Let’s face it, submitting to journals and magazines is a bit of a crap shoot… your odds are improved by a lot of digging, researching, and, of course, writing and editing, but in the end, you’re just playing in the sand and hoping for the best!
Yet, this is not as discouraging as you might think, good research is not to be undervalued, look long enough and you can find the perfect publication for what you are working on, and just because the one you …
I know I know not everybody LoVeS poetry… so I have heard anyway… I just choose not to believe it!
But for those of you who are definitively nOt haters, you should check out the Poetry Foundation website…. oooo Nelly (who IS Nelly anyway?) there is some good stuff to be found there…
not only does it have the Poetry Tool - how great a name is ThAt?! It’s a database where you may search their plentiful archives by poet or poem, first line …
Last month, I took a break from my solitary writing life (and my day job) to spend a week with ten other fabulously talented fiction writers. I also got to mingle with a few dozen more writers who were working on poetry, life writing and writing for children and young adults. Where did I find this eclectic and inspiring congregation of scribes? The School of Writing at CMU.
For me, the School was the perfect balance of working alone and in collaboration with other …
Hey all! Happy post May Long weekend blahs! I hate short weeks after long weekends – so anticlimactic. Well, hate is a strong word, and really what do I have to complain about - SUMMER IS HERE!! YES! the unofficial start of Winnipeg’s summer season is now upon us, and that means the BDI is open, slurpees are flying out of the dispensers, kids are using the after storm puddles as wading pools, AND, perhaps most notably of all, the Writers Collective of Manitoba is …
so i wanted to write a post about time, about how i never seem to have enough time to write, about how stupid it is that the work is always the first thing to go when life gets hectic, about how every writer i know seems to suffer from this time shortage epidemic. i wanted to write about this, but you know what? i really don’t have the time.
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