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What’s up? What’s down?

04/21/2017 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

What’s up? What’s down?

Hello Friends. It’s been a quiet week for me – how about for you? Here are some links you may like. Solace in So Many Words contributor Elizabeth Kerlikowske and other poets  has teamed up with artists to create The Alchemy Initiative: A Suite of Monlogues. SISMW contributor Patty Somlo has a nonfiction piece ("Home at the Beach") in Peacock Journal. Have you heard of The Poeming Pigeon? I got an email that the next issue will focus on love and submissions will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: C. J. Laity, Eileen Favorite, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ellen Wade Beals, Highland Park Poetry, Jennifer Dotson, JOMP 20, NonBinary Review, Patty Somlo, Photography, Poetry, Sheila-Na-Gig, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Submishmash, Submittable, The Op-Ed Project, The Poeming Pidgeon, urban legends, Weighed Words, where to send submission, where to submit

Submit locally . . .

12/10/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Submit locally . . .

If your holiday activities don't overrun your schedule, consider these local calls for submissions. C. J. Laity of ChicagoPoetry.com is doing another anthology: JOMP 19: Poetry of Protest. Here are the details. Deadline is 2/28/16. Measure, Cleave, Silver -- these are the three elements needed in your submissions to be considered for the Spring issue (#10) of 3Elements Review.  Submission guidelines are here. Whitney Scott's Outrider Press in affiliation with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 3elements Review, Anthology, C. J. Laity, ChicagoPoetry.com, Contributors, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Nelson Algren Literary Award, Outrider Press, Poetry, Poetry Magazine, Solace in So Many Words, submissions, Wally Swist, Weighed Words

Grateful for Chicago Lit scene

11/26/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Grateful for Chicago Lit scene

You may say that I am coming off a big bookfair high, and maybe I am.  But this Thanksgiving I am thankful for the Chicago literary community. I am grateful to be part of a creative community where so many people are devoted to writing and working at making books. To be around literary thinkers is a heady experience—there’s a great vibe.  And what is even better is that these people are nice and fun and supportive of each other. Since October I’ve been part of three … [Read more...]

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This Sunday 11/24: Chicago Book Expo

11/18/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

This Sunday 11/24: Chicago Book Expo

I just made my payment to exhibit this Sunday at the Chicago Book Expo and I encourage you all to come, not necessarily to buy Solace in So Many Words (though I won't discourage that) but to see all the great events planned.  Plus the venue is cool; it's a site from Chicago's Hollywood Days. Here are the facts: When: Sunday, November 24, from 11-5 Where: St. Augustine College,  1345 W. Argyle, Chicago, which was once the site of Charlie Chaplin's historic Essanay … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1893 World's Fair, Aleksander Hemon, Bill Savage, C. J. Laity, Chicago Book Expo, Chris Jones, Curbside Splendor, Ellen Wade Beals, gratitude, JOMP 16, Larry O. Dean, Paul Durica, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, St. Augustine College, The Book of My Lives, Uptown, Weighed Words

I Google my name

08/26/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

I Google my name and come up with yours--the exact reverse. I think what if we went to school together, what confusion there’d be at roll call. Ellen, Wade. Wade, Ellen.   But you’re older, a ‘51 baby, a country boy from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. And you’re dead, killed in action in 1972, when the chopper you’re co-piloting on a rescue mission is hit by enemy fire and crashes into a small island on the Dak Poko … [Read more...]

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