Jeffrey S. Markovitz

Hello All, I'm honored to have a new short story chapbook coming out in two weeks with he Head and the Hand press here in Philly. I'll be reading, via Zoom, from my story, US VS, and hope you can plan to make it. Please click the link below and register if you can be at a computer. Also consider supporting this publisher by buying my or any other book.

Shockwire Chapbook Series 2020 Release and Reading Virtual reading and release of The Head & The Hand's latest slate of stories from the Shockwire Chapbooks Series

Raining and pouring: in the last two months, I had a poem win a writing contest and a story was accepted for an anthology!

Video from the Book Release Party for Permanent for Now at A Novel Idea on Passyunk.

Permanent for Now by Jeff Markovitz reading

Local review of my new book, Permanent for Now:

Mt. Airy author rejects label of his ‘Holocaust novel’ - Chestnut Hill Local Philadelphia PA by Len Lear There have literally been too many Holocaust-themed novels to count, and Mt. Airy author Jeffrey S. Markovitz, whose newest novel, “Permanent

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New blog post with link to pre-order Permanent for Now from Unsolicited Press. Get it!

Pre-Order Permanent for Now It is with great pleasure to finally be able to offer the link to pre-order Permanent for Now (said link). It has been a long time coming to see this book in print and the thought of anyone readin…

ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm very happy to finally announce that my second novel, Permanent for Now, will be published by Unsolicited Press this winter.

Please mark your calendars: 12/18.

There will be some sort of book release. Thank you for your support!

Very happy to see my latest story, "Only Connect..." in the Saint Katherine Review.

This one's important to me; it's about how we react to our world when it seems the worst of our world is first in our world (I am, of course, referring to our political life in America).

You can order the issue at the link below.

St Katherine Review 5.3 | Saint Katherine Review Copyright © 2017 Saint Katherine Review Volume 5 | Number 2 ISSN 2157-1759 All rights reserved. No part of this review may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher. Editorial Staff: Editor | Fr Kaleeg…

Very excited to have my short story "Seeing Bones" included in the new edition of The Swamp. At this link they have a short interview with me, an MP3 of me reading the piece, as well as the entire story to read.

Please enjoy responsibly.

Jeffrey S. Markovitz "Seeing Bones" by Jeffrey S. Markovitz

I am very honored to have my flash piece, "Delayed" featured at the Cardiff Review. Please give it a read!

Delayed | The Cardiff Review - A Magazine of Contemporary Graduate Writing Robert Theodore McCall, Take Off . THE BABY stood—as best it could—on its father’s thighs, faced the back of the airplane, and waved back at the expanse of peo...

Kilimanjaro Travelogue

Travelogue: Mount Kilimanjaro Not very long ago, a good friend and perhaps the wildest man I know asked me what my definition of adventure was. We were coming home from Birdsboro Climbing Quarry, where I had just led my first …

New Travelogue for Zanzibar!

Travelogue: Zanzibar As an exercise of connectedness, I’ve imagined myself at the center of a crowd composed only of people I have ever met in my life, whether deeply or briefly. Toward the center and closest to me ar…

Latest travelogue: Northern Tanzania (study abroad)

Travelogue: Northern Tanzania The things that frighten us can be lightened by their common occurrence. Like combustion in our automobiles: a million tiny explosions every day in the engines of our cars. In one space, there are…

Latest blog challenging the notions of "liberalism" and "conservativism."

How We Got Here There are no such things as liberals and conservatives. Forgive the pedantry, but allow me to explain: These terms, so often made concurrent with notions of Democratic or Republican politics, left …

Jeffrey Marko and the Cursed Novel In the summer of 2010 I took a SEPTA bus pilgrimage, multiple times a week, to the Free Library of Philadelphia Central Branch on the Parkway to research a novel. It was there that a friendly libr…

New article in Hidden City Philadelphia about the Mormon Temple; check it:

Mormon Temple Transcends Tradition On The Parkway | Hidden City Philadelphia

What a writer does with students on an Alternative Spring Break.

Travelogue: The Alternative Spring Break 2016—Avery Co., NC I feel I owe a great debt. Above my desk, stems inserted into the tracking of my window blinds, are miniature flags from all of the countries I’ve visited. As I sit here, I count twenty-one, and t…

Running through Canada because my grandfathers inspire prize-nominated lit.

