About the Author
Steve Passey is from Southern Alberta.
– 2012 –
*Tiger Lily Existere Journal of Arts and Literature issue 32.1
– 2014 –
Shotgun Suicide Big Pulp “M” Issue #1.
*Flower The Molotov Cocktail Volume 5 issue 3.
– 2015 –
*King of Diamonds, King of Hearts Minor Literature[s].
*The River by the Garden The Molotov Cocktail Volume 6 Issue 10
Gravel Roads and Grace, Too The J.J. Outre’ Review Volume 1 Issue 4
*All of the Words to All of the Songs Chicago Literati “Damaged Goods: The Break-Up Issue”
*The Burning Pile Haverthorn Volume 1 Issue 2.
– 2016 –
*Black Dog Ginosko Literary Review #17.
*Broke Sunstruck Magazine Volume 2 issue 1.
*Bruiser Rum Punch Press.
*One Inch of Air Tracer Publishing.
The Prophet of Regret (#2) Rat’s Ass Review “Love & Ensuing Madness”
She Was Wild and Strange and Had Wonderful Hair Rat’s Ass Review “Love & Ensuing Madness”
There Have Been Others Yellow Chair Review “Rock the Chair” February 14, 2016
Homicide, Suicide, Plea Unbroken Journal issue #2, March 2016
The Wild Girls Sing Yellow Chair Review issue 6.1, March 2016
Somewhere in Rooms With No Mirrors Unbroken Journal issue #3, May 2016
7 AM Automatic Unbroken Journal issue #3, May 2016
Small Town Hotel Breakfast Special Unbroken Journal issue #3, May 2016
The Sparrow Body Parts Magazine Issue #6: Grave Robbing.
*June 25th, 1977 Bird’s Thumb, June 2016 issue.
Cursum Perficio Penny Shorts, July 14, 2016.
*Indolence and Rhyme Toasted Cheese Issue 16.2.
*Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock Bull: Men’s Fiction, July 25, 2016.
*Cold Enough to See Our Breath Across the Margin, August 31, 2016.
Raised on the Farm Yellow Chair Review Issue #8 September 2016
The Prophet of Regret (#8): Astarte Dreams of Fire and Stars That Fall Like Snow Yellow Chair Review Issue #8 September 2016
Culling Song Yellow Chair Review Horror Annual 2016.
Winona at the Window Society of Misfit Stories (Bards & Sages Publishing) November 01,2016.
The Fiend in the Folio Ever Dream of Me (Fantasia Divinity Publishing) November 09,2016 and Fantasia Divinity’s 2016 “best of” Anthology Memories of the Past
That’s Why the Hornet Stung Me in Wax Poetry and Art November 10, 2016.
The Crow (Culling Song #2) in Wax Poetry and Art November 10, 2016.
Bury Me Face Down in Wax Poetry and Art November 10, 2016.
– 2017 –
The Salt of Our Bodies is the Salt of Our Rhymes Vending Machine Press January 21, 2017.
Only Cold Vending Machine Press January 21, 2017.
Arizona Vending Machine Press January 21, 2017.
Shiny and Black The Molotov Cocktail Volume 7 issue 21
Try, Fail, Try Sick Lit Magazine March 27, 2017
We Are All Already Dead Sick Lit Magazine March 27, 2017
Roman Boxing Glove Across the Margin April 7, 2017
El Centauro Storgy April 12, 2017
October in “Writing Menopause” (Inanna Press) April 15, 2017
** Light Me Up, Lift Me Up The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**Song of Our Making The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**God Bless You and Keep You, Beautiful Angel The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**A Soft Voice is An Excellent Thing In a Woman The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**All of the Words to All of the Songs The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**Pictures She’d Send The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**Casablanca, April 2015 The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**The Prophet of Regret (#7) The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**Sleeping Alone on Half the Bed The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**Rhymes, Chants, Incantations The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
**Everything is Epilogue The Coachella Madrigals (Chapbook) Luminous Press, April 2017
Sue and Labor in Bloody Key Society Periodical Issue #3 May, 2017
Out on the Eastern Slopes Vending Machine Press May 24, 2017.
Love and Rain Vending Machine Press May 24, 2017.
