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Don't bother with anything South of the Loop. The newly gentrified South Loop area is pretty expensive and there isn't all that much to do on the evenings or weekends. Further south, everything close to the Red Line is sketchy, except for a few insulated pockets of "nice" neighborhoods, but those places (like Bridgewater) are often really unfriendly to outsiders.
Just about anything close to the Red Line or Blue Line on the North Side will be nice (with a few exceptions, of course). There is a tunnel connecting the Red and Blue line trains at Jackson, which is only a couple of blocks from Roosevelt, so places like Bucktown/Wicker Park are just as convenient to the school. Lincoln Square is another nice area that is relatively inexpensive, at Lincoln Avenue (which runs NW-SE), Western, and Lawrence. There is a Brown Line stop there, which also goes downtown a couple blocks from Roosevelt.
I lived in Wicker Park, Lakeview, close to Lincoln Square and Rogers Park. Assuming you are a typical post-college single guy in your 20's, I'd advise any of them except RP, it's just not that close to most things you would want to do and is a long train ride to downtown. If you are looking suburban, though, Evanston is awesome. Just north of Rogers Park, still serviced by the train.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.-
Albert Einstein
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"- Einstein, again
I've lived in Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Logan Square, North Center, and now Wrigleyville (actually Southport - a great street between Belmont and Irving). I work in North Center/Ravenswood area. I've lived on the North side 25+ years. So much for qualifications. On to your question.
Yes it is expensive to park in Lakeview unless your apartment comes with parking, and not many of them do. And finding a place with decent street parking is kind of a trade-off. Do you want to be in the thick of a great area, with restaurants, bars, shopping, grocery, etc? It will be more expensive and harder to get parking. If you are willing to live on the edges of those places, where it's more residential, parking will be easier. But pretty much any place in Lakeview you will be fighting for street parking. Wrigleyville is kind of the same.
Cars, parking, insurance, even gas...all expensive in Chicago.
I was going to add that if you want street parking you could look at the North Center. More residential, not far from the Brown line, but still with a nice little happening area along Lincoln between Montrose and Lawrence. When I say "street parking" I mean "you can't always find parking but drive around a while and you will eventually".
So it's looking like I should just sell my car. I'd like to be close to the restaurant's and all but I just can't pay for parking and I don't want to just rely on street parking. I think if I sell my car, I can just rent a car when I need to drive to shows outside of town or whatever I want to do. With the money I'd save by not havinga car, I should have more than enough to spend on rentals as I would need them, which will be maybe every few months


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I'm trying to find a book, articles, or information on Pottawatomie County sheriffs during the 1890-1920 era.
My g-grandfather, George William Davenport, was a deputy sheriff during this time and I'd love to find anything about his stint of 15 years.
He served under Sheriffs Dink Pierce & Bill Grace.
I contacted the Sheriff Office to no avail.
I tried the local Genealogical Group without success.
Surely there are books, newspaper items, or something about the sheriff and sheriff's office during this time.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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�Be more careful round here. Y�dunno WHAT�s gonna come crawlin� out�Crankrats is a Steampunk webcomic begun in 2011 written and illustrated by Katherine Ellis.Maddy and Jack were the best of friends, until the Altavian bombing of Banemberg forced them apart. Maddy�s left hand was shattered, and she fled with her family to the countryside. Jack was impaled in the bombing and was rescued when he had a generator surgically implanted into his body, turning him into a Crankrat.Eventually, the Altavians and Bantarians signed a tenuous cease-fire. However, the treaty was conditional on the extermination of all the crankrats.Now years later, Spirited young Madelene has returned to Banemberg to find work as a bar singer to support her family. Meanwhile in Banemberg, Jack has managed to escape the extermination of the rest of the crankrats to work at the very same bar. Maddy believes that Jack died in the bombing all those years ago. Jack on the other hand, believes that he has already found Maddy, living in the smog in the lower levels of Banemberg, now driven insane by the haze.When Maddy�s airship comes under assault by an Altavian gunrunner, Jack drives the gunrunner away. However, the emergence of a crankrat after all these years threatens an already tenuous cease fire...Crankrats is not updated on a regular schedule, but Kathy�s Tumblr has plenty of extra goodies to keep everyone satisfied. Crankrats also has an official Twitter to keep everyone up to date.Crankrats can be read here or at DeviantArt. You can also support the artist by purchasing the first three chapters in hardcover format from the Crankrats shop.Now compliant with The Wiki Rule here.
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I also buy scruffy old dollies in the charity shops and make them lovely again by doing their hair and restoring them and sewing them new outfits. I sell my rescued dolls at craft fairs and on ebay - most of the dolls I rescue are Barbie, Bratz, Disney Princesses, Steffi Love, Tanya, and the occasional Hasbro Sindy. I recently did up lots of little Kellys - they are so cute! Their clothes are so fiddly to make though - arrggghhhh!
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a adjective reffering to to something that is described in a positive way. It can also be used in a negative way.It is a very versatile word.
Man:"She was being straight-up steezy last nite!"
Woman: "Man what a bitch!"
Woman:"That shirt is so steezy on you!"
Woman:"Thank you!"
Woman: "Man what a bitch!"
Woman:"That shirt is so steezy on you!"
