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| Published: | 6 June 2026 |
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Featured Author |
New Book From MacQ |
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Fiction
Ekphrastic Works
Humor
Flash (501–1,000 words) Micro (up to 500 words) |
Faction Bio Notes Essays, Etcetera Statistics Visual Arts | Poetry & Hybrids Cheribun Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Humor Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems |
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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 flagging individual titles with content warnings, because they tend to ruin any surprises within the works. 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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Featured Author |
| Jonathan Yungkans | all the horses [poem, structured] |
| ◊ | echo [prose poem], with Poet’s Commentary |
| ◊ | Mountain Lions Prefer Organic Free-Range Carnivores [prose poem, humorous] |
| ◊ | sometimes [poem, structured] |
| Jonathan Yungkans and Yelena Sidorova | (streaks) [collaborative haiga] (monoku by Yungkans and painting by Sidorova) |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Excerpts from forthcoming e-chapbook, pour a frigid moon: |
| ◊ | (I / might submit) [hay(na)ku chain] |
| ◊ | Two Monostitches [micro-poems] |
| ◊ | (saffron) [shahai: haiku + photograph] |
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Cheribun [prose + cherita] |
| Deanna Benjamin | The cellular distance of a touch |
| Colleen M. Farrelly | #Still Compiling |
| ◊ | Washed Away |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works below. |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Haibun below, for his sequence with two haibun and a cheribun. |
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Ekphrastic Works |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Linda Nemec Foster | The Infinity Pantoum, after limestone sculpture by Jason Quigno |
| Adele Gallogly | The Feel of the Batter [haibun story, braided], after a painting by Ludwig Knaus |
| Bob Lucky | Wounds [prose poem], after a medieval surgical diagram |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Breaking Up with Madonna [prose poem], after a painting by Jean Michel Basquiat |
| ◊ | Tame [prose poem], after an ancient Egyptian sculpture |
| ◊ | Venus de Punta Arenas [flash fiction], after a photograph by Joel Peter Witkin |
| Robbi Nester | Shall I Call Her Night? [poem], after ESA/Webb photograph |
| Gary S. Rosin | Old Cars [cheribun], after photograph by Robert Hecht |
| ◊ | Still Standing [poem], after photograph by Chuck Kimmerle |
| Tracy Royce | Do Not Let Dolores Host Book Club [microfiction], after a painting by Luis Egidio Meléndez |
| ◊ | Incursion [microfiction], after a photograph of Dalí by George Platt Lynes |
| Daryl Scroggins | A Changing of the Guard [microfiction], after a woodcut by Edward Calvert |
| Joshua St. Claire | On Georgia O’Keeffe’s Black Iris [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | On Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Bolt [haibun story] |
| 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] |
| Guy Biederman | See Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Kendall Johnson | Returning to Listen: Thinking About Method (Part 4 of Writing for Light series) [essay and artworks] |
| Daryl Scroggins | A Brief Delay [micro-CNF] |
| ◊ | See also Humor and Wordplay below. |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| Part 1: | |
| Dave Alcock | Our Bread [R] [microfiction] |
| Guy Biederman | Cruciverbalist [microfiction] |
| Linda Nemec Foster | A Woman from the North Country [microfiction] |
| Part 2: | See Ekphrastic Works above for their: |
| Adele Gallogly | [haibun story] |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | [flash fiction] |
| Tracy Royce | [microfictions] |
| Daryl Scroggins | [microfiction] |
| Joshua St. Claire | [haibun story] |
| Part 3: | See Haibun below for their: |
| Roberta Beary | [haibun story] |
| Gary Glauber | ◊ |
| Chen-ou Liu | ◊ |
| Bob Lucky | ◊◊ |
| Brian O’Sullivan | ◊ |
| Beverly A. Tift | ◊ |
| Mary White | ◊ |
| Scott Wiggerman | ◊ |
| *Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. Word count of each piece includes the title and any epigraphs. | |
| An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections. | |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
| Stephen A. Allen | Holiday Season |
| Cynthia Anderson | Day in the Life |
| ◊ | Why I Don’t [micro-haibun] |
| Tina Barry | Bad Advice |
| Roberta Beary | What Ernest Overheard Gertrude Say to Alice in Furs [haibun story] |
| Lynn Edge | Replacement |
| Colleen M. Farrelly | #Decoding Perimenopause |
| ◊ | Love Redefined |
| Thomas Festa | Discourse on the Manner of Being Aflame |
| ◊ | Dream Scroll |
| Jared Frank | 21st-century inner peace [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | Screens of the Dead |
| ◊ | See also Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Adele Gallogly | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Gary Glauber | Different Strokes [haibun story] |
| Rachel Greve | Niagara |
