Gallop, an equine literary magazine

27/07/2021

Coming this fall, the continuation of "Commander Speaks," my new novel about an officious German WB who takes over where Safe Sport leaves off. In the second issue of "Gallop," an equine literary magazine. Please send submissions to [email protected].

1 minute readGallopfrom Gallopby Gallop, an equine literary magazineNext Storyfrom 'Gallop'Gallop“You again? I’m not talking to you anymore because you didn’t tell that woman what I really said.”“That woman pays $1,500 a month to keep you hock deep in clean sawdust, $100 every two weeks fo...

05/05/2021

See 's sweet (not an adjective usually associated with her brilliant political cartoons) rendition of two elder horses in the debut issue of Gallop, an equine literary magazine. https://issuu.com/readgallop/docs/read_gallop/s/12054232 via

Last Tango in Glasgow

05/05/2021

https://issuu.com/readgallop/docs/read_gallop

Gallop, an equine literary magazine, celebrates the beauty, generosity and magnificence of horses through fiction, poetry, essay and art.

28/04/2021

85 pages of all horse fiction, poetry, essay, memoir and art in the debut issue of Gallop, an equine literary magazine. Ad-free and free on line. Looking for submissions for next issue. Send to [email protected]. Please share. Thanks and happy trails. https://issuu.com/readgallop/docs/read_gallop via

Gallop, an equine literary magazine, celebrates the beauty, generosity and magnificence of horses through fiction, poetry, essay and art.

10/04/2021

Read how every artist got it wrong until Eadweard Muybridge showed the world what really happens when horses gallop. In the debut issue of Gallop, an equine literary magazine. https://issuu.com/readgallop/docs/read_gallop/s/12026921 via

1 minute readGallopfrom Gallopby Gallop, an equine literary magazineNext Storyfrom 'Gallop'GallopDo galloping horses fly? It was a controversy for generations; technically a question of “unsupported transit.” But on June 19, 1878, the world got the answer: Yes, they do. The men behind this momen...

09/04/2021

09/04/2021

Gallop podcast? My son is suggesting that. Opinions please: interest in hearing folks talk about horses, art, life with horses? In addition to reading flash fiction, poetry and mini essays?
Please post suggestions, opinions, and comments here or send to [email protected]
https://issuu.com/readgallop/docs/read_gallop

Gallop, an equine literary magazine, celebrates the beauty, generosity and magnificence of horses through fiction, poetry, essay and art.

08/04/2021

Thanks to the Virginia Horse Center.

Gallop, an equine literary magazine, celebrates the beauty, generosity and magnificence of horses through fiction, poetry, essay and art.

06/04/2021

Gallop, an equine literary magazine:
https://issuu.com/readgallop/docs/read_gallop

Gallop, an equine literary magazine, celebrates the beauty, generosity and magnificence of horses through fiction, poetry, essay and art.

01/04/2021

Gallop, an equine literary magazine. 87 pages of where horses meet art. Coming very soon.
Sneak peek:
Harness Racing: A Love Letter by the Indiana Jones of food writers, Alan Richman.

29/03/2021

Gallop, an equine literary magazine...coming very soon. 70 plus pages of horse poems, stories, essays, photographs and art.
Stay tuned.

25/03/2021

From the debut issue of Gallop, an equine literary magazine -- coming VERY soon -- the poem, "It Matters" by Mary Ellena Ward:

Is your horse your partner?
Partner: Either of two persons who dance together.
Dance: A series of rhythmic and patterned bodily movements.

24/03/2021

Coming soon in the debut issue of , an equine literary magazine: In girls versus the out girl in "Horse Girl," by Carrie Seim. Especially resonant for some of us:) Read the first chapter in .

02/03/2021

Proud to say "Gallop," an equine literary magazine will feature a poem and artwork by Kevin McIlovy.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kevin-mcilvoy/one-kind-favor/

A stylistically thorny novel about a lynching that encompasses prose-poem, satire, ghost story, and other rhetorical somersaults.

