Saturday, December 1, 2012

Dashes Demystified/Anthology Call



Writer’s Thought for the Week: One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.  ~ A. A. Milne

Dealing with Dashes 
There’s the em-dash, the hyphen, and parenthetical dashes. Although the dash is more free-wheeling than other punctuation marks, this article in the NY Times aims to time those mad dashes. 

Anthology call: Stepping Up: Stories of Blended Families 

Deadline: January 1, 2013; some decisions being made as stories come in
Pays: $100 plus two copies of the published book
Queries and submissions to samanthawaltz@comcast.net


Looking for first-person essays from people who are or have been part of stepfamilies that are nurturing places, and from those where family members must find ways to rise above the challenges they faced at home. For details see:


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