snails – Sara Norja

Knights and snails

Oct 2, 2013

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in discussion, personal babble, promotion, scholarly meets writerly

I had a glass of white wine with my dinner (mushroom burger, very tasty), and I feel ridiculously fuzzy now. I’m going to post nonetheless, dammit, because I’ve been meaning to ever since I came across this link in my RSS reader: Knight v Snail, from the British Library medieval manuscripts blog. I think this…

Sunday recs

Jan 27, 2013

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Sara Norja

in linkage, novelette, personal babble, poetry, short stories

Here are three stories I’ve read and enjoyed recently: Selkie Stories Are for Losers, by Sofia Samatar: a gorgeous contemporary take on selkies. The Flying Woman, by Meghan McCarron: a delightful atmosphere, an aching and haunting story. And Their Lips Rang with the Sun, by Amal El-Mohtar: a lovely, poetic piece, strange in a good…

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…

November

Nov 12, 2012

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Sara Norja

in nanowrimo, personal babble, short stories

Two things on this dark, dreary November Monday: 1) Nanowrimo is still trudging along. I don’t really have too much mental energy to spend on my story, sadly, so it isn’t sparkling, and meanders too much, etc. But with much editing, this year’s Nano might perhaps have the potential for a novelette or similar shorter…

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Knights and snails

Sunday recs

Poetry in Chantarelle’s Notebook

November