30/01/2021

"Gallop," will feature Kevin McIlvoy's "Amadeo," a powerful poem inspired by the death of a wild Outer Banks stallion.

Sneak peek:

The members of the rescue team already knew the name of the blind
old stallion carried into the ocean here. My mother, the bravest of
the team, saw Amadeo charge in with no hesitation, and she and
the other two figured the wild horse thought he was defending
his harem from waves of stallions in tens of thousands.

Available for preorder now! ONE KIND FAVOR by Kevin McIlvoy. https://www.wtawpress.org/product-page/one-kind-favor-by-kevin-mcilvoy
Based loosely on a tragic real-life incident, One Kind Favor takes place in the small fictional community of Cord, North Carolina, where ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker, the groundbreaking literary icon, brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of One Kind Favor, Kevin McIlvoy's sixth novel, echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will, at last, have their way.

"I describe Cord as ‘spirit-haunted,’ but is any place in America not haunted by ancestral misdeeds? Squint into the mirror McIlvoy provides, but don’t dare look at the grotesqueries and pretend you’re looking into a funhouse mirror. This is what we really look like.” — Rion Amilcar Scott, author of The World Doesn’t Require You

28/01/2021

sneak peek:
"You loved Mr. Ed. He was funny. He was sassy. He was sneaky. What kid wouldn’t want to own a talking horse who could surf at Waikiki, fly cargo planes, phone in racing tips to the Pimlico Racetrack, play baseball with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and speak English with a French accent while wearing a beret?
Now you are an adult. You have questions......"

From "A Horse Is a Horse," by one of the funniest writers I know, Len Kruger.

27/01/2021

http://gallopmag.com/

This Spring, I am launching “Gallop,” an equine literary magazine. This has been a long-time dream of mine, to marry my two grand passions -- horses and words. . My vision is to offer high-quality reading material and art for the horse-crazed or even mildly interested. Short stories, essays, mem...

22/01/2021

"Gallop," an equine literary magazine coming this Spring will pay (a small amount) for what we publish. No one should work for free. And thank you to the US government for our Covid checks. This is how we're spending it.

16/01/2021

Sneak peek into the debut issue. From "Commander Speaks," my new mystery series to be serialized in "Gallop."

“My trainer even went to Germany to ride him,” Mrs. Abernathy told Jilly. “She wanted to make sure he was as amateur-friendly as he was advertised to be.”

“Was he?” Jilly asked.

There was a pause that Jilly noted. She subscribed to Dr. Greg House’s dictum: “Everyone lies.”

“Yes,” Mrs. Abernathy said with a hint of waver in her voice, also noted by Jilly. “But in a European way, meaning he did his job politely and safely. But that was it, according to my trainer. ‘He’s all business,’ she’d said to me on the phone from Germany. ‘He’s not like an American horse who wants to cuddle with you and be your best friend.”

“And that was Ok with you?” Jilly asked. After a lifetime of talking to horses and their owners, Jilly knew better than anyone that most horse owners are looking for way more than a horse. Especially the female owners. They want a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a mother or a father or a brother or a sister and mostly they want a therapist and a best friend. It’s never just about the ride.

"Yes, "Mrs. Abernathy said. ".....now I just need a horse to get me to the other side of the fence, even if — or especially when — I’m scared. Commander doesn’t have to love me. He doesn’t even have to like me. He just has to stop biting me.”

Jilly didn’t really believe Mrs. Abernathy. She’d never met a horsewoman who just wanted to get to the other side of the fence. But her job was to talk to Commander, not psychoanalyze his owner. She told Mrs. Abernathy she’d make contact with Commander later that day and find out why he was biting.

