ARYA'S WRITING & READING BLOG

My #flash fiction, "The Fire-Starter," is being featured today in The Bookends Review. It's a timely political allegory.  I wrote "The Fire-Starter" during the pandemic, when the former president was making ridiculous claims regarding the reason for wildfires in California, and put this flash away after a few unsuccessful forays into the publishing arena. After coming across it in my archives last year and acknowledging, sadly, my characterization still applied, I did a quick review and re-submitted "The Fire-Starter" to a couple of journals. The Bookends Review was the first to accept it last August. Please vote Blue this coming election unless you want someone leading the country who is likely to take away most of our rights, including the right to vote, and who aims to convert our democracy into a dictatorship.  Vote as if your life depends on it. 🌊🌊🌊                                                                                                 

  So pleased to have five prose poems included in the fourth issue of The Mackinaw, a journal of prose poetry, alongside the fine work of authors Mikki Aronoff, Jacob Lee Bachinger, Miriam Bat-Ami, Suzanna C. DeBaca, Dominique Hecq, Bob Heman, Norbert Hirschhorn, Cindy Hochman, Karen Neuberg, Simon Parker, Mark Simpson and Jonathan Jungkans. The issue went live today, July 15th. The journal, which is beautifully curated, was founded by Lorette C. Luzajic, an artist and writer who is the editor of The Ekphrastic Review, and has featured astonishing works in all the The Mackinaw's issues since its inception. The objective of the The Mackinaw is "to celebrate prose poetry," so if you are a poet/writer working in this genre, I urge you to send your best to this journal. https://www.themackinaw.net/arya-f-jenkins.html                 Artwork by Arya F. Jenkins