Henry Margenau has an MFA in fiction writing from The New School in New York City. Currently, he teaches in the first year writing programs at Montclair State University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Drew University.
Jason Tinney is the author of Ripple Meets the Deep, which Baltimore Magazine named Best Book of 2015. His previous books are Louise Paris and Other Waltzes (poetry/prose) and Bluebird (short stories and poems). Jason and artist Brian Slagle have collaborated on The Swinging Bridge, a traveling literary and visual arts project, since 2004. He co-founded the award-winning music groups, Donegal X-Press (DXP) and The Wayfarers. He has been a contributor to several publications, among them, Baltimore, Style, Gorilla, Her Mind, Urbanite, and Maryland Life, which won the International Regional Magazine Association’s Award of Merit in the category of Culture Feature for Jason’s article “The March,” a first-hand account of life on the front-lines with American Civil War reenactors. Jason and Holly Morse-Ellington co-authored the play, Fifty Miles Away, winner of the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts One-Act Play Festival 2015. The play was originally produced at the Palace Theatre in Frostburg and also received full production by the Potomac Playmakers, with Holly and Jason playing the lead roles. Together, they also wrote the script and music for Girl with Diamonds in Her Eyes for Pumpkin Theatre (Holly was the musical director for the production). They write and perform music as Limestone Connection. jasontinney.com
Holly Morse-Ellington has published in Broad River Review, Baltimore STYLE, Baltimore City Paper, Wanderlust and Lipstick, Matador Network, Three Quarter Review, Baltimore Fishbowl, Outside In Literary's Travel Magazine, “Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore,” Urbanite, The Journal of Homeland Security, The Washington Times, and elsewhere. Holly is also a member of the Pumpkin Theatre Company. She is an editor for The Baltimore Review and an adjunct professor in both the Academic Literacy and the English Department at the Community College of Baltimore County. Holly is a Board Member for CityLit Project and also served as the Vice President of the Maryland Writers’ Association. hollyneat.com
Mark Jones is an English professor and amateur jazz pianist who lives in Blue Island, Illinois. His most recent creative work has appeared in Christian Century, Crack the Spine, Niteblade, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal.
About The Eckleburg Reading Series
The Eckleburg Reading Series is a performance outreach by The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. The series and the journal began in 2010 and features authors, poets, artists and musicians such as Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Amber Tamblyn, Roxane Gay, Steve Almond, Ben Loory, Richard Peabody, Limestone Connection, Sun Parade and more.
The Eckleburg Reading Series also offers an open mic in support of local and new talent. Our mission is to build an arts and networking community that celebrates diversity of voices. The series has been held in DC, Baltimore, New York, Portland, Iowa, Chicago, Cambridge, Frederick and more.
Would you like to read for us at The Eckleburg Reading Series? We’d love to have you join us.
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The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.
Currently, Eckleburg runs online, daily content of original fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, and more with featured artwork–visual and intermedia–from our Gallery. We run annual print issues, the Eckleburg Reading Series (DC, Baltimore and New York), as well as, the annual Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction, first prize $1000 and print publication, guest-judged by award-winning authors such as Rick Moody and Cris Mazza.
We have collaborated with a number of talented and high profile literary, art and intermedia organizations in DC, Baltimore and New York including The Poetry Society of New York, KGB Bar, Brazenhead Books, New World Writing (formerly Mississippi Review Online), The Hopkins Review, Boulevard, Gargoyle Magazine, Entasis Press, Barrelhouse, Hobart, 826DC, DC Lit and Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival at AWP 2013, Boston, for a night of raw comedic lit and music. We like to promote smaller indie presses, galleries, musicians and filmmakers alongside globally recognized organizations, as well as, our local, national and international contributors.
Rarely will readers/viewers find a themed issue at Eckleburg, but rather a mix of eclectic works. It is Eckleburg’s intention to represent writers, artists, musicians, and comedians as a contemporary and noninvasive collective, each work evidence of its own artistry, not as a reflection of an editor’s vision of what an issue “should” be. Outside of kismet and special issues, Eckleburg will read and accept unsolicited submissions based upon individual merit, not theme cohesiveness. It is our intention to create an experience in which readers and viewers can think artistically, intellectually, socially, and independently. We welcome brave, honest voices. To submit, please read our guidelines.
Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away. —The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald