Dear Creative Friends,
Here’s a new post from my Creative Catalyst column on the Story Circle Network’s blog “Telling Her Stories: The Broad View.” Each of you have solved your time/money…money/time dilemna in different ways. I’d love to see a discussion going on how to become creatively independent.
Five Tips for Creative Independence: Don’t sell your soul to the company store
Thanks!
Janet
Karim Khan, our man in Pakistan, sent me a link revealing the work of poet Afzal Shauq. I think you’ll like it. Karim in country editor for Instanlogs.
Capricorn Heart = Persistence of the goat My second post for my Creative Catalyst series on Story Circle Network’s “Telling Herstories: The Broad View” is now up. You can access “Building a Creative Practice: Not for Wimps” by clicking here…where you’ll also see the first post, “What is Creativity Anyway?” Also, a third post will…
Well, gosh! Heather Summerhayes Cariou and I tied as Grand Prize Winners for Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett’s Womens Memoirs Memoir Writing Contest Featuring Favorite Holidays. Heather Summerhayes Cariou’s story “The Sweet Ghost of Christmas Past” is published today on Womens Memoirs My story “Passage into Elderhood: Happy 60th Birthday” will be published soon. This…
Our latest book “Worth Remembering: The Poetry of Our Heritage,” edited by my father Erwin A. Thompson is now available on-line.
Dave Scotese, Litmocracy’s founder announces a contest for unpublished books. The prize is $1,000 dollars and no-cost book publication. This contest runs in ten rounds. It’s purpose is to encourage authors with talent who are unrecognized in the mainstream publishing world. Dave says, “The publishing industry is lax in identifying new authors; hundreds of thousands…
Awhile back I funded an annual program that provided monthly guest presenters to talk to students in the creative writing class at Alton Senior High School. There was a fine line-up, including a presentation on the Kwansaba form developed by the Eugene Redmond writing club. The St. Louis Poetry Society administered the grant. I dedicated…