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How to beat the post-mfa blues: a literary salon
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It is morning, I awake from a bed of silence, Shining I rise from the starless waters of sleep. The walls are about me still as in the evening, I am the same, and the same name still I keep. C. Aiken
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Meg Sefton posted a status""flower boat," a bit belated for mother's day, but really intended for all. Enjoy and have a happy week. http://ning.it/JRQyo7"
Meg Sefton posted a status"Short memoir piece written a year ago: Springtime in Florida http://ning.it/HWyaid"
Meg Sefton posted a status"I really ought to get out more, enjoy the sunshine. My newest installment on "black shatter:" "Tippi" http://ning.it/HxOuif"
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- Name (Please use your real name)
- Meg Sefton
- http://twitter.com/#!/megsefton
- I write:
- literary
- Pursuits, obsessions, dreams
- Reading and writing different types of stories, such as realistic stories, absurdist stories, stories making use of magical realism and surrealism, stories that are experimental, stories that are memoir pieces, stories exploring psychological horror, stories that reflect a Southern gothic aesthetic. Noir. In reading and writing, as in life, variety is the spice of.
- Published Work:
- "bear," "dislocate," "fracture: sections of a diary," "repeat performance," "waiting: instructions in text and pictures," black shatter https://blackshattered.wordpress.com/
"Chinese Handcuffs" and interview, Connotation Press, http://connotationpress.com/fiction/1135-meg-sefton-fiction
"peek the poke," blink ink #9, Full of Crow
"heft," decomP, September 2011, http://www.decompmagazine.com/heft.htm
"a woman rides a train," Atticus Review http://atticusreview.org/a-woman-rides-a-train/
"needful words," A-minor magazine July 18 20111, http://ning.it/nNaSkw
"infinitesimal," Pure Slush http://ning.it/iGPQSt
"The State of the State of My Party," Pure Slush
http://stateofimagination.wordpress.com/numbskulls-flower-and-the-w...
"Numbskull's Flower and the Well-Meaning Poets Society," State of Imagination http://stateofimagination.com/current-issue/
various pieces, "old is so yesterday," "a middle-aged woman and her male M.D.," "snuff's opening statements to the literary baby caucus," "nummy turtles," "fly," "silk," etc. The New Absurdist http://www.absurdist.cc/?q=user/4463
"abbie," Kaffe at Katmandu http://kaffeinkatmandu.tumblr.com/post/6498912523/abbie
"Quiet Zones," TrainWrite http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/
"alys," Dark Chaos http://wiredwriter.wordpress.com/
"Stone Sex," Danse Macabre, xlv Oiseaux d'Histoire ~ Story Birds ~ http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/StoneSex.aspx
"Ladybug" (International Women's Month), Pure Slush http://pureslush.webs.com/ladybug.htm
"The Bed," The Dos Passos Review vol. 7, no. 2, http://www.longwood.edu/dospassosreview/
"We Awake," Corium Magazine http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=1078
"Ash," Dark Sky Magazine http://darkskymagazine.com/magazines/meg-sefton/
"The Chinese Pistache," Best New Writing 2011 http://www.bestnewwriting.com/
"God's Man," Wufniks (Nominated for Dzanc's Best of the Web) http://wufniks.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/gods-man-meg-sefton/
"After Amelia," Emprise Review http://emprisereview.com/issues/volume-15/
"Loon," 971 Menu http://www.971menu.com/2010/06/sefton_margaret_loon.html
"Unhep," Flash Party http://flashparty.weebly.com/1/archives/02-2011/1.html
"skin," 52/250's twenty-six http://52250twentysix.wordpress.com/week-25-least-favorite/
"Deborah," Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression, issue 2.1 http://www.reliefjournal.com/buy/single-issues/
"Sunshine State," Colored Chalk, The Decalogue Issue http://coloredchalk.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=192
Book Reviews published in The Quarterly Conversation: Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes, The Vagrants by Yiyun Li, The Silence Room by Sean O' Brien
http://quarterlyconversation.com/happy-families-by-carlos-fuentes-r...
http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-vagrants-by-yiyun-li-review
http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-silence-room-by-sean-obrien-re...
Book Review in Double Room: The Blue City by Sean Thomas Dougherty
http://doubleroomjournal.com/8/Review_Dougherty.html
- Work in Progress:
- Various flash pieces and short stories.
- More about me:
- I have an mfa from Seattle Pacific University.
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Thanks for leading me here!
Thank you so much for your comment about my work! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I just scanned the Image blog and it does look interesting. If you think of it, please do bring a back issue or two to our next session. I'm not very familiar with the Latin writers except for having read a few of Junot Diaz's short stories in the New Yorker , or the anthologies, and as I recall, there was a lot of narrative. I like to try to read poetry in Spanish, Pablo Neruda has many books out. I love to learn the Spanish words for the more poetic imagery words that didn't appear in my (attempted) conversations in Ferrol.
Best wishes,
Ned
Thanks for your comment on my page, including recommending the journal. I think the most succinct way to state my writing objective is that I want to be able to write about things that touched me deeply in a way that my writing will touch others deeply. My spiritual experiences while in Ferrol, Spain (you could Google Map it if you'd want to; it's on the northern coast), are a major thread and probably the backbone of the story I will make of the big ones. I did write about and submit several of them in Rollins classes, but they need to be rewritten. Over these six months, I plan to produce a coherent narrative with enough context that helps the reader experience what I did. I think that's a pretty big hope!! I am optimistic. Thanks again.
Ned
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