EVENTS The Fourth Annual Field's End Writers' Conference || Sat Apr 18 at Kiana Lodge, Poulsbo, WA You'll not want to miss this rare, intimate one-day conference in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest! Keynote speaker is "Grammar Girl" Mignon Fogarty (as seen on The Oprah Winfrey Show) and opening the conference is Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association prize-winning author Jim Lynch (The Highest Tide). NEW FOR 2009! • "At Conference End: A Reading" with Jim Lynch, Mignon Fogarty, and haiku poet Michael Dylan Welch. • Writers' Jump Start moderated freewrite with author Mary Guterson. • Participant open mic moderated by poet Lana Ayers. • Writers' Wind Down collage workshop with creative coach Grace Jackson. Playtime for writers! Workshop presenters: Kathleen Alcala, Elizabeth Austen, Lana Hechtman Ayers, Royce Buckingham, Carol Cassella, Jonathan Evison, Waverly Fitzgerald, Mary Guterson, Paul Hanson, Grace Jackson, Priscilla Long, George Shannon, Michael Dylan Welch. More info and to register ________________________________ ________________________________ MY PROGRESS REPORT My availability status at present: I still have room for a few new coaching clients, so if you're in need of a helpful companion during your own writing journey, simply drop me a note and we'll work out a plan. As for teaching both online and in live workshops, I'm still on schedule to return to classes in the fall of 2009. Note to former clients: I'll be available for you in 2009 if you need assistance with current or future projects. What can I say, I miss y'all! For those seeking editorial assistance, I am happy as ever to make referrals. For fiction, Waverly Fitzgerald and Carole Glickfeld are excellent to work with. For nonfiction, Waverly Fitzgerald, again, or wunderkind Shannon Evans for business writing. Dana Blozis Neuts is excellent for marketing and editing, as well. Looking for a technical or academic editor? Try Melissa Stehlik. For poetry, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Lana Ayers, and Kelli Russell Agodon. Jennifer Hager is good for copyediting and proofreading needs. If they aren't able to help you, they should be able to point you in the right direction.   ME LOVE BOOKS I love receiving books on my wish list as gifts. Even gently loved used ones or second-hand books you're clearing from your shelves! Here's my official wish list of most-desired titles. BY THE WAY, it's BAFAB week! Want to send me a book? Seriously, for me, books are better than chocolate! If not me, send a friend anywhere in the world a book. You'll sleep better at night!   April's Recommendation The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path through Depression By Eric Maisel   Writer's Rainbow supports IndieBound   Tamara Kaye Sellman is a proud member of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild

w a x • p o e t i c • t h i s • m o n t h [April 2009] Celebrate National Poetry Month. You may or may not be a poet, but one thing can be certain: you have been personally affected in some way by poetry. Commercial jingle? Song lyric? Nursery rhyme? Bawdy joke? Love sonnet? Poetry pervades our culture: always has, always will. Why not join in celebrating the largest literary event in the world? Our community does a lot of things to celebrate National Poetry Month. There's a limerick contest, broadsides of local poems plastered all around town, several local readings, a theatrical celebration of local poetry icon Theodore Roethke, a poetry slam, and a poetry presentation from local fifth graders. I'm hoping we'll get some more of that Beat poetry we enjoyed last July 4th as well, with bongos and bandannas as the whole nine yards! The 75-year-old Academy of American Poets, which founded National Poetry Month, is the go-to source for information on this 30-day-long celebration. Their mission has always been to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Other programs include free poetry lesson plans for high school teachers; a collection of over 700 recordings known as the Poetry Audio Archive; and Poets.org, their award-winning web hub, which receives a million unique users each month. At Poets.org, you can find a host of activities you can participate in as part of National Poetry Month, including: Poem In Your Pocket Day: The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 30, 2009. Poem-A-Day: Beginning April 1, Poets.org sends one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The poems have been selected from new books published in the spring. New poetry books for Spring: Check out this list of new poetry titles that will be published in spring 2008 by the sponsors of National Poetry Month. Subscribe to Poets.org: Receive poetry in your inbox, your news feed, or your iTunes—choose your favorite, or sign up for all three. Poets.org also offers a way for you to determine what's happening in your area. Check out the National Poetry Map for local, regional and state Poetry Month events. _____   Comment on this advice at the Writer's Rainbow blog RELATED "National Poetry Month comes to Bainbridge Island" —Field's End: A Writers' Community blog, Apr 09

WEBLOGS WRITER'S RAINBOW Discussions about all aspects of the writing life FIELD'S END: A WRITERS' COMMUNITY The new blog for Field's End: A Writers' Community SEE JANE WRITE! The new blog for Jane's Stories Press Foundation, a global community of women writers (since 1998) BUZZFOOD Feed the Obsession || All food, all the time RHYMES WITH CAMERA: VERBAL SNAPSHOTS Personal commentary about high and low culture, daily life, politics, the Pacific Northwest, family, etc. THE BIG BLOG OF MARVEL A group blog discussion of magical realism featuring Tamara Kaye Sellman, Louis Gallo, Ron Samul, Janice Eidus, Mary Overton and others GUEST BLOG: MINORITY WEIRDOS SUPERWOMAN STORIES: Jennifer Culkin "At a time when American culture suffers a deficit of heroes, I'm glad to see a 'local girl does good' story that mirrors…" more…   IN PODCAST: "Messages" by Tamara Kaye Sellman (this flash fiction originally appeared in Cezanne's Carrot) [Download MP3]   REVIEWS for Serendipity • Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese American Stories and Fado & Other Stories, by Katherine Vaz • Honeycomb, by Israel del Rio • The Cripple and His Talismans, by Anosh Irani • Wonderfull, by William Neil Scott • My Name is Gabito/Me llamo Gabito, by Monica Brown; Raúl Colón, illustrator • Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, by Theodora Goss and Delia Sherman, editors • Saraminda: Black Desire in a Field of Gold, by José Sarney for Long Story Short • Slow Time: Recovering the Natural Rhythms of Life, by Waverly Fitzgerald   ARTICLES Winter 2008 A WALK IN THE PARK (IN THE DARK)     How writers can benefit from strolling outside their genre comfort zones for Horror Factor October 2007 HOW DO YOU GET UNSTUCK?     Essay for "Searchlights & Signal Flares," the online writer's exchange for Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative   LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS September 2007 MAIN STREET CROSSROADS     Uniting local authors, publishers, booksellers and readers February 2007 THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE     Writing without an MFA   PRESS ABOUT TAMARA KAYE SELLMAN December 2008 Powerful Stories Found at the End of the 'Journeys' Contest     We gave Tamara, herself the editor of two highly acclaimed literary journals, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism and Periphery Online, the task of choosing a single winner from the anonymous entries we sent her in each of three categories...(more)"—Barbara Jacksha and Joan Kremer, Cezanne's Carrot October 2007 DOES YOUR FICTION NEED TO BE STRETCHED?     Five authors describe the magic of magical realism in expressing emotional truths in this article for The Writer by Paola Corso

 

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