Toni Artuso

I'm delighted to announce that my flash fiction piece, "Fire Escape," just appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine  Issue 35, which just went live. If you'd like to check this out, please follow the link below.  Fire Escape – Gulf Stream Magazine This caps off a great year for me publishing-wise. Back in September, my poem, "Molly Stark's Statue Speaks." appeared in the online Canadian journal, The Ekphrastic Review . Below is a direct link to the poem, along with a picture of the sculpture that inspired it.  ​ Molly Stark’s Statue Speaks, by Toni Artuso - The Ekphrastic Review Prior to that, my poem, "Along the Banks of the Charles River," appeared in the July 2024 issue of Jersey Devil Press . That magazine is available for free as a downloadable PDF at the Website below. Please note that you can find my poem on page 26.  Sister In March, my mashup story (queer speculative detective fiction), "Sisters," appeared in the anthology Cosmic Cri...

As I noted in my last post (from August 2023), I'd had a good summer that year. The fall of 2023 turned out to be even better for getting my work published.  I was thrilled to see my poem, "To Meriwether Lewis," appear in issue 9 of Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag.  You can read it by going to the link below and scrolling down to Issue 9 (which is free to download as a PDF). You'll find my poem on page 41. As an added bonus, I read this poem as part of the Salem Lit Fest in Fall 2024.  Molecule – a tiny lit mag Hard on the heels of that publication, my golden shovel poem, "A Cross-Dresser Marries," made its debut in the Summer/Fall issue of Nixes Mate Review . While that magazine doesn't publish work online, you can pick up a copy of that excellent issue at the link below: Issue 28/29 Summer/Fall 2023 | Nixes Mate Review In November 2023, I had a double header. Two of my poems, "Snapshot" and "Tiny Sliver of Nevada," appeared in Issue VIII o...