ABOUT ALICE

My fiction and essays have appeared in both print and web publications (see below).

As co-editor of The Cafe Irreal, I have honed my editing skills during the twenty-six years that our magazine has been online. I have also been editor of the Tucson Peace Calendar for over a dozen years.

In addition, I have been a member of the Tucson Chapter of the National Writers Union since 2001, and I am a member of the Working-Class Studies Association.

Please feel welcome to contact me at alicewhittenburg at yahoo.com.

PUBLISHED WRITING

Recent Essays

• In Youngstown, Ohio, Deindustrialization Erodes the Old City, but Palimpsests of Place Yield Insights for Workers, Artists, and Activists, Including Me in the August 2025 issue of The Journal of Working-Class Studies, pages 145-158.
• The Luis Gutierrez Bridge Spans the Santa Cruz River; It Also Links Both Parts of a Divided Community and Makes Connections to the Past at The Occupied Tucson Citizen, November of 2022.
• A Dozen Images Made in or Near Youngstown, Ohio, That Show Why People Need Both Jobs and Fish in The Journal of Working-Class Studies. I presented an earlier version of the essay at the Working-Class Studies Association 2021 Conference, and I talked with Ted Prezelski about the essay in an episode of Words and Work in October of 2021.
• At the Library with Borges at The Occupied Tucson Citizen.
• Reading Kafka in the Spring in Prague at 3:AM Magazine
• Ben Shahn’s Paterson: Behind the Factory Windows at The Ekphrastic Review

A Sampling of My Fiction

• "What the Dogs Knew" in the anthology Children of Steel, edited by Gloria Ptacek McMillan, published in 2024
• "The Women of the Théâtre D’opéra Spatial" in The Ekphrastic Review, January 1, 2023.
• "Writing What You Know" in Riddled with Arrows, Summer 2022 issue.
• "A Reassuring Fiction" published at Atlas & Alice on June 13, 2016
• "About My Frog Collection" in the 2015 anthology, Condensed to Flash: World Classics, edited by Mark Budman and Susan O'Neill.
• "A New Definition of Treason" in April/May 2011 Eclectica Magazine. The story also appeared in the anthology Eclectica Magazine Speculative.
• Three stories in the anthology The Return of Kral Majales, Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010
• "The Red-Haired Dancer" in outwardlink.net
• "Rimbaud on a Moonlit Night" in ghoti in December of 2005
• "Travelers (Three Short Fictions)" in Spoiled Ink in June 2005
• "The Confidential Mechanic" in v4.4 of 42opus
• "From the Public Offender's Office" in Unlikely 2.0 in December 2004
• "Hefflington" in the October 11, 2004 Pindeldyboz
• "Ugly Talk" in the Fall 2004 flashquake
• "Botanicals (Three Short Fictions)" in the July 2004 Word Riot
• "Fog" in Pif Magazine
• "The Evasion" in Antipodean SF

At Other Homes and Gardens, I blog about issues that relate to climate change. I also do some book reviews and some travel and nature writing.

At the Irreal Cafe, I wrote a series called Our Year of Reading at the Irreal Cafe, as a run-up to the twentieth anniversary issue of The Cafe Irreal, which went online in February 2019.