South West of Ireland. When he is not attending the MFA in Writing programme at the University of Saskatchewan, he likes to eat sushi, cycle, and go to gigs. His absolute all time favourite writer is Elisabeth Bishop. Find his writing in Bare Hands Poetry,The Poetry Bus, and Boyne Berries.
Read the Volume 3 Issue 2 here.