Carolyn Smuts: "Thirty Years Gone"

Freelance writer Carolyn Smuts taught history at the college level before fleeing academic life to write fiction. Her work has been featured in SELF, Glamour, Creative Living, Ultimate Motorcycling, and Business Week. Her most recent fiction works were published by Akashic Books, Omnific, and Jitter Press. She lives in Los Angeles.

https://www.facebook.com/writtenandrewritten

http://carolynsmuts.com/

Carroll Susco: "Jane Seymour (Henry VIII’s wife, not the actress)"

Carroll Ann Susco holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh and numerous publications including three essays in The Sun Magazine.  She writes and teaches in Alexandria, VA.  Her chapbook: True Fiction: A Pseudo Autobiographical Chapbook in Three Parts is available at Smashwords.com

You can read more of Carroll's work in the December 2014 and April 2015 issue's of IVJ. 

Doni York: "The Sunflower Artist"

Doni York is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University where she received a B.A. in English and was inducted into International English Honor's Society. Creating stories has been a hobby of hers since childhood and one that she will never outgrow. She plans to attend graduate school and earn her M.A. with a specialization in writing.

Blog link:  https://doniyork.wordpress.com/

Patty Fischer: A Novel Excerpt "Insect Politics"

Writing Makes Me Feel Alive

Eighteen years ago, I found I could write a decent editorial, and short story after taking some writing courses. I expanded my projects to longer pieces of fiction, enjoying the research process as much as putting together characters, scene descriptions, and dialogue. So far I have managed to have two fiction novels published. "Blood And Eggs" a crime/horror published in July 2011. "Sweeten The Pot", a spicy contemporary romance was published in March 2013. The more I write, the greater my passion for writing builds. In the last two years, I have added specific platforms to my passion. On Word Press, I write blogs on issues that I feel outraged about, the link: http://penandstick.wordpress.com

J.C. Elkin: Memoir "Encore"

Founder of the Broadneck Writers’ Workshop in Annapolis, Maryland (www.broadneckwritersworkshop.com), I am the author of World Class: Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom and other works of prose and poetry appearing in such journals as Kansas City Voices, Kestrel, Ducts, The Delmarva Review, Steam Ticket, and Off the Coast.
Visit Jane's webpage at:
http://www.broadneckwritersworkshop.com/jane-c-elkin.html

 

Nancy Lane: Essay "My Mother's Crown"

Nancy Lane graduated from UCLA and began a career in the computer industry as a programmer. She later worked in the aerospace industry as a software process analyst. Nancy moved from Southern California to the Portland area in 1997. Upon early retirement, Nancy wandered into creative writing. Nancy writes short stories and essays, focusing on good people and positive themes. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the AARP Bulletin and IVJ.

Amanda Noble: CNF "Kasamas"

Amanda Noble has a Ph.D. in sociology and has researched and published numerous academic articles, book chapters and reports. Frustrated by the constraints of scientific writing, she turned her attention to creative non-fiction writing, especially personal essays and memoir. This piece is derived from a chapter in her draft memoir about her life in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer during the tumultuous 1970s. Her work has appeared in Seven Hills Review. She lives in Davis, California, with her cat, Lucy. She can be reached at 530-756-2260 or by email at [email protected].

Michelle Reinhold: CNF "You Hope"

 Michelle Reinhold writes creative nonfiction and flash fiction; two of her essays and one flash fiction story have been published at Burnside Writers Collective. She believes deeply in the connectivity of writing and its power to link writer and reader through story. Michelle lives in Michigan with her husband, two daughters, and Lucy, her favorite dog in the world.

Carol Smallwood: Essay "Old Black and White Films"

Carol Smallwood's most recent books include Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press, 2014); Divining the Prime Meridian (WordTech Communications, 2015); and Writing After Retirement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Carol has founded, supports humane societies.    http://www.pw.org/content/carol_smallwood

Cecilia Soprano: Nonfiction & Visual Art "Lincoln The Crow"

Cecilia Soprano lives in Westchester County and makes her living as an organic gardener and artist.   Her poems and artwork have been published in La Joie magazine and UC at Santa Barbara among others.  Her artwork is often featured on the covers of Inner Directions magazine.

