#Meg Pokrass

[thoughtportal]

"She was told that she had nine million babies inside of her. Her womb held a continent." These insane animal facts create a narrative that hits closer than you might think

[notanotherbookreview]

I found these books entertaining in the lit sense. I was moved, challenged and really amused. Also a surprise how complete they were in 45 pages.

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'I have a flash fiction mind' - interview with Jayne Martin @jayne_martin

‘I have a flash fiction mind’ – interview with Jayne Martin @jayne_martin

Jayne Martin has an impressive string of accolades for her flash fiction, especially her recent collection Tender Cuts. Before that, she had a distinguished career writing TV drama and movies. We got together to talk the long and short of writing. Roz Across all those different continents of work, short and long, do you have any recurring themes, any character types you’re most interested…

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[these-summer-nights-in-december]

Reading & Discussing My Poetry Collaborations with Dustin Nightingale May 1!

On May 1st Dustin Nightingale and I are reading/discussing our poetry collaborations as part of a Collaborative Writing Zoom event with Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and hosts Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. We've never done a collaborative reading, and we're really excited about this! Join us! Email Meg for the Zoom link at megpokrass(at)gmail(dot)com.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1876772249167828/

[queenmobs]

Poem: Meg Pokrass

Man Against Nature

I stand near the boiling stockpot warming my fingers while the chicken and vegetables melt, the smell making our apartment strong. Canned wind howls from the TV screen in the living room, producing a cool glow. He loves man-against-nature shows which are really just a buff-looking model talking to himself (and his hidden film crew) before lunch, which is probably catered sushi.

I serve him the fresh broth on a lockable tray, move his legs from couch to the floor, bend my knees to avoid using my back. He drinks soup with a special deep spoon – and though his fingers tremble, they are able to grasp. I sit with him, cheek against his warm shoulder, watching the man trapped between two icy mountain ranges building a fire out of sticks.

[britishchick09]

in creative writing we’re doing a webex meeting with meg pokrass and aimee parkison and it’s so cool! :D

[kathyfishblog]

Nancy Stohlman Interviewed at New Flash Fiction Review

Nancy Stohlman Interviewed at New Flash Fiction Review

Meg Pokrass recently interviewed Nancy at New Flash Fiction Review regarding her two stories in the New Micro anthology, her terrific, soon-to-be released book, Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities, our flash fiction retreats, and more.

Below is an excerpt:

MP: Congratulations on your new collection, MADAM VELVET’S CABARET OF ODDITIES! Can you tell us why the world of circus life, the world of…

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Spinning To Mars by Meg Pokrass (Blue Light Press)

Spinning To Mars by Meg Pokrass (Blue Light Press)

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Unfold a Literary Treasure With The A3 Review

We love playful structures in narratives and innovative formats in design. The A3 Review  unfolds like a map filled with short prose, poems and illustrations. It’s unique though reminiscent of HOOT, which takes a postcard form. These journals that embrace the short form beg to be shared.

The chorus of voices in A3 intrigues each in a different way. “Let me tell you of things I have not seen and of stories I have not heard,” writes Peter Hitchen in “Things of Which No One Knows” (no. 5). In the same issue, Meg Pokrass writes, “Skipping along behind him like a child on Castlehaven Road, she felt giddy, as if she were playing a child in a movie of her life” (“Old Girl”).

The Little Magazine Collection holds all issues of The A3 Review and looks forward to receiving no. 8, “The Gold Issue,” soon!

[microfictional]

Holiday Beer List 2019 by Meg Pokrass

Holiday Beer list, 2019 (updated for these special times we're living in) 1. Brexit Breath European Style Export (Final Edition) 2. Very White Christmas English Style Blonde 3. Boris Adoris British Bitter 4. Mexico-U.S. Wall German Style Weisenbock 5. Trumpy Bumpy Reflux American Sour 6. Climate Crisis Winter Warmer Pale 7. Extinction Distinction American Imperial Porter 8. Grinder/Tinder (very) Short Session Beer   9. #metoo No-More 'Honey' Beer 10. Arm the Children Depression Dark 11. First Amendment Argument Pig-Stout Bold 12. Wonderful Life? Very Very Hard Cider -

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My Sister, the Arsonist by Meg Pokrass via Electric Literature https://ift.tt/2G7tUy0

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La Chambre Claire 2018

The Best Short Prose Published Online in 2018 According to Claire 

There were stories I loved that I didn’t include. There were probably stories I would have loved, had I read them. So the list below is non-exhaustive and unfinished, which is exactly how I like my lists. 

