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We went with friends at the weekend to see the movie "First Position."
It's a documentary that follows a handful of youngsters, aged ten to
seventeen or s...
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on the way back home - following the road theme and the current photo Friday theme “Of house and home”: a moment on the long drive from south france back home (here’s more from t...2 hours ago
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Sticky Tidal Waves - Leni Zumas’ The Listeners imparts on us a new vocabulary with which to describe the experience of loss, grief, renewal, and the simple experience of everyd...2 hours ago
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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Christopher Leibow, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Kaitlin Solimine and Jason Lee - Christopher Anthony Leibow Christopher Anthony Leibow's "I will draw two ravens" (in five poems) is now available in Reprint Poetry, a new publication whi...
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The Lost Girls & Peter Pan - Have you noticed that 90% of Disney heroines are wide-eyed, trusting, mostly naive, always beautiful, longing for freedom from a tower, from the ocean, f...2 hours ago
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Win a FREE Membership to ElegantThemes - Advertise here with BSA Time for another great giveaway here on Web Design Mash. This time we have teamed up with the nice people over at ElegantThemes t...3 hours ago
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i may be closed to queries but I've got my eye fixed on these guys! - My scouts report some darn good writers can be found in interesting places! I'm particularly interested in this young guy here: "His story “The Fly and His...3 hours ago
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The Green Carnation Prize 2012 - I seem to have gone off radar on Savidge Reads recently, apologies for that but it has all been a little bonkers of late. I have had a poorly other half to...7 hours ago
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How we can see beyond our beliefs (dark moods & irritability) - *Kaspa writes: *Human beings are covered in stories. But there is *something * *else* as well. It is possible to be connected to the world in a clearer wa...
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Review: THE MISSING, P D Martin - - Format: Kindle (Amazon) - *File Size:* 205 KB - *Print Length:* 38 pages - *Publisher:* Murderati Ink (March 4, 2012) - *Sold by:* Am...8 hours ago
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May. 28, 2012: The Writer's Almanac - Monday's Poem: "The Joke That Got No Laughs" by Hal Sirowitz, from Father Said. Monday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of poet May Swenson, born in Log...10 hours ago
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This Week in Fiction: Jennifer Egan - [image: jennifer-egan-233.jpg] *Editor’s note: Deborah Treisman spoke with Jennifer Egan about her story in this week’s issue, “Black Box,” which is also...11 hours ago
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Bunting - Story: Bunting Author: Jon Gower Collection: Too Cold for Snow I loved some portions of this story. I hated others. The narrator pays a visit to his mother i...11 hours ago
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What 60,000 Words Look Like - chart thingy –can I sell this? Last week, I reached my goal of 60K words in 3 months. Above is the second half of my progress thermometer (you’ve seen th...14 hours ago
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Haiga 832 - Kuniharu Shimizu haiku - Haiku and artwork by myself. This haiku came to my mind when I was watching a TV document of a desert, where they found fossilized whale bones. That tells...
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Holbrook Fairy Tree – Extreme Reading #23 - The English summer having finally descended upon us, serious al fresco reading was long overdue. And thus, inspired by Proust… ‘And indeed at that very mom...16 hours ago
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The Last Kickstarter Post - We're in the last four days of Amanda's Kickstarter. Over the last almost-a-month of the Kickstarter she's gathered a huge amount of support, set records f...20 hours ago
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Tips for Writers: "Alright" is not all right. - I don't know where "alright" came from, but it's not standard and should not be used in writing. I see it in submissions and student work all the time, th...
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Showing up for summer (#4) - The fourth thing I want to show up for this summer is: Friendship. Sharing food and drinking wine by the open fire, after dark, all of us sitting around in...23 hours ago
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When A Run Does Not Mean Running Away - I think I am guilty of that - sometimes, I feel I have run away from problems. Every time I am unhappy, I find myself flying to China. But then, I think that...1 day ago
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Book Tour Guest Post on Drasmyr by Matthew D. Ryan - * * *Drasmyr * *By Matthew D Ryan* * * *In a world of wizards and vampires a clever man may make a fortune. But hunting the undead is no small task, as Cor...
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BÜCHERSCHAU DES TAGES: Krisen des modernen Ichs - *FAZ* und* NZZ* sind beeindruckt von Drastik und Zartheit in *John Cheevers*neu übersetztem Roman "Willkommen in Falconer". Ganz groß findet die *FAZ* auch ...2 days ago
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On "A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party" by Margaret Wappler (467 words) *** - Sometimes I miss California, even in all its wonkiness. Sure, we have a share of that here where I live as well, but somehow it seems different in the dese...2 days ago
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Curated Prompt: Timothy Yu – “Travesty” - This May, in celebration of APIA Heritage Month, we have asked several respected teachers and writers of Asian American poetry to share writing exercises w...2 days ago
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Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave - Wife Says Man “Not the Same” Since Return from Forest by Lou Amyx for John Wood, with apologies to Thomas Hardy It’s true. For who could be Called same tha...2 days ago
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Garden Forms - After doing a quick drawing today, of a corner of my studio, I leafed through the pages of the rather old sketchbook. This drawing caught my eye. It was obvi...2 days ago
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eloise by Al Rempel - British Columbia-based poet Al Rempel made this film with post-production help from Steph St. Laurent of VideoNexus Productions. The text is from Remple’s ...2 days ago
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A Weekend Experiment in Information Dieting + an Invitation - "Reading deprivation is a very powerful tool - and a very frightening one. Even thinking about it can bring up enormous rage. For most blocked creatives,...2 days ago
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Awareness and Awakening - Since, in my last posting, I wrote that ‘awareness is overestimated’ and since I could be seen as belonging to ‘the awareness culture’, I feel a need to ...
