Speculative Fiction and Poetry
Meet John C. Mannone
John’s interview for Altered Reality Magazine
A special announcement from John
John C. Mannone has literary and speculative work appearing in North Dakota Quarterly, Le Menteur, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, New England Journal of Medicine, Baltimore Review, 2020 Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, as well as Pedestal, Eye to the Telescope, Space & Time Magazine, and many others. Recipient of the Horror Writers Association Scholarship (2017), he won the Dwarf Stars Award (2020). He also won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest (2020) in poetry, the Carol Oen Memorial Fiction Award (2020), and the Joy Margrave Award in creative nonfiction (2015, 2017). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018) and chosen as guest speaker and Best of the Best contest judge for Poetry Society Tennessee (2020).
He has three poetry collections: Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing), which won 3rd place in the 2017 Elgin Book Award; Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press, 2015) on disability poetry, and Flux Lines: The Intersection of Science, Love, and Poetry is forthcoming (The Linnet’s Wings Press, 2020) on love-related poems using science metaphors. He’s been nominated for Pushcart, Rhysling, and Best of the Net awards. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, Liquid Imagination, and American Diversity Report. A retired professor of physics, he lives between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Visit him at:
http://jcmannone.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/jcmannone/
Read his July 2020 interview in “A Day in the Life Interview Series”: https://tlrelf.wordpress.com/a-day-in-the-life-interview-series/a-day-in-the-life-presents-poet-fiction-author-and-essayist-john-c-mannone/
(Revised September 6, 2020)
Visit him at: http://jcmannone.wordpress.com
Read John’s work in Altered Reality Magazine:
Read John’s work other places:
Stellar Quake – New England Journal of Medicine
Five Poems – Peacock Journal
Dignity of Sleep – Gyroscope Review
Freefall – Baltimore Review
Wormwood – Pedestal
A Glass of Stella – Pirene’s Fountain
undying – Eye To The Telescope
Paper Heart – Event Horizon
When the Comet Dust Settles – Syzygy
Two Blue Stockings Review Podcast
