Still Point Arts Quarterly has accepted my short story “Scruffy” for inclusion in an upcoming issue.
“Still Point Arts Quarterly is a truly beautiful and engaging art and literary journal. Produced four times a year, each issue focuses on a theme and features historical and contemporary art, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The Quarterly has been praised for its rich content as well as its splendid layout and design.”
From Michael C. Keith’s post to the Bagel Bards list:
Message to Publisher
Dear Sir or Madam,
I’m told by a writer-friend you are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts. However, I thought you might make an exception in my case, since I have recently published a story in a noted webzine, which you may have read with enthusiasm.
Please see my attached manuscript (482 pages single-spaced––assume Ayuthaya font is fine). I eagerly await your decision (asap, please) and believe you will find what I’ve sent well worth your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Calvin (not Cal)
P.S. I only expect a modest advance since this is my first full-length work.
The online ‘zine “Microfiction Monday” has accepted my micro piece entitled “Glue” for publication on April 3, 2023.
“Microfiction Monday Magazine seeks to publish exceptional stories told in 100 words or less each Monday.”
“Peek-a-Boo” appearing in the Spring 2023 edition of Third Wednesday Magazine.
My flash story “Honeypot” appears in today’s 365 Tomorrows.
Well, how could any agent possibly pass this up?
Locust Candy (“an independent magazine . . . We love anything and everything from bizarre to abstract to absolute nonsense, as long as there is a story involved”) has accepted three of my photographs: “Watertown Abandoned Industry,” “Wealth Management,” and “Whiskers” for its Spring online issue.
The Remington Review, an online publication [that] “strives to publish new, original work by rising poets, fiction and creative nonfiction writers, and visual artists,” has accepted my black and white photo entitled “Nature’s Art” for publication in its Spring 2023 issue.
My spouse, Ariel Cohen, and I attended the Somerville Writers and Readers Winter Market at the Somerville Library on Saturday, March 11, 2023. It was billed as serving up “locally sourced, organically grown literature:”
“Here’s your chance to meet several local Somerville authors, hear readings from their work, discover some fantastic literature, talk with writers and readers about book groups, writing groups and more. Come browse, borrow, or buy books by your neighbors and friends! Refreshments will be served.”
Denise Provost (of Bagel Bards fame) moderated the event, which also featured Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize winner and poet laureate of Somerville. (Notice I spelled “Pulitzer” correctly? ;-))
Other readers included:
As cliché as it sounds, a good time was had by all!
Copies of my new chapbook-length sci-fi story collection “Down On The Farm: Spacey Tails from Flyover Country” arrived last night. The book is available on Amazon.com.
The British e-zine CaféLit has accepted my flash story “Trash Day” for publication on March 4, 2023.
My short story “Food Chain” has been accepted by Yellow Mama Webzine for publication in Issue #97 on April 15, 2023.
I have a chapbook-length book from Alien Buddha Press that will debut soon: “Down On The Farm: Spacey Tails From Flyover Country.” The book will feature eight short tales about UFOs, strange cattle births, and unidentified objects falling from the sky somewhere out near Lake Wobegon and beyond.
My short story, “Recompense,” has been accepted by Bewildering Stories. Yay!
Bewildering Stories is a webzine (or “e-zine”) devoted to speculative and experimental writing. All genres are welcome in both fiction and non-fiction.
To complement my existing gallery in the Computer Science lobby, more of my color and black & white photography was hung today (January 23, 2023) in one of the hallways on the third floor of 245 Beacon Street (also known as the Integrated Sciences Building).
Figwort Literary Journal Volume 1 features my black & white photograph, “Old versus New” on their front cover.
According to the reference librarian at the Watertown Free Public Library:
Culture Cult Press has accepted my short story, “Pound Sand,” for its Cosmic Contact Anthology project.
“FIRST CONTACTS can be tricky. Even when we meet a fellow human being for the first time, the interaction can be unpredictable. And when it comes to first contact on the cosmic scale, it’s a whole other ballgame altogether! Pulpcult invites Science fiction stories of all sub-genes with the theme of ‘First Contact‘ for this anthology.”
My flash story “Crabby” appears in today’s 365 Tomorrows.
I’m pleased to report that my chapbook-length manuscript, These Symptoms (previous working title was Transmogrify) has been picked up by Alien Buddha Press. The chapbook will appear in early 2023.
Fifty Give or Take has accepted my micro story “The Land of Make Believe” for publication #1003.
The Minison Project’s TMP Magazine has accepted four of my color photographs: “Diversity”, “Life”, “Mushrooms” and “Shaman” for publication in its February 2023 issue.
My friend and fellow Bagel Bard David Donna contributed this uber-uber micro on the call today:
For sale:
baby,
unshod
I’m pleased to report that my short sci-fi story “Suiphobia” was accepted by the University of Texas El Paso’s Rio Grande Review for inclusion in its Weird Fiction and The Unusual Stories Edition 2023.
I received this email today from the Chairman of the Theology Department at Boston College:
December 10, 2022
My micro story “Eternal Relaxation” was accepted by Paragraph Planet for publication on November 24.
“Paragraph Planet is a creative writing website which has been publishing one 75-word paragraph every day since November 2008.”
My micro story “Raggedy Ann” has been accepted by Written Tales Magazine and will appear in a future issue.
The e-zine 50 Word Stories (“brand new bite-sized fiction every weekday”) has accepted my … wait for it … 50-word story entitled “Cosmic Balance” for publication on November 14, 2022.
The ezine CommuterLit, “focusing on works of fiction or poetry that can be enjoyed during a 20- to 30-minute public-transit commute to work,” has accepted my flash fiction story “Sheba” for publication sometime during November 7-11, 2022.
The Art Club Boston College student organization is hosting an art show during the month of November in Carney Hall. Artwork produced by faculty, staff and students will be on display. The club is hosting a reception on opening night (tonight, November 1) in Gallery 203 at 7:30 PM.
The webzine 365tomorrows has accepted my micro story, Repent, Sinners for posting today.
My color photograph “Filing System” was accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Cheat River Review.
The webzine Yellow Mama has published my short story, “Rebound,” in its Halloween issue #94. Yellow Mama seeks “cutting edge, hardboiled, horror, literary, noir, psychological/horror.”
UPDATE: the photos have just been published and can be viewed at: https://dsmag.in/2022/09/28/phil-temples-mini-album-abandoned-industry/.
The market Doublespeak Magazine has accepted several of my color photographs from my “Abandoned Industry” collection.
I took these photographs while trespassing on the property of an abandoned stone cutting company in March, 2005 near Bloomington, Indiana. They were shot using an inexpensive Canon PowerShot G2 camera.
Doublespeak Magazine “[…] provides a space for images, photographs to be precise, where one can express the abstraction through a process of mere documentation.”
The poetry and fiction journal Better Than Starbucks has accepted my micro story “Alibi” for its October issue.
Ten By Ten Flash Fiction has accepted my micro story “Writer’s Block” for publication in a future issue.
The World of Myth has accepted my micro story “Her Presence” for their September 2022 issue.
My micro story Bad Luck has been accepted in The Drabble, “a site dedicated to publishing original fiction, non-fiction, and poetic works of 100 words or fewer.”
I read my flash story “Scruffy” at tonight’s “F-Bomb” online meeting. There are over twenty in attendance.
Wilderness House Literary Review has accepted my flash story “Scruffy” for publication on October 1, 2022.
My flash story “Long Delayed Echo” appears today in 365 Tomorrows.
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