In keeping with Anna Leahy's legacy... don't forget this month's online chat at 230 EST Friday. If you're on a Submission Mission for your novel, poem, nonfiction, or experimental form, join us to share your successes and learn from others near-misses. You're guaranteed to pick up at least one piece of useful info-- after more than half a year of participating I'm still picking up pearls.…

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Ladies, come share your experiences and get some advice on the submissions process at the next monthly chat. We're meeting from 230-330 CST on Friday, 4 May. Share your contacts and warnings, fears and questions about literary mags, publishers, contests, fellowships, etc. This info-packed chat helped me get my first literary piece accepted! Come see what it does for you. 

Until then, don't forget about the Hope Clark Funds For Writers and Poets & Writers for updates on quality…

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Hi, ladies. I'll be hosting tomorrow's co- Global and Travel Writers groups' monthly online chat. It will take place for an hour beginning at 230 PM CST here on SheWrites.

Feel free to send me any questions or topics you're interested in discussing beforehand. Send it to me directly at Nichole@ArchitectureTravelWriter.com.

I also hope you'll bring at least one source or newly discovered/cherished publication or tidbit to share with all the other ladies. Man, is that…

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After participating for six months, April marks the first month I’m officially taking over the reigns as facilitator for the monthly Submission Mission chats.

A lot has happened since discovering the chats: my first piece as a literary writer was accepted. The ninth cloud is mine to ride as I await the actual publication of “Burqa to the Loo”, a memoir about the liberation found in wearing hijab…

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Participants in this month’s National Travel Writers Month have a goal to submit, submit, and submit. But what if we don’t know all that many places to submit our work to? One place I’m submitting to comes from a recommendation the Global Writers group moderator Tracy Slater made a few months ago. She told me about a contest through Travelers Tales, a publisher of…

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The plan was to return to Peru after six weeks in the US. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I’ll apparently be here for double that time. It’s killing me. I long to be around friends I’ve made there in Peru, to be back in travel mode. Most of all, I miss the writing schedule established during the six months spent in Lima last year. Living with your newly retired father who doesn’t at all understand your writerly wackiness does not an easy writing schedule make.

 

Fortunately…

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I don't think that when French philosopher Gaston Bachelard said, "How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream," that he meant writing therefore takes sleep for ransom.

Several hours had already gone into writing what would lead to the essay, "Burka to the Loo." Months later it was time to move its growth along, edit it, sell it. The piece started… Continue