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Published: | 14 Sept. 2025 |
Cheribun Galore! |
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Cheribun Galore! [prose + poetry] |
Part 1: | |
Colleen M. Farrelly | Necessary and Sufficient Conditions [braided] |
Gary S. Rosin | Curtains? [+ photograph] |
Part 2: Long-Listed Finalists in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #3 |
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Cynthia Anderson | Charon Strikes Back |
◊ | The Shadow |
Colleen M. Farrelly | Memory Box |
◊ | Ramanujan’s House |
Jane Frank | Workshop |
Hazel Hall | Her Morning Walk [cheribun story] |
Tracy Royce | Open and Shut |
◊ | Tandem Turd Team [humorous] |
Adelaide B. Shaw | Too Soon |
Scott Wiggerman | When I Knew: Second Grade |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Owen Bullock | Colour drawdowns 3 [poem], after the artwork of Laura Crehuet Berman |
◊ | Excerpt from a Sydney weekend [haibun], after multiple artworks |
Susan Michele Coronel | Not in Memories, But in Things [prose poem], after painting by Lizzie Zelter |
Kika Dorsey | It’s Not Deserted [poem], after photograph by Alexis Rhone Fancher |
Lynne Kemen | Lake Effect [poem], after NASA photograph |
◊ | Stump and Leaves [poem], after watercolor by John Phillip |
Judy Kronenfeld | Sheen [poem], after photograph by Vivian Maier |
◊ | Shine and Verve [poem], after painting by Edward Hopper |
Sharon Roseman | Fears and follies [prose poem], after sculpture by Alberto Giacometti |
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] |
Deanna Benjamin | Like starfish [micro-memoir] |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Heirloom [micro-CNF] |
Gary DeCoker | Frisbee as Currency [micro-CNF] |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Deanna Benjamin | Lilacs [micro] |
Guy Biederman | Butterfingers Bait [micro] |
◊ | Divorcee Seeks Safe Cracker on Parole [micro] |
◊ | Estate Sale [micro] |
Jeffrey L. Buller | See Tanka Tale below. |
Richard Downing | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
Jennifer L. Freed | See Haibun below for her haibun stories. |
Jaime Gill | Two Taxi Rides at Dawn [R] [flash] |
Malcolm Glass | From Flesh to Ashes [micro] |
◊ | Gifts of the Day [micro] |
Malcolm Glass | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Sheila Grether-Marion | 1924: Elsa Repents [historical flash] |
Hazel Hall | See Cheribun Galore! above for her cheribun story. |
Alaina Hammond | Classic Misdirection [micro] |
Rebecca Klassen | Meaning of the Call [micro] |
Sharon Roseman | Front-row seat [micro] |
Daryl Scroggins | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles! | |
Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
Cynthia Anderson | Fade to Black |
Jeffrey L. Buller | See Tanka Tale below. |
Owen Bullock | Numbers |
Owen Bullock | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Eugene Datta | Diary |
Jennifer L. Freed | Iceberg [haibun story] |
◊ | Today, Tomorrow, Always [haibun story] |
David J Kelly | Flash to Bang [haibun] |
◊ | Turning [haibun] |
Kat Lehmann | Not by the Hairs of My Chinny Chin Chin [French braided] |
Kat Lehmann | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Bob Lucky | Desuetude |
Bob Lucky | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Keith Polette | Fire Stealers |
Bonnie J Scherer | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
Daryl Scroggins | On a Small Stage in Detroit |
Thomas Smith | Sense |
Joshua St. Claire | Bookbinding |
◊ | On Repeat: June 21, 2025 [anomalous] |
Evan Vandermeer | Ashes |
Lew Watts | Battered |
◊ | Varzuga |
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art] |
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Keith Polette | Three Shahai [senryu + photographs] |
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Humor & Wordplay |
Richard Downing | Everybody’s got to be someone [flash fiction] |
Malcolm Glass | Finesse [flash fiction] |
Kat Lehmann | An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory [haibun] |
Bob Lucky | The Sting [haibun] |
Tracy Royce | See Cheribun Galore! above. |
Bonnie J Scherer | If It Quacks Like a Duck [haibun story] |
Daryl Scroggins | Early Ideas for Stories [microfiction] |
◊ | Vision [microfiction] |
Scott Wiggerman | Marital Hell Villanelle [poem] |
◊ | Visionary [poem] |
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Micro-Poems* |
Cynthia Anderson | Rock-Jock [split sequence variation] |
Lee Hudspeth | Fable [split sequence, solo] |
Lee Hudspeth & Kathabela Wilson |
Planetarium [tan-ku] |
Thomas Smith | Three Micro-Poems [haiku] |
Evan Vandermeer | cherished |
Evan Vandermeer | See also Poetry, Lineated below. |
*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. Individual haiku, senryu, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. (Sequences of such micro-poems do have titles.) | |
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Poetry: Lineated |
M. J. Arcangelini | At the Dome |
Deanna Benjamin | Ceremony |
Owen Bullock | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Rick Christiansen | The Morning After Anger |
◊ | Stuffed Monkey [triple triolet] |
Steve Deutsch | Last Winter |
Kika Dorsey | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Colleen S. Harris | Nosophobia |
Peter Jastermsky & Stephanie Zepherelli |
Poems of Desire |
Susan Carroll Jewell | Bewilderness |
◊ | Married to Sisyphus [duplex] |
David J Kelly | Wakefulness |
Lynne Kemen | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Judy Kronenfeld | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Laurie Kuntz | In the Absence of Healing |
Alexis Rhone Fancher | Your Future Between My Thighs [+ two B&W photographs] |
Daryl Scroggins | Cold Storage |
◊ | Refuge [cherita sequence] |
Thomas Smith | In Saint-Véran |
Thomas Smith | See also Micro-Poems above. |
Annie Stenzel | Pseudacris cadaverina perseveres |
Thomas A. Thomas | Ending Song |
Evan Vandermeer | Two Swans |
Evan Vandermeer | See also Micro-Poems above. |
Scott Wiggerman | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
Jonathan Yungkans | being what George Carlin called an old fuck |
◊ | mad, bad and finally going somewhere else |
◊ | Surfridge [R] |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Prose Poems |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Chakra Cave Dream |
Susan Michele Coronel | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Eugene Datta | Reflection |
K. Degala-Paraíso | Archipelago |
Kendall Johnson | Dark News I-III (prosimetra excerpted from forthcoming Fireflies collection) |
Sharon Roseman | A recipe for Anya |
Sharon Roseman | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Tanka Tale [prose + poetry] |
Jeffrey L. Buller | Quarantine Blues in B-Flat Minor |
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Visual Arts |
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Part 1: | |
Keith Polette | See Haiga above. |
Alexis Rhone Fancher | Two untitled photographs [B&W] |
Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works |
Edward Hopper | Drug Store [R] [painting] |
NASA, SeaWiFS Project | Lake Effect Snow on Earth [R] [photograph] |
John Phillip | Ivy Covered Tree Stump [R] [painting] |
*Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints). |
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