Woman:"Thank you!"
by steezy-buttery-gnar-dank-clad September 20, 2009
The definition of steezy is simple. It is when a skier or snowboarder is fly as hell. You got the style and the tricks. Got your pants sagged down and slayin in the park.
Pretty much the definition. Someone who does work in the park and has the style.
Dude i wish i could be as steezy as them.
Dude i wish i could be as steezy as them.
by master23bateman December 06, 2009
lookin fresh with some brand new clothes
Damn that homies LRG pants are steezy.
by Sophie Heller March 11, 2008
Snowboarder's term similar to gnargnarly, meaning tight, cool, or sick.
ZOMG dude! You are so steezy and have so much style on the jibs. And this pow pow is sick gnarsif!
by Andrew LeMond September 09, 2006
(skiing/snowboarding)a personal style that may cover a broad reigon of the sport such as form, clothes, or tricks. but can cover a broad range of personal styles
may be, but not limited to hanging rag or other piece of cloth hung from back pocket.
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Congratulations Tove Alsterdal to The Best Crime Novel of the Year 2014. LET ME TAKE YOUR HAND (Låt mig ta din hand) is rewarded the Swedish Crime Academy's annual prize with the motivation: "An elaborated and linguistically woven story of mystery and contemporary history".
Anna Jansson participates in the reality show Deckarna (The Crime Writers). In this first season of the series Anna Jansson is portrayed, talks about her writing and her life and also solves some murder cases together with five other crime writers. They have recently spent a week at a The White Moose Inn, in the Värmland woods for the filming of the series, which begins in January 2015 on Swedish Television.
Tove Alsterdal's thriller LET ME TAKE YOUR HAND (Låt mig ta din hand) has been shortlisted to Best Crime Novel of the year by the Swedish Crime Writers Academy. The price ceremony will take place November 23rd.
Tove Alsterdal: "I am proud, honoured and happy that my story about a dark time is recognized and gets the opportunity to reach more readers."
Jenny Jägerfeld is awarded The Lava Prize in Literature for 2014.
The motivation: "For her ability with humor and seriousness depict human existence mundane drama."
Anna Jansson - Queen of the Library.
Anna Jansson is the most popular crime writer of all, according to statistics from Swedish libraries presented by The Swedish Authors' Fund.
It was with great sadness we reached the message that Birgitta Stenberg is dead. We feel privileged to have worked with Birgitta and her literary production, a person and an author beyond the ordinary. She had charisma and never feared to provoke traditional thinking. Many fell in love with her personality as well as her writing. Long may her work live after her. We miss her already.
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, has hit no1 in Canada! The successful novel by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg has reached the no 1 position on the Globe and Mail Hardcover list. The author, Grand Agency and Harper Collins with the Publisher Jane Warren celebrate!
The film THE CIRCLE has received a production grant from The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) of SEK 9 million. In order to get a production grant a movie project has to fulfil a number of conditions set by SFI, which is a rather narrow pass to make. THE CIRCLE movie did.
The film is based on the book with the same name by Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg. Director is Levan Akin, who also wrote the script together with Sara B. Elfgren. Producer is Cecilia Norman Mardell and production company RMV Film owned by Benny Andersson and Ludvig Andersson.
The movie will reach the theatres in Sweden on February 18th 2015, and there are many fans eagerly waiting to finally get to meet The Chosen ones in motion.
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With the novel Sunday's Child PeKå Englund will make his debut in Sweden at Norstedts during spring 2015. His manuscript reached us through a writer's coach with the words: "If this novel doesn't make a big success and reaches a big publishing house I will quit my job." Grand Agency read and agreed - this story and the man in it was very easy to like.
Grand Agency welcomes Lena Matthijs and her splendid realistic crime series. When a real Deputy police commissioner and story teller writes about crime, it has a very special affect. Lena Matthijs sticks out with her rich, convincing and suspenseful crime set in Borås on the Swedish West Coast. More information will come.
Welcome to Grand Agency, Nene Ormes. The very best kind of urban fantasy is found in her books Touched and Dreamer. The novels are set in Malmö. But not the Malmö most of us know, but one existing parallel and under the city, among people whose lives are ruled by different framework and regulations. We are looking forward to the coming books in the series. Welcome.
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1Not considered or dealt with: wider questions remain unaddressed
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2(Of a letter or other item sent in the post) having no address written or printed on it.
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Name of the Transport: Unique Service (BUS).
Dhaka to Bandarban Unique Bus Fare: (around) TK.550/- (BDT).
Unique Bus Counter (Dhaka) Phone Number:
- Gabtoli Counter, Dhaka – Phone-9002710
- Asadgate Counter, Dhaka – Phone-8113946
- Sukrabad Counter, Dhaka – Phone-9143975
- Fakirapool Counter, Dhaka – Phone-8318151
- Kamalapur Counter, Dhaka – Phone-9337846
- Sayedabad Counter – 1, Dhaka – Phone-7546377, 01190-534998
- Sayedabad Counter – 2, Dhaka – Phone-7552152
Unique Bus Service is the direct bus services from Dhaka to Bandarban. From Fakirapool Unique Bus Service leave Dhaka in everyday night. Usually Bus departs from Dhaka at 10:00PM. It may take more or less 8 hours. Cost is now around Tk.550/-BDT. Route is Dhaka to Bandarban via Chittagong. Unique Service is privately owned Public Transport Company in Bangladesh. Dhaka to Bandarban Unique Bus Service is Non AC. There are many Bus counter of Unique Bus Service in Dhaka. At Gabtoli, Asadgate, Sukrabad, Fakirapool, Kamalapur, Sayedabad, Mukti Sarani, Kochukhet and Mirpur in Dhaka has counter of Unique Service.
