It's time for summer, time to shine
Spring is here and halfway gone. I've put out most of the fires in my personal life that have been distracting me from this project lately (I've found gainful employment after five months of searching and I'm nearly done with all the manuscripts I have due), so I think it's time to get to business.
The first order of business: The Summer Sessions.
The Summer Sessions is a project I organized with the help of Melissa Dominic, bringing authors, poets, photographers and artists together under a common theme: A desire to create. The project consists of creative types, in different stages of their careers and creative development, from different cultural and educational backgrounds, who agreed to be interviewed and interview one another, with the goal of cross-posting each others' interviews in our respective blogs. It's a project about knowing who's in our community, and giving back to that community by helping one another promote our own work.
Last year I was fortunate enough to round up a great and diverse group of women for the project, and I think it went really well. This year I'd like to hopefully gather some more people to participate, with both men and women to share their experiences. (It's a boy-friendly party, guys, jeeze.) If this is something you'd like to get in on, comment with your email address, or drop me a line at m.toole@rocketmail.com. After everybody's signed up, we'll go from there.
I'd like to have all interested parties in by June 1st. Ideally I want to have the ball rolling by then, so everybody has time to get acquainted and conduct all the interviews, to be turned in by July 1st. Last year we kind of got this started late in the summer, this time I'd kind of like to get a head start, because a lot of people are out of school/are on vacation/usually have more time to do silly things like this. It's just for fun, to get to know the people in our communities and help promote each others work. So if that's something you'd be interested in doing, let me know.
