Nightingale & Sparrow

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  • Liana Tsang Cohen

    Liana Tsang Cohen

    Fiction Contributor

    Liana Tsang Cohen just graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in English and wrote a movie. When she’s not reading, writing, or discussing stories, she likes to re-enact the scene from Ratatouille in which Remy eats the strawberry and the cheese separately, then together. Her work has appeared in Nightingale & Sparrow, Halfway Down the Stairs, and The Nassau Literary Review, and her short documentary recently won Best Student Mobile Short at the Indie Short Fest (October 2020).

    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Ode to Turkish Delight

     

  • LITTLE HOUSE IN THE WOODS

    LITTLE HOUSE IN THE WOODS

    Martina Rimbaldo

    Martina Rimbaldo

  • Paula Bonnell

    Paula Bonnell

    Poetry Contributor

    Paula Bonnell’s poems have appeared in print and online in publications in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, and Australia as well as in four collections: Airs & Voices, Ciardi prize book (BkMk Press 2008), Message (1999), and two chapbooks: Before the Alphabet (2013) and tales retold (2017). Other recognition: 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee; award from the New England Poetry Club; her sequence “Eurydice” received a Poet Lore narrative-poetry publication prize.

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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    EACH TREE, WHERE IT STANDS

     

  • Seed and Stem

    Seed and Stem

    Laurence Levy-Atkinson

    All summer long the mango trees shed
    The best parts of themselves,
    I didn’t even need to scrabble up them
    To find it and our mothers screamed from the porch
    When we did that anyway.

    The ones that fell first were bitter
    After you tore the skin off
    So we didn’t keep them and threw them away
    Seed and stem, into the shade of the farmhouse.
    They rotted all summer long

    While we climbed and stole the better ones, the newer ones,
    Which were sweeter than you could wish for
    And sickly when you ate too many.
    Which of course we did,
    Too young to know any outside limits.

    The greener mangoes eventually ripened and fell
    But we’d had our fill by then
    And they rolled and rotted with the ones before them.
    That was after we were gone though,
    By a time when we’d eaten all we could

    And there was nothing left to climb
    Or find. Nothing green anymore.
    Or maybe there was and I just wasn’t there
    To see it. When you’re plucked seed and stem,
    You don’t get a chance to know.

    Laurence Levy-Atkinson

  • Nook

    Nook

    Olivier Schopfer

    Olivier Schopfer

  • Christie Megill

    Christie Megill

    Creative Nonfiction Contributor

    Christie Megill is a middle-grade writer and she also writes essays on motherhood, feminism, and fairy tales. She studied English Literature
    at Fordham University and she is a former elementary school teacher, former editor, former bookseller, and current homeschooling mother.

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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    One Night, I Walked into the Woods

     

  • Impressionism at the Sinkhole

    Impressionism at the Sinkhole

    Gaby Bedetti

    Gaby Bedetti

  • HOW DO YOU CALL THE WATERFALL OF LEAVES

    HOW DO YOU CALL THE WATERFALL OF LEAVES

    Martina Rimbaldo

    Martina Rimbaldo

  • Sarah D. Meiklejohn

    Sarah D. Meiklejohn

    Creative Nonfiction Contributor

    Sarah D. Meiklejohn is a freelance content writer living in South Philadelphia with her husband Joe and their three rescued cats. When she is not writing, Sarah spends her time daydreaming about flying, watching horror movies, and taking long walks in the woods.

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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    A New England Folk Tale

     

  • Laurence Levy-Atkinson

    Laurence Levy-Atkinson

    Poetry Contributor

    Laurence Levy-Atkinson is a writer and poet based in Melbourne, Australia. His work can be found in many places, including Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Poetica Magazine, and Inklette. He has been featured in the Slinkies emerging writers’ series and was shortlisted for the 2018 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award.

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    Works in Nightingale & Sparrow

    Seed and Stem