Montreal and Two Grandparents in a Pushcart Traveling forces people to understand that their human experience is not the human experience. In the span of a couple months, I traveled to Montreal to run a half marathon, two of my grandfathers ...

Travelogue: The One Where I Get Tricked Into Eating A Cheese Steak In Peru.

Travelogue: Peru At 3 o’clock in the morning I heard the loose rap against my tent’s tarp door alongside what had become the typical call for mate de coca by young red-eyed porters with a thermos. We’d...

I've been pretty mum on this so far people, but enough is enough. Today I have a new chapbook short story out. It's called "--for Olivia" and it's published by the beautiful people at The Head & The Hand Press. If you'd like a copy, you can get one from a vending machine (you read right) at Elixr coffee house in Rittenhouse or through the Head and the Hand's website. Here's the link:
http://www.theheadandthehand.com/product/vending-machine-chapbook-collection/

In addition to my chapbook, you get to choose another from the list on this link. Might I recommend my brilliant colleague Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela's "Bootstrapping."

As always, I appreciate all the support from friends and family. I promise a signature, firm handshake and/or hug, and reciprocal artistic support to all that oblige.

Thanks!

Vending Machine Chapbook Collection - The Head and the Hand Browse through our Vending Machine Chapbook Collection, the first installment in our Breadbox Chapbook Series, and choose any 2 for $5! Just put the titles you want in the note section in checkout and we'll send you a confirmation that we received your selection.

Hey boys and gals: new poem appears in Apiary Online. Check it out.
http://apiarymagazine.com/jeff-mark-the-royal-blue/

Jeff Mark — The Royal Blue Slowly, quietly, controlled, and bold. A shirt inflates like a balloon but it covers my chest filled with cool breath. Heighten every sense of perception; right now.

http://toujoursmag.blogspot.com/2012/04/toujours-mag-issue-004-modern.html?spref=fb Yo yo Venezia, pg. 57 makes you beautiful!

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Raise your hand if you were published in the most recent issue of Scribble Magazine. *Raises hand* Boo-ya. Chapter one from ITE finds ink yet again. Check it out: Scribblemagazine.us (Issue 8.2)

Check me out! Ever want to go to India? Ever want to know what it's like? Read my travel column in this month's Toujours Magazine. My jawn starts on Pg. 69.

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I write about tooth r**e.

Jeff Mark

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Check out my most recent travel column: I write about X-mas in Ethiopia (starts on pg. 67). Hell, read the whole bloody magazine. Hell hell, subscribe to it.

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Hey Everyone, check out my very first piece of Creative Non-Fiction published today in Specter Magazine. Try not to judge me, as this is non-fiction and definitely real. Also, comment on it so everyone in cyber-reality thinks I'm a writing hotshot! Cheers!

“Two Gents on a Church Lawn” by Jeff Mark | Specter Literary Magazine When it occurred to me that I was to leave on a ten-day vacation at the end of the week, I knew that there was no way I could go without seeing Ismar one last time; the pejorative usage of the phrase “one last time” suggesting that I would somehow never see him again, which isn’t, of course, true. ...

I've got a great idea!: If you read this beast, why don't you sign up on Goodreads and give it a million stars. Seriously folks, the book sold out and I have two reviews? And one is mine? Come on loves, make me proud.

BTW, it's cool to be on Goodreads anyhow. It's like Facebook for smart folks.

Into the Everything Into the Everything has 2 ratings and 1 review. Twenty something Rey Ovitz moved to the city for one reason: To be a hero in a luke-warm world. Into the Ev...

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Hey everyone, I'm writing for this new magazine based out of LA. Check out my article on the sculptor Mason Sullivan and while you're at it, "Like" this mag on Facebook and Subscribe to it.

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Now that you all "like" me, why don't you follow my blog? There's nothing really interesting about it, but what I will do is promise if I'm ever famous from virtual media, I will personally pose with each and every (105) of you in photographs and tell your grandchildren you were my sole inspiration. That's a big return!

Jeff Mark

Thanks everyone! You like me; you really like me!

This Friday night: Rare (bc he lives in Philly...) book signing & reading by the fabulous Jeff Mark for his new novel "Into the Everything" at the killer Vlad the Retailer Gallery. 704 Heliotrope Dr LA 90029. 7:30pm. Be there.