Post by moira on Mar 21, 2012 22:11:56 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. Talking Writing
2. Ann E. Michael's blog
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Talking Writing will be reading for a prose poetry issue from April 1 -- May 15 and poetry in any form for the 7 deadly sins issue from May 16 -- June 15.
Go to talkingwriting.com to get to our submission form, and in your heading, specify which issue you are submitting poems for.
2. Ann E. Michael's blog continues some AWP-conference ideas on cognition and storytelling: wp.me/p1RDyQ-97
www.annemichael.wordpress.com
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Sense of an Ending , by Julian Barnes
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly will be accepting submissions for a special issue, Poets in the Federal Government, only through the end of March. Any poet who is a current or past employee of the Federal Government of the United States is eligible. Contractors are not eligible, but part-time or seasonal employees are. Poets may live anywhere in the world. Submit from one to five poems, plus full contact info and a one-paragraph bio in the body of an email (no attachments). We seek poems on the theme of government work--a theme we hope you will interpret widely. Previous published in OK if copyright has reverted to you and the poems don't appear anywhere else on the web (including on blogs and list serves). Deadline: March 31. Full guidelines at washingtonart.com/beltway/about1.html.
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
This time I have blogs which should be of interest to women
writers and reads, and one includes a list of women poets plus a
little life of one in the comments (by me).
5.1 A poem by Jane Austen to her brother Frank, upon moving into
Chawton:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/jane-austens-letters-letter-69-wed-26-july-1809-to-frank-from-chawton/
5.2 Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House & Robert Wise's
Haunting
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/shirley-jacksons-_haunting-of-hill-house_-robert-wises-_haunting_-quintessential-gothic/
5.3 Maggie Wadey's Precious Bane (out of Mary Webb), starring
Janet McTeer:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/christopher-meneul-maggie-wadeys-precious-bane-out-of-mary-webbs-novel-featuring-janet-mcteer-john-bowe/
Two conference reports:
5.4 South Central ASECS: Panoramas -- the gothic, Ann Radcliffe,
Jane Austen &c
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/south-central-asecs-panoramas-and-vistas/
5.5 South Centrar ASECS: women writers, actresses, poets
(Constantia Grierson as foremother poet in comments)
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/south-central-asecsashevillewomenwriters/
News this week:
1. Talking Writing
2. Ann E. Michael's blog
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Talking Writing will be reading for a prose poetry issue from April 1 -- May 15 and poetry in any form for the 7 deadly sins issue from May 16 -- June 15.
Go to talkingwriting.com to get to our submission form, and in your heading, specify which issue you are submitting poems for.
2. Ann E. Michael's blog continues some AWP-conference ideas on cognition and storytelling: wp.me/p1RDyQ-97
www.annemichael.wordpress.com
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Sense of an Ending , by Julian Barnes
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly will be accepting submissions for a special issue, Poets in the Federal Government, only through the end of March. Any poet who is a current or past employee of the Federal Government of the United States is eligible. Contractors are not eligible, but part-time or seasonal employees are. Poets may live anywhere in the world. Submit from one to five poems, plus full contact info and a one-paragraph bio in the body of an email (no attachments). We seek poems on the theme of government work--a theme we hope you will interpret widely. Previous published in OK if copyright has reverted to you and the poems don't appear anywhere else on the web (including on blogs and list serves). Deadline: March 31. Full guidelines at washingtonart.com/beltway/about1.html.
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
This time I have blogs which should be of interest to women
writers and reads, and one includes a list of women poets plus a
little life of one in the comments (by me).
5.1 A poem by Jane Austen to her brother Frank, upon moving into
Chawton:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/jane-austens-letters-letter-69-wed-26-july-1809-to-frank-from-chawton/
5.2 Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House & Robert Wise's
Haunting
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/shirley-jacksons-_haunting-of-hill-house_-robert-wises-_haunting_-quintessential-gothic/
5.3 Maggie Wadey's Precious Bane (out of Mary Webb), starring
Janet McTeer:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/christopher-meneul-maggie-wadeys-precious-bane-out-of-mary-webbs-novel-featuring-janet-mcteer-john-bowe/
Two conference reports:
5.4 South Central ASECS: Panoramas -- the gothic, Ann Radcliffe,
Jane Austen &c
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/south-central-asecs-panoramas-and-vistas/
5.5 South Centrar ASECS: women writers, actresses, poets
(Constantia Grierson as foremother poet in comments)
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/south-central-asecsashevillewomenwriters/