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Greetings!,
Congratulations to all who entered the 18th Annual Tiny Lights Personal Essay Contest! You have once again created a fine agony for our judges!
Each of you who sent in material has won a victory over your doubts and hesitations. Celebrate!
Perhaps you'll treat yourself to the latest Flash in the Pan posting or the current Searchlights & Signal Flares. Or take a few minutes for this poem by Maya Angelou, who as a child became mute for 6 years after an assault. She literally found her voice again by writing and speaking poetry. Imagine what writing can do for you.
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Find your voice! Keep writing! Susan Bono, Editor
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 There's Still Time to Join Us!
Become part of this dream! Writing Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey w/ Sheila Bender, Susan Bono & Yesim Cimcoz Writing Istanbul Conference: May 11-15, 2012 3-day optional trip to Ephesus, Selcuk, Pamukkale: May 16-18 The Spice Market, the Blue Mosque, dervishes, Turkish baths, ancient ruins, and more! Experience these wonders in the company of writers. Give yourself and your writing a whole new perspective. Build a bridge to another culture. See what we have planned on Yesim's Writing Istanbul website! For rates and and registration For questions and information: sbono@tiny-lights.com
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Tiny Lights
18th Annual Personal Essay Contest 
STAY TUNED!!
The judges are hard at work agonizing over their difficult decisions! Results will be posted online by April 11, 2012.
Prizes for essays up to 2,000 words will be awarded as follows:
- First Place: $350
- Second Place: $250
- Third Place: $150
- Two Honorable Mention Prizes: $100 each.
Three FLASHPOINT prizes of $100 are also offered for work up to 1,000 words.
artwork by Judith Stephenson |
Searchlights & Signal Flares
Tiny Lights' Online Writers' Exchange 
You probably don't need another excuse not to write, but here's the one I heard myself using the other day: "If I don't have time to write, how can I possibly have time to REVISE?" After I enjoyed my little pout, I decided to ask a more useful question,
"How do you know what to cut?" Read what Catherine Crawford this month's featured writer, has to say on the subject, along with our other contributors:
This Month's Featured Writer: Catherine Crawford
How do you know you're a writer?
(Deadline 4/15/12)
Send Searchlights submissions with bio (and title!) to editor@tiny-lights.com
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 Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother
25 diverse and compelling memoirs about Mother Edited by Kate Farrell A Perfect Gift for Mothers' Day! Amazon.com or special order at your bookstore Paperback $14.99, e-Book $7.99 www.wisdomhasavoice.com |
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Flash in the PanOnline Quarterly
Finally!
The Twenty-seventh Flash in the Pan!
Rainbow by Karn Belgard
Expanding Boundaries by Arlene L. Mandell
Eight by Laurel Aiona
Believe by Carol Hoorn
Guidelines
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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Read issues at www.echapbook.com See www.echapbook.com/submissions.htm for submissions guidelines. Contact Publisher Jo-Anne Rosen: echaps@wordrunner.com |
 Make a wish and SUBSCRIBE to the print edition of Tiny Lights
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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
****************** 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. Call 778-4380 (Petaluma Community Center) or visit www.thewritespot.us for info. $15 at the door ******************** 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.
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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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