tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55734511366429603632024-03-16T08:08:20.853+01:00BluePrintReview book+lit blogindie + other books, litzines, writing projects, author talksDorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.comBlogger372125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-28858985698676473092015-11-01T18:04:00.000+01:002015-12-11T17:35:04.455+01:00literary hashtags on twitter: #amreading #shortstory #sixwords #longreads #worldliterature & more<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>"Some of the most interesting and useful hashtags on Twitter are designed to build community in the far-flung literary world..."</b><br />
...noted Salon Magazine in a recent article that featured several literary hashtags for readers and writers. <b> </b>The article is online at: <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/07/19/the_best_literary_hashtags_on_twitter/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow">Literary Hashtags</a>. For unknown reasons, they didn't include direct links for the tags, so here's a linked list, and some additional links, for literary browsing joy:<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23amreading&src=typd">#amreading</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fridayreads&src=typd">#fridayreads</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23books&src=typd">#books</a><br />
books, more books & related links<br />
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literary initiative, more <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2014/01/readwomen2014-who-will-you-read-in-2014.html">here in this blog</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23longreads&src=typd">#longreads</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23shortstory&src=typd">#shortstory</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23storysunday&src=typd">#storysunday</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23smallstone&src=typd">#smallstone</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sixwords?f=realtime&src=hash">#sixwords</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/micropoetry?src=hash">#micropoetry</a></div>
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children book initiativeDorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-26220166152047079582015-05-05T10:48:00.001+02:002015-05-05T10:48:11.925+02:00Indefinite Space 2015<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v3BV4IgW0qo/VUiDfQNd3DI/AAAAAAAAWFU/Vm5ViHIeSf0/s1600/cover15.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v3BV4IgW0qo/VUiDfQNd3DI/AAAAAAAAWFU/Vm5ViHIeSf0/s1600/cover15.jpg" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net/indefinitespace15.htm">The 2015 edition of <em>Indefinite Space</em></a> contains work from 27 poets + artists: Eric Hoffman, Andrea Moorhead, Valerie Witte, Felino A. Soriano,
Rob Cook, Andrew Brenza, Laura Carter, Jill Khoury, John Sibley Williams, John L. Stanizzi, Dorothee Lang, Daniel Lehan, Scott Thomas Outlar, Morgan Bazilian, Alice Pettway, Dan Raphael, Jessie Janeshek, Joseph V. Milford, Mark Young, Raymond Farr, Bradley K. Meyer, Gabrielle Campagnano, Thomas Cochran, K.S. Hardy, Guy R. Beining, Fred Dale, Jim Fisher, Sally Ridgway, Andrew Topel, Michael Rerick, Michael McAloran, Vanessa Couto Johnson,
Philip Byron Oakes, George Karos, Peter Layton, Bob Heman, A.J. Huffman, Ivan de Monbrison, Aaron Anstett, Jack Galmitz<br />
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<strong>About Indefinite Space</strong><br />
<em>Indefinite Space</em> is edited by <a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net/marciaarrieta.htm">Marcia Arrieta</a>. She founded <i>Indefinite Space</i> in 1991 after receiving a grant for her work from the Pasadena Arts Council and has continued to publish the journal independently since then. <em>Indefinite Space</em> has a penchant for the avant-garde, the philosophical, the minimal (but not always), the natural, and the intangible.<br />
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<a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net/indefinitespace15.htm">Indefinite Space 2015</a><br />
single issue $10<br />
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related links: <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/search/label/menu_poetry">poetry</a>, <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/search/label/menu_art">art</a>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-91201626689194639582015-03-08T09:43:00.000+01:002015-03-08T09:43:00.542+01:00March On, Women<i>re-posted in celebration of International Women's Day 2015, the original post is from 2012:</i><br />
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<br />In honour of International Women’s Month, Michelle Elvy created a mini-blog fest featuring women around the world:<em> "Thanks to everyone who participated in this gathering — your art and your words and your lives inspire."</em><br />
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<strong><a href="http://michelleelvy.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/march-on-women/">March On, Women</a></strong><br />
Dance. Resurrect. Survive. <br />
Quiet. Night. Nothing.<br />
Poetry. Place. Passion.<br />
Colour. Chablis. Celebration.<br />
Caress. Care. Kitty Kat.<br />
Whanau. Wrinkles. Nudes. <br />
Words. Wishes. Roads. <br />
Mystery. Masquerade. Monster. <br />
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<a href="http://michelleelvy.wordpress.com/">Michelle Elvy</a> lives and writes and edits in New Zealand aboard her 43’ sailboat, Momo. She is the founding editor of the New Zealand initiative <a href="http://flash-frontier.com/">Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction</a> as well as 52|250: A Year of Flash, a project that grew during 2010-2011 to include nearly 200 writers and artists. She also edits at <a href="http://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/">Blue Five Notebook</a> and <a href="http://13extraordinarythings.com/">A Baker’s Dozen</a>. Most recently, Michelle has been awarded the Research Grant by the New Zealand Society of Authors/ Auckland Museum Library for her project “Flashback: A New Zealand History in Micro Moments”.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://michelleelvy.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/march-on-women/">March On, Women</a></strong><br />
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Since 2009, the editors of Leaf Press organize a collaborate winter poem for the start of the year, collecting couplets from different poets, to publish as co-op poem on the first Monday of the new year. <br />
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The theme for 2015 is: "What I Won't Repeat" - the poem is now online at: <b><a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2015/What-I-Won't-Repeat.htm">Leafpress coop poem 2014: I Hear the Wind Waiting</a></b><br />
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It's composed of lines by <b>23 poets,</b> here the first 3 lines from 3 contributors:<br />
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<b>The co-op series</b><br />
And here, for the joy of poetic cooperation, the previous poems:<br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2014/Wind/Wind.htm">2014 - Hear the Wind Waiting</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2013/Tree/Co-operative_%20Poem_Tree.htm">2013 - tree</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2011/Cooperative%20Poem/Co-operative%20Poem.htm">2012 - Lines Drawn from Greening Winds</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2010/Cooperative%20Poem/Co-operative%20Poem.htm">2011 - The Change in Winter Light</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2010/Cold.htm">2010 - Cold</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2009/Snow/Snow.htm">2009 - Snow</a><br />
