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I write fiction primarily. I immigrated from the Soviet Bloc. I studied English lit, law, and creative writing. I'm the Fiction Editor at <a href="https://minolareview.com">Minola Review</a>. My debut novel is forthcoming from <a href="https://bookhugpress.ca">Book*hug</a>.
I'm represented by Emma Patterson at Brandt & Hochman: epatterson [at] bromasite [dot] com
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You can e-mail me here: martawriting [at] gmail [dot] com
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<h1>One day I will move the comics from my published works list and also scan unpublished comics and put them all on this one page. That day is not today. But it is soon.</h1>
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<div id="work">creative things:
<a href="https://catapult.co/stories/marta-balcewicz-short-story-the-summer-of-bssz">fiction: "summer of bssz" (catapult)</a>
<a href="https://www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnorthcom/2020/3/27/ripe-bananas-by-marta-balcewicz">fiction: "ripe bananas" (passages north)</a>
<a href="https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/">fiction: "burger bite" (washington square review - issue 44)</a>
<a href="http://greensbororeview.org/issue/fall-2019-issue-106/">fiction: "bark" (the greensboro review)</a>
<a href="http://monkeybicycle.net/x-names/">fiction: "x names" (monkeybicycle)</a>
<a href="http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/stephanie-loves-stephanie">fiction: "stephanie loves stephanie" (hobart)</a>
<a href="https://books.catapult.co/products/tiny-crimes-very-short-tales-of-mystery-and-murder-pre-order">fiction: "good hair" in <em>tiny crimes</em> (catapult)</a>
<a href="http://tinhouse.com/a-guided-tour-of-the-sistine-chapel-ceiling/">fiction: "a guided tour of the sistine chapel ceiling" (tin house online)</a>
<a href="http://therumpus.net/2018/05/enough-the-type-of-boy-you-were-taught-to-want/">comic: "salty dog" (the rumpus)</a>
<a href="https://theoffingmag.com/micro/mad/">poetry: "mad" (the offing)</a>
<a href="boulevard.jpg">poetry: "godzilla" (boulevard)</a>
<a href="malahatpoem.jpg">poetry: "fetus charles atlas" (malahat review)</a>
<a href="http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2018/02/11/sunday-stories-cheers-for-drowning-girls/">fiction: "cheers for drowning girls" (vol.1 brooklyn)</a>
<a href="https://agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/natasha-writes-back">poetry: "natasha writes back"</a> and <a href="https://agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/bonnie-parkers-photoshoot">"bonnie parker's photoshoot" (AGNI online)</a>
<a href="prism.jpg">poetry: "this is east euro" (PRISM international) *pushcart nominee!</a>
<a href="https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2017/10/9/thanks-for-finally-joining-the-20th-century-since-its-already-over-by-marta-balcewicz">comic: "thanks for finally joining the 20th century since it's already over" (the normal school-online)</a>
<a href="https://catapult.co/stories/millo-my-american-armadillo">non-fic: "millo, my american armadillo" (catapult)</a>
<a href="https://pitheadchapel.com/common-weeds/">fiction: "common weeds" (pithead chapel)</a>
<a href="https://www.barrelhousemag.com/blogall/2017/8/24/le-tigre-amour-by-marta-balcewicz">comic: "le tigre amour" (barrelhouse)</a>
<a href="https://www.minolareview.com/marta-balcewicz">fiction: "women in space" (minola review)</a>
<a href="http://puritan-magazine.com/new-tenant/">poetry: "new tenant" (the puritan)</a>
<a href="http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/caveat-emptor-baby">comic: "caveat emptor, baby" (hobart)</a>
<a href="http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/autocorrect">comic: "autocorrect" (hobart)</a>
reviews and articles, etc.:
<a href="https://blog.pshares.org/bad-people-and-bad-dreams-in-a-door-behind-a-door/">review: "a door behind a door" by yelena moskovich (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://https://blog.pshares.org/the-hare-by-melanie-finn/">review: "the hare" by melanie finn (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/many-people-die-like-you-by-lina-wolff/">review: "many people die like you" by lina wolff (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/ha-seong-nans-bluebeards-first-wife/">review: "bluebeard's first wife" by ha seong-nan (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/destinations/the-majestically-creepy-towns-at-the-heart-of-twinpeaks/article29660457/">photos: twin peaks (globe & mail)</a>
<a href="gmcovers.jpg">photos: pretty places on/in the globe (globe & mail)</a>
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My debut novel BIG SHADOW is forthcoming from <a href="https://bookhugpress.ca/">Book*hug Press</a> in spring 2023.
In an unnamed town in the year 1998, Judy, an isolated and inexperienced young woman on the cusp of adulthood, struggles to craft an identity for herself as an artist.
There is little help around her. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed with a cultish belief in a coming “Big Shadow.” Her mother is afraid of life and finds solace primarily in TV shows.
At her lowest point, Judy meets a man more than twice her age, a fixture of the New York City 1970s cultural scene, now past his prime and desperately in search of lost adoration. Judy’s visits to his apartment in New York bring hopes of belonging in the city’s cultural world and making a living as a video artist. With each visit and frustrated promise, however, Judy feels the creeping realization that there is a price to pay for her golden ticket entry into this insular and moribund scene.