If a traveler wants to travel by rail/train or air he should go Dhaka to Chittagong first. Dhaka to Chittagong Air and train service is also available. In Air Tourist may travel Dhaka to Chittagong by Bangladesh Biman (Biman Bangladesh Airlines) or GMG Airlines. Dhaka to Chittagong train or rail service is Turna, Nishitha, Mahanagar, Godhuli and Subarna express. It leaves Dhaka from Kamalapur railway station.
Now from Chittagong to bandarban. There are also bus services from Chittagong to bandarban. Buses are leave from Baddarhat terminal of Chittagong. It may take 2-3 hours journey. Purbani, Purobi and Pubali Bus service is available from morning to evening. Chittagong to Bandarban bus is available in every half an hour. From Cox's Bazar and Rangamati it has direct bus service to Bandarban.
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
Writing the balance
A submission opportunity for female writers - This information is from writer Paul Mc Veighs Blog - 'In the last few months we've published some brilliant books, including Katy Brand's first novel Brenda Monk is Funny, Julie Burchill's Unchosen and Salena Godden's memoir Springfield Road. But of all the books we've published to date, just one third come from female authors. We know we're not alone in this and research has shown this gender imbalance is widespread across the publishing industry:
Women are over 50 per cent less likely to submit their work for publication than men, according to a survey by Mslexia. The VIDA count cites major journals and literary magazines where women make up a quarter or less of the writers published. The Guardian reports fewer female authors reviewed in Britain's major books sections. That's why we've launched Women in Print - to publish interesting, challenging female authors in larger numbers than before.
This month we're launching four exciting new projects from female authors and there's more to come so stay tuned for updates. At Unbound you choose which books get written - discover our latest authors and decide which ones you want to see in print. As part of Women in Print we're looking for bold new ideas for fiction and non-fiction books. If you're a woman with a manuscript (or a book idea) we want to hear from you. Throughout November we'll be gathering new submissions from female authors and the best three will appear on our site in the New Year. Submit an idea, pledge your support and spread the word.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Some Poems, some Harry Clarke...
Happy Monday :)
'I was Swallowed by a Harry Clarke Window' and other poems of mine have just been published on Poethead. The Harry Clarke poem was inspired by a particular window in Kieran's College, Kilkenny and literally written on the spot as I gawped in awe... The poem was originally three pages long and I edited it down, and down, to a pretty short poem.You can check it out here.
Poethead is a great site run by poet Chris Murray,
who also curates an index of Contemporary Irish Women Poets.
I love Harry Clarke's glass work, photos never ever ever do it justice. The panel above is a section from The Eve of Saint Agnes inspired by the Keats poem. It can be seen in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. He also illustrated Perraults Fairy tales, Faust, and Poe's tales....
OK, back to the writing dungeon.... :)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Creative Writing Workshop in Moone
I'm facilitating a creative writing workshop in Croi Anu Creative Centre, Moone, Co Kildare on Saturday 8th November. From 2.30 - 6pm. ( 30 euro per person) The workshop is filling up quickly but there are still some places left. The theme for the workshop is renewal, so we'll be rustling up some inspiration to sustain your writing during the winter months. Suitable for anyone writing or interested in writing.You can book by phoning 0851376271 or emailing niamhmboyce(at)eircom(dot)net
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
24 Hours for Gaza
Ever think that clicking like and share just isn't enough?
Here's a chance to do a bit more, and have fun at the same time. I'm offering two writing workshops in Dublin this coming Sunday to help raise some funds for '24 Hours for Gaza' - there are many other artists, writers and photographers involved - all offering exciting workshops. Both adults and children are very welcome.
It will be a great weekend of art, music, readings, workshops in Stoneybatter Guild,and all for a very good cause. There will be a donation/entrance fee of only €10 per head. All proceeds to help John Cutliffe's efforts to get supplies/aid to those most in need as a result of the crisis in Gaza.
This will be my last blogpost for a while, I'm entering into my own back to school phase - with the second draft of a novel to complete by November I need every spare second for my writing. So off to hermit ville for a while, see you on the other side :)
Monday, August 25, 2014
Creative Writing Workshop
I'm teaching a Creative Writing Workshop this November
in Croi Anu Creative Centre in Moone, Co Kildare.
Expect an afternoon full of writing - I'll be focusing on the theme of renewal, renewal of our inspiration, our energy and our delight in writing. The workshop is open to beginners, middlers or old hands...all you need is a notebook and a pen. Croi Anu is a beautiful purpose built creative space so I'm really looking forward to working there. Click this link for directions. And here are the details!