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<strong>About Leaf Press</strong> <br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/">Leaf Press</a> is an independent press located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Ursula Vaira founded Leaf in 2001 as a poetry chapbook publisher. Since 2007 Leaf has been publishing trade poetry while continuing the chapbook tradition and the weekly on-line Monday's Poem.<br />
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-27685855835477228002014-09-22T16:33:00.000+02:002014-09-22T16:33:00.802+02:00Take part in Blog Action Day October 16, 2014<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ntbpkvC9Dtk/VCAvk7ZPDQI/AAAAAAAAUss/9iQIHGIRt-0/s1600/inequality.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ntbpkvC9Dtk/VCAvk7ZPDQI/AAAAAAAAUss/9iQIHGIRt-0/s1600/inequality.jpg" /></a><br />
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Every year since 2007, thousands of bloggers have come together for one day to talk about one important issue, like Poverty, Climate Change and Human Rights amongst others.<br />
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<b>The theme for blog action day 2014 is: Inequality</b>
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Bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, photographers, graphic designers, cartoonish, data geeks, tumblers and social media types from all over the world are invited to take part. Blog Action Day is a free event. <b><a href="http://blogactionday.org/">To join, register your blog at the Blog Action Day website</a></b>, which promotes participating blogs and websites and gives participants access to great content, tips and reminders.
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Blog Action Day is also <b>looking for volunteers</b> to help to organize the event, <a href="http://blogactionday.org/2014/09/20/needed-volunteers-to-make-blog-action-day-even-better/#.VCAxapR_uKU">more here</a>.
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<b>Revisiting Blog Action Day 2013</b><br />
In 2013, the focus was on the incredibly powerful topic of Human Rights. Bloggers from a record number of countries (130) created amainzg blog posts, info graphics, videos, podcasts and photography to explore what Human Rights means to them and take part in discussions with our partners such as Amnesty International. Just over 6,000 blog posts and social media updates about Human Rights were made for Blog Action Day from 130 countries. <a href="http://blogactionday.org/2013/10/22/highlights-of-blog-action-day-october-16-2013/#.VCAwtJR_uKU">Highlights of Blog Action Day 2013 - Human Rights</a>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-49084014754839851432014-08-10T11:46:00.000+02:002014-09-06T14:51:51.879+02:00 The Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Winners 2014 + 2015 Prize guidelines<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-92x8ZyvWfmo/U94AtZqeQZI/AAAAAAAAUZY/axpvXbpvGvs/s1600/cowealthprize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-92x8ZyvWfmo/U94AtZqeQZI/AAAAAAAAUZY/axpvXbpvGvs/s1600/cowealthprize.jpg" /></a>
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<b>The Commonwealth Short Story Prize unearths and promotes the best new writing from across the Commonwealth, developing literary connections worldwide. </b>The Prize enables and features writers from countries where there is little or no publishing industry, it identifies talented writers who will go on to inspire their local communities.
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The Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction. Regional winners will receive £2,500 and the Overall Winner will receive £5,000. Translators will receive additional prize money. Established in 2012, the Prize now was awarded for the third time.
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<b>Winners 2014</b><br />
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<li>Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi from Uganda is the Overall Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2014. You can read more about the author here: <a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/prizes/commonwealth-short-story-prize/2014-overall-winner/">Overall Winner 2014</a>. </li>
<li>The regional winners and their stories are presented here: <a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/prizes/commonwealth-short-story-prize/commonwealth-short-story-prize-2014-regional-winners/">Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Regional Winners</a></li>
<li>And here are the <b>direct links to the stories: </b><br />- <a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/lets-tell-story-properly-jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi/">"Let's Tell This Story Properly</a>" by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Uganda<br />- "<a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/day-death-sara-adam-ang/">A Day in the Death</a>" by Sara Adam Ang, Singapore<br />- "<a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/killing-time-lucy-caldwell/">Killing Time</a>" by Lucy Caldwell, UK<br />- "<a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/sending-chantal-maggie-harris/">Sending for Chantal</a>" by Maggie Harris, Guyana<br />- "<a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/dog-sea-lucy-treloar/">The Dog and the Sea</a>" by Lucy Treloar, Australia</li>
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<b>Short Story Prize 2015 Info + More</b><br />
The 2015 Short Story Prize will open for entry 15 September and will close on 15 November 2014. Eligible are unpublished stories, story length: 2000-5000 words, from Commonwealth authors.<br />
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More about the prize and the previous winners is online at the Prize homepage:<b> <a href="http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/prizes/commonwealth-short-story-prize/">Commonwealth Short Story Prize</a></b><br />
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<b>"Join the exciting + free 21-Day Drawing Challenge! The challenge is to help you make drawing a daily habit —for artists and non-artists alike"</b><br />
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The challenge is on now, it's free to join. For each day, there's a challenge-video with the task and with some drawing advice (news tasks are presented from Monday to Friday, the weekend is free or for catchup).<br />
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Participants can share their drawings via Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23draw21days&src=tyah">#draw21days</a><br />
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The task for day 1 is: "Cat" <br />
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<li>The Challenge info at Lynda.com: <a href="http://www.lynda.com/Design-Illustration-tutorials/21-Day-Drawing-Challenge/164144-2.html">21-Day Drawing Challenge with Von Glitschka</a> </li>
<li>The collected drawings at tagboard: <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://tagboard.com/draw21days" style="line-height: 150%;">tagboard.com/draw21days</a></span></li>
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The travel blog "I Must Be Off!" organized its second annual Travel Essay Contest. After collecting the entries in spring, a choice of the entries is now being presented in the blog. The first entries are online, and are reaching from Australia to Europe, and from nature trips to city stories:<br />
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<a href="http://www.imustbeoff.com/2014/07/the-scarlet-mile-by-gillian-brown.html">Australia: The Scarlet Mile by Gillian Brown</a><br />
"It is the first time I’ve visited a brothel... I’m in Kalgoorlie, the epicentre of gold mining in Western Australia. Gold was discovered here in 1893 and is now a 24/7, multi-million dollar operation. The Super Pit mine is half a kilometre deep and almost four kilometres long..."
