The Wheel of the Year is structured with sixteen essays, one for each of the eight seasons through two years, with an intermission essay, "Respect Writing By Not Writing," which discusses taking time off. Extensive writing suggestions are included, as well as additional resources. The workbook is intended as a guide and teacher as a writer sets up her own schedule of writing and develops a relationship with the natural and mundane worlds in which we live. If the reader came to a retreat at my Windbreak House Retreats, this might be a series of conversations we would have about writing.

The Wheel Of The Year, A Writer's Workbook

Linda M. Hasselstrom

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Love and war, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, gods and mortals collide in a sprawling galactic adventure. "Divine Wreckage marks the debut of one of the strongest new voices in science fiction.” —Scott Chabala "Perry's ability to engage an audience whether poetry, flash fiction, fantasy, and in this case Science fiction, you come away wanting more of his work!" —Bonnie Parker Ridge, author of The Cult of Domisticity, forthcoming Red Dashboard LLC Publications

Divine Wreckage

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Perry, Reynald Arthur

Science Fiction

"Yurcaba’s poetry takes us on a musicality ride of memory in Hollow Bottles; carefully taking each line to show us how to dance, play instruments as gently as one can at seventeen, and how to undress a room with a glance of a past lover’s voice, playing us right into Morrissey’s weepy words, puts us right into his hands, where, we are already putty-- Why do you come here? Why do you hang around? and then, pulls us back, yet again... Friendship’s ungraspable entity with melodrama’s orison Oh, Jesus Christ. The idea of never speaking to you makes me sick. . Please…don’t go. One can take bottles, empty to half empty and blow softly or harshly to re-create sounds, as did in some of our family’s old country days—some call it junk percussion, possibly a throw away or discarded mood changer, but Nicole Yurcaba takes it from her recycled adoration bin, and gives us words to reflect upon. Especially to one who's not familiar with Ukrainian practices, we learn in "Dancing to Ruslana in the Barn"... a thundering toe-heel stomp on dusty wooden floorboards, arms spread like falcon’s wings; a right lower leg swung swiftly to meet the left knee; (This is how Dedushka danced) knees then bent, launching the flight of an attempted (and failed) Cossack’s high jump… It makes you, well me, want to find a record store and revisit each note, each lyric, and the artists that have left lasting impressions on Yurcaba."

Hollow Bottles

Literature & Fiction

Yurcaba, Nicole

Poetry

BUS STOP BUS STOP is a rolling confessional of prose poems and written portraits of human compassion and human intolerance seen through the eyes of a singular transcontinental bus passenger. The prose poems cross borders. They are sad rising up into joyful song. They possess love of the human existence and the men and women who reside in that beauty. They possess a rage against the foes of our existence. These are exquisite, achy, whimsical songs to the heartbroken and ever hopeful, the gritty bus-riding world citizens of North America. Pitch perfect. —Di Brandt, author of Walking to Mojácar

Bus Stop Bus Stop

Guy, Grant

Ryan Torres represents all the traditions of the best poets. He writes in his singular signature voice - gently lifted, generous and kind in the humility of beauty and splendor. He presents gifts of human interaction - wonder, kindness, care, and giving. He gives us beauty and brutal truth letter by letter, word by word; cracked into the permanent record that is the poem. Torres tells it EXACTLY how it is. —John J. McKenna, Author of Sessions. Torres’ poetry reads like the sharp sting of a whiskey shot. They are framed moments in sharp definition. Reading his poetry is like viewing a private life through a smoke stained mirror; the object having no idea that they are being observed. It gives the viewer the true essence of our shared humanity. —Daniel Stephens, Author of Surfacing.

Poem, and Other Four-Letter Words

Torres, Ryan

Roberts’ Pigtown is part love letter and part battle cry. His poetry explodes off the page with an unflinching fury wrapped in a deep desire to reach for the light through the darkness and to speak for the silent. He weaves a poetic tale of struggle, loss, triumph, and survival on the gritty streets of Baltimore. Pigtown is relentless and gripping, much like the city that inspired it.

Pigtown

Roberts, Anthony

Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015. Meet 28-year old Ukrainian Anichka Vuznok: a Goth, a professor, a writer, a war correspondent, and the word she hates most-"victim." After her ex smears her name and her reputation online using email and social media spiked with snippets of revenge pornography, Anichka finds herself at the mercy of her father, a diplomat whose money and power and influence control his daughter and her professional and personal realms. Fervently, Anichka protests her father's solution to the problem he believes she created herself: a former Kommondo Spiezlekraefte sniper-turned-bodyguard-for-hire named Peter, a man Anichka wants to believe she can survive without... until her stalker arrives in Kyiv, and she grasps that Peter may even save her from her own self-destructive desires. But when Anichka's father orders Peter on a mission to the Eastern Front, Anichka bucks her father's control and twists her life onto an entirely new path, one she hopes will make her disappear...forever. Razorblade Kyiv is the emotionally charged, acerbic account of a tumultuous young woman struggling to survive the toxic onslaught of cyberstalking and war, to overcome the loss of freewill and the demise of her desire to live, and to conquer the undying desire to escape her given and chosen circumstances via any means possible.

Razorblade Kyiv

Genre Fiction

From creepy garden gnomes and the curse of immortality, to a bloody spirit that just wants to find a new home, the stories in this book came solely from the fears their own creator. Ryan J. Torres has borrowed from the art of the campfire tale and, in turn, gives the reader something to take away, mold, and change. Something that they can tell again and again in their own way. It's a tradition that has been handed down by storytellers through the ages. Torres' calling is to continue this tradition. To be consumed by terror is one thing, but to devote the time to expressing that fear and sharing it with others... Well, that's a special kind of monster on its own.

A Rustle in the Attic

Torres, Ryan J.

Bruce Colbert writes of places, moments in time, and about ordinary things we may take for granted. His words are like stepping stones along a beautiful path, across a brook or through the kitchen where coffee awaits.

A Place That Once Was

Colbert, Bruce

If there’s one connecting thread in this amazing work, it’s the terror of “choosing the possibility of happiness.” Be nimble because the calculus of Kate’s life comes at you from every direction. To the madness of the world, she responds “I need to sleep.” To those with sandy feet and salt-water hair who left her life too soon, she sighs “I miss you and I’m impatient.” To love forever, she whispers “Look into my eyes and drown me. Please.” Every poem is about moving forward, ever forward—strong and transformed. “I have gained more room to grow,” she says. Her heart is “something beautiful, something merciful.” This is a wonderful volume of poetry. These are words for right now.

Pieces of an Abstract Hart

Nardone, Kate Hart

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