Fwd: See you Friday....bring your friends-Readings at Rainshadow Coffee this Friday night.

5 Websites Where Freelance Writers & Coders Can Find Work

5 Websites Where Freelance Writers & Coders Can Find Work

Flyleaf

Flyleaf
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Black Wire Literary Magazine | Literary Magazines

Black Wire Literary Magazine | Literary Magazines

Famous Authors’ Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits and Reflections on the Divide Between the Private Person and the Writerly Persona | Brain Pickings

Famous Authors’ Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits and Reflections on the Divide Between the Private Person and the Writerly Persona | Brain Pickings

Advertising Guru David Ogilvy's 10 Writing Tips - Business Insider

Advertising Guru David Ogilvy's 10 Writing Tips - Business Insider

The Ultimate Blog Post Outline - Free Download

The Ultimate Blog Post Outline - Free Download

Port Townsend poet Stan Sanvel Rubin will read on Tuesday, November 5

         Port Townsend poet Stan Sanvel Rubin will read on Tuesday, November 5, from There. Here., his collection from Lost Horse Press. Writer Linda Bierds has noted that the primary subjects of Rubin’s volume are “silence and sound.”

            This free event, the third in the 2013-2014 series sponsored by North Coast  Writers, takes place at Wine on the Waterfront, 115 E. Railroad Avenue in Port Angeles and will begin at seven.

            Rubin is a founding director of the low residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.  Previously, he taught at SUNY Brockport, where he directed the Writers Forum and Videotape Library, and won the Chancellor’s Award for teaching excellence. 

            Rubin’s work has been published widely in such journals as Poetry Northwest, Kenyon Review, Cutthroat, and the Georgia Review.  His poems have also appeared in the anthology, Long Journey:  Contemporary Northwest Poets, published by Oregon State University Press.  Moreover, Rubin is the author of The Post-Confessionals, interviews with contemporary poets.  He regularly writes review-essays for Water~stone Review, published by Hamline University.

            Poet Naomi Shihab Nye has called the works in Rubin’s second volume, Hidden Sequel, “fine, compelling poems . . .  that move with unobtrusive delicacy and deep grace through the mysteries of time.”

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Submitting to Mount Hope

Submitting to Mount Hope

Medium Is Now Open To Anyone With Twitter & A Modern Browser

Medium Is Now Open To Anyone With Twitter & A Modern Browser

Submissions | EAB Publishing

Submissions | EAB Publishing

EAB Publishing seeks short stories and non-fiction of no more than 5000 words, mixed-media, and poetry for Midnight Circus. Each issue of Midnight Circus has a theme which can be found here. Writers wishing to submit stories and/or poems must adhere to that theme if they wish EAB Publishing to take their submissions seriously.

EAB is currently closed to novel, novella, collected works, and chapbook submissions. We are open to artists interested in publishing graphic novels or submitting art for book covers for Midnight Circus. Artists interested in submitting a portfolio should contact us at eabpublishing@aol.com

EAB Publishing will not consider pornography or gratuitous violence. We’re not prudes. We understand sex happens and violence occurs in real life. Therefore, it may in your work, but there better be a damn good reason for it or chances are we will pass on your submission.

Please send all properly formatted submissions to eabpublishing@aol.com

The Fourth Friday Readings in Sequim will feature author/poet Patrick Loafman on October 25

The Fourth Friday Readings in Sequim will feature author/poet Patrick Loafman on October 25 at 6:00 p.m. at Rainshadow Coffee Bar, 157 W. Cedar Street, Sequim.  The event is hosted by Writers on the Spit.

Loafman is a wildlife biologist, author, artist and musician, living west of Joyce on The Dandelion Farm. He will read from his recently published novel, Somewhere Upriver (Event Horizon Press, 2013).  His short story collection, A Freckle Shaped Like California, is forthcoming. 

Patrick has been published in over twenty journals and two published chapbooks. He is editor of an online poetry journal, The Dandelion Farm Review and balances his writing time with surfing, skateboarding, gardening and making music on gourd banjos, thumb pianos and the mandolin.

