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Sunday recs: Two poems, two stories

May 18, 2014

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Long time no Sunday recs. In my defence, the past month or so was intensively filled by doing PhD applications. Last weekend was my first in ages when I was free to do non-academia stuff, so I shamefully neglected my blog. But now! Rec time! First let’s have an invocation to The God of Lost…

‘The Alchemist’s Lover’ now online

May 5, 2014

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Sara Norja

in poetry, publication

The Alchemies issue of CSHS is now online, yay! You can read my poem here: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’. Do check out the rest of the issue as well – there’s some really good poetry there, and a few intriguing pieces of visual art, too.

Poetry sale: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’

May 1, 2014

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Sara Norja

in personal babble, poetry, publication, scholarly meets writerly

I’m amused by the fact that my most recent publications both have ‘lover’ in the title. In other words: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’ will be published in the next issue (‘Alchemies’) of CSHS. Yay! I’m currently applying for a PhD, and since my data consists of some medieval English alchemical texts, of course I had to…

Poetry sale: ‘Looking-Glass Lover’

Apr 28, 2014

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Sara Norja

in poetry, publication

My poem ‘Looking-Glass Lover’ will be appearing in Niteblade’s June issue. Yay! I’m so pleased that strange dream-inspired piece has found an awesome home.

Sunday recs: inkscrawl

Apr 13, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, poetry

inkscrawl is a delightful online publication dedicated to minimalist speculative poetry. The poems in it never fail to delight, and since I loved the newest issue (#7), I wanted to give it a shout-out. Poems I especially enjoyed (but please do read the whole issue – it sings so well as a collection): Queen of…

Sunday recs: A bunch of lovely poetry from Goblin Fruit

Apr 6, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, poetry

I had so many poems from Goblin Fruit marked as “rec this” that I thought I’d put them all in the same goblintastic post. They’re from the newest issue as well as a couple of the older ones. The Vow of Frozen Time by Alexandra Seidel, from the Winter 2014 issue. The language in this…

Whan that Aprill…

Apr 3, 2014

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Sara Norja

in creative on the blog, discussion, personal babble, poems on the blog, poetry

I’m not participating in NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) in any official way, but I have set myself a writing goal for April: to write something new every day, whether it’s poetry or prose. Shitty or good, three words or three thousand – it doesn’t matter, as long as I write something. The first three…

Sunday recs: Post-apocalyptic beauty

Mar 30, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, short stories

Just one rec today; I’ve been unreasonably exhausted lately. Green is for Silence, Blue is for Voice, Red is for Whole, Black is for Choice by Damien Angelica Walters, in Daily Science Fiction. This post-apocalyptic vision is beautifully written. I read it a while ago while eating a delicious lunch; for some reason the story…

Sunday recs: Mundanity, elephants, opera and a coffee shop

Mar 23, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, short stories

This week’s Sunday Recs presents four very different stories – all of them awesome. (Well, duh, otherwise I’d hardly be recommending that you read them!) Relentlessly Mundane by Jo Walton. This was published in Strange Horizons 14 years ago, but I only just found it while looking for, like, everything that Jo Walton has written…

Niteblade Fundraiser 2014

Mar 22, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, promotion

Niteblade is a great fantasy/horror magazine, with an awesome mix of prose and poetry in each issue. And now it’s time for the annual fundraiser. If you want to help Niteblade continue doing its awesome thing, consider donating a few (or more) dollars at the fundraising campaign site here! In addition to feeling good about…

Author: Sara Norja