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Moving Sounds by Casey Krysztofik

Published February 14, 2022

Chapbook - 65 pages - 5" x 8"
ISBN: 979-8-41723-297-8

Raindrops no longer from sky –
continue from plants above ground.
Hosta spade leaves hold water:
wine from Roman shell shaped cups.

Woman soaked after slip and fall.
Cling from clutches assisted by flood absorbed.
Blouse unbuttoned – free and comfortable.
Flesh painted with precision before sprayed with clear coat.

Screen room she rests mostly hidden in lush woods.
Viewing the mouth between river and bay.
Jaws opened at snake’s pinnacle showing off fangs.
Its saliva becomes a waterfall.

--Second Concerto’s Andante
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The third poetry collection by Casey Krysztofik explores the sonic relation of words and movement. He kicks up the technique of his previous collections to bring the reader to a new and eldritch world. A concert of poetry.

Plumes: and Other Flights of Fancy Flash Fiction by Andrena Zawinski

Published January 31, 2022

Chapbook - 80 pages - 5" x 8"
ISBN - 979-8-40927-643-0

In her debut collection of stories, Zawinski melds flash fiction with memoir. She entertains, piques curiosity, even exacts revenge in characters enjoyable to come to know, whether through love or through hate, all cast on a smooth and well-crafted journey that invites the reader to return to its pages again and again.

“Andrena Zawinski presses pause, and purity appears: a long ago encounter with a friend chanting, a much younger lover who becomes a mature woman in 300 words. More social documentaries than pure fiction, these stories record zeitgeist—lesbian zeitgeist, baby boomer zeitgeist, coal country trading-sex-for-bread zeitgeist. The narrator in the final story confesses: ‘I am a convicted eavesdropper.’ That's the real pleasure in Plumes—getting the skinny the strictly forbidden way by listening to what you're not supposed to hear.”

—Judy Juanita, The High Price of Freeways, Tartts Fiction Award

“Reading Andrena Zawinski’s terrific flash fiction/memoirs about love, travel, mishaps, drinking, and searching is like sitting down at a table at your favorite coffee shop with your best friend and listening to her unfolding the best and wildest stories of her life. You never want her to stop!”

—John Guzlowski, Echoes of Tattered Tongues, Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal

“Andrena Zawinski's powerful imagery, from ‘the kewpie doll draped in party beads’ to ‘a candle-toothed smile,’ is as strong in this collection of flash fiction as in her award-winning poetry. The personality and panache of the globe-trotting woman at these tales' centers, savoring a glass of fine wine as much as she does new locales, imbue these stories with their particular she-ness. Pour yourself a glass of your favorite to accompany the gorgeous writing of Plumes, which will certainly garner its own accolades.”

—Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet, Lambda Literary Award

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Andrena Zawinski, born and raised landlocked in Pittsburgh, PA, makes the San Francisco Bay Area her home where she lives on a city island beneath a Pacific flyway. An established poet, her writing
has received accolades for lyricism, spirituality, social concern. Veteran teacher of writing, she has been an instructor or writer-in-residence for many public, private, educational, and community organizations.

Pinholes: Traveling Through the Curtain of the Night by Cat Russell

Kindle: Published November 9, 2021, Hardcover: Published March 26, 2022

Hardcover Novel - 296 pages - 6" x 9"
ISBN: 979-8-43576-022-4

The brilliant scientist Portage McPeeve does not want to take over the world.

He’s discovered a way to travel the stars, using them as gateways into other realities. With his Gateway Manipulator, he hopes to rule all the worlds of the multi-verse with an iron fist. However, when his beloved kitten becomes lost through the machine, he does not hesitate to cast plans for multi-world domination aside; instead, he follows her through the cosmos – encountering zombies, higher education for Supers, Greek gods, and killer ninjas along the way.

Will Portage find Mrs. Bumblefrost before it’s too late?
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Cat Russell shares her life with her high school sweetheart, their son, and another ferocious creature in the wilds of Ohio while writing short stories, composing poetry, and learning more about the craft every day. Her work has been published in print and online, and she is the author of three books: Soul Picked Clean (March 2019), An Optimist’s Journal of the End of Days and Other Stories (August 2020), and Pinholes: Traveling through the Curtain of the Night (November 2021).

More of her work can be found online on her writing blog: www.catrussellwriter.wordpress.com

and on her Patreon at www.patreon.com/authorcatrussell

Bryant Park Poems by Gary Beck

Published July 18, 2021

Chapbook - 24 pages - 5" x 8" - ISBN: 979-8539674052
I couldn’t find a dry spot
to sleep at night
and my cardboard bed
got soaked,
so I threw it away.
Maybe if I’m lucky
I’ll find a dry doorway
where no one will bother me,
but I’ve never been lucky.
If it rains for forty days
and forty nights
I’ll probably drown,
but so will everyone else.