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"The day starts dusty green, stretching as far as the eye can see in the grainy morning air; clouds are low and heavy and the threat of looming monsoon rains drives people out of their homestead before dawn. Morning light creeping across the fields finds the first of them, already perspiring, swinging scythes and sickles, bundling the dew damp rice, piling and shifting the bundles...."<br />
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"Locals have confidently dubbed Bodrum the St Tropez of Turkey and while this accolade may not be entirely deserved, its smart marina, wealthy yachties, Tiffany Blue waters and tiers of sugar-cube houses make it the prettiest of the three Muğly Sisters.."
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"We leave Munich for Mecklenburg Vorpommern at 3:00 a.m. and arrive at the campground where the rafting company docks its beautifully crafted rafts at 9:30 a.m. Six lovely hours in the car. According to the I Must Be Off! distance meter, that's 165 pop songs, 12 news reports (all reporting the exact same news, which can drive a person bonkers) and 3 talk radio programs on various topics---"<br />
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Christopher Allen is the author of Conversations with S. Teri O'Type (a Satire), an episodic adult cartoon about a man struggling with expectations. Allen's award-winning fiction and non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly's Best of the First Ten Years anthology, Prime Number Magazine, The Best of Every Day Ficton, Pure Slush, Bootsnall Travel and Chicken Soup for the Soul. A finalist at Glimmer Train in 2011, Allen has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize twice.Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-42164546066754261722014-07-07T15:45:00.000+02:002014-07-07T17:24:19.705+02:00Caine Prize for African Writing: Shortlist Stories online <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Chair of judges, award-winning author Jackie Kay MBE described the shortlist as, “Compelling, lyrical, thought-provoking and engaging. From a daughter's unusual way of grieving for her father, to a memorable swim with a grandmother, a young boy's fascination with a gorilla's conversation, a dramatic faux family meeting, to a woman who is forced to sell her eggs, the subjects are as diverse as they are entertaining.”<br />
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difficult for the judges to whittle it down to a shortlist of only five stories. We were heartened by how many entrants were drawn to explorations of a gay narrative. What a golden age for the African short story, and how exciting to see real originality - with so many writers bringing something different to the form."<br />
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To commemorate fifteen years of the Caine Prize this year, £500 will be awarded to each shortlisted writer. The winner of the £10,000 prize is to be announced at a celebratory dinner at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, on Monday 14 July.<br />
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<b>The 5 shortlisted stories can be read on the <a href="http://caineprize.blogspot.de/">Caine Website</a>, and are also offered as audio versions at <a href="http://caineprize.blogspot.de/2014/05/podcasts-of-2014-shortlisted-stories.html">Caine Prize podcast</a>.</b><br />
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<li style="border: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.caineprize.com/gfx/bullet.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Diane Awerbuck</strong> (South Africa) "Phosphorescence" in <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cabin Fever</em><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (</em><a href="http://www.randomstruik.co.za/struik-umuzi.php" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Umuzi</a><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, Cape Town. 2011)</em><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2014_Awerbuck.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read Phosphorescence</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.caineprize.com/gfx/bullet.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Efemia Chela</strong> (Ghana/Zambia) "Chicken" in <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Feast, Famine and Potluck</em><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (</em><a href="http://shortstorydayafrica.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Short Story Day Africa</a><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, South Africa. 2013)</em><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2014_Chela.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read Chicken</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.caineprize.com/gfx/bullet.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tendai Huchu</strong> (Zimbabwe) "The Intervention" in <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.openroadreview.in/the-intervention-by-tendai-huchu/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Open Road Review</a>, issue 7, New Delhi. 2013</em><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2014_Huchu.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read The Intervention</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.caineprize.com/gfx/bullet.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Billy Kahora</strong> (Kenya) "The Gorilla's Apprentice" in <a href="http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/The-Gorillas-Apprentice" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Granta</em></a><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (London. 2010)</em><a href="http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2014_Kahora.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read The Gorilla's Apprentice</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.caineprize.com/gfx/bullet.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Okwiri Oduor</strong> (Kenya) "My Father's Head" in <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Feast, Famine and Potluck (</em><a href="http://shortstorydayafrica.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Short Story Day Africa</a><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, South Africa. 2013)</em><a href="http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2014_Oduor.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read My Father's Head</a></li>
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<b>The Poetry Storehouse</b> is an effort to promote new forms and delivery methods for page-poetry by creating a repository of freely-available high-quality contemporary page-poetry for those multimedia collaborative artists who may sometimes be stymied in their work by copyright and other restrictions.<br />
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<b>Poetry Storehouse Links</b><br />
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<li>View the video remixes from Poetry Storehouse poems at <a href="https://vimeo.com/groups/poetrystorehouse"><b>Vimeo: Poetry Storehouse</b></a>. </li>
<li>More about the project, including a list of poets whose poems are available for remix and guidelines are a online at <a href="http://poetrystorehouse.com/"><b>poetrystorehouse.com</b></a>. </li>
