{"id":18513,"date":"2024-01-30T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=18513"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:59:48","slug":"all-flash-spice-of-life-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/welcome-to-boudin\/allflashspiceoflife\/","title":{"rendered":"All Flash: Spice of Life, Jan &#8217;24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>All Flash: Spice of Life &#8217;24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/01\/12\/meilyn-woods\/\">Meilyn Woods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Editorial Assistants: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/01\/16\/found-flash#Miabio\">Mia Bonds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/01\/16\/found-flash#Alexbio\">Alexandria Knight<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/417740863_182995324904445_510267202577061672_n-1-687x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/417740863_182995324904445_510267202577061672_n-1-687x1024.jpg 687w, 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Len Kuntz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/01\/12\/memory-of-may\/\">\u201cMemory of May\u201d<\/a> by Meg Pokrass<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/01\/12\/damages\/\">\u201cDamages\u201d<\/a> by Susan Tepper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/01\/12\/the-headdress\/\">\u201cThe Headdress\u201d<\/a> by Shanti Weiland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><a 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His artwork has been published extensively in collaboration with writers of fiction, poetry and music. He works on portraits, still lifes, landscapes and a series of drawings on the theme of what it is to be human. He creates his art using acrylic paint, pen and ink, mixed media and silk screen printing. Digby is also a widely published writer. His flash fiction, short stories and poetry have appeared in more than 100 journals, magazines and anthologies, including <em>The Best Small Fictions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17781\" style=\"width:70px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Flash: Spice of Life &#8217;24 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Abbie Skinner Guest Editor: Aiman Tariq Assistant Editors: Karris Rae, Taryn White, Meilyn Woods Editorial Assistants: Mia Bonds, Alexandria Knight Digby Beaumont, Frida Kahlo, acrylic over ink Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor by Aiman Tariq&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":16476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[75,146,100,101,145],"class_list":["post-18513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boudin","tag-boudin","tag-fiction-2","tag-flashfiction","tag-microfiction","tag-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18564,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions\/18564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}