Saturday 8th November : 2.30 - 6pm : Cost 30 Euro
Places Are Limited: To Book - 0851376271
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Me and My Shadow
Elena Duff's exhibition - Me and My Shadow - will be launched in the Toradh Gallery in Ashbourne, Co Meath on Tuesday 26th at at 7pm and all are welcome. I was delighted to be invited to launch this exhibition as I first came across Elena's work when her gorgeous illustration was published in Boyne Berries Magazine alongside a poem of mine.
Elena sculpts small figures which border between lifelike and doll-like as subjects. These inanimate models pose within different scenes creating an alternative world, which she describes as 'similar to ours, childlike, but yet grown up.' Her art is rich in symbolism, both personal, and archetypal.
Welcome to the blog Elena - the symbolism in the pieces for this exhibition bring to mind fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel... can you tell us more about your work - what inspires you?
I like to describe my work as loosely based around the theme of 'fairy tales for adults'. I'm interested in the inner life, emotions, recollections, dreams and most importantly the imagination – imagination being a quality nurtured in children but unfortunately not so much with adults. I've had people, for instance, tell me that they hated the film Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger because "it's stupid, people can't fly". I'm the opposite, I'd happily suspend all disbelief in the hope that there was another hidden, invisible world out there with people flying all over the place!
I like to describe my work as loosely based around the theme of 'fairy tales for adults'. I'm interested in the inner life, emotions, recollections, dreams and most importantly the imagination – imagination being a quality nurtured in children but unfortunately not so much with adults. I've had people, for instance, tell me that they hated the film Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger because "it's stupid, people can't fly". I'm the opposite, I'd happily suspend all disbelief in the hope that there was another hidden, invisible world out there with people flying all over the place!
None of the works up to this point have been based around specific fairy tales, I use my own life and experiences to generate scenes which I feel best represent what I'm trying to get across. However, while not based on existing stories. I hope the narrative element within my images and sculptures taps into a universal need to have stories that function as allegories, warnings or learning tools.
If you look at many of the standard fairy tales and folk stories they can be rather gruesome – the ones unaltered for modern-day audience that is. I like that there is a contradiction in fairy tales between the palatable and the unsavoury elements. A well known example would be the sweet gingerbread house containing a murderous witch or the cute little billy goats cutting open the wolf, putting stones in his belly and sewing him up again. I find I'm drawn to this dichotomy between outward beauty and something more disturbing, rather like a sudden minor key note heard in a musical piece.
In "Why Why Why Delilah" I was imagining the female having Samson's hair and thus strength. It's wrapped around her like a protective cloak complete with camouflage. When wearing it she would merge into the starry blackness of night, making her invisible. The question of whether the hair is a protective cloak or smothering overgrowth is left purposefully vague. Similar themes and motifs reoccur over and over again in the stories we tell ourselves, long hair of course most readily associated with Rapunzel, her blinded prince no longer injured in most modern day versions of the story.
"Clinging Vine" is one of a number of small pieces in the exhibition. A male head has his mouth covered by a disembodied hand, his neck likewise is in the grip of another hand. Around this central focus roses nearly obscure the face and arms. This piece was created to depict how some couples falsely portray their relationship to the world as rich, warm and beautiful and happy, but behind the facade the power dynamic and emotional manipulation tells a worryingly different tale (or rather doesn't, if one half of the couple is too fearful to speak out and ask for help). You mentioned Sleeping Beauty and while I would never describe my work as socially conscious, or overtly political this little work does speak somewhat about the little spoken often terrible treatment of men at the hands of some women.
I recently returned from living in Berlin and while it is a city containing a surprising abundance of trees, in the winter when they all died much of the city turned to a damp urban grey. This piece Serpentine, started life in response to that. The figure has black eyes, wide open from 24 hour city life, is dressed in her regal purple coloured dress, with unnaturally coloured hair. I envision her as stumbling back to a more earthy life, ripping her fishnet tights en route, getting snagged along the way, but going forward nonetheless.
The doll figures evolved from thematically similar works which were entirely drawn on paper, cut out and placed within similarly drawn and cut out paper scenes. As soon as I moved from pen and ink on paper to using clay, fabrics and colour I knew I had found my artistic niche.
There is an episode of the Simpson's that some readers might be familiar with, where Lisa's science experiment involving a tooth in a petri dish leads to the unexpected creation of life, in microscopic form. The inhabitants worship Lisa as their god and creator (and fear Bart who pokes them killing thousands, as the devil). On some level my little figures are similar. I form them from clay, dress them and place them within environments which (had they consciousness) they may or may not want to be in. In that sense I am in utter control, the god of my own little world and the doll-like figures are at my mercy. On another level playing with dolls is a strange reversion into childhood, perhaps an escape from the strains and demands of adult life into an imaginary world.These little figures feature both in my small three-dimensional piece but also as the subject for paintings. I like the idea of taking a figure which is in reality the size of my hand and painting it large as if it was a subject worthy of such scale. It's a little ridiculous and is a bit of a wry gesture on my part. The paintings take the myth-making aspect of the scenes I create one step further, almost like a court painter ensuring important events are captured on canvas for posterity, despite those stories and events being entirely fictional and the people within them merely dolls.
So, what are you working on next?
In the future I hope to experiment and create larger sculptural works but which are composed of multiple smaller elements, along with dioramas depicting scenes which include multiple characters. I'll also continuing to use my creations as subjects for my paintings.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Book Of Tom
So I've been working on this book, a memory book.