14/01/2021

“What was your favorite horse book as a child? And why? Send your answers to [email protected]. Gallop, an equine literary magazine debuts this spring. For a sneak peek: https://t.co/S69FH6us1E”

11/01/2021

Sneak peak #2 of what's inside the first issue of Gallop:
From the augmented memoir of Joan Marans Dim:

MM, Golda, Rodney and Me
....During this period, Marilyn Monroe was the Strasbergs most frequent visitor. But only Rodney and I knew who she truly was. She arrived daily in the same outfit: Wrapped in an oversize camel-hair coat, her head swathed in a kerchief, a few sunny ringlets exposed. She wore large dark sunglasses and no makeup and was surprisingly petite. Amazingly, she wasn’t exactly ordinary, but she was no s*x goddess either. As she passed us, Rodney tipped his doorman’s cap. “Good afternoon, Miss Monroe,” he always whispered. She smiled ever so slightly. This was a ritual. The goddess of the universe had arrived and was acknowledged, yet she was invisible to everyone around us, that is, everyone except the cognoscenti...the two of us.

Then, one balmy day, something astonishing occurred. “Today is going to be unique,” Rodney reported.
“What’s going on?”

“The Strasbergs are being interviewed on TV, and Miss Monroe is going to be participating on the show,” he answered.
“Wow!” I exclaimed.
At that very moment, Marilyn Monroe, astride a muscular brown horse with a buzzcut, walked into the arch’s driveway.
Two extraordinary creatures!

11/01/2021

Stay tuned for another sneak peek of what's inside the first issue of "Gallop." It involves Marilyn Monroe.

10/01/2021

Sneak peak at what's in the first issue of "Gallop." This is just the start of Cary Sparks's mythical prose poem. To find out about the remaining four horsewomen, read "Gallop."

THE FOUR HORSEWOMEN OF THE REBIRTH AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

By Cary Sparks

The First Horsewoman: Healing
This is what they told me: Wash the horse.
Do you know how hard it is to keep a white horse clean? As soon as he walks out of the stable…well, where isn’t there either mud or dust?
But no one cared about mud on his hooves or dust on his flank. They saw his beauty and came around. I rode without a saddle; left the bow and arrows back at the barn.
I wore the tiara, though. Wouldn’t you?
“Can I pet your horse?”
Of course you can, dear one. Everyone can touch him, he doesn’t mind. He’s a therapy animal. He goes everywhere.
I told them: All animals are therapy animals. And all plants are therapy plants. Walk next to them. Smell them. Watch the deer bounce, the herds of giraffe and buffalo, the trees breathing in the wind. Lie flat on the ground and spread your arms and legs as wide as they will go so you can see the birds and clouds and weather.
Feel the pain in your heart; call it out. Trust the breeze to lift it and take it away, a little at a time. The breeze will heal you. The animals and plants will heal you. The person next to you will heal you. And you will heal the ones after.

10/01/2021

Attention writers: Flex those writing muscles and write something about horses for "Gallop."

I have been wanting to create an equine literary magazine for years. And now it's happening. Introducing, "Gallop," coming this Spring.

I am collaborating with Ron James, the editor of the award-winning on-line travel magazine I write for, "Wine, Dine and Travel. He will bring his wizardry, along with many of his 300,000 readers, to the pages of "Gallop."

My vision is to offer high-quality reading material and art for the horse crazed or even mildly interested. Short stories, essays, memoirs, poems, book excerpts, photos, drawings, book reviews etc.

Please send your submissions to: [email protected]

If you are curious about my credentials: I am the author of the horse-show mystery series: "Horse of a Different Killer,” “Chestnut Mare, Beware,” and “In C**t Blood,” featured in People Magazine and translated into German, Japanese and Czech. I co-authored the novels, “Thief of Words,” and “Shenandoah Summer.” As a journalist, I was on the Charlotte Observer team that won the Pulitzer Prize. My articles have been published in many major newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Washingtonian. I have written columns for The Chronicle of the Horse and Practical Horseman. In addition, I taught journalism at Georgetown, Washington and Lee and Hollins universities and taught fiction writing at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md. I live on a farm near Lexington, Va., with way too many horses and an understanding husband.

Thanks
Jody Jaffe