Flowers are blooming, trees are leafing, and writers are starting to eMerge this Spring. Come and join us at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow anytime, because anytime at the Colony is the Write Time. In this edition of eMerge, you will find yourself enthralled in Morris McCorvey’s short story, Rosebuds. I would suggest listening to Ella Fitzgerald’s Summertime or Miles Davis So What while you read. We have poetry by Bill McCloud and Wendy Carlisle that will make you pause and reflect on your personal beliefs about life. They offer you the gift of meditation along with all of this issue’s poets. Enjoy the Zen.
Our submission guidelines have been updated and we will begin taking submissions on August 1, 2021. We have a new submission form for eMerge. Hopefully, this will make submissions easier for you to submit and easier for us to process. All submissions this year will be analyzed and appraised for publication in 2022.
Have you listened to one of the Podcasts lately? Please, give it a listen. You will find the interviews conducted with different writers to be entertaining and informative. The podcasts are called Write Now at the Writers’ Colony.
In an effort to promote and assist our writers with marketing their work, we have formed a WCDH group on Goodreads. You can request to join by going to our WCDH Goodreads Group. We encourage members of our group to write positive reviews, provide ratings for our members, and share with your Goodreads friends.
We continue to develop some innovative planning for the future that will serve our authors and be beneficial to the writing community. So, stay tuned boys and girls ... major developments coming your way! Thank you again for championing the Writers’ Colony and for providing us with you financial and emotional support.
Until Next Time,
I Remain,
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Table of Contents
- I Don't Mean that Weird-Like
by Nikki Hanna - Rosebuds
by Morris McCorvey - 2020 Sunsets - April “Majestic… Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies”
by Peggy Kjelgaard - A Golden Shovel for Mr. Hughes
by Silence Dogood - From the Earth to the Stars
by Lynn Packham Larson - A Time to Dance and a Time to Not Dance
by Zeek Taylor - Speaking in Tongues
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle - The Week of Young Loss
by Bill McCloud - Roasted Red Potato and Cauliflower with Leeks and Garlic Soup
by Anna Gall - Whirlwind
by Melissa Milton - The Promise of the Stellar Charm
by Belinda Bruner - Materials for His Dream
by Courtney Harler - 2020 Sunsets - May - “Finding Calm Amidst All the Chaos”
by Peggy Kjelgaard - A Great Life
by Bill McCloud - The Party
by Woody Barlow - Lobster Pasta
by Fred Yu - Milkweed
by Patsy Creedy - Runways of Runaways
by Zhenya Yevtushenko - Dorothy Recalls a Missed Call in Seattle from La Guardia
by Laurence Foshee - You came to life, slowly
by Brianne Grothe - Chihuly in the Forest
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle - Flowers of the Prairie
by Audrey Kallenberger - 2020 Sunsets - June - “Light of Love Breaking through the Devastating Haze from California Fires”
by Peggy Kjelgaard - Juniper Berries
by Cynthia Gallaher - NOW
by Ruth Mitchell - Here We Go Loop De Loop
by William Jack Sibley - Adopted
by Ellaraine Lockie - The Lake
by Erica Harmon - Expect No Good
by Sheryl Loeffler - Virgil on the Pier
by Kenneth Weene - The Year Mom Learned Macramé
by Laurie Marshall - A Million Sunrises
by Joanie Roberts - I Searched for Ernest
by Ray Shermer - I Got This
by Carolyn Colmer - The Maze
by Pedro Henrique da Silva Lino - Credo
by Gale Acuff - Cat Man
by Elaine Blanchard - It is a Tree
by Patsy Creedy - In the Middle of Cancer
by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg - The Mask
by John L. Swainston - Issue 10: Spring 2021
by Charles Templeton