Author Jay Sturner

Hi folks, you can now order my latest chapbook SHADOWS & SPARKS via PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, or Buy Me a Coffee. The price is $7.00, and that includes shipping! PayPal: See the Buy Now button below. Venmo or Zelle: Message me for the phone number. Buy Me a Coffee: Click here  and select 7 coffees. Thank you so much for your support!   SHADOWS & SPARKS is a short collection of poems that fall outside Sturner’s typical themes of fantasy and horror. The poems range from dark and bleak (the shadows) to light and hopeful (the sparks), and reveal a more personal side to the author. A previous edition of the book was published in 2024 by Maverick Duck Press , but this revised and expanded edition includes ten additional poems and a new cover.

My poem "The Quiet Hour Ends" has been published in Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 2026) of The Prairie Light Review and can be read by clicking here .

My sci-fi poem "A Danger of Outer Space Hide 'n' Seek" has been published in Vol. 2, Issue 1 of SpecPoVerse and can be read by clicking here .

The Winter 2026 issue of Spectral Realms is now available and includes my prose poem "Honorary God." Details can be found here . This marks my return to writing after a full year away. Thank you to Hippocampus Press and Editor S.T. Joshi for selecting the poem.

Wrapping up final edits to a blurb for a fellow writer whose stellar book of poetry will be released in November.

 

"Variations on the I-Ching," co-written with writer Jennifer Crow, has been published in the  Winter Solstice 2024 issue of   Eternal Haunted Summer and can be read by clicking  here .

The latest issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly is now available and includes my story "Moon Masks." The title/theme of this issue is 'Masquerade.' Paperback Version Digital Version (coming soon)

The Autumnal Equinox 2024 issue of  JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature  is now available and includes my Clark Ashton Smith-inspired prose poem "The Thing at the Dream Gate." Available in both paperback and PDF versions via the links.

Issue #106 of Yellow Mama Webzine is now live and contains my poems "Venom and Bite" and "Walking the Suburb." To read "Venom and Bite," click here . To read "Walking the Suburb," click here . Image by Kelly Moyer.

The September 2024 issue of Carmina Magazine is currently live and contains my poem "Ratri and the Grieving Botanist." The poem is a reprint, having first appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer back in 2021. This newer version is better, I think, than the original, and perhaps warrants a fresh read. You can do so by clicking here . Note: Ratri is the Hindu goddess of night. Many thanks to editor Clarabelle Miray Fields for reprinting this poem!

The July 2024 issue of Flash Digest is now available and includes my fantasy story "In Dreams." To purchase, visit Hiraeth Publishing . (Amazon link forthcoming.)

The June 2024 issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk is now available and includes my poem "How Some People Disappear." To purchase, visit  Hiraeth Publishing or  Amazon.com .

The new issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly is now available and includes my story "Love Child," a piece co-written with author  Manuel Paul Arenas . The theme of this issue is "folk horror." Paperback Version Digital Version

The Alien Fronds issue of View From Atlantis is now online and includes my poem "Pitcher Plant." It can be read by clicking here . "Pitcher Plant" was originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Star*Line .

The April 2024 issue of Aphelion Webzine is now live and includes my poem "When Confronted by an Elder God…." It was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's penchant for having characters "go mad" in several of his stories. To read it, click here .

The latest issue of Spectral Realms is now available and includes my poem "The Great and Final Feast." To purchase, click  here . From the website: Hippocampus Press is proud to commemorate ten years of our acclaimed journal of weird poetry, Spectral Realms , with the publication of the twentieth issue. As before, it contains a diverse array of poetry by today's leading versifiers in the realm of horror and the supernatural—John Shirley, Scott J. Couturier, Frank Coffman, Manuel Pérez-Campos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Leigh Blackmore, Ann K. Schwader, and a host of others. Maxwell I. Gold and Jay Sturner contribute provocative prose poems, while a cadre of poets pen tributes to Dylan Thomas (Carl E. Reed's "Echoing Dylan Thomas"), Robert W. Chambers (David J. Kopaska-Merkel’s "A Vision of Carcosa"), Emily Brontë Michael Potts's "After Heathcliff Digs Up Cathy"), and the imperishable Shakespeare (Kyla Lee Ward's "Malvolio's Reve...

My micro-chapbook SHADOWS AND SPARKS has just been released by Maverick Duck Press  and is available as a free download  here . Thank you to editors Kendall A. Bell and Brielle Kelton for accepting and publishing the book! Description: SHADOWS AND SPARKS is a micro-chapbook of ten short poems that range from dark and bleak (the shadows) to light and hopeful (the sparks). You can add the book to your Goodreads list here .

" Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana " has been nominated for a 2023  Rhysling Award in the short poem category.

Amazing Stories has uploaded a review of the Nov/Dec 2022 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , in which I have two prose poems. It can be read by clicking  here .