Jacqueline Schaalje has published poetry and short fiction, most recently in The Comstock Review, The Friday Poem, and Pembroke Magazine. She’s the winner of the Florida Review Editor’s Prize 2022, and was a finalist in a few competitions, among which Live Canon’s and Alpine Fellowship. She participated in the Fall 2022 W2W mentoring program of AWP. She was an editor at MAYDAY and at arc Israel. She earned her MA in English from the University of Amsterdam.
List of published poems and stories:
A Stranger and a Mosquito
Flight of the Dragonfly, Issue 15, October 2025
Pro- and retroactive pink
Creekside Magazine, Spring 2025
Pro- and retroactive pink, Chain Reaction
Culterate Magazine, Issue 3, Spring 2025
City Tableaux, The Downstairs Rose
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine, May 2025
Phoenix receives a reversing camcorder for her anniversary, Phoenix doesn’t give up on the beach; Rise, Phoenix
arc Israel, February 2025
The Wave
Kelp Journal, 2025
The hate
DarkWinter Literary Magazine, March 2025
Rhyme and reason
The Broken Teacup, December 2024
A woman
Ponder Review 8.2, December 2024
Grounded Phoenix
underscore_magazine, November 2024
On top of the heatwave
Milk Candy Review, December 2024
I’m glad you’re reading Shakespeare, Smiling all the way to heaven
infinite↓scroll, October 2024
Through the Rain I Came
Korean Expatriate Literature 28, June 2024
The Chasm Between Mothers and Non-Mothers
Five South, March 2024
Carnival in the Next Village
The Ocotillo Review, Volume 8.1, February 2024
Dark Wood
Mary Evans Picture Library, Autumn 2023
Bench, Evening Sickness, Ex
Wildfire Words, Leaves and Leaving Anthology, Autumn 2023
Party Bird, Drama Dreams
arc Israel, Autumn 2023
Time and Tense
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival “Words Matter,” Summer 2023
High Toast
aChord Newsletter, Spring 2023
Solstice
Soul of the Narrator Anthology, June 2023
Cat in the Bag, Christmas Duplex
Pembroke Magazine, Summer 2023
Triolets
aChord Newsletter, Winter 2023
Powering
Longlist Live Canon Competition and Anthology, Autumn 2022
Haikus
aChord Newsletter, Autumn 2022
Orca on the Beach (Sijos)
Florida Review, Editor’s Prize, Number 1, Spring 2023
W2W mentoring program
AWP, September to December 2022, mentor: Michael Meyerhofer
Heads in Clouds, Rain
When it Rains it Pours Anthology, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Autumn 2022
Book Review of Owner of the Sea by Richard Price
MAYDAY, September 2022
Sunday to Gouda
Globe Soup Short Memoir, honourable mention August 2022
Night Dress
Alternative Field Notes, later this year
Click, Havoc in Heaven, Song Lyrics
Ace Eshed, July 2022
Between the head and toes you begin to unravel, Anemone
Painted, spoken, number 36, 2022
Elderly Poet
aChord Newsletter, Summer 2022
Saving a Herring
The Comstock Review, Spring/Summer 2022
Candy Crush
Sunspot Literary Journal, Finalist, Spring 2022
Wind-up people
The Friday Poem, 11 March 2022
Orca School
California Quarterly, vol. 47 no. 3, Autumn 2021
Sunflowers
Oprelle’s “Bigger Than Me” Anthology Poetry Contest, Third Place, later this year
Mother and the Flowers
MAYDAY, December 2021
Hannukafest Writer room sketches
The Stage Tel Aviv, December 2021
Death Threat One-act play (the third play in the link is mine)
Actathon Tel Aviv, 16 October 2021
The High Jump Fraternization, Apricots Bouncing (two poems)
In Parentheses, October 2021
Orange Flames (flash story)
In Parentheses, October 2021
All The Things I Missed
Constellations, Volume 11, Fall 2021
Stain
Six Sentences, June 2021
Pancake Day
Free State Review, Issue 14 Summer/Fall 2021
The lightness in my head is the voice of a flickering candle
Sad Girls Lit Blog, July 2021
Pry Open My Fist
The Closed Eye Open, July 2021
Bird Migrations
London Grip New Poetry, June 2021
Vegetation Story, He Gives Me a Pear from his Garden
Hole in the Head Review, May 2021
Holocaust Reremembrance
Halah, April 2021, read in Jerusalem for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 7 April 2021, Event Recording on Jerusalism FB Page.
Autumn Switch
Thimble Magazine, Spring 2021
Once I Was a Lighthouse
Talking Writing, March 2021
Kissing with Jackals in the Background, Gwadodyn of the Soul
My reading of “Kissing” is at 17:22 minutes. Arc Israel, Winter 2020
Matkot
Wild Roof Journal, January 2021
He Gives Me a Pear from his Garden
Finalist Globe Soup Autumn Competition, November 2020 (unpublished)
The Statue and The Trail
The Banyan Review, September 2020
To Carry Sand in Your Wedding Shoes
HerWords, Summer 2020
Daniella Has Good Lungs
Shortlist Live Canon Competition, October 2020
Daytrip to Bethlehem
Sunspot Lit, Shortlisted, August 2020
Red
Sunspot Lit, Honorable Mention, Summer 2020
The Juliets
Photograph in Toho Journal Online, Spring/Summer 2020
Tempest Song: Butterflies
Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Summer 2020
Blood Averse
Kind Writers, Honorable Mention, Summer 2020
Dust to Dusting
Talking Writing, Spring 2020
My Circle. Accompanying piece in Writing in a Crisis (scroll down to bottom of page).
Femicide of the Muse
Heirlock Magazine, Winter 2019
Before her Time
The Write Launch, Winter 2019
When Your Mother Gets Old
Crosswinds, Spring 2019
Family at Sea
Grist, Winter 2019
He asks if I cheat on him after he hasn’t been in touch for two weeks; The Impossibility of Making Love; Plaything
arc (Israel), Winter 2019
After an Accident
Frontier Poetry, August 2018
Dante’s Lines; Mouthings; If You Know Snow; Reassembly: The City with a Heart
Sixfold, Summer 2018
The Hum
Sky Island Journal, June 2018
The God Girl
Massachusetts Review, Winter 2018
Interview with Myself During the War
On the Premises, Autumn 2015
English with a Smile 