APDO #761
Ajijic 45920 Jalisco
MEXICO
aljons@yahoo.com
url: tinyurl.com/3e2jfv (theatre)
BIO: Allen's first novel VICKY BANNING has been published by Lulu Press - http://www.lulu.com/content/987499
He lives, writes, acts and directs theatre in Mexico. His published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, etc., have appeared in print as well as on line. He was an invitee to the First World Poetry Festival in Taiwan 2005, was haibun editor for Simply Haiku, a member of PEN, and two of his plays have been professionally
produced in Sacramento and L.A.
Published Work: Poetry -
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Amaze-Cinquain, Anti-War Haiku, Arabesques Review, Artella, Artistry of Life, Asahi Haikuist Network, Asian American Poetry, Atención San Miguel, Autumn Leaves, Belfast News, Blackmail Press, Book Of Remembrance, Buddha's Temple, Byakkohaiku, Cenotaph PE, Clean Sheets, Clouds Peak, Coffee Bean Shop, Coffee Press Journal, Contemporary Haibun and Haiga, Contemporary Haibun Online, Copperfield Review, Dark Krypt, Eclectica, Erotic Tales Anthology, Everyday Accounts, Famous Reporter, Fireweed, Flashquake, Foliate Oak, Frogpond, Full Moon, Gin Bender, Heron's Nest, Haiga Online,haiku miscellany Klostar Ivanic 2005, Haiku Harvest, HaikuPoetsHut, Haiku Scotland, HaikuSun, Harrow, Inglis House Poetry, Ink Pot, Kaleidowhirl, Key West Sunset, Kokako, Lampshade, Laughter Loaf, Literary Potpourri, Loch Raven Review, Long Story Short, Lotus Blooms Journal, Lynx, Madpoets, Mainichi Daily News, Makata (Philippines), miniWords 2007 - 1st Prize, Mocha Memoirs, Modern Haiku, Moments, Moonset, Net Author E2K, New hope Int'l Review Online, Paper Wasp, Peppermint Papers, Poetic Diversity, Photo-Haiku Gallery, Poetic Diversity, Poetic Voices, Poetry Board League, Poetry Midwest, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Super Highway, Poets Int'l (India), Potpourri, Rainy Day/Cornell, Random Planets, Raw NerVZ, Real Eight View, Rear View Quarterly, Ripples, Rose Haiku Anthology, Salt River Review, Roadrunner, Scorched Earth, Shadow Poetry, Shiki Monthly, Shinzounokodou, Short Stuff, Shreve Memorial Library, Simply Haiku, SMA OnLineNewsMag, SP Quill, Stylus Poetry Journal, SxSE, Tamaphyr Mountain Poetry, Temps Libres, Tiny Words, Torrid Sky, Tryst Poetry Journal, Verse Libre Quarterly, Versions, Voices Net Anthology-2003, WAH! Haiku, White Heron, White Lotus, WHC Treetops, Wildwalk Haiku Kukai, WHA, Word Riot, World Haiku Review, Write Away Poetry (WAH), Writers e-zine, Writers Hood, Yellow Moon, Yomiuri Daily, Zimmer-zine.
Awards:
*Heron's Nest Editors' Choice Award - July 2003
*Mainichi Haiku International Contest-2003-Honorable Mentn
*Haiga Online - 1st Place Winner
*HaikuWorld-Shiki-May 2003- 1st Place Free Format Kukai
*Poetry Board League - Rengay - 2nd Place - March 2003 (with Gene Murta & Ron Moss)
*Inglis House Poetry Contest -July 2003 -runner up
*World Haiku Assn Haiga Contest #7-5th Place
*World Haiku Assn Haiga Contest #9-6th Place
*World Haiku Assn Haiga Contest #11-4th Place (tie)
*NPAC top 10/haiga (9th- Oct.'03 ;6th-Nov.'03;7th Dec.'03;6th Jan.'04)
*Kusamakura Haiku Contest - 2 second-prizes - Oct'03
*Hoshino Takashi Award 2003 - Honorable Mention (5thPlace)
*NPAC - Dec 2003 - 7th Place (PhotoHaiku)
*4th World-wide Double Kukai - Work Of Merit
*Editor, haibun-Simply Haiku
*The Heron's Nest - 2004 Valentine Awards -
Readers' Choice Favorite Poet for 2003 - 3rd Runner Up
Readers' Choice Favorite Poem for 2003- 2nd Runner Up
*6th Suruga Baiga Literary Festival-Honorable Mention 2004
*Kamakura Shrine Contest - Hon Mention
*1st Prize Yellow Moon Haibun
*1st Place Kigo Kukai HaikuWorld-Shiki-June 2004
*Inglis House Poetry Contest - 2nd Place - June 2004
He is haibun editor for Simply Haiku
*Invited to Read his work at Literary Festival Taiwan - March 2005
*Tanka Splendor Award 2004-4th place
*Annual Kukai 2004 - 4th Place
*R H Blyth Haibun Award 2004 - 2nd place
*Artistry Of Life - Winter 2005 - Featured Writer
*Poetry Super Highway - Poetry of the Week (Oct31-Nov6 2005)
