2025 52 Card Project: Week 21: Anthology
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pegkerrThis is sort of a last-week-and-this-week collage.
I recently had a new coworker start at my workplace who came from a job in a library system. She happened to mention in passing at a staff meeting that she was involved in organizing a writing contest for both individual and group projects. Intrigued, I sounded her out and asked her to tell me more.
She showed me the flyer, and one sentence stuck out for me:
What's more, I knew that two of my friends had written stories about libraries, too: (naomikritzer and lydamorehouse). Could I get a few more, and we could submit it as a group project?
So, as part of my Year of Adventure, I have been doing something this past week that I've never tried before: I have been assembling an anthology. I was also able to solicit a story from Marissa Lingen and a poem fromelisem. Another friend, Bruce Bethke, graciously agreed to put together the anthology's layout. (Bruce has had some experience with online publishing with his online anthology series Stupifying Stories.)
I will be submitting the contest entry later today.
(This is not the anthology's cover, but an image created in the spirit of the whole thing). The collection will be titled: Shelves of Wonder: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Libraries.
Wish us luck!
Description: Partial view of two arches. Behind the one on the right side is a portion of a tall bookshelf loaded with books. Behind the other arch to the left is a portion of a shining full moon, overwritten with the words "Shelves of Wonder."
Anthology
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I recently had a new coworker start at my workplace who came from a job in a library system. She happened to mention in passing at a staff meeting that she was involved in organizing a writing contest for both individual and group projects. Intrigued, I sounded her out and asked her to tell me more.
She showed me the flyer, and one sentence stuck out for me:
In addition to being evaluated on quality, judges will also consider the role libraries haveNow, I just happened to have a story hanging around in my computer that I had submitted to an anthology years ago, but it was rejected on the basis that it wasn't so much a story about bookstores (the anthology's theme) as about libraries. I'd tried various markets but had never sold it, but I still liked the story and had always thought it deserved an audience.
played in supporting the organization or the creation of the work being submitted.
What's more, I knew that two of my friends had written stories about libraries, too: (
naomikritzer and lydamorehouse). Could I get a few more, and we could submit it as a group project? So, as part of my Year of Adventure, I have been doing something this past week that I've never tried before: I have been assembling an anthology. I was also able to solicit a story from Marissa Lingen and a poem from
elisem. Another friend, Bruce Bethke, graciously agreed to put together the anthology's layout. (Bruce has had some experience with online publishing with his online anthology series Stupifying Stories.)I will be submitting the contest entry later today.
(This is not the anthology's cover, but an image created in the spirit of the whole thing). The collection will be titled: Shelves of Wonder: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Libraries.
Wish us luck!
Description: Partial view of two arches. Behind the one on the right side is a portion of a tall bookshelf loaded with books. Behind the other arch to the left is a portion of a shining full moon, overwritten with the words "Shelves of Wonder."
Click on the links to see the 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
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Date: 2025-05-31 02:11 am (UTC)