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Today I learned that I Would For You won the Black Lawrence Press manuscript consultation scholarship for hybrid work. A celebrity writer will be going over my book with a fine-tooth comb, providing extensive feedback and editing. The program has an excellent record of scholarship recipients going on to publish the selected work, so I’m
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It’s official–Cagibi will be publishing “Gods and Doctors” in the October 2024 issue as a follow-up to “All You Need Is Blonde” (July 2024). Thank you to Amy Dupcak and the editorial board for giving me a place to tell this particular story.
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I’m in Woodstock, New York with JC and S, poking around an independent bookstore. Several celebrities have homes in this part of the Catskills, including Neil Gaiman, so when the shopkeeper says there’s a stack of books Gaiman signed “the last time he popped by,” my ears prick up. Few writers have influenced my life
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Today I feel accomplished. We got the website up and running (eleventhhourliterary.org). Over the last couple of weeks we’ve created our mission statement, budget, library MOU, ethics and malfeasance policy, open access policy, peer-review policy, author agreement, author guidelines and instructions, scope and aim–in short, the entire foundation of this project. And to top it off,
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Sometimes I look at the amount of work starting Eleventh Hour is going to take, and I wonder what I got myself into. Doing this from scratch feels kind of insane. But I really do think we have a great idea here, one that I haven’t seen in any other publication. And, like most people,
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Eleventh Hour–the funding request has been approved and nine people have agreed to serve on the editorial board. Our first meeting is later this week, where we make all the fun decisions regarding how we evaluate submissions, aesthetics, and of course, who will do what on a daily basis. The goal is to have the
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There’s a strong connection between music and readers, and so music is very much a part of the way I tell stories. I’ve done this my entire writing life, but I’ve gotten more deliberate about it over time. When I taught darkroom photography, I wanted to see how imagery and literature–two very different kinds of
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It’s coming! Issue 22 lands July 22. We got the proofs last night. Though I’m sure it won’t make it into the final issue, I was happy the placeholder artwork for my piece is Robert Smith holding his guitar, back to the camera, for the Boys Don’t Cry poster. Somebody over in the art department
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(E. Dickinson #1263) K is working on a memoir about a complicated and painful relationship she had with someone, recently deceased. She wants to paint a textured picture, but she wants to be honest as well. “And,” she said, “I want to be accurate. But there’s so much I don’t remember as I try to
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R. Renee Branca 