reading and writing a life
The Moment, by Margaret Atwood The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms […]
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Entries are due for the first annual Artists & Writers Mini-Contest by 11 p.m. EST, tomorrow. Watch your news feed tomorrow afternoon for the April Week One Topic Post, and get ready for another month of competition! Meanwhile, check out the community About Page. We’re always looking forward to meeting new members and friends!
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To The Whore Who Took My Poems, by Charles Bukowski some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem, stay abstract, and there is some reason in this, but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep carbons and you have my paintings too, my best ones; its stifling: are you trying to crush […]
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Introduction to Poetry, by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the […]
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The Balance Wheel, by Anne Sexton Where I waved at the sky And waited your love through a February sleep, I saw birds swinging in, watched them multiply Into a tree, weaving on a branch, cradling a keep In the arms of April sprung from the south to occupy This slow lap of land, like […]
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Entries for the final March topic, The Devil I Have Not Met, are due by 11 p.m. EST tonight! Part 1 of my own reworked story entitled the same is here. Constructive criticism, or just acknowledgment that you have read, is appreciated! And, in newer news, there is an Artists & Writers Contest in effect for […]
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Top o’ the mornin’, my darling Flamelings! Stories of What Worlds May Come await your reading, commenting, and voting. The poll closes tomorrow. Meanwhile, #youshouldbewriting for Week Three! Competitive and Just For Fun entries for Live To Tell The Tale are due the 22nd. We all know —…
The Week Two Topic at Brigit’s Flame offers writers the opportunity to explore Science Fiction and Fantasy. Read the topic, interpret, and write what you must! Entries are due by tomorrow night, 11:45 EST. Tell me a story!
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? WHAT WORLDS MAY COME Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne — these authors brought their earliest readers to the edge of the known world then pushed them over the cliff into a thrilling, chilling, possibly boundless unknown where science, fantasy, and the persistence of human failure…
The entries for Local Color are due tomorrow night by 11:45 p.m. EST. Don’t miss your chance to write for our March contest! Feel free to leave any questions you might have in comments here, or at Brigit’s Flame.
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Kathy Boles-Turner 