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CELEBRATE!
2005 is Margin's FIFTH ANNIVERSARY! Yep, that's right?we've been online for five years! That's practically a quarter-century in real time!
You can expect to find us participating in many upcoming literary events including conference panels, local readings and the like.
NOTE: Estimated launch date for the Winter 2005 Special Fifth Anniversary Edition: January 26, 2005. Stay tuned for details!

JOIN US
Margin's first anniversary reading event is slated for FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 2005 at Lottie Mott's in Seattle (Columbia City neighborhood). As part of the ongoing Take a Poem from Your Heart/WPA series, we'll be hosting a special Margin anniversary reading.
Featured readers: Wayne Ude and Sondra Kelly-Green for short fiction; Marjorie Manwaring, Marjorie Rommel and Kelli Russell Agodon for poetry, with introductions from the editor and publisher, Tamara Kaye Sellman, and an appearance by Bruce Taylor, founder of the Magic Realist Writers International Network.
Includes an OPEN MIC/poetry only. The event starts at 7 pm but get there early to sign up for the open mic and to get a good seat! Lottie Motts, 4900 Rainier Ave S. (Columbia City at corner of Rainier and Ferdinand), Seattle. For more information, contact organizer Christopher J. Jarmick at glasscocoon (at) hotmail.com

GOING TO AWP IN BC?
Margin will be part of the AWP-Vancouver BC Publishers' Fair this coming spring! If you plan on attending, please stop by our table and meet the staff! More details to follow?

ONLINE READER'S JOURNAL
Margin announces the debut of its new re-reading journal, Two-Way Mirror. January's discussion will focus on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic short story, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings." Come read along as editor and publisher Tamara Kaye Sellman returns to the text and offers her personal and critical thoughts about the story. Readers are encouraged to comment as well.

COMING SOON
Other new features to be added to the Margin website in 2005:
RSS Feed
Site Search
Everchanging Quotes
Stay tuned for those additions!

SOME HOUSEKEEPING
This new clearinghouse of magical realism news is still under construction. Some of the links on either side of the text may not be fully functional yet. Thanks for your patience as we slowly, but surely, establish the architecture for this latest feature for Margin.

Sincerely,

Tamara Kaye Sellman, Editor and Publisher, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism