My Year in Publishing - 2014

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2014 was my second most productive year, though unlike the two years prior, no book was released. There are no plans for books this year either, though my seven novels remain unpublished. I also have several collections of poetry that could be released, if I can find a willing publisher.

Here are the poems and stories that were published, some with links if you missed them. Cheers.

Jan

The Blue Hour Magazine - Preferences

Feb

Vavaya – To belong to…

March

Linnet’s Wings – Plath

Zygote in my Coffee – Pressing

                   -  Miscalculation before reflection

Gold Dust – Elusive riches

April
Muddy River Poetry - It's cold out there
Black Fox Literary Magazine - When late night TV was cool
                                                Fizzle faith
                                                Extinct still here
                                                Apprenticeship in bloom


May
East Coast Lit Review - The person formerly known as me
Poetry Quarterly - Birthright
     

June
Bareback Magazine - Accidental

July
Stock Shack Magazine (Netherlands) - My daddy used to say
MIC Lit Journal - Thailand - The Thing

September
Gold Dust (UK) - When fortune turns towards you


Oct
Miracle - Light, Shade and in-between
Perihelion - It's the last great ice shelf!

Nov
Subtopian - (All five poems here)
A very open wound
Welcome to La La Land
Skank Stepper
Hit on Hit Out
The night journeymen (boys)

(From my Story Shack piece) Michael Ilkiw Illustrator

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The Bloody Unified

We are Not Anonymous
We are not Veiled
Nor hide behind Fake profiles
And Obscure accounts.

We are Here
We are Not Afraid
We are Unequivocal
In our Propriety
And you will not Dissuade us.

We will continue to Embrace
Those Divergent from us
No matter the Hate
You direct towards us
Nor the Ignorance
You wish to stir up.

We will never Abandon
Our right to Transparent speech
Our right to Embrace
The religion of our Choice
or to remain non-believers.


We believe in the Individual
and Community
We believe in Respect
And Empathy
Not resentment
And destruction.

We are Tenacious
We are Unified
We, the Immutable Collective
Bloody, but Resolute.

..and let's not forget the Muslim worker who saved people inside the Jewish Supermarket.
A remarkable act of bravery and a real fuck you to those who would see division.

I wasn't planning this on being my first post of the year, but felt compelled.

Happy 2015

I hope that something special happens in your life this year and that overall, 

despite the down moments, it's generally positive. So many horrible things have already

taken place and it makes me anxious. Let's hope and work towards better things for all.

A reminder that I save my work for submissions, 

but always aim to bring you good work, whether poem, video poem or article. 

If you do like a particular piece, please share. Without you I'm nothing.

See you soon.

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Stories.