OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS in 2018!!!!!!!!!!

Find your PATHWAY or MULTIPLE PATHS

At aaduna, we are always looking for ways to promote, expand the boundaries, and strengthen the platforms that are available to creative people to expose their work to a wider audience, a larger readership that may be out of one’s current outreach due to locality or region. aaduna is also committed to enabling creative people to read, see, and embrace the work of colleagues whose artistic leanings may be a new discovery.

We will embolden the scope and intent of “aadunanotes,” the official blog spot for aaduna. While aaduna’s thrice yearly-publication schedule will stay the same, the official aaduna blog does not have that limited timeframe.

Here are the planned new year opportunities exclusively for 2018:

Chat Me UP Sundays

brief interview-based chats with aaduna’s publisher,

bill berry, jr.



Starting March 11, 2018

aaduna publisher bill berry, jr. with aaduna's mascot, "Cleopatra" the hairless cat, trusted friend.  Photo credit:  Lisa Brennan (c) 2018

Open to the entire aaduna community: contributing editors, contributors, submitters, readers. followers, and supporters.  Share who you are with the aaduna community.  Get your profile in the public domain that is keenly interested in the arts and specifically literature and art.  Possible unexpected opportunities may come your way.  And learn more about who your colleagues are.  Chats are unstructured and quick conversations conducted via e-mail.  It is not time consuming.

Interested in chatting with bill berry?  E-mail your full name, contact info and brief bio (no more than 3 sentences) ASAP to bill@aaduna.org and put Chat in the Subject box.

Avenues on Wednesday

 

discovering poetry streets, poetry roads, poetry

highways, poetry travels

Starting March 7, 2018

While society likes to pigeon-hole cultural celebrations almost exclusively to certain months, the approach at aaduna is to permeate diversity, multi-culturalism, and creative ideas throughout what we do.  (Ok, we do sneak in genres on pre-ordained days and times but we do it longer than a specific month!) 

Our plan is to present 2 poems and corresponding brief poet bios (no more than 3 sentences,) and poet photos on Wednesdays throughout 2018.  We will present one original poem/poet that has been previously published or never published! No review process. No editing. Your work posted as you intend.  Copyright retained by the poet. Commercial use of the poem by aaduna is prohibited. First come-first served.  Rolling submissions period guaranteed. Submissions are now open. Share your original poem with our global readership. 

Here is the small print: Poem must be submitted as a Word.doc, Times New Roman, 12 font size, single spacing, complete publishing credit if previously published, work presented as you want it posted.  Poems will be archived by the date posted on the blog so it will be available whenever you or others need to access your work. 

Send full contact data on the submitter, poem, bio (no more than 3 sentences,) photo (focused and clear selfies are OK.) to info@aaduna.org – put Avenues in the Subject box. Submitter will be advised in advance when the poem is scheduled for posting.

Flashback Friday!

Previously…Remembrances from the Past - 2011-2017

Making Fridays a time for Nostalgia and Reflection

Starting April 6, 2018

aaduna’s first exclusively on-line publication launched in February 2011. And since then, aaduna has launched 20 issues, published 322 contributors whose creative work covers poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual arts. And with that legacy to date, aaduna is now read in 104 countries.

With that said, please recognize aaduna does not publish testimonials though we have overflowing bags full of praise. aaduna does not flaunt its ability to reach a diverse, multicultural audience. aaduna does flaunt its support for emerging artists, people of color, and a pluralistic non-traditional and traditional intergenerational rainbow of creative people, who are crystals of light for our readership.

Simply, we do not proclaim any greatness in what we do or how we do it.  We do not blow our golden trumpets or cast enchanting siren calls of our literary importance.  We are contributor/submitter centered and try to exhibit and permeate that characteristic in all that we do including our periodic public readings and annual fundraiser.

So, in order to continue to promote our creative community, aaduna’s publisher and visual arts editor will select work from the archives to present throughout the year on the day that kicks-off the weekend.  A day where we can expect the unexpected.   Previously…on Fridays…from our past.  Flashback Friday!!!!!!

Storytellers on Mondays!

excerpts from the diverse imagination of fiction, non-fiction and flash fiction writers

Starting June 11, 2018

(taking a pause from the madness of the weekend)

Let’s admit it. Most people love watching trailers of coming movies to be shown at our local theater. Those coming attractions catch our attention whether it is for a new movie or some retrospective film screening. These trailers are excerpts, snippets, bits ‘n’ pieces to incite our imagination.

This storytelling series will do the same. Writers across thematic genres are invited to submit a compelling paragraph from a published or unpublished fiction or creative non-fiction work that will excite the reader’s imagination and provide a link or access to the full work.

Flash fiction can be presented in its entirety.  No review. No editing. Copyright remains with the writer. Commercial use or use for any other purpose (except for promotion or marketing) is prohibited on aaduna’s part.  For more small print details, please refer above to “Avenues on Wednesday.” Writers submit your selected excerpt, full contact info, brief bio and photo ASAP to info@aaduna.org and put “Storytellers in the Subject box. 

On Exhibit…

The Enticing & Fascinating World of Visual Art

a Thursday series presenting 1 or more visual images to excite and embolden the imagination

Starting September 2018

Maybe it is a false assumption though I do not think so.  People are drawn to museums, art galleries, exhibitions because the world of art is ever-changing, provocative, compelling, and intriguing to the human eye.

Our senses are captivated as we ponder what happens when paint is put to canvas.  Pen to paper.  The eye through lens.  Hands to plaster, metals, fibers or found objects.  We seek all visual artists who want to share their creativity (1-5 pieces) previously published or unpublished work with our readership.

We seek to promote one artist each Thursday with her/his work (jpeg files, HiRes,) brief bio, and photo.  Submissions should be sent to info@aaduna.org ASAP with On Exhibit in the Subject box.  Submitter’s contact data, the work to be exhibited, brief bio, photo, and publication citations for previously published work are required.

No review. First come, first served. Copyright retained by the artist.  Commercial use of any image is prohibited on aaduna’s part and no other artist rights are transferred to aaduna except the right to post and promote the images.         

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aaduna creates new year opportunities for poets, writers, and visual artists in 2018.

Together we can ensure viable public platforms…and then we’ll get ready for 2019!

Stay creative!

bill

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