Creative Writing

Essays and poems: https://bettinarolyn.substack.com/

Substack Series on Tajikistan

Substack Essays on grief

Poem “Rats” part of Singing Birds collaborative art show with artist Marion Ehrsam et al. at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin, 13 June 2024.

Flash CNF “Inspectable Item” published in the anthology “Things We Carry Still” Fall 2023 by Middle West Press, Johnstone, Iowa, print

Poem “Valentine’s Poem” 19 June 2023 Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 25 online

Essay “Action Figure” As You Were: Military Experience and the Arts Literary Journal Vol. 18, 29 May 2023 online

Book Review of Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie, Issue 43.3 American Book Review February 2023 print

Poems “Seasons,” “The Management,” and “Last Supper” 19 January 2023 in Stadtsprachen Magazin, Issue 24.

Essay “Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?” The Wrath-Bearing Tree 5 December 2022 online

Poem “Red-White-Blue” Stadtsprachen Magazin Nr. 21, March 2022 online

Poetry Chapbook “Growing Pains and Birdfeeder” Aelzina Books, 2022 print

Essay “Adjustment Disorder” The Wrath-Bearing Tree 11 November 2021 online

Essay “Missing the Forest for the Trees” Walking Through the Woods Interdisciplinary Art Exhibit St. Marien-Nikolai Kirche, Kreuzberg, Berlin on 21 October 2021 print

Essay “Leaving a Mark” Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 19, October 2021 online

Fiction “Original Sin” Issue Ten of First Page September 2021 print

Poem “Hibiscus” Volume Two, The TCFFFV Poetry Journal August 2021 print

Poem “Limp” Jul/Aug 2021 Ethel 8: Ethelzine print

Essay “Art is Dead–Long Live Art!” Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 18, June 2021 online

Essay “Greenhouse Berlin” Refugee Week Issue 6 Ekō Magazine June 2021 online/print

Essay “Smile! You’re Alive” The War Horse 24 March 2021 online

Essay “Veil” Stadtsprachen Magazin Nr. 17 March 2021 online

Essay “Book Bug” Wanderlust: A Travel Journal 1 November 2020 online

Essay “Sweaty Concepts: On Being a Woman in the US Army” Human Parts 31 August 2020 online

Essay “Unterwegs in Berlin” Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 14 13 June 2020 online

Poem “First Communion” Women Writing Berlin Lab Quaranzine May 2020 online/print

Essay “Talking to the Hand” The Startup 19 Sept 2019 online

Founding member of the Kinbaku Society of Berlin Journal, a limited-edition print-only literary journal. September 2019–2024

Published in Kinbaku Journal:

Fall 2019: Essays: “Freedom of Movement” and “Shroud”; Poem “Rope Mat”

Winter 2020: Essays “Leaving a Mark” and “Grief”

Spring 2020: Essay “Steigerung Durch Abnahme”

Summer 2020: Poem “The Leash”

Summer 2022: Book Review “Eric Stanton and the Bizarre Underground” by Richard Seves

Summer 2023: Essay “Ode to the Old Jam”

Fall 2024: Essay “On Transformation”