With dark humour and lyricism, Big Shadow explores the costs of friendships, fandom, and tenuous ambitions, exposing all we’ll do and all the lies we’ll tell ourselves as we edge closer to what we want, or think we want.
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<div id="unnamed yet">creative things:
<a href="https://www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnorthcom/2020/3/27/ripe-bananas-by-marta-balcewicz">fiction: "ripe bananas" (passages north)</a>
<a href="https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/">fiction: "burger bite" (washington square review - issue 44)</a>
<a href="http://greensbororeview.org/issue/fall-2019-issue-106/">fiction: "bark" (the greensboro review)</a>
<a href="http://monkeybicycle.net/x-names/">fiction: "x names" (monkeybicycle)</a>
<a href="http://littlefiction.com/beta/2018Flash_MartaBalcewicz.html">fiction: "daddy rat king" (little fiction)</a>
<a href="http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/stephanie-loves-stephanie">fiction: "stephanie loves stephanie" (hobart)</a>
<a href="https://books.catapult.co/products/tiny-crimes-very-short-tales-of-mystery-and-murder-pre-order">fiction: "good hair" in <em>tiny crimes</em> (black balloon/catapult)</a>
<a href="http://tinhouse.com/a-guided-tour-of-the-sistine-chapel-ceiling/">fiction: "a guided tour of the sistine chapel ceiling" (tin house online)</a>
<a href="http://therumpus.net/2018/05/enough-the-type-of-boy-you-were-taught-to-want/">comic: "salty dog" (the rumpus)</a>
<a href="https://theoffingmag.com/micro/mad/">poetry: "mad" (the offing)</a>
<a href="boulevard.jpg">poetry: "godzilla" (boulevard)</a>
<a href="https://jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/for-the-love-of-music-by-marta-balcewicz/">fiction: "for the love of music" (jellyfish review)</a>
<a href="malahatpoem.jpg">poetry: "fetus charles atlas" (malahat review)</a>
<a href="http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2018/02/11/sunday-stories-cheers-for-drowning-girls/">fiction: "cheers for drowning girls" (vol.1 brooklyn)</a>
<a href="https://agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/natasha-writes-back">poetry: "natasha writes back"</a> and <a href="https://agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/bonnie-parkers-photoshoot">"bonnie parker's photoshoot" (AGNI online)</a>
<a href="prism.jpg">poetry: "this is east euro" (PRISM international) *pushcart nominee!</a>
<a href="https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2017/10/9/thanks-for-finally-joining-the-20th-century-since-its-already-over-by-marta-balcewicz">comic: "thanks for finally joining the 20th century since it's already over" (the normal school-online)</a>
<a href="https://catapult.co/stories/millo-my-american-armadillo">non-fic: "millo, my american armadillo" (catapult)</a>
<a href="https://pitheadchapel.com/common-weeds/">fiction: "common weeds" (pithead chapel)</a>
<a href="https://www.barrelhousemag.com/blogall/2017/8/24/le-tigre-amour-by-marta-balcewicz">comic: "le tigre amour" (barrelhouse)</a>
<a href="https://www.minolareview.com/marta-balcewicz">fiction: "women in space" (minola review)</a>
<a href="http://cosmonautsavenue.com/marta-balcewicz-lies-gymnasium/">non-fic: "lies in the gymnasium" (cosmonauts avenue)</a>
<a href="http://puritan-magazine.com/new-tenant/">poetry: "new tenant" (the puritan)</a>
<a href="http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/caveat-emptor-baby">comic: "caveat emptor, baby" (hobart)</a>
<a href="http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/autocorrect">comic: "autocorrect" (hobart)</a>
reviews and articles, etc.:
<a href="https://blog.pshares.org/bad-people-and-bad-dreams-in-a-door-behind-a-door/">review: "a door behind a door" by yelena moskovich (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://https://blog.pshares.org/the-hare-by-melanie-finn/">review: "the hare" by melanie finn (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/many-people-die-like-you-by-lina-wolff/">review: "many people die like you" by lina wolff (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/ha-seong-nans-bluebeards-first-wife/">review: "bluebeard's first wife" by ha seong-nan (ploughshares)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/chelsea-martins-caca-dolce-essays-for-a-shitty-era">review: "caca dolce" by chelsea martin (shameless)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/issue/summer-2017">review: "difficult women" by roxane gay (shameless-print)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/fanfic-talks-back-a-review-of-where-did-you-sleep-last-night-by-lynn-crosbi">review: "where did you sleep last night" by lynn crosbie (shameless)</a>
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/destinations/the-majestically-creepy-towns-at-the-heart-of-twinpeaks/article29660457/">photos: twin peaks (globe & mail)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/carrie-brownstein-hunger-makes-me-a-modern-girl">review: "hunger makes me a modern girl" by carrie brownstein (shameless)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/q-a-with-sabrina-ramnanan">q & a: with author sabrina ramnanan (shameless)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/girl-in-a-band-kim-gordon-and-memories-recalled">review: "girl in a band" by kim gordon (shameless)</a>
<a href="gmcovers.jpg">photos: pretty places on/in the globe (globe & mail)</a>
<a href="http://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/well-worn-martas-favourite-band-t-shirt">profile: my favourite bikini kill t-shirt (shameless)</a>
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