A complete list of the authors and artists published in
The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers.
Creative Non-Fiction
- Able, Peter: The English Teacher (2022 Vol. 1)
- Allen, Jevon: The Nosy Teacher (2014 Vol 1), Anything You Want (2022 Vol. 1)
- Bennett, Ray: End of Session (2017 Vol. 1)
- Braine, George: Danny’s Revenge (2021 Vol.2), Do you play cricket? (2022 Vol. 1)
- Breen, Mary J: The Far Country (2014 Vol. 1); Finding Our Way (2017 Vol. 1)
- Brennan, Sue: I Feel Your Pain. Do You Feel Mine? (2021 Vol.1)
- Brown, Cherie: If (2018 Vol. 2), Hit from Behind (2019 Vol. 2) and Two for the Price of One (2020 Vol. 1), Line of Duty (2020 Vol. 2) , Shady Practice (2021 Vol.1)
- Cabe, Anna: To Gunung-Gunung and Paths Unknown (2014 Vol. 2)
- Converse, Maryah: The Worst Tenth Grader (2018 Vol. 2)
- Coomber, Sarah: Snow Angels (2013 Vol. 1)
- Custen, Sarah: Laughs in Translation (2018 Vol. 1)
- Dalton, Kitty: My 12-Year Skype Call (2018 Vol. 1)
- Decker, Warren; The Contract (2019 Vol. 1)
- Dougherty, Patrick: On the Road to Emmaus – A Wednesday Before the Chalkface: (2019 Vol. 1)
- Eamer, Allyson: Sorry Not Sorry (2018 Vol. 2)
- Escudero, Ruben D. Jnr.: Lamparilla (2021 Vol.1), Bagwis (2022 Vol. 1)
- Fachal Corbeira, Maria: Teaching During the Corona Virus Shutdown (2020 Vol. 1)
- Friebert, Stuart: Changing the Subject (2016 Vol. 1) and Martin Joos(2019 Vol. 1)
- Gallagher Boyd, Edith: That Moment in Montmartre (2021 Vol.2)
- George, Carol Ann: An Unexpected Journey to Becoming Bilingual (2017 Vol. 1)
- Green, Titus: WOEFUL TOEFL (2021 Vol.1) and Deja Vu in Dammam (2021 Vol.2), Sewage, Sand, and Sisyphus (2022 Vol. 1)
- Gribble, John: Why (2016 Vol. 2), On Payette Lake (2021 Vol.1)
- Guest, Mike: My EFL Debacle – Or, How Tokoyuki Lost his Groove (2016 Vol. 2)
- Hadari, Atar: Where is Lion? (2015 Vol. 1)
- Harrold, Richard: Just Like in the West (2013 Vol. 1)
- Hayashi, Jack: A Term or Two (2016 Vol. 2)
- Husson Isozaki, Anna: Catching Breath in Nagano (2015 Vol. 1) and Cheerfully Building and Rebuilding Despite Firs, War, and In-Laws (2018 Vol. 1)
- Jones, Natthinee Khot-asa & Jones, Hardy: Praying Hands (2017 Vol. 1), Red Ants (2020 Vol. 2)
- Jones, Hardy: An Excellent Night of Theater (2021 Vol.1)
- Kaufman, Marc: Language in the Round (2017 Vol. 1)
- Kone, Kadidja: Achieving my English Learning Goal at all Costs: What Did I Sacrifice? (2021 Vol.1)
- Kowalski, Charles Sinclair: What to Say in a Knife Fight and Other Regrettably Forgotten Lessons from High School German (2019 Vol. 2)
- Lee, Kenji DuBois: Snakes Nudity Brats (2014 Vol. 1)
- Lee, Morrison: What Should Adults Learn from Kids? (2015 Vol. 1)
- Levinson, Edward: Taro’s Gift (2018 Vol. 1)
- Lindsey, Michelle: A Teacher’s Dilemma (2018 Vol. 1)
- Lyle, Sophie: The Awkward Letter (2016 Vol. 2)
- Malcolm, Fiona: Tigress Strength (2018 Vol. 2)
- Mallet, Heather: Risk Taking (2014 Vol. 2); Anyone Listening? I’m home (2015 Vol. 2); A Question of Stress (2016 Vol. 2)
- McGee, K: A Visit to Mod’s (2016 Vol. 1) and Crush (2018 Vol. 1)
- McNamara, Kerry: Staring at Walls (2015 Vol. 2)
- Meija, Justin: Stained (2022 Vol. 1)
- Michel, Jessica F: Making Up Names (2017 Vol. 1)