Thank you, dear authors and editors, for all you have given me. This year of reading has left me enriched.  

“The Less Said” by Jolene Mcilwain in New Orleans Review

“The Whole Girl Detective Thing” by Cathy Ulrich in Black Warrior Review

Five Micros by Kathy Fish in Pidgeon Holes

“Smile, Lisa” by Lynn Mundell in Monkey Bicycle

“New Words for the New World” by Paul Crenshaw in Tin House (Flash Fidelity) 

“Monstrous, Chaotic Things” by Maureen Langloss in Cheap Pop 

“One More Time” by Melissa Goode in Jellyfish Review

“Desert Island Diet” by Megan Giddings in The Adroit Journal

“Checkmate” by Jacqueline Doyle and “Echoes” by Nod Gosh in Blue Fifth Review 

“You Won’t Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women” by Amber Sparks in The Collagist

 “The Magician” by Kara Oakleaf in Wigleaf

“The Sky Is Just Another Neighborhood” by Lori Sambol Brody in SmokeLong Quarterly

“The Boy with the Glass Eye” by Stacy Trautwein Burns in New Flash Fiction Review 

“Stranded Sea Mammals” by Meg Pokrass in Jellyfish Review

“What Is Left” by Jen Michalski in Heavy Feather Review

“Knock Knock” by Jessica Barksdale in matchbook

“Snow” by Kathryn McMahon in New Delta Review 

“Us” by Leonora Desar in Cheap Pop 

“Subsoil of Memory” by Julie Zuckerman in The Coil 

“Plastic” by Corey Farrenkopf in Lunch Ticket

“After The Fog Come The Hunters” by Jad Josey in Jellyfish Review 

“This Is All We Need” by Jennifer Todhunter in Atticus Review

“We All Know About Margo” by Megan Pillow Davis in SmokeLong Quarterly

“The Woman with a Box at the Church” by Alina Stefanescu in Wigleaf 

“Weather Proverbs, Explained” by Ingrid Jendrzejewski in StreetLight 

“Mother of the Year” by Lindsay Hunter in Kenyon Review Online  

“It’s Called Deception” by Jan Stinchcomb Gone Lawn

“We Knew Not What” by Lisa Ferranti in Spelk Fiction

“And Sometimes We Meet” by Dina Relles in matchbook 

“Out of My Hands” by Jayne Martin in Hippocampus Magazine 

“Melanzane Al Forno” by Jennifer Harvey in Jellyfish Review 

“Chimaera” by Stephanie Hutton & Sophie Van Llewyn in Connotation Press

“Late Bloomers and Perennials” by Dorothy Rice in Brevity 

La Chambre Claire 2018 was originally published on Claire Polders

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On publication: Bath Flash 2

"“Every single flash I received possessed qualities I admired and envied…I marvelled at the form’s ability to permit such a range of approaches – from slices-of-life to epic narration to poetic experiments and beyond…”"  -- David Swann, author of Stronger, Faster, Shorter and The Privilege of Rain. "“I could not believe how many powerful stories I read in the long list of fifty stories. It was very difficult to select the short list of twenty and then to choose the winners.”"  -- Meg Pokrass, author of Bird Envy, Damn Sure Right and The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down. "“The stories were of a very high standard…I’m so impressed with how organized and efficient all of the Bath contests appear to be. The production of a beautiful anthology from the contest long list is also very impressive…”"  -- Kathy Fish, author of Together We Can Bury It and co-author of RIFT.

The Lobsters Run Free

Bath Flash Fiction Volume Two

One hundred and thirty-five flash fiction stories from world-wide authors selected from the long lists of the three Bath Flash Fiction Awards in 2017. These dazzling fictions, all 300 words or under, give us fresh insights into world wide concerns – from relationship issues and domestic situations tender or fraught, to war torn landscapes and the plight of the dispossessed. So much is compressed into so few words.

 196mm x 134mm, 160pp

Paperback ISBN 978-1-912095-69-8

£9.99 GBP

Available Here

[these-summer-nights-in-december]

The video of yesterday’s “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion” event is now available. Dustin Nightingale and I read some of our collaborative prose poems (for the first time ever live!), along with awesome readings by Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. Plus there’s an inspiring Q & A. Yay collaborative writing!

[britishchick09]

it's freaking fun to collaborate with others!

meg pokrass, 2021