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Our own multi-talented Malcolm van Delst played Lady Macbeth in a Fringe Festival production of Eidola. She was magnificent and it was really something to meet all of Will Shakespeare’s women characaters in one evening. Sometimes all talking (yelling, screaming, crying, keening) at once.
5 Book Talks. And a Poetry Day with David Whyte
6 Royal City Writing 7 Lost Your Mojo?
8 Do You Write Dark? 8 Submit. (You know you want to.) 11 Stuff about … stuff 11 Grind Writers – where we meet, when, but not why 12 The free-write photo prompt. Just do it!
20 THOUSAND Yes: 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS for a 100-word story! THE MUSEUM OF WORDS FLASH FICTION CONTEST Contest closes November 24 And three runners-up get $2,000 each! Open to writers from all countries. Submissions accepted in four languages – English, Spanish, Arabic, and Hebrew. Sounds TOO good to be true: Read all about it (carefully) here in the Aerogramme Writers’ Studio blog. 2
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Free writing group on Granville Island https://pbregister.vancouver.ca/safari_activitybr owse.htm Search FCCC then ‘arts, creative writing’ Started in September but it’s ongoing
Wednesdays PANDORA’S BOOK CLUB 2nd Wednesday of the month 6:30–8:30 pm - Britannia Branch Library 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver Bring your favourite passages, points of interest, and share your reading experiences. Drop-ins are welcome. Presented by Pandora’s Collective. Hosts: Mary Duffy & Sita Carboni. More info here. And see page 5.
Twisted Poets Literary Salon 2nd Wednesday and 4th Thursday of every month at The Cottage Bistro 4468 Main Street, Vancouver More info
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Medicine in Your Pen: the Writing Rx Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Love to Write “The benefits of writing go far beyond building up your vocabulary. No matter the quality of your prose, the act of writing itself leads to strong physical and mental health benefits, like long-term improvements in mood, stress levels and depressive symptoms. “In a 2005 study on the emotional and physical health benefits of expressive
just 15 to 20 minutes of writing three to five times over the course of the four-month study was enough to make a difference. writing, researchers found that
“By writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events, participants were significantly more likely to have fewer illnesses and be less affected by trauma. Participants ultimately spent less time in the hospital, enjoyed lower blood pressure and had better liver functionality than their counterparts. “It turns out writing can make physical wounds heal faster as well.” See the full article by Rachel Grate (Sept 15, 2014) at http://mic.com/articles/98348/science-shows-writershave-a-serious-advantage-over-the-rest-of-us
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presented by the Royal Canadian Literary Arts Society Free Monthly poetry-generating drop-in Prompts provided Not a critique group: “Let’s have some fun!” B.Y.O..T. (bring your own tools) in the Back Room at the Heritage Grill, 447 Columbia St. More info from: secretary@rclas.com
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Places to go Things to do People to see
poetry workshop A Day with David Whyte Saturday, December 6 10am to 4pm West Point Grey United Church, 4595 W. 8th Ave., Vancouver, $145 (tax included) This will be a day spent with David Whyt – through poetry and the insights of poetry – looking at how we work toward and then bring in the difficult harvests of human life. David will work especially with harvests that occur in an almost hidden, secret ways, not obvious at times even to the person to whom they are occurring. There are many kinds of maturation of course, but often the sense of harvest in a life comes simply through asking ever keener and more beautiful questions, questions that do not produce easy answers but which help us to re-imagine ourselves, our world and our part in it, and most especially; questions which work to reshape our identities, helping us to become larger, more generous, more courageous; equal to the increasingly fierce invitations extended to us as we grow and mature. Spaces are limited, early registration recommended. David Whyte's life as a poet has created a readership and listenership in three normally mutually exclusive areas: the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry and the world of vocation, work and organizational leadership. He holds a degree in marine zoology, an honorary doctorate from Newmann College, Pennsylvania, and is an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. The author of seven books of poetry and three books of prose, David has worked as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands, and led anthropological and naturalhistory expeditions in the Andes, Amazon, and Himalayas. He brings this wealth of experience to his lectures and workshops.
