Write. Edit. Submit. Repeat.
I have written poems and short stories since I could hold a pen, but I really only started submitting to publications in 2021. Nothing like a global pandemic to get you to reassess your priorities, I guess.
In case you were wondering, the image shows one of my ‘dice doodles’. I regularly draw and number pictures of things, people and places I find interesting. Whenever I run out of new ideas, I roll two dice to select some images, then try to find unexpected connections between them. Many of my published stories and poems started off this way.
Oh, and here is a list of my published and forthcoming work:
lists, prizes and mentions
My poetry pamphlet “Breakwater,” which intertwines eco-poetry and an exploration of female infertility, was longlisted for Mslexia’s Women’s Pamphlet Competition 2022, judged by Imtiaz Dharker.
Chill Subs included “Last Stop, Silence” in their list of “ 12 Short pieces of writing that brought the Wow factor” in 2023.
Women on a Roll, a documentary short by Alma Tabernero, which closes with a spoken-word poem I wrote and voiced for the film, won Best International Documentary at Cinelubu, the Lebu International Film Festival in 2023.
2024
bilingual prose poem:
“mother tongue” Transformation: A Women Who Submit Anthology February 2024
poem:
“Elegy”
Rust and Moth
Spring 2024 issue
2023
poems:
“Campfire” and “wreckage” Eunoia Review,
June 2023
poem:
“harvest diptych”
Word Up Pages
Issue 01 (“Origins”)
interview:
Yearning for connection: an interview with poet Teresa Pham-Carsillo Passengers Journal December 2023
Interview:
interview with Brenda Miller on what’s beyond the physical
Passengers Journal
February 2023
just for fun/column
Bear Necessities
Mslexia, Issue 98,
June 2023
This is a fun little column where writers submit images of things, people or places and explain why they are important to their writing process.
2022
short story:
“Last Stop, Silence”
Treehouse Literary Review
issue 1, Winter 2022 Chill Subs: “ 2 Short pieces of writing that brought the Wow factor.”
haiku sequence:
“Corona Seasons”
San Antonio Review
May 2022
poem:
“confession”
Prometheus Dreaming
Issue 4.2, March 2022
poem:
“monsters in the shape of people”
Wild Roof Journal
Issue 13, March 2022
spoken word:
“Bearings” (poem and voice)
appears in Women on a Roll—Amsterdam, a documentary short by Alma Tabernero
(also released online as a stand-alone film poem)
AlmaBuena Films, 2022
book review:
The World That the Shooter Left Us, Cyrus Cassells
Passengers Journal
July 2022
Read Four Way Books’ lovely response here.
interview:
”Chiagoziem Confidence Jideofor: music, identity, and memory “ Passengers Journal
October 2022
2021
poem:
“Fairy tale ending”
Rust and Moth
Autumn 2021 issue
poems:
“A Map of the Scars,,” “Found Art,” “Still Waters”
Willows Wept Review
issue 22, Autumn 2021
poem:
“Family Portrait”
Beyond Words
issue 18, September 2021