JULY 2025          

Welcome to the 23nd edition of JONAHmagazine

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Dear Readers,

Here it is, the 23nd issue of JONAHmagazine. Happy summer, everyone (those living in the Northern Hemisphere. If you live South of the equator, we hope your winter is mild.)

The current selection of poetry, fiction and non-fiction are sometimes intriguing, amusing, and soothing, and at other times disruptive, thought-provoking, and even disturbing, but that’s what JONAHmagazine is about. We hope it’s never dull or derivative, and always, using this over–employed word (sometimes we just can’t help ourselves) – eclectic. 

There is much food for reflection for the mind, the soul and the spirit in this new edition. Whether you’re a writer or a reader, or both, ENJOY!  And if you are a writer and want to share your creative efforts with us, check out our submission guidelines on the HOW TO SUBMIT page.

Bonne lecture! Good reading!

JONAHmagazine’s journey has its roots in the biblical cross of the Odyssey and Pinocchio, with less magic and greater human strengths and frailty, and its share of myth and oddness.  And metaphorical strings attached. Jonah has been on his retreat from the unavoidable, but finally accepts that certain things are part of life, and need to be accepted and dealt with. You do them because you have to, but then you’re allowed to complain. And our Jonah certainly knows how to complain. Jonah’s hubris provokes the storm , he is cast into the stormy sea. A large sea creature, (no, not a whale) swallows him, but then, having second thoughts, vomits him out on the beach.

Our voyage of exploration and discovery, making landfall every 6 months, continues on our virtual pages. To date, we have hosted over 200 authors who have lent us their diverse, wonderful creations. Over 300 pieces of poetry and prose have been viewed some 50,000 times by our various readers, residents of 138 countries around the world.

Please continue to favour us with your work, so we can make each issue the best we can.

JONAH’s CREW:

Brian Campbell

Poetry editor 

Montreal poet, translator and songwriter. His publications include the poetry collections Shimmer Report (2015) and Passenger Flight (2009) as well as Undressing the Night (2007) a translation of a selection of poems by Nicaraguan-Canadian poet Francisco Santos. His CD On This Shore came out in 2021.

Cheryl Everett

Non-fiction and fiction editor, graphic design advisor, good taste purveyor, even keel adjustor, and cookie baker. Knows everything. Coffee format provider. Reality consultant.

Zav Levinson

Poetry  editor and arts and policy consultant and tallest

Previously co-editor of Harvest-HaAsif Literary Anthology

Author of the poetry chapbooks Trellisworks and reverb. One of his poems is rendered as a song in Spanish on the music album Botanas: Oonga.

Harry Rajchgot

Managing editor, fiction and non-fiction editor, and scientific obscurantist. Virtual typesetter.

Gravity apologist (see Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein for references) and levity influencer (see Groucho Marx and the Monty Python crew for enquiries.)

Previously co-editor of Harvest-HaAsif Literary Anthology

Author of the novel, Gravitational Fieldsand the biography/cookbook/Yiddish culinary lexicon, The Sweetness of Life

Philip Rajchgot

Web design and problem-solving and animal protection and music which we can’t hear.