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Andrea Damic’s publications in online and print magazines

`Author Bio:`

Andrea Damic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, now resides in Sydney, Australia. She's an amateur photographer and author of poetry and prose. Being a non-native English speaker makes every publication worth the struggle. She believes there's something cathartic about seeing your words and art out in the world.

Her literary art appears or is forthcoming in Bending Genres, JMWW, Sky Island Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Cutbow Quarterly, the other side of hope, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Door Is A Jar, Roi Fainéant Press, Five on the Fifth, The Dribble Drabble Review, Your Impossible Voice, The Piker Press, The Odd Magazine, 365tomorrows, The Elpis Letters, 50 Give or Take (Vine Leaves Press) Anthologies, Mad Swirl, Coalition for Digital Narratives, Friday Flash Fiction, and elsewhere.

Her visual art can be found in Fusion Art and Light, Space & Time Online Exhibitions or various online and print publications such as Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Wild Roof Journal, Ink in Threads, Rejection Letters, Mad Swirl, The Piker Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bureau of Complaint, Coalition for Digital Narratives, Arkana at the University of Central Arkansas, Welter at the University of Baltimore, Invisible City at the University of San Francisco, ZiN Daily and elsewhere. Andrea is especially proud of having her photographs published on the covers of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine (Winter 2022 Issue 25), Rat's Ass Review (Spring-Summer and Fall-Winter 2023 Issue) and Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag (Fall 2023 Issue 9).

You can see Andrea’s work on her new website https://damicandrea.wordpress.com/ and/or https://twitter.com/DamicAndrea, https://www.instagram.com/damicandrea/, https://www.facebook.com/AndreaDamic/

Stay well and take care...

`- 2024 publications -`

*ekphrastic prose poem 'Moments in Seashells' - issue 62 - Roi Fainéant Press

*Creative Nonfiction published in JMWW (Things Lost En Route) and Bending Genres (Looking For Yourself in a City That Lost You')

*prose poem 'The Way Memories Talk' included in the first print anthology by The Ekphrastic Review (in collaboration with MacQueen’s Quinterly). My poem was inspired by the Art West painting (USA, 2012) called 'Evening Shadows on a Round Taos House'. I even bought a tiny print of this painting so I could frame them together.

Print copy can be purchased on Amazon.

^{Free online version link for the anthology is available here: https://www.ekphrastic.net/ebooks.html}

*first haiku ever! Thank you Scarlet Dragonfly Journal ...

*Friday Flash Fiction*

*this story was written for the 2024 Andrew Siderius Memorial Writing Contest

^{https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/that-child-in-the-photograph-by-andrea-damic}

*The Ekphrastic Review*

Malczewski Challange - poem 'The Moments of Tomorrow'

*blackout poem 'He held My heart' in Cutbow Quarterly, Issue 6

link: https://www.cutbowquarterly.com/issue6

*Oddity 27 - The Odd Magazine - 'Mosaic'

link: Odd Shorts | Oddity 27 (theoddmagazine.wixsite.com)

*published in 50 Give or Take - Vine Leaves Press (part of the 2024 print anthology - to be released in November 2024)

*poem 'Words' in The Piker Press

`- 2023 publications -`

*the other side of hope*

*poem 'life, interrupted' Winter 2023

*Spillwords Press* - interview for the Spotlight on Writers segment

*The Ekphrastic Review*

VICENTE CHALLENGE - my first ekphrastic flash and I am so very proud of it

*Sky Island Journal*

Issue 26 Fall 2023 - CNF publication of 'All It Takes is a Microscopic Moment in Time' and 'Because Kids Don't Forget'

*The Dribble Drabble Review Fall/Winter 2023, Issue VIII*

*Six Sentences*

*365tomorrows*

*Lothlorien Poetry Journal*

*The Ekphrastic Review*

The Ode to New Beginnings *prose poem inspired by Juan Luna’s painting Hymen, oh Hyménée! (Philippines) 1887

*The Ekphrastic Review*

*無限 (Infinite) - poem inspired by Jiro Yoshihara (Japan) 1965, Red Circle on Black

*The Ekphrastic Review*

*my first publication in the ekphrasis style - Indelible Moments - poem inspired by Bob Thompson’s painting Homage to Nina Simone, (USA) 1965 - part of the Thompson Challenge by The Ekphrastic Review

*Coalition for Digital Narratives*

Fall 2023 - flash fiction 'From This Point Forward'

Thank you Coalition for Digital Narratives and EIC Jaime Alejandro for re-publishing my story 'Night Out' - originally published in Aug22 by defunct 100 Word Project(EIC Jay Chesters)<

It's good to know that stories keep on living!

*Spillwords Press*

‘Parafantasy Nr. 1’ - compilation of voices and music

Massive thanks to the composer Rhodri Williams-Wandoch (Twitter @sottovocesounds) for ‘Parafantasy Nr. 1’ which uses Paragraph Planet pieces to create this beautiful compilation of stories with his own music.

When I first got contacted by Paragraph Planet’s E-I-C Richard Hearn in Jan 2023, who advised that mine was one of the pieces selected for the compilation and that the idea was for the selected authors to voice their paragraphs, which would then be superimposed onto specially composed tracks, my first thought was the one of utmost exaltation as I could not believe my paragraph got chosen, immediately followed by the dread of having to record it as I really don’t like the sound of my recorded voice.

Suffice to say I decided to do it. Believe you me that doing this was way out of my comfort zone. Being a non-native English speaker I prefer reading in my own head, but Rhodri was very reassuring for which I am evermore grateful.

My one-sentence paragraph is called ‘Every Summer’ (published on 24th June 2022 – thank you Richard Hearn) and it’s the first reading in this pretty awesome compilation of voices and music.

*The Elpis Letters: A Collective*

Deeply proud and humbled to have my words (a letter and a poem) included in The Elpis Letters: A Collective by EIC Kayla King.

From this collection, as Kayla puts it 'you can expect nostalgic, fierce, heartbreaking, hopeful, & exquisite work. These letters, poems, essays, & creative nonfiction are absolute 🔥. These writers have shared words that are authentic and maybe too relatable, but that’s the beauty of writing.'

The proceeds will be donated to The Center for Reproductive Rights, so if you can, please purchase a copy on Amazon or click on the photo below (on the left) and check out my review (on the right):