Sponsored by Banyen Books & Sound & Hollyhock: More info: https://www.banyen.com/events/whyte_2014
Read a book. And talk about it. Face to face—with real people. BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB Second Wednesday of every month 6:30 – 8:30 pm Presented by Pandora’s Collective & Britannia Branch Library At the branch - 1661 Napier Street (at Commercial Drive), Vancouver
Each month we’ll discuss a preselected book, with the occasional session reserved for a discussion on a theme. Bring your favourite passages, points of interests, and share your reading experiences. Each person is responsible for either borrowing or buying their own copy to read. This is an open book club. Drop-ins are welcome. Upcoming dates: Oct 8: Nov 12: Dec 10: 2015 Jan 14: Feb 11: Hadfield Mar 11: April 8: May 13: June 10:
I Am Malala by Malala Yousufzai Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Obasan by Joy Kogawa An Astronaut’s Guide to Life by Col. Chris Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee The Orenda by Joseph Boyden The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Hosts: Mary Duffy and Sita Carboni Contact: booktalks@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com
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Royal City Writes POETIC JUSTICE - Sundays 3-5 pm (will be closed Thanksgiving weekend) The Heritage Grill, Back Room , 447 Columbia street, New Westminster near Columbia Station. View updates and the schedule of Featured Poets and hosts at www.poeticjustice.ca SHORT STORY OPEN MIC NIGHT - Host Margo Prentice - every Second Wednesday of each month - next session - October 8, 7-9 pm at Renaissance Bookstore, 43 - 6th Street, New Westminster. Bring your short stories. Read from your book, journal, essays. Story tellers welcome. Come to listen, bring a friend. Enjoy the beverages and snacks from the Renaissance Coffee Bar. http://www.renaissancebookstore.com/ 604-525-4566 THE POETRY WARS: A STUDY GROUP. Host Carol Shillibeer - Next session Saturday October 18, 2014 – 4-6pm, 3rd Saturday of the month at Renaissance Bookstore, 43 - 6th Street, New Westminster.. Not for the faint at heart, the poetic arts in Canada roil with snark and tendentious commentary. What this study group will do is explore our literary environment (aka the poetry wars), read poems, reviews, texts, commentary. Think about it. Discuss it at the once-a-month study-group meetings. There will be a closed-group blog to enable us to comment out of meeting times and to post links and reading material discovered in our private study. The goal: to understand; to be better poets. Your investment: the group is free of monetary expectation, but investment can also be in mental anguish and sweat. Expect both of the last two. Inquiries: shillibeer@tailfeather.ca www.rclas.com WRITING FOR KIDS: a writing group created for adult writers in any genre related to children and facilitated by Max Tell. Monday October 20, 7:30-9:30 pm at Renaissance Bookstore, 43 - 6th Street, New Westminster. Drop-in fee: $5/person at the door- includes refreshments. The wide range of purposes this new writer's group may choose in its mandate may include giving children's writers a safe place to meet and play creatively with writing, to share their writing, and receive valuable feedback. It may also include discussions on the 'Dos and Don'ts' of writing for various age groups and pointers on how to submit to publishers and agents. 604-525-4566. Info: http://rclas.com/events/writing-kidz-max-tell-writing-groupcreated-adult-writers- any-genre-related-children. Please contact Max Tell maxtell@shaw.ca to confirm your participation. SONGWRITERS OPEN MIC NIGHT for New & Emerging Songwriters - Join hosts Enrico Renz and Lawren Nemeth. Every Sunday eve 7-9 pm at Renaissance Bookstore, 43 - 6th Street, New Westminster. Write it! Bring it! Sing it! Find them on their Facebook group "RCLAS New Westminster Songwriter Open Mic" to see the Weekly Word Challenge. www.rclas.com
WAIT FOR ME, DADDY – POETRY WALK
Until October 19 Info here.
