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6 contributions to The Unexpected Shape Café
Poetry recs
yes hello calling writers who read poetry. Song lyrics, epics welcome. Surprise me. (I'll comment mine monthly, but you go first 🐽👀🫴🙏)
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@Lili Zeng wow, I got a message from a friend recently about one book he read that was 'beautiful' and moved him (not poetry? from a sports journo: cricket) and the other relevant to my intellectual interests: financial anti-capitalism. Instead of making genuine, non-performative friendships in private, I and the student creatives around me do a lot of self-marketing constantly, without even being aware. #socialmediaalgorithmEra
Places to submit essays on disability experiences?
Hi all. I'm venturing into the world of personal essays after mostly writing in another genre. I'd love to start thinking about places to submit things for publication, because it helps me be motivated to finish writing. 😅 What are your favorite publications (online or print) that publish personal essays, especially those about disability?
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Disability, emergence(y), pride, movements etc... As the disability pride movement blossoms online and IRL, the fight for justice rages on against a backdrop of discrimination and government let-downs. Where does this leave disabled writers and artists? For our next issue, DISABILITY, The Suburban Review is looking for fiction that celebrates disruption and divergence, comics that explode ableism, and art that embodies the invisible. Send us your playful odes to community and interdependence, and essays (or manifestos!) written out of, or into, disabled joy. Note: Submissions for this issue don’t need to be ‘about’ disability at all, but we are only accepting work from writers and artists with disability (self-declared). Submissions are open until 11:59 p.m. (AEDT) Sunday 27 October 2024. We allow simultaneous submissions. If it’s been accepted elsewhere just flick us an email at support@thesuburbanreview.com
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2. Online free Youtube event in 3 hours (11am-1pm AEDT) Thursday 12 September 2024. https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/state-of-emergence/ hosted by Writers Victoria & other org representing Deaf artists <3. 3. New book out edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying. puncherandwattmann.com/product/raging-grace-australian-writers-speak-out-on-disability/
How is what you're reading inspiring what you're writing?
I feel that being a writer is a relational process, that my art is inspired by reading. Currently, I'm drawn to Audre Lorde's essay, "My Mother's Mortar," which explores the intimate relationship between mothers and daughters and the connection with the body and self. I've been thinking about the interwoven nature of women's relationships and how we support each other as we confront societal oppression. The project that I'm working on is a celebration of female ancestral ties and women's bodies, including my own. Lorde speaks to the heart of my writing. What piece or writer is currently nurturing your creative process?
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I'm tryna read less... but listening more: to musical poets 🎶 🎵, the ppl around me (I'm lucky enough that sometimes when I lurk in public being "writerly"/idle-looking but scribbling, people start to share their feelings and reflections and their stories/some un-dammed bits pour forth...)
Introductions ⭐
This is the introduction thread. Say hi, tell us where you’re from and what your writing is all about! In your introduction, answer these 4 questions: ➡️ What is your name (preferred pronouns as well, if you don't mind) ➡️ Why did you decide to join The Unexpected Shape Café? ➡️ What is your favorite book? ➡️ What are you interested in writing about? We can’t wait to meet you! If you'd like to share anything else as well, feel free! And welcome!
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Introductions ⭐
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Hello I'm Haoyi (e/hir) - likely to be socially online between 10 - 11AM (gmt+10) ➡️ I decided to join The Unexpected Shape Café because I'm committed to staying in community with regional & remote writers and writers with disabilities. I'm also interested in connecting with creatives with mental illness, and sharing tips about how we manage everything, as @Esme Wang has kindly demonstrated with the 10-Day-MFA newsletter series, and this online sandbox community. ➡️ My favourite book is the one I can't put down, but I'm unfortunately doing uni coursework for credit. Can't put down but I do: Jessie Tu's "The Honeyeaters". Mary Robison's "Why Did I Ever". periodicals Prescribed: Aristotle's "Poetics". Toni Morrison's "Beloved". Shaun Tan's "the Arrival". Writing reference: Viet Thanh Nguyen's "The Sympathizer". Ouyang Yu's "The Kingsbury Tales". whatever sells. As a reader, I'm on Fable, Goodreads, Storygraph & Instagram as wayofhaoyi. Message here for book club type chats. ➡️ I'm interested in writing poetry and other critical forms including audio, see Bramble Journal... about gendered violences, Chinese diaspora and political economy. As a new writer, I'm clearing my throat on Substack and you can email me at abirbreadsnwrites at Gmail.
Favorite project 🤩
What's your favorite project to have worked on?
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Favorite project 🤩
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ages ago but Demos Journal (Issues I-IV)
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Haoyi Zhang
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@haoyi-zhang-9378
I luf poem but dribble prose. Horror, humour. Comic? 微信open_far B站推荐🙏; Engrish socials @wayofhaoyi buttondown.com/bywayofhaoyi/

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