The Cover of My Short Story Collection, HOW WE FRACTURE, forthcoming in January 2024 from Minerva Rising Press

 

I'm over the moon to reveal the cover for my short story collection, HOW WE FRACTURE, which won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize. The collection is scheduled to be published by Minerva Rising Press in January 2024. A big thank you to Brooke Schultz, who designed the lovely cover. I'm also deeply thankful for all those at Minerva Rising Press who have been working to bring my first book-length fiction work into print: Executive Editor Kim Brown, Fiction Editor Nikki Kallio, and Fiction Editorial Assistant Paula Sàbat Martínez. I'm deeply grateful to the judge Anjali Enjeti for selecting my manuscript from the finalists for the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize.

 

My Latest Publications:

An ekphrastic poem inspired by Edvard Munch's painting "The Girl by the Window," 1893, was published in Issue 20 of the journal "MacQueens Quinterly." MacQueen’s Quinterly

 

An ekphrastic poem inspired by a Konstantin Somov's 1918 painting was published in Issue 20 of the journal "MacQueens Quinterly." MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

 

 A poem was published in the summer 2023 issue of “Still: The Journal.” It's a cento for which I borrowed lines and phrases from various works by selected members of the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame: Wendell Berry, Nikky Finney, James Baker Hall, bell hooks, Barbara Kingsolver, George Ella Lyon, Sena Jeter Naslund, James Still, and Jesse Stuart. https://www.stilljournal.net/karen-george-poetrylocations...

My Latest Publications:

My short story "Naked" was published in Valparaiso Fiction Review's Summer 2023 issue: Valparaiso Fiction Review. 

"Naked" is one of the stories in my collection How We Fracture, which won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, and is forthcoming from Minerva Rising Press in Fall/Winter 2023.

A poem was published in Willawaw Journal.

A poem was published in Mayday Magazine.

 

 

Latest News:

My poem “Because every moment’s an occasion for attention” won the 2022 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I will be the judge for the 2023 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, deadline February 1, 2023: Contest Guidelines – Slippery Elm (findlay.edu).

My poem "Emily Carr’s Zunoqua of the Cat Village, 1931" was nominated for Best of the Net by OyeDrum.

 

 

 My Latest Publications:

My poem “Playing for the Lost,” inspired by Kees Van Dengen’s 1920 painting The Violinist, was published in Volume 7.2, Winter 2022 issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online.

My poem inspired by Frida Kahlo’s 1949 painting titled “The Love Embrace of the Universe” was published in the journal Persimmon Tree.

My poem inspired by Remedios Varo’s 1948 painting “The Flautist” was published in The Ekphrastic Review.

Heron Tree published “Dear Mother, last night I dreamt,” my found poem created from “The Pomegranate Seeds” in Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853).

My poem, “Calving at Glacier Bay,” appeared in the ONE GOOD MEMORY Series of Silver Birch Press. It was originally published in my chapbook, Inner Passage (Red Bird Chapbooks) and my collection Swim Your Way Back (Dos Madres Press).

My poem inspired by Canadian artist Emily Carr’s 1930 painting “Guyasdom’s D’Sonoqua” was published in The Ekphrastic Review December 5, 2022.

My found poem “Totem,” created from Canadian artist Emily Carr’s painting titles, was published in Issue 22 of Panoply.

My poem “Shadow Travel” was included in The Ekphrastic Review challenge to write about Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting “The Persistence of Memory,” 1931.

 

I’m over the moon to announce that I won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize. Minerva Rising Press will be publishing my short story collection, How We Fracture, in Spring 2023.

Happy to have my photo titled "Tree-Cradled Moon" on the cover of the latest issue of 3Elements Literary Review.

 

 

Latest News:

An excerpt from my novel-in-progress was longlisted for the 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest at The Masters Review.

 

 My Latest Publications:

3 poems inspired by Andrea Kowch paintings at Cultural Daily. To see Andrea Kowch art, visit: Andrea Kowch Studio.

An erasure poem of a page in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Circe’s Palace,” part of his collection “Tanglewood Tales” at Heron Tree.

2 poems at Verse-Virtual.

 

My Latest Publications:

 

A found poem created from “The Dragon’s Teeth,” a story in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales appeared in Heron Tree.

 

Ekphrastic poems published in: 

Valparaiso Poetry Review 

Black Moon Magazine 

OyeDrum Magazine 

West Trestle Review 

MacQueen’s Quinterly March 2022

MacQueen’s Quinterly Issue 12

MacQueen’s Quinterly Issue 13 

MacQueen’s Quinterly May 2022 

Halfway Down the Stairs

An ekphrastic non-fiction piece published in an e-book anthology of The Ekphrastic Review