- Murphy, Carol Ann: Gun Shy (2016 Vol. 2)
- Pettus, Rachel: Daisies, Pearls, and Mushrooms – Adventures in Language Learning (2017 Vol. 1)
- Phung, Huy: The Moonshine (2018 Vol. 2)
- Prado, Clara: A New Phrase for Brazil (2016 Vol. 2)
- Prasad Dewadi, Eak: Saga of a Layman Turned Teacherman (2018 Vol. 1)
- Pronko, Michael: Rights in the Matter (2018 Vol. 1) and Context for my Outrage – Teaching and Learning after Graduation (2021 Vol.1), The Language Dance (2020 Vol.2), Before I Wrote a Poem I’d Ask To Know (2022 Vol. 1)
- Quinn, Kelly: Counseling Mind (2013 Vol. 1), Enemy (2014 Vol. 2)
- Ramsden, Kevin: Monkey Want Banana (2022 Vol. 1)
- Reber, Nichole: The Battle of Mianzi (2013 Vol. 1)
- Redford, Steve: A Good Thing (2014 Vo. 1)
- Roberson Wiygul, Mary: Love in Any Language (2018 Vol. 1)
- Russell, Fred: Snookered, or, Why the British Talk That Way (2021 Vol.1), A Note on Hyphens (2022 Vol. 1)
- Slater, Tracy: Native Language (2013 Vol. 1)
- Slavin, Steve: Don’t Know Much About the French I Took (2016 Vol. 1)
- Somerset, Sarah: The Phone Company that Won’t Do Business on the Phone (2021 Vol.2), The Unexpected Professor (2022 Vol. 1)
- Stephens, Meredith; The Blue-Eyed Japanese Speaker (2018 Vol. 2), Creating a Tsunami Evacuation Path (2019 Vol. 1) and Total Physical Response in the University Prius (2019 Vol. 2), Distractions During Zoom Lessons (2021 Vol.1), Aisatsu – The Importance on Being Seen and Heard (2021 Vol.2), Pride, Regret, and Rust-buckets (2022 Vol. 1)
- Stokes, Connla: The Writing is on the Whiteboard (2015 Vol. 1), A Crash course in Conditionals, a Hanoi Story (2015, Vol. 2)
- Tso, Anna W. B.: The A to Z of an English Teacher in Hong Kong (2015 Vol. 1)
- Vogelsang, Carly: The English Metamorphosis of ESL Students and Me (2013 Vol. 1)
- Wingo, Kristian: The 8 a.m. Class (2017 Vol. 1)
- Yang, Shizhou: From Hoeing the Cornfield to Teaching English (2021 Vol.1)
Essays
- Adams, Cathy This I Believe (2020 Vol. 1)
- Ang, Timothy What’s in a Name? (2022 Vol. 1)
- Cassidy, Bridget: Exactly Where I Should Be (2020, Vol. 2)
- Clark, Nola: Wearing the Other Hat (2016 Vol. 1)
- Drier, Brian Seth: Barack and A Hard Place (2014 Vol. 1)
- Escudero, Ruben D. Jr. Teaching Transcends Boundaries (2020 Vol. 2)
- Ewing, Kathy:Better than the Browns (2016 Vol. 1)and Dental Floss(2019 Vol. 1)
- Fachal Coreira, Maria: A Quick Fix for Burnt-Out English Teachers (2020 Vol. 2)
- Foster, Jackie: From Chair to Instructor: Reflecting on a Transition (2018 Vol. 1)
- Greco, Michael: What is holding us back from becoming better writers? (2015 Vol. 2)
- Gregory, David L.: Fish Tales and Tips: Hillel Wright’s Life, Stories, and Advice (2022 Vol. 1)
- Guest, Mike: The Seminar (2019 Vol. 1)
- Hakala, Marjorie: What It Is Like Here (2014 Vol. 2)
- Igawa, Jennifer: De Zoet Does Japan (2021 Vol.2)
- Issacs, Layton: Studying the Public and Private in France (2014 Vol. 2)
- Innes, Andrew: L’espirit de l’escalier: A Mancunian in Japan (2021 Vol.2)
- Jenson, Jim: The How and Why of Me Becoming a Teacher (2014 Vol. 2)
- Juraszek, Dawid: The World We are Sending Them Off To (2018 Vol. 2)
- Kharchenko, Nataliya: Teaching and the Art of Compassion (2019 Vol. 2)
