Reader & Writer
“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 →
Cicadas make an appearance (every 17 years) in my novel CLOUD OF WITNESSES. At the end of the novel with several other apocalyptic events swirling around my young protagonist, Roland fetches his bicycle (late to school again) from under the trailer and finds it covered in cicadas. I pulled my bike out of the rack in... Continue Reading →
The Machine Has No Clothes has been reprinted (again) by Coin-Operated, a zine project out of Scotland. About Coin-Operated: Coin-Operated Press CIC is an artist-led social enterprise run by Chloe Henderson. We are based in Scotland, where we facilitate creative workshops, host zine fairs, manage the DJCAD Zine Library, create educational zine content, and produce, publish,... Continue Reading →
2024 is off to a fruitful start—not so much this writer. Pure of Heart came out in February in Fathom. A very sweet short story (14 min. read) about a simple girl, in terms applied from the past: a servant, who become ingrained into a family of middle-class means and how that relationship touches every... Continue Reading →
Cicadas make an appearance (every 17 years) in my novel CLOUD OF WITNESSES. At the end of the novel with several other apocalyptic events swirling around my young protagonist, Roland fetches his bicycle (late to school again) from under the trailer and finds it covered in cicadas. I pulled my bike out of the rack in... Continue Reading →
Jane Hertenstein 