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THE
ART OF SHORT FICTION What
is it? Author
Charles Blackstone tells.
WRITING GREAT SHORT STORIES Elizabeth Kadetsky who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University’s School of Journalism serves up some advice.
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CRAFTING
CHARACTERS THAT JUMP OFF THE PAGE Punching
up your
fiction?
Where there's a tipster, there's a way. Discover Robert Gregory Browne's
secrets to
getting multiple book deals.
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BIOFICTION
INTRODUCED Even as she receives 5 stars
on Amazon for Trine Erotic while editing/publishing
Entelechy: Mind & Culture, Alice Andrews takes time
to chat about the esoteric world of this mind-bending read.
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Here's our winner of TOP PICK!
“Duotrope Digest ”
"...think of Duotrope’s Digest as a matchmaker of sorts.
If you write fiction or poetry, we can help you find appropriate markets
for your work."
--Shannon Wendt, Duotrope creator
poetry
O by Peter Schwartz
I did not wish to be this, this cardboard frankenstein of illegitimate decline, this pitiful epitome of hope and handouts, this blackout, this crusader, this pyrrhic salesman on a reservation but there were circumstances (I could not pass each choice like a kidney stone) and what was it I sold? can it be told? seatbelts, flowerpots, calculators, gasoline, nostalgia everywhere, pigeon-like sharp puzzles, the truth? I sold every word we said framed, there beyond the corals I wore a dark suit of dark fur for this encounter but the tide kept me and something soured midriff, that implausible pebble, that mercantile lack, this kiss of horror too close to the lips she wore nothing a few silks of wormy doom a patterned hat from nowhere her arms like pencils tilted paper across the aisles I did not wish to be this and here I am panting for a rabbit again for that validation that dashboard juggernaut that swooning crossbreed, their friendship.
Peter
Schwartz I have many fine poems published in small venues
that I would love to see get more light. As far as my background,
I am the editor of 'eye' and associate art editor of Mad Hatters'
Review. I have over 200 poems published online and in print,
over 150 paintings, and about 7 stories. I am currently preparing
paintings to be exhibited at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in
Chelsea NYC.
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