Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine is proud to present their nineteenth issue, bonfire. This volume features the poetry, fiction, and visual art of amazing creators from around the world. For this themed issue, we offered submitters this prompt: “ The crackling wood and the warmth of the flames fill the night air. We sit around at the beach, or maybe the first football game of the season, watching the embers glow in the darkness as the flames lick the sky. Send us work that speaks to the primal allure of the bonfire or reflects on the tales passed down through this timeless gathering.”
From the editor: “From Mahaila Smith’s “Wildfire” and Emma Wells’s “Autumn Camp” to Pushpanjali Kumari’s “The God in the Hearth” and Kaitlyn Dempsey’s “Fiery Times,” you’ll feel the flames and smell the smoke as you page through this issue.”
Juliette Sebock is the author of Mistakes Were Made (2017), Micro (Nightingale & Sparrrow Press, 2019), How My Cat Saved My Life and Other Poems (Bottlecap Press, 2019), Three Words (Bottlecap Press, 2020), Plight of the Pangolin (Vociferous Press, 2020), and Boleyn (TwistiT Press, 2020), as well as several books currently searching for the perfect press.
She has poems forthcoming or appearing in a wide variety of publications, including Royal Rose, Marías at Sampaguitas, Brave Voices Magazine, Poetry24, Mookychick, Cauldron Anthology, Neologism, Anti-Heroin Chic, Vamp Cat Magazine, Elephants Never, Green Light Lit, October Hill Magazine, Peeking Cat Poetry, Quatrain.fish, Ghost City Review, Blanket Sea, The Cabinet of Heed, PHEMME, the She Will Speak series, Selcouth Station, Wellington Street Review, Paper Trains Literary Journal, The Ginger Collect, Memoir Mixtapes, Foliate Oak, Mojave He(art), Ravens in the Attic, Cephalopress, Pop! Goes My Heart, Chachalaca Review, Pennsylvania Bards: An Anthology of Poetry by Northeastern Pennsylvania Poets, Black Bough Poetry, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Twist in Time, salt + vinegar, Neon Mariposa, Reclaim: An Anthology of Women's Poetry, A Tudor Writing Circle, Headcanon Magazine, Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art Digest, War Crimes Against the Uterus, Collective Unrest, Bonnie's Crew, Thimble Literary Magazine, Pixel Heart Literary Magazine, Barren Magazine, Mid-Heaven Magazine, Young Ravens Literary Review, The /temz/ Review, Knight's Library Magazine, Eye Flash Poetry, Picaroon Poetry, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Hellebore, Shut Down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels, and Taco Bell Quarterly, Crêpe & Penn, The Mighty, and Re-Side Zine.
She is the founding editor of Nightingale & Sparrow, runs a lifestyle blog, An Ideal Life, and is a regular contributor with Marías at Sampaguitas, Memoir Mixtapes, and The Poetry Question. Currently, she is working on a variety of personal and freelance projects.
When she isn't writing (and sometimes when she is), Juliette can be found with a cup of coffee and her cat, Fitz.
Juliette can be reached at her website (juliettesebock.com) or across social media @juliettesebock.