JULY 2026          

Welcome to the 26nd edition of JONAHmagazineIf you’re viewing JONAHmagazine on a “smart” phone (if only), please click on the 3 bars on the upper right of this page to easily navigate the various pages and posts.Dear Readers, Here it is, the 26th issue of JONAHmagazine. 

Our voyage of exploration and discovery, making landfall every 6 months, continues on our virtual pages.

Happy summer, or winter, depending on which hemisphere you happen to live in.

As a new feature, we are including literary news from authors who we have published in the past. If you are among these, and have a new publication/event/activity of interest to our readers, please let us know and we will include it in a timely way on our site. No need to wait for the next deadline or publication date.

The current selection of poetry and fiction is worth a look and a read. Bubbling like a witch’s cauldron, amusing as a tribe of raucous monkeys, and soothing, we hope, as a warm bath, but also disruptive, provocative, and even puzzling at times, they are what JONAHmagazine is about.

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!

The Book of Jonah, one of the books of the Tanach (the Old Testament), tells the story of Jonah, the reluctant prophet, to whom God gives the assignment to order the King of Nineveh to mend the ways of his kingdom lest the Lord sends destruction upon them all. Jonah, knowing that this will almost surely end badly, flees aboard a boat. Jonah’s hubris provokes the storm and the seamen, realizing they are in deep trouble, assign the blame (correctly) to Jonah, who is famously thrown overboard and swallowed by a giant sea creature (no, not a whale), which has second thoughts, and so vomits him out on the beach. From there come inspiration, re-education, and grudging success. Finding himself miraculously on shore, Jonah decides to grow up, take responsibility, and proceeds to save the city of Nineveh.

And then he regrets it. Life’s like that. You know what I mean – 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.

We all do such things because we have to, but, as a slight compensation, we’re allowed to complain. And our Jonah certainly knows how to complain. , and he is cast into the stormy sea. whale) swallows him, but then,

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 140 countries (more or less, but who counts these things but us?) around the world. Maybe even by aliens– who can know?– until they arrive one day quoting from our pages.

Please continue to favour us with your work, your time, and your attention, 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 but not oldest

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 proponent (see Groucho Marx and the Monty Python crew for enquiries.)

Previously co-editor of Harvest-HaAsif Literary Anthology

Author of the novel, Gravitational Fields and the memoir/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.