It was compiled by me, but the contributors are mostly friends and relatives who cared about Tom English. We published it ourselves through Lulu.com. It was surprisingly easy. The book is pocket sized, and contains poems, stories, tales, blessings.
Tom was many things, among them -a musician, a rebel- rouser -and my uncle. He died last October and I guess this is how I'm commemorating him.
I carry the book in my bag - there are plenty of blank pages in there - because there's always more to say.
Monday, July 28, 2014
How To Write A Novel Event
Have you ever wanted to write a novel? How do you get it out of your head and onto the page? How do you handle structure, dialogue and plot? And once it's written, what is the best way to get it published?In tandem with the major ongoing series in The Irish Times, two award-winning young Irish writers join Sinéad Gleeson of The Irish Times for an intimate discussion in one of Kilkenny's most beautiful 16th-century houses. Colin Barrett, who was born in Canada and grew up in Mayo, has just won the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his first collection of short stories, Young Skins, published by the Stinging Fly Press in Ireland and Jonathan Cape in the UK. Niamh Boyce's debut novel The Herbalist won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2013. She was the Hennessy XO New Irish Writer of the Year in 2012 and her unpublished poetry collection was highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award 2013. Free but ticketed, this event is on Saturday 9th August at 11.00 - you can book Here. Sinead Gleeson's How To Write A Book'' series has been running in the Irish Times over the past few weeks, here's this weeks feature on editing . I was interviewed for the 'research edition'which you can read here.
Monday, July 21, 2014
Orbis Literary Journal
Orbis is a long-standing quarterly international literary journal, based in the UK, and edited by Carole Baldock. Associate editor (Book Reviews): Nessa O'Mahony.
In every issue: poems, prose, articles, reviews, letters, featured writer section.
Plus the Orbis Poetry Index: magazine reviews, news items, competition listings.
Poems from the magazine are submitted annually to the Pushcart Prize in America and the UK's Forward Prize. Although few UK Small Press publications are able to offer feedback, Orbis provides proofs with editorial suggestions.
It's also one of the few magazines to offer payment, via the Readers' Award (results and readers' feedback in each issue): £50 for the piece receiving the most votes, plus £50 between four runners-up.
Submission is easy....
By post:
Four poems; two prose pieces (500-1000 words). Please enclose SAE with ALL correspondence. Overseas: 2 IRCs.
Via email, Overseas only:
two poems/one piece of prose in body – no attachments
Copies of Orbis may be perused online at the Poetry Library website:
And here's the Facebook Page
There's also... the jam- packed- with- writing -opportunities Kudos Magazine who are running a special offer to celebrate the 100th issue.
It's an excellent resource for those interested in UK publication - it features competitions, small presses, festivals, literary events etc... and you can check it out Here
Friday, July 18, 2014
Short Story Award
Got a story? The international Sean O Faolain Short Story Prize is open for entries - first prize is €2,000 (approx $2760/£1640) , publication in Southword and a week in Anam Cara Writers centre. Deadline is July 31st, you can find out more Here
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Waiting for the Bullet
Madeleine DÁrcy's short story collection is called Waiting for the Bullet.Its published by Doire Press and its fantastic. After reading it I hunted her down for some questions...
1. You mentioned Agatha Christie (in the collection), and all your stories are suspenseful. Is the unraveling of the story something that happens organically or do you address that in the final edits, in terms of revelation?
I'd like to sound ultra-competent and tell you that the 'unraveling' is planned in advance or organised in some way. In fact, what really happens is that I start writing something on a piece of paper. Then I type it up and keep going.
When I get a bit fed up of typing, I print out what is essentially the first draft and it's usually terrible – a right mess.
Then I scribble all over that first draft in all directions and it looks even worse – words crossed out, sentences with circles round them, arrows pointing in different directions – like a deranged mind map or a weird word-jigsaw. I then save that file and redraft the whole thing. I juggle stuff around and rewrite it all. I redraft and re-edit and ponder and faff around. I often discover that I need to re-start the story much later in time, so the first page is often quite different to the original first page. However, strange as it may seem, the bones of the story are usually there right from the beginning, hidden in the midst of the very first haphazard draft.
As regards suspense, I don't deliberately set out to create it, but thank you for your question; it has taken me right back to my childhood visits to the musty little library in our small town.
My mother often took me to the library with her, when I was a pre-schooler. My older brother was in school and my father was at work. We were 'blow-ins' and knew no one in the town at first. It must have been lonely for her. She borrowed heaps of books, mostly crime fiction by writers like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. She read Georgette Heyer novels too, and loved everything by PG Wodehouse. I'm pretty sure I could read before I was three years old. I zipped through the children's section very quickly and then started reading the books my mother borrowed, even though half the time I couldn't understand quite what they were about.
Even after I started school, I still went to the library for more books to feed my reading habit. I read anything I could lay my hands on. As a consequence, my language got a bit odd. I was probably five or six when I announced one Christmas that I was 'on the horns of a dilemma' – but all that was puzzling me was which chocolate bar to choose from my Cadbury's Selection Box. Even more embarrassing was the time we had some visitors and one of them asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told the assembled adults that I intended to be 'The Belly of the Ball'. I meant 'The Belle of the Ball' but I had no idea that there was a silent 'e' at the end of 'Belle'.