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Make Friday Write - Hello again, Friday! I have been in professional development classes most of this week but I took Tuesday off to meet with another writer to discuss the “F...3 days ago
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Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers – Review by Carol Smallwood - Motherhood for adoptive and birth mothers is a life-changing experience. Writing helps the confusion that new mothers flounder through as they fight post-p...3 days ago
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New Blog — The Myriad Things - Well, after a year more or less on blogging hiatus—other than my updates here on WillBuckingham.com, I’ve decided to set up a new blog for myself. As man...3 days ago
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The Mulligans of Mt. Jefferson - *Finished May 25* *The Mulligans of Mt. Jefferson* by Don Reid This novel focuses on three men, lifelong friends, now in middle age. Set in the small town ...
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conclusion - Thousands of folders either empty or full of corrupt blankness. This fucking grey veil that doesn't allow me to see. Rumi says: *In your light I learn ho...3 days ago
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This Week... Stroud, Spread the Word, and Online Story Workshop - So, above is a photo which warms my heart - the first sighting of MMWAUP in a bookshop, the fabulous Waterstones Bristol Galleries! They now have several ...
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Faerie Facts and the Lantern Lowdown #6 - A little over three weeks left to send your faerie folk and/or lantern poems. See #1, #2, #3,#4, and #5. Faerie Facts On the hidden people (from Wikipedia)...3 days ago
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Remembering Davenport - Guy Davenport via Wikipedia *Two Visits with Guy Davenport * *(Followed by an Angel)* *W.C. Bamberger* *In 1991 I drove alone to Lexington, Kentucky in a b...
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ever since i was a little (or, littler) boy i've always loved the subways in new york. - ever since i was a little (or, littler) boy i've always loved the subways in new york. when i was really young in the late 60's and early 70's i'd take ...4 days ago
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This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman - It was hard not to compare this novel to *The Privileges*, which I hated, beyond anything I’ve hated in a long time. I actually threw the book into the gar...4 days ago
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The Tao of Pooh - Sitting in my senior history class, my teacher would go off on his typical stories to keep the...5 days ago
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Life Is Not A Fiction. Can One Person Make A Difference? - Life Is Not A Fiction ~ by OneMoreOption Art is often a fiction. Art often is pleasantly fictional. When a fictional story more accurately approximates...5 days ago
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•a man, a plan, a canal, pandemonium• - Perhaps against my better judgement, I watched a natural disaster documentary last night. Not what you should do before sleep. Tsunami: Caught on Camera (2...
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New Chapvelope from The Offending Adam - *The Offending Adam* is excited to announce the release of the third installment of the Chapvelope Series, featuring: Lan Lan & Yi Lu:: *You Are Not Here *...
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Getting Outside - Maybe today’s new photography will inspire you to get outside for a few moments : ) or to perhaps to stay in and write (or submit to our open reading perio...5 days ago
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Von den Ludwigsburger Zugwiesen nach Remseck - Dies ist nun schon der dritte hintereinanderfolge Post in diesem Blog zum Renaturierungsprojekt in den Ludwigsburger Zugwiesen. Im ersten Post der kleinen ...
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Simple Complexes - Wouldn't you like to perform a workout that is effective for building muscle, burning fat, and improving your fitness level at the same time? Does it sound...6 days ago
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Interview With My Muse - INTERVIEW WITH MY MUSE by Chris Abouzeid [Transcript of original FAUX-TV broadcast. All rights reserved.] ME: Our guest today is one of the true beating he...6 days ago
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Own your wobble - A few weeks ago, I presented at the Field’s End Conference on Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was one of my very favorite conferences, with a level of in...1 week ago
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Million Writers Award notable stories of 2011 - The storySouth Million Writers Award notable stories of 2011 have been released. These are the stories our preliminary judges believed were the best online s...1 week ago
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In Which Blogging Teaches Me Something About Writing Novels - The other night I described this method to my friend Mike Albo and he said, “You jerk! Why didn’t you tell me about this ten years ago?”* So, I’m telling y...1 week ago
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Infinity: The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici - The composer Tancredo Pavone is sure of his quest: “The centre of the sound is the heart of the sound. One must always strive to reach the heart of the sou...
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Indelible Beach Bash: Suffocate Release (chance to win a new ereader!) - May is a banner month for new releases from the Indelibles! Summer is just around the corner. Are you ready for pool side READING? *How about a new ...
