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Latest News and Info
Previous Vine Leaves Literary Journal Issues will go out-of-print on the following dates:
- Issues 10 to 14: June 5, 2017
- Issues 15 to 18: November 1, 2017
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Gleah Powers (Edna and Luna) had her CNF piece, The Three Times I Saw My Father published by the Longridge Review.
Her novella, Edna and Luna, was also named a finalist by The Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
She also held two readings in the month of May, including a reading at for Spark Off Rose's reading series.
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Ann S. Epstein (On the Shore) will be reading from her novel on June 7th at 7pm at Ann Arbor's Jewish Community Center.
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YOUR TURN! Got great writerly news? Find an agent? Win an award for best photograph? Or maybe your illustration made the cover of a magazine. Tell us about it! We might publish your good news in this newsletter. Please keep your good news to no more than 50 words and email it to alanaking.vineleaves@gmail.com
- The Vine Leaves Team
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Recent Blog Posts
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Jessica Mehta's ARE WE ARTISTS OR ENTREPRENEURS? 5/24/17
My bio is 395 words long, encompasses just the past three years, and still leaves a lot out. That’s not bragging. It’s just the result of what happens when a literary artist (poet and novelist for me) turns into an entrepreneur who also largely relies on her writing chops to make a living. Last year, I was awarded a “writer in the schools” or WITS residency from Oregon’s Literary Arts. I was their first writer who earned all of my income solely from writing. It seemed to be a pretty big deal. In fact, I taught their very first series on “writing as a business.”
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Melissa Slayton's SELF-CARE AND CREATIVITY: THE ARTIST’S QUEST FOR BALANCE 5/17/17
When I was little, I read every biography of Kurt Cobain that I could. I was captivated by this one phrase in all of them: “It’s better to burn bright than fade away.”
I still advocate burning as brightly as possible, and sure as hell not fading away! But, when testing my own limits, I was forced to accept that my own light is at times quiet and slow-burning. While I draw on the highs and lows of life when I create, I personally do my best when I create from a clear-headed space.
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Daniella Levy's EVERYTHING THEY’VE TOLD YOU ABOUT COPING WITH REJECTION IS WRONG 5/10/17
In June of 2016, I committed a rather strange act of desperation.
I started a blog: The Rejection Survival Guide. It had been 15 years since I’d sent my first query letter to an agent. Since then, I’d had many ups and downs and starts and stops and even some “almosts”—but never a “yes.” My sixth novel showed the most promise, but a few months earlier, the full manuscript had been rejected for the fourth time. Along with the 100+ rejections I’d racked up from other agents, plus all the rejections for the short stories I’d been submitting to literary magazines, I started to wonder if my calling in life was to get rejected. Well, I reasoned, at least I’m pretty good at it.
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Amber Bartek's 5 WAYS TO CONNECT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE ON YOUR BLOG 5/3/17
As an artist and a creative you will need to put yourself out there in order to do what you love for a living. It may be difficult at first, but the more confident you become in yourself as an artist, the more your art business will flourish.
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Melanie Faith's TRUTHINESS: ADDING LAYERS TO YOUR ART WITH ART 4/26/17
My first camera was a Kodak110. The long, rectangular body and built-in flash were distinctive features when I was 12. Sturdy and dependable, it was the Buick of cameras in robin’s-egg blue. It was the same make and brand as my mom’s camera, although my mom’s ‘70s model was black and silver and used an add-on flash that looked like ice cubes. In my blue-collar family, it was a special occasion when Mom bought the little film cartridges, and some of my happiest moments were spent smiling into the razzle-dazzle of those flash cubes.
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CALL FOR BLOG POSTS: Have writing advice? An opinion about writing or a writing-related topic? Submit your idea to The Artist Unleashed.
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