Ken Kakareka has wanted to be a writer ever since the first time he walked out of a college class called Hemingway & Fitzgerald at the age of 19.  Some of his influences include Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Knut Hamsun, Haruki Murakami and John Fante. Ken is the author of works of fiction and nonfiction, such as BULLSHIT (Anxiety Press) and Summer of Irresponsibility (Alien Buddha Press). His novella PARIS IN ALL ITS GLORY is on its way with Anxiety Press in 2026. Ken has been nominated twice for Best of the Net.

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A list of rags in which Ken's work has appeared: 

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Lost Lake Folk Opera Magazine 

Ink & Voices 

Conceit Magazine 

Spontaneous Spirits Magazine 

Dovetales Journal 

Amulet Magazine 

HASH Journal 

Route 7 Review 

The Vital Sparks 

Burnt Pine Magazine 

Bluepepper 

Sandstorm Journal 

Spectra Poets 

Moida Magazine

In Parenthesis 

Gargoyle Magazine 

Mortal Magazine 

Horror Sleaze Trash

The Beatnik Cowboy 

MOTAL 

The Gorko Gazette 

New Pop Lit 

Gabby & Min's Literary Review 

A Thin Slice of Anxiety 

Oddball Magazine 

Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly 

The Piker Press

BarBar

The Disappointed Housewife

Little Old Lady

foofaraw

Quotidian Bagatelle