• Home
  • About
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3
    • Issue 4
    • Issue 5
    • Issue 6
    • Issue 7
    • Issue 8
    • Issue 9
    • Issue 10
    • Issue 11
    • Issue 12
    • Issue 13
    • Issue 14
    • Issue 15
    • Issue 16
  • Masthead
  • Submission
  • Balloons Blog
  • Reviews/Media
  • Contact
BALLOONS LIT. JOURNAL

Issue eight

Issues Home
Picture
This is the eighth issue of BALLOONS Lit. Journal featuring great works of poetry, prose, and art from contributors from different parts of the world.
SCROLL DOWN for audio tracks of some selected poetry/prose works in this issue!

Read Issue 8 Online
Have troubles viewing the browser below? Click here.
Download PDF file: Click the cover

It is important to note that this magazine is the property of the specific contributors who have granted one-time publication rights to their accepted works to BALLOONS Lit. Journal. 

As general users you may store its electronic copy and/or print it out for family enjoyment, education purposes or other private use as long as it is NOT for profit-making. This magazine is NOT FOR SALE. 

The magazine is free to access for all readers in its entire form. Users must NOT edit the magazine and/or reproduce any part of it without prior consent from BALLOONS Lit. Journal and the associated contributor(s).

We truly appreciate your respect of the copyright of the materials in this issue and thank you so much for supporting to our effort to bring modern art and literature to young readers of the world. We hope you enjoy this issue of BALLOONS Lit. Journal. And if you like it, please help spread the word so that more people, especially the young, could rediscover the simple joy of art, literature, and creative writing.
Picture
Click to download

Audio Section
Poetry
Fiction

Voice Performers of BLJ Issue 8

Braxton Schieler is fourteen years old. He attends Emmons Grade School in Antioch, Illinois. He has a passion for writing and dream of finding a career in it someday. It is his hope and dream that with the stories and poems that he creates, he can, from his small corner of the world, empower ordinary people like him to do extraordinary things. The fiction he performs here, “Someday I'll Be”, is his own work.

Jacqueline Jules is the author of forty books for young readers including the Zapato Power series, the Sofia Martinez series, Pluto is Peeved, and Never Say a Mean Word Again. Her poetry has appeared in over 100 publications including BALLOONS Lit. Journal, the Poetry Friday Anthologies, One Minute Till Bedtime, Cicada, and Cricket. The poem she performs here, “Egret”, is her own work. Visit her at www.jacquelinejules.com.

Jackie Hosking is an Australian poet and picture book author. Her poems have appeared all over the world including such publications as The School Magazine (Australia), Cricket Magazine (USA), Educational books (UQP India) & Anthologies (little brown USA). Jackie’s picture book, The Croc and the Platypus is a rewrite of Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy Cat with an Australian twist. Her second picture book is currently in production. The poems she performs here, “Bluebells” and “Tightrope Tired”, are her own work.

Agnieszka Filipek lives in Ireland with Munchkin, her rescued white rabbit. She writes in both her native tongue Polish and in English, and also translates in these languages. Her work was published internationally in countries, such as Poland, Ireland, United States and India. The poems she performs here, “crows” and “Sunflowers”, are her own work. For more about her, see www.agnieszkafilipek.com.

Xavier Barzey is a writer based in Trinidad and Tobago. She graduated with a degree in English Literature and a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Media and Communication. She is currently working on a book of short stories that brings light to the folktales in his country. Her work has been published in the Trinidad Express, the Trinidad Guardian and is forth-coming in Akashic Books. The poems she performs here, “Down by the Sea” and “Questions Questions”, are her own work.

Picture
What's Balloons Lit. Journal
● About the journal
● Issues
● Masthead
● Reviews/Media
● Balloons Blog
Submission
● Think you've got brilliantly enlightening materials for young people? Let us read your work!
COntact Us
● Contact
● Make a Donation
Picture

Picture
Picture
Picture
Copyright © BALLOONS Lit. Journal 2014-2025. Please do not reproduce without permission.

​ISSN 2520-0372 (Online)
ISSN 2520-3169 (Print)