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Hello everyone. I just submitted my manuscript, including 24 poems written in 2013, to Two Sylvias Press. 

https://www.twosylviaspress.com/chapbook-prize.html

The depression glass trophy pictured at the top of the post is one prize you could win, along with $500 and 20 copies of your chapbook. 

Since I have nothing ready to share, I will write a special poem.

Ornery Owl has a lot to say

But time is always slipping away

Don't talk to me about fun

There's too much work to be done

And not enough hours in a day

Sadly, or thankfully, this piece will probably appear nowhere other than this post!

I mostly see prose from my fellow blog-hoppers, but I bet there are some closet poets in our ranks, and maybe even a few out in the open ones as well, but I haven't noticed!

While I always try to polish up my manuscripts before submitting them, I also try not to worry about if they get accepted. My current rule on work that I submit is if it's rejected the first time, for a year after that date I will submit it to other publishers if they seem like a possible good fit. After that it's mine to do what I want with it and make no mistake, I will self-publish it!

That's about all the damage I can do for now. I have a few other potential poetry publishers that I need to look at, and I need to get back to work on The Curse of the Ribbed Banana, the story I'm working on for submission to Dragon Soul Press.

https://dragonsoulpress.com/2022/01/01/upcoming-submission-calls-for-2022/

I know the title makes it sound like a comedy, but it isn't. It's actually a Lil DeVille erotic horror story. The steam has been turned down a bit to keep it in R-rated territory, but Naughty Netherworld Press will eventually publish it, whether or not Dragon Soul Press publishes it first. When that happens, we will turn the steam back up and anything goes!

I'm also participating in the Sixfold story and poetry competitions this month. 

http://www.sixfold.org/howitworks.html#howtoentervote

Stories and poems for the fall competition are due July 24. It's just $5 to take part. Receive feedback on your work and a chance for publication.

I've advanced to the second round. Many of the participants in the first round are new writers. Part of the challenge is to give these folks good suggestions on improving their writing without discouraging them. I always try to find at least one thing that I really like about any story. The biggest issues I found with the group of stories I judged in the first round were repetition and adjective overkill. 

I hope you have a great week.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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Denise Covey: #WEP April challenge - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - ...:  Hello all! It's time for the WEP April 2022 challenge. This month for the Year of Music, we have Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's Gonn...

Deeply emotional and realistic. I would have trouble leaving my home, not only because of my physical limitations. I believe I would stay regardless of the outcome. I'm far from young and I'm in the only place that's ever felt like home to me. 

Madly-in-Verse: Write... Edit... Publish... April 2022 : A Hard Ra...

Madly-in-Verse: Write... Edit... Publish... April 2022 : A Hard Ra...:   There’s nothing much in common between us. Just the hard, fiery rain of these bullets. Just the concentric waves of the virus. But a...

A true and timely poem.

Blog of Author J Lenni Dorner: #SFF #AtoZChallenge #WEP #WEPFF Quietus

Blog of Author J Lenni Dorner: #SFF #AtoZChallenge #WEP #WEPFF Quietus: A speculative fiction short story from a dreamer A continuous #sff story during April. May Rose is the main character.

Very psychedelic. I think this story would translate well to becoming a graphic novel in the style of the underground comics from the 1960s and 1970s. This sort of thought-provoking fantasy is a bit of a lost art.

April PAD Challenge/NaPoWriMo 2022: This Is The End

 

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The day has arrived. No music again as I received some bad news medically speaking yesterday and my tiny withered pea brain can't process both music and writing poetry today.

Moving On

Prompts Used

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-8/

Write a cento. A cento is a poem that uses lines from other poems.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-april-pad-challenge-day-27

Write a remix poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-april-pad-challenge-day-30

Write a moving on poem.

Well, I have to say, this is pretty swell. NaPoWriMo calls it a Cento. Writers Digest calls it a remix poem and asks for a moving on poem. Give me a few minutes, and I'll call this fucker Done. I'll give it a quick edit and toss it over to The Temz Review so they can reject it and I can get about self-publishing it.

I just submitted my chapbook to The Temz Review at 5:30 MST. 

Stick a fork in this sucker, it's done!

~Ornery Owl Is Relieved~

Ornery Owl, sticking a fork in this year's Poetry Sausage

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Hangry Wyrm says "It's done? Hot damn! Let's eat!

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April PAD Challenge/NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 29

 

Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay

Here's the image I chose to make a Haiga from my Blue Senryu, The Last Worst Thing. The Haiga image won't appear in the chapbook manuscript, only the Senryu

No music again today. I'm still a bit shaky after my excursion to the dentist yesterday. I find dental work traumatic. I think I'll compose an essay for the Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest featuring my thoughts on that topic.

https://wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php#EssayContest

I've entered this contest several times and have yet to place. Maybe I'm not woman enough or maybe my essays aren't essay enough. Meh. Whatever.

The Last Worst Thing

prompts used

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-8/

And here’s our prompt (optional, as always). In certain versions of the classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty, various fairies or witches are invited to a princess’s christening, and bring her gifts. One fairy/witch, however, is not invited, and in revenge for the insult, lays a curse on the princess. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in which you muse on the gifts you received at birth — whether they are actual presents, like a teddy bear, or talents – like a good singing voice – or circumstances – like a kind older brother, as well as a “curse” you’ve lived with (your grandmother’s insistence on giving you a new and completely creepy porcelain doll for every birthday, a bad singing voice, etc.).

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-april-pad-challenge-day-29

Write a "The Last Blank" poem.

I combined the prompts and wrote a blue Senryu of which I'm quite proud. I'm sure nobody else will like it. That's always the way with the things I write. The ones I like best are the ones everyone else hates.

I'm off to make my Haiga now. 

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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April PAD Challenge/NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 28

 

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The image above is what I'll be using to create my concrete poem or just illustrated poem entitled glaucoma. I'm crap at making concrete poems. I can make a diamond, an hourglass, or a vortex. I can be a little more creative if I'm using pencil and paper and I have a lot of erasers.

I have glaucoma and the last time I went to the specialist my optic nerve pressure was high even though I'm using the drops. We increased the drops to twice a day. I go tomorrow for a recheck. If the pressure is still high, I'll have to have surgery, and I'm not excited about that prospect.

Glaucoma Sucks

prompts used

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-8/

Write a concrete poem

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-april-pad-challenge-day-28

write a sight poem

No music today. I was unable to go to the dentist for close to 10 years. I suppose I got lucky in only having five small cavities on the lower level. I have a tendency for food to get trapped between my lower teeth and I end up with small cavities between the teeth or at the gum level. I hate having my teeth worked on so I'm wound up pretty tight and music would only make it worse.

Also, I have the feeling that I've made people mad at me again without meaning to. I guess there are people who deliberately like to provoke others, but I'm not one of them. This has been my biggest problem with having ADHD. I've always been misunderstood because things that make sense to me with my spider on LSD thought patterns don't make sense to other people and they think I'm deliberately being contrary or an asshole, but I'm not. Then I go and hide for a while and people accuse me of being lazy or a flake. It's a never-ending story that really sucks ass.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken (and probably pissed someone off)~

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