Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Audience Askew A... unique... Literary Journal ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://audienceaskew.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Back Issues](https://audienceaskew.com/past-issues/) - [Volume 5, Issue 1](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-5-issue-1/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew in print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Poem: Getup Tom Gannon Hamilton’s poems have been anthologized in Canada, USA, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Australia, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. First Prizes: Big Pond Rumours Chapbook Contest (2018), Love Lies Bleeding Poetry Competition (2021). Full Collections: - [Volume 4, Issue 4](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-4-issue-4/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Cover Art: A Calf's Journey Art: The 7th Orange Asem Moustafa Ahmed is a New Jersey-based artist born in Marrakech, Morocco, with Egyptian heritage. After moving to Jersey City at the age of nine, he turned to - [Volume 4, Issue 3](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-4-issue-3/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Short Story: Beaus & Bootleggers Alison Attoe is a novelist interested in writing romance, comedy, and paranormal. She resides in a Greater Vancouver apartment with her husband and far too many house plants. When not living vicariously - [Volume 4, Issue 2](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-4-issue-2/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Short Story: The Mirror Haya Al Ali contributed the short story "The Mirror" for this issue. Art: One Tree Remains Guilherme Bergamin is a Brazilian reporter and visual artist who graduated in Journalism. For more than two - [Volume 4, Issue 1](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-4-issue-1/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Art: A Ghost Moon for Henri Rousseau Bill Wolak has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such - [Volume 3, Issue 4](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-3-issue-4/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Art: Portrait of Hannah Arendt Alaina Hammond is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her poems, short stories, paintings, drawings, and photographs have been published both online and in print. Publications include Nomad’s Choir Poetry - [Volume 3, Issue 3](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-3-issue-3/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Poem: The Soft Side of Velcro Aimee Hardy is a writer and editor in Birmingham, Alabama. Aimee is the author of Pocket Full of Teeth (2024) and has various short stories published with Running Wild Press, Stonecoast - [Volume 3, Issue 2](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-3-issue-2/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Art: Chrysalis Amelia Shields (b. 2002) is an artist living and working in North Carolina, USA. Born and raised in Greensboro, she graduated from Davidson College with a BA in Studio Art and Art History in May - [Volume 3, Issue 1](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-3-issue-1/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Story: Rebirth Ashley J. Kendall is a writer who enjoys the quirkier things in life. They share space with a cat and a spouse who understands that creativity is necessary for survival. Civility is appreciated, but those - [Volume 2, Issue 4](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-2-issue-4/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Art: For the Followers Aleksandar Mirkovic was born with a supernatural amount of Common Sense, and should, by all accounts, be using it to protect the planet from both terrestrial threats and extradimensional beings. However, living in - [Volume 2, Issue 3](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-2-issue-3/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Poem: The Absence of Strange Alex Andy Phuong (the Poet) earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University—Los Angeles in 2015. Emma Stone inspired Alex to write passionately after hearing the Oscar-nominated song, Audition - [Volume 2, Issue 2](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-2-issue-2/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Poem: I Fear Ann Howells edited Illya’s Honey for eighteen years. Recent books are: So Long As We Speak Their Names (Kelsay Books, 2019) and Painting the Pinwheel Sky (Assure Press, 2020). Chapbooks include: Black Crow in - [Volume 2, Issue 1](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-2-issue-1/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Art: Grafton B.S.Roberts is an author-artist-historian-archivist-geek from Maine. He had too much spare time on his hands, so he helped found Nat 1 Publishing and the Audience Askew Literary Journal. He also happens to be very bad - [Volume 1, Issue 4](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-1-issue-4/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Poem: First Day Poem: First Night Redux Akiva Israel, Prison Poet, is an artist doing time in prison for men. She is transgender and believes that, in a previous cycle of incarnation, she did witness the third - [Volume 1, Issue 3](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-1-issue-3/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Cover Art: New Age Alexey Adonin explores the point of convergence between abstraction and surrealism to create a channel of communication between his inner world and the viewers, not only to share his personal vision but also - [Volume 1, Issue 2](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-1-issue-2/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Artwork: Facing It Together Series bordnickstudio's sculptural and photographic imagery is a reflection of his past and present forces and the imagination of his life’s stories. They represent an evolutionary process of these ideas and how all - [Volume 1, Issue 1](https://audienceaskew.com/volume-1-issue-1/) - Purchase this issue of Audience Askew as print or digital! