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  • Crowdsource Poetry Project Submissions

    And so it begins: the Crowdsource Poetry Project is now open for submissions! Heather posted the first line: “I began to ask myself the questions…” and we need your suggestions for the second line. You can submit as many of your ideas as you like to our Facebook page here.…

  • A Sestina by Everyone

    A Sestina by Everyone A few weeks ago I was talking with some colleagues about the changing face of literature.  Everyone knows about e-readers and online publications by now, and even blogs are getting a lot of attention.  We started talking about an author who is writing a novel one…

  • Link-N-Blogs: June 14

    “A man’s pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.”–Natasha Trethewey, Thrall Poet Laureate, Natasha Tretheway: Natasha Tretheway has been appointed to a second term as the U.S. Poet Laureate. Her goal for this term is to bring poetry to a wider audience. Read more about…

  • Papers and Pubs Volume 2

    This year’s issue of Papers and Pub(lication)s is now online. See it here. Congratulations and thanks to all the authors who participated. We’re excited to see the journal growing; if you’re an undergraduate or have just graduated (we’ll soon be changing our cutoff date to within one year of graduation…

  • Link-N-Blogs: June 7

    “Old books exert a strange fascination for me–their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”–Lauren Willig Vintage Book Art: It’s not the usual bookart that we feature on the weekly Link-N-blogs post, but it’s still quite fascinating and beautiful. Check…

  • Patrick Brehe

    Hello, I’m Patrick Brehe, a senior writing and publication major at the University of North Georgia. I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and moved to Georgia with my family when I was two. I’ve wanted to be a writer since elementary school when I wrote my first short work of…

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  • Link-N-Blogs: May 31

    “His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”–Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1 Borders Giftcards Worthless: In the aftermath of Borders going bankrupt, lots of consumers were left with giftcards that they didn’t know what…