<li>There also is a ongoing interview series with poets and remixers in which they discuss their Storehouse experience, hosted by the Moving Poems discussion forum – <a href="http://discussion.movingpoems.com/tag/poetry-storehouse-interview/"><b>read the interviews here</b></a>. </li>
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<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/groups/poetrystorehouse/videos/92389734">'You as tunnel' by Rose Hunter</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/groups/poetrystorehouse/videos/88640282">'Shift' by Dave Bonta</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/groups/poetrystorehouse/videos/92974203">'At Ruby's diner' by Sherry O'Keefe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/groups/poetrystorehouse/videos/77778283">'Playing Duets with Heisenberg's Ghost' by Peg Duthie</a> + <a href="https://vimeo.com/groups/poetrystorehouse/videos/79031893">2nd version</a></li>
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The Poetry Storehouse team is a collaboration and remix in itself, including Nic Sebastian, Rachel Barenblat, Dave Bonta, and several other. Their mission is: <i> "..to collect and showcase poem texts and, in some instances, audio recordings of those texts. It is our hope that those texts will serve as inspiration or raw material for other artistic creations in different media."</i><br />
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<em>from minimalist to avant-garde ---</em><br />
<em>open to innovative, imagistic, philosophical, </em><em><br />experimental creations---
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<em>Indefinite Space.</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net/indefinitespace14.htm">The 2014 edition of <em>Indefinite Space</em></a> contains work from 27 poets + artists: Linda King, Aimee Harrison, Bob Heman, Khaty Xiong, MJ Gette, Rob Cook, Joseph Cooper, Philip Miletic, William Garvin, arkava das, BZ Niditch, Guy R. Beining, Andrew Maximilian Niss, Wes Solether, Dorothee Lang, Stephen C. Middleton, Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Gabrielle Campagnano, Thomas Cochran, K.S. Hardy, Michael Albright, Mark Young, Andrew Topel,
Michael Frazer, Ivan de Monbrison, Jeff Harrison, Simon Perchik, Tom Pescatore, Jean Esteve,
Christopher Mulrooney, Bruce McRae, Robert Pfeiffer, Marie Nunalee, Dylan Joy<em>. </em><br />
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<strong>About Indefinite Space</strong><br />
<em>Indefinite Space</em> is edited by <a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net/marciaarrieta.htm">Marcia Arrieta</a>. She founded <i>Indefinite Space</i> in 1991 after receiving a grant for her work from the Pasadena Arts Council and has continued to publish the journal independently since then. <em>Indefinite Space</em> has a penchant for the avant-garde, the philosophical, the minimal (but not always), the natural, and the intangible.<br />
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<a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net/indefinitespace14.htm">Indefinite Space 2014</a><br />
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related links: <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/search/label/menu_poetry">poetry</a>, <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/search/label/menu_art">art</a>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-90909897711090976142014-03-06T16:18:00.003+01:002014-03-06T16:20:02.809+01:00Around the World in 12 Books Challenge - Round-up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Book blogger Shannon from Giraffe Days is hosting an international reading challenge this year: Around the World in 12 Books Challenge</b>.<br />
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Participants can send links to their reviews, and Shannon puts together a monthly roundup that feels like a virtual world-trip:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.giraffedays.com/?p=19606">Around-the-world February Round-up </a></b><br />
Participants covered all continents, yet again – including Antarctica! – and reviewed 4 books from Asia, 2 from South America, 10 from the UK and Europe, 3 from North America, 4 from Africa, 1 from the Middle East, and 5 from Australia-Antarctic and the Pacific. That’s an impressive 29 books reviewed for the challenge in February!! There was a real mix of genres, including older titles, historical novels, romance, mystery, folktales and non-fiction.<br />
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The round-up starts in South Korea, with a book blogger from Estonia.. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.040000915527344px;">Toomas Nipernaadi from Estonia who blogs at </span><a href="http://nonnativereader.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/korea-a-walk-through-the-land-of-miracles-by-simon-winchester/" style="background-color: white; color: #96263b; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 23.040000915527344px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Non-native Reader</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.040000915527344px;"> (I love the fact that participants of this challenge come from all over, it’s awesome!!), takes us to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.040000915527344px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25018.Korea" style="color: #96263b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.040000915527344px;"> with this travel book by Simon Winchester from 1988.</span><br />
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<b>January round-up + Joining the challenge</b><br />
For more international book suggestions and reviws, visit the <a href="http://www.giraffedays.com/?p=19413"><b>January's Around-the-world Round-up</b></a><br />
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You can still joine the challenge, there are also easier levels: Happy Camper: 2 books, Wayfarer: 4 books, Casual Tourist: 6 books. Here's the <a href="http://www.giraffedays.com/?p=18795">Sign-up page</a>.<br />
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<b>Humanity and Art courses online:</b> Last year, the online eduction platform Coursera launched. In partnership with many universities, Coursera offers free online courses in the fields of Computer Science, Medicine, Biology, Finance and Information, but also in Humanities and Social Science. Here are 2 courses that just started:<br />
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<a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/livearthistory">"<b>Live! A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers</b>"</a><br />
Organized by the California Institute of Arts, "<b>Live! A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers</b>" is a free and open art course: " xplore art history from the artist's perspective. Learn how contemporary artists, animators and gamers work from the art of the past as part of their creative process"<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/practicalethics">Practical Ethics</a></b><br />
"In this course you will be encouraged to think about some of the<b> ethical issues that we all face in our daily lives</b>,<b> and as concerned, global citizens</b>. The course will focus on the following topics: Is abortion wrong? Should we eat animals? What is our responsibility to the world’s poor? This course will encourage you to examine your ethical beliefs on topics relevant to the ancient question posed by Socrates: “How am I to live?”<br />
