ANNOUNCEMENTS & Southwestern Pennsylvania Writers Groups
October 1, 2009
BEANERY ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The BOLM (www.beanerywriters.wordpress.com) accepts submissions (in any genre) from guest writers. Items may be edited, but if there are any significant changes your work will be returned to you for your approval.. Submit your post to beanerywriters@yahoo.com with the word “Submission” in the subject line. Seeking submissions for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve/Day.
CONTESTS, COMPETITIONS, CONFERENCES
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WORKS IN PROGRESS WRITERS
An Afternoon with Edgar Allan Poe
Saturday, October 10, 2009
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Crazy Alice’s Cafe (more…)
The facilitator of the Beanery Online Literary Magazine is taking “time out” for a vacation and writing/genealogy research trip. My husband and I headed to New England by way of Philadelphia. I will continue posting on this site as I can (I have prepared several items ahead of time). However, my journaling will be on my personal writing site, www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com and filed in the 2008 NEW ENGLAND category (in folders on right side).
Today, I posted The Briefs of out Travel Thus Far… on my site. click there to read it (this computer doesn’t allow me to cut and paste, so I cannot post the exact link yet—when I can I will—but click on the website above to get there).
Hope to post some regular items soon!
Apologize to a Vet
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BEANERY ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE
APOLOGIZE TO A VET
Joe F. Stierheim
Last year I attended a meeting on Veterans’ Day. Before the meeting started, one of the attendees came up to me, hand extended in friendship. “Thank you,” she said.
“For what?” I asked, genuinely confused.
“You’re a veteran, aren’t you? Veterans are supposed to be thanked on Veterans’ Day.”
It wasn’t until after the end of the meeting—after I had had a chance to get my thoughts in order—that I talked to my friend a second time.
“I appreciate you doing what you thought you should,” I said, “but next Veterans’ Day, don’t thank me or any other veteran. Instead, (more…)