Christine Barkley
poetry & creative nonfiction
2x Best New Poets nominee (“Threshing,” Cutleaf Journal; “Permanent Teeth,” the Pinch)
Pushcart Prize nominee (“Left a Note,” The Manhattan Review)
2024 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize shortlist
2023 Sundress Academy for the Arts Residency recipient
staff poetry reader, TriQuarterly & The Maine Review
Selected Publications
Poetry
“Shark Attack with Missing Sister” – Portland Review (forthcoming)
“Month of Night” – Rust & Moth, Summer 2024
“Skeleton Key” – Hole in the Head Review no. 5 Issue 2
“Fallows and Fault Lines (II)” – Hole in the Head Review no. 5 Issue 2
“Prussian Blue” – Hole in the Head Review no. 5 Issue 2
“Woman Running Night” – Hole in the Head Review no. 5 Issue 2
“Reception” – Hole in the Head Review no. 5 Issue 2
“Doubting Disease” – The Shore, Issue 21
“Requiem Sharks” – The Shore, Issue 21
“True Story” – the Pinch, Issue 43.2
“Permanent Teeth” – the Pinch, Issue 43.2 (nominated for Best New Poets 2024)
“Augury” – Grain, Issue 51.2
“Cage I Made” – Manhattan Review, Volume 21 no. 1
“Reminders” – Manhattan Review, Volume 21, no. 1
“Left a Note” – Manhattan Review, Volume 21, no. 1 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Coda” – Manhattan Review, Volume 21, no. 1
“Bone Spurs” – Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 102
“Threshing”– Cutleaf Journal, Issue 3.20 (nominated for Best New Poets 2024)
“Prey Naivety” – Cutleaf Journal ,Issue 3.20
“Apparent Death” – Cutleaf Journal, Issue 3.20
“After the Drought, The Flood” – Crab Creek Review, October 2023
“Fallows and Fault Lines (I)” – Palette Poetry, August 2023
“Aesthetics, Spoiled” – The Indianapolis Review, Issue 25
“This Is Me Not Thinking About It” – Little Patuxent Review, Issue 34
“Shifting Baseline Syndrome” – The Journal, Issue 46.2
“Bite Inhibition” – Salamander Magazine, Issue 55
“In the middle of the night, with the deer” – The Deadlands, Issue 19
“Fire Weather” (Runner-up, 2022 Poetry Contest) – Snarl Journal, Fall 2022
“Warning: Strong Currents, Shifting Sands” (Honorable Mention, 2022 Poetry Contest)- Snarl Journal, Fall 2022
“Unheard Message” – Roi Fainéant, October 2022 (first published in littledeathlit)
“Ecological Resilience” – Door is a Jar Magazine, Fall 2022
“False Ribs” – Door is a Jar Magazine, Fall 2022
“With Abandon” – Door is a Jar Magazine, Fall 2022
“Shotgun Shells and Other Empty Vessels” – Rust & Moth, Summer 2022
Creative Nonfiction
“Third-Person Bio” – Massachusetts Review, Volume 63, Issue 4
“Clover Honey” – CHEAP POP, November 2022 (republished in SugarSugarSalt, April 2024)
“I am told that I might have had a stroke but that everything will be fine, probably” – Autofocus, October 2022
“Slow Motion” – Reservoir Road Literary Review, Issue 09
“Pretty, Sick” – CLOVES Literary, May 2022
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