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Cosmic meetings

Aug 27, 2014

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in discussion, finnish, personal babble, poetry

I just came home from a really inspiring event. The Finnish literature festival Runokuu (‘poetry month’) organised an evening at the Helsinki Student Theatre, a combination of science, poetry and theatre. First Syksy Räsänen, a physicist, gave us a brief talk on relativity theory and quantum theory, and the different conceptions of time arising from…

First story publication – in Finnish!

Jul 28, 2014

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Sara Norja

in finnish, flailing, flash fiction, publication

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…

Nanowrimo: The Rebellion

Oct 22, 2013

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Sara Norja

in discussion, finnish, nanowrimo, novelling, revision

So, it’s nearing the end of October, and we all know what that means: Nanowrimo is right around the corner! This will be my sixth year of doing Nano – even though this year, I’m not going to do it the traditional way. But November would feel empty without a big writing project! Thus, I’ve…

Poetry sale: Interfictions

Sep 3, 2013

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Sara Norja

in discussion, finnish, poetry, publication

I’m extremely happy to announce that my piece ‘Orthography: A Personal History’ will be published in Interfictions. It’s really exciting to be part of a new, intriguing publication like Interfictions. And I’m so pleased my piece found a home! I call it a poetry sale, although really – true to the spirit of Interfictions –…

‘Wolf Daughter’ online at Strange Horizons!

Jul 7, 2013

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Sara Norja

in finnish, flailing, poetry, publication

I feel like a fool because my poem ‘Wolf Daughter’ has been online at Strange Horizons for a week, and I’ve failed to notice before now! Read it here! Anyway! This is my celebratory wee-hours-of-the-night post. I feel really happy to have a poem in Strange Horizons – it’s a wonderful publication full of really…

Sunday recs: Calls, swans, mermaids

Apr 7, 2013

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Sara Norja

in finnish, linkage, short stories

I have several things I want to blog about, but life’s been giving me little time for reflection lately, and most of those potential posts require reflection. So, we’ll just do a very modest Sunday recs tonight. A poem: Learning My Way Around by Neile Graham, from Goblin Fruit’s autumn 2011 issue. Birds, breadcrumbs, calls.…

Beginnings and endings

Mar 5, 2013

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Sara Norja

in competition, discussion, finnish, linkage, Uncategorized

Today I read two blog posts on writing, and the topics fit so nicely around one another, ouroboros-like, that I thought I’d post my own thoughts inspired by them. The first post, by Terri Windling, is on beginnings. The second, by Carrie Ryan (blogging at the awesome Magical Words), is on endings. Windling’s post is…

New things at the year’s end

Dec 30, 2012

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Sara Norja

in competition, DV, finnish, personal babble, submission

I hope everyone has had a lovely relaxing holiday! I had a nice time: plenty of alone time combined with family. Alone time was spent eating leisurely breakfasts and writing my Finnish short story. …My short story which I’ve now sent off to the competition! I’m so pleased that I managed to get a story…

Poetry in Chantarelle’s Notebook

Dec 15, 2012

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Sara Norja

in finnish, nanowrimo, personal babble, poetry, publication, short stories

My poem ‘October’s End’ is now online in issue 29 of Chantarelle’s Notebook: you can read it here. On the topic of poems online, a note on my poems in Snakeskin: the website went down for a while, and they’re still updating the archives. Hence the old links to my poems there don’t work. I’ll…

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