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<b>Other upcoming courses: <a href="https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&lngs=en&cats=humanities">Coursera Humanities courses</a> </b>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-80707236593092980922014-01-24T16:36:00.000+01:002014-01-24T18:02:58.749+01:00#readwomen2014: who will you read in 2014?<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cLrXuR60ypM/UuFo5V43mCI/AAAAAAAAS9Y/yjAk1vhFBoM/s1600/yearofreadingwomen2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cLrXuR60ypM/UuFo5V43mCI/AAAAAAAAS9Y/yjAk1vhFBoM/s1600/yearofreadingwomen2.jpg" /></a>
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<b>2014 has been declared as the year of reading women by the Guardian in an article. </b>This article now went viral with the hashtag: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23readwomen2014">#readwomen 2014</a>, with more and more readers joining, and new notes and links appearing continually in the twitterstream. Here's the key line from the original article:<br />
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Here are the links to the original article, the twitterstream and a tagboard with collected messages: <b> </b><br />
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<li>the original article by Joanna Walsh: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/jan/20/read-women-2014-change-sexist-reading-habits">Will #readwomen2014 change our sexist reading habits?</a> </li>
<li>Joanna Walsh's blog with cards +list: <a href="http://badaude.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/01/readwomen2014-the-list.html">readwomen2014 - The List</a></li>
<li>Twitterstream: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23readwomen2014">#readwomen2014</a></li>
<li>Goodreads book list: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/61373.The_Year_of_Reading_Women_readwomen2014">The Year of Reading Women</a></li>
<li>Tagboard: <a href="https://tagboard.com/readwomen2014/153946">#readwomen 2014</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2013/08/women-to-read-where-to-start-new-voices.html">Women to Read in SciFi: Where to Start & New Voices</a></li>
<li>Blue Fifth Review: <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2011/06/blue-five-notebook-male-voices-new.html">"Male Voices" + & "Glass Woman Special"</a> with many extra links, including: <a href="http://lunaparkreview.com/category/feature/race-class-gender-sexuality/">Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in Indie Publishing</a> + <a href="http://virtual-notes.blogspot.de/2009/10/indie-lit-scene-gender-imbalance.html">indie lit scene gender imbalance</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2011/02/elevate-difference-web-forum.html">Elevate Difference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2010/12/glass-woman-prize.html">The Glass Woman Prize</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2010/09/ars-electronica-festival-afghan-womens.html">The Afghan Women's Writing Project</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.de/2010/09/tuesday-shout-outs-politics-of-fiction.html">The politics of fiction + Reading and Race</a></li>
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-18657821381609503522014-01-22T13:04:00.001+01:002014-01-22T13:08:23.337+01:00Words without Borders: Kurdish Literature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In their new issue, the international online magazine Words without Borders is featuring <a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/current-issue/">Kurdish Literature</a>: <i>"This month we present writing by Kurdish authors. Writers from the various regions and dialects of Kurdistan consider questions of nation, language, and identity, providing fresh perspectives on this ancient culture and its contemporary conflicts."</i><br />
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<b>Issue Link: <a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/current-issue/">Kurdish Literature</a></b><br />
Bakhtiyar Ali describes an assassin's tipping point. Yavuz Ekinci's widow remembers the true love of her youth. Murathan Mungan draws on the Kurdish oral tradition. Alber Sabanoglu surveys recent writing about the history of Kurds in Turkey. Poet Abdulla Pashew blends political and personal longing...<br />
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<b>About Words Without Borders</b><br />
Founded in 2003, <a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/">Words without Borders</a> promotes cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature. Our publications and programs open doors for readers of English around the world to the multiplicity of viewpoints, richness of experience, and literary perspective on world events offered by writers in other languages. <br />
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<b>Recent Issues include:</b><br />
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<li><a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/october-2013">October 2013 - African Women, Indigenous Language</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/august-2013">August 2013 - Brazil</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/july-2013">July 2013 - Iran's Postrevolution Generation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/may-2013">May 2013 - North Korean Defectors</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/april-2013">April 2013 - Iraq, Ten Years Later</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/march-2013">March 2013 - Spain's Great Untranslated</a></li>
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-66856844370151283582014-01-07T22:12:00.000+01:002014-01-07T22:12:24.695+01:00"I Hear the Wind Waiting" - Leaf Press 2014 co-op poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since 2009, the editors of Leaf Press organize a collaborate winter poem for the start of the year, collecting couplets from different poets, to publish as co-op poem on the first Monday of the new year. <br />
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The theme for 2014 is: "Wind" - the poem is now online at: <b><a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2014/Wind/Wind.htm">Leafpress coop poem 2014: I Hear the Wind Waiting</a></b><br />
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It's composed of lines by <b>37 poets,</b> here the first 3 lines from 3 contributors:<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>"Thoughts, tousled by the wind</i></span></div>
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No one knew what the others wrote, the brief guidelines were: "An entry consists of one line or one couplet. Each line approximately 12 syllables."<br />
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<b>The co-op series</b><br />
And here, for the joy of poetic cooperation, the previous poems:<br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2013/Tree/Co-operative_%20Poem_Tree.htm">2013 - tree</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2011/Cooperative%20Poem/Co-operative%20Poem.htm">2012 - Lines Drawn from Greening Winds</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2010/Cooperative%20Poem/Co-operative%20Poem.htm">2011 - The Change in Winter Light</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2010/Cold.htm">2010 - Cold</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2009/Snow/Snow.htm">2009 - Snow</a><br />