| ◊ | Universal |
| Elizabeth Kerlikowske | The Last Class |
| Barbara Krasner | Leftovers |
| Kat Lehmann | Points Along the Spiral Path |
| Chen-ou Liu | Brushed in Time [haibun story] |
| Bob Lucky | The Promise of Dark Skies [haibun story] |
| ◊ | See also Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Mark Meyer | Rotten Eggs |
| Isabella Mori | ... and up again |
| ◊ | [this space is empty] [micro-haibun] |
| Eve Müller | Conflagration |
| Brian O’Sullivan | Liars [haibun story] |
| Sherry Reniker | The Aphant in the House |
| Tracy Royce | Labor Day [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | On the Trail |
| Carla Schwartz | 11/22/63 |
| ◊ | After the Fly, If Only He’d Swallow the Horse |
| ◊ | Radio Silence |
| Daryl Scroggins | Precursory Divinations [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | Retreat [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | Three Museums [hybrid sequence, with two haibun and a cheribun] |
| Sheila Sondik | Extracurricular |
| ◊ | Pathetic Fallacy |
| Joshua St. Claire | Noctanthesis |
| ◊ | See also Ekphrastic Works. |
| Beverly A. Tift | Coffee with Frieda Kahlo [haibun story] |
| ◊ | Where Stone Remembers |
| Margaret Walker | Always |
| Lew Watts | First Voice |
| Mary White | Threshold [haibun story] |
| Scott Wiggerman | Why Some American Adolescents Only Succeed at Suicide [haibun story] |
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art] |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Featured Author above for his shahai and collaborative haiga. |
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Humor and Wordplay |
| Guy Biederman | My New Coffee Name [micro-CNF] |
| Jared Frank | a practical koan [haibun] |
| ◊ | deep reflections [haibun story] |
| Bob Lucky | Last Call [haibun story] |
| Daryl Scroggins | The Lucky Stroll [micro-CNF] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Featured Author above for his humorous prose poem. |
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Micro-Poems* |
| Cynthia Anderson | See Haibun above. |
| Jared Frank | See Haibun above. |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Poetry: Lineated below. |
| Daryl Scroggins | Six Micro-Poems [cherita terbalik]: |
| ◊ | (more / my mother says) |
| ◊ | (more like—to age) |
| ◊ | (old raven on a fence post) |
| ◊ | (engine of death) |
| ◊ | (comet the size of) |
| ◊ | (I alone left) |
| Daryl Scroggins | See also Haibun above. |
| Joshua St. Claire | See Ekphrastic Works and Haibun above for his micro-haibun. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Featured Author above for his monostitches, hay(na)ku chain, and shahai. |
| *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 |
| Robbi Nester | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Gary S. Rosin | Two Pond Poems [untitled haiku plus “Pond Dreams”] |
| ◊ | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Rebecca Simone Schmitz | Life in the Key of No |
| ◊ | The Twins |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Featured Author above. |
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Prose Poems |
| Deanna Benjamin | Rose yogurt |
| Guy Biederman | Missed |
| Linda Nemec Foster | The Four Cardinal Virtues as Models in a Vanity Fair Photo Shoot |
| Bob Lucky | The Cult |
| ◊ | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | The Girl in the Photo Took No Photos |
| Rebecca Simone Schmitz | My Vermont |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Featured Author above. |
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Visual Arts |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Part 1: | |
| Scott Ferry | Five silhouette self-portraits [photographs] |
| Kendall Johnson | See Essays, Etcetera above for his essay which includes seven of his artworks. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Featured Author above for his collaborative haiga (with Yelena Sidorova) and his shahai (“saffron”). |
| Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works: |
| Ancient Egyptian | Basalt torso of Pa-Maj [R] (350-300 BCE) [sculpture] |
| Edward Calvert | The Return Home [R] (1830) [woodcut on paper] |
| ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA | NGC 1333 [R], Embryo Nebula in Perseus Constellation [photograph] |
| Jean-Honoré Fragonard | Le Verrou (The Bolt) [R] [painting] |
| Robert Hecht | Paint Scratches on Old Car, Sandy [photograph] |
| Chuck Kimmerle | Spring Snow, Bodie [B&W photograph] |
| Ludwig Knaus | Mud Pies [R] (1873) [painting] |
| Luis Egidio Meléndez | Still Life with Small Pears, Bread, Flask, Bowl, and Dry Leaves (1760) [R] [painting] |
| Unknown | [Young woman with bracelet] [R] [B&W photograph], from The Girl in the Photo series of poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher |
| Unknown | [Young woman with tree] [R] [B&W photograph], from The Girl in the Photo series of poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher |
| Unknown | Wound Man [R] (late 14th century CE through 15th century), an umbrella title for several variations of surgical diagrams |
| Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections. | |
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