OCTOBER RCLAS WORKSHOPS Translation As An Art - Facilitator Manolis. Thursday October 16, 2014 6:30-8:30 pm. Using the poets Yannis Ritsos and Odysseus Elytis as a study, Manolis explores the challenges of translation and how it communicates meaning between two languages. Sponsored by the Royal City Literary Arts Society in partnership with the New West Public Library. Location: New West Public Library, 716 - 6th Avenue, New Westminster. Pre- register: secretary@rclas.com Info http://rclas.com/events/translation-art-writingworkshop-facilitator-manolis-aligizakis Awakening The Creative Force - Facilitator Bonnie Nish. Date: Saturday October 25, 2014 , 1-3 pm. When we forget our passion, we forget ourselves. Rediscover what drives you from your inner core. In this hands-on 2-hour Expressive Arts Workshop we will explore ways of accessing all that drives us -- the things which are important, funny, sad, and poignant. We will walk down a path of creation together and come away with the laughter, tears, and joy our individual lives have brought us. For all levels. No experience necessary. Limited seating. Pre-register: secretary@rclas.com Workshop fee: RCLAS Members $15.00. Non-members $25.00 Payment info http://rclas.com/events/writingworkshopawakening-creative-force-facilitator-bonnienish Location: 737 Sixth Street, New Westminster. Free parking behind building. Enter from the back entrance.
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Lost your mojo? Finding Your Muse: On Not Writing, and More from Poets & Writers
A fine reading project for the coming winter. A challenge, if you will
http://www.pw.org/content/finding_your_muse_on_not_ writing_and_more Free download
Make a nice cup of cocoa, curl up in your favourite snuggie comforter, and read your way through the rainy season.
How to Publish a Book: 7 Tips From the Pros From the Writer’s Digest http://www.writersdigest.com/how-to-publish-a-book
How to Map Out Your Hero’s Adventure in Your Manuscript From the Writer’s Digest “How do the most successful authors of our time construct their stories? If you read them, and if you also read some ancient myths, you will begin to see parallels. You will feel smacked upside the head with parallels. You’ll realize that the top authors of today use storytelling techniques that writers used back when plans were being drawn up for the pyramids.” http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/how-to-mapout-your-heros-adventure-in-your-manuscript
20 amazing writing residencies you could apply for this year from The Write Life From Martha’s Vineyard to Dairy Hollow, most all are in the U.S. http://thewritelife.com/writingresidencies/?n_play=54162cb7e4b0a598ad72b781
Yep, curl up by the fire and read all the books longlisted for the 2014 Giller Prize. You’ll finally feel on top Buy one here. of Canadian literature. And you know how for a long time you’ve wanted to stop reading all that American swill you pick up with the other two hundred dollars worth of stuff you don’t need from Costo. Herer you go. You’ll be become the best Canadian-read reader of all time. Of course, you’ll be absolutely unbearable at parties. 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted books:
Feedback is your friend when it’s done well http://bigthink.com/big-think-mentor/feedback-is-yourfriend-when-its-done-well
How to turn small talk into smart conversation http://ideas.ted.com/2014/07/28/how-to-turn-small-talkinto-smart-conversation/
Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu (ECW Press) The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins Canada) American Innovations by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins Canada) Tell by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Canada) Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove (ECW Press) Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (Random House Canada) Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo (Doubleday Canada) The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill (HarperCollins Canada) · Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page (John Metcalf Books/Biblioasis) My October by Claire Holden Rothman (Penguin Canada) All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada) The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)
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Do you write Dark? Shock Totem wants. We consider original, unpublished stories within the confines of dark fantasy and horror—mystery, suspense, supernatural, morbid humor, fantasy, etc. Read the guides: http://www.shocktotem.com/guidelines/ Up to 12,000 words (firm).
