I love Smokelong Quarterly. Each time I teach a flash fiction workshop, I use examples from here to show what the form can be.
I had one of my very first publications in Smokelong back in 2004.
It's been a labour of love to get something accepted again, and finally! "Wei-Ch'i"...LINK HERE.
There seems to be a thread running through the whole issue, as the editor says. Loss and discovery merging into one. Wei=Ch'i certainly fits that.
And Innisfree Poetry Journal has just gone up together with a historic contribution... my very first published poem, To Not Be Water (with acknowledgements to Bev Jackson for both inspiration and encouragement!)INNISFREE LINKED HERE Please read Eric Pankey's work... especially a poem entitled Walk With My Father.
Poetry is a slippery beast. Whenever I think I've 'got' something, can understand something, it slips away. My tutor David Grubb is very patient, thank heavens.
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7 comments:
Vanessa, this is such a beautiful, wise and aching, grieving - yet accepting - story. "After all, the wrong partner was better than no partner at all" - that strikes home and seems to be the story's lightly touched-upon centre.
Frances
Thank you, Frances.
V
I loved the story too. Fab stuff.
Nik.
er... and would that be a certain Nik Perring I see in the lists?
nice one Nik! Good to be published with you!
V
A nice blog indeed. And you are really writing wonderful things.
Hi there!
Thank you for visiting. Blogs are such good places... I read yours with great interest too.
I will visit often!
V
Yes, tis I.
Good to published with you too. It's a good place, is Smokelong.
N
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