Well, I'm wandering a bit now, aren't I? (yes, feel free to!)I'm trying to figure out an answer to your question as I go along. Perhaps all the reading that I did as a lonely child has embedded itself in my work, but if so, the results are coming out all askew. I'd love to write a murder mystery, and given all the stuff I read as a kid, you'd think I'd be able to manage it, but I can't seem to push myself to write to a formula; not yet, anyway. At the moment, I'm more interested in discovering some kind of emotional truth; something that anyone can recognize, because it's not hidden in complex sentences or ornate language.
2. No its not hidden, and theres a lot of adultery, which is always fascinating. Is this an interest of yours, or to put it better - is it something you are attracted to exploring?
A. I wish I didn't feel the need to explore the subject of adultery. It's a painful subject for me, but I keep coming back to it. I have no desire to be judgmental. People fall in and out of love; relationships change. It's not adultery per se that fascinates me, but the motivations and thought processes involved.
When I was much younger I worked as a criminal legal aid solicitor in London, so I dealt with dishonesty quite a lot. However, I failed dismally to see the vast and complex array of lies that paraded around me in my personal life. All that is in the far distant past now, thank goodness, but the duplicity – and my failure to see it, for a long time – shocked me. Adultery is a complex thing and involves so much more than sex or love, doesn't it? As well as lies, there are all sorts of things going on: greed, money, addictions, revenge, egotism, self-destruction, a need for excitement, a need to prop up some kind of self-image, fear… I'm useless at telling lies myself. I can't see the point. I find it much simpler to tell the truth.
3. Yes, I felt that lies and secrets are pried open in your writing. I was particularly struck by the first story- it felt like an opening statement, as if it was telling the reader -'this collection wont be hiding any of our nations secrets, these stories will contain the things, and people, society averts its eyes from...'?
A. I'm so glad that 'Clocking Out' gave you that impression. I long to express some kind of truth.
I felt so confused as a child. When I was eight I wanted to be a nun and by the time I was twelve I wanted to be a prostitute. I had no idea what either of these professions entailed; it seems as if I thought life was some kind of weird fancy dress party. Mind you, my sex education consisted of being given a book called 'Dear Daughter' by Angela MacNamara, so it was no wonder I hadn't a clue. The real information I needed certainly wasn't readily available in the Ireland that I knew, in the 70's and 80's.
In my day you couldn't even have the conversation that led up to the conversation that should have been happening in the first place, if you get my drift.
The nuns made me stand in the corner during religion class in secondary school, for asking too many questions. I was particularly bothered about the 'fact' that unbaptised babies ended up in Limbo. In my imagination, all those tiny babies floated around in space, all cold and lonely among the stars – I couldn't bear it. How could God let something so cruel happen? Why should those babies be consigned to Limbo just because they weren't baptised? It wasn't their fault.
Astoundingly, when I came back to Ireland in 1999 I discovered that Limbo had been abolished, in my absence. No one had thought to tell me. I felt a bit cheated, to be honest.
There were many reasons why I left Ireland, but escape from all the double-think and double-talk and double-standards was certainly one of them. The treatment of the 24-year-woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies case in 1984 was shocking. Nell McCafferty gives a very clear account of the case in a book called 'A Woman To Blame' (Attic Press, 1985, reprinted 2010).
Now, in 2014, the recent revelations about the Tuam babies bring all my nightmares about Limbo back.
Of course, not everyone toed the line and I really admire the people who stayed in Ireland and campaigned about the issues that I felt strongly about: divorce, contraception, abortion, gay rights, sexual violence, etc.
But has anything really changed here in Ireland? The case of Savita Halappanavar was appalling. It made me want to leave Ireland again. We need to get our priorities straight. It seems ridiculous to me that there's so much public discussion and debate about GAA matches and whether Garth Brooks will play in Croke Park or not – and so little time to talk honestly about the things that are truly important.
I'd have been no good in politics though. I'm very suspicious of knee-jerk reactions and, frankly, people who shout too loudly on all sides of every equation scare me. And though I have no time for organised religion, I totally respect everyone's right to practice their faith. Nothing is straightforward. Life is complex. There are no easy answers. Well, I don't have any. All I have are questions. Limbo may be abolished but many questions remain to be answered.
4. I know what you mean, the Tuam Babies Case makes me want to leave this country. Your writing feels quite honest Madeleine, clear-eyed... where do you think that comes from? How, do you think, you can tell so well, the story of a gay man who has to keep his grief a secret while attending a parent's funeral?
The story 'A Good Funeral' was inspired by many different tales of home-coming, which I heard from friends both straight and gay. Coming home, even for a short while, especially to a small town in Ireland, is fraught with invisible tensions. There's the interaction with one's own family, the way your local community views you and that gulf between your own existence in that world and your life outside it. So it's not just the story of a gay man but also the story of the returned emigrant, of hypocrisy, of greed and of loss.
Out of all of the characters in 'Waiting For The Bullet', Luke, in 'A Good Funeral' is probably my favourite. He truly loved Bernard, and I firmly believe that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. I know that's a cliché, but clichés often contain the truth.
