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Opening the Circle
Nancy Slonim Aronie's Online Writing Workshop
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January 28, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Gerry & Nancy
This is for Cissie from Gerry & Nancy…”a trap set early to catch sensitive girls from speaking up” was great…”i’d rather be murdered than raped” shows one of the things insensitive girls can say…”an egg boiled too long…yoke/yolk of soul” is powerful…”birth/bio/first genetic tummy mummy” says a lot about the alienation of adoptive parents. Loved the alliteration of “glitter/gingerbread cookies, girly dress-up”…and the devastating ambivalence of “crawl into my bone marrow and eat what you need.” Brilliant and chilling and universal. “I am happy to exercise another muscle besides my patience…” We loved “I am no understudy,” &c.
January 28, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Gerry & Nancy
this is for elizabeth
hysterical!!!!!!! xo n
January 28, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Gerry & Nancy
as red as gala apples niceblank curls chunky cheeks great sound gerber cereal nie detail round cheeks round hips perfect! daddy x 3 mommy x 3nice caramel color charcoal colored compact nice daddy has gone deaf inice present tense…
her eyes are loving someone else…ooh…tells her she’s toomuch of anything … i foundmyself crying here….sometimes….seed of doubt she will…. brilliant! the minefield of being ….sooo amazing!
January 28, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Gerry & Nancy
as red as gala apples nice curls care chunky cheeks great sound gerber cereal nie detail round cheeks round hips perfect! daddy x 3 mommy x 3nice caramel color charcoal colored compact nice daddy has gone deaf inice present tense…
her eyes are loving someone else…ooh…tells her she’s toomuch of anything … i foundmyself crying here….sometimes….seed of doubt she will…. brilliant! the minefield of being ….sooo amazing!
January 28, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Gerry & Nancy
Patricia it’s beautiful and harrowing how general goodwill falls when things become specific…”his sick friend, his rent, his feelings of un-self worthiness” is a deadly threesome. I–this is Gerry speaking–recognize the Catholic vocabulary: “litany,” “venial,” and the associated guilt. “Pulling back on the gas pedal” ain’t easy, and as for “just listening,” not trying to fix things, even harder. But getting it down on paper is defininitely a first step!
February 5, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Rajka Ungerer
Has there ever been such overwhelmingly fluent, profound, sharp and kind duo As Nancy and Gerry? I am weating for duo to do a duet for us. Everything is possible if you do it from the heart. Bravissimo!
February 19, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Mary Agnes
A writing contest for us–our type of cost (free)–our type of length (350 words), our type of topic: (Lessons learned from …. well, see below.)
The contest:
In 350 words or less, tell us a story—fact or fiction—of lessons learned from getting dumped, being rejected, having a broken heart, or any other (likely embarrassing) tale of woe in the world of love.
It is sponsored by the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge but they don’t say you have to be local. Due Wed. Feb. 27. Here’s their website:
http://www.harvard.com/events/thingsivelearned.html
March 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm
David V
^^^^^ Oops. I read things too little too late. Forgot this page was here. Hope you won Mary.
April 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Mary Agnes
For those of us who miss the READING out loud on the radio of the pieces we write for this blog (and I know that I do) here’s an on-line literary magazine where you can read your stories outloud. It’s been podcasting for more than two years. According to Duotrope (another great resource for writers) this literary magazine accepts almost 12% of the submissions it gets. If anyone here ever has any of their stories published online on this site, let us know so we can hear your gloroius voices!
http://www.boundoff.com/
May 31, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Mary Agnes
Here’s a mini-essay writing contest by MORE MAGAZINE (only open to females over 40).
You have to write in 100 words or less why you are “over-40 and fabulous.” You don’t have to get a subscription to enter, though the box pops up. The prize is relatively small, only worth about $7,000, but being published in MORE would be nice.
Enter by June 30.
http://www.more.com/lifestyle/forums/mores-10th-anniversary-contest/
June 8, 2008 at 11:48 am
Mary Agnes
Another great contest for us, writing an essay on “What was the most important day of your life?” The prize is $3,000 and publication in Real Simple magazine. So many people here have written essays that could fit this topic. The maximum length is 1500 words and the deadline is 9/9/2008.
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/content/0,21770,1735955,00.html