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Short story: Don't be a Stranger Alan Keith is a substitute teacher working out of Toronto, Canada. He tries to keep his writing honest by only writing about what he sees, but if he's being (really) honest, ## Pages - [Audience Askew](https://audienceaskew.com/) - Welcome to the website of Audience Askew, an imprint of Nat 1 Publishing. We are a small quarterly journal featuring 18-20 stories, poems, and art that don't quite fit in anywhere else, which puts them right at home with Audience Askew. In addition to the magazine, we also release chapbooks and the occasional novel... so - [Submissions](https://audienceaskew.com/submit/) - Audience Askew Literary Journal We accept unsolicited submissions of short stories, poetry, and artwork on a year-round basis. Unfortunately, at this time, we are a non-paying venue; however, contributors will receive a complimentary digital copy of the issue in which their work appears. Short stories: 50-3,000 words — these numbers are a guideline and very - [Chapbooks](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/) - Sometimes, poetry and short fiction work better as a collection than in a literary journal. With that in mind, Audience Askew presents some off-kilter chapbooks consisting of works by a single author or a collaboration between several. These short publications contain between five and twenty works of poetry, micro-fiction, poetic prose, and art. Just enough - [Sunrise Over the Waffle House](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/sunrise-over-the-waffle-house/) - Poetry by Robert Martin Sunrise Over the Waffle House is a heartfelt collection of poems that finds wonder in ordinary places—campgrounds, highways, friendships, family memories, and the quiet moments between destinations. With warmth, humor, and hard-earned wisdom, Robert Martin guides readers through landscapes both physical and emotional, exploring love, loss, resilience, and hope. This chapbook is - [dandelion child](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/dandelion-child/) - Poetry by Natalie D.C. dandelion child, Natalie D.C.’s sophomore poetry chapbook, is a seventeen-poem journey through a childhood gone dandelion bitter. Fragmented and unflinching, these poems explore mental health, family, Jewish/Moroccan identity, girlhood, and queerness, capturing the ache of growing up and the resilience that takes root in its cracks. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, - [Flow, Flow, Flow Your Blood](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/flow-your-blood/) - Sing-Along War Poems by Paul Hellweg Flow, Flow, Flow Your Blood reimagines familiar nursery rhymes through a darker lens. With biting irony, Paul Hellweg juxtaposes the sing-song rhythms of childhood with the stark realities of war—violence, loss, and lingering trauma. Content Warning: This book contains real-life war photographs that depict graphic violence, injury, and deceased - [Strawberries](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/strawberries/) - Prose poems by C.W. Bryan & Emily Wakefield Strawberries is a collaborative chapbook of prose poetry by C.W. Bryan and Emily Wakefield that explores memory, intimacy, and impermanence with emotional depth. This collection weaves together the familiar and the uncanny—childhood memories, domestic spaces, fruit, faith, and the body—using vivid imagery to anchor moments of love, grief, - [Road of Birds](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/road-of-birds/) - Poetry by Andrew K. Peterson Road of Birds is a poetic road journal written on Peterson's solo cross-country trip from Massachusetts to Montana in Spring 2007. "Initially, I set out to document each bird I observed along the way to liven up the monotony and lessen the loneliness of the road," Peterson said. "Once this - [Baptized by Earthquake](https://audienceaskew.com/baptized-by-earthquake/) - Poems about Hollywood Poetry by Nicole Bird Experience a three-act journey of the Speaker venturing to Hollywood, worshipping the neighborhood and industry, only to discover its empty nature. This revelation leads the Speaker on a journey reconciling the soul sacrifice and encountering God in a seemingly godless place. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil - [Social Studies: a surreal slide presentation of american hx](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/socialstudies/) - Poetry by Joseph D. Reich A bizarre postmodern and surreal satire, but also historical parody and breakdown of what we used to back in the day address as 'social studies' in America… Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Joseph D. - [Excerpts from my Notes App](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/notes-app/) - (complete with explanations) Poetry by Trinket Guth A collection of musings, poems, and notes taken from the poet's phone's notes app. Explanations included. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Trinket Guth (she/her) is a poet and artist. When not writing, - [[sic]](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/sic/) - Poetry and micro-fiction by B.S.Roberts Experimental poetry and micro-fiction by B.S.Roberts Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet B.S.Roberts makes a living as both a museum curator and an administrative specialist at the University of Maine at Augusta. When not writing, - [Meander](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/meander/) - Poetry and Art by Donald Guadagni Its not the destination, its the journey. Wait, did you hear that? Hey! Did you see that? WTF is that??? Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Donald Guadagni is an international educator, author, and writer - [Donate](https://audienceaskew.com/donate/) - We are a small literary journal catering to a niche demographic, if you have a couple extra dollars we would be grateful if you'd consider supporting us. We hope that as our audience grows and we gather more support, we will be able to expand and become a paying venue for our authors. Every cent - [Human Clocks](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/humanclocks/) - Poetry by Megan Cannella In her poetry collection, Megan Cannella reveals that time isn't merely measured by the ticking of a clock, but by the peculiar, humorous, and often painful rhythms of our relationships. This chapbook encapsulates the odd ways we use those around us to navigate our lives, marking moments with a blend of - [Word Magpie](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/word-magpie/) - Poetry and art by KJ Hannah Greenberg Launching the third year of Audience Askew Chapbooks with a collection of quirky poetry and art by KJ Hannah Greenberg. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet KJ Hannah Greenberg has been playing with - [Mind Poker](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/mind-poker/) - Microfiction and Art by Mord McGhee You're being dealt this collection of quirky micro-fiction and unique art created by Mord McGhee, lovingly crafted for Audience Askew Chapbooks. Whether you win or lose is entirely up to how you choose to play this game of Mind Poker. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, - [only eat mercury in bite-sized pieces](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/mercury/) - Poetry and art by Dre Levant Experience the potency and sentiment of stray thoughts. These doodles, scribbles, and musings hastily crafted on bits of paper, candy wrappers, and cardboard—all the little odds and ends that usually get forgotten or thrown away—form a tapestry of spontaneity and raw emotion. Each page captures fleeting moments of confession, - [Remnants](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/remnants/) - Poetry by Erin Jamieson Remnants follows the dissolution of a relationship and the pieces left behind. Told in micro poems inspired by French minimalist traditions, this chapbook is a meditation on loss, mementos, and secrets inspired by the poet's experience and a collection of notes left in mailboxes. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: - [The Skewies](https://audienceaskew.com/the-skewies/) - First and foremost, we would like to announce that the Skewies were a success with over one hundred submissions and then votes from over four-hundred individuals! This was much greater participation than we anticipated, so thank you everybody involved in every step of the process! That said, here’s the list of winners and honorable mentions - [Gakusei (The Schoolgirl)](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/gakusei/) - Poetry by Tamiko Dooley Go back in time to walk through an academic year when life was both simpler and more complex. Gakusei (The Schoolgirl) presents the thoughts of a high schooler in Japan, with its moments of joy, grief, insecurities and growth. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands - [The Poetry Machine](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/poetry-machine/) - Poetry by Ken Patterson Quirky Poems for Quirky PeopleThink James Stevenson, but for adults. With fifty-four poems such as “The Pied Piper of Pussy,” “Fun with Turds,” and “The Christmas Whore,” there’s something in this collection for everyone—whether they’ll admit it or not is a reflection of them and not this chapbook. So put aside your ideas - [\ ˈspärs(ˌ)pōˈetə̇kə \](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/sparse-poetica/) - Poetry by David A. Goodrum The breakout collection of Ars Poetica poetry by David A. Goodrum, \ ˈspärs(ˌ)pōˈetə̇kə \ is composed of unique and quirky works with more than a dash of humor perfectly fit for the likes of Audience Askew. So pick up the chapbook, release the poet of his responsibilities, write poetry yourself, - [Autumn in a Solitary Time](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/autumn-in-a-solitary-time/) - By Michael Craig Palmer & Elizabeth J. Coleman In the fall of 2020, when most of us were home-bound, isolated and fearful, photographer Michael Craig Palmer took pictures of the glorious fall shades of trees and leaves in a few of the parks, public gardens and preserves in and around the Hudson Valley. Later he - [oo](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/oo/) - Poetry by Rado Rochallyi Mathematics and verse intertwine to create this set of stunningly original poetry that's unlike anything else. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Rado Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia in a family with Lemko and Hungarian - [Who's Who Among American Teachers](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/whos-who-among-american-teachers/) - Collected by Robert Wilson A brief collection of thank you entries, letters, and emails from high school students to their English teacher where the weaving weaving of the lines illustrate the meandering and brilliance of teen minds. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Author Robert Wilson, whose teaching certifications, licenses, and accolades expired years - [Live, Laugh, Lasagna?](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/live-laugh-lasagna/) - Poetry by Michael David, Art by Cal Tripp Oh no. Here's another one from Michael David.This time with Cal Tripp.God help us all. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Michael David was born in McHenry, IL. David began writing poetry as a passive hobby to maintain some semblance of sanity during the pandemic; - [Nowhere, VA](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/nowhere-va/) - Poetry by Arianna Yagel A bittersweet recollection of growing up and discovering one's self at summer camp and realizing just how important the experiences were through a collection of poignant poetry and verse. