Quinn Forlini
Writer, Poet, Artist
SAMPLE WORK
Poetry
"My Secret Life as a Chain Smoker."
Lost Balloon Mag. December 2022.
Empty House Press. Issue 8. June 2022.
Up the Staircase Quarterly. Issue 57. May 2022. Nominated for Best of the Net 2022.
Cease, Cows. April 2022.
Rejection Lit. March 2022.
"Throwing the I Ching with my Father."
Gone Lawn. Issue 44. March 2022.
"Haibun for the Strangers Who Have My Blood."
Blue River Review. February 2022. Page 8.
"In Praise of the Moon and Earth as Tidally Locked Bodies in Synchronous Rotation."
Longleaf Review. Winter 2022. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022.
The Rupture. Issue 111. February 2021.
The Vassar Review, Issue 4. 2019. Page 51.
"Two Mormons Come to the Door."
The Greensboro Review, Issue 104. Fall 2018.
The Journal, Issue 42.2. Spring 2018.
"Calibration" & "Ode to the Liberal Arts Math Requirement."
The Broken City, Issue 18. July 2016. Pages 4, 5.
"My Being Here on the Benefit of Drugs."
The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, Volume 89. 2014. Page 24.
Fiction
"Things I Know About His Wife (Plus What I Obsessively Speculate)."
Exposition Review, Volume XI. August 2026.
"Tears, or it Doesn't Count."
Sycamore Review, Issue 33.2. March 2023.
"Your Life as a Disney Channel Original Movie."
Drunk Monkeys, April 2022.
"I Gave Up Everything to Be Here."
Hobart After Dark, March 2022.
"After Not Leaving the House for Three Days."
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, March 2022.
"Health Class."
Brilliant Flash Fiction, September 2021.
Milk Candy Review, December 2020. Nominated for Best of the Net 2021.
Nonfiction
"This Year as a Compilation of Short Films I Can't Decipher."
Lunch Ticket, Issue 21. Summer/Fall 2022. Diana Woods Memorial Award Finalist.
"I Sit on the Porch and Watch the World Happen."
Exposition Review, April 2022, 2nd place in Flash 405 contest.
Jellyfish Review, February 2022.
"If I Want to Be a Writer, I Can't Teach Writing."
Catapult, November 2021.
"Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in a Fog of Medication."
Capsule Stories blog, November 2021.
"Time of Not-to-End: Temporality and the Aubade."
CatheXis Northwest Press, November 2018.
"Erasing the Grotesque: an analysis of Djuna Barnes' detestation for The Book of Repulsive Women."
Apollon Ejournal, September 2014.
Humor
Points in Case, February 2021.