CommuterLit.com is an ezine for readers like you — smart, interested in the world and on the go. CommuterLit.com posts a new short story, novel excerpt or poem each day from Monday to Thursday. On Fridays we post CL and contributor news.
Our focus is on works of fiction or poetry that can be enjoyed during a 20- to 30-minute public-transit commute to work. And because we know your taste in reading material is varied and sophisticated, we plan to surprise you by selecting samples of not only literary fiction, but sci fi, fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller, romance and experimental combinations thereof.
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Editor & Publisher
CommuterLit.com is published and edited in Toronto, Canada, by award-winning writer and editor Nancy Kay Clark. Nancy has worked with both non-fiction (magazine) and fiction writers in a career that spans 30 years. For more information about Nancy, click here. Check out her published middle-grade novel, The Prince of Sudland: Escape from the Palace on our Book Store page, which highlights the published works of CommuterLit conributors.
We’re pleased to welcome to the CL team our volunteer readers:
Michelle Dinnick lives in Aliston, Ontario. She has an H. B.sc in Biological Anthropology and has won several awards, in fiction, poetry and nonfiction. She has published online on CommuterLit.com, fiftywordstories.com, the Quick Brown Fox blog and feminiecollective.com; and in print in The Globe and Mail, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Briar Crier Magazine, Total Sports Magazine, Voice of the Farmer Newspaper, Focus 50 Plus Newspaper, and Arts Talk Magazine, published by the South Simcoe Arts Council.
Frank T. Sikora writes speculative fiction. A few of his short pieces have won awards. Most don’t, but he keeps trying. His work has been published in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. When he is not writing, he works as a substitute teacher, cross country and track coach, and Uber driver. Yes, he is retired. For more stories featuring talented writers from the U.S. and Canada, check out his blog: 600 Miles to Leadville.
Patricia Ann Bowen has authored a medical time travel trilogy, two collections of short stories, and a serialized beach read. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and numerous online publications. She has taught short story writing and led a critique group of short story writers for several years. She lives on a barrier island in South Carolina where she monitors nesting sea turtles, sea and shore birds, and other local wildlife. You can reach her at www.patriciabowen.com
Linlang Zhao is a poet who loves pancakes and cats. She is the editor-in-chief of Fourteen Lines, a magazine dedicated to the art of translation. Her work has recently been accepted by Tar River Poetry, Midway Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, Wild Roof Journal, Tap into Poetry, Cetera Magazine, and others. In her free time, she enjoys drawing and staring at birds. You can find her at @thisissobad1.
Susannah W. Simpson is a hospice nurse and an ESL tutor. Her poetry has been published in North American Review, Potomac, Wisconsin Review, South Carolina Review, POET, Nimrod International, Poet Lore, Salamander, Sequestrum,and Xavier Review among others. Her book: Geography of Love & Exile was published in December 2016 by Cervena Barva Press (Somerset, MA). She is the founder and co-director of Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches Monthly Reading Series. Pine Row Press has accepted her poetry collection Mother Wind for publication in late fall/winter 2024. And Shanti Arts Press will publish her poetry collection Dharma of Death and Desire in 2025. She is based in Florida.
Connie Cook lives in southern Ontario and is retired social worker and librarian. She’s been previously published in magazines such as Our Canada and Rural Route, and has been the recipient of awards in the Alice Munro Festival and The Mariposa Writers Group competition. Her work has been published in several Anthologies of short stories and in online magazines such as CommuterLit and Every Day Fiction. She is currently writing her first novel.
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