Easy Street Carnival of Writing and Art: 4th edition
Sunday, January 03, 2010Welcome to the January 2, 2010 edition of Easy Street Carnival of Writing and Art. This month I changed things up a bit and separated Creative Nonfiction from Nonfiction. The submissions this month are stunning, so be sure to visit the writers and artists listed here. Leave them a little love-note. Congratulate and encourage. Enjoy.
We're all in this together, you know.
Art
Monica Staples presents metamorphosis tree posted at Illuminating Apparitions.
Creative Nonfiction
Kris Ann K. Riedmann presents Sweet Sophie posted at Mom's on fire!.
Yvaine presents Rising from the ashes posted at My Vanilla Nook.
Shawntel Wilson presents A Forest Blessing posted at Tales from the Trail.
Suzanne Kingsbury presents Suzanne Kingsbury Pregnant with a Novel and Why Blogging Keeps Us From Committing Suicide posted at Suzanne Kingsbury, saying, "Love your carnival!"
Fiction
Elisha Webster Emerson presents The Adventure Sentimentale (Some Fiction) posted at My Inconvenient Body, saying, "A story challenge: Write a traditional story with no human beings."
Genre Bender
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Office Party Follies posted at Mad Kane's Humor Blog.
Nonfiction
Ralph Jean-Paul presents The Know It All: My Interview With Bestselling Author A.J. JacobsPotential 2 Success, saying, "He has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and now, Potential 2 Success. I got a chance to ask a few questions to one of the funniest non-fiction around, Bestselling Author, and Editor-at-Large at Esquire Magazine AJ Jacobs."
Bruce presents Overcome the biggest barrier to good writing: time posted at A Blog about Writing Clearly, saying, ""Overcome the biggest barrier to good writing: time. Many of us know how to make our writing clear, concise, and appealing.But looming deadlines mean that we must often settle for less than our best. While you might go through a dozen drafts of a cover letter or an application essay, you can't do the same for that report or memo due tomorrow.""
Christopher Brooks presents VT5... uses of acronyms posted at Very Top Five Blog, saying, "Acronyms? They sound dull."
Albie presents I find that, above all, the soul wants stories. posted at iDevelopWorld.
Poetry
bryantmoore2 presents Beautiful posted at Ecstasy Redefined....
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition ofEasy Street Carnival of Writing and Art using our carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
January 03, 2010 1:09 PM Thanks for the inclusion, Monda. It really looks like your Blog Carnival is growing! I've got a lot of sites to visit to day if I want to hit them all!
Thank you for organizing this and keeping it up every month - you're an inspiration!
January 03, 2010 10:48 PM I think this edition is the best one yet. Some really professional pieces in here - solid writing.
More, I say!
January 05, 2010 9:53 AM Thank you SO much for including me!!! I am humble and thankful - and I did a little "happy dance" when I saw my name here!!!
Blessings in the New Year!