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Greetings!,
We've just had our first snap of cold weather here in Sonoma County. I'm looking forward to more nights with a fire and plenty of good reading. My current favorites by friends of Tiny Lights:
edited by Carol Smallwood & Suzann Holland
edited by R. A. Rycraft & Leslie What
And Coming soon: The 2012 contest edition of Tiny Lights!
If you doubt you have what it takes to bring your own stories into the world, maybe this little video compilation will put you back in fighting form!
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Fight on & Keep writing! |
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Searchlights & Signal Flares
Tiny Lights' Online Writers' Exchange
It's not enough to know you're a writer. You need a goal and a guiding light to keep you actually writing. There's no magic there, or there? How would you answer the question,
Read what Rebecca Lawton, this month's featured writer, has to say on the subject, along with
This Month's Featured Writer: Rebecca Lawton
Rebecca Lawton's work explores nature, human and otherwise. Her writing honors include the inaugural Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers and three Pushcart Prize nominations-in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her essay collection, Reading Water: Lessons from the River, was a SF Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller, and she has published shorter works in Orion, THEMA, Shenandoah, Sierra, SF Chronicle Magazine, and many other periodicals and anthologies. She was one of the first women river guides on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon as well as on rivers in Utah, Idaho, California, and Oregon. From that experience she grew her river novel, Junction, Utah, about the impacts of domestic oil, foreign war, and cultural differences on wilderness and small-town American life. It will be published in late 2012.
Visit her at www.beccalawton.com, at her Writer in Residence blog at http://beccalawton.wordpress.com/, and on facebook.
On your last day, what do you want people to say about your writing? (Deadline: 10/15/12)
How does fun factor into your writing? (Deadline: 11/15/12)
Send Searchlights submissions with bio (and title!) to editor@tiny-lights.com
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Contest and Call for Submissions
 Kate Farrell, Linda Joy Myers & Amber Lea Starfire, Editors Where were you in the 60s and 70s? Seeking women with telltale stories of that extraordinary era for a unique anthology: Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s and 70s. Prizes will be awarded to the top three works, though all entries are eligible for publication: First Prize: $300, publication, and 5 copies Second Prize: 150, publication, and 3 copies Third Prize: $75, publication, and 2 copies Deadline: January 15, 2013 Entry fees: $20 for prose, $15 for poetry. For complete guidelines and to enter, go to: www.timestheywereachanging.com
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Petaluma Readers Theatre illuminates Shakespeare's
sonnets using stories that reflect the essence of the
poems. Hear the sonnet, hear the story and understand.
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October 19, 20 8pm
October 21 2pm
October 26, 27 8pm
October 28 2pm Murray Rockowitz Photography Studio
128 Petaluma Blvd North
Petaluma CA Tickets $12 each
Click here for more information
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Also available at
Petaluma Mail Depot
4th & C Street Petaluma |
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Flash in the Pan
Online Quarterly @ Tiny Lights
Continue to resist sending me Flash submissions for now! They will only feel lonely and neglected until I get caught up. Stay tuned!
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 |
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Writers Forum of Petaluma
presents
Adair Lara
"Writing Memoir"
October 18, 2012 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Petaluma Community Center, 320 No. McDowell Blvd.
$15 at the door
ADAIR LARA is a writer, teacher and author in San Francisco. A former magazine editor, she wrote an award-winning personal column for the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years. Her most recent book, which has become a cult favorite in the writing blogsphere, is Naked, Drunk and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essays (Ten Speed). Her essays appear in many national magazines, and have been anthologized in dozens of textbooks. She writes a monthly column for Grandparents.Com.
For Info: www.thewritespot.us
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Playwright's Forum
Are you an armchair playwright? Have a script all dressed up and nowhere to go? Would you like to have open constructive conversation about your play, scene or ideas? 6th Street Playhouse is introducing the Playwright's Forum. The forum is an ongoing group specifically designed for playwrights to have a place to meet and discuss their work. The group will be facilitated by Maureen Studer. Please bring up to 20 pages of your play and duplicate copies (enough for all readers to have their own copy). $10.00 per session.
Tuition: $10.00/session
When: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, 9AM to 12PM
Where: The 6th Street Playhouse
Fall Dates:
August 25th
September 8 & 22
October 13 & 27
November 10
December 8
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Tiny Lights Recommends: Sonoma County Free Bookmobile Help bring free books to Sonoma County residents.
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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.
Print editions of Tiny Lights, which includes original art:
Current issue: $5 each
Back issues: $3 each
Checks payable to Tiny Lights Publications, P.O. Box 928, Petaluma, CA 94953
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 Susan Bono, Editor
Tiny Lights Publications
P.O. Box 928, Petaluma, CA 94953
(707) 762-3208
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