THE WHOLE TRUTH - A Reading!

Hello loyal reader:

If you're in Portland (or will be next Saturday), I'd love it if you came to hear me read alongside some of my favorite local writers. We will all be baring our souls a little bit. If nothing else, it won't be boring.

THE WHOLE TRUTH: A Reading of Memoir & Non-fiction

Saturday, September 14th

7:00 p.m.

with:

Stacy Bolt

Robin Romm

Margaret Malone

Colin Farstad

Liz Scott

at

Writers' Dojo

7518 N. Chicago

Porltand, OR 97203

Here's the FB event page, if that's your thing.

I hope you can make it.

xoxo

Upcoming Workshop

Hi there:

I'm remiss because I should have posted this about seven months ago. But I didn't. I'm posting it now. (I did warn you about my lack of bloggingness.)

Next week I am teaching a two-day workshop at the magical and amazing Sitka Center for Art & Ecology called Give Yourself Completely: The Heart of Personal Narrative.

The workshop is full, but if all goes well I'll be teaching more of these workshops in the future. I'll keep you updated.

Thanks for reading.

Keep the faith,
Margaret

A Crooked Still Life

Oregon Humanities Magazine published my most recent essay in their Fall/Winter 2012 issue Next, and thanks to the brilliant Kathleen Holt some of my photos were published right along with it. Good to have them out in the light of day instead of huddled in the dark of a wooden chest. In opposition to The First Week of After, this one is about the end of everything instead of the beginning.

Thanks to Kathleen and everyone at OHm for making the piece look so beautiful.

Here's the link: A Crooked Still Life.

Thanks for reading.

This Is What Money Looks Like

Hi there loyal reader:

If you are looking for your work to get published in one of the best journals in the U.S., I encourage you to send your work in to The Missouri Review's annual Editor's Prize Competition. If your story wins (or is a finalist), THEY PAY YOU a lot of money! And if you don't win, your entry fee of $20 earns you a year's subscription to the magazine.

The deadline is October 1st.

This is not one of those magazines that only publishes the work of known writers. TMR really does publish, nourish and support writers at every stage of their careers. So why not let it be you?

Do it! Right now. Go ahead... I'll wait.

In case you forgot, this is what money looks like:

For more info, GO HERE to the site.

Thank you. Adieu.

P.S. In case you forgot, this is what love looks like:

Pay Attention

This is from last week's New York Times Book Review. The reviewer was writing about Christopher Hitchens' most recent book, Mortality, which was written mostly as he was dying. It says a thing I have been trying to say without ever actually saying it for years.

It's kind of hard to read, I know.

Here's what it says:

"If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated."

                       - Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011)

This Is What I've Been Thinking About Lately...

Five Dollar Film Fan

My husband (filmmaker Brian Padian) has created (what could be) an ingenious way to raise the remaining $15,000+ of the production budget for his feature film The Black Sea:

Five dollar donations. Lots of them.

Here's how it works: someone here's about the site ---> goes to the site ----> hits the paypal button ----> donates five dollars ---> tells his/her friends about the site ---> goes on with day.

It can work. It really can.

He just needs your help spreading the word.

Here's the link:

http://fivedollarfilmfan.blogspot.com/

Thank you for listening.

Keep in touch.

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