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CHECK OUT THE NEW POST AT OLD SCRATH PRESS, FELLOW POETS!

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Away They Go!

Exciting News!

I was thrilled today to have the privilege to mail three new Old Scratch Press books off to the National Book Awards! If you follow all of our doings around here you may have seen this post from last year, where I was lucky enough to do the same thing! Gosh, you know, we’re going up against the big guys when we send our books in to the National Books Awards. Most of the other books being sent in…

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JOIN ME? IN THE BEWILDERNESS

I spent a transformative hour this morning in the Bewilderness with poet Ellis Elliott. I ssigned up for her course and spent an hour with a group of other authors as we put the rubber on the road and wrote in response to two poems Ellis shared with us. I struggle with giving my own writing practice the time and respect it deserves, so it took a lot of hemming and hawing for me to allow myself to…

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Off They Go to Try Their Luck!

Today was such an exciting day—I got to send off three new titles from Old Scratch Press to the National Book Awards! If you’ve been keeping tabs on us, you might remember we did the same thing last year. Sending our books to the National Book Awards feels like stepping into the ring with the big shots. Most of the other books being sent in are going to have been written by well-established…

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VIRGINIA WATTS SHOWS EVERYONE HOW IT'S DONE!

Big shoutout to Virginia Watts, one of the OGs at OSP! Her short story collection, ECHOES FROM THE HOCKER HOUSE, just landed on the shortlist for the 2024 da Vinci Eye Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. As the editor on this project, I gotta say, these stories are straight-up mesmerizing. They’ll take you on a journey you will not be able to forget, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you…

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INSTANT NOODLES UPDATE

DID YOU KNOW…. Instant Noodles is an online literary magazine that I created and run? DID YOU KNOW…. Instant Noodles has its own website now? https://instantnoodleslitmag.com DID YOU KNOW… Old Scratch Press is curating the December 2023 issue? “Please take note, we’re shortening our word count. Can you take the challenge and keep it brief by making every word count? For our Winter issue…

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FREE EVENT!

STRONG WOMEN STRANGE WORLDS PRESENTS:

If you don’t know writing by Gabby Gilliam, you sure should. She is a fantastic and surprising and original author. AND THIS IS FREE! Click here to add this event to your life today!

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WHO ARE OLD SCRATCH PRESS?

In January I emailed a bunch of poets who had allowed me to publish their poetry, and asked them if they would be interesting in forming a poetry collective, a thing where we could work together to promote and sell poetry, so that DPP could afford to publish poetry. MOST poetry chapbooks are published either by contests, or universities with large budgets, so that it doesn’t matter if the book…

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THE DAY AROSE COLD

Congratulations to OLD SCRATCH PRESS founding member Morgan Golladay, whose poem “The Day Arose Cold,” featured in Solstice, was a Delaware Press Award winner. WAY TO GO MORGAN! The Day Arose Cold The sun roseinto a pink sky, pausingto gain strengthbefore entering this frozen day.Yesterday’s snowis untroddenby the small ones,searching for food.Even squirrelshave forsaken their branchesfor…

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BAD LINK

Very quietly… I put a little link near the end of our most recent newsletter to just clue people in to our newest enterprise… Old Scracth Press. Somewhere along the way, that link picked up an extra HTTP, making it non-functional. What do they say? Measure twice cut once? With proofreading it is literally hundreds of times, because sometimes the platform tries to help out, and inserts itself in…

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we were before waring

Congratulations to OLD SCRATCH PRESS founding member Robert Fleming, whose poem “we were before waring,” featured in impspired was a Delaware Press Award winner. WAY TO GO ROBERT! we were before waring we wore hair keratin like baboons &knocked our chests like gorillaswe wore skin like zebras &bent-over to water like wilder-beastswe wore muscle like lions &paw swatted flies like bearswe wore…

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THE DAY AROSE COLD

Congratulations to OLD SCRATCH PRESS founding member Morgan Golladay, whose poem “The Day Arose Cold, featured in Solstice, was a Delaware Press Award winner. WAY TO GO MORGAN! The Day Arose Cold The sun roseinto a pink sky, pausingto gain strengthbefore entering this frozen day.Yesterday’s snowis untroddenby the small ones,searching for food.Even squirrelshave forsaken their branchesfor…

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all THE KINDLE VELLAS try 'em, FREE!

WHAT IS KINDLE VELLA? Kindle Vella (or KV, or Vella) is a new service from Amazon that allows anyone to go online and start reading a book IMMEDIATELY! The books are all serialized. They may release one chapter per week, or even a chapter daily. The first three chapters/episodes of any book are free. USA-ONLY: For now, Vella is only available to reader in the USA, while Amazon tries out this…

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DAFFODILS AND MUD INSPIRED POETRY: REPRINT FROM OLD SCRATCH PRESS

FOLLOW OLD SCRATCH PRESS HERE Welcome to Week Two of National Poetry Month. The four seasons of the year are the subjects of many different types of poetry from traditional sonnets to exuberant free verse sprawled out across the page. So to start this week we are sharing two poems by American poets from the past. The first poem is by Amy Lowell (1874-1925). A Pulitzer Prize winner for her…

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HEY POETS, CHECK OUT WHAT'S DOIN' AT OLD SCRATCH PRESS!

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NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: A TIME FOR READING OUT LOUD (reprinted from Old Scratch Press)

By Nadja Maril April is the month for poetry, and in the part of the United States where I live, I’m fortunate to have a hiking trail where years ago small signs were posted with quotes from poetry. What a delight, to only hear the sounds of my shoes crunching into the dirt and the twitter of birds and insects, blue sky overhead, surrounded by green. I pause and read the poem painted on a wooden…