February 2023
“It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.”
~Aldo Leopold
Courage! Light lingers longer, and even as snow drifts, the sun brings warmth.
Heidi Barr’s collection Collisions of Earth and Sky was published January 31!
An interview with Erika Nichols-Frazer about her book, Feed Me, took place on WCAX3, and a review appeared in Vermont’s Seven Days.
Poetry: the Art of Words, hosted by Miriam O’Neal, received a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant.
Carrie Nassif’s review of Ann Bookman’s Blood Lines was published in The Colorado Review.
Our InConversation event with Kathy Fagan and Debra Monroe was a huge success — standing room only on Zoom, if that’s possible! They discussed staying away from "confessional" writing in memoir, signature endings, and staying motivated to write. Here’s the link to the recording. Enjoy!
Join us Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Jamie Zvirzdin and Rina Palumbo.
Jamie will be reading from Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter and Rina will be reading from her flash fiction. Registration is required! Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.
Tuesday, February 7th, join us for Mix & Meet. Come write fresh flash fiction and nonfiction — and poetry!
Kaleidoscope: A Micro Medley
Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry
Monday, February 13 — Sunday, February 26
(asynchronous)
Beat the mid-winter snap and commit to your writing with two weeks of stories, essays, poems, and prompts, all designed to help you create new work. A packet of readings and prompts will drop twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, work is due on Sundays, and you will receive a note from us acknowledging you’ve completed your writing for that week. Our open forum allows the group of writers to read and comment on each other’s work. All writing will be eligible for early review and inclusion in MicroLit Almanac.
The workshop costs just $40 for 2 weeks – a plot to kick the winter blues and blahs. Share your work with us!
January’s issue contained work by Suzanne Hicks and Tessa Pagones. Get your pens ready —submissions open again March 1!
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Tara Ison and David Ryan InConversation on Tuesday, March 28th!