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February Writing Prompt Contest
Congratulations to Jason Huff, the winner of our quarterly drawing! He has won a print copy of our Winter 2013 Issue: Storytelling. Congratulations also to Pilar W, our January Writing Prompt...
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Writer-you and Regular-you
Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, Margaret Eaton. Look for her story, “The Trees Would Know” in the “Storytelling” issue. If you’re a budding writer and you don’t hang out with other...
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March Writing Prompt Contest
Congratulations also to Chris Baird, our February Writing Prompt Contest Winner! Chapped lips on a springtime face. He leaned close to explain to her the important distinctions between stormtroopers...
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Don’t I Know You?
Today’s blog post comes from The Quotable contributor, James Pouilliard. You can read James’s story, “When Bruce Was Eaten by the Bear” in Issue 8: Storytelling In one of her memoirs, in a chapter...
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On Poetry
Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, klipschutz. His poem, “Cannibal’s Delight” appears in the “Storytelling” issue. In one sense, “Cannibal’s Delight” is a list poem – but only by way of being...
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April Writing Prompt Contest
Congratulations to John Pawson, our March Writing Prompt Contest Winner! The palaeographer scratched his head, confused. The slab of granite sat front and centre of the table, surrounded by aged tomes...
View ArticleNew Editor Intro and Great Poetry
I was asked to guest edit Issue 9 of The Quotable and immediately jumped at the chance. I love reading poems while questioning, complicating, and evolving my ideas about what makes anything “good” and...
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The Lure of a Recurring Topic
by Lauren Camp My poem in this issue of The Quotable is not the first about my mother. Or the second, or third. It’s about the gazillionth. No kidding. My mom died and I wrote about grief and loss, and...
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M/moment
Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, whose poem “Around here, March” will appear in Issue 9: “Night and Day”. I’m a poet of the moment. That is, if I have a M/moment, I...
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Are My Kids Going to Read This?
Today‘s blog post comes from The Quotable contributor, Sarah Evans. You can read Sarah’s short story, “How to Make Out in the Back of a Volkswagen Beetle” in our upcoming issue, Night and Day. I once...
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June Writing Prompt Contest
Last month, the other editors and I decided that it might be time to give our readers/contributors a short hiatus from the monthly micro-fiction contest. We are hoping that everyone’s creative juices...
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Yet another Encouraging Piece about Rejection
Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, Paul Weidknecht, whose story “The Work of Living” appears in Issue 9: “Night and Day.” Most rejection articles rehash the same lugubrious tales of futility...
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July Writing Prompt Contest
Congratulations to Melissa Grunow, our June Writing Prompt Contest Winner! It was a drought. The first in ten summers that it refused to rain. Sunshine and heat during the day and strong winds...
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August Writing Prompt Contest
Congratulations to Karen Donley-Hayes, our July Writing Prompt Contest Winner! “That’s where it happened,” they said. They spoke in unison, like twins. “In the bathtub?” their companion said. I...
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Here Come the New Bilinguals
Today’s guest post is by Jeroen van Honk. His short story, “I Dance People” appears in Issue 10 of The Quotable. It is confession time. Every time I put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, I start to...
View ArticleRead This, Too!
Read This, Too! is The Quotable reaching out, linking up, and stuffing our faces full of the writers that are published daily in the vast sea of literary journals. It’s hard to keep up, but we want to....
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Know Thyself
Today’s guest post is by Michael Chaney, who’s short story, “Trolling for Easter Porn” will appear in The Quotable Issue 10: Space. You can find more of Michael’s writing at...
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It’s all Music
Today’s blog post is by Penny Harter, author of the poem “The Resonance Around Us” in Issue 10 of The Quotable, out today. Find more of Penny Hart’s work on her blog and website: www.2hweb.net/penhart...
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Write Into The World
Today’s guest blog post comes from Jed Myers, whose poem “I’ve Left You” appears in Issue 10 of The Quotable. When 9/11 happened, twelve years ago now, I was one among the many who found ourselves...
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Do Your Homework!
Today’s guest blog post comes from Quotable contributor Matthew Andrew. “Musa Qala,” my story that was selected for volume 10 of The Quotable, was conceived from an extra homework assignment given in a...
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