Mackenzie Davis
Bio
“When you are describing a shape, or sound, or tint, don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint. And learn to look at all things with a sort of mental squint.” Lewis Carroll
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Stories (120/0)
- Finalist in 2023 Vocal Writing Awards - Flash Fiction
- Top Story - September 2023
- Top Story - September 2023
Rip This To Shreds (Please?)Top Story - September 2023
L.C. Shaëfer and Paul Stewart inspired me to finally participate in the #IronMaiden critique challenge. (Go check out their articles, linked previously.) I have made a list of stories I feel could use more insights, whether from lack of engagement here, or because they were rejected elsewhere, or simply because I've come to cringe at them and would like to like them again.
By Mackenzie Davis8 months ago in Critique
Table of Contents
I've organized my works by Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Haiku, Reviews, and Experimental Articles. Each of these are subcategorized alphabetically by genre, and each of those are further arranged by specific occasion or series. Works themselves are listed oldest to newest.
By Mackenzie Davis8 months ago in Writers
- Top Story - September 2023
Honoring My Fellows (Part 4)
Welcome back for my fourth installment, everyone! Many creators are on my master list for this series, and while I’d hoped for this to be a more regular series, the time is getting away from me these days. (Please forgive me for the delay.)
By Mackenzie Davis9 months ago in Journal
Descent (Part 2)
Click here for Alexander McEvoy's Part 1. *** I hopped a few times, shaking my arms out. The feeling subsided, though Sasha eyed me, wordlessly asking if I was okay. I shrugged, and continued to follow the group, looking around all the while.
By Mackenzie Davis9 months ago in Chapters
- Top Story - August 2023
Vulnerability as Art SeparationTop Story - August 2023
Before getting into the continuation of my last essay, On Art & Separation, I realized that I had found a much more poetic way of saying it all along. E.E. Cummings, one of my favorite poets, wrote some advice for young poets back in 1955. The bit that I read is quite short—a minute read, tops—so I won’t say anything more on the subject except to quote what I believe to be most relevant to the subject of personas in art:
By Mackenzie Davis9 months ago in Writers
- Runner-Up in Book Club Challenge
My Waystone: or, Echoes in Three PartsRunner-Up in Book Club Challenge
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die. Patrick Rothfuss, prologue to The Name of the Wind
By Mackenzie Davis9 months ago in BookClub