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length, any number, any time by e-mail http://www.shocktotem.com/guidelines/ or by mail with SASE. Previously published poems and simultaneous submissions are welcome. The Great (you know you want to) American Poetry Show, P.O. Box 69506, West Hollywood, CA 90069. Email: info@tgaps.net. Website: "Ireland'sSent greatest writer." She is the from Samsung Mobile www.tgaps.net (Caveat emptor – recipient of many awards, including check it out). The Whitbread Award for The Old Jest, and a Lifetime Acheivement from the The Quotable Irish Book Awards, and has been This online magazine wants writershort-listed for the Booker Prize. She readers to submit stories based on Roundup of poetry contests here has published 16 novels and five their monthly prompts. Info here. plays. Read more Contests by deadline Word Limit: 5,000 Holler Box Submission Fee: €20 for first, €10 date Rolling submissions year-round. All thereafter. submissions are completely free. You 1st Prize: €3,000 may submit in multiple genres. If so, Deadline: November 1, 2014 2nd Prize: A week in residence at send a separate submission per genre. (postmarked or emailed) Anam Cara Writers and Artists Retreat If your submission does not get 2015 Open Season Awards in West Cork. accepted you may continue to submit, Prize: $3,000 over three categories: Please read the full details before we encourage it. Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction entering. Please wait at least 30 days before Entry fee: Straight to Online Entry $35 CAD for residents of Canada submitting something new. Read the Read stories from previous Fish $40 USD for residents of the USA guidelines: Anthologies $45 USD for entries from elsewhere https://thehollerbox.submittable.com/ Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction submit. Submissions that do not we want it all. Send us your best work follow the guidelines may not be to win cash, publication, and an Ongoing submissions considered. online interview. We'll promote your Sassafras Literary Magazine work long afterward to showcase our Geist Emerging Writer-of-theWe will frown or smile upon your writers and writing contests! Month *$15 for each additional entry (mixing piece, and reply within 1 week (2 Emerging writers are invited to submit weeks max) with a muffin or a genres is acceptable), regardless of short written works online. Read the tumbleweed. Multiple submissions are where you live. (Entry fee for first FAQ. allowed, but single submissions are entry only, includes a one-year preferred. All things minimalistic and Dead Beats subscription or renewal extension to mind-slicing wanted. The occasional The Beats are dead; long live Dead The Malahat Review) selfless snark and sneer accepted. Beats - focused on bringing you the Online submissions are accepted and True wit appreciated, along with highest quality literature from talented welcome. Read the rules: Full foldable grit, pocket-size memoir unpublished writers. We are happy to contest guidelines available on the moments and frame by frame receive submissions from everyone, Malahat website. congeniality. Perspective: any—as regardless of experience, of poems, long as artfully executed and self short stories (max. 2000 words), Deadline: November 30, 2014 reflecting; avoid sending ego balloons experimental pieces and reviews, the The Fish Short Story Prize: €3,000 and unintended mirroring. Mirrors and best of which we will publish on the Results: 17 March 2015. led wanted. Gates, doors, and attics site. If you would like to submit some of Anthology published: July 2015 most appreciated. THERE’S MORE— your work please send it in the body of The ten best stories will be published READ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES an email to: deadbeats@live.co.uk. in the 2015 Fish Anthology.This year's HERE We aim to reply to all emails, though judge, Jennifer Johnston, has been t a poem?” this may take some time given the described by Roddy Doyle as Submit any subject, any style, any number of submissions we receive.
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Subterranean Blue Poetry Subterranean Blue Poetry is an Internet Poetry and Art Publishing Café. We thrive on new original words and New Age art. All poets and their poetry are welcome and we are especially looking for homegrown poets from the Canadian first nations/American Indian Community; Quebec; small town Canada; international poets and anyone who was ever considered “the other.” New Age art offerings are for the masthead of each issue. Read all info here.
