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Barney F. McClelland has published numerous short stories, articles, and poems on both sides of the Atlantic. These publications include Acorn (Dublin Writers Group), Oxford Magazine (Miami University Press), The New Formalist, The Chaffin Journal, Snake Nation Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Cairn, Forum, Zelo, Florida Magazine and others.
In 1979 he was the recipient of the Mary Reid McBeth Memorial Award for Fiction.
In 1983 he won a Writer's Digest award for nonfiction. An Cailleach Press published his chapbook entitled “In the Field of My Heart” in 1999. Most recently he won the Kota Press Anthology Contest for 2001 and Seaweed Sideshow Circus published his chapbook “Casual Cruelties” in 2002.
In May of 2003 his controversial essay, "Poetry and the Politics of Self-Expression" was published by the British website Butterflies and Wheels prompting the largest numbers ever received by that publication. It was also featured by the Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts and Letters Daily site and has since been reprinted by French, Australian and Indian web magazines.
He currently works as a freelance writer in Cincinnati, Ohio. In his spare time, Mr. McClelland enjoys reading the works of dead white European males, smoking cigarettes, and plotting revenge.