Showing posts with label Affinity CoLab Presents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affinity CoLab Presents. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Affinity CoLab is seeking literary & visual art submissions: The Power of Three — Deadline: Monday, February 15, 2021.

Affinity Colab:
Call for Submissions


Submissions Deadline Period
Issue #6: The Power of Three: Friday, January 15, 2021 to Monday, February 15, 2021

Your submission could be anything, as long as the theme of the work has an element of three: a story written from three perspectives, a memoir piece about three objects, a conversation among three people, an image or piece of art that celebrates the number three in any way, etc. Have fun! Happy creating!

Submissions of original work may be submitted to submissions@affinitycolab.org.

Guidelines
All genres accepted in the following formats:

Poems, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, essays, etc. should be sent in as a Word doc/docx or Google doc. You may send up to five pieces per submission. Multiple submissions may be on one document; please title each piece on separate pages.

Poem line guidelines: 3-40 lines

Word count for flash fiction: 50-500 words

Max. word count for short fiction or creative nonfiction: 3,000 words

Visual Artists: please tell us about your work and send us up to five images of your pieces

Include a short bio: writers and artists are encouraged to promote their books, creative projects, links to website, blog, and social media, if applicable

Copyright
All artists retain full rights to their work.

See submissions information to share online.


See Issue #5, Ode to the Odd, here

 
Affinity CoLab Presents
20 East Bridge Street, Suite 103
Spring City, PA 19475
www.affinitycolabpresents.org

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Affinity CoLab is seeking literary & visual art submissions: Ode to the Odd — Deadline: Thursday, October 15, 2020.

Affinity Colab:
Call for Submissions


Submissions Deadline
Issue #5: Ode to the Odd: Thursday, October 15, 2020

Got something SUPER WEIRD? Affinity CoLab is looking for material that will create a temporary distraction from our ultra strange reality and provide enjoyment and sweet respite with an Ode to the Odd. So bring us your oddities, folks! We accept all genres. Please feel free to pass along this request for submissions to family and friends...especially the odd ones!

Submissions of original work may be submitted to submissions@affinitycolab.org.

Guidelines
All genres accepted in the following formats:

Poems, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, essays, etc. should be sent in as a Word doc/docx or Google doc. You may send up to five pieces per submission. Multiple submissions may be on one document; please title each piece on separate pages.

Poem line guidelines: 3-40 lines

Word count for flash fiction: 50-500 words

Max. word count for short fiction or creative nonfiction: 3,000 words

Visual Artists: please tell us about your work and send us up to five images of your pieces

Include a short bio: writers and artists are encouraged to promote their books, creative projects, links to website, blog, and social media, if applicable

Copyright
All artists retain full rights to their work.

See submissions information to share online.

Affinity CoLab Presents
20 East Bridge Street, Suite 103
Spring City, PA 19475
www.affinitycolabpresents.org

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Join Katy Comber at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts September 5th, 2019


Berks Bards welcomes Katy Comber to join us at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts to read selected poetry. Following his reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read what moves them.

When: September 5th, 2019 at 6 pm

Where: GoggleWorks Center for the Arts Studio 238

201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

Read Katy Comber's Bio below:

Katy Comber is the co-founder of Creative Light Factory Writers' Room (creativelightfactory.org), host of AC Presents Monthly Story Slam & Poetry Jam at Steel City Coffeehouse, and creator of Affinity CoLab Presents (affinitycolabpresents.org) online arts and lit magazine. Her work appears in Dreamers Creative Writing; Paragon Press, Lagom Journal; Meat for Tea Literary Review; Studio B's Wabi Sabi anthology; and Affinity CoLab Presents. Her first collection of poems 40 Portraits of a Family is available through Amazon.

Below is a sample poem from our featured poet:

Beckon the Wordsmiths 
By Katy Comber 

Beckon the wordsmiths
whose pens spear
creatures drawn out
toward false light

Beckon the musicians
whose notes drift steady
to carry us away
and embolden us to remain

Beckon the sculptors
the actors, the creators 
who translate 
the world with their hands

Beckon the mothers, the fathers,
the lovers who cradle
and nurture and know
the art of receiving and letting go

Beckon those who pray, wrestle,
dream; who build
and rest and deliver
the power to do right

Beckon heavy laden shepherds 
who know the world 
by its anchors and gears
called to serve, called to protect 

Beckon the curious and canny
who untangle mysteries divine
linguistic in the numerical 
tenaciously reverent in pursuit of fact

Beckon their beacons, reason; wonder
songs and theorems and paradoxical joy
gather all conceits of love, chaos, and woe 
to compose a world for the future we owe.

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