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Greetings!,
It's going around, it's coming around: a new year, a new essay contest and a new hard copy issue of Tiny Lights! Yes, the Contest 2010 edition is in the mail. Look for it, subscribers and 2010 contest participants, but don't hold your breaths. With bulk mail, it sometimes takes a few weeks.
"Brats, Bullies and Bras: Stories from Childhood," a collaboration of Petaluma Readers Theatre and Tiny Lights is January 18 at the Aqus Cafe. Come if you can!
Good Stuff:
Reasons to embrace your vulnerability as a writer, a talk about connection by Dr. Brene Brown. (about 20 minutes)
Writer, teacher, documentarian and Tiny Lights judge Ken Rodgers on "American Ego" radio 5 Tips for Writers. (about 5 minutes)
The latest Searchlights.
The 16th annual Tiny Lights essay contest!
Here's to a Happy New Year!
Susan Bono, Editor
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Searchlights & Signal Flares
Tiny Lights' Online Writers' Exchange
We've all heard of it, most of us have experienced it, but Nancy Wallace-Nelson, this month's featured writer, along with Claudia Larson, Becky Povich, Don Edgers, Maggie Manning, Catherine Crawford, Marilyn Petty, Sara Baker, and Susan Bono were brave enough to consider,
"What does writer's block look like?"
This Month's Featured Writer: Nancy Wallace-Nelson
Nancy Liela Wallace-Nelson is a Mendocino writer, who teaches life skills and motivation, and who sees gratitude as a vital life skill.
Who sees your work in progress?
(Deadline 1/21/11)
Send Searchlights submissions with bio (and title!) to editor@tiny-lights.com
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Tiny Lights' 16th Annual Essay Contest
Deadline: February 18, 2011
Tiny Lights is looking for next year's contest winners! - First Place: $350
- Second Place: $250
- Third Place: $150
- Two Honorable Mention Prizes: $100 each.
- Three FLASHPOINT prizes of $100 each
Guidelines
Awards will be determined by a panel of judges. Final authority rests with the Editor-in-Chief, Susan Bono.
Winners will be posted at www.tiny-lights.com by April 11th, 2011
All contestants will receive a hard copy of Tiny Lights' contest publication featuring the winning entries.
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Petaluma Readers Theatre and Tiny Lights presents:
Brats, Bullies and Bras: Stories from Childhood
 January 18, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Aqus Cafe, Foundry Wharf
2nd & H Street, Petaluma, CA
$5 admission to benefit Petaluma Readers Theatre
On this special night, a wild rumpus ensues when the Petaluma Readers Theatre performs essays on the subject of childhood from past issues of Tiny Lights.
Featured authors: Chuck Kensler, Colin Berry, Jaime Weiser Love, Zoe Griffith-Jones, Angela Foster, Mathilda Wheeler, Tina Barry.
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Flash in the Pan Online Quarterly
The 23rd Flash is coming soon!
What is a Flash in the Pan? It's life caught in the blaze of a match, a beam of moonlight, the glare of a home-made explosion. These pieces of first-person non-fiction prose (500 words or less) are like potato chips--you won't be able to stop with just one. Our gems are posted quarterly in January, April, July and October on the Tiny Lights website. A select few appear in the hard copy editions of the magazine. Send your jewels to editor@tiny-lights.com.
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Sheila Bender's
Writing it Real Winter 2010-2011 Poetry & Essay Contest
Reading Period: December 4, 2010--February 15, 2011
A unique opportunity to submit work, get editorial feedback, and re-submit for possible prizes all for one entry fee!
Sheila Bender is a wise, experienced expert in poetry and essay. Her website: Writing It Real
Contest Guidelines
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Quarterly online publications of fiction, memoir or poetry
each featuring one author. Read them at:
www.echapbook.com
The winter 2010-11 personal narrative e-chapbook
opens to submissions October 1. Contact Publisher Jo-Anne Rosen: echaps@wordrunner.com
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Call for Memoir Submissions
Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother
 Dates: September 1, 2010- February 1, 2011 (deadline) Length: 2,000 - 2,500 words Accepting compelling stories about mother (or mother
figures) that express the wisdom shared or learned from a particular experience.
We are looking for personal narratives that possess a
story arc with dramatic appeal. We will select stories that weave the
significance of the unique experience into the storyline. Each selection should
adapt easily to the spoken word as an audio version.
For information or to contact the editors, please
visit: www.wisdomhasavoice.com
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A Unique Offer from Writer/Photographer
Tony Johnson
Tell Me A Story
Everyone has a story. Stories shape our lives and give them meaning. If you tell me a story, I will record it digitally, along with using photography to reveal what is important to you. This recording and these images will be a celebration of your life and provide a wonderful gift to those you love.
To see samples of my work and obtain further information, please go to http://tonyjohnson.zenfolio.com/ , then go to the Tell Me a Story link at the top of the page.
TonyJohnsonPhotography/InnerLandscapes e-mail: tonyjohnsonmail@yahoo.com
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WRITERS FORUM, PETALUMA
Marlene Cullen hosts this series of writing workshops on the third Thursday of the month from 7-9 p.m. at the Petaluma Community Center.
February 17: Zoe FitzGerald Carter
Zoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications includingThe New York Observer, Premiere, The San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and various national magazines. Imperfect Endings is her first memoir.
Call 778-4380 (Petaluma Community Center) or visit www.thewritespot.usfor info.
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Iota Press Studio News
Iota Press is a letterpress shop and literary studio in Sebastopol.
Along with the usual enchantment and shenanigans, Iota's Slow Print Cooperative has morphed into a quarterly offering of little books. "Almost a journal. Nearly a magazine. Kind of a trip." $30 per year for 4 chapbooks. $10 single copies. This current issue features Eric Johnson's "kaleidoglyphs," such as the one featured above.
Location: 925-c Gravenstein Hwy in South Sebastopol (next to 'Beekind).
Contact: Eric Johnson....823-6152 Our latest works online at: www.iotapress.com
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Skate through the season and
to the print edition of Tiny Lights.
Deborah Garber's illustration for
"Gliding Away" by Andrea Marcusa.
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Since 1995, Tiny Lights has been celebrating the power of personal voice with a biannual journal devoted to short essay. The annual essay contest, which offers $1500 in prizes, provides the material for the summer issue, while the winter issue is by invitation only.
The online component of Tiny Lights is designed to catch what can't be contained in the pages of the newsstand editions. Lights Online provides a venue for additional voices, information about Tiny Lights and resources for writers of personal essay. Sparks: Email News & Notes is our free monthly electronic newsletter.
Subscriptions to the print edition of Tiny Lights, which includes original art:
$10 per year (2 issues)
Current issue: $5 each
Back issues: $3 each Checks payable to Tiny Lights Publications, P.O. Box 928, Petaluma, CA 94953
Or take advatage of our new PayPal feature!
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 Susan Bono, Editor
Tiny Lights Publications
P.O. Box 928, Petaluma, CA 94953
(707) 762-3208
www.tiny-lights.com |
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