Brevis Publishing

02/11/2025

I am excited that the poem(s) "Love Instinct, Bittersweet... Bee Responds" has been published with Quail Bell Magazine. This two-part poem is a collaborative effort with poet Toni Frank-Maloney.
Thank you, Toni.
Thank you, QB editors and staff for your considerate selection of this piece.
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Love Instinct, Bittersweet... Bee Responds by Toni Frank-Maloney / Owen Patterson

02/07/2025

https://cliffordgarstang.com/2025-literary-magazine-ranking-poetry/

Below is the 2025 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here. Note that every effort has been made to…

10/05/2024

Two new poems published online at Quail Bell Magazine. Thank you, QBM staff and editors. Please Like at QBM and Share.

Smiles Across, Gone Too Soon http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/poetry-smiles-across-gone-too-soon-by-owen-patterson

Adored
http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/poetry-adored-by-owen-patterson

Older pieces at QBM

Flash Fiction: Knowing Disbelief…The Error of Caution
http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/flash-fiction-knowing-disbeliefthe-error-of-caution-by-owen-patterson

Flash Non-Fiction: Where's Jerry? http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real-20/flash-non-fiction-wheres-jerry-by-owen-patterson

https://www.facebook.com/owen.patterson.982/posts/pfbid02taNd4yzaKDQziJpKP1GRDVsFGTFPsWP22Dq1YaJC69zbVyj2ddcgQyw7ki47haqsl

Poetry: Smiles Across, Gone Too Soon by Owen Patterson

04/19/2024

CRAFT SHORT FICTION PRIZE 2024

CRAFT 2024 Short Fiction Prize Guest Judge: Deesha Philyaw $2,800 Awarded + Tech Bonus March 18 – May 19, 2024 Add to Calendar Welcome to the CRAFT 2024 Short Fiction Prize! Since our launch in 2017, CRAFT has been a…

01/16/2024

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or prose. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes awarded on public...

09/08/2022

Björk's New Release - Atopos (09/06/2022)

Atopos is Björk's radical/subversive "Weird Flex" response to humanity's move away from love toward destruction and hate. Atopos is radical and subversive considering society's current normalized trends of open aggression and violence.

Musically, Atopos is Reggaeton Beats meets Orchestral Reeds meets Drum and Bass meets Icelandic EDM meets Björk's Otherworldly Vocals.

The video... if a rave were a person, they'd be trippin' hard.

Opinion/Interpretation by O.P., The Lowercase "a"
(Note: Björk stated that the song is about doubt in relationships expressed lyrically)

"Are these not just excuses to not connect? / Our differences are irrelevant / To only name the flaws / Are excuses to not connect

If we don't grow outwards towards love / We'll implode inwards towards destruction"
Written by Björk & Gabber Modus Operandi

Atopos, Animal Taxonomy:
a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae

Atopos (atopoß), Biblical (Greek):
out of place, not befitting, unbecoming, improper, wicked, unrighteous, inconvenient, harmful, perverse

“atopos” by björkstream : https://bjork.lnk.to/atopostaken from new album ‘fossora’ out 30th septemberpre-order : https://bjork.lnk.to/fossoraLearn more at ...

08/19/2022

I am very excited that my Flash Non-Fiction piece "Where’s Jerry?" has been published in Quail Bell Magazine.
Thank you, Quail Bell editors and staff.

About Quail Bell:
"Quail Bell Magazine is an intersectional feminist arts and culture publication for real and unreal stories from around the world. We have a special love for the imaginary, nostalgic, and otherworldly. Our go-to spell? Art + Ideas = Magic." http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about.html

Where’s Jerry?
Owen "Jerry" Patterson, August 19, 2022
http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real-20/flash-non-fiction-wheres-jerry-by-owen-patterson

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Flash Non-Fiction: Where's Jerry? By Owen Patterson

08/12/2022

I am very excited that my Flash Fiction piece "Knowing Disbelief…The Error of Caution" has been published in Quail Bell Magazine.
Thank you, Quail Bell editors and staff.
About Quail Bell:
"Quail Bell Magazine is an intersectional feminist arts and culture publication for real and unreal stories from around the world. We have a special love for the imaginary, nostalgic, and otherworldly. Our go-to spell? Art + Ideas = Magic." http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about.html

Flash Fiction: Knowing Disbelief…The Error of Caution
Owen Patterson, August 12, 2022
http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/flash-fiction-knowing-disbeliefthe-error-of-caution-by-owen-patterson

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Flash Fiction: Knowing Disbelief...The Error of Caution by Owen Patterson

05/15/2022

NOWHERE WHERE THE HONEYBEES LIVE
Coming-of-age, soft sci-fi, and mystery unite for the adventure of Caroline Wood's debut novel, a sensory book full of twists, slow burns, and learning to love what's broken.

