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February 5, 2022
Shutta Crum Poem in Acumen Jan. 2022
Enjoy this new poem: How Poetry Reframes the Moment. Published in the U.K. journal Acumen.
Shutta
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January 31, 2022
The post January 5, 2022
Playing With Sound: Writing Prompts
Below is a frequency chart for English vowel sounds (Courtesy of Frederick Nims from Western Wind.), and two writing prompts. Care to jump in and try them? Have fun!
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December 14, 2021
Wordsmith’s Playground has a birthday in January! Help us celebrate & win free books.
Go to my contact page here: https://shutta.com/contact/ and leave me a note about the newsletter. Has it helped you? Have you found it fun/interesting? Do you have a suggestion for change? What would you like to see more of? Less of? Let me know and then I’ll enter you in a drawing for two of my books. The poetry vol.: WHEN YOU GET HERE, and one of my children’s books (your choice).
Hope to hear from you soon!
Shutta
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Go to my contact page here: https://shutta.com/contact/ and leave me a note about the newsletter. Has it helped you? Have you found it fun/interesting? Do you have a suggestion for change? What would you like to see more of? Less of? Let me know and then I’ll enter you in a drawing for two of my books. The poetry vol.: WHEN YOU GET HERE, and one of my children’s books (your choice).
Hope to hear from you soon!
Shutta
The post Wordsmith’s Newsletter has a birthday in January! Help us celebrate & win free books. first appeared on Shutta Crum.December 4, 2021
Writer’s Block? One Way to Kickstart Yourself!
Are you stuck? Have the notorious writer’s block? Professor Emerita Sharon Scholl likes to use this strategy to “prime the pump.” She says, take any poem (you don’t have to like it, even) and think up an alternative to the subject/title. Follow the poet’s lines and put in alternatives to the poet’s choice of words that will fit your subject. Do this for a few lines, following rather closely to the original, and you’ll come to a point at which the original doesn’t make sense with your new version. Then, you’re on your own and have a bright, new poem where you had nothing. After that, of course, revise the poem however you see fit.
Below is an example of this exercise. Sharon created a new poem using one of mine as the framework. Both poems are below. Mine is first as the inspiration. Enjoy!
Shutta
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December 3, 2021
The post November 2, 2021
Father’s Cupboard Poem
This poem was first published in Writers Reading at Sweetwaters in 2007.
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It’s Winter Scholarship Time Again!
The Shutta Crum Scholarship
This scholarship will fund three Michigan SCBWI members’ tuition — artists or writers — for virtual attendance at the Annual SCBWI Winter Conference February 11th-13th, 2022. Registration for the Winter Conference opens December 2, 2022. The scholarship amount is to be used solely for the cost of a member’s registration tuition, no add-ons.
Each Applicant must:
–have been an SCBWI-MI member for a minimum of three years.
–not have been an awardee of this scholarship in previous years.
–not have attended a National SCBWI conference in either LA or New York in any previous year. (A former RA attending a national conference in his/her capacity as an RA is excepted.)
Award: A scholarship to be used at the NY Winter Conference
Application window: November 1, 2021- November 25, 2021 with a possibility of extending the window as needed. Awardees will be notified as soon as the window closes and awards are selected.
Application is here:
The post It’s Winter Scholarship Time Again! first appeared on Shutta Crum.October 1, 2021
The Canoeist by Shutta Crum
This poem first appeared in The Southern Poetry Review (2020). Enjoy! (It will soon be published in a new chapbook collection, 2022. Published by Kelsay Books.)
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