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Greetings!,
Are your writing habits a comfort or a curse? The latest Searchlights & Signal Flares takes a look at the themes we use and reuse. Whether or not it's time for a change, it's always time to gain new perspective. And if you're in the habit of sending work out, take a look at this video on rejection!
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Just don't let anything keep you from writing!
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Susan Bono, Editor
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Searchlights & Signal Flares
Tiny Lights' Online Writers' Exchange 
It goes around, it comes around, the same-old, same-old. We all know there is nothing new under the sun, but it is precisely that fact that leads us to the question: What themes do you keep coming back to? Read what Ana Manwaring , this month's featured writer, has to say on the subject, along with our other contributors this month: 
This Month's Featured Writer: Ana Manwaring
Ana Manwaring, www.anamanwaring.com, writes, edits through JAM Manuscript Consulting www.jam-editing.com, and teaches creative writing. She's branded cattle in Hollister, out-run gun totin' maniacs on lonely highways, lived on houseboats, consulted brujos, visited every California mission, worked for a PI, swum with dolphins, and writes about it all. Read her lifestyle column at www.petalumapost.com.
How do you cast light on the dark side of a story?
(Deadline 9/15/11)
Send Searchlights submissions with bio (and title!) to editor@tiny-lights.com
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WriteWays to Happiness
A Weekend Writing Retreat with Susan Bono & Joan Zerrien 
October 7--9 Spirit Mountain Retreat Idyllwild, CA What does happiness mean to you?
Where does it come from?
Why is it important to speak of it in these times? WriteWays to Happiness retreat is designed to help us get in touch with our inner wellspring of happiness. We will use writing prompts, art materials, meditation, prose and poetry, free writing time and group sharing to open our hearts to the happiness life offers, and to the happiness we are capable of generating for the benefit of ourselves and others. Retreat begins Friday, October 7 (7:30 p.m.) thru Sunday, October 9 (12:30 p.m.) Arrival time: Friday after 3pm, supper is on your own.
Fee: $275 includes retreat, meals, private room at Spirit Mountain Retreat
Commuter Fee: $150 for retreat and meals
Deposit: $50 by September 15th (Retreat limited to 12 Participants)
Registration: Call 951-659-2523 or email Abigail@spiritmountainretreat.org |
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Flash in the Pan Online Quarterly
Online now:
THE TWENTY-FIFTH FLASH
Time to send us material for October's posting.
Guidelines (Scroll to the bottom of the landing page.)
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.
Go to:Flash in the Pan
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Quarterly online publications of fiction, memoir or poetry
each featuring one author. Read more at: www.echapbook.com Contact Publisher Jo-Anne Rosen: echaps@wordrunner.com |
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.
September 15: Christine Walker Image and the Senses
The "sixth sense" is felt form-an intangible that emerges from the sensory information, narrative structure, and all else. It gives a novel distinction-not easily summed up-a quality that readers feel, that reviewers try to encapsulate, that lingers in readers' minds, hearts, bodies, and souls, and that stands the test of time.
Call 778-4380 (Petaluma Community Center) or visit www.thewritespot.usfor info. $15 at the door |
 16th Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk
Petaluma, CA
You don't have to walk far for poetry!
September 18, 2011
11 am--7 pm
petalumapoetrywalk.org
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 Sonoma County Book Festival
September 24, 10 am--4pm
Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA
Attend readings, presentations and book-signings, panel discussions, and other book-inspired activities.
Visit nearly 100 booths and exhibits showcasing independent booksellers and publishers; libraries; cultural, literary, and civic groups; and the media.
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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.
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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Tiny Lights Recommends: Sonoma County Free Bookmobile Help bring free books to Sonoma County residents. ***************
Walking With Your Muse: weekly writing practice classes in Santa Rosa with Margaret Caminsky Shapiro: 707-575-8820
www.handwritingonline.net
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Online Classes with Ken Rodgers
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For reservations, or more information call: OCA 707 874 9392. OCA is located in Harmony Village in downtown Occidental at 4008 Bohemian Hwy.
******************************** : Insights, activities and open-hearted inspiration for attracting the creative life by authors Rebecca Lawton and Jordan Rosenfeld. www.writefree.us****************************************
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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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