Author: Qu Literary Magazine

  • Staring Off Into

    NOON – Late twenties, they/them, peace and love and breathing it in, deeply humanist. JACOB – Early thirties, he/him, resourceful and ambitious, but also deeply sensitive. MADISON – Late twenties, she/her, anxious and a bit of a perfectionist, but deeply loving in her own way.   The first week of January. Public transit train noises.…

  • A Rare Find

    CHARACTERS: TATER……………man, 70s, Vietnam veteran, any race MONICA…………woman, mid 30s, attractive but worn out, any race TIME: 2019 (pre-pandemic) PLACE: Any town USA   AS HOUSE LIGHTS GO DOWN, we hear SFX of a car screeching around a corner, excited teenaged voices, and a bottle hitting an object, then smashing on the ground as the…

  • Juned Subhan

    Juned Subhan is a writer and English teacher from England. His creative writing has been published in numerous literary journals including Joyce Carol Oates’s Ontario Review.

  • Gerry Sloan

    Gerry Sloan is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His poetry collections are Paper Lanterns (2011), Crossings: A Memoir in Verse (2017), and a generous selection in Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry (2023). His recent work appears in Arkansas Review, Cold Mountain Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Slant, and Mid/South Sonnets. Website: gerrysloanpoetry.com

  • Joseph Geskey

    Joseph Geskey’s first book of poems, Alms for the Ravens, was recently published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Individual poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, Cloudbank, and many others. Please visit josephgeskey.com for further information.

  • Ellen White

    Ellen White is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher living in southern Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the…

  • Courtney Hitson

    Courtney Hitson teaches English at the College of the Florida Keys. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including About Place, DMQ Review, Emerge Literary Journal, McNeese Review and others. Outside of writing, she enjoys scuba-diving, freestyle unicycling, and philosophy. Courtney and her husband, Tom (also a poet), reside in Key West, Florida with…

  • Caleb Jagoda

    Caleb Jagoda is a poet, journalist, and MFA candidate at the University of New Hampshire. He is managing editor at Barnstorm Journal and his work has appeared in Polaris Literary Magazine, Write on the DOT, and Down East Magazine. He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.

  • Jonathan Greenhause

    Jonathan Greenhause’s poetry collection, Cupping Our Palms (Meadowlark Press, 2022), won the 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize, and he’s won the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition, the Ledbury Poetry Competition, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award in Poetry, and the Telluride Institute’s Fischer Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in in Barrow Street, The Believer, New York…