John
Palcewski
Via Mortola 6
w 80075 Forio d’ Ischia
w Italia
w Palcewski@hotmail.com
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I've enjoyed an eclectic career as a wire service photojournalist,
publishing house copywriter, music/drama critic, magazine editor, literary
novelist, poet, and fine arts photographer. My work appears in the academic and
literary press, as well as in many on-line publications.
1999-present Writer of short literary fiction.
Conceived of a new literary genre:
“imagenovel.” Completed two
books of an imagenovel trilogy entitled “Vittoria’s Island.” “Love Child of the Stars” is a
non-illustrated literary novel in progress.
See publishing history below.
1990- 1999 Freelance Commercial and Fine Arts
Photographer. Clients included United Press International/New York, Bethlehem
Steel, Moravian College, Lafayette College, The United States Navy.
1978 - 1990 Editor, Nuclear Notes, a weekly newsletter
published for nuclear engineers at Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Provided highly technical information and
photographic coverage of the daily operation of the company's nuclear power
plant near Berwick, Pa.
1967 - 1978 Editor and
photojournalist for Fortune 100 corporate external publications. Olin Magazine, New York; Monsanto Magazine, St. Louis, and DuPont
Magazine, Wilmington, DE.
1965 - 1967 Copywriter, Doubleday
& Co., Inc., New York. Wrote promotion
copy to accompany serializations of
best-selling books for newspapers throughout the US.
1963-1965 Reporter, The Lexington (KY) Herald. Covered US District Court. Also was music/drama critic.
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Education:
BA, Journalism, Moravian College, 1986. Elected to Alpha Sigma Lambda, national honor society for
continuing education students.
Photography courses in color and b&w, videotape production,
and darkroom techniques, New York
University, 1970-1975.
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Literary Fiction/ Poetry
Publishing History:
"Elegy, As If I Meant It," long poem,
Evergreen Review, April 1967.
www.frogtownbooks.com/cgibin/ftb455/scan/mp=keywords/se=Fiction/st=sql/tf=author/tf=title/cs=no/em=yes
"Peripatetic," long poem,
Evergreen Review, May 1969.
www.evergreenreview.com/archive/Volume_13_66.htm
"Ahab and Ishmael," short story,
Electric Acorn 7.
www.dublinwriters.org/eacorn/EA7/pacewskistory.html
"Pianissimo Major," short story,
Electric Acorn 8.
www.dublinwriters.org/eacorn/EA8/palcewskistory.html
"His Journey Westward," short
story, Electric Acorn 9.
acorn.dublinwriters.org/EA9/palcewskistory.html
"The Red Boat," short
story, Electric Acorn 12.
acorn.dublinwriters.org/EA12/palcewskistory.html
"Two Portraits," photographs
of Muhammad Ali and dear friend Brad Stubbs, Archipelago, Volume 6.
www.archipelago.org/vol6-1/palcewski.htm
"Sophia Loren's Daughter?" selected excerpts
from press coverage of the Maria/Sophia connection, Eclectica Magazine, Vol 7,
Number 4.
www.eclectica.org/v7n4/palcewski.html
"Man in the Mirror," short
story, Eclectica Magazine, Vol 6, Number 3.
www.eclectica.org/v6n3/palcewski.html
"The Blind Barber," short
story, Atomic Petals, A Journal of Art & Literature, Winter 2003.
www.atomicpetals.com/jp03.htm
"Spell," short
story, Sunoasis, August 2002.
www.sunoasis.com/spell.html
"Oddly Familiar," short
story, Adirondack Review, Winter 2003.
adirondackreview.homestead.com/palcewski2.html
"Ballet Class,"
"Muhammad Ali," "Betty's Dream," et. al., photographic
images, Tryst, Vol 3, Issue 1.
www.tryst3.com/issue1/palcewski1.html
"Bronze Foot," "Nose
Bridge," "Keep It Simple," "Pictures from Vittoria's
Island," photographic images, Avatar Review, Vol 5.
http://3.avatarreview.com:8081/avatar5/stories/storyReader$435
"A Vision," short
story, Pierian Springs, Issue 4.
www.pieriansprings.net/issue4a/palcewski.html
"Castello Aragonese,"
photographic image, Adirondack Review.
http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/palcewskiphoto.html
"Don't Ask," short
story, Samasara Quarterly, No. 9.
www.samsaraquarterly.net/9/palcewski.htm
"Expressive Aphasia," short
story, Megaera, Summer 2002.
www.megaera.org/Megaera/summer02/palcewski.html
"A Wild Pig," short
story, Amarillo Bay.
www.amarillobay.org/contents/ palcewski-john/wild-pig.htm
"Sale Today,"
photographic image, Branches, April 2002.
www.branchesquarterly.com/1.2/Contributor1.2.htm
"Vittoria's Island," excerpts, Atomic
Petals, Summer 2002.
"Soft Gold Cascade," short
story, Conspire, winter 2003-04.
www.conspire.org/21_palcewski.php
"What Might Have Been," cover
photography, Samsara Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2.
www.thedrunkenboat.com/samsarazine.htm
"The Train Will Never Come," short
story, Stirring, A Literary Collection, Vol. 2, No. 5.
www.sundress.net/stirring/archives/v2/e5/
"Graffito," short
story, Amarillo Bay, Volume 6, No. 1.
www.amarillobay.com/contents/palcewski-john/ graffito-body.htm