We're in for a treat, as he tickles our ears with his readings AND a bit of music from his kora -- a twenty-one-string harp/lute that looks something like a hybrid between a gourd banjo and a suspension bridge. The kora is a West African instrument that has been around for over three hundred years.  

Admission is free. Readings begin at 6:30 p.m., but you'll want to arrive by 6:00 to choose your favorite seat and order your treat for the evening. The Fourth Friday Readings include an hour of Open Mic readings from the audience. Those interested may put their names in to be drawn for a five minute reading. For guidelines contact Rmarcus@olypen.com.

 

How to Use Microsoft Word Text to Speech to Read Out Loud | eHow

How to Use Microsoft Word Text to Speech to Read Out Loud | eHow
As a creative writer, I use speak feature in Word to hear my work as I am polishing it and proofing it.

Submissions | the red line

Submissions | the red line

Submissions « A Story In 100 Words

Submissions « A Story In 100 Words

Random Sentence Generator For Really Unique and Funny Sentences!

Random Sentence Generator For Really Unique and Funny Sentences!

Fake Word Generator For Great Made-Up Words!

Fake Word Generator For Great Made-Up Words!

The Inflectionist Review - Submissions

The Inflectionist Review - Submissions

submissions | cascadia review

submissions | cascadia review

Fwd: hope to see you this Friday

It's coming this Friday -- FOURTH FRIDAY READINGS.

Come listen to featured poet Sarah Zale.  Sarah's recent book, Sometimes You Do Things (Aquarius Press: Living Detroit Series, 2013) is inspired by the city of Detroit: its history, its devastation, and its attempt to transform itself. The poems seem to ask, "What can I learn from the spirit of this city?"

Put your name in for a 5-minute reading during Open Mike.  Do rehearse because 5-minutes IS the limit.

Please invite your friends.

Crafting an Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade | Coursera

Crafting an Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade | Coursera
Free, online course.  Starts today. (9/21)

100 Word Story given the cue word, "silliness".

15 Sept., 2013

Salvador Dali was full of silliness. I’ve been entertained by his pranks, and I’ve always enjoyed reading about him and looking at his paintings. He would play in the big rocks on the Spanish coast after putting a couple of ripe olives up his nose. He said that the hot sun would make the oils and aromas come alive in his nose and he would spend a good part of the day with the olives deep in his nostrils. I’ve tried this with black olives, green olives…including oil-cured, water-cured, brine-cured, lye-cured, and dry-cured. Pimento-stuffed olives are the ultimate rush.

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Amazon.com Help: Condition Guidelines
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Submissions | Ijagun Poetry Journal

Submissions | Ijagun Poetry Journal

Cease, Cows | Life is short, and so is our fiction.

Cease, Cows | Life is short, and so is our fiction.

How to Set the Right Price for Your Self-Published Book | Mediashift | PBS

How to Set the Right Price for Your Self-Published Book | Mediashift | PBS

Painted Bride Quarterly

Painted Bride Quarterly

Fourth Friday Readings in September...27th

Sarah Zale teaches college writing and poetry in the Seattle area and makes her home in Port Townsend. She brings two published collections of poetry to the September readings in Sequim. As founder and director of The Listening Tree Project that promotes a campus climate of equality, justice and respect for all, Sarah will share her passionate belief in the power of poetry and the arts to transform ourselves and the world.

See you Friday, Sept. 27 at the Rainshadow Coffee Bar.  Readings begin at 6:30.  Arrive early to get a seat and your favorite cafe drink.  Don't forget to sign in for Open Mic Readings.

 

8 | Infographic: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You? | Co.Design | business + design

8 | Infographic: What Does Your Handwriting Say About You? | Co.Design | business + design
Interesting, and if you put faith in graphology, you might have a bit of fun with this.

Sassafras Literary Magazine | The littlest litmag in the world

Sassafras Literary Magazine | The littlest litmag in the world