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<strong>About Leaf Press</strong> <br />
<a href="http://www.leafpress.ca/">Leaf Press</a> is an independent press located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Ursula Vaira founded Leaf in 2001 as a poetry chapbook publisher. Since 2007 Leaf has been publishing trade poetry while continuing the chapbook tradition and the weekly on-line Monday's Poem.<br />
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-63020337234218466312014-01-03T17:19:00.001+01:002014-01-03T17:19:48.632+01:00"Be There Now" - a collection of true travel stories<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cp1z1Zq9UCo/UsV-PCGXuYI/AAAAAAAASx0/ONKpvSv2bnQ/s1600/bethere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cp1z1Zq9UCo/UsV-PCGXuYI/AAAAAAAASx0/ONKpvSv2bnQ/s1600/bethere.jpg" /></a><b>"Be There Now" is a collection of true travel stories featuring twenty-two contributors who share adventures and escapades from around the world.</b><br />
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The stories include the tale of an amateurish kidnapping in Nicaragua that could have been told by Woody Allen, and a David Sedaris-esque tale of two ships passing in a Paris art supply store. Existential stories from a man lost on the flooded Amazon River at night, and from a woman who encounters a grizzly–in the same area where her father and stepmother were killed by a bear.<br />
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Insightful stories about a woman’s spiritual journey in Peru (complete with hallucinogens!), and about a female journalist’s friendship with an Iraqi translator in Syria. And stories about endangered species in exotic locales, including helping a sea turtle lay its eggs on a Costa Rican beach, and taking a blind man to visit the mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 22px;">The book is available as paperback ($12) or as e-book for very travel-friendly 99 cents (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Be-There-Now-travel-stories-ebook/dp/B009W2MEII/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388765092&sr=8-1&keywords=be+there+now">link</a>). It's published by the indie book publisher "<a href="http://dreamofthings.com/">Dream of Things</a>", you can find more about the book on their website: "<a href="http://dreamofthings.com/be-there-now">Be There Now</a>". </span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">Foreword by Mike O’Mary, Series Editor; </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">Introduction by Julie Rand, Editor</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Once in a Lifetime [Guatemala]<b> </b>by Terri Elders</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Talk About “Embarrasant” [France] by Dominick Domingo</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Día de los Muertos [Mexico] by Kathe Kokolias</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Demon Blockers [China] by Jennifer Choban</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Still Alive [Syria] by Kelly Hayes-Raitt</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The Happiest Place on Earth [Disneyland] by Dina Kucera</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Berlin [Germany] by Jennifer Lang</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">A Quick and Cozy Kidnapping [Nicaragua] by Ben Bellizzi</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Turbulence [On a plane] by Roz Warren</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Encounter [Alaska] by Shannon Huffman Polson</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Perfect Pulpo [Mexico] by Suzanne LaFetra</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Where Light Germinates [Peru] by Melissa Heisler</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The Jigg’s Up [Newfoundland] by Carol McAdoo Rehme</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">A Trembling Voice [Costa Rica] by Frank Izaguirre</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Horse, Horse, Tiger, Tiger [China] by Ferida Wolff</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Open Eye [New Mexico] by Lynn Pinkerton</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">In the Footsteps of Fossey [Rwanda] by Irene Morse</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Driving Compassionately [Bali] by Peter Marmorek</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Pickles and Hiccups [On the way home] by Randy Richardson</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Treks [Kathmandu] by Katherine Horrigan</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Virtual Travel [On the Internet] by Trendle Ellwood</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Nowhere [Drifting in the heavens] by William Hillyard</span></span></li>
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-5802771813541199462013-12-12T07:27:00.000+01:002013-12-27T07:22:28.190+01:00Mindful Writing Challenge - January 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Mindful Writing Challenge <strong> </strong>started in January 2011 with a blog and an invite:<em> "Why would you want to join in? - Because choosing something to write about every day will help you to connect with yourselves, with others, and with the world. It will help you to love everything you see - the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the beautiful and the ugly. You don't have to be a 'writer' to get involved. The process of paying attention is what's important." </em><br />
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The result: more than 350 people across the world paying more attention to what was around them, and writing mindful notes, also called "small stones". Which induced an ongoing twitter stream: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/smallstone">twitter/smallstone</a>.<br />
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<strong>Mindful Writing Month</strong><br />
Now the next month of mindful writing month is coming closer, with an announcement and an invite to join. The Mindful Writing Challenge will start on January first, it's a great way to enter the new year on a fresh note. Here's the very short version of the invitation:<br />
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For more, visit the blog paget: <a href="http://www.writingourwayhome.com/small-stones/mindful-writing-challenge-jan-14/">Mindful Writing Challenge January 2014</a><br />
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-22524156276054470222013-12-10T19:26:00.000+01:002013-12-27T07:22:21.384+01:00The 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award: Finalists + Notable Stories<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wd6dvArsbok/TWfz1PwjA7I/AAAAAAAAEFk/xrnkZwnMOWM/s1600/storysouth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wd6dvArsbok/TWfz1PwjA7I/AAAAAAAAEFk/xrnkZwnMOWM/s1600/storysouth.jpg" /></a>
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<b>2013 <em>storySouth</em> Million Writers Award: Final Voting is open!
