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The newest Pen Parentis episode is live! Our October Salon with the Horror Writers Association, featuring Marc Abbott, Leslie Lutz, and L. Marie Wood, is on YouTube.
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#Haiku's alive!
The last #shortlist will be posted later today. Thanks for your patience. $500USD in awards, $200 to the top #haiku. Past annual #anthologies are on Amazon via tinyurl.com/TheBestHaiku/
#poetrycommunity #poetry #books #micropoetry #senryu #poetrybook #poetrybooks
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We're currently considering fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction books, as well as literary magazines, for the 2027 #FirecrackerAwards! Submit by November 18: clmp.org/programs-opportunit…
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Imagine that. Harvard is reinventing a great books college. And the students do really want to put down the phones and pick the classics up.
“A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience, and you can’t get that out of AI,” said Peggy Urdan, a government and neuroscience major from Lexington, Mass. “The only way to get anything out of this class is to not use AI.”
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl…
We’re calling all Writer-Parents! Join us Tuesday, Nov 10 at 7 pm ET for an online Salon with The Authors Guild (@AuthorsGuild), featuring Patrice Gopo, Anca Szilágyi, and Nikoo Yahyazadeh. Plus, meet our 2027 Writing Fellow!
Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of The Boy Who Loved Trees by our founder, M. M. De Voe (@mmdevoe)! Writer-Parents, friends, and allies, you made it a night to remember.
go see @mmdevoe and many others reading in Hartford, CT tomorrow Oct 23 at 6pm - their usual host is a supporting member! #readatpenparentis #connecticut #hartford #events
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Reminder that zinnia is open for subs and we want your work! Give us your poetry, prose, photography, art, short stories, essays. We want your weird art, your experimental art, the art you’re not sure about. submit submit submit!!
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The annual Constellation Award honors an independent literary press that champions the writing of people of color. The 2027 recipient will receive $10,000. Publishers, be sure to submit by November 2! clmp.org/constellation-award…
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Question Twitter hive mind: when @DonnaTartt likes twenty of your posts and you think she is incredible, have you officially made your dreams come true? Or does she have to DM you for more info first?
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Good news in the book industry:
-Sales of print books have increased nearly 25% from a decade ago
-Number of independent bookstores in the US has increased 75% since 2020
-Global book market is expected to grow 5% annually for the next several years
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Our founder managed to finish her awesome literary novel despite running a nonprofit, raising two kids and dealing with everything the rest of the world threw at everyone:
my book launched - can you see it?
mmdevoe.com/the-boy-who-love…
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PSAs. Please share. Our next free-submissions window opens on Nov 16. We're also reading for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest until Nov 15 and The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship until Dec 15. SmokeLong will always have free-submissions windows.
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anyone in the mood for submitting this week? 😏
these mags are waiting:
@othersidespec
@GriffithReview
@onlypoemsmag
@frozenseapoetry
@readtrailsmag
Watch latest episode of Pen Parentis Literary Salons! We have a supporting membership for writers who are also parents & at the $20/mo level you get accountability groups! Join our Cycle of Support - finish your longer works any genre! This month: the HWA!
youtu.be/lxY4qN12n6o?is=pHJ0…
Thanks to Marc L. Abbott, Leslie Lutz, and L. Marie Wood of the Horror Writers Association, our live audience, and our sponsors New York State Council on the Arts, The de Groot Foundation, and Adriatic Writers Conference.
The show drops on YouTube next week: youtube.com/penparentis
#writing #creativewriting #parents #fiction #books #writingcommunity #literary #PenParentis #readatpenparentis #parentingdonewrite