I was pondering on the first draft of this story one day but instead of doing any work I deserted it and tootled down town instead. I bumped into a friend, Fiona, in Patrick Street outside the bank and we stopped to chat. Somehow, the conversation turned to funerals. That's when she said, 'Ah sure, a good funeral is better than a bad wedding', thus gifting me with the title. I'd never heard of that phrase before and I loved it.
Of course, weddings and funerals are always good fodder for a writer. My favourite 'bad wedding' in fiction is probably the title story in Walk The Blue Fields by Claire Keegan.
5. So, what are you working on at the moment?
I'm the scholarship student on the inaugural MA in Creative Writing in University College Cork. It's brilliant to get such a great opportunity and I'm trying to make the most of it.
At the moment I'm writing a radio drama for my thesis. Once I've completed the MA, which runs until 3 October 2014, I plan to return to a novel that's been in the pipeline for a while.
Everything I do involves story-telling. I want to write about real people and the strange things they do, hopefully with both kindness and black humour.
6. Finally, I love quotes - have you one or two favorites that keep you on track and writing when you may feel like throwing in the towel?
When things aren't going so well and I need to put things into perspective I like this little poem:
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
(Dorothy Parker)
And I love this quote:
Women are like teabags; they only realise their own strength when they're in hot water. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
On writing, when I feel a bit stuck I like to remember the following:
Every story needs a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. (Jean Luc Godard)
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. (Arthur Miller)
Raymond Carver's essay, 'On Writing' is available on-line, and well worth reading for the wealth of wisdom contained therein. One of my favourite sentences is:
But if the writing can't be made as good as it is within us to make it, then why do it? In the end, the satisfaction of having done our best, and the proof of that labor, is the one thing we can take into the grave. (Raymond Carver)
And for general day-to-day living, here's my favourite quote:
You can only see with your heart; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Thank you for your answers, and so many good quotes, and best of luck with your MA Madeleine!
Monday, July 14, 2014
Battle Of The Books Award Night & Winners
The Battle of the Books took place last Saturday - it was a wonderful night, very light in mood with plenty of irreverant commentary from mentors Farry and Higgins. The standard of the shortlisted work was very high, we were highly entertained and moved by the readers. Here are some pics from the evening courtesy of renaissance man Paddy Smith.
|The Mentors - Micheal Farry & Peter Higgins
|Winner of the Battle of the Books 2014 Angela Finn
|Winner of the audience prize Mark Doyle with Paddy Smith MC
Saturday, July 12, 2014
The Battle of the Books Judgement Night!
Judgement Night is tonight in The Trim Castle Hotel at 8pm!
The shortlisted writers will read, I'll give my comments, and later announce the winner - the audience too will vote for their own winner who will receive the €100 Audience Prize. 'Helpful advice' will be delivered by the two mentors who will champion each of the shortlisted writers. 'Any similarity between Statler and Waldorf from The Muppets and our two Mentors, Peter Higgins and Michael Farry, is not entirely coincidental.' It's 5 Euro entry, and you can get tickets Here
The shortlisted writers will read, I'll give my comments, and later announce the winner - the audience too will vote for their own winner who will receive the €100 Audience Prize. 'Helpful advice' will be delivered by the two mentors who will champion each of the shortlisted writers. 'Any similarity between Statler and Waldorf from The Muppets and our two Mentors, Peter Higgins and Michael Farry, is not entirely coincidental.' It's 5 Euro entry, and you can get tickets Here
Monday, July 7, 2014
Battle of the Books Shortlist
Congratulations to the shortlisted authors! All ten are invited to read at The Battle of the Books in Trim Castle Hotel on Saturday 12th July at 8pm and when winner of the €500 prize will be announced. The titles of the shortlisted works are published on the Festival Website
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Battle Of The Books Longlist 2014
Here's the 2014 Long list for the Battle of the Books! The Shortlist will be published Monday 7th July. Congratulations to everyone listed, and thanks to everyone who entered - the standard of entries was exceptionally high. For more details check out the Festival Website.
Title of piece
Prose or Poetry
|Time you won't get back
|The maggot as medicinal device
|Mary Poppins
|Diary of an exhibition
|The Siege of Ushuaia
|The Letter
|The Lunch Date
|Other Drivers
|Las Vegas in the hills of Donegal
|Carphone, 1992
|Mattys maiden Voyage
|Ah man you should've seen her
|Preparations for the journey
|Untying the knot
|If I was your wife
|The Good Son
|The Wonders of Egypt
|Worksearch Journey
|Rainbow nation
|Apres Paris
|Tiny Rooms
|Waiting for John
|Airport bus to the city centre
|The three dimensional traveller
|A tale to tell
|My Ray
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Photos of Madonna in Louis Vuitoon At 2009 Costume Institute Gala
Wow — Madonna Goes All Out For the Costume Institute Gala
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I am not even sure where to start with this one. Madonna wore this concoction to tonight's Costume Institute Gala at the Met in NYC. The Louis Vuitton model stayed loyal to the fashion line and made sure that of all the outfits, she's wearing the one we'll be talking about tomorrow. Check out all of Fab and Bella's live love it or hate it polls here!
