Samantha Chasse

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

Sarah Bigham

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

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

Issue 5 is on its way!

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.

Issue 5 Deadline–November 15

The deadline is approaching!

We are accepting art, photography, comics, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and fiction for our fifth issue. This time we are going to have a themed section, and we will accept other pieces that do not fit with the theme. (The theme is optional!)

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!

DSM-IV-TR Mood Disorders

1. Major Depressive Episode and Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder requires two or more major depressive episodes.

Diagnostic criteria:

Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in life activities for at least 2 weeks and at least five of the following symptoms that cause clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day

1. Depressed mood most of the day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities.
3. Significant unintentional weight loss or gain.
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much.
5. Agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (APA, 2000, p. 356).

Issue 5 Open to Submissions!

We are accepting art, photography, comics, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and fiction for our fifth issue. This time we are going to have a themed section, and we will accept other pieces that do not fit with the theme.

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!

DSM-IV-TR Mood Disorders

1. Major Depressive Episode and Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder requires two or more major depressive episodes.

Diagnostic criteria:

Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in life activities for at least 2 weeks and at least five of the following symptoms that cause clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day

1. Depressed mood most of the day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities.
3. Significant unintentional weight loss or gain.
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much.
5. Agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (APA, 2000, p. 356).

Lisa Stice

Lisa Stice is a poet/mother/military spouse. She is the author of Permanent Change of Station (Middle West Press, 2018) and Uniform (Aldrich Press, 2016). While it is difficult to say where home is, she currently lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter and dog. You can learn more about her and her publications at lisastice.wordpress.com and at facebook.com/LisaSticePoet. @LisaSticePoet

A Quick Lunch from the Noodle Stand, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
When Your Substance Is Drained Away, Reduction, and Afternoon One Day When You Were Young, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview
Judge of The Magnolia Review Ink Award, Volume 4, Issue 1
Book Release, Permanent Change of Station, and Review, Volume 4, Issue 2
Resolutions, Deliver Us, The Selkie, Eat, Not, and Pie Astronomy, Volume 5, Issue 1

Doug Bolling

Doug Bolling’s poems have appeared in Posit, Kestrel, Water-Stone Review, Folia, Redactions, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and The Deronda Review among others. He has received several Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations and, most recently, his poem “Body and Soul” was awarded the Mathiasen Prize by the University of Arizona’s Harmony Magazine. He has taught at several colleges in the Midwest and resides in the environs of Chicago while working on a collection.

Where Light, Where Shadow, Volume 2, Issue 1
The Gift, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview
Chalice, Journey, Meeting, and All The Lost Things, Volume 4, Issue 1
Winner of The Magnolia Review Ink Award, for “Journey,” Volume 4, Issue 1

Todd Mercer

Todd Mercer was nominated for Best of the Net in 2018. Mercer won 1st, 2nd & 3rd place of the Kent County Dyer-Ives Poetry Prizes and the won Grand Rapids Festival Flash Fiction Prize. His digital chapbook Life-wish Maintenance is posted at Right Hand Pointing. Recent work appears in: Leaves of Ink, The Pangolin Review. Postcard Poems and Prose, Praxis and Soft Cartel.

The Tow-Boat Captain and Oceanic Atmospheric, Volume 1, Issue 2
Billy Fell Through (Clam Lake, 1928), Volume 2, Issue 1
EXTERIOR. WILLOW SPRINGS ROAD–NIGHT, Volume 3, Issue 1
Calendar Senior, aka Captain Miracle; Ingenue Meets Gravity; and In the Great Green Room, Volume 5, Issue 1

Zebulon Huset

Zebulon Huset is a writer and photographer living in San Diego. His writing has recently appeared in The Southern Review, Louisville Review, Meridian, North American Review, The Magnolia Review, The Portland Review, The Maine Review, and The Roanoke Review among others. He publishes a writing prompt blog (Notebooking Daily) and his flash fiction submission guide was reposted at The Review Review.

Code Word and When X left, Y announced he was moving, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Chaparral Crackles with Drought, Volume 3, Issue 1

Morning Walkabout, New Home, One Week Before my Neighbor is Murdered; The Creek Wonders About My Past; Last Night at the Campground; Beneath a Wave of Molasses; and Ominous Snow Tunnels, Volume 6, Issue 1