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SUBMISSIONS

Submissions for mgv2_70 | Cool on My Island | 08_12 start April 1 through May 1. See mgversion2datura on Facebook for inspirational tips and like me at the same time.

mgversion2>datura will accept previously published work but please provide a publishing background. I ask for first electronic publishing rights. Full copyright remains with the author. Should you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, I ask that you cite mgversion2>datura as a place of previous publication. Each issue will be archived in the permanent feature section of the blog. The purpose of the publication is to promote aspiring and confirmed writers and visual artists in their efforts to bring their work to the world.

Each contributor receives a digital copy of the journal (PDF) and a token payment. PAYMENTS VIA PAYPAL ONLY ON RECEIPT OF THE SIGNED PUBLISHING CONTRACT. See specifics :

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CONTRIBUTIONS

Les contributions pour le prochain numéro mgv2_70 | Tranquille sur mon île | 08_12  pourront être envoyées du 1er avril au 1er mai. Voir la page facebook de mgversion2datura pour vous inspirer et profitez-en pour m'aimer.

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Chaque auteur reçoit une copie digitale de la revue (PDF) et une toute petite compensation financière. LE PAIEMENT SE FAIT PAR PAYPAL UNIQUEMENT A RECEPTION DU CONTRAT D'EDITION RECU SIGNE. Voir les tarifs. :

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Invitation à participer à Appel d’Air !!

En 2007, un groupe d’écrivains des « littératures de l’imaginaire » (SF, Fantasy, etc.) lançait
« l’Appel d’air des mauvais genres contre la narcose Sarkozy », grâce à l’appui des éditions
ActuSF, qui ont mis à disposition un site, puis ont édité un livret. Le projet se relance pour la
présidentielle 2012, ces auteurs sont à nouveau à la tâche. Pour eux, l'enjeu est moins Nicolas
Sarkozy en tant que personne et figure de détestation, en vue d’un petit cinéma compensateur
imaginaire, que ce dont il est le nom, pour parler comme Badiou, à savoir une forme du postpétainisme
français et des méthodes modernes de narcose médiatique. Il s’agit donc moins
d’un appel d'air contre Sarkozy en tant qu'homme politique qu'un appel d'air pour réouvrir le
langage à de nouveaux mondes vivables et respirables ensemble, un appel d'air pour sortir des
droites douces et extrêmes, pour, ce langage, se le réapproprier. Pourquoi des poètes, des
dizaines de poètes, ne se joindraient pas à eux ?

Pourquoi parler du président sortant, de l’autoproclamé « candidat du peuple », et surtout
pourquoi le faire de notre point de vue de poètes ? Faut il ressortir nos soldats de papier
(Klemperer) faut il reprendre le parti pris des choses (Ponge), mais aussi des mots et de la
mémoire ?

Repartons du langage. Dans cette matière, Nicolas Sarkozy, c’est le plus professionnel, le
meilleur, un virtuose des mots, des poses, des expressions. Mais c’est aussi un manipulateur,
un brouilleur de repères, un enfumeur. Le langage instrumenté, extrudé des tuyauteries du
volontarisme ça ne vous rappelle rien ? Nous qui trouvons de la joie, de l’énergie dans les
mots, qui travaillons pour nous rapprocher de l’état natif du langage, nous savons qu’une
langue fait lien, de toutes ses dimensions. Notre langue est le Bien Commun par excellence,
« tout ce que nous avons ». Laisserons-nous Sarkozy – et d’autres moins efficacement que lui,
mais à son exemple – mettre son drapeau sur ce bien irremplaçable, le pervertir, corrompre ?

Zapping, amnésie (pourtant, la réalité, pendant cinq ans, a dépassé l’affliction !), sidération, la
discussion rendue impossible par le tout et son contraire, les conditions mêmes de l’échange
d’idées, d’émotions, de la controverse et du consensus sont sapées… ne réagirons nous pas ?
En 2009, à l’appel d’Edith Azam1, cent textes avaient été écrits en solidarité avec les sans
papiers, nous savons donc le faire ! … et le mauvais genre par excellence, le dhimmi des
genres au pays du bling bling, c’est bien la poésie ? La princesse de Clèves cache la forêt…

Il est proposé à qui voudra d’envoyer un texte (court récit, poème, chronique, etc..) pour
parler de tout ce dont il est bon de parler en ces tristes temps. A nous aussi donc de dire,
« dichten », sur la vie en société aujourd’hui, sur le lien social, sur l’avenir, sur le mal vivre
aujourd’hui ou demain, sur le bien vivre, de « l’indignation », etc..
Envoyez votre texte à Jérôme Vincent, le responsable du projet à ACTUSF.


[e-mail]

Et faites suivre cet appel à qui vous voudrez ! et pas seulement des poètes…

1 Edith Azam, Bernard Noel et Julien Blaine, viennent de lancer le manifeste « BAN », qui
veut, comme Appel d’air, proposer l’esprit de résistance et un lieu d’expression ouvert. Les
deux appels sont convergents, bien sûr. Pour info, contacter Edith [e-mail]



Mentioning the War - Dublin Launch

YOU ARE INVITED to The Dublin Launch of

Mentioning the War - essays and reviews (1999 -2011)

by Kevin Higgins published by Salmon Publishing

http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=255&a=108

The book will be launched by Clare Daly T.D.

