Aubrie Elliot's Blog, page 14
September 9, 2013
Writing in Nature: Cahokia Mounds
Written by Jennifer Adele www.jenniferadele.com For our excursion into creative green space this month, we venture a little bit outside of the St. Louis area, to an area many native St. Louisans will visit time and time again… Cahokia Mounds. My very first trip to this impactful location happened as a child at around age [...]
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September 8, 2013
September Writing Contests
Farmingdale State College—The Paumanok Poetry Award Glimmer Train Press—Open Fiction Literal Latte—Ames Essay Award Red Hen Poetry Award Real Simple Life Lessons Essay Contest—Creative Non-fiction Slippery Elm Poetry and Prose Awards Springfield Writer’s Guild Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Awards 2013 Farmingdale State College—The Paumanok Poetry Award Entry fee: $25 Prizes: 1st place: $1500 and expenses [...]
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August 28, 2013
Jennifer Adele Releases Second Novel – SpellBound
“Something sinister lurks within the Thompson house, within the old and weedy garden lot, among the trees and on the winds… and it is now winding its way tightly around Vera’s life… evident in the moon’s cool glow and a doll’s glowing red ember eyes… Spellbound, my second novel, kept a strange hold on me [...]
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August 23, 2013
Elliot Gets to the Heart of Middle Age
By Julie Failla Earhart If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my lesbian friends it’s that they aren’t that different from my straight friends. We all basically want the same things in life: to be loved, to love, to succeed, to be happy, etc. Therefore it doesn’t matter what sexual orientation you proclaim, you gotta [...]
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August 13, 2013
Book Sales to Support SAGE Metro-St. Louis
It isn’t often that a fit is so perfect. A book about middle age that helps to generate money for a group that supports programs for the elderly, specifically members of the LGBT community. Walrus Publishing has teamed up with SAGE Metro St. Louis to donate 10% of the sales from the Walrus website for [...]
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August 7, 2013
Your Next Great Read: Top 10 Reads for the Summer
By Julie Failla Earhart Summer is upon us, and you’ll want some great reads to take along on vacation. Here are 10 of my recent favorites, in no particular order…notice the theme: strong women protagonists: 1) The Truth About Love and Lightning by Susan McBride St. Louis writer McBride scores a big hit with her [...]
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August 6, 2013
August Writing Contests
International Manchester Metropolitan University—Poetry and Fiction Prizes Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Award for First or Second Poetry Collection Domestic A Room of Her Own “To The Lighthouse” Poetry Publication Prize Gemini Magazine—Flash Fiction Award Memoir Journal—Poetry, Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction Springfield Writer’s Guild 2013 Annual Literary Awards—Prose and Poetry Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival—Poetry [...]
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August 1, 2013
Writing in Nature: Sylvan Springs
by Jennifer Adele www.jenniferadele.com Of all the amazing and evocative places to visit in the Midwest, let alone around the St. Louis metro area, Sylvan Springs is one of the absolute best choices, I think. Of course, I have lots of memories there, but so do many locals. Not only is this location within Jefferson [...]
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July 24, 2013
Interview with Noir at the Bar
by Richard Thomas Noir at the Bar is a live reading series in St. Louis, Missouri, hosted by Jed Ayres (F*ckload of Shorts, Bitches, and D*cked) and Scott Phillips (The Ice Harvest, Rake, and The Adjustment). Hosting a wide range of crime, noir and edgy literary voices, such as Frank Bill, Kyle Minor, Hilary Davidson, [...]
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July 12, 2013
Saturday Writers
by Marcia Gaye, Secretary of Saturday Writers 2013 Writers Encouraging Writers. It’s a nice, catchy motto. But to a group of writers in Saint Charles County, Missouri, it’s more than a motto, it is the way they approach their craft. Saturday Writers see themselves as craftspeople with a two-fold mission: to become better writers and [...]
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