Nightingale & Sparrow

Author: Marcelle Newbold

  • Vision of a Sparrow

    Vision of a Sparrow

    Rachel Coyne

    Vision of a Sparrow

    Rachel Coyne

  • Vision of Songbird

    Vision of Songbird

    Rachel Coyne

    Vision of a Songbird

    Rachel Coyne

  • Star Giants

    Star Giants (cover of starlight issue)

    Rachel Coyne

    Star Giant image

    Rachel Coyne

  • starlight micropoems

    In the leadup to our sixteenth issue, ’starlight’, we shared a series of micropoems from our talented submitters:

  • starlight

    starlight

    Contents

    ISSN 2642-0104  (print)
    ISSN 2641-7693 (online)

    Starlight Print Edition

    Starlight Online Edition

    add-to-goodreads

    Editor’s Letter

    Founding Editor, Juliette Sebock

    Poetry

    Centaur, firing an arrow      Indu Parvathi
    Light Meals      Sabrynne Buchholz
    Meteor Envy     RC deWinter
    Sky of Your Influence      Angela Acosta
    The Light Fantastic      Frances Boyle
    U n f o l d     Kristiana Reed
    Self Portrait as Luna     Annika Gangopadhyay

    Fiction
    The Night Gardener     Jenny Wong

    Visual Art
    Vision of a Sparrow     Rachel Coyne
    Vision of Songbird     Rachel Coyne

    Cover Image
    Star Giants    Rachel Coyne

    Micropoems

    In the leadup to poetry, we shared a series of micropoems across social media: 

    starlight micropoems

  • Letter from the Editor Starlight Issue

    Letter from the Editor

     

    Dear Reader, 

    starlight is the sixteenth issue of Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine, and our final issue of 2022. As we put together this autumnal edition, it’s hard not to look back on the year and all we’ve had to be grateful for.

    For instance, we had the opportunity to review some beautiful work for this issue. In our call for submissions, we prompted submitters with the following: “What do you see when you look up at the night sky? From astrology and lullabies to planetariums and Taylor Swift lyrics, we want to see your poems, stories, essays, and art that come face-to-face with the cosmos. Give us space; give us skies; give us starlight.”

    The pages that follow bring this imagery to life. From the constellations of “Centaur, firing an arrow” by Indu Parvathi and Rachel Coyne’s “Star Giants” on this issue’s cover to Jenny Wong’s tale of “The Night Gardener,” there’s something for everyone to enjoy in the shooting star that is starlight.

    With this issue and beyond, I and the N&S team are so thankful for our contributors, readers, customers, and other supporters who let us bring a new issue to life with each changing season.

    We hope you enjoy—and we’re so excited to see what 2023 will bring.

    Juliette Sebock

    Editor-in-Chief, Nightingale & Sparrow

  • submerged micropoems

    In the leadup to our fifteenth issue, ’submerged’, we shared a series of micropoems from our talented submitters:

  • Below the Water Line

    Below the Water Line (cover of submerged issue)

    Roselle Farr

    Roselle Farr

  • Jelly Fish

    Jelly Fish

    Roselle Farr

    Roselle Farr