Solace in a Book

Glimpse of Solace: In the City (Chicago Open House)

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This past weekend was Open House Chicago, which is put on by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and gives free, behind-the-scenes access to 150 buildings across Chicago. This is the fourth year of the event, and I've done it all four years. It is now one of my favorite events of  Autumn. Our first stop was to Sedgwick Studio, 1544 N. Sedgwick, which is described as "Hidden under the Sedgwick L station, this building opened in 1900 as an electrical substation. It now … [Read more...]

Dana Awards, Silver Birch Press, Pottawatomi Nation

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We’re on the other side of the middle of October—how did that happen?  Hope the month has been treating you well. There's a call for submissions I want to mention. Through LinkedIn, I heard from Mary Elizabeth Parker creator and chair of the Dana Awards, and she is encouraging you to submit work for consideration. The purpose of the Dana Awards is to offer monetary encouragement for work that has not been recognized. Novels, short fiction, and poetry are considered. … [Read more...]

Bugbears and bugaboos

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The two things that work against me as a writer are distraction/ procrastination and dealing with rejection. I thought had 15 rejections in a row but then I counted and it’s more like twenty. Usually I can shake off a rejections, realize it is nothing personal but a business decision, not a reflection on my writing per se so much as on the journal's content . But you know what it’s like. Sometimes you place a little more hope in a submission, and you think: maybe this … [Read more...]