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Arianna - [Buckling in the Bible Belt](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/buckling-in-the-bible-belt/) - A Queer Coming of Age Experimental Poetry & Prose by Violet Winters In this collection, Violet Winters navigates the intricacies of their upbringing, illuminating the tension between personal identity and the religious surroundings that shaped their early years. The experimental nature of the writing mirrors the complexity of this journey, weaving a rich tapestry of - [My Experiment Gone Wrong](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/my-experiment-gone-wrong/) - Poetry by Sydney Sheltz-Kempf Delve into the mind of a woman working her way toward a PhD. Audience Askew's latest chapbook, My Experiment Gone Wrong, ventures into the author's internal struggles while navigating the treacherous landscape of higher academia. Topics of sexism, morality, questioning the status quo, and more are explored within this collection of eighteen - [A Cappella](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/a-cappella/) - Poetry and art by Bew Goodwin and Claire Townsend A Capella is a compendium of lyrics and by librettist/stage director Bea Goodwin and watercolors by costume designer and artist Claire Townsend. This duo has collaborated on countless operatic works in NYC’S Lower East Side as well as digital interactive experiences during the COVID19 lockdown. A Capella - [the seasons of hydrangeas](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/the-seasons-of-hydrangeas/) - Poetry by Lydia Prendergast the seasons of hydrangeas follows the story of falling in love for the first time, told through the colors of the rainbow. With quirky play-on-word titles like "peachy keen," "beet red," and "tickled pink," this story of adolescent love is heartfelt, full of emotion, and playful with word choice and storytelling. Worldwide - [The Complete Volume 1](https://audienceaskew.com/the-complete-volume-1/) - Enjoy the first four issues of the Audience Askew Literary Journal bound together as an eBook or hardcover. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India - [Empty Glass on Picnic Table](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/empty-glass-on-picnic-table/) - Poetry by yours truly, the happy recluse When ecstatic meditation mates with poetry creation, deLightning strikes to point to understanding wordlessly— thus the joyous challenge to express linguistically. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet yours truly, the happy recluse (a - [The Shaman Said](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/the-shaman-said/) - Poetry and Photography by Kevin Zepper A collection of image-driven poems and photographs that will wake up your senses by Kevin Zepper. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Kevin Zepper teaches at Minnesota State University Moorhead. His most recent book of poetry, - [Airborne and Unbelieving](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/airborne-and-unbelieving/) - Poetry by Mark Spitzer Airborne and Unbelieving is an atom-smashing reactor-reaction from the quirky fission and edgy fusion of Mark Spitzer’s imagination. These new, narrative nanoparticles of stupid youth combusting with drug abuse radiate with bad parenting and delusions. Endemic to pandemic, this full-length poetry collection is an innovative supercollider of circus freaks, adolescent spelunkery, dirty old - [Messengers of the Macabre](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/messengers-of-the-macabre/) - Halloween Poems by LindaAnn LoSchiavo & David Davies All Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, Day of the Dead… during this interval, the barriers between the two realms are thinnest. Normal turns paranormal; what’s natural becomes the supernatural. That’s when the messengers of the macabre are in their rightful element. Step inside this collaborative chapbook and embrace a - [Fantastical Borrowings of a Titan's Death](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/fantastical-borrowings-of-a-titans-death/) - Poetry by Gregory Gonzalez Audience Askew's fourth off-kilter chapbook consisting of sixteen experimental, found, and borrowed poems by Gregory Gonzalez. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Gregory Gonzalez graduated from Sierra Nevada University, where he earned both a BFA and an MFA in Creative Writing. His works can be seen in a multitude - [Artificially Intelligent](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/artificially-intelligent/) - Poetry by Michael David alongside AI generated art At the moment of madness, resign–cower like a child of divorce to the tattered, unrelenting majesty of derealization. Recovery is optional: Betterhelp or SSRIs, yoga or huffing of essential oils; this can be reversed–if you would like. Denial works for some, others acknowledge but ignore; most don’t - [What is This?](https://audienceaskew.com/chapbooks/what-is-this/) - Unknown and Untold Quizzes by Yuu Ikeda Every poem a quiz, every quiz a realization. Worldwide Marketplaces Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil Europe: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands Asia-Pacific: Japan, Australia, India About the Poet Yuu Ikeda is a Japan-based poet. She writes poetry on her website, poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com. Her poetry collection The Palette of Words has been published by Lighted Lake Press. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: @yuunnnn77 - [Current Issue](https://audienceaskew.com/current-issue/) - The inaugural issue of Audience Askew will be released 15 July 2022! Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue... Short story: Don't be a Stranger Alan Keith is a substitute teacher working out of Toronto, Canada. He tries to keep his writing honest by only writing about what he sees, but if he's being ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://audienceaskew.com/category/uncategorized/)