Writing machines: make your laptop famous!Hey all,
I am on a huge typewriter kick right now, having just added two new ones to my collection, taking the grand total to 7 in my tiny flat! Now I really want to do a piece for my literary blog, One Night Stanzas about writing machines -- manual typewriters, electric typewriters, PCs, laptops, whatever. If yours is pretty, has an interesting story or even if you just want to show the world what you write on, I want to hear from you! I've already seen a sticker-covered laptop and an automatic electric typewriter which makes a noise like a machine gun (awesome!), but I want YOUR writing machine to be involved too! Link me a photo of it
Writers to Read: Allen Ginsberg; Guest PostFor this article of "Writers to Read," Claire Askew (:devTheObviousChild:) sent in this awesome article on the great Allen Ginsberg. It's longer than my last two posts, but is filled with a wealth of information about one of the most prominent writers in recent history, so definitely stick around and be sure to check the links to the poems mentioned here.
Allen Ginsberg was born in New Jersey, spending most of his childhood and early life in Paterson. He was a bright child, but a loner – his home life was fraught with difficulty as his mother, Naomi, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was in and out of mental health institutions t
The Read This Bookstore is now open!OK, it’s taken us nearly a year, but at last, you can buy copies of Read This Magazine online, in our shiny new store:
The Read This Bookstore
The Read This Bookstore
The Read This Bookstore
The Read This Bookstore
(clicked it yet?)
At the Read This Bookstore, you can buy any copy of Read This, past or present. You can also buy a brand new shiny for either six months or twelve, or an equally shiny but less brand new retroactive subscription. You’ll soon be able to buy the books produced by Read This Press there, too!
Happy shopping, guys!
PS: we just printed the brand new Read This Issue 14 and I genuinely believe it’s
Contest: "What are you thankful for?"Hey guys,
I'm currently running a contest - open to everyone - over at One Night Stanzas, in honour of Thanksgiving 2008. The theme is "What are you thankful for?", and it's running til Saturday 29th November, so get submitting! All you have to do is tell me what you're thankful for - post your entry in the comments box here. That's it! The winner will receive a perfect poetic prize.
(Check out my previous contest, Poet's Halloween Party, too!)
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One Night Stanzas is a blog-community aimed at helping young and emerging writers to achieve their writing goals - improving their work, getting published, seeki
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