AQ44 – Between Hope & Despair

Fiction

• Caleb Coy – Last Day In April
• Guy Russell – A Visitation by Proxy
• Madhumati Dutta – A Bus Ride
• Mary Granfield – The Boots
• Ross McQueen – Hotel on Kinkerstraat

Memoir

• Bryan R. Monte – Ground Zero/Islands in the Sunset
• Lucinda Guard Crofton – Once Upon A Typewriter

Poetry

• Allyson Dowling – End of Summer
• Andy Craven-Griffiths – Witness
• Claudia Gary – How to Carry the World
• Claudia Gary – The Body
• Dick Westheimer – The Dark Places Are
• Hollis Kurman – A Perfect Procession
• Jane Blanchard – Penelope
• Jennifer L. Freed – 2 a.m. Letting You Go
• Kris Spencer – Porte de la Chapelle
• Mantz Yorke – Innerscape
• Marcus Slingsby – Cleaning A Murder Scene In Amsterdam Noord
• Monique van Maare – Resilience
• Simon Brod – Grandfather’s Ghost

Review

• Bryan R. Monte – AQ44 Autumn 2025 Book Reviews