Jeff Fearnside

The New Chapbook

BELOW YOU’LL FIND a list of much of my published writing, with a smattering of links to samples. I plan to expand this to include earlier work, to continue adding new work after it’s been published, and to continue adding links, though the current offerings provide a reasonable overview.

Fiction: “Znamenskaya Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov (The Holy Sign Russian Orthodox Church)” is forthcoming in Fjords Review“The Cat People” is forthcoming in Fjords Review“Ball and Chain” originally appeared in Little Patuxent Review“Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air” originally appeared in The Pinch“Clean” originally appeared in Controlled Burn“Wing Walking” originally appeared in Arroyo Literary Review“A Story of My Very Own” originally appeared in Cantaraville“Little Murders” originally appeared in Rosebud Magazine“Learning to Fly at the End of an Empire” originally appeared in Bayou Magazine“A Husband and Wife Are One Satan” originally appeared in Potomac Review“The River” originally appeared in Crab Orchard Review“She Was a Winter” originally appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine“The Great Silver Cactus of Driggs, Idaho” originally appeared in Lake Effect (and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!)“Accomplices to a Tradition” originally appeared in Rosebud Magazine“Every Living Thing That Moves” originally appeared in Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing“Nuclear Toughskins” originally appeared in Many Mountains Moving (as winner of their 2005 Flash Fiction Contest!)“Stars” originally appeared in SFWP: The Journal“The Priest” originally appeared in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith“Going for Broke” originally appeared in Scent of Cedars: Promising Writers of the Pacific Northwest

Creative Nonfiction: “Peace to the People: Inside Kyrgyzstan’s Yellow Revolution” is forthcoming in Potomac Review“Place as Self” is forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment“Ships in the Desert” originally appeared in New Madrid“View From a Bridge” originally appeared in Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction“Holy” originally appeared in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith“Itam” originally appeared in A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service“The Missionary Position: A Personal Exploration of the Politics of Persuasion in Central Asia” originally appeared in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith

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My Writing

Above is a clip of me reading the opening to my short story “A Husband and Wife Are One Satan” as part of the Soul-Making Literary Competition awards program in San Francisco.

Poetry“Still Life” is forthcoming in Qarrtsiluni“Meditation” originally appeared in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters“Past Lives Through the Mail” originally appeared in The Los Angeles Review“Address” and “Memo to Potential Donors from a Nongovernmental Organization in a Corrupt Developing Country” originally appeared in Protestpoems.org“Little River Almanac” originally appeared in Blue Earth Review“Lake” originally appeared in Permafrost

Feature Stories: Not Just Blowing Smoke: ‘Smoke Signals’ Reveals a Star on the Rise | A New Look, with Love, at Janis Joplin | Paying the Muse: When Good Intentions Result in Bad Poetry | Where Poetry and Design Meet | Poet’s writing reflects her deep Israeli roots | Gary Burghoff uses stardom to promote environmental issues

Academic: Differences Between the American and Kazakhstani Higher Education Systems: How Understanding Them Will Aid the Current Educational Transition | Introducing Critical Thinking into the EFL Classroom | Using Creative Writing in the EFL Classroom

Interviews: Digging In: Wendell Berry on Small Farms, Local Wisdom, and the Folly of Greed | Breaking Down Barriers, Rattling Cages, and Shaking Foundations: An Interview with Ray Browne (co-conducted with Jay Smith) | A powwow with filmmaker Jonathan Wacks | Striking the mother lode: an interview with filmmaker Nancy Kelly

Reviews of My Writing: Review of my chapbook Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land on the Peace Corps Writers websiteReview of “The Priest” as an Editor’s Choice in Rock & SlingReview mentioning “Going for Broke” in The Eugene WeeklyJudge’s comments on “Nuclear Toughskins” in Many Mountains Moving

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