The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Our objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring enrichment to every facet of life. We want to inspire more ekphrastic writing and promote the best in ekphrasis far and wide.
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We nominate writers for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize.
Founding Editor
Lorette C. Luzajic
[email protected]
Editors
Saad Ali (The Ekphrastic Times newsletter, coming soon)
Kate Copeland (Ekphrastic Challenges)
Sandi Stromberg
Social Media Team
Christa de Brún
Kate Bowers
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Editor Bios
Saad Ali is a bilingual poet-philosopher, literary translator, educationist & mgmt. consultant from The UK and Pakistan. His new collection of poems, Owl Of Pines: Sunyata (AuthorHouse, 2021), is an homage to vers libre, prose poem, and ekphrasis. He has translated Lorette C. Luzajic’s & Sheikha A’s ekphrases into Urdu. His work appears in The Ekphrastic Review, The Mackinaw, Synchronized Chaos, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lotus-eater, BRAWL Lit., Immagine & Poesia, Jackdaw Press, among others; and numerous poetry anthologies. He has been nominated for the Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. More via FB/IG: @owlofpines.
Kate Copeland started absorbing words ever since she was a little lass. Her love for language led her to teaching & translating; her love for art and water to poetry. You can find her pieces at The Ekphrastic Review, Poets’ Choice, First Lit.Review-East, Wildfire Words, AltPoetry and beyond. Over the years, Kate worked at literary festivals and Breathe-Read-Write-sessions, this year she runs linguistic-poetry workshop for the IWWG. And now, she is a challenge curator and editor for The Ekphrastic Review. To see and sense all forms of art, and to then put those experiences on paper is an incredible adventure, uplifting and daring…in all ways and manners interesting. Her Insta reads: https://www.instagram.com/kate.copeland.poems/ Kate was born @ harbour city and adores housesitting @ the world.
Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer, editor, educator, and visual artist in Toronto, Canada. She studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto. Deeply passionate about art history and literature, these have been ongoing areas of study for decades. Lorette's prose poetry and flash fiction, mostly ekphrastic, have appeared in two dozen anthologies, and hundreds of journals. Her work has been widely nominated, shortlisted, long-listed, awarded, twice granted by Ontario Arts Council, and translated into Urdu, Spanish, and Arabic. Her ekphrastic books of poetry, prose poetry, and flash fiction include Disgust, The Rope Artist, The Neon Rosary, Aspartame, Winter in June, and Pretty Time Machine. Lorette is an award-winning visual artist with collectors in 40 countries so far. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
Sandi Stromberg is a devotee of ekphrastic poetry and a frequent contributor to The Ekphrastic Review. In addition to being nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, twice for Best of the Net, and receiving a Fantastic Ekphrastic Award, she has been published in many literary journals and anthologies. She has also acted as a guest judge of the Review’s biweekly challenges and even contributed a Throwback Thursday. After a career as an award-winning magazine feature writer and editor, she then edited two poetry anthologies, which gave voice to some 150 other poets--Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston and, with Lucy Griffith, Echoes of the Cordillera, a collection of ekphrastic poems based on the incredible photography of Jim Bones.
Social Media Team Bios:
Kate Bowers is a Pittsburgh based writer who has been published in Sheila-Na-Gig, Rue Scribe, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her work appears in the anthology Pandemic Evolution: Poets Respond to the Art of Matthew Wolfe by Hayley Haugen (Editor) and Matthew Wolfe (Contributor). Kate maintains a reading blog “So Read This” that can be found at https://www.facebook.com/soreadthis. She works as a technical writer for Pittsburgh Public Schools, the second largest urban public school system in Pennsylvania, where she specializes in philanthropy and program design.
Christa de Brún is an Irish academic and poet. Her poetry was shortlisted for the Anthology Poetry Prize 2020 and the Roscommon Poetry Prize at the Strokestown International Festival 2020. She was most recently published in The Ekphrastic Review, New Word Order and in the anthologies Addictions collated by Veronica Aaronson and Cathal Buí Selected Poems 2021.