Tag: Staff Series

Pandora
by Mollie Williamson

Publication Date: 20 April 2021
Nightingale & Sparrow Press

Genre: Fiction

Pandora explores the background and reasoning for Pandora’s infamous action of opening the dreaded box of fears. History has not looked kindly at this woman and the hope of my story is to give her a voice, a sense of humanity. Women are often blamed for all the faults in the world, but they are hardly blamed for being ambitious and that’s exactly what I wanted to give Pandora.

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About the Author

Mollie Williamson attended Saint Mary’s College of California double majoring in Art History and Women’s Studies in 2013. She then received her master’s in Women’s Studies from the University of Alabama in 2014. She has since moved back to California where she lives with her husband and their dog. Mollie enjoys writing stories based on fairy tales and mythology. Her work has been featured in The Pinkley Press, Toho Journal, Nightingale & Sparrow, and White Wall Review.

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Heal My Way Home
by Rachel Tanner

Publication Date: 27 October 2020
Nightingale & Sparrow Press

Genre: Poetry

 

Heal My Way Home explores mental health issues and physical health issues in the context of everyday life. The topics (ranging from buying jewelry to letting cats be in a wedding party) weave in and out of broader themes of illness and healing, just as life continues in and around chronic illness.

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Previously Published Pieces:

Take a sneak peek at some of the poems included in this chapbook: 

• “Dark Source,” “my forever is a map that only you can read,” and “That Night after
  Workshop” originally appeared in The Weekly Degree (Thirty West Publishing)
• “Edith” originally appeared in Porridge Magazine
• “EEG” will appear in Blanket Sea in October 2019
• “Easter Poem” originally appeared in Barren Magazine
• “Lips” will appear in Peculiars Magazine sometime in 2019
• “World Famous Shakes” originally appeared in Bad Pony Mag
• “In Sickness” originally appeared in The Rising Phoenix Review
• An earlier version of “Inconclusive” was first published in Umbel & Panicle

About the Author

Rachel Tanner’s work has recently appeared in Barren Magazine, Moonchild Magazine, Porridge Mag, and elsewhere. She lives in Alabama with her two cats, Samson and Cady. Writing bios makes her nervous.

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A Daughter for Mr. Spider
by Megan Russo

Publication Date: 14 April 2020
Nightingale & Sparrow Press

Genre: Mixed Media

A Daughter for Mr. Spider is a cross-section of the author’s family tree exploring the grief the author has felt since the passing of her grandfather. The prose, poetry, and collage images weave together the fairy tale-like narrative of the years she was raised by her grandfather, alongside the author’s perceived feeling of growing up as an outsider.  

This collection is a call to finding happiness with those who understand you and shedding the negativity we choose to shroud ourselves in as we navigate the differences in the people around us.

A Daughter for Mr. Spider is a story of loss which, in the end, believes that healing is a process we must create for ourselves using the memories of those who leave us as a way to celebrate life.

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About the Author

Megan is a writer and graphic designer living in Austin, TX. Her work has been published by Palm Sized Press, Cauldron Anthology, Royal Rose Magazine, Wellington Street Review, among others. When she’s not playing tabletop games or spreading the gospel of her devotion to pastel color schemes, she enjoys seeing live shows around the city and spending time with her husband and their two pugs.

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Gravity
by Lynne Schmidt

Publication Date: 8 October 2019
Nightingale & Sparrow Press

Genre: Poetry

Cover art by Reid Maxim

 

 

Gravity is a collection of poems that explores the rise and fall of an intense relationship. The kind where the other person is the Gravity keeping you anchored to the planet and you worry that without them, you may float off into space.

And then it is finding the strength to realize the relationship is not what you want, after all. It is several years, several breakups, several attempts to turn yourself inside out only to find maybe this isn’t the person you’ve been waiting for your entire life, and that you are the only person who can heal you.

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Praise for Gravity

“Gravity is full of hearts, all of the hearts. Hearts of every kind: tender, open, injured– any form that you could imagine. Lynne Schmidt delivers a universe where planets are colliding.”  — Cavin Bryce Gonzalez, founder of Back Patio Press

Gravity is not just sweet poems about plastic galaxies. It is a cohesive collection recalling grief, anger, resentment, and love. Beware, there are lines in this book that will detonate you like a supernova. — Lannie Stabile, Managing Editor of Barren Magazine

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Review by Daniel Warner

Previously Published Pieces:

Take a sneak peek at some of the poems included in this chapbook: 

• On Letting Go – Frost Meadow Review, Volume 2
• Leos – Cauldron Anthology, They Who Were Spurned
• Breathing Patterns – Back Patio Press
• To Make You Love Me – Crêpe & Penn, Issue No. 2

About the Author

Lynne Schmidt is a mental health professional in Maine who writes memoir, poetry, and young adult fiction. Her unpublished memoir, The Right to Live: A Memoir of Abortion received the 2018 Maine Nonfiction Award and was a 2018 PNWA finalist, while her poetry received the Editor’s Choice Award for her poem, Baxter, from Frost Meadow Review and was a 2019 PNWA finalist. She is a five-time Best of the Net 2019 nominee and the founder of AbortionChat, where she does presentations on the intersections of mental health, writing, and reproductive justice. When given the option, she prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.

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