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Real Spiel - Ain't Gonna Cry March Issue Archive

Holly Gilliatt's St. Louis Sisters series What Alice Forgot review Word Jogger - writing prompt Rejection Notes from Editors - how to tell what they mean & what you should do about it Kim Drew Wright News Kat Moore's Poem in Souvenir Lit READ THE ISSUE #2minuterecommends #wordjogger #writingprompt #writingtips #poetry #realspiel #archive

Real Spiel Archive - Be Mine Damn't - February Issue

Real Spiel Archive - Be Mine Damn't FEB Issue Joyce Carol Oates' "Where You Going? Where You Been?" 1 minute recommends for M.T. Anderson's FEED and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Word Jogger - writing prompt Tips to obtain an editor and cover artist Kim Drew Wright News Irene Wellman's poem from Street Light journal #archive #fiction #editors #wordjogger #writingprompt #writingtips #2minuterecommends #realspiel #poetry

Real Spiel - Rock On With Your Bad S(h)elf Issue

Jan. 7, 2015 Archive Adriana Green's Race Card Project David Levithan's Every Day recommend Cover Letters for Lit Journals - 7 tips Judy Witt's "At the Edge" poem word jogger prompt Kim Drew Wright news Chuck eats a candy cane #realspiel #archive #wordjogger #coverletter #writingprompt #poetry #2minuterecommends

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Dec. 17, 2014 Archive: "American Holiday" short story Word Jogger photo prompt by Jennifer Zwick Publication tips for Journal submissions Sixfold ranking results My holiday card "Ode to the Midwest" by Kevin Young #archive #writingprompt #wordjogger #publication #submissionprocess #realspiel #poetry #2minuterecommends

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Dec. 3, 2014 Archive Jason Wolverton's "Why Taking a Dump in a Kohl's Dressing Room is Never a Good Idea" Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane Word Jogger - prompt Blackout poetry NaNoWriMo failure Peggy Trojan's "Condolence" #wordjogger #writingprompt #realspiel #archive #blackoutpoetry #nanowrimo #poetry #2minuterecommends

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Nov. 13, 2014 - Archive Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "A Private Experience" and TedTalk Ready. Set. Dialogue! Sixfold contest Anne Rankin-Kotchek's "Letter to the World from a Dying Woman" #realspiel #archive #dialogue #writingprompt #poetry #2minuterecommends #wordjogger

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Oct. 28, 2014 Archive: Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" NaNoWriMo James River Writer's conference Poetry Virginia Megan Collins' "After the Memorial" #realspiel #archive #nanowrimo #jamesriverwritersconference #poetryvirginia #poetry

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Seven Tables: Poetry and Sustenance

Notes from the Dodge

Samhain Suggested Reading: A Review of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

Tiny Books, Death, & German Ekphrastic - or - Poetry Society Of Virginia Conference

Three Quick Recommends for Summer Reading

An Interview with Jason Bates, founder of Punks Write Poems Press

The Top of Chicago, Guys Drinking Beer, & a Pig's Face, or, The IPPY Awards Ceremony in Chic

The Strangeness of Men Wins a Silver IPPY Award!

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