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Great stories are being published online. The <a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters.html"><b>storySouth Million Writers Award</b></a> for best online fiction of the year will help all internet-based journals and magazines gain exposure and attent. The purpose of the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2012. The award process includes several steps, the first steps was nominations from editors and readers.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters.html"><b>Million Writers Award Finalists are now online</b></a>, and voting is open, it will end December 31st. The voting will determine the top 3 selections from 2012, to be announced in January.
Together with the Finalists, the list of <b>all 50 notable stories of 2012</b> is online on the same page.<br />
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For even more stories, visit the <b><a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2013-editor-submit.html">Editor Nominations List</a></b>: more than 70 online magazines nominated their best stories, creating a wonderful mixed list - great to explore new magazines, new authors and new stories.<br />
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There's also a <a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2013-individual-submit.html">Reader nominations List</a>, but sadly some readers and writers misread the guidelines, thninking that this already is the voting stage and so several stories pop up again and again and again,<br />
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<b>The reason </b>for the Million Writers Award is that most of the major literary prizes for short fiction (such as the Best American Short Stories series and the O. Henry Awards) have traditionally ignored web-published fiction. This award aims to show that world-class fiction is being published online and to promote this fiction to the larger reading and literary community.
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<strong>Guidelines </strong>The award is for any fictional short story of at least a 1,000 words first published in an online publication during 2012. To help promote online stories, the Million Writers Award accepts nominations from readers, writers, and editors. There is no entry fee. For more details, visit the <a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2013-million-writers-award-rules.html">Award Rules</a>.<br />
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<b>Prize</b><br />
Each year, the Million Writers Award offers prizes to the authors of the winning story, a runner-up, and an honorable mention. These prizes are possible thanks to your generous support. Please click on the donate link below to offer your support. Donors have the option of being listed on the Million Writers Award Page or remaining anonymous.
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<br />Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-64240327735450154772013-11-02T16:05:00.000+01:002013-11-02T16:05:46.001+01:00NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The 50.000 word marathon is on again: National Novel Writing Month </b>(also known as NaNoWriMo) is an annual internet-based creative writing project which challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a new novel between November 1 and November 30.<br />
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Writers wishing to participate first register on <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en">the project's website</a>, where they can post profiles and information about their novels, including synopsis and excerpts. Word counts are validated on the site, with writers submitting a copy of their novel for counting. <br />
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<a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/peptalks">Pep talks</a> give advice along the way, and the extended <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums">NaNoWriMo forums</a> offer the chance to interact, motivate each other, and procrastinate. <br />
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This writing project was started by Chris Baty in July 1999 with 21 participants in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2000, it was moved to November "to more fully take advantage of the miserable weather" and launched an official website. With more writers joining each year, NaNoWriMo turned into a global event. In 2010, over 200,000 people took part - writing a total of over 2.8 billion words.<br />
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<strong>related links:</strong> <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/search/label/web_projects">other web projects</a>; <a href="http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/search/label/menu_on_writing">on writing</a>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-30892161213147219572013-10-04T19:55:00.000+02:002013-10-04T19:55:11.601+02:00Open Culture - free e-books, lessons, films, courses, readings..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The mission of <a href="http://www.openculture.com/">Open Culture</a> is "to bring together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is <b>to centralize this content, curate it,</b> and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here."<br />
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Website link: <a href="http://www.openculture.com/">Open Culture</a><br />
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<b>Some selected categories:</b><br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks">free audio book</a>s<br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/science_videos">great science videos</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/free_science_fiction_fantasy_dystopian_classics_on_the_web.html">free Science Fiction classics</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/intelligentvideo">top cultural video sites</a><br />
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It's also worthwile to browse the diverse entries on the starting page, with features like:<br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_by_david_foster_wallace_available_on_the_web.html">30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the Web</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/two-scenes-from-stanley-kubricks-dr-strangelove-recreated-in-lego.html">Two Scenes from Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, recreated in Lego</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/listening-to-prousts-remembrance-of-things-past-maybe-the-longest-audio-book-ever-made.html">Listening to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, (Maybe) the Longest Audio Book Ever Made</a>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-31739982519607299842013-09-21T10:48:00.001+02:002013-09-21T10:48:11.106+02:00Wiki Loves Monuments - photo contest<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36GjW9Nbles/Uj1beyjqCTI/AAAAAAAASJQ/Ak2Btbc5RJQ/s1600/wiki_monu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36GjW9Nbles/Uj1beyjqCTI/AAAAAAAASJQ/Ak2Btbc5RJQ/s1600/wiki_monu.jpg" /></a>
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<b>Wikipedia international photo contest around cultural heritage </b><br />
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Since September 1st, more than 50 countries from all over the world are in the race to show the best pictures of their heritage to the world through their participation in <a href="http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/">Wiki Loves Monuments 2013</a>.<br />
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It's the fourth year the contest is on, and 2013 might just turn into a new world record photo contest: "This year we are very excited to have for the first time Arab speaking countries join: Algeria, Jordan, Tunesia and Egypt all joined for the first time! But also in Asia the contest sees more participating countries, with China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Nepal and Azerbaijan. Also, the only continent without a permanent population (but with monuments!), Antarctica, is participating this year. But even in Europe where the competition started we’re able to welcome new participating countries, such as Armenia and the United Kingdom. The biggest country participating is Russia, and the smallest is Aruba."<br />
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<b>How to join</b><br />
If you would like to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments (which also includes an international contest and prizes), the only thing you have to do for that is upload a freely-licensed image of a monument in one of the participating countries to Wikimedia Commons. Links to the respective national websites are available in the sidebar of the <a href="http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/participate/">contest/participate page</a>.
