October 2022
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Welcome to our October newsletter, a source for the latest at Birch Bark Editing. Our heart goes out to all those in the path of the hurricane.
Linda Dittmar’s memoir Tracing Homelands has been accepted for publication by Interlink and will hit the stands in June/July of 2023.
Black Lawrence Press awarded The Hudson Prize to Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival by JoeAnn Hart. Look for it in 2023!
Gail Hosking read her essay “OneSmall Step” (West Trade Review). Other work by Gail that’s been recently published includes "Kibbutz Machanaim, 1972" ( Main Street Rag) and "The Zen of My Refrigerator" (Healing Muse).
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s essay “Trying to Save the Honeybees” appeared in Gone Lawn.
Mix & Meet jumped into the fall season in early September with prompts and prose. It’s a fabulous group — join us on October 4th!
We hosted poets Judith Baumel with Rachel Hadas for our September InConversation event—they read stunning poetry about family, history, and the pandemic, and followed the readings with a discussion of poetic form and the influence of mentors. If you missed it, you can watch the event here.
Moments in Miniature, a three-hour class on writing flash prose, was a fast and fabulous success! Stay tuned for more Birch Bark offerings.
We hope you’ll join us on Tuesday, October 18th with Ray Nayler with Wendy N. Wagner. Go to our events page for more information.
Join us Tuesday, November 1 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Jennifer Barber and A. Molotkov. Jennifer will be reading from her most recent poetry collection The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made and A.Molotkov will be reading from his poetry collection Future Symptoms.
Help Max celebrate her birthday with more generative writing prompt sessions at our next Mix & Meet, which is Tuesday, October 4th at 5 p.m. Eastern.
Want to bring what’s written on the body and action to your prose? Join us as we focus on bringing creative power to flash work aimed at addressing issues that create foment. Bring your voice to the fore! You’ll leave this workshop with 2-3 pieces that tap into the distinctive power of the flash form, work you’ll submit to literary magazines dedicated to concerns that circle us daily.
September’s issue contained work by Anne Starr, Leigh Rastivo, J.R. Angelella, F. Scott Hess, M.C. Armstrong, and Rina Terry. Submissions open again March 1, 2023!
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Save the Date!
Post-Election Crash Party (Mix & Meet) Wednesday November 9th
BBE InConversation on November 15th with Tom Piazza & Guest
Stay tuned for a special December Tuesday event