- Legault Kurihara, Danielle: Francesca and Stevick (2019 Vol. 1) and Seasonal Reminiscences (2019 Vol. 2)
- Li, Wan: Hybrid Identities: Teaching While Learning (2021 Vol. 2)
- Lin, Michael: The Joy of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Japan (2021 Vol.2)
- McGraw, Mark: The Roundabout Way (2019 Vol. 1)
- Mallet, Heather; Unfunny (2019 Vol. 1)
- Mulhern, James: Teaching at Fifty-Six (2019 Vol. 1)
- Nash, Lindsay: Teaching English in Korea (2014 Vol. 2)
- Parr, Patrick: English as a Second Life: Juggling Cultures in the Age of Globalization (2015 Vol. 1)
- Perchik, Simon: On Magic, Illusions and Other Realities (2019 Vol. 1)
- Prasad Bashyal, Gopal: The Life of a Nepalese Teacher (2018 Vol. 2)
- Ramirez-Avila, Maria Rosanna: Is Free Education the Answer? ( 2018 Vol. 2)
- Ries, Brendan Joseph: Gourmet Teaching (2015 Vol. 2)
- Romero, Brenda: Practicing Spanish with Students in China (2018 Vol. 1)
- Rossiter, Paul: Language Acquisition (2014 Vol. 1)
- Sigdel, Bharat: Reclaiming Vedic Education (2020 Vol. 2)
- Somerset, Sarah: My New Job as Translator (2019 Vol. 1), Weeding in Wakayama (2020 Vol. 2)
- Stephens, Meredith: Escaping from Osaka on the Dreamy Sea Bream Train (2020 Vol. 1)
- Tanaka, Kathryn M: Thoughts on Poetry in the EFL Classroom (2016 Vol. 1)
Fiction
- Allen, Jevon: An Early Spring for Alex (2015 Vol. 1)
- Barnosky, Willow Outside (2021 Vol.1)
- Bell, Jennifer: Snapshots (2018 Vol. 1)
- Bell, Blake: Save for a Rainy Day (2019 Vol. 2)
- Brik, C G: The Lesson (2019 Vol. 1)
- Byrk, Kat: Too Many Photocopies (2017 Vol. 1)
- Chan, Cherry C: Tiger Gate (2016 Vol. 1)
- Clark, Phillip; Jambo (2019 Vol. 1)
- Dante, James: Reading the Signs in Seoul (2014 Vol. 1)
- Draper, Luke: Traps (2021 Vol.2)
- Gattig, Nicolas: The Rain in Nagoya (2016 Vol. 1)
- Goodell, Edward M.: A New Appreciation for Mountain Climbers (2014 Vol. 2)
- Greco, Michael: Plum Rains on Happy House (2018 Vol. 2)
- Grover, Brian: The Married Rocks (2021 Vol.2)
- Guest, Mike: The Little Suicides (2014 Vol. 1); Teachers’ Meeting! (A ‘Morality’ Play) (2016 Vol. 2), The Uklak (2020 Vol. 2)
- Harris, Daniel: Dear Sir (2015 Vol. 2)
- Innes, Andrew The Rotten Mikan (2021 Vol.1), Generation C (2020 Vol. 2), Ms. Representation (2021 Vol.1)
- Joritz-Nakagawa, Jane: Hello Kitty (2015 Vol. 1) and Daisy (2021 Vol.1), A Long Winter (2022 Vol. 1)
- Kamata, Suzanne: Toilet Slippers and Other Disasters (2013 Vol. 1) and Julia in the Desert (2021 Vol.1)
- Kowalski, Charles Sinclair Cheating (2021 Vol.1)
- Lindsay, Beth: Mr. Chizuwa (2014 Vol. 1)
- Loken, Casey: Gray Kimono (2022 Vol. 1)
- Mallett, Peter: Vine and Gall (2016 Vol. 2) and Immortal Memory (2018 Vol. 1)
- Mares, Chris: The Point (2017 Vol. 1) and European II (2019 Vol. 1), The Odyssey ( 2021 Vol.1)
- Marsh, Peter: Acid Test (2018 Vol. 1), The Farewell Song (2022 Vol. 1)
- Mulhern, James: On the Way Home (2018 Vol. 2)and Peppermint Candy (2021 Vol.1)
- O’Connor, Stephen P: Blind in Darien (2019 Vol. 2)
- Ohsumi, Megumi: Deconstructing Identities (2018 Vol. 2)
- Phillips, Peter J.: Class Act (2014 Vol. 1)
- Redford, Steve: The Barbarian (2013 Vol. 1)
- Reeve, Blair: A Snapshot of Sad (2014 Vol. 1)
