Author: Sara Norja
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First story publication – in Finnish!
Exciting! A flash fiction piece of mine (‘Munankuorikehto’, meaning ‘Egg-Shell Cradle’) will be published in the upcoming issue (3/2014) of Spin, the quarterly magazine of the Turku Science Fiction Society (TSFS). The magazine is print-only. Those of you proficient in Finnish can subscribe to the magazine, or order a separate copy when the issue comes…
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Interfictions Online Indiegogo campaign
Just noticed that the wonderful Interfictions Online (to be more precise, the Interstitial Arts Foundation) is running a fundraiser. There’s still time to donate to enable the worthy stretch goals – the campaign page is here. Go forth and donate if you can, to help contribute to fascinating art and writing that live in the…
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‘Looking-Glass Lover’ free to read in Niteblade
I just noticed that Issue #28 of Niteblade has received enough funding that it’s fully free to read online. So, if you haven’t done so already, off you go to read my poem ‘Looking-Glass Lover’ and the rest of the great poetry and prose in the issue! I’m going out to enjoy the lovely warm…
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Academic and creative
Earlier this week I got great news: I’ve been accepted into the doctoral programme at the University of Turku. I’m incredibly happy I’m getting to do a PhD, as continuing in academia has been my goal ever since I got my MA two years ago. Now it’s going to happen for real: I get to…
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‘Shrug Charm’ in Goblin Fruit for your reading pleasure
The Spring 2014 issue of Goblin Fruit is now live! Huzzah! Read the issue here. It’s full of gorgeous poems – I’m very happy to be amongst such talented company. Wonderful art as always, too. I really love what Paula Friedlander’s done with the bold outlines and lush, 3D colourscapes. Here’s my poem: ‘Shrug Charm’.…
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Poetry World Cup 2014
The Missing Slate is organising a Poetry World Cup! The competition involves 32 poems by poets representing 32 different countries. All of the poems have been previously published in the magazine. There’s a poetry match every day till July 13th, and you can help pick the winner each day by voting on the website. The…
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Niteblade #28 is now online!
Niteblade #28 is online here – titled after my poem 🙂 A snippet of my poem ‘Looking-Glass Lover’ is here. To get the whole issue free to read online, Niteblade relies on donations and purchases – so if you want to get the issue for everyone to read, consider buying yourself a super cheap .epub,…
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Poetry sales to Goblin Fruit
Some happy news: my poems ‘Shrug Charm’ and ‘Sorrow-stone’ will be published in the Spring and Summer issues of Goblin Fruit! I love Goblin Fruit – the issues are always gorgeous, well-thought-out and full of talented poets – so I’m pretty much over the moon to be published in such a lovely magazine. I’ll post…