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http://www.deadbeats.eu/submission
Are you over 60? - Wit and Wisdom of the Sages Have insightful stories you’d like to share with your grandchildren? Great Depression/ WW2/ Vietnam era? Seeking narratives up to 3,500 words. Send manuscripts, or for guidelines email jnjscher@yahoo.com. Anderbo.com -- “Best New Online Literary Journal.” Publishes writers in fiction, creative nonfiction), and poetry. We’re always looking for new voices. We’ll also consider nonfiction features, short memoirs, novellas, published-book excerpts, photography, essays, and photo essays. Now in our 9th year! For submission information and guidelines, visit www.anderbo.com. Changes in Life A monthly online newsletter is seeking personal essays from women of all ages. New writers are encouraged to submit their work. For details and submission guidelines, see www.changesinlife.com. Signature Editions - they only publish Canadian writers: What we do and don't publish: Look through the titles on our website and you'll get a pretty good idea of the kinds of books we're interested in. Where to send your manuscript: We do not accept submissions by fax or e-mail, and do not discuss concepts over the phone. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama - check website for submission guidelines. R The Evening Street Review The ESR is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal. Reads poetry & prose submissions year-round. Replies in 3 months or less. Sometimes includes comments. Send 4–6 poems or 1–2 prose piece. 7652 Sawmill Rd., #352, Dublin, OH 43016 or
Regime magazine - Short stories, poetry & performance writing. Not only do they want your work but they offer that you can tack $20 on your submission and they’ll send you back a detailed one-page critique. Note: do your due diligence. Read it all carefully. Full submission info here Coastal Spectator A new arts-based review and commentary site operating independently out of the U. Vic. We want to publish, on our home site, one new poem each week for a year, so if you have a new piece of work -- that is a haiku or up to 25 lines long -- do submit. Read all about it here.
Morgan Bailey’s COMPETITIONS CALENDAR - BY DEADLINE DATE How handy that. Have a look at this excellent resource.
Multimedia journal: 5 OVER 4. New multimedia journal seeks cross-genre work made by jazzy, creative people who embrace the unknown. Poetry videos, multimedia sculpture, hand-stitched book art, JPEGs collaged with audio, sound poems via video chat, interactive projects. Live and online events. Web: 5over4.blogspot.com. Email Monique Avakian: monava9@gmaom Pithead Chapel “An online journal of gutsy narratives” We’re looking for engaging stories told in honest voices. Most of all, we want to feel something. We want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. We want your work to leave a brilliant bruise. Send us your gutsiest narrative and we’ll do our best to get your voice heard. Submission guidelines here. 1966 - An online journal of creative nonfiction, seeks pieces of literary nonfiction with a research component—anything from immersion memoir to nature writing to reportage to travel writing to—? For submission guidelines: www.1966journal.org.
Infographic Meet the average Canadian book buyer http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/05/inf ographic-meet-the-average-canadianbook-buyer.html
Aerogramme Writers’ Studio: This site has over 90 competitions, publication opportunities, fellowships. 9
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PLACES FOR WRITERS
LISTINGS FOR LITERARY MAGAZINES OF EVERY TYPE, EVERYWHERE, FOR EVERYONE: Interesting resources – e.g., “Places to Publish: Can Lit” and “Publishers – Canada.” Plus continuous updates about who’s looking for what. If you have a piece to place, this might be a good place to start the hunt.
Get out! TIDEWATER: a 2-day indie publishing festival in Naniamo Saturday & Sunday Nov 1 and 2, 2014 Raindance is now Tidewater. The second Book Festival exclusively for independent authors is happening on the first weekend in November in Nanaimo.
Cool writing classes & workshops Remember Jennifer Storm, the playwright who gave us a lively & engaging mini-workshop on writing screenplays? Besides the offerings below, she says: “I also have interesting stuff coming up in the Vancouver screenwriting Meetup group. New is that I will start a roundtable screenplay development group.” Search ‘Vancouver Screenwriting’ on Meetup.com for that. She’s offering some great-sounding courses and workshops this fall. Very reasonably-priced too:
Creative writing for beginners - Leigh square community arts village
Are you interested in writing, but don't know how and where to start? Or do you have a story idea and would like to develop it? In this beginners course to creative writing you will get the opportunity to create a story from scratch or develop ideas you already have. Through introducing different writing forms like screenplay or novel writing, you will be able to decide what form works best for your idea or writing style. Date: Saturday, Oct 18 and 25th (2x) Time: 10 am - 4pm Costs: $ 125 Register online. (Barcode number 110201) https://www.experienceit.ca/InternetRegistration/Start/Start.asp
BIG-SCREEN WRITING Short movie screenplay writing - Leigh square community arts village
This year the Festival is over two days, with the Book Fair being held at the Nanaimo Museum on Saturday Nov. 1 On Sunday Nov 2 - a full day of ten hour-long workshops offering essential advice and information for new and existing authors, from industry experts. Topics range from how to craft your pitch, sell your book, create the best cover and the latest practices for e-book marketing and creation-sign up for the workshops you need to self-publish successfully.
