See my latest short stories
I’m thrilled to announce that my short story “Pandora” was a finalist in Solstice literary magazine’s Summer contest and is now published in Solstice and is available online. The judge was Columbian-American writer Patricia Engel. “With a strong sense of place and humor, Jan Schmidt’s “Pandora,” explores a friendship sprinkled with tension, conflict, learning, and guilt as the narrator navigates recovery and confronts racism and privilege. “Queens David died just two months ago . . . Sandra and I’d gone to see him in ICU … we didn’t realize he was dying, but David knew … Till recovery I didn’t know how to have a friend. Or how to not hurt people. How to be a true friend still troubles me.”
https://solsticelitmag.org/content/pandora/
“Returns Department” published in Vol. 34:3 issue of CALYXA Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 2024
Audio of Jan Schmidt reading “Returns Department”
EX-TING-GWISH-ER, published on November 8, 2023 as Editor’s Pick in Litro Magazine online.
https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/2023/11/ex-ting-gwish-er/
Step Right In, Witty Partition, Issue 15
https://www.wittypartition.org/jan-schmidt.html
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, Anti-Heroin Chic, August 2021, Issue #22
http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/fifty-ways-to-leave-your-lover-by-jan-schmidt
NEWEST ARTICLE ON DAVID GORDON, 4/2022
DAVID GORDON: A Life Translated, Witty Partition, Issue 16 https://www.wittypartition.org/david-gordon.html
Check out Witty Partition Issue 11, (used to be the Wall) that has published my personal take on three books: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer; Ray by Ray: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicolas Ray, a Memoir By Nicca Ray of her dad the noir film director; and Footfalls from the Land of Happiness A Journey into the Dances of Bhutan by Karen Greenspan.
https://www.wittypartition.org/three-books-three-trips.html
I recommend all three books!!!! And the whole issue of this magazine!!
Check out my remembrance of JD Rage and her poetry on The Wall, Issue #6 at
https://the-wall-archive-issue6.weebly.com/j-d-rage-a-remembrance.html
Check out this essay by my dad, Joseph Schmidt on teaching high school students to write short stories. The Wall Issue #7.
https://the-wall-archive-issue-7.weebly.com/the-short-story.html
Check out this JD Rage scrapbook Ptr put up on the Rant Records site. Full of our band posters and stories. https://www.rantrecords.com/babyboom/boom_scrapbk.pdf
Check out out Ptr Kozlowski’s playlist of his songs on his YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW4UhuK-HDOZw4ViYrXTAvIvwDXvDb2T_