Temple of the Dog Arcturus June 2, 2017
Ulysses, King of Hearts Storgy June 16, 2017
This One Rat’s Ass Review Summer 2017 Issue
The Prophet of Regret (#9) Rat’s Ass Review Summer 2017 Issue
Five Fights Across the Margin August 28, 2017
Exit Interview The Danforth Review Issue #74 September 10, 2017
Blowtorch The Occulum September 12, 2017
Like Break-up Songs on the Radio Bird’s Thumb October 01, 2017
*Shirlena Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock (Collection) Tortoise Books 2017
Invisible to Men Publication Spelk October 18, 2017
The Things of the World Vending Machine Press October 23, 2017
The Light From the City Vending Machine Press October 23, 2017
We Bagged Sand All Night Until the Levee Broke Vending Machine Press October 23, 2017
American Cloven Hoof Anthem The Wyrd Magazine #1 October 24, 2017
Viking Funeral Storgy November 22, 2017
We Will Abide by Whatever Comes Here Comes Everyone – The Brutality Issue November 23, 2017
Songs of Rapture Bull: Men’s Fiction December 18, 2017
– 2018 –
Hummingbird Knowledge, Hummingbird Chance Spelk Fiction February 16, 2018
The Mick The Sunlight Press April 28, 2018
In the Ashes of This Empire Spelk Fiction May 23, 2018
Dominion Across the Margin June 18, 2018
In #4, Asymptomatic Pithead Chapel Volume 7, Issue #8, August 01, 2018
Letter Unbroken Journal Issue #18 July 01, 2018
Intersection (Parentheses) Spelk Fiction August 08, 2018
Five Collective Unrest August 22nd 2018
Laying on Hands Bull Men’s Fiction September 04, 2018
Borealis Anti-Languorous Project issue #2, September 05, 2018
Incantation Spelk Fiction September 21, 2018
She Said Terror House Magazine November 06, 2018
Four Kings, Four Queens Terror House Magazine November 06, 2018
The Hours Walk Then They Run Terror House Magazine November 06, 2018
Sappho’s Honey Terror House Magazine November 06, 2018
Eyes of No Particular Color The Black Dog Review Issue #2, November 18, 2018
Five Fights Every Night Anti-Heroin Chic December 03, 2018
Nothing to Burn Anti-Heroin Chic December 03, 2018
Anything Will Help Bull & Cross Stories Issue #21 December 25, 2018
– 2019 –
The Pursuit of Higher Education Terror House Magazine January 21, 2019
No Number Terror House Magazine January 21, 2019
The Covenant Terror House Magazine January 21, 2019
The Dead Old Poet’s Society Terror House Magazine January 21, 2019
No Rye at Christmas Spelk Fiction January 25, 2019
There is a Body in the River Where The Sad of Spirit Turn Away Fewer Than 500 January 29, 2019
Cowboy Poetry, Cowboy Luck Dime Show Review February 01, 2019
The King of Hearts is the Loneliest of Kings Vending Machine Press February 17, 2019
Unspoken in the Frame Vending Machine Press February 17, 2019
Vision of the Rapture #3 Vending Machine Press February 17, 2019
Black and Blue and Red Vending Machine Press February 17, 2019
In Line at Wal-Mart With All the Other Damned Bull: Men’s Fiction March 11, 2019
Santa Monica Chicken Hawk Terror House Magazine May 04, 2109
El Tres de Mayo Terror House Magazine May 04, 2019
Creation Terror House Magazine May 04, 2019
Up From the River Terror House Magazine May 04, 2019
Slow Burning and Sweet Bull & Cross Stories June 21, 2019
The Rooster The Forge Literary Magazine July 08, 2019
High Kill Shelter Books N’ Pieces Magazine July 13, 2019
Johnny Money Accepted/Publication Pending Coffin Hop Press “Knucklehead Noir” Anthology
– Collected Works –
Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock
(Collected Short Stories) Published in 2017 by Tortoise Books
Pieces noted with an asterisk “*” appeared in the Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock
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The Coachella Madrigals
(Chapbook) Published in 2017 by Luminous Press
Pieces noted with a double asterisk “**” appeared in the Coachella Madrigals.
– Notables –
King of Diamonds, King of Hearts was a semi-finalist (long-list) in Carve Magazine’s 2014 Raymond Carver Contest.
All of the Words to All of the Songs was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Chicago Literati.
There Have Been Others won Yellow Chair Review’s “Rock the Chair” poetry challenge. February 14th, 2016.
Bruiser was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Rum Punch Press.
The Girl from Alberta was long-listed for Puritan magazine’s annual Thomas A. Morton Memorial Prize in Literature in 2017.
The Mick was nominated for Sundress Publication’s Annual best of the Net anthology by The Sunlight Press.
In the Ashes of this Empire was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Spelk Fiction.
