UPDATE: What have I packed? Spring, complete with coronavirus-driven sequestration, like everyone else. My spring also involves hundreds of newly started seeds for a garden and a young flock of chickens, the first three of which--beautiful Cuckoo Marans who lay dark chocolate-colored eggs--will arrive this week. I can't wait; more on that next week. For … Continue reading UPDATE: WRITER’S WORKSHOP II, April, 2020: Sally Packed Devilled Eggs, The “Deep-Holes” of Alice Munro
I wrote earlier today about personal struggles I am having deciding what to post on Brave and Reckless during these uncertain times (While Rome Burns). My very wise friend Georgiann Carlson at Rethinking Life reminded me that I am known for my writing/creativity prompts and that it would make sense for me to collect and publish writing … Continue reading Brave and Reckless Call for Submissions – Sharing Our Truths: Finding Connection Through Writing And Art As We Process covid-19
Have you been published on a literary collective, an eZine, a journal, or a book? Go Dog Go Cafe wants to hear your publishing story. Many of us dream of becoming published writers when we first start sharing our writing. As new writers, however, getting published can feel as mythical as a unicorn. You may … Continue reading New Feature: Tell Us Your Publishing Story
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the … Continue reading Promote Yourself Monday, July 6, 2020
Wrap your hipsaround minerock mewith the forceof passion’s stormlet our wild heartsand whiskey nightsscorch the morning sky ©️MidwestFantasy/Beth Amanda July 2020
Come step upon another world, Faraway from the life you knew. Let us pass through space and time, Upon a line once so tangled. Bend with me and find yourself, Where the constellations are unknown. And we can run as children upon this rippling glass, To a place where time stops and death has no … Continue reading At Cosmos End- Michael Erickson
Reposting this from 2014 Flames flickering, lapping, reaching Smoldering embers glow blood red Smoke invades and suffocates Distress turns to despair Somewhere the devil dances and demons sing Walls of water climbing, growing, towering Crushing waves spiral, bile brown Sea invades and suffocates Distress turns to despair Closer, the devil and demons dance Clouds of … Continue reading Throwback Friday: Metamorphosis – Michele Vecchitto
Flash fiction from 2017; from a memory much further back than then: He stands a foot from the wall, illuminated by strobe lit blobs and spheres, one hand in his pocket, the other holding a cold beer. 10 pm he’d guess, summer darkness outside lures moths to flight, rhythm finds his feet, yet too soon … Continue reading Throwback Friday – Not Forgot – Eric (EDC Writing)
A poem for my Dad today.. (d. July 3rd 2015) G’day dear readers, today's poem appears in the Chapbook “Sailing In The Wind”. The book is the result of an Ekphrastic Writing Workshop at Boom Gallery here in Geelong, September 2018. Waiting Time I’m a time-traveler on a mission Waiting for a personal vision An … Continue reading Throwback Friday, Waiting Time, by Ivor Steven
Hello Everyone! Please join me in congratulating Megha Sood on another fabulous month of published work. Megha is kind enough to share this list with us as they are a wonderful resource should you decide you want to submit your own work. CONGRATULATIONS Megha! Wishing you a safe and healthy summer- Linda Lee Lyberg Following … Continue reading Published – Megha Sood!
Welcome to Promote a Poet/Writer Thursday! This is the day of the week where all members of the Go Dog Go Café Community are invited to introduce a Poet or Writer they enjoy reading. Participating is really fast and simple- in the comments below, post the link for the Home Page of the Poet/Writer you … Continue reading Promote a Poet/Writer Thursday, July 2, 2020
Perception stripped bare searching for a truth that lingers just beneath the trimmings of chaotic lives to find strength in a place where the damaged are beautiful and even heroes can be fallible Colors bleed into each story of a black and white world yet unmalleable Whether in a mystic moonlight that bathes the perfect … Continue reading The Photographer – MicheleVecchitto
summer humid, hot swimming, camping, gardening seashore, breeze, mountains, sleet skiing, cuddling, baking gelid, cold winter ©Franci Eugenia Hoffman A gander at me – I enjoyed a dedicated career in the insurance industry for over 20 years being rewarded both professionally and personally. Now it’s time for me to follow my dreams by doing things … Continue reading Neither here nor there – Eugenia
