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THE UNCONVENTIONAL COURIER

Issue 9, August 2023



Cover Artist Spotlight: Tete DePunk
We at The Unconventional Courier wish to thank the writer/artist/photographer Tetè DePunk for her thoughtful photograph of The Canadian...
Jul 26, 2023


Talking Heads: Plot Creation
How do you approach building plot in your story? Imelda Wei Ding Lo (Editor): I think about what drives the story and what makes the most...
Jul 26, 2023


"Welcome" and Other Poems
By Frederick Pollack (Website: www.frederickpollack.com) Welcome As far as you can tell, what they ask first is, How did you manage to...
Jul 26, 2023


"Climate Change" and Other Poems
By Yewande Akinse (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @adwande ) "Climate Change" Climate change is neither a joke nor myth but a vast...
Jul 26, 2023


"Whoreship 2.0" & Other Poems
By Adesokan Tunde (Toonday) (Twitter: @tunde_adesokan Instagram: @toondayatkins Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan) "Whoreship 2.0" The new morn...
Jul 26, 2023


History Comes To Sit With Me & Other Poems
By Tejas (Twitter: @yytejas Instagram: @yytejas) History Comes To Sit With Me On the steps Leading down to this silent river History...
Jul 26, 2023


Put On The Block
A gruesome game of segregation, played while the man upstairs watches from above. Somewhere someone always pays the price. And fellow...
Jul 26, 2023


"From Where We Parted (Began Again)"
By Claire Kroening (Instagram: @clairerosek) September-spilled memories hold me to after-hours I hope to forget- from the brick walls,...
Jul 26, 2023


Sunken Friendships & Other Poems
By Jennifer Klein (Instagram: @jenniferkleinreal) Sunken Friendships People always talk about perished romance Decaying petals on a...
Jul 26, 2023


A Quilt as Gaudy as Sunshine
Written by Carrie Knowles (Twitter: @CarrieJKnowles Instagram: @carriejknowles Website: cjanework.com) Angie watched as the clock on the...
Jul 26, 2023


"I"
Written by Jonas David (@thejonasdavid) “The final mystery is oneself.” ― Oscar Wilde I’m bound to start eventually, I told myself again,...
Jul 26, 2023


Use-By Date
Written by Mick Donaldson (Twitter: @donaldson_mick) “How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such...
Jul 26, 2023


Gahiji
Written by Emmanuel Adanegbe (IG: @emmanueladanegbe Twitter: @emmanueladanegbe1) ...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of...
Jul 26, 2023


Baali's Flight
Written by Ashwini Gangal (Twitter: @writerashwini) “I tell my students there is such a thing as ‘writer’s block,’ and they should...
Jul 26, 2023
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