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| Published: | 20 Sept. 2026 |
| Cheribun Galore! |
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Cheribun Galore! [prose + poetry] |
| Part 1: | |
| Joanna Ashwell | In and Out of Sleep |
| Colleen M. Farrelly and Terri L. French | Zigzag |
| Terri L. French and Colleen M. Farrelly | Don’t Bug Me [cheribun story, humorous] |
| Daryl Scroggins | Things I Didn’t Know I Would Remember [sequence] |
| Part 2: Long-Listed Finalists in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #4 |
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| Cynthia Anderson | Bad Behavior |
| Tina Barry | Poser Perplexed [cheribun story] |
| Susan Burch | Voice Boxed In |
| Billie Dee | Kibble [micro cheribun] |
| ◊ | Locale |
| Carol Dorf | With Dignity and Compassion |
| Margaret Dornaus | Night Shift |
| Colleen M. Farrelly | Monday Blues |
| Hazel Hall | The Getting of Knowledge |
| Tricia Knoll | Octogenarian Contrarian |
| Bob Lucky | Ready! Set! Go! |
| Tracy Royce | Both at Once |
| ◊ | Dementia with Lewy Bodies [micro cheribun] |
| Jane Salmons | Forever Breakfasting at Tiffany’s [cheribun story] |
| Daryl Scroggins | The Zookeeper’s Adopted Daughter [cheribun story, ekphrastic] |
| Joshua St. Claire | Neap Tide |
| Scott Wiggerman | Wasting Away in the Seventies [braided] |
| ◊ | What a Smile Hides |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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| Cynthia Bale | Common Threads [micro tanka prose], after textile art |
| ◊ | Untitled [tanka], after terracotta sculpture |
| ◊ | Loose Ends [tanka tale], after photograph |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Uses and Meanings: Liturgy [CNF], after Mesoamerican sculpture |
| Brian O’Sullivan | Sometimes He Feels Like an Ass [poem], after a painting |
| Gary S. Rosin | Slam [poem], after painting by Octavio Quintanilla |
| Jane Salmons | Snowdrop [microfiction], after a painting |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Cheribun above. |
| 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] |
| Kendall Johnson | The Poetics of Light (Part 6 of Writing for Light series) [essay, with paintings] |
| ◊ | About Those Fireflies [essay, with photographs by Susan Ilsley] |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Cheribun above for his memoir piece. |
| Rachel Weinhaus | When the Woods Were an Ocean [micro-memoir] |
| An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections. | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| Gary Fincke | See Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Beverly A. Tift | See Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Mark LaMonda | Bad Water [micro] |
| Joan Leotta | See Humor and Wordplay below for her microfiction. |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | Midnight Stroll [micro] |
| Jane Salmons | Long Haul to Libreville Beauty Expo [micro] |
| Jane Salmons | See also Ekphrastic Works above and Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Rachel Weinhaus | Toast [micro] |
| *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. | |
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Haibun Forms |
| Ella Aboutboul | Morning |
| Matthew Caretti | Coming to Grief |
| ◊ | Top Three for the Apocalypse |
| Jennifer L. Freed | In the Cards |
| Maryanne Hannan | Sisters, Shall I Speak? |
| Maryanne Hannan | See also Humor and Wordplay below. |
| Stephen W. Leslie | Eclipse |
| Bob Lucky | This Is How It Works |
| Brian O’Sullivan | Hot Air |
| ◊ | Thinking About the Roman Empire |
| Sherry Reniker | Mea Culpa |
| ◊ | Potlatch Forecast |
| Ce Rosenow | Sin City [micro] |
| Carla Schwartz | writer [can’t] write [micro] |
| ◊ | You’re It |
| Daryl Scroggins | Any Way You Cut It |
| ◊ | Gift of the Magpie [micro] |
| Beverly A. Tift | How to Scramble Your Day [micro] |
| ◊ | Keyboard Spelling |
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art] |
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| Terri L. French | Five Shahai [haiku + photographs] |
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Humor and Wordplay |
| Guy Biederman | End of the Beginning [prose poem] |
| Gary Fincke | The Long Line for Brains [microfiction] |
| Terri L. French and Colleen M. Farrelly | See Cheribun Galore! above for their cheribun story. |
| Maryanne Hannan | Never Hurts to Look About [haibun] |
| ◊ | Overheard [haibun] |
| Joan Leotta | Overheard Coming from the Dressing Room Next to Mine While Shopping for College Wardrobe [microfiction] |
| Jane Salmons | King Roland [microfiction] |
| Beverly A. Tift | Meanwhile, at the Red Dog Saloon [microfiction, sci-fi] |
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Micro-Poems* |
| Cynthia Bale | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Billie Dee | See Cheribun Galore! above. |
| Goran Gatalica | Five Micro-Poems [haiku] |
| Ce Rosenow | See Haibun Forms above. |
| Carla Schwartz | See Haibun Forms above. |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Haibun Forms above. |
| Beverly A. Tift | See Haibun Forms above. |
| Harriot West and Ce Rosenow |
between the lines [rengay] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Untitled (Line 1: been thinking of the hawk) [cherita], with three photographs |
| *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 the title if the micro-poem has one. Individual haiku, senryu, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. | |
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Poetry: Lineated |
| Rose Mary Boehm | The Man Who Would Never Marry |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | A Drive in Life |
| Roseanne Freed | Rerooting |
| ◊ | Yoo-hoo, Spring |
| Gary Grossman | Night Terrors |
| Maryanne Hannan | If You Don’t Count the “Y” |
| Jack D. Harvey | Gandhi’s Visit to il Duce |
| Porsche Jones | And When We Die It All Sinks into the Earth |
| Bernadette McComish | Death Dealer |
| Brian O’Sullivan | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Ce Rosenow and Harriot West |
doo wop doo wop doo wop [rengay] |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Judith Yarrow | Wells Echo, Time and Again |
| Jonathan Yungkans | “It was a strange figure—” |
| ◊ | Untitled (Line 1: Dave came downstairs looking) |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See also Micro-Poems above. |
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Prose Poems |
| Guy Biederman | Smeg |
| Guy Biederman | See also Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Louis Faber | Duck |
| ◊ | On the Riverside |
| Oz Hardwick | Late Flowering |
| ◊ | Palaeontology for the Home |
| Bob Lucky | in/on, out/off |
| Bernadette McComish | Summer 1999 |
| Curt Pawlisch | Captiva Island [sequence] |
| Tracy Royce | Last chance for spooky savings ... our Halloween sale ends tonight! |
| Rachel Weinhaus | Short Left Eyebrow Theories |
| Jonathan Yungkans | FISH |
| ◊ | Untitled (Lines 1-2: Jesus / a bronze statue) |
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Tanka Forms |
| Cynthia Bale | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Visual Arts |
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| Part 1: | |
| Terri L. French | See Haiga & Related Forms above for her shahai. |
| Susan Ilsley | For her photographs, see entry for Kendall Johnson’s “About Those Fireflies” under Essays, Etcetera above. |
| Kendall Johnson | For his paintings, see entry for “The Poetics of Light” under Essays, Etcetera above. |
| Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works: |
| Eastman Johnson | The Pets [R] (1856) [painting] |
| Octavio Quintanilla | Frontexto 123-25, 51 [R] [painting] |
| Unknown | Terracotta Head of a Woman [R] (299-101 BCE) [Greek Tarentine sculpture] |
| Unknown | The Tuxtla Statuette [R] (ca. 162 CE) [Epi-Olmec carving, jadeite diopside] |
| Unknown | Carpet Fragment [R] (13th-14th century) [Turkish weaving] |
| Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections. | |
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