— Homeless III






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Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. He has worked as an art dealer, a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include novels, poetry, short story, essay, and one-act play collections.

Gary lives in New York City.


Poemaholic by Azriel Johnson (2nd Edition)

Published January 25, 2021

Hi, I'm Azriel and I'm a poemaholic.
I've been intoxicated now for 15 years.
Some years more word drunk than others,
but always with a pencil close by
and paper to spill words onto...


 

Only Available on Kindle!

 

Azriel Johnson is the founder and director of Writing Knights Press. He enjoys writing poetry, fiction, nonfiction and stage plays. He makes money teaching English in China. He thinks "the best way to avoid writer's block is to write the stuff you don't want to write just as much as the stuff you do want to write. This will keep your mind limber and your pen light."

***This edition contains updated and complete versions of three poems from the original Poemaholic released by the Poet's Haven.***

bore for the sale barn - Wanda Morrow Clevenger

Published January 25, 2021
Chapbook - 41 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8599253525
some letters
on my keyboard
have lapsed into coma
the q and x and 3
and Cap Lock

I pound on their
little chests,
a distraught surgeon
desperate to
resurrect
their little deaths

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Wanda Morrow Clevenger wrote eight poems in a handful of months in 1974; thirty-four years later she returned to writing. She has since placed over 467 pieces of work in 158 print and electronic literary journals and anthologies.

In August of 2013, while compiling the manuscript for this book she fell ill with pancreatitis, further complicated by necrosis in the following nine months, and wasn’t expected to survive. One year later, almost to the day, she sat down to finish where the hogs ate the cabbage.

She has her husband to thank for the title.

Getting Through Gold Beach by Barbara A. Meier

Published August 24, 2020
Chapbook - 28 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8676501648
Yet
there’s something in a Sunday
on a highway lined with roadkill,
where the body and the blood
lead to forgiveness and one dead body
will not stay still

Johnny Cash
and Sunday Morning Dead

PLUS Two New Poems for this Edition!
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Getting Through Gold Beach was one of the Winners of Writing Knights' 10th Anniversary Chapbook Contest Winner

Little Fire Grows by Casey Krysztofik

Published July 6, 2020

Chapbook - 36 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8663892001
No ships on pudding moana surface.
Pink shores with boa constrictors.
Contained from shifting by halter strap.
Cameo at the heart protected by beads.

Organza dress and fascinator
with peacock curved feathers.
Waiting at the balcony.
Enjoying the fresh air.

VII: Gabriella

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Little Fire Grows was one of the winners of Writing Knights 10th Anniversary Birthday Chapbook Contest!

PUNATIC by James Schwartz

Published March 31, 2019

Mixed Media - 39 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1091931534
About the Author:
James Schwartz is a poet, slam performer & author of The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America (2011), Arrival and Departure (2014) & Secular, Satirical & Sacred Meditations (2016).


His poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry 24, The Good Men Project, Silver Birch Press blog, RFD Magazine, WritersResist.com & numerous anthologies including Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology & most recently Not My President: An Anthology of Dissent (2017) & an essay in Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices From the Gay Bars (2017).

Watch his podcasts with Torah Bontrager on growing up gay & Amish at torahbontrager.libsyn.com & iTunes.

He resides on the Big Island, Hawai’i. 




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"I Know a Place" - The Wayward Sword (Poetry Submission)


"I know a place and it's not the moon (or the sea)"

'Poets be like "I know a place" and it's the moon. Again.'
'Poets be like "I know a place" and then show you any body of water like we've never seen water before.'

-- Kimberly Nguyen @knguyenpoetry on Twitter

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SUBMISSIONS: January 1, 2021 to February 28, 2021 (or when we fill our submission quota).

TARGET LENGTH: Minimum 3 lines. Maximum 30 lines per piece. Longer pieces will be considered, but are unlikely to be accepted. Up to 5 pieces.

EMAIL: waywardswordsubs@gmail.com.

EMAIL SUBJECT: "Submission - Know Place - Creator Name"

EMAIL BODY: Pen name, Email address, Title of Piece.

EMAIL ATTACHMENT: Microsoft DOC or DOCX, NO PDF, NO Google DOC links.

COVER/In-Issue ART: If you have something that might fit, send it!
Color or Black & White, 300 dpi JPG.

AUTHOR BIO/PHOTO: Photo no larger than 2" x 2", 300 dpi JPG, bio between 25 and 50 words.

RELEASE: Slated 2021-2022

COMPENSATION: Free PDF copy, DISCOUNTED physical copies.

RIGHTS: Revert to author after publication or if the collection is cancelled.