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Her cosmetically butchered face harboured nothing but fear and received ideas. - Heliopolis, by James Scudamore In selecting quotes for this review I noticed an interesting thing. I noticed that I’d only picked descriptive passages. It’...1 week ago
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Are We Born Optimists? - By Mary Jaksch Are we optimists by nature? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side — and how that can...1 week ago
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For example - I noticed, over the last few months, as my mother was dying, that I had taken pictures that seemed very specific. Now I am looking at the archive, as one l...1 week ago
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Fame by Daniel Kehlmann - Image Credit : Guardian It's been a while since I finished reading a book over a weekend. Fame by Daniel Kehlmann isn't a magnum opus - it's rather what th...
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Don't think twice, s'aight.: Hem to FitzG: F your personal tragedy. - Don't think twice, s'aight.: Hem to FitzG: F your personal tragedy.: hannahmiet: “[A] long time ago you stopped listening except to the answers to your ow...1 week ago
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Review of Karen Lillis’s Watch the Doors as They Close - *Watch the Doors as They Close* Karen Lillis. Spuyten Duyvil Novella Series, $10.00 trade paper (100p) ISBN 9780923389871 In her bittersweet novella abou...2 weeks ago
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Why 50 Shades of Grey Makes Agent Lives Harder - STATUS: The appointment schedule is firming up! Get ready for some posts on what editors will be looking for in 2012. What’s playing on the XM or iPod righ...2 weeks ago
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3 Therapeutic Breathing Meditations For Anxiety: - “Lengthening your exhale reminds you to pause. Deepening your inhale helps you feel into your next pause.” Carole Fogarty I’ve written this post in respon...2 weeks ago
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All-Female Shortlist for Edge Hill Short Story Prize! - From a long longlist, the shortlist for the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2012 has been picked - and it's all female! Now in its sixth year, it i...2 weeks ago
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Back Soon - Sorry I haven't been around here much of late - I've been super busy working on another writing project. Back soon, but in the meantime here's a picture...3 weeks ago
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unFold 2012 Garden Show Selections - Photograph courtesy of Debbie Feller Thanks to our unFold poets and photographers, our blog is about to bloom. As editors, we enjoyed a glorious month of ...3 weeks ago
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Review: Joannie Stangeland's Into the Rumored Spring - *Into the Rumored Spring* by Joannie Stangeland Ravenna Press, 2011 Reviewed by Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom Joannie Stangeland's *Into the Rumored Spring* was...
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And So We Say Good-Bye - In 2006 I had the idea to start a blog. Not a lot of thought went into this idea other than the fact that blogs were the hot new medium for marketing and i...1 month ago
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commonplace - "As those presents are always the most fashionable, and sometimes the most valued, which cannot be used, I give you this book, which you will not be ab...1 month ago
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On the thorns of a dilemma - The question is – are they long? or long enough? or longer than the other ones? And are the leaves first? or the blossom? Lucy Corrander at Loose and Leafy...2 months ago
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wing dress update: hard to say goodbye - (for the first time visitors: welcome to my blog. i have been writing about the making-of process of dresses with a wing painted-dyed on them and this is the...
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Radical Other Power - I have been thinking a great deal about Other Power recently. Other Power is how we describe the Buddha working on us, liberation through taking refuge in ...3 months ago
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Radical Other Power - I have been thinking a great deal about Other Power recently. Other Power is how we describe the Buddha working on us, liberation through taking refuge in ...3 months ago
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Tools of Change 2012: Today. Tomorrow. - Time certainly does fly when you’re busy doing things, doesn’t it? One day, I was looking forward to the entirety of 2012. The next, I realize I’m leaving ...3 months ago
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The YB Blurber - AKA Karla Linn Merrifield. The Dark Touch of Genius In Rebellion, Chris Crittenden writes of “storms in heartbeats.” It’s a suitable metaphor for the poems...4 months ago
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100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE, VANCOUVER - You are invited to: 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE, VANCOUVER Saturday, Sept 24, 2011, 1 pm to 5 pm 1 pm: Meet near Science World to clean up False Creek East, a...8 months ago
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A new home for our small stone posts - To keep things simple, we will be blogging about *small stones* at our main site, Writing Our Way Home, from this day forth. Do hop over there to find out...
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62: lecia phinney - lecia phinney photographer Lecia Phinney lives by the ocean with her husband and two boys in beautiful Seattle. She take pictures, writes, cooks, explores ...9 months ago
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WD's August Premium Kit is the ''The Rules of Self-Publishing'' Collection. Tons of Stuff Packaged at a Deep Discount - The WD Premium Collection Bundle Kits are new this year and they're very simple in nature. We bundle a ton of stuff relating to a topic—in this case, *"The...9 months ago
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An interview with Susannah Conway, photographer - This week we're pleased to bring you an interview with Susannah Conway. This is part of our 'An interview with...' series. Susannah is a photographer, wri...11 months ago
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NYT Goes B - I'm beginning to feel like the FBI, what with all the anonymous tip-offs coming in. So do check out Maureen Freely on translating Orhan Parmuk (not strictl...3 years ago
