Ephemera Newsletter Iss Nov.4
(Creativity and Motivation Weekly)
Welcome to the Ephemera Newsletter, prijatelji! (Serbian for “friends”)
Dear Readers,
This week we’re feeling under the weather, alas, yet hope all of you are tip-top, chipper and fed unto satiety and health. We understand, too, everyone is so so busy at this moment of the year, so we’ve shortened our letter this week, keeping the zines and awards and jobs, while also cutting back the written components, mini essays and rants. Thanks for your graciousness. Thanks for your presence. For your interest and intrigue. We hope you had good visiting time with friends and family, but this weekend, it’s back to pursuing our craft and career!
Merci. Danke. Kiitos. 고마워 Go-ma-wo. Xiè xiè.
We’ll be back with rants and essays next week.
Zahvalnost!
(Gratitude)
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Writers Submit: Three Magazines
One of the most well respected quarterly journals out there, AQR reads in all genres, and right now they’re reading nonfiction. They have staggered open and close deadlines for each genre. Next deadline is for Non-fiction. Deadline December 10.
A Truckee Meadows Community College annual print journal, which has published many great writers in all genres. They’re reading all genres now, and distribute on campus, as well as the city of Reno, Nevada. Deadline January 16.
An all genre and art publication of Ringling College, financed by John Ringling of the Ringling brothers in Sarasota, Florida. Submissions are free and they are reading for all genres for the 2023 issue. Deadline February 1.
Holiday Creative Sponsor: Freewrite
We speak a lot about focus and about maintaining a writing practice throughout the year, which includes times when we’re on the road. We came across the Freewrite while looking for new writing tools that might be useful in those aforementioned ways. Their offering of portable digital typewriters, a very strong melding of new and old tech, along with an ethos of focus…all of this made an impression on us; this could make for a really good tool to add to our writing nook or travel pack for occasions we want a more analog writing implement with no internet browser, when a pen and pad is too messy or not fast enough, when we have serious drafting to do, when we want the feel of pushing keys and the ability to save work to the cloud (typewriters with cloud storage access!). Please have a look and support Ephemera in so doing. Enjoy!
Weekly Artist: Paige Bradley
Paige Bradley is an American artist born in California. Her primary work is in sculpture, and focuses on the human form. Bradley’s mastery is in physical expression, and the detail and contour of the body as it moves, shifts, dances. She uses the traditional method of creating a clay relief, casting it, and doing final touches to the cast. The process is time consuming, highly intentional, and extremely painstaking, yet it enables the attention to minute attributes, precision of design. The artist’s work is exhibited around the world in galleries, parks, and museums. Let’s think about our musculature, our bodies, the minutia of shape and size, and how we might bring that into our work, or lines and characters and the shape of our pieces, whether poetry or prose.
Paige Bradley’s Insta.
Prizes/Awards/Stipends Fall ‘22
(2 publication prizes and a fellowship for high school teachers.)
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