February 2012
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Thinking of crows...
CROWS
From a single grain they have multiplied.
When you look in the eyes of one
you have seen them all. At the edges of highways
they pick at limp things.They are anything but refined.
Or they fly out over the cornlike pellets of black fire,like overlords.
(Crow is crow, you say.What else is there to say?
Drive down any road,take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life...
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1/125: "For Those Who Have Eyes to Hear" →
one125:
From Roy DeCarava’s The Sound I Saw:
…
why the present is a crutch of
empty
bottles drowning a derelict past
in surrealistic
confusions that ride the future on
platinum hair
and plywood boxes with cast iron wheels
imperiously
impersonal and impervious to everything
hot and cold
…
beautiful- grateful for the words and for getting to know these photographs which made...
January 2012
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December 2011
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New Writing Workshops with Jen Cross in SF and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 20, 2011 Writing Ourselves Whole 1645 Mar West Street, #5 Tiburon, CA 94920 Jen Cross 415-608-3398 Jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org Ready to write? Writing Ourselves Whole offers expanded classes and locations in 2012. In January 2012, Jen Cross and Writing Ourselves Whole will offer several exciting new writing workshops, with expanded opportunities for...
September 2011
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carte blanche call for submission September 15th...
carte blanche call for submission
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM
carte blanche is now accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation, graphic fiction, and photography for its Fall Issue (#14). If you’ve got a narrative, we want to see it.
The Fall Issue of carte blanche will include a special feature on obsessions. From your vintage stapler collection to spying on your exes, we...
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Sounds of Silence →
“This place, this noise is forever. It’s a measure of time, dissemination; it’s a string of hornet-stings that harden to agony.”
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Call TRANS & GENDERQUEER POETRY Nov-30th
OPEN CALL FOR AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRANS & GENDERQUEER POETRY
by Edit Team
What is the project: We are creating an anthology. An anthology of the best poems out there by trans and genderqueer writers and we would love to include your work in the book. Our assumption is that the writing of trans and genderqueer folks has something more than coincidence in common with the experimental, the...
August 2011
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Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grants... →
Deadline: September 15, 2011Website: www.leeway.orgE-mail address: info@leeway.org
Grants of up to $2,500 each are given twice yearly by the Leeway Foundation to women and transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and Two-Spirit poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in the Philadelphia area who need financial assistance to work on a project involving art and social change. Writers...
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Call for Submission- Chelsea Station →
Chelsea Station, Issue 1: A New Destination for Gay Writing
by WILLIAM JOHNSON on AUGUST 21, 2011
in CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, FOR WRITERS
Chelsea Station, a new magazine of gay writing, will be published four to six times a year by Chelsea Station Editions. We accept for consideration original and unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, memoir, humor, narrative travelogue, interviews,...
Calls for Submissions — Lambda Literary →
New Journal: quietSHORTS call for submissions -... →
Change – next steps in the gender defining process o Submissions accepted until July 31st, 2011 o Published September 2011 Success – stories of realized change o Submissions accepted until October 15th, 2011 o Published December 2011 Although quiet Shorts will accept rolling submissions, pieces that fit within the above format and time structure will be given priority. Simultaneous submissions are...
Call For Submissions: Anthology Of South Asian... →
Call for submissions: Anthology Of South Asian Queer Erotica [title forthcoming] To be published by Tranquebar Press in 2012
The deadline for submission is 15th September 2011.
Send your stories to queerotic.stories@gmail.com
Print journal seeks poetry and prose
Print journal seeks poetry and prose
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Print journal FreeFall Magazine (Alberta) seeks fiction and poetry for the Winter issue. Deadline: August 30, 2011. Guidelines
Oceania journal seeks writing on the sea - [places... →
Oceania journal seeks writing on the sea
28 June 2011 | Link | TrackBacks (0)Australian journal and blog Kurungabaa-a (Oceania) seeks literature, history, and ideas from the sea. Publishes poetry, short fiction, reflective and scholarly essays, memoirs, review essays, and interviews. Length: 2000 words max. Deadline: August 30, 2011.Guidelines
U.S. online journal re-opened to submissions -... →
InDigest (US) is accepting submissions of essays, poetry, short stories, plays, excerpts, and more for publication in issue #22 of InDigest (November 2011). Guidelines
U.S. online journal re-opened to submissions -... →
InDigest (US) is accepting submissions of essays, poetry, short stories, plays, excerpts, and more for publication in issue #22 of InDigest (November 2011). Guidelines
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Bakeless Literary Prizes | Middlebury →
2012 Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes
The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College sponsors the Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes, an annual book series competition for new authors of literary works in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The Bakeless Prizes, named for Middlebury College supporter Katharine Bakeless Nason, were established in order to support...
