Magazines with Jeri Griffith’s writings
Writing
Jeri Griffith has been publishing her nonfiction and fiction in literary magazines since the mid-nineties. A selected list of her published work is below with links to work online where available.
Awards
Honorable Mention, 2017 Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Contest, Hunger Mountain, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Winner, Spring 2004, Indiana Writers Organization, essay prize
Winner, 2004, Flyway, annual essay prize
Winner, Summer 1995, Iowa Woman, Ninth International Essay Contest
“Jeri Griffith mixes two distinct tones of voice in this piece; she begins on a level I might call ‘inspired,’ with speculative and cerebral reflections on her connection with the universe. This kind of writing is dangerous stuff, in that a writer can too easily float off into the ether, retaining no connection with the material world, and losing readers because they cannot identify with the wispy thoughts. As a constant reader, I’m intrigued by imaginative or spiritual writing, but I always look for a tangible connection to my own life and circumstances. . . This author, wisely I think, quickly moves from theory back to homely details readers can recognize from their own experiences, and draws us back to everyday reality.”
—comments from Linda Hasselstrom, judge for the Iowa Woman Essay Contest (1995), who awarded Jeri’s “Lena’s World” first place. Linda Hasselstrom’s 16th book is Write Now, Here’s How – Insights from Six Decades of Writing.
Works online:
Nonfiction
“Horicon,” Still Point Arts Quarterly, no. 56 [Winter 2024]
“Regions of Identity,” LIT Magazine, vol. 34, [Summer 2023]—Jeri’s painting “White Birds” was used for the cover of this issue; her painting “Gathering of Souls” was the visual element for this essay.
“Cyprus: A Painter’s Journal,” Adelaide 6, no. 46 [March 2021]
“In the Waters,” Still Point Arts Quarterly, no. 41 [Spring 2021]
“Encountering Iron,” The Brooklyn Review, no. 36 [2021]
“Logos,” Aquifer: The Florida Review Online [2020]
“Virginity,” The San Antonio Review, no. 2 [Winter 2019]
“Night Ride,” Sky Island Journal, no. 10 [Fall 2019]
“Experience,” Sky Island Journal, no. 9 [Summer 2019]
“Remembering Ethel,” Hunger Mountain, honorable mention in the 2017 creative nonfiction contest and posted to the website in Summer 2017
Short Stories
“Grandmother,” Quarterly West, no. 101 [Winter 2017]
Works in print (not available online):
Nonfiction
“Snow Canyon,” Epoch (Scotland), no. 4 [Autumn 2021]
“Snapshot: 1981,” Northern New England Review 41 [2021]
“Menus 2006,” Sonder (Ireland), no. 5 [Autumn 2021]
“Could It Happen Here?” The Commons, no. 572 [July 29, 2020]
“Islands,” Ponder Review 4, no. 1 [Spring 2020]
“Life Drawing,” Green Briar Review 7, no.1 [Winter 2020]
“Prairie Requiem,” The Antigonish Review, no. 194 [Summer 2018]
“Delos,” awarded $1,000 prize by the Indiana Writers Organization [Spring 2004]
“Crossing the Great Plains,” Flyway [Spring 2004] (winner of the annual essay award)
“Breathing In and Out,” Pike Creek Review [Fall 1997]
“Arrival in Paraguay,” Onion River Review [Fall 1996]
“Picasso and the Haunted House,” Flyway [Winter 1995]
“Lena’s World,” Iowa Woman [Summer 1995] (winner of the ninth international essay contest)
“Lost Mine Trail: A Meditation,” Borderlands Texas Poetry Review [Fall/Winter 1994]