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<b>September 12, 2013, marks the fifth anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s passing. </b><br />
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The <b>Found Poetry Review</b> remembers his life and contributions with a<b> special online edition</b> of their journal: <a href="http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/wrt-david-foster-wallace/"><b>W/R/T David Foster Wallace</b></a>
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"Though Wallace’s articles, interviews and books are like he was — finite — our capacity for conversation with him through found poetry continues. In this special issue, <b>nearly 30 poets share their conversations with David Foster Wallace</b>. As the world remembers his life and work this September, I invite you to pick up one of his texts and consider what conversations of your own you might have with him."<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_by_david_foster_wallace_available_on_the_web.html">30 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace</a></b><br />
For his own words, visit the link list that was collected by the magazine Open Culture: <span style="background-color: white;">"<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We spent some time tracking down free DFW stories and essays available on the web, and they’re all now listed in our collection of </span><a href="http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Free eBooks</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">. But we didn’t want them to escape your attention. So here they are — 23 pieces published by David Foster Wallace between 1989 and 2011, mostly in major U.S. publications like </span><em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The New Yorker</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Harper’s</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Atlantic</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">, and </span><em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Paris Review</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">. "</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />The <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_by_david_foster_wallace_available_on_the_web.html">list of essays and stories</a> starts, painfully fittingly for this week, with...</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/9-11-the-view-from-the-midwest-20110819" style="outline: none;">“9/11: The View From the Midwest”</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/14/091214fi_fiction_wallace" style="outline: none;">“All That”</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (New Yorker, December 14, 2009)</span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">...and ends with:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1994-07-0001729.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none;">“Ticket to the Fair”</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> (Harper’s, July 1994)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/03/09/090309fi_fiction_wallace" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none;">“Wiggle Room”</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> (New Yorker, March 9, 2009)</span></span></li>
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Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-59268361470092200292013-08-12T18:18:00.001+02:002013-08-12T18:32:44.085+02:00Women to Read: Where to Start & New Voices <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dz06jrXIYO8/Ugj1D8_CwsI/AAAAAAAAR1Q/xjC2r4lI8pI/s1600/women_sf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dz06jrXIYO8/Ugj1D8_CwsI/AAAAAAAAR1Q/xjC2r4lI8pI/s1600/women_sf.jpg" /></a>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In April, author Kari Sperring started a twitter initiative, basically by asking readers to recommend science fiction and fantasy by women after several frustrating experiences both in bookshops and in review surveys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Following the initative, SF Signal invited author A.C. Wise to write a series of guest posts, and give a sampling of female sf authors and recommended reads. Here are the links:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">SF Signal: Women to Read: Where to Start</span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/06/guest-post-a-c-wise-on-women-to-read-where-to-start/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part 1: Le Guin, Jacson, Eskrigde, Hopkinson</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/07/guest-post-a-c-wise-on-women-to-read-where-to-start-part-2/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part 2: Morrison, Bradley, Bell, Files</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/08/guest-post-a-c-wise-on-women-to-read-where-to-start-part-3/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part 3: SF books with women to read about</span></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Voices</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A.C. Wise also but a long list together of new voices: "C<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">calling on the power of the internet hivemind, I asked for examples of women who made their first speculative fiction sale (pro or otherwise) within the last two years or so. And lo! The internet delivered onto me a glorious list of names, which I’m delighted to share with you:"</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.acwise.net/?p=1369"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Women to Read: New Voices</b></span></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">100 Great SF Short Stories by Women</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">After reviewing the reprint of the sf-anthology "Women of Wonder", Ian Sales collected a list of science fiction short stories by women:
<a href="http://iansales.com/2013/07/06/toward-100-great-sf-short-story-by-women/"><b>Toward 100 Great SF Short Stories by Women</b></a>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">#Womentoread</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The original blog post of author Kari Sperring who started the initiative is online at <a href="http://www.karisperring.com/index.php?/archives/56-Womentoread.html">Womentoread</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Make sure to visit the ongoing twitterstream <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23womentoread&src=typd&mode=realtime"><b>#womentoread</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">.</span>Dorotheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071668426716077347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573451136642960363.post-6487944407111371892013-07-27T15:09:00.000+02:002013-07-27T15:09:41.842+02:00Impossible Spaces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>"Impossible Spaces" is a new collection of twenty-one dark, unsettling and weird short stories that explore the spaces at the edge of possibility.
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<i>Sometimes the rules can change. Sometimes things aren’t how they appear. Sometimes you can just slip through the cracks and end up… somewhere else. What else is there? Is there somewhere else, right beside you, if you could only reach out and touch it? Or is it waiting to reach out and touch you?</i><br />
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<i>Don’t trust what you see. Don’t trust what you hear. Don’t trust what you remember. It isn’t what you think.
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The collection is available as <a href="http://www.hic-dragones.co.uk/impossible-spaces/"><b>paperback + e-book: Impossible Spaces</b></a><br />
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<b>Authors + Editor: </b>The collection is edited by Hannah Kate, with stories by Ramsey Campbell, Simon Bestwick, Hannah Kate, Jeanette Greaves, Richard Freeman, Almira Holmes, Arpa Mukhopadhyay, Chris Galvin Nguyen, Christos Callow Jr., Daisy Black, Douglas Thompson, Jessica George, Keris McDonald, Laura Brown, Maree Kimberley, Margrét Helgadóttir, Nancy Schumann, Rachel Yelding, Steven K. Beattie, Tej Turner, Tracy Fahey
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<b>About Hannah Kate</b><br />
Hannah Kate is a poet and short story writer based in North Manchester, UK. Her work has appeared in local and national magazines, as well as in anthologies. In her other life, as Dr. Hannah Priest, she is an academic researcher and writer. She blogs at <a href="http://hannahkate.net/">HannahKate.net</a> <br />
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