@ the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1  

on Wednesday, June 6th LAUNCH STARTS: 7pm ALL WELCOME

 

CLARE DALY is a Socialist Party & United Left Alliance TD for Dublin North. Formerly a Councillor for the Swords Local Electoral Area, Clare was first elected to Fingal County Council in 1999, and was subsequently re-elected in 2004 and 2009 decisively topping the poll each time before being elected to the Dáil in February 2011. Clare is to the forefront of the campaign against the Household Tax. In conjunction with Deputies Mick Wallace and Joan Collins she has recently brought before the Dáil the Medical Treatment (Termination Of Pregnancy In Case Of Risk To Life Of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012 in order to provide a legislative basis for the legal termination of a pregnancy in the very limited circumstances where such treatment is deemed necessary to prevent a woman’s death, including the threat of suicide. This was the outcome of the Supreme Court judement in Attorney General v. X in 1992.

 

Best known for his dark, satirical poems; KEVIN HIGGINS published his first book review in The Galway Advertiser in June 1999. Reading Mentioning the War, it becomes obvious that Higgins is not like other critics. An enthusiastic advocate for the work of the new generation of poets who have emerged from Ireland’s thriving live poetry scene; he is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it. His writing is overtly political in a way that draws comparison with George Orwell – the subject of two extended essays here. It would be impossible to agree with everything in this book; it is a book which often disagrees with itself. But on subjects as diverse as socialist poetry and neoconservatism, funding for the arts and the anti-war movement, Higgins informs, infuriates and entertains, as any good critic should.

 

“The importance of Higgins, in particular, in spearheading a whole new poetry reading/performance movement in Ireland over the last decade cannot be overstated…he is important not just to readers who might agree with his political or ideological critiques but also to practitioners and students of poetry itself regardless of their ideological inclinations.”

Philip Coleman

“There’s an arresting phrase, a new angle on a writer or a political position you thought you already knew about, in just about every piece here…The insights range from the literary to the existential to the seriously amusing…one of the things Mentioning the War offers, almost incidentally, is an insider’s account of how to learn to write.” John Goodby

KEVIN HIGGINS facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on the Brothers of Charity Away With Words programme. He is also Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. He was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine. His first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005 and was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in March 2008 by Salmon. One of the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please, ‘My Militant Tendency’, featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009. His work also features in the anthology Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). Frightening New Furniture is his third collection of poems and was published in 2010 by Salmon Poetry. Kevin has read his work at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and at Arts Council and Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006), Los Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens, Greece (2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010), Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong, Australia (2011) & Canberra, Australia (2011). As part of his Culture Ireland supported trip to Chicago in February 2009 he participated in and took first place in a specially arranged poetry slam at the Chicago’s Green Mill Bar and Lounge, the birthplace of slam poetry. Kevin’s fourth collection of poetry, The Ghost In The Lobby, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2013. Kevin is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events.

For further information about the Dublin launch

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Redheaded Stechild Annoucement

So You Wrote It... Now What? Turn Books Into Business
Horror novelist / media pro demonstrates business model for self-published authors.

BROOKINGS, SD - Horror author Serenity J. Banks is writing a book about selling books, and she's proving it while she writes it.

On February 1, 2012, Banks launched So You Wrote It... Now What? Everything I Know About How You Can Sell Your Books at www.RedheadedStepchildBooks.com. She's writing the book one blog post at a time, sharing in-depth, firsthand how-to material for self-published authors who want to turn their books into a business.

What's more: she's using her own day-to-day experience in promoting the book she's writing as a real-time demonstration of the principles she's sharing.

This isn't just another how-to book about self-publishing, marketing, and sales strategies for authors. Banks is writing a book about how authenticity, vision, and living on purpose, combined with practical know-how about self-publishing, marketing, and sales strategies, can result in a fulfilling, self-supporting business model for authors who want to make it a way of life.

"My core message isn't about making money from book sales," Banks says. "My message to authors is about believing in yourself, being true to yourself, and living on faith to activate the vision inside you. If you're doing the right things at the right times for the right reasons, the book sales will follow. I'm just providing the tools I've used to take my destiny as an author into my own hands; it's up to each individual author to decide how far he or she is willing to take it."

In coming months, Banks will take authors step by step through the processes of building a promotional platform, developing a social media presence, launching a public relations campaign, designing a Web marketing strategy, producing and publishing a book in print and e-book formats, and selling a self-published book. Meanwhile, she will demonstrate her strategies and principles in real-time as she builds buzz for the upcoming release of So You Wrote It... Now What? Everything I Know About How You Can Sell Your Books.

With real-world know-how from "both sides of the desk," Banks draws on a decade of experience as an editor, designer, and marketer in the newspaper, magazine, and digital media fields. She is the author of The Left Hand, a literary/religious horror novel set primarily in Western South Dakota, and she is also a co-founder of Dark Continents Publishing, Inc., based in Brookings County. Operating as Redheaded Stepchild Author Liaisons, Banks provides media and marketing services for self-published authors.

To learn more and follow along from start to finish, visit www.RedheadedStepchildBooks.com.

For images, interviews, reprint requests, or other media inquiries, contact [e-mail].

Contact: Serenity J. Banks
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