- Rowe, Simon: The Gem Polishing Unit (2019 Vol. 1)
- Shishin, Alex: The Crazy Girls Club Detectives (2018 Vol. 2) and The Case of the Purloined Cats (2019 vol. 1)
- Slentz-Kesler, Robert: Mr. Beaumarchais (2022 Vol. 1)
- Sullivan, Susan Laura: Ji- (2014 Vol. 1); Reasons for Song (2015 Vol. 1); Rubber Gloves (2016 Vol. 1)
- Tafoya, Gregorio: Arab Spring (2019 Vol. 2)
- Taiga, Xenia: Harry Cherry Tomatoe (2013 Vol. 1)
- Taylor, Jessica D: Someone Cheated (2019 Vol. 2)
- Waldron, Helen: Hand to Mouth (2020 Vol. 2)
- Zyther, Armod: How Many? (2021 Vol.1)
Interviews
- Edmonds, Glen: From English Teacher to Art Curator – or, How one man was seduced by a Japanese nun. An interview with John Walker. (2014 Vol. 1)
- The Font: Interview with Susan Laura Sullivan (2016 Vol. 2) and Interview with Steve Redford (2019 Vol. 2)
Poetry
- Acuff, Gale: Simple (2017 Vol. 2); Transposed (2018 Vol. 1); Scram (2018 Vol. 2); Last Word (2019 Vol. 1), One Nation, Under & Counting (2020 Vol. 2), Education (2022 Vol. 1)
- Adams, Roy J.: FewDeL (2019 Vol. 1)
- Barbare, Danny: Mopping the Tiles (2016 Vol. 2)
- Bedetti, Gaby: Inspired by Responses to The Beet Queen (2017 Vol. 2); Four Student Responses to ‘For That He Looked Not Upon Her’ (2018 Vol. 1)
- Bell, Jennifer: ‘I am not a thief’ (2017 Vol. 2)
- Bennett, Martin: Old Teacher (2014 Vol. 2)
- Blanchard, Jane: Wash and Wear (2017 Vol. 2)
- Briand, Casey: Wedged Underneath a Heavy Desk (2021 Vol.1)
- Cashen, Norene: When a Child Writes a Poem – for Terry BlackHawk (2018 Vol. 2)
- Courington, Chella: Creative Writing Class (2015 Vol. 2)
- Dapanas, Alton Melvar M: The Five Senses (2017 Vol. 1)
- Dougherty, Patrick: On Teaching (2018 Vol. 2), Vespers, Hue (2021 Vol.2)
- Elkin, Roger: Ironies More than Orange (2014 Vol. 2)
- Gallagher, Harry: Shirleen, sixteen (2015 Vol. 2)
- Girling, Alan: A Learner of English as a Second Language Describes a Photograph (2019 Vol. 1)
- Goh, Ian: The Monster Manual (2021 Vol.1)
- Goodfellow, Jessica: shadow: dwelling: (2014 Vol. 2); Defining I (2017 Vol. 1)
- Graham, Floyd H. III: chasing the rIsing sun (2021 Vol.2)
- Green, Eimile Máiréad: Language Encounters in Three Movements (2014 Vol. 1)
- Grover, Jaipreet: The Magic Words (2021 Vol.2), The Alphabet Family (2022 Vol. 1)
- Harris, Aled: On a Pickle, Very Very Very & Figurative Language is Useless (2020 Vol. 2)
- Hope, Akua Lezli: Resignation (2016 Vol. 2)
- Jackman, Diane: Love Letter (2015 Vol. 1)
- Johnson, Julie Allyn: Early Lightning (2021 Vol.2)
- Jones, Hardy: Teaching is a Woman’s Job? (2021 Vol.2)
- Kirzane, Jessica: Heritage Language (2021 Vol.1), Perfect (2021 Vol.2)
- Kjeldgaard, Maria: Design Combines Typography and Art (2014 Vol. 1)
- Klauer, Cesar: Return to the infant (2014 Vol. 2)
- Klein, Kate: Three Poems: (Language Barrier, The Rules, and Did You Hear?) (2022 Vol. 1)
- Kubokawa, Jared: Three Poems:(The Wild Boar and the Dodgeball Game, The English Teacher and My Students) (2021 Vol.2)
- Levinson, Edward: Enlightened Alphabet (2020 Vol. 2)
- Lukas, Krista: Gifted and Talented (2014 Vol. 2)
- Lynde, Molly: Lament, and Things that I would not like to forget (2021 Vol.1)
