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Published: | 20 Aug. 2025 |
New Book From MacQ |
Cheribun Galore! Challenge Results |
Content Warning: MacQueen’s Quinterly (aka MacQ) contains an eclectic range of literary and artistic works that may deal with difficult and emotionally charged topics. Thus, many works that appear in MacQ are suitable only for mature adults. However, an “[R]” after titles below simply indicates reprinted work (or, more accurately, republished work, since MacQ the journal is published online and not in print). Some of the more sexually explicit pieces may be designated as erotic, but not always. Overall, MacQ’s publisher prefers to avoid content warnings, because they tend to ruin surprises within the pieces. 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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Cheribun Galore! Challenge Results |
Clare MacQueen | Results of MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #3 (with links to the following 13 cheribun) |
Oz Hardwick | “Adventures in Experiential Limnology” – First Place Winner |
Hazel Hall | “The Landscape Whispers” – Second Place Winner |
Cynthia Anderson | “The Mom and Dad Show: Episode 21,900” – Third Place Winner |
Short-Listed Finalists (unranked): | |
Lana Hechtman Ayers | “New Anthem” |
Tina Barry | “Chocolate Orange” |
Peggy Bilbro | “The Shade of the Coolabah Tree” |
Margaret Dornaus | “Social Insecurity” |
Colleen M. Farrelly | “Crossing Paths” |
Jane Frank | “Orange Blossom” |
James Penha | “Familial” |
Tracy Royce | “Ways to Occupy Your Mind While Your Slender Friend Complains About Her Weight” |
Adelaide B. Shaw | “Slip Sliding Away” |
Scott Wiggerman | “Voices From Each Side of a Triangle” [cheribun story, braided] |
Note: Ten long-listed finalists from this Challenge will be published in Issue 30 of MacQueen’s Quinterly in mid-September 2025. For details, please see Results. | |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Edward Baranosky | 1949 No. 1 [poem], after the painting by Clyfford Still |
Roberta Beary | The Dignified Goat on Castle Grassland Close Enough To Be Petted [microfiction], after a photograph |
Malcolm Glass | Anonymous Shrine [poem], after a photograph |
Kat Lehmann | Two Days Before She Dies [haibun], after a painting by George Frederic Watts |
Robbi Nester | After Life [poem], after a photograph by Vassilis Tangoulis |
Daryl Scroggins | Blue Passage [microfiction], after woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige |
◊ | Broken Goddess [micro-poem], after fragment of marble statue of Venus |
Note: If you’re interested in submitting ekphrastic works to MacQueen’s Quinterly, wonderful! We hope you’ll take a few minutes to read Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide for Verbalizing Art, tips by Jack Cooper and Clare MacQueen in KYSO Flash which include additional examples of what Clare’s looking to publish here in MacQ as well. See also the excellent recommendations from Robert L. Dean, Jr. in his essay on craft: Finding the Door: One Writer’s Approach to Ekphrasis (MacQ-13, May 2022). | |
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Essays, Etcetera [nonfiction forms] |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Fallopian Tubes [micro-CNF] |
◊ | Horns [micro-CNF] |
Ce Rosenow | Still Motion: Poems and Photographs by Jianqing Zheng and Leo Touchet [book review] |
◊ | Wondrous Instruction and Advice from Global Poets by Charlotte Digregorio [book review] |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Mikki Aronoff | See Haibun below for her haibun story. |
Roberta Beary | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Guy Biederman | How to Compliment a Tomato [micro] |
Jennifer L. Freed | See Haibun below for her haibun story. |
Sheila Grether-Marion | I. Claude Tries Scriptwriting [historical flash, humorous] |
◊ | II. 1923: Elsa Studies Sculpting [historical flash] |
◊ | III. 1923: A Basket of Crabs [historical flash] |
Charlotte Hamrick | All the Little Organisms [micro] |
Zack Fox Loehle | Checking the Locks [flash] |
Yvonne Morris | Joy Ride [micro] |
Keith Polette | See Humor & Wordplay below for his haibun story. |
Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Sarp Sozdinler | The Eighth Continent [flash] |
Joshua Michael Stewart | A Hot One [micro] |
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles! | |
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Haibun [prose + micro-poetry] |
Cynthia Anderson | Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You |
Mikki Aronoff | Tangle and Split [haibun story] |
