Jacqueline Schaalje has published stories and poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Talking Writing, Frontier Poetry, Grist, among others. Her stories were finalists for the Live Canon Competition, Epiphany Prize and the New Guard Competition. She has received support and/or scholarships at the Southampton Writers Conference and International Women’s Writing Guild, and One Story and Live Canon workshops. She joined the Tupelo Press 30/30 project. She is the current editor of arc, the magazine of IAWE, the Israeli Association of Writers in English. She previously worked as a freelance journalist. She earned her MA in English from the University of Amsterdam.
List of published poems and stories:
All The Things I missed
Constellations, later this year
Stain
Six Sentences, June 2021
Pancake Day
Free State Review, later this year
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
Poem 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Finalist Globe Soup Autumn Competition, November 2020 (unpublished)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
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
