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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Published: 1 Dec. 2025

Contents: Issue 30X

Featured:
“The Haibun Zoo”
 
Fiction Ekphrastic Works Humor & Wordplay Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Essays, Etcetera Statistics Visual Arts Poetry & Hybrids Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems

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:: 30X ::
Featured
Colleen M. Farrelly The Haibun Zoo: A Guide to Rare Haibun Forms [essay]
Colleen M. Farrelly Counting Degrees [sudo-ku-bun]
Fast Forward [drabblebun]
Scar Wars [zipbun]
:: 30X ::
Ekphrastic Works
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Mikki Aronoff A Matching Blue [microfiction], after Natalie Chapman
E. L. Blizzard From a Poet to a Painter [haibun sequence], after Pablo Picasso
Lorette C. Luzajic Obliteration [flash fiction], after Yayoi Kusama
Daryl Scroggins The Tip-Off [microfiction], after a lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec
Stuart Watson See Humor below for his art-inspired flash fiction.
Jonathan Yungkans homage [poem], after a photograph of Fred Voss
the Scripture in Dad’s last Christmas card [poem], after Magritte
 
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]
Angie Athanassiades Two Excerpts from I Am Twig, Bone, Feather [memoir, lyrical]
Rose Mary Boehm A New Way of Looking: Robbi Nester’s ekphrastic collection About to Disappear [book review]
Colleen M. Farrelly See Featured above for her Guide to rare haibun forms.
Jennifer L. Freed My English Student Tells the Story of His Journey from His Homeland [CNF]
Kendall Johnson Writing in the Dark (Part I of Writing for Light series) [essay and five photographs]
Kurt Luchs The Ever-Changing Images of H.D. [R] [essay, with poems by H.D. and Luchs]
Iliyana Stoyanova Crazy Bitches by Roberta Beary [R] [book review]
 
Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Fiction: Flash and Micro*
Mikki Aronoff See Ekphrastic Works above.
Claire Everett See Haibun below for her haibun story.
Colleen M. Farrelly See Featured above for her drabblebun (haibun story).
Sheila Grether-Marion 1941: Les Oiseaux [historical flash]
Bob Lucky Five Atomic Tales [<20 words each]
Lorette C. Luzajic See Ekphrastic Works above.
Daryl Scroggins Unidentified Holiday Spirit [micro]
Daryl Scroggins See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Stuart Watson See Humor below.
 
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles!
:: 30X ::
Haibun [prose + haiku]
E. L. Blizzard See Ekphrastic Works above.
Cherie Hunter Day Tracking Future Jerry in the Atlantic
Claire Everett Sprung [haibun story]
Colleen M. Farrelly See Featured above for her drabblebun, sudo-ku-bun, and zipbun.
Kala Ramesh Keep It Simple
Some Loud Thinking
Alexis Rotella Deep Roots
:: 30X ::
Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art]
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Mark Meyer Two Artworks:
first line: “fiesta colors” [shahai]
first line: “lapis lazuli” [haiga]
:: 30X ::
Humor
Stuart Watson Finishing Touches [flash fiction]
In the Prada [microfiction]
:: 30X ::
Micro-Poems*
Eugene Datta Last Light
There’s No Such Thing as Time
Mark Meyer Befürchtung (1983) [painting and senryu]
Daryl Scroggins Three Cherita:
(“older now”)
(“to grow is not to settle”)
(“my only prayer”)
 
*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.)
:: 30X ::
Poetry: Lineated
Cynthia Anderson Pompeii Orange
Doug Anderson Bad Buddhist
H.D. See entry for Kurt Luchs under Essays, Etcetera above.
Gary Grossman Little Ned
Kurt Luchs See Essays, Etcetera above.
Gary S. Rosin A Hundred Years Later
Susan Tekulve Blueberries [poem and watercolor]
Jonathan Yungkans See Ekphrastic Works above.
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Prose Poems
Guy Biederman Crooked Betty
Detours
Oz Hardwick A Nice Distinction
The Steampunk Covenant
In the Unlikely Event
Kendall Johnson Dark News IV-VI (prosimetra excerpted from forthcoming Fireflies collection)
:: 30X
Visual Arts
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  Part 1:
 
Mark Meyer See Haiga and Micro-Poems above.
 
Kendall Johnson See Essays, Etcetera above for his essay with five photographs.
 
Part 2: Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works
 
Toulouse-Lautrec Le Tocsin [R] [lithograph]
 
*Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints).
 
 
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