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Thursday, June 17, 2010

More audience craziness

Yesterday, I went to a matinee of the Tony-award winning play, Red, about the relationship between the abstract expressionist, Mark Rothko, and his apprentice. A woman three rows in front of me was crinkling a candy wrapper for twenty minutes. If I shushed her, I'd be disturbing everyone else, so I had to try to push her out of my consciousness during a play where every word felt key. Suddenly, the guy next to me stood up. He was wiry and at least 6/7." Bent at the waist, he leaned across the two rows ahead of us, his head moving side to side like a snake after a mouse. Then he got very still. His ears pricked. He'd located the candy wrap crinkler and said, "shhhh" in her ear, scaring the bejeezus out of her. I wished I could take him with me to every show.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Places to send your work

Anthologies: Calls For Submission

Deadline:

6/30/2010

Submit to:

Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Pasted-in e-mail submissions. Email Address

Theme:

Poems celebrating the legacy of Langston Hughes. Poet MUST live or work in DC, MD, VA, WV, or DE.

Type:

Poetry (5 poems MAX)

URL:

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Featured Listing

Deadline:

8/1/2010

Submit to:

Rattle. Send via email attachment (1 file) or pasted-in text. Email Address

Theme:

Mental Health Professionals

Type:

Poetry and essays (5,000 words MAX)

URL:

Rattl

Deadline:

8/1/2010

Submit to:

The First Line. Send via MS Word or WordPerfect attachment. Email Address

Theme:

Every story starts out the same: Three thousand habitable planets in the known universe, and I'm stuck on the only one without ______________. [Fill in the blank.]

Type:

Short stories (3,000 words MAX)

URL:

The First Line



Deadline:

8/6/2010

Submit to:

Creative Nonfiction, Attn: Immortality, 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Theme:

Immortality

Type:

Essay (5,000 words MAX)

URL:

Immortality

Deadline:

8/15/2010

Submit to:

Ruminate Magazine. Submission Link

Theme:

Sounds and silence. MUST BE quality work that reveals the nature of Christ, in whatever form this may look like.

Type:

Poetry (3 poems, 40 lines MAX) and prose (6,000 words MAX)

URL:

Ruminate Magazine

Deadline:

9/1/2010


Submit to:

Workers Write! Blue Cubicle Press, PO Box 250382, Plano, TX 75025-0382, or send via email. Email Address

Theme:

Tales from the Courtroom.

Type:

Short stories (5,000 words MAX)

URL:

Workers Write

Deadline:

1/31/2011

Submit to:

Dream of Things. Submission Link

Theme:

Various topics based on one of 15 themes. See http://dreamofthings.com/workshop-2 for more details.

Type:

Personal essays (500-5,000 words MAX)

URL:

Dream of Things

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