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Greetings!,
I'm relieved and grateful to announce that the 2011 Tiny Lights Contest issue is at the printers and will be available at the Sonoma County Book Festival this Saturday, September 24, in Santa Rosa, CA! Stop by the TL booth and see the results of another year of fine writing!  For those of you who can't make the scene, I hope you do something wonderful this weekend. The world is out there waiting for you to write about it! To help you get more from your explorations, check out the latest Searchlights & Signal Flares on maintaining a fresh outlook.
And always, Keep Writing! Susan Bono, Editor
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Searchlights & Signal Flares
Tiny Lights' Online Writers' Exchange 
Is it buying a red convertible, or simply dreaming of escape? Are rock anthems of youth blasting on your radio, or is it the blues played on a 13 string Japanese koto? Is your method for staying fresh tried-and-true, or something new? What keeps you from getting stale? Read what Cypress Ducayne , this month's featured writer, has to say on the subject, along with our other contributors this month: This Month's Featured Writer: Cypress Ducayne
Cypress Ducayne lives in south central Pennsylvania, and graduated from Harrisburg Area Community College with a Liberal Arts degree in Communications and the Arts. After two decades of life in the working world of Corporate America, she has begun writing from her heart again. She can be contacted at cy.ducayne@hotmail.com.
What do you do when story resists you?
(Deadline 10/15/11)
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
Where does happiness come from?
If happiness is a choice, why do we resist it? Can happiness be a compass to navigate hard times? This WriteWays to Happiness retreat offers a practical approach to cultivating happiness. We will use writing prompts, art materials, recent discoveries in neuro-psychology, free writing time and group sharing to explore our relationship with happiness and ways we might expand it. 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 in walkable Idyllwild.
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 |
 Writing it Real
Istanbul, Turkey w/ Sheila Bender, Susan Bono & Yesim Cimcoz 10 days in early May 2012 The Spice Market, the Blue Mosque, dervishes, Turkish baths, and more! Experience these wonders in the company of writers. Give yourself and your writing a whole new perspective. Safe. Affordable. Remarkable. For information: sbono@tiny-lights.com
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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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CALL FOR MEMOIR SUBMISSIONS The winter 2011 MEMOIR e-chapbook is open to submissions October 1 through November 21. Read previous issues at www.echapbook.com See www.echapbook.com/submissions.htm for guidelines. Contact Publisher Jo-Anne Rosen: echaps@wordrunner.com |
 Enter the dream. SUBSCRIBE to the print edition of Tiny Lights
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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.
See you there! |
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.
October 20: Barbara Spicer Telling Tales
Whether you are writing a novel, short stories, personal essays, a memoir, your journal or all of the above, there are lessons to be learned from the storyteller's art. Acquire new tools and a fresh perspective from a practicing story teller.
Call 778-4380 (Petaluma Community Center) or visit www.thewritespot.usfor info. $15 at the door |
 16th Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk
Petaluma, CA
If you attended, you know how wonderful it was. If you didn't, don't miss it next year!
September 18, 2011
11 am--7 pm
petalumapoetrywalk.org
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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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