5 years
Madonna is one of those people that just won't go away - like Palin. Please, just go away already. Nobody cares.
5 years
Really people all of you seen so stupid and petty..just listen to yourselves..." She looks stupid!! the hair and boots OH! OH!..Shut to hell up....At the end of the day Madonna is making money more than any of you will ever make...She can wear what ever the hell she wants. By the way it was worn to a Costume Gala .... Do any of you get that???? Costume!!!! I am proud of her...She lives her life on her terms..Welcome home Madonna
pantzzz 5 years
Gross, grandma! Nobody wants to see your wrinkled old body any more...let go!
spicyaroma 5 years
:scared: I'm lost for words.
spicyaroma 5 years
:scared: I'm lost for words.
5 years
She looks stupid! in recent years Madge has been more of a fashion-victim than a tren-setter I'm afraid... I don't care if it's from the catwalk or not, sometimes I think designers have a good laugh at the length some women would go for to look "fashionable"!
ilanac13 5 years
i actually don't mind the dress at all - it's the boots and hair accessory that does it for me.
any 5 years
when i saw this i immediately thought OMG SAILOR MOON!!!!
5 years
OMG...she wears something like that, and wonders WHY a judge doesn't want her to adopt and raise a CHILD????
CaterpillarGirl 5 years
She is certifiable for sure, she probably thinks this looks "fun" and "different" when it really screams "the botox has gone to my addled brain"
rafaelle 5 years
yap it's she looks ridiculous
rafaelle 5 years
yap it's she looks ridiculous
c4rolin3 5 years
this is utterly horrible. even if she knows she looks ridiculous this is horrific.
Ginger 5 years
Has she had a stroke or mental breakdown? That could explain some of the bizarre behavior of late, like wearing this outfit.
karlotta 5 years
I like the dress. I don't wtf happened with the hair (like, really, WTF!?!?!?) - and the boots just make her look like a hooker, but common, that wouldn't be the first time!
Lady-Ramirez 5 years
this is a costume.
Lady-Ramirez 5 years
this is a costume.
5 years
Come on guys. Madonna totally knows she looks beyond ridiculous and in fact probably out of this world compared to the other people that were there. Madonna clearly knows what she is doing and she is laughing at herself. After being in the business for 25 years she knows this is all for fun. Besides she probably wanted to one up Arthea's head gear at Obama's inauguration with this flash back scrunchy ensemble.
starbucks2 5 years
I'm with hockey princess. She has become a joke. I think she has lost her sense of reality. This woman is pathetic.
cnyc1a 5 years
Is she just making fun of herself.. I mean I get it she wants press but where was she going
trident1 5 years
this gala isn't supposed to necessarily be about some hot outfit you'd see on the street in Anytown, USA. these pieces are straight from the runway. i love it *because* it's ridiculous.
Claire-Underwear 5 years
it's nice to see madonna hasn't lost her sense of humor.
clew001 5 years
omg what is the birds nest doing on her head. she looks cracked out
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I had arrived home after my walk, showered and slept very well. Got up Friday morning, checking the clouds outside and saw it looked to be a fine day... so, biked in to work, with the thought at the back of my mind to "be flexible", and allow for a plan B.
Halfway through the day I was feeling kind of yuck... and hoped I'd be able to bike wherever I needed to (car shop or home). I persevered, got through my work day, and they called to say the car was done. So in the end plan B was not needed, the weather was still fine in the afternoon. It was 71 degrees, sunny and windy. A twinge warm for the bike ride 8 miles out to where the car dealership sits on the edge of town, but not beastly. The head and cross winds were the challenging bit.
Now let me say one thing about this city: we believe in recreational trails. There are miles and miles of 'em, and they are like having our own sheltered commuter highways... only without the angry drivers. They can be crowded at times, but not as crowded as I've seen the streets get at "rush 15 minutes". As I rode, I encounted some strolling dog-walkers, some other bikers, and some families just out enjoying the day. I was riding with a deadline: get there before they close at 6 p.m.
I knew that the bike trail ended a half mile to a mile before getting to the dealership, and I'm not that familiar with the residential streets in that particular neighborhood. I had looked at a map in advance and had a plan in my head. I ride defensively, and am not uncomfy on the broad suburban streets. Still, watch out for those massive SUV's!
But there were no hitches... might have taken one turn differently (and if I ever do this again, I'll try that other turn). I located my little Fit in the lot, and loaded the bike into the back before going inside to "settle up".
Oh, my heavens... nasty bill. BUT, the A/C now works as it should, and I enjoyed it all the way home. And felt good because I'd just biked and had a car that carries the bike inside with no extreme modification... flop down the seats, lift Brenda in and drive on. Love it. It's why I picked this vehicle.
This morning I was supposed to go biking with the "biker babes", but woke to
the sounds of thunder and falling rain. Between that and my sinus allergies that are starting to act up... opted not to do that. I'm having my steel cut oats and sipping my mug and sparking... and contemplating a swim in a bit... haven't had one yet this week.
LIFE is good... three day weekend stretches in front of me... thinking it will be a "cave" weekend... to recharge the introvert batteries. Spark on!
I mentioned yesterday that I was feeling a bit of a coiled spring. I also mentioned that yesterday might turