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Peggy Dobbs, the grande dame of A Word with You Press, sends us this doozy of a story for our Craigslist Chronicles contest. Handle with care: it contains an emotional zinger at the end. Like an important piece of life-altering news, you don’t see it coming until it’s already delivered.
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…is our own Stefanie Allison. She couldn’t make it to Open Mike Night, so she sent us her reading by way of You Tube. It was spooky! You can hear her Halloween story with this link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUQlg2p6iU
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…as much as it does me? I tried to hire someone to build a website for me because it was just too overwhelming. It was like the woman who backed into a fan. (dis-assed her). I was fortunate, in that I anticipated not only the internet but the I.T. revolution about [...]
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Friends, Romans, Countryfolk, lend me your screens.
We need you. No, not the person standing behind you wondering why you’re filling up with tears of pride – you. That’s right, the one nodding at this.
People ask us what AWwYP is about. It’s about growing a vibrant, thriving, low gravitas. interactive [...]
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We had a casual day at HQ today, with about a dozen of you stopping by to chat, have a bit of wine and something from the barbee. Marshall Lubin (that just sounds like a writer’s name!) heard rumors about a new home for writers and artists in Oceanside, and decided [...]
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1. Tell me about someone in your life whose has served as a muse, inspiration, or mentor in your artistic life. What kind of difference did he/she make in your life?
I have been fortunate enough to have had three mentor’s in my artistic life, all of them were teachers. The [...]
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This logo design comes to us from Laura Givens.
Check out her portfolio here at: www.lauragivens-artist.com
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So, a big congratulations to Steve Walker who won my cartoon caption competition, the final result of which you can see above.
During my week long art show in August I ran this competition to get peoples creative juices flowing (not to sound crass). I drew out the [...]
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To purchase a painting contact me at: kristy@awordwithyoupress.com
Thanks!
Take a Bow, Acrylic painting on wood panel, 19 x 45 inches.
$300.00
From the Heart, Acrylic painting on wooden panel, 19 x 45 inches
$300.00
When our family made June-July travel plans to England, even though I was looking forward to seeing Shakespeare’s green and pleasant land in all its green and pleasant glory, I regretted that I would be missing several of the most beautiful weeks of summer in one of America’s most beautiful locations, [...]
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I assure you, golf is much more entertaining when played in this way. Though I do believe my own mother would kill me for saying so, the poor little golf orphan that I have been for many a long year.
Apologies for our lateness today by the [...]
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One of the best things (and there are so many to chose from) about A Word with You Press is that we get people talking. We get people thinking. We get people feeling – and isn’t that, ultimately, the object of a good piece of writing? It lingers in your mind, [...]
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. -John Steinbeck
Rachel Walker is a third generation San Diegan who dreams of snow. A storyteller, poet, and photographer, her work runs the gamut from the bizarre to the beautiful and tends to settle [...]
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For those of you as yet still not terribly familiar with Wuss ‘n Boots (gosh darn it you’d better get a little more cosy with them people), Wuss (the short one) is in fact grey. This hideous incident involving spray tans (and hideous it is, I do assure you) [...]
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Well folks,
We’ve been blown away by the creativity and diversity of your entries. In all, we received 85 entries and every single one of them has been read and scrutinised carefully.
Now, here’s what we’re going to do.
Thorn, Monika, Kristy and I are going to independently pick our top [...]
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The staff of A Word with You Press has been arm wrestling in cyber space trying to decide how to judge Ain’t That Quaint, now that the final entrants are being posted.
In an absolute stroke of creative genius, I have come up with the solution. (It’s why I am still [...]
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Sometimes real life can be just as entertaining as fiction, and that’s why we love to give friends of A Word with You Press the spotlight every now and then.
We’ve been corresponding with David Fisher, a writer for Open Range magazine. He’s been closely following our Ain’t That Quaint [...]
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Diane Broyles has a metropolitan tale for you, where even a wee problem can inspire some creative thinking. In double quick time of course, because New Yorkers are always on the go..
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A Unique Solution to an Unusual Problem
Scientists Still Baffled Over Chemical in City’s Water Supply
October 23, [...]
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Content Editor Monika Spykerman – a.k.a. Spykergyrl – is back from an extended sojourn in bloomin’ England (truly – I’ve never seen so many flowers in bloom in my whole life, mostly on the patio garden of the local pub as I imbibed moderately tipsifying quantities of beer). What – you [...]
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