Category: Fiction

Virtual Poetry Reading / Ron Koertge

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The Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle of Ann Arbor and 3rd Wednesday Magazine Present:
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 7-9 pm (Eastern) Via Zoom.

Ron Koertge has had poems twice in Best American Poetry and grants from the NEA and California Arts Council. His novels for young adults won two P.E.N. awards. An animated film made from his flash fiction, Negative Space, was shortlisted for the 2018 Academy awards. Billy Collins calls his presentations “deliciously smart and entertaining.”

Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.

The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone

Oasis / Rowan MacDonald

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Rowan MacDonald’s short fiction has been awarded the Kenan Ince Memorial Prize (2023) and nominated for Best of the Net (2025). His words have appeared in publications around the world, including most recently New Writing Scotland, Bright Flash Literary Review, Sans. PRESS, Rock Salt Journal and Coffin Bell Journal. He lives in Tasmania with his dog, Rosie, who sits beside him for each word he writes.

Les Pieds Rouges / Madari Pendas

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Madari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer and cartoonist. She received her MFA from Florida International University, where she was a Lawrence Sanders Fellow, and won the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prise, judged by Major Jackson. Her work has appeared in Craft, Smokelong Quarterly, The Masters Review, Oyster River Pages, PANK, and more. She is the author of Crossing the Hyphen (2021) and She Loves me, She Loves me Not (2025).

Half-Pint Fruit Punch / Michael Clark

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Michael A. Clark’s novella “Are One” has recently been published by Water Dragon Publishing, and his short story, “The Final Shot” appears at https://whitecatpublications.com/2024/04/09/the-final-shot/. “I, Cro-Mag” is in the current issue of Electric Spec.

Clark lives in Charlotte, NC, and currently works in industrial automation while spending as much time as he can outdoors. He likes baseball and writes short stories and music because that’s what he does.

Through the Window / Toby Hecht

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THechtPhotoToby Tucker Hecht is a writer and scientist who lives and works in Bethesda, Maryland. At least forty of her stories have been published either in print or in online literary journals. A native New Yorker with a rather traditional life, she writes fiction to explore more exciting lives than her own. She is now working on a collection of short stories, and a series of linked short stories.

https://tobythecht.substack.com/

Outside Freezer / Neil Jacobs

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NeilJacobsNeil Jacobs’ thirty-year career as a psychologist working with leaders, teams, and organizations causes him to reflect daily on the complexity of the human condition. He carries this into his writing. Neil’s evolution as a writer has been informed by workshops at the Fine Art Works Center in Provincetown, MA under the tutelage of authors such as Garrard Conley and Mira Jacob, and writing courses at Grub Street in Boston. He recently finished his first novel, a family saga between two sets of neighbors set in the North of England.

Last Ride / Shawn Yager

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Shawn Yager is an educator who lives in the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire. He has previously published flash, short stories, and poems both online and in print. He considers himself a “pantser” who tries to write rough drafts as spontaneously as possible. Of course, this produces many false-starts and much hair-pulling.