She is a member of the Greenwich Art Society and the Katonah Museum Art Association.  She has published three small books and has had several one woman art exhibits.  Her love of nature and gardening provides the space for uninterrupted inspiration.  Her intention is to make images and words that describe beauty and uplift the human spirit.   My art is about making the simple sacred and the ordinary extra-ordinary.

"The reason why we exist is to remember why we exist and to realize our interconnectedness with all things."    WEBSITE:  www.Amichiart.com or CeciliaSoprano.com

INDIANA VOICE JOURNAL APRIL 2015 ISSUE #9

"RED" BY JUNIOR MCLEAN

HAPPY EASTER/PASSOVER WEEKEND!

Blood. Red. Moon. Eternity. Broken Hearts. Infected Hearts. Alien Hearts. Jesus. Joan Of Arc. Sinners and Saints. Life. Death. Love. Waiting To Die. Already Dead. Ghosts....The blood seems to be crying out from the page in this issue!

A huge thanks to all you talented, poetic artists for the "heart" and dedication you put into your creative work. It truly makes my job a joy! There are thirty wonderful features included this month.

A special thank you to Junior Mclean for the use of his visual artwork "RED" for our cover art this month.

~FEATURED CONTENT~

(QUICK LINKS TO FEATURED WORK)

POETRY

ABRAHAM OGEBE ADONDUWA:  "BROKEN HEART, CAREFREE"

MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN: "GHOSTS, IN THE BEGINNING, GEOMETRY AND ITS PLACE IN A POEM"

JEFF BURT: "BLUE JEANS AS SPIRITUAL UTILITY, COAT, SHOES"

HOLLY DAY: "LOVERMAN,  FALLING, FLYING, TODAY, WAITING TO DIE, THE HORSE"

KEVIN HEATON: "JUBILEE, POLISHED STONES, PAUSING FOR RAINBOWS

MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON: "DEAD GREY WOLF SKINS, IF YOU FIND NO POEM, SCHIZOPHRENIA NIGHT, POSSUM SLIM, POEMS OF SINNERS AND SAINTS"

DANE KARNICK: "PLAYING WITH YESTERDAY, ONE-TRACK MIND, LAST GENERATION"

DONAL MAHONEY: "THE LOVELY  WOMEN OF MY LIFE, WIFE AFTER SHOWERING, WE'LL FEEL BETTER, DEARIE, NOT TO WORRY"

BRANDON MARLON: "COMMANDER OF THE FAITHLESS, A PEOPLE'S PRAYER, MAHDI IN THE HAMMAM"

SIMON PERCHIK: THREE POEMS

RICHARD PERRY: "RUBICON, DICHOTOMY"

SUDHA SRIVATSAN: "THE INCENSED MOON"

LISA MARIE STROHL: "INFECTED HEART"

CHRISTOPHER SUDA: "A YOUNG MAN STRUGGLES ACROSS FIFTY STATES, THE THIRD COMING, AFTER TURNING OLD"

GEORGE ZAMALEA: "BLACK WHITE, THE OLD U.S. 66, THE BLACK COFFEE FROM MRS. D"

CREATIVE NONFICTION/ESSAYS

SCOTT ARCHER JONES: LITERARY ESSAY "THE STREETS OF CROCODILES, THE CINNAMON SHOPS"

CHARLES E.J. MOULTON: HISTORICAL DOCUMENT "THE MRS. MARDORF SAGA"

 MADISON SCRUGGS: "A LETTER TO MYSELF AT 21"

ADREYO SEN: "SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE LIMINAL WOMAN"

SHORT FICTION/FLASH 

ANA DEBORAH F. DO CANTO: FLASH FICTION "NIGHTS"

DIANA CORBITT: "A LONG WEEKEND"

GWENDOLYN KISTE: "TINGO"

ANTHONY LA FLAME:  FLASH "BLUE SUNRISE"

KEN LELAND: "SHE AND I"

DONAL MAHONEY:  FLASH "A GATHERING OF GENERATIONS" 

SHASHANK MANE: "THE ARM REST"

JERRY MULLINS: "GIRLS NIGHT OUT"