- Matthew, Rini: The Eternal Thought, The Day She Spoke (2020 Vol. 2)
- McEvoy, Gill: Irregular Verb (2015 Vol. 1)
- McMurray, David: Teapot (2014 Vol. 2)
- McRae, Bruce: Dirty Word (2014 Vol. 2)
- Mignon, Taylor: Haiku, Hacky Sack and Fluxus Synathesia (2013 Vol. 1)
- Mulhern, James: Simply Silly (2021 Vol.1), Word of the Day (2021 Vol.2)
- Mullineaux, Pete: Making Rain – A report on a poetry lesson delivered as part of the Writers in School Scheme (2015 Vol. 1); Feeling our way in Friesland (2018 Vol. 1)
- O’Sullivan, Sarah: Fibs (2015 Vol.1)
- Or, Olivia: A Mother in Six Tones (2018 Vol. 2)
- Owen, Terry: The Sounds of English (2021 Vol.1)
- Piponides, Zoe: Books (2014 Vol. 1)
- Quinn, Kelly: blackboard and white chalk (2014 Vol. 1)
- Reid Green, Emily: A Language learning Adventure with Wrecked Haiku (2021 Vol.1)
- Rossiter, Paul: The Question of Palestine (2017 Vol. 1)
- Ryan, Eugene: The Wow! signal, This is home now, and Gaps (2021 Vol.1)
- Salovaara, Michael: am I your rival (2014 Vol. 2); the contract teacher knows (2016 Vol. 2)
- Schiff, Jeff: A Paradigm for Effective Instruction (2015 Vol. 2)
- Shaffer, Eric Paul: ‘Ka ‘Okina: Ka Leokanipū ‘Ewalu I Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i’ [‘The ‘Okina: the Eighth Consonant in the Hawaiian Language’] (2018 Vol. 1)
- Sigriddaughter, Beate: The Poet (2018 Vol. 2)
- Sullivan, Leah Ann: Saturday Kids (2014 Vol. 1)
- Tabor-Farjani, Noeme Grace C.: Overnight (2021 Vol.1)
- Taylor, Peter: Hell-box (2021 Vol.1)
- Wagenheim, Elizabeth Holden: Other Tongue (2018 Vol. 1)
- Watson Owen, Linda: Adverbity, So What Do Poets Do?, Alchemy of Ink (2021 Vol.1)
- Wiygul, Mary Roberson: Flat Line(s): Death of an English Teacher’s Psyche (2019 Vol. 1)
- Yang, Shizhou: Find a Friend in English (2017 Vol. 2)
- Yuan, Changming: Heart Renditions, Etymological Insights, and Eight Chinese Trio Characters (2021 Vol.1)
Column – In Love with Language
Loyet, Dianne E: Why I Teach (2018 Vol. 1), Nauseated or Nauseous? (2018 Vol. 2), I Love Language, But I Need to Love People More (2019 Vol. 1) , How I learned to Stop Hating on and Embrace Emoji (2019 Vol. 2), Y Can’t I Haz Grammar? (2021 Vol.1), A Brief Primer on Russian, Belorusian, and Ukrainian (2022 Vol. 1)
Reviews
- Hartse, Joel Heng: English in China: A Miraculous and Conflicted Encounter (2013 Vol. 1)
Visual Arts
- Celastino, Taigo: arames (photograph used for the 2017 Vol. 1 issue poetry page ‘On Boundaries’)
- Gauld, Tom: ‘We’ve had our exciting incident…’ (Cartoon, published with permission of Drawn and Quarterly)
- Melillo, Bryan: Gilded Lily (painting used for the cover of 2018 Vol. 1)
- Redford, Steve; Water Lily (Cover for 2019 Vol. 1)
- Reed Gardener, Angie: Parrot Talk (painting used for the 2014 Vol. 1 cover)
- Saito, Masae: poetry page illustrations (2014 Vol. 1, 2014 Vol. 2, 2015 Vol. 1, 2015 Vol. 2)
- Savage, W. Jack: Heatwave (painting), The Escarpment (painting), The Explanation (drawing), The Mountains of Ararat (painting used for the 2015 Vol. 1 cover)
- Woods, Christopher: 5 photographs – Letters at Our Fingertips, The Gift of Literacy, The Storyteller, Early Classroom, and Great Expectations in the Woods (2021 Vol.1)