December 2022
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
As you know, our December focus will be on our Benefit for Ukraine. We hope to have Marjana Savka in Kyiv join us on Zoom on Tuesday, December 6 at 7 p.m. Eastern. Please save the date and join us for first-hand reporting on the war in Ukraine and readings featuring our Best of the Net nominees.
MicroLit Almanac Pushcart Prize nominees:
Judith Baumel “O: Free Range”
Andrea Caswell “Mont Blanc”
Ruth Edgett “What Are You Looking At?”
Craig Holt “Soon Enough”
Erica Plouffe Lazure “The Games We Played”
Anne Starr “Evening”
MicroLit Almanac Best American Short Stories anthology nominees:
Ruth Edgett “What Are You Looking At?”
Craig Holt “Soon Enough”
MicroLit Almanac Best Microfiction Anthology 2023 nominees:
John Coats “A Cold Self”
Valerie Fox “My Sister Morgana Humming”
Anne Starr “Evening”
Kelly Watt “Next Exit”
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins “Party Tricks for a Sad Poet”
Gail Siegal “What the Mirror Tells Us”
In the Writing World:
Jane Cynewski Elkin’s essay appears in the Snatches of an Aria anthology.
Kelly Watt’s poem “I Am Sun in Taurus” appears in Last Stanza Poetry Journal.
Gail Hosking’s essay “I Follow Her Between War and Not War” appears in Collateral.
M.C. Armstrong’s novel American Delphi was featured in Monkeybicycle’s If My Book.
Tom Keating’s updated story "Vietnam Memorial, Past and Present" was published in a Hometown Weekly.
Miriam Camitta’s essay “Necessary for Life” was published in the Fall issue of Fourth Genre.
Leigh Rastivo’s review of Ann Bookman’s Blood Lines appeared in The Arts Fuse.
Join us Tuesday, December 6 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with our Best of the Net nominees to benefit Ukraine. Registration is required.
If you can’t make it, please consider making a donation to Razom, a nonprofit organization benefiting Ukraine. Another possible way to support Ukraine is to buy the anthology Ukrainian-American Poets Respond. All proceeds from the sale of this anthology support the Ukrainian people in this time of war.
Tuesday, January 10, kick off the New Year with Mix & Meet. Start 2023 with flash’y writing prompts followed by group feedback!
November’s issue featured work by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins and Gail Siegel. Submissions open again March 1, 2023!
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