Reader & Writer
Fringe Festival, Tranäs An enclave of aficionados of the NY School (poetry) Before leaving for the Kungsleden, before leaving home, I’d prepared my Tranäs at the Fringe workshop on Micro-Memoir. Once in Tranäs at my friend’s house, she even printed off my workshop notes: All for nought. Once started, it went out the window. It... Continue Reading →
I sent off “Names for Birds” to the Celtic Literary Review. Not all things are as they seem. About the Celtic Literary Review Journal: Our journal is a nonprofit, online magazine with one central goal in mind: to empower female writers. The literary world is a hectic place for all, and it is especially difficult... Continue Reading →
I love going to the garden to see my tomatoes, red from the sun and abundant heat, to inspect the cucumbers like little water balloons almost about to burst, and the beans, heavy on the vine or beginning as string ready to wax out into bulbous pods. There is this strange mix of emotions: pride... Continue Reading →
A couple years ago I had about 12 short stories accepted. This has been the year for short pieces. Currently I have a new piece appearing in Switch, online micro fiction. The piece is nonfiction. The website is not very specific and you’ll need to scroll down to find circa 1984. https://www.switchonline.org/about-1 I’ll be at... Continue Reading →
“Meet me in the Future“ Spring 2025 Green Silk Journal and “Thanks for these gray hairs” Spring 2025, prose poem, redrosethorns are now out! These are micro-memoir pieces. A Study in Grief was taken by Wild Willow Magazine (where the word takes root), formally The Minison Project. It is considered a fledgling publication by Duotrope, the portal... Continue Reading →
What is Substack? Substack is content that may be described as newsletters, posts, essays, articles, blogs. It is focused. I decided to make my Substack about Flash Memoir. Flash writing is about writing small, prose-like; it has been called the haiku of prose. We all are familiar with the genre of memoir--though years ago my... Continue Reading →
My story, The Writer, is out in Two Thirds North, a journal out of the University of Stockholm, where I worked with a fine group of editors to make the piece stronger. As I work on the short story/hybrid collection I plan to put up at createspace/Amazon, I’ve expanded my vision to now 3 volumes!... Continue Reading →
In writing news I’ve had a micro piece accepted. A Study in Grief was taken by Wild Willow Magazine (where the word takes root), formally The Minison Project. It is considered a fledgling publication by Duotrope, the portal I mostly use to submit and discover publications and calls for submissions. Grief. It something I’ve been... Continue Reading →
I submitted to Redrosethorns back in bleak February—who am I kidding, they’ve all been bleak lately. Anyway, I submitted a small snippet for a themed submission call around aging. Even though I don’t feel old, nor am I old old, stuff has come up, stuff I can no longer ignore. Such as, How do I... Continue Reading →
I’ve had a few less acceptances this year . . . after a record-setting acceptances last year. In fact, I was growing despondent—there’s always an emotional high, a release of adrenaline when I do receive notice of an acceptance. Through Submittable I saw that HOOT had taken a short-short for their postcard review. These are... Continue Reading →
New work out now-Zen Garden, go to Rock and a Hard Place https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9CRNTPM I started with a true incident: the basement at the townhouse I first lived in in Okemos always smelled like weed. I suspected the neighbors of hotboxing. My laundry left to dry down there ended up smelling like skunk. The odor wafted up... Continue Reading →
Jane Hertenstein 