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NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 15: Be honest like Yudhishthira

Today’s resource is Where to Submit, a feature of Heavy Feather Review. Updated every few months, this is a good resource for open calls for submission for journals, anthologies, chapbooks, presses, fellowships, and other poetry-related opportunities. Finally, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day. Begin by reading June Jordan’s “Notes on the Peanut.” Now, think of a […]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 14 – Stuck with you

Today’s featured resource is actually more a series of possibilities. Over the past few years – prompted in many cases by the pandemic – organizations that used to host in-person poetry workshops have increasingly moved their offerings online. These range from a few hours focused on a particular topic to multi-week intensives. They’re not always […]

Book Review: ‘Coming Home’ by GS Subbu

I’m very excited to share this beautiful review of my debut novel, Coming Home by GS Subbu on Blog Spot. For those who haven’t picked up the book yet, because you have no clue what the book is about, this should help you decide. Here’s an excerpt of the review- ‘While the book has romance […]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 13- Saying More with little

Our resource for the day is Poets & Writers’ “Craft Capsules” feature. Here, you’ll find essays on craft elements ranging from revision to using narrative to the lyric “I.” While some of the essays are focused on fiction, their lessons are widely applicable across genres and writing styles. Last but not least, here’s our prompt […]

NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 12- Dear Poetry, Please Stay

Today’s featured resource is another podcast: A Mouthful of Air. In each episode of this relatively new series, a contemporary poet (generally from the U.K.) discusses one of their poems or, alternatively, host Mark McGuinness discusses a classic poem, like Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover.” And now for another (optional) prompt from our archives. Today, I […]

Book Review: Blushing Candles by Roopam Chadha

I’ve been participating in the NaPoWriMo 2023, which began on April 1st, but my head’s not been in the right place. I guess it’s because it came just as soon as I had published my debut novel, Coming Home ; the entire publishing process has left me drained. In an attempt to ground myself and […]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 11- Shocked

Today, our daily resource is Chill Subs. Since it was first created couple of years back as an easy way to find journals and magazines accepting submissions of poetry and other writing, the site has grown to include software for tracking your submissions, a blog with fun posts about writing, and much more. It’s free to […]

NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 10 – There’s laundry to be done- a sea shanty

Today’s daily prompt (optional, as always) again comes from our archives. I’m playing to my own strengths here, but I challenge you to write a sea shanty (or shantey, or chanty, or chantey — there’s a good deal of disagreement regarding the spelling!) Anyway, these are poems in the forms of songs, strongly rhymed and rhythmic, that […]

NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 9: Is this love?

Today’s poetry resource is UbuWeb, a vast repository of the avant-garde. You could get lost for days among the films, audio recordings, PDFs of small press publications, and other oddities here. If you’re looking to have the top of your head screwed off (figuratively), check out the “365 Days Project.” Finally, here’s our prompt for the day […]

‘Coming Home’ is now available on Kindle

I’m very happy to announce that ‘Coming Home’ my debut novel is now available on Kindle in most countries and no longer restricted to India. I thank Colleen Chesebro of Unicorn Cats Publishing for preparing the Kindle version, bearing with my ignorance and patiently guiding me through the process to make it available to readers […]