November 19, 2012
The latest issue of Dayton’s own Mock Turtle, a first-rate, independent grassroots literary ‘zine, hits the streets on December 7. Distributed for free at selected coffeehouses, colleges and bookstores, this will be the sixth issue, and if it’s like the previous ones (available at their website), it’ll be another beautiful work of art.
I’m quite proud that two of my poems appeared in Issue #4, and a memoir piece, “Unexplored Country,” will appear in the upcoming issue, #6.
Love’s Literary Labors
Appearing at Antioch Writers’ Workshop last summer, editor/founder Christina Dendy and managing editor Matthew Birdsall appeared, wise, witty and dead serious about […]
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November 14, 2012
Familiar Story
We who play the writer’s sweepstakes game know the feeling. You find this contest that seems to have been conceived to reward your kind of writing. You enter with high hopes, beating the deadline by at least ten minutes. Then you wait. And wait some more. Finally you fire off a query, and the sponsors send you an e-mail with the winners’ names (yours conspicuously absent). Not only did you not win, but the sponsors didn’t even bother to inform you! You receive exactly nothing for your investment of time, money and hope.
Ah, contests: the pain and the glory. I’ve entered […]
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