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		<title>Dzanc National Workshop day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dzanc asked us to post this. I like the idea. I&#8217;m a strong proponent of the workshop environment to elevate writing from private diary ramblings to poignantly crafted explorations.

From the Dzanc site:
The DZANC DAY workshops serve not only to expand Dzanc&#8217;s effort to bring inexpensive, face-to-face workshops to a wider audience, but, as noted, also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5004</link>
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		<title>October by Jessica L J Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Janet Berry followed you on your way to the bus, on top of you, breathing down your neck as you walked ahead like a little egg.
I turned to watch the scene like everybody else, only I wasn&#8217;t laughing. I summoned the courage to scowl and shake my head as I turned and walked faster toward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5201</link>
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		<title>Three poems by A. Jarrell Hayes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUMMONER&#8217;S TEARS
Here sits the conjuror
Of worlds
On faded lawn chairs,
Bereft of his galaxy.
Drops of liquor and coffee
Blend and form a cascade
Which fall from the wizard’s eyes;
These are the Summoner’s tears.
They taste of talent
And potential
Washed away
By addiction’s course.
They reek of the rotting
Genius, ironically consumed
By the same powerful entity
He summoned from the outworlds.
But they also glisten with divine
Shinning, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5134</link>
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		<title>Hosho McCreesh&#8217;s For All These Wretched, Beautiful, &amp; Insignificant Things&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For All These Wretched, Beautiful, &#38; Insignificant Things So Uselessly &#38; Carelessly Destroyed…By Hosho McCreesh
Copyright 2008, Sunnyoutside Press
Hosho McCreesh is mad at us. Because we’re dummies. Because we’re big, dumb animals. And we’re missing out on the simple things. The good things. The beautiful things. Because we’re living our lives poorly. We’re being selfish and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5207</link>
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		<title>Five poems from Frances Ayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Patient Time

A time for waiting,a hibernation
Before we follow through on dreams
Careful planning,with determination
Putting away halfed baked schemes
No day or night is ever wasted
Patience builds slowly day by day
The fruit of forbearance is soon tasted
Sweet as honey where we lay
Suddenly we are engaged in life
Our souls’desire reaches out
And wraps its lasso around the moment
Discarding all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5139</link>
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		<title>What the Vook?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ach.  What a terrible word, anyway.  Something tells me that these things have been around for a while but I&#8217;m just now hearing about them.  Perhaps first there were &#8220;rumors&#8221; and then &#8220;buzz&#8221; and then it was the &#8220;next big thing.&#8221;  I don&#8217;t know.
Looks like Anne Rice is going to be putting one out, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5169</link>
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		<title>No Entry Fee Contests</title>
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New England Crime Bake: Al Blanchard Award
Submit a crime story up to 5K words, written by a New England author OR with a New England Setting. Deadline: April 30th. Prizes: $100; publication in anthology; admission to Crime Bake conference. Details HERE. 
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Submit one unpublished or published humorous poem of any length [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5156</link>
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		<title>Pending Approval by Michael J Seidlinger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FROM “THE DAY WE DELAY”
(a thematic tome of stories by Michael J Seidlinger)
A single knock brings with it the sounding of a deliverer’s song. No more than a few seconds pass since it was pressed yet the doorbell still rings. A muted, delayed ting, an amplified echo merely augments the tension and anticipation of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5089</link>
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		<title>What are we? (Part II, with extra disco)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m kind of glad this &#8220;where are we, what are we doing?&#8221; discussion is taking place right now.  I&#8217;m on vacation this week, which means that since I&#8217;m too poor to actually go anywhere (I was going to go to AWP and meet Caleb and others next month but my car&#8217;s transmission blew up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5144</link>
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		<title>Around The Presses: Eclectic Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what makes a person call themselves an &#8220;editor&#8221;? Ever wonder what possesses a person to even presume to be an editor in the first place: to accept, reject, give thumbs up or down? Who are we, anyway?
I think it has come to be a default title of sorts, for lack of another term. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/5078</link>
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