Books
Afterness showcases the perspectives of 65 writers whose lives are based in or touch upon Asia. All are graduates of the City University of Hong Kong Master of Fine Arts programme, started by author Xu Xi in 2010 and closed by the university after five years. Afterness is a university-funded legacy project for the programme unveiled at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. More on Afterness can be found at Afterness Anthology.
The first print anthology from The Ekphrastic Review! Featuring a wonderful range of prose poems, microfiction, and flash fiction inspired by visual art.
Conditioned to be Human is on page 20. Figure Quinque is on page 22.
28 prompts. 28 days. 77 stories — one incredible collection. Discover the magic of storytelling distilled into its purest form. “Bolts of Fiction” is a captivating collection of 77 flash fiction stories, each a testament to the creativity and talent of authors challenged to craft compelling narratives within just 24 hours.
Open Letter to the Lang Witch is on page 20. The Architect is on page 185. Do, Oh Dear! is on page 200.
A collection of poems posted in cyberspace over eight months by Quenntis Ashby, Margaret Callow, Dawn Evans, William Holt, Zan McDowell, Mary Linda Miller and Ashen Venema (domiciled in Taiwan, England, South Africa, the USA and Barbados), all part of a unique poetic conversation on a writer’s website. The thread on which the poems were posted received over 26,000 views during its brief life, influencing the poets to publish this in order to make their poetry accessible to a wider audience.
Compiled from a unique conversation in poetry posted on the Authonomy.com writer’s website over a six-month period in 2010-2011 by eleven poets from four continents. It represents a valuable addition to twenty-first century poetry, is global in its appeal, and its wealth chiefly constituted from the diversity of voices it contains.
A collection of 31 (snapped shut) closet poems
Edited by Quenntis Ashby
Anything about doors, closets, exits, entrances, traveling, The Doors, whatever you interpret door-to-door to mean.
All submissions were published without specific attribution, creating a brief anonymity.
A collection of closet poems and prose
Edited by Quenntis Ashby, Karla Delgado, and Blaire Reeve
Poetry using “rooftop language” (whatever that means to you) – any style/form is fine.
All submissions were published without specific attribution, creating a brief anonymity within each genre.
My Writing
My Fiction
The Hunchback and the Bearded Lady (Rainbow Lights Ablaze, 2012)
Lady Silkworm Samurai: Cadenza for a Lady Caterpillar on a Leaf (Rainbow Lights Ablaze, 2012)
The Lake of Swans (eightcuts, 2011).
into the desert of breaking things without pause for concern (eightcuts, 2010).
My Reviews
“Identity is a Constant Negotiation and Struggle for a Self Worth Fighting for” (Jason Erik Lundberg’s A FICKLE AND RESTLESS WEAPON, Issue 46 of Cha. 2021)
“A Profound Sense of Growth” (Phill Provance’s A PLAN IN CASE OF MORNING, Issue 46 of Cha. 2020)
My Poetry
“Don’t Turn Away” (Voice & Verse: Art. 2025)
“Naturally, We” and “Directions” (Voice & Verse: Involution. 2025)
“Will & G Play Sudoku” (Voice & Verse: Frame. 2025)
“Praise Poem for a Flat Feline” (Voice & Verse: Lying Flat. 2024)
“I Never Sang a Hymn for my Mother” (Voice & Verse: Estrangement. Issue 50, 2019)
“Trigger Happy” (Voice & Verse: Extradition. Issue 48, 2019)
“Armed Unrest in the City” (Voice & Verse: Loneliness in the City. Issue 47, 2019)
“Unmanned Triptych” (Voice & Verse: Intercourse and Intertextuality. Issue 45-46, 2019)
“He Made Himself at Home” and “Explicit Numbers” (Thunkbook One, Joel McCaffery, 2013)
“Poem for the Left Hand” and “Bear Weds Rabbit: An Ukiyo-e Fable” (Afterness)
“Two Facets of Five Facts” and “Sudoku Variations” (Door-to-Door II)
“The Lonely Door” and “At Dan Ryan’s” (Door-to-Door)