Category: Art
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BEST OF THE GORKO 2025
The real gift of 2024 was the creative work submitted to this space by more than 100 contributors: humor, short fiction, CNF, poems, and more.
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Master Artworks in COVID Times by Donald Patten
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine.
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BEST OF THE GORKO 2024
The real gift of 2024 was the creative work submitted to this space by more than 75 contributors: humor, short fiction, CNF, poems, and more.
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The Gorko’s 2025 Pushcart Nominations
The Gorko’s Pushcart nominations are here! Read all six pieces here.
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New collages and poetry by Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator.
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THE GORKO’S 2025 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!
The Gorko’s 2025 BotN nominations are here! Read all eleven pieces here.
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Missing: Art on the theme by Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator.
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‘Sin Eaters Love Women Who Pray Over Bones’ and 2 more by Mark Blickley
Sin Eaters Love Women Who Pray Over Bones
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Art by Anthony Acri
ABOUT THE ARTIST Anthony Acri is a cartoonist, illustrator and a social critic, in the terms of Croce or Vidal, who lives in the suburbia of Pittsburgh Pa, with his sister and brother and are all that is left of…
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‘forever jung’ and 3 more by Jason Symes
Above: ‘forever jung’ by James Symes Above: ‘a source of art’ by James Symes Above: ‘Bodybags’ by James Symes Above: ‘a chicken art’ by James Symes Images by Jason Symes ABOUT THE ARTIST Jason Symes is an Irish lens-based artist…
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FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: ‘GREAT WOMEN GET TOASTED’ by Mark Blickley
Lucky Strikes were the cigarettes carried on the ‘Friendship’ when she crossed the Atlantic. They were smoked continuously from Trepassey to Wales.
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PIERRE MASTERS: SELECT TWITTER LOG OF A TWIT
Wrote PIERRE MASTERS: Poignant, moving, troubling, depth of expression in P.F. MASTERS’ latest poem ‘Caoutchouc’, up at Split Chest Lit.
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AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: SNEAK PREVIEW
Ameliasploitation, as defined by dictionaries, is a reaction by artists to the prompt Who was Amelia Earhart?
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AMELIA EARHART TEASER: AMELIASPLOITATION
Ameliasploitation, as defined by dictionaries, is a reaction by artists to the prompt Who was Amelia Earhart?
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‘The big city devoured my heart’: Words and art by Irina Tall
I looked around in a strange way and my neck hung down the blue-red tiger bed, I looked up and slipped.
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‘The day fell like a veil’: Words and art by Irina Tall
And there, in the past, there was a big city and towers made of glass and iron remains.
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THE GORKO’S 2023 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!
The Gorko’s 2023 BotN nominations are here! Read all eleven pieces here.
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SUBMISSION CALL: THE GORKO AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL
SEND US YOUR AMELIASPLOITATION THEORIES, POETRY, FICTION, COMICS, ART, AND OTHER
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HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY GORKO!
To celebrate our second birthday here is a look back at a few of our favorite pieces from ’22-23…



