*Oh-I, Ocha New Haiku Contest #16 - Special Merit Award 2005
*SPOTLIGHT - Asian American Poetry Aug'06
*Haiku Calendar Competition 2007 - runner up
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Published Work - Prose:
Aesthetica (play), Agrippina Press, Antipatico, Apollo's Lyre, Arabesques Review, Ardent, Atencion San Miguel, Author's Store, Baroque Review, Bent Pin Quarterly, Best Buys, Bewildering Stories, Biff's Boards, Big Pond Stories, Blueboy, Blue Planet, Bolder Bugle, Brilliant!, Cafe Stories, Caffeine Society, Cenotaph, Cenotaph Pocket, Chick Flicks, Chocolate For Women, Coffee Bean Shop, Coffee Press, Copperfield Review, Crime and Suspense, A Cup Of Comfort..., Dark Krypt, Destiny3Fiction, Diddledog, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, EWG Presents, Flash Me Magazine, Flashot, Flashquake (play and prose), Foliate Oak Online (Best Of), Fresh Writing, From The Asylum, Future Fire, Futures Mysterious Anthology, Fuzzynet (UK), GonzoBeat, Green Tricycle, GUD - Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Hack Writers, Haiku Scotland, HapaNui, Harmon Hall - The Hub, Harrow, HeavyGlow, Hiss Quarterly, Horsethief's Journal, Humor And Life In Particular, Inky Trail News, Insolent Rudder, Intro, Judas (now 3rd Degree), Lampshade, Laughter Loaf, LBF Books-Writers Post Journal, LBF Books-Opinions, Loch Raven Review, Literary Potpourri (haibun), Long Story Short, Lunarosity, Luscious Desert Female, M.D., Mechanics, Me Three, Mexico City News, Mindprints, Mocha Memoirs, Monthly Short Stories, Mouthful Of Bullets, Mystericale, Mysterical-e, Naked Humorist, Newsday, New York Air, New York Sunday News, New York Times, NFG, Nuvein, el Ojo Del Lago,
Opinion Mag, Orchard Press Mysteries, Outsider Ink, Our Town (NYC), Peeks & Valleys,
Penwomanship, Phone-Book, Pindeldyboz, Poetry In The Arts, Private, Red Writing Hood, Regeneration play), Retrozine, Skive Mag, Scoop The Loot (UK), Scriptum (Amsterdam), Scriveners Pen, Seasons For Writing, Sell Writing Online, Shore Mag, Sidewalk's End (play), Simple Pleasures, Skive Quarterly, SMA OnLineNewsMag, Smoking Poet, Somewhat, Song Of The Siren, Spiveyland (2plays), Stone Thread, Story One, Storyteller, 3rd Degree (formerly Judas), 13 Stories, 365 Tomorrows, Thunder Sandwich, Toasted-Cheese, Too-Write, TPQ Online (Pittsburgh Quart), Triplopia (CNF & Photos), Unity, Verse On Vellum, West Coast Review Of Books, Whispering Spirits,Whistling Shade, Writer, Writers Apprentice, Writers Hood, Writers Online,
Writers Post Journal, Writers Room, Writing To Win (anthology).
Awards:
*Humor And Life In Particular - 1st Place Short Humor Jun/Jul 2002
*Flashquake New Year (5th Place) 2003
*Flashquake - Play (1st Place)
*Writers Hood Parent Contest (1st Place) 2003
*Seasons4Writing - (1st Place) 2003
*Doorknobs & Broomsticks - 2002/3 - 4 times
*Twist Contest (Writing Parents) - 1st Place - 2003
*Artist Spotlight - Outsider Ink - Jan. 2004
*Red Writing Hood Contest - Runner Up (twice)
*SacActors-Play (Prelude)Produced - Jul/Aug'04 Sac.,CA
*NailingKipper-Play (Clothes Make The Person) Produced Oct/Nov'04 L.A.MasquersCabaret
*NEB Publishing 1-page story contest - 3rd place - March 05
Future Fire - 1st Prize - Dec '05
*From The Asylum - Hon Ment - May 2006
*1st Prize - Novel - Pamala L. Hall Award - 2006
*5th Place - Author's Store Jan '07
*1st Place - haiku - 2007 miniWords Contest (worldwide)
*1st Prize - Short Story - Pamala L. Hall Award - 2007
Published in USA, Canada (NFG), Mexico (Mexico City News, Atencion), England (Aesthetica), Ireland (Belfast News), Scotland (Poetry Scotland), Holland (Amsterdam Scriptum), Belgium (TempsLibres), India (Poets Int'l), Australia (Stylus, Yellow Moon), New Zealand (Kokaku, Famous Reporter), Japan (Mainichi, Kusamakura, Suruga Baika), The Philippines (Makata), Wales (BBC Wales SouthWest), Singapore (QLRS - QuartLiterSingaporeRev), Taiwan (1st World Poetry Festival), Croatia, Algeria (Arabesques Review).
Translated into: Japanese, Gaelic, French, Chinese, Croatian, Russian.