October 4 Meeting
Hi folks. I’m back from vacation. For yesterday’s meeting, we discussed the cancellation of the September meeting and discussed why that happened. All was forgiven. Then we talked about:
- Possibly doing National Writing Month next November. Do some Word Pirates want to try to write a novel in a month? Let Joy know. Maybe we can have a prize if you make it.
- Doing individual critiques. We are willing to spend part of meetings talking about one person’s essay or short story. All it takes is e-mailing the group your story and asking them to read it. This week, for example, we all talked about Marcia’s short essay about Anne Frank. If a Word Pirate wants to have the group look at something, go right ahead and send it.
- I am MOVING to my own house in November, making it extremely likely that the November 15 meeting will be at a new location. I will keep you posted.
The prompt surrounded Tin House’s “Off the Grid” issue, which has a November 1 deadline:
Tin House’s Spring theme issue is OUTSIDERS. We’re looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by or about people or institutions that function (or don’t function) out of the bounds of “normal” society. We’re looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by or about people or institutions that function (or don’t function) out of the bounds of “normal” society. For the “Lost & Found” section we are looking for brief appreciations of texts written outside of conventional publishing–prison, exile, mental institutions, in secret.
The prompt seemed to go over big time. Constructive meeting!
~ Joy
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