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Gleah Powers will be reading along with Lisbeth Davidow and Linda Davis at the Glendale Library on Thursday August 17th at 7 PM.
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Ann S. Epstein submitted On the Shore for the Association of Jewish Libraries' Jewish Fiction Award.
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Multiple pieces by kerry rawlison have been featured in publications. "Doctor's Note" and "Impasto" can be found in Resurrection of a Sunflower. Meanwhile, poem "Desert Storm" and cover art "the fire within" have been featured in Pedestal Magazine.
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If you missed Jessica Bell's interview about her "car-crash compelling" memoir, Dear Reflection on ABC National Radio this month, you can listen to the podcast HERE.
You can also read a couple of excerpts of Jessica's memoir in a couple of online magazines:
1) Read the scene which was the catalyst of her teenage binge-drinking at TheMusic.com.au HERE.
2) Read the rape scene at Mamamia.com.au HERE.
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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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7 COPYWRITING RULES TO LAUNCH YOUR WRITING CAREER INTO THE SKY, by Jennifer Scott 7/19/17
Copywriting is a challenging, but rewarding, way of making a living. Thanks to the internet, good copywriters have never been in such demand. If you want to get started, here are the 7 copywriting rules you must live by to launch your career.
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THE PREVALENCE OF THE CRAFT MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN POETRY, by Alejandro Escudé 7/12/17
I bristle when people apply the word “craft” to the writing or the learning of how to write poetry. And I’ll tell you why. When I think of craft, I think of handicrafts, which are essentially goods made by hand, not the more shamanistic act of writing poetry. Poetry, whatever it is, and plenty of people have debated this very question for ages, is in my opinion not a piece of finery, exquisitely altered and tuned and sold to the highest bidder. It’s not the type of art, as opposed to fiction, that should be overthought or overworked too much.
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5 THINGS TO DO WHEN YOUR LIFE COMES CRASHING DOWN, by Misha Gerrick 7/5/17
I’m a driven person. My view on life is that I will succeed as long as I work hard and refuse to give up. In a lot of ways, we get fed this belief with our mother’s milk, and we come to believe that simply because of grit and determination, life will go our way.
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THE ART OF RECEIVING CRITICISM, by Holly Walrath 6/28/17
“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.” –David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
I’d like to share a secret with you: I hate receiving critique. I hate it so much, when I first start writing, I refused to even participate in critique. In workshops, I sat silent while disdainfully making excuses for each person’s opinion in my mind: She writes young adult books and this is an experimental piece, so she won’t get it. His writing is not that great, how can he give me any feedback that’s helpful?
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NOTE: The Artist Unleashed is currently on its summer hiatus.
Next post coming September 6, 2017.
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Upcoming Releases from Vine Leaves Press
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