October 2023
It is what you read when you don't have to
that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
~Oscar Wilde
CONGRATULATIONS to our Best of the Net nominees!
John Coats, “Revelation”
Patti Jazonoski, “Our Story”
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Three Flash Poems: “On Being Asked By A Man In The Alley Behind Subway If I Wanna Fight Him,” “Party Tricks for a Sad Poet,” “Fact Check”
Tessa Pagones, “Hospice Admission”
Mandira Pattnaik, “Of Foliage”
Andre F. Peltier, “Gregor Samsa in Reverse”
Marsha Recknagle, “Late Summer Lover”
And in community news!
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s poetry collection, Staring Too Closely, is now available!
An interview with JoeAnn Hart, author of Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, appeared in EcoLit, and a review of her book, “Local author's 'Highwire Act' looks at climate change” was published by the Gloucester Daily Times.
“Chains and Snow and Sex” by F. Scott Hess, was published by Masque & Spectatcle.
Danuta Hinc, author of When We Were Twins, was interviewed by Elizabeth Hazen for Baltimore Review.
Lisa Johnson Mitchell’s, So As Not to Die Alone, published by Finishing Line Press, is on the stands!
Karen Schauber’s “Expiration Date”' (from 2019) was included in the latest Fiction Kitchen Berlin Anthology and “The Garden Party,” was published in A-Minor Magazine.
Our next InConversation event is Tuesday, October 24 at 7 pm. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) and features Danuta Hinc, author of When We Were Twins. Registration is required!
September’s MicroLit Almanac contained work by Angelique Tung, Ann Goethals, David Orr, and Anna Fernandes. The latest review is an insightful look at Linda Parsons’ Valediction by Jonathan Everitt.
Forget about raking leaves and commit to your writing with a week of stories, essays, poems, and prompts, all designed to help you create new work. This is an opportunity to expand your horizons by experimenting with creative work, either in traditional literary form or in one of the many genres (SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, whatever you choose). You’ll receive introductory information and three packets of work with readings and prompts designed to generate work. Our open forum allows the group of writers to read and comment on each other’s work. All literary and realistic writing will be eligible for early review and inclusion in MicroLit Almanac.
Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry
October 22-29, 2023
(asynchronous, self-paced)
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Enjoy Fall’s crisp air, and Happy Halloween-
Cat & Max