Every great movie starts with a great screenplay. In this visual and fun class you will learn the basics of movie screenplay writing through watching and reading short film movie screenplays. With the help of the course leader and with the group you will create your very own 1-2 Minute short film screenplay. Date: Saturday, 1st and 8th of November (2x) Time: 10am - 4pm Costs: $ 125 Register online with Barcode number 119202
Registration for this year's Book Fair is strictly limited to 25 authors only.
https://www.experienceit.ca/InternetRegistration/Start/Start.asp
Register soon to secure your table at the Festival. New for 2014! First Chapter Competition. Participating authors will be eligible to enter our First Chapter Competition. This is an independently-juried competion, with established Canadian authors judging the winners in three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's/YA. The "Best of Festival" Award will be selected by the judges from the three winning category entries. Details of prizes and the judges are at the Tidewater Book Festival website: www.tidewaterfestival.com
Film genres - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
You are introduced to a genre every week through watching and discussing segments of representative films. In a fun, small-group environment, you explore what makes each genre tick, and examine genre rules and elements, such as film setting, style and theme. Date: Friday, 3rd of October (every Friday 8x) Time: 7 - 9:30 pm Costs: $ 124 Register online with Barcode number 344849 https://webreg.city.burnaby.bc.ca/webreg/Activities/ActivitiesAdvSearch.asp
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Character What it takes to design a good life. If you can be patient nad get throught he first 15 mins., this is a really inspiring, interesting, and rewarding interview to watch. Despite having, as she admits, selfloathing, she never gave up and eventually (but not til her 30s) found her way to ‘follow her bliss.’ http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/29/
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Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/05/margaretatwood-new-work-unseen-century-future-library
Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s timeless advice on writing and why perfectionism kills creativity “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013 /11/22/bird-by-bird-anne-lamott
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Grind Writers Group Meeting Schedule WHERE WE MEET The Grind Gallery Café - 4124 Main Street at 25th Ave. In the back room 10 am–12:30 pm WHY WE MEET Nobody knows.
HOW WE MEET THANKS to Michelle & Jay Kim, the Grind’s owners.
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They’ve kindly let us meet in the Back Room for the last 7 years. And cudos to the Kims for their support of the arts in general. The Grind provides gallery space to many local artists.
Appreciate if you buy something while you’re there to support the Grind and their support of us Please email before you attend the first time: grindwriters@gmail.com
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free-write photo prompt Two 1,000-yearold skeletons holding hands How romantic is that? Photo: University of Leicester Archaeological Services
Or . . . is it? You decide. Then write the story of how this came to be. “LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—The remains of a man and a woman who had been buried holding hands have been uncovered at the Chapel of St. Morrell, an ancient pilgrimage site in the English Midlands. “The skeletons are thought to date to the 14th century, since nine other skeletons of similar age have been unearthed at the site. Stones had been placed upon some of those bodies at burial.” (from an Archaeology magazine Facebook post).
Freewrites: Set the timer.
Read the rest of the story, “Two 1,000-year-old skeletons holding hands found by archaeologists in Leicestershire” here in the Leicester Mercury.
Don’t think it. Just start writing. Keep going, no stopping. No editing (that comes later).
Grind Writers News ©2014 Margo Lamont email: grindwriters@gmail.com blog: http://grindwriters.blogspot.ca/ previous issues of GWN: http://issuu.com/grindwriters/docs
Forget grammar, forget spelling. Forget any “rules” you’ve ever been told Forget everything else and just write. 15 mins. by the timer.
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