I meant to debut my website tonight, yet it seems that my provider has gone down. Alas. Tomorrow, my dear friends.
Yet all is not lost! Please, enjoy this short poem that I wrote the other day:
Southern Scribes
by Deborah J. Brannon
It is summer and magnolia blossoms
shimmer in the heat, white parchment
limp and languid under a Southern sun.
They dream of the soft calligraphy
in a sudden rainstorm, warm drops
teasing shudders from the petals,
scrawling unspoken poetry in strange
cadences across their aging pages.
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PSAs:
erzebet is selling some remarkable books, especially if your tastes run toward fairy tales. Help her and
Papaveria Press flourish! (You can find the book sale posts by going to her journal.)
erzebet is also selling some absolutely lovely wall art: bone scrolls made of beads and bone and flowers.
Puck and
Dragon Fly.
Fantasy Magazine is hosting a contest to wind a copy of Fangland by John Marks: all you have to do is submit a piece of flash fiction recasting a classic story in a contemporary setting.
upstart_crow is
looking for a cover for her forthcoming book The Memory Palace (autobiographical poetry collection, coming soon from
Norilana Books in 2009). If you've any artistic visual skills, it could be you're the designer!
deliasherman has posted
the submissions guidelines for the second collection of Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing. Reading period begins October 1st!
Whew. Some exciting stuff there.