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05/15/2022

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10/17/2021

I did a fact check and St. Francis of Assisi did not say or write this.
That said, I still like it.

10/16/2021

https://www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/calls-for-submissions/

Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP.

08/28/2021

05/20/2021

"Art is long. Life is short." Our art continues long after we are gone.

The Latin translation of the first two lines of the Aphorismi by the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates...

03/10/2021

Pharrell Williams & Beck Hansen - "Saw Lightning"

"Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light? / Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light? / The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light / The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light"

Saw windy manes / Saw mountains fall / Saw temples burn / Prison walls / Saw floods coming / Saw children run / We got no more shelter, no more sun

Then it came to me in a flash of light / By the sycamore tree in the dead of night / The bottom bell and the longest day / The hardest wind and the fallen rain / Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning / I held my head up / And it struck me down / Down to the ground / It struck me down, struck me down / Struck me down to the ground

There was a day I saw lightning / There was a day I saw lightning / Hey hey hey, saw lightning / Ho ho ho, saw lightning / He he he, saw lightning / Ha ha ha

When they're named, I wonder where it go / Hold the sea, where it's sunny where I grow / One more day then daily I know / High, need trees, when it's sunny and go / More than fee, by money, I know / Pull me in, gotta start down low / Don't gotta sing, with weather I go / Partner we go

Then it came to me in a flash of light / By the sycamore tree in the dead of night / The bottom bell and the longest day / The hardest wind and the fallen rain / Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning / I held my head up / And it struck me down / Down to the ground / It struck me down, struck me down / Struck me down on the ground

Hey hey hey, saw lightning / Ho ho ho, saw lightning / He he he, saw lightning / Ha ha ha, saw lightning / Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light? / Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light? / The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light / The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light

Then it came to me in a flash of light / By the sycamore tree in the dead of night / The bottom bell and the longest day / The hardest wind or in the fallen rain / I saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning / I held my head up / And it struck me down / Down to the ground / It struck me down, struck me down / Struck me down on the ground

I saw lightning / I saw lightning / I saw lightning / I saw lightning
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Songwriters: Pharrell Williams / Beck Hansen
"Saw Lightning" lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Beck Collaborates With NASA JPL On ‘Hyperspace: A.I. Exploration'
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/beck-nasa-hyperspace/

Hyperspace: AI Exploration is a series of hybrid (data + music) videos for Beck’s ​album Hyperspace featuring real NASA science transformed through artificia...

03/02/2021

Step out the front door like a ghost / into the fog where no one notices / the contrast of white on white / And in between the moon and you / the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
~Adam Duritz, Round Here

Francesca Woodman (1958 -1981) was an American photographer best known for her surrealist black and white images of herself or other women. A Colorado native, Woodman studied art in Rome and attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She then moved to NYC in 1979 to pursue a career in photography. After becoming profoundly ill with depression and several failed attempts at her chosen profession, she took her own life by jumping from the window of a NYC building at the age of twenty-three.
Though she never attained success during her short life, Woodman has gained posthumous recognition for her gothic and surreal photographs.

02/20/2021

Then came the darker sooner,
came the later lower.
We were no longer a sweeter-here
happily-ever-after. We were after ever.
We were farther and further.
More was the word we used for harder.
Lost was our standard-bearer.
Our gods were fallen faster,
and fallen larger.
The day was duller, duller
was disaster. Our charge was error.
Instead of leader we had louder,
instead of lover, never. And over this river
broke the winter’s black weather.
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"The Darker Sooner" by Catherine Wing

—Crows in Winter (1941) N.C. Wyeth

More N.C. Wyeth 🖤

The Darker Sooner
BY Catherine Wing

Then came the darker sooner,
came the later lower.
We were no longer a sweeter-here
happily-ever-after. We were after ever.
We were farther and further.
More was the word we used for harder.
Lost was our standard-bearer.
Our gods were fallen faster,
and fallen larger.
The day was duller, duller
was disaster. Our charge was error.
Instead of leader we had louder,
instead of lover, never. And over this river
broke the winter’s black weather.

—Crows in Winter (1941) N.C. Wyeth