Jennifer Wolfe  (photo provided) If you follow the series “Conversations,” { available at www.aaduna.org , click on Conversations} you already know that we planned to resume the chats in mid-February of this year.   Well, guess what?!   We are ready to get the party started NOW!   So start to anticipate interesting info from aaduna's fall/winter 2014 contributing poet  Jennifer Wolfe   Starting on Monday, February 2, 2015 through to February 9, 2015.    READ Jennifer's work here

“Medina Kids,” by Enrico Gaveglia (© kikontheroad.wordpress.com)  www.aaduna.org As aaduna, Inc. looks to its fifth year of publishing aaduna in 2015, we are pondering and reflecting on how we conduct business.   What do I mean?   Well, we avoid doing the self-aggrandizing promotions that a variety of online publications put in the public arena.   We do not publish testimonials.   We put our contributors first, and always position them in front of the public’s eye, keeping the journal in a secondary but important role.   We tell the story about who we are solely in requested interviews.   We make a conscious attempt to grow our influence on a grassroots effort, one person at a time, one community at a time, one country at a time.   OK, we do try to “blow up” the number of countries where the aaduna community has a readership and have made no pretentions about our goal of being in every country on the globe.   And even with th...

In the spirit of what aaduna is about, please share with folks who write.  Thanks for looking out!   WILLOW BOOKS LITERATURE AWARDS Prose Grand Prize: $1,000, book contract, and sponsored reading at University of New Haven Poetry Grand Prize: $1,000, book contract, and sponsored reading at University of New Haven DEADLINE EXTENSION: April 30, 2015 The Willow Books Literature Awards recognize literary excellence in prose and poetry by writers from culturally diverse backgrounds . The 2015 Judges are Ruth Ellen Kocher and Andrew Pham. The submission deadline for entries is Thursday, April 30, 2015. Four Finalists will be announced on May 15, 2015. The Grand Prize winners will be announced on June 1, 2015. https://aquariuspress.submittable.com/submit