RICHARD PERRY: "THE WOMAN ON THE TRAIN"

CARROLL SUSCO: FLASH  "JOAN OF ARC: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY"

MICHELLE VLATKOVIC "FAILING THE RORSCHACH TEST"

VISUAL ART

JUNIOR MCLEAN

~SCROLL DOWN TO BROWSE~

ABRAHAM OGEBE ADONDUWA: "BROKEN HEART, CAREFREE"

Abraham Ogebe Adonduwa is a writer of poetry and short stories and has been published in a few international literary journals and magazines, Origami and OntheRusk amongst them. He hopes to publish more poems and more stories about his beloved home Nigeria, and he also hopes to take out time to travel more, which is another thing he loves almost as much as writing.

MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN "GHOSTS, IN THE BEGINNING, GEOMETRY AND ITS PLACE IN A POEM"

GHOSTS 

I do not have a presence and she tells me she is a ghost.

Substance has that kind of weight.

You talk to the streams radiating from the edge of the river

as if each one were a snake that fat

and walk into an outer universe

to draw the night with color,

quick and simple,

exactly like life and everything else in this world.

JEFF BURT "BLUE JEANS AS SPIRITUAL UTILITY, COAT, SHOES"

Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California.  He has work in The Cortland Review, Windfall, eclectica, Blue Hour, and others.

He won the 2011 SuRaa short fiction award.

HOLLY DAY: "LOVERMAN, FALLING, FLYING, TODAY, WAITING TO DIE, THE HORSE"

Holly Day was born in Hereford, Texas, “The Town Without a Toothache.” She and her family currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center. Her published books include the nonfiction books Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, Piano All-in-One for Dummies, A Brief History of Nordeast Minneapolis; the poetry books Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men (The Moon Publishing) and The Smell of Snow (ELJ Publications); and a novel, The Book Of (Damnation Books).Her needlepoints and beadwork have recently appeared on the covers of The Grey Sparrow Journal, QWERTY Magazine, and Kiki Magazine.

KEVIN HEATON: "JUBILEE, POLISHED STONES, PAUSING FOR RAINBOWS"

Kevin Heaton is originally from Kansas and Oklahoma, and now lives and writes in South Carolina. His work has appeared in a number of publications including: Guernica, Rattle, Raleigh Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, and The Monarch Review. He is a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

 http://kevinheatonpoetry.webstarts.com/

MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON: "DEAD GREY WOLF SKINS, IF YOU FIND NO POEM, SCHIZOPHRENIA NIGHT, POSSUM SLIM, POEMS OF SINNERS AND SAINTS"

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era:  now known as the Illinois poet, from Itasca, IL.  Today he is a poet, freelance writer, photographer who experiments with poetography (blending poetry with photography), and small business owner in Itasca, Illinois, who has been published in more than 875 small press magazines in 27 countries, he edits 9 poetry sites.  Michael is the author of The Lost American:  "From Exile to Freedom", several chapbooks of poetry, including "From Which Place the Morning Rises" and "Challenge of Night and Day", and "Chicago Poems".  He also has over 71 poetry videos on YouTube.

DANE KARNICK: "PLAYING WITH YESTERDAY, ONE-TRACK MIND, LAST GENERATION"

Dane Karnick grew up by the Colorado “Rockies” and lives near Seattle.  His poetry recently appeared in Pacifica Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Poppy Road Review, and Alba.  Visit him at www.danekarnick.com.

DONAL MAHONEY: "THE LOVELY WOMEN OF MY LIFE, WIFE AFTER SHOWERING, WE'LL FEEL BETTER, DEARIE, NOT TO WORRY"

Nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, Donal Mahoney has had work published in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his earliest work can be found at http://booksonblog12.blogspot.com/.

BRANDON MARLON: "COMMANDER OF THE FAITHLESS, A PEOPLE'S PRAYER, MAHDI IN THE HAMMAM"

Brandon Marlon is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. (Hon.) in Drama and English from the University of Toronto and his M.A. in English from the University of Victoria. His poetry has been published variously in Canada, USA, England, Greece, Romania, Israel, and India. www.brandonmarlon.com.