Issue 24 #YA Spotlight - 'If Tomorrow Even Comes' by Miranda Scotti:

'I bury my phone in my pocket and squeeze my eyes shut. Sure, I’ve been through changes in my life before...'

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Of her paintings, 'Enchanted Circle', in Issue 24 of Lunch Ticket, Kathleen Frank says, 'Several times a year I travel throughout the Southwest, hiking and photographing vistas for future paintings.'

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#art #painting #visualart #litmag

Issue 24 #Interview Spotlight - 'Heartwarming, Bittersweet, With a Slap in the Face: C.E. O’Banion on Publishing His Debut Book'

'In 2016, around the time when I was really working on the book...we had a flood that impacted half the city...'

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Last call! Send us your literary translations and young adult literature for Issue 25 of Lunch Ticket by midnight PDT on March 31, 2024. Submissions for Amuse Bouche are welcome through April 1, and Visual Art through May 1.

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Flash Spotlight: Irreconcilable Differences, by Glenn Orgias

Most clones are returned because of a glaring genetic fuck up by the cloneists—a six fingered hand or a moustache gone wrong. But some returned clones have no perceivable flaw.

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New blog post! 'Banking on the Billionaires' by Kait Leonard:

'Since I haven’t been able to find the cure for mortality in spirituality, I’m taking the only logical next step—I’m Googling options.'

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#fridaylunchblog #mortality #selfdiscovery

Issue 24 Poetry Spotlight: Heaven, Perhaps by Joseph Hardy

I think now of leaving something
behind without my name.

This house, with windows just replaced
to last another twenty years

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#poetry #litmag #poem

'I wrote this book with the intention for mothers to read it, and for them to feel relief, to give themselves a moment of forgiveness, and to help mothers who don’t see the broader social structures that we’re a part of.'

Interview with Ashlee Laielli

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NEW in Amuse-Bouche: 'Pelvis IV,' a #poem by Rachel White

'I concede to let the desert be dry,
stop throwing glasses of water
as though it will become a forest.'

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Antioch University's MFA Creative Writing Program, home to Lunch Ticket, is excited to announce its June 2024 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Joy Kecken, Chris Belcher, Jennifer S.Cheng, and Ed Park. We are accepting applications! Visit @aulamfa link in bio

Issue 24 #YA Spotlight - 'The Highway' by Steph Kent Scott:

'The girl didn’t know them well, though she wanted to—these quiet people who took time to tend to and celebrate simple things. She wondered what it must be like to be with them.'

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New blog post! 'Creative Nonfiction: From Category Label Dumpster to Instruction Manual for Art' by Indu Subaiya:

'[C]reative nonfiction isn’t just one thing. There are stages and you can’t skip them.'

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#cnf #essay

From 'The Heartbeat of the Earth' by Brian Lynn:

'At approximately 2:00 p.m. on June 18, 2023, I learned of something that I thought was certain to change the world forever.'

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#scifi #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction

Issue 1 Flashback: 'My Secret' by Sheila Black

Even if I did not dare invite anyone, I still wanted
a party—the fountain downtown to change

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#poetry #litmag

Antioch University's MFA Creative Writing Program, home to Lunch Ticket, is excited to announce its June 2024 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Joseph Han, Raquel Gutiérrez, John Cariani, and Abdi Nazemian. We are accepting applications!

A Future of Resilient Hope: Interview with Jaime Balboa

'You can create something beautiful with words when you’re aware. Mindfulness is simply an awareness of the present with the stated intention of kindness.'

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Issue 24 #Poetry Spotlight: 'Danny, with the bad neck' by Christine Byrne

'then we’re driving & he’s telling me
Danny’s not really alright, how he fell into a literal hole,
how his neck snapped'

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From 'Devil's Ivy' by Ashley Russ

'LoFi Girl is playing on YouTube. The sky is orange, the lights circling the football stadium turn on. I should be home by now, but I’ve got one last thing to do.'

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The submission deadline for Issue 25 has been extended for Young Adult Literature!

Submit by March 15th: buff.ly/2YCGiNS

#youngadult #YA #submissions #litmag #fiction #prose #antiochuniversity #socialjustice #racialjustice #environmentaljustice