Owen Bullock | The etymology of despair [experimental] |
Eugene Datta | Elina |
◊ | Steady State |
Claire Everett | Into My Fire [haibun story] |
Colleen M. Farrelly | Entropy |
◊ | Georgia Nocturne [anomalous] |
Jennifer L. Freed | Ashes and Dust [haibun story] |
Kat Lehmann | The Invented Hours |
Kat Lehmann | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Bob Lucky | The Future Is on Its Way |
Clare Martin | Coming of Age |
Maeve O’Sullivan | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
Keith Polette | Another Afterlife |
Keith Polette | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Lynne Schilling | Seven Silent Monks |
Daryl Scroggins | Accidental Metaphors |
◊ | Morning Ritual |
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art] |
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Kala Ramesh | (shallow spring) [shahai: poem + photograph] |
Gary S. Rosin | (bouquet of roses) [shahai: poem + photograph] |
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Humor & Wordplay |
Roberta Beary | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Scott Ferry | Cigar [prose poem] |
Sheila Grether-Marion | See Fiction: Flash and Micro above. |
Maeve O’Sullivan | Artificial Intelligence [haibun] |
Keith Polette | A Burrito with Bashō [haibun story] |
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Micro-Poems |
Eugene Datta | Evening |
Harrison Fisher | Be He Man |
Lee Hudspeth and Kathabela Wilson |
Rapture [tan-ku] |
◊ | Relief [tan-ku] |
Bob Lucky | Two One-bun: “The hike” and “Fog” |
Lynne Schilling | The Parachutist |
Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Ron Scully | Three Micro-Poems [senryu] |
◊ | Four Micro-Poems [R] [senryu] |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
*Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the former Twitter limit), with each word containing an average of 5.5 characters. The limit of 51 words includes punctuation, spaces between words, and the title if the micro-poem has one. Haiku, senryu, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. | |
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Poetry: Lineated |
Cynthia Anderson | The Evidence |
Edward Baranosky | Emblems of Conduct |
◊ | The Way of the Brush IX |
Edward Baranosky | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Roberta Beary | From That Moment in Eve’s Garden When We Stood Watching |
Roy J. Beckemeyer | A-440 |
◊ | Chiaroscuro |
Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Delon |
◊ | Until the Body Burns to Ash |
Kika Dorsey | The Dead Rabbit |
◊ | Dear Tante Elfi |
Linda Nemec Foster | A Golden Shovel for the Past |
◊ | Your Childhood |
Jennifer L. Freed | 2025 |
◊ | In a Time of Turmoil |
Malcolm Glass | Music for Earth and Air |
Malcolm Glass | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
J.I. Kleinberg | See Visual Arts below for her collage poems. |
Robbi Nester | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Maeve O’Sullivan | Winter Beach |
Alexis Rhone Fancher | Easter Monday My Sister Ascends to Heaven With Pope Francis [pantoum] |
Gary S. Rosin | Labyrinth and Cane |
Joshua Michael Stewart | Sometimes I Feel Like an Old Chinese Poet Blues |
Mark Wyatt | See Visual Arts below for his pattern poem. |
Jonathan Yungkans | It’s Gone [R] |
◊ | Letter to My Dad |
◊ | Mister |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Prose Poems |
Guy Biederman | Fifty-Year Minute |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Wishes and Dreams |
Scott Ferry | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
Oz Hardwick | As Advertised |
◊ | Circus Days |
◊ | Moon Landing as Open Simile |
Courtney Harler | Last Penny |
Kendall Johnson | Loretta Swit [R] |
Daryl Scroggins | Neighborhood Sounds Heard While Painting the House |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Visual Arts |
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Part 1: | |
Scott Ferry | Three Self-Portraits (Numbers 1, 2, and 5) [photographs] |
J.I. Kleinberg | Four Visual Poems [aka Collage Poems]: |
◊ | and in The moonlight |
◊ | irascible night |
◊ | my blue sky |
◊ | some speak |
Kala Ramesh | See Haiga and Related Forms above. |
Gary S. Rosin | See Haiga and Related Forms above. |
Mark Wyatt | Antigone [visual poem, aka pattern poem] |
Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works |
Utagawa Hiroshige | Fudo Falls at Oji [R] [woodblock print, 1857] |
Vassilis Tangoulis | Untitled [pier] [R] [B&W photograph] |
George Frederic Watts | Hope [R] [painting, 1886] |
*Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints). |
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