April 2011
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80 Journal Writing Prompts | TomSlatin.com -... →
atheatrekidproduction:
Perfect.
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“I have gray hair and love and art haven’t saved us yet. And maybe sometimes we...”
– Daphne Gottlieb via Rumpus
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The Rumpus Interview with Daphne Gottlieb →
Daphne Gottlieb is a badass, who released her fifth collection of poetry on April 1, 2011. She is the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for her book Final Girl, which was also a Village Voice favorite book of the year. She has toured the US performing her poetry a good-god number of times now. Her work has been frequently anthologized, has been translated into Turkish and Greek, and has...
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The Fine Art of Saying No →
Christine Sneed PloughShares
via Jen Cross
“Establishing a workable routine is of paramount importance if you hope to write regularly, but the practical concerns of the writing life probably aren’t discussed as much as they should be. How, in the avalanche of tasks we must accomplish in any given week, do we find the time to write? How do we make ourselves stop surfing the internet...
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won't you celebrate with me
won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed. —Lucille Clifton
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One Eyed Jack Number Four of Thirty →
I kinda like this one. The rest are craptastical.
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Number Three of Thirty →
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Sonnet: Against Entropy
via Tor
JOHN M. FORD
The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke. The universe winds down....
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Number Two of Thirty →
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Bent: A Writing Institute Seattle WA →
Mission: To promote and encourage written and spoken word among LGBTIQ people and in our communities
Bent began as the dream of a queer poet longing for a bigger community of queer writers. Tara Hardy took action and in August of 2000 the first queer writer’s class began in her living room. The supportive and empowering collective has blossomed ever since. Five classes filled up quickly,...
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Number One of Thirty →
rough and needs revision and it’s dirty
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March 2011
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Million Fishes Call for Art and Stories- April 5... →
Call for art: June National Queer Arts Festival
Submit work by April 5th 2011.
Million Fishes is curating a a month of community-oriented queer arts happenings in June and we are seeking submissions for visual art, performance and storytelling!
In June, our gallery will become an interactive queer wonderland filled with your creative takes on queer senses and sensibilities. We seek submissions...
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“I write to discover what I know.”
– Flannery O’Connor (via saltspray)
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Why Is It Taking So Friggin' Long- Ploughshares →
by Christine Sneed
via Jen Cross
excerpt …
“We don’t all, however, want to do the necessary hard work that such emotional tributes usually require. The harsh truth is, for most of us, it won’t happen overnight. Despite the fact that the careers of some very famous and respected young writers seemed to have shot out of the publishing gates with the speed of Secretariat (Zadie...
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Queering SFF: The Female Man by Joanna Russ (+... →
Brit Mandelo
via Tor.com
The past few reviews in the Queering SFF series have been of new books (such as Amanda Downum’s The Bone Palace), and since these posts are intended to gather history as much as they are to introduce new work, today we’re jumping back in time to the 1970s. Specifically, to one of Joanna Russ’s most famous works, her novel The Female Man, and the companion short...
November 2010
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Calls for Submission via Writing Ourslelves Whole →
May 2009
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Orlando Creative Writing Examiner: Call for... →
Microfantasy Monday, week 26’s theme: Skin «... →
April 2009
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counterPULSE :: San Francisco performance art... →
Amazonfail: A Call to Boycott Amazon : Edward... →
Amazon sets the blogosphere on fire « Lisa Gold:... →
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Kenya: Call for submissions - Writing Queer Kenya →
aidresources:
2009-03-20 We lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individuals, in a word, queers, have had the distinct un-pleasure of being told we don’t exist—in official government statements,…