Monday Markets for Writers
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)
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Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Marvelous Movies
I didn’t manage to see every film nominated for an Oscar this year, but late last week I managed to catch two of them: Spotlight and Trumbo.
I thought that both of them were terrific.
More significant, for purposes of this post, I thought that both of them had a lot to give writers to mull over, not least in terms of their respective portrayals of process, risk, moral responsibility, networking, and teamwork. (That the worlds depicted in both films display a common bond of anti-Semitism is something else that caught my attention, but that’s another matter.)
I’d love to hear responses from others who have seen Spotlight and/or Trumbo.
New Poetry Has Value Post
Monday Markets for Writers
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)
Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Newly Published Poem
Happy to share my latest published poem, “Self-Portrait with Root Rescue™,” which Silver Birch Press published last week as part of its “My Mane Memories” series.
As noted beneath the poem, this one emerged from a prompt I discovered last April during National Poetry Month. I’d been trying to place it for several months when I learned about the themed call from Silver Birch Press. (I’d also read it aloud a couple of times in public, where it was well received.) (more…)
Monday Markets for Writers
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)