Challenge

     

I have a new name on my blog role of coconspirators, Variations on a Theme. She is a writer and a mom and a lovely positive person plus she inspires me. Funny, she says the same thing about me too. She is also a reader of the Sun, which is an awesome literary magazine published in North Carolina by one Sy Safransky. When it arrives in my mailbox I put aside everything else and prepare to once again laugh and cry, rejoice and rage at the the things people say and how they say them. Only twenty six letter in the alphabet, how do they do it?

So my friend Variations made a suggestion on her blog that we as writers should stretch ourselves a bit and contribute to the section called "Readers Write". I am going to repeat the challenge she made here and hope in this way it will reach a few more people. If you want to know what type of thing they print go here and read some for yourself. Here is a list of the upcoming topics and the deadline for each.

Topic:                                 Deadline                       Publication date

Choosing Sides                 January 1                       July 2009

Fences                                February 1                     August 2009

The Middle of Nowhere  March 1                          September 2009

Rain                                    April 1                            October 2009

Selling Out                        May 1                              November 2009

Anger                                 June 1                              December 2009

Rejected or accepted, Variations and I both think it would be great to see what everyone comes up with and we will certainly publish our own pieces on our blogs. Hopefully you will too. I picked "Rain" and will be polishing mine off and putting it in the mail well before the deadline. I might even try for another one because I had ideas running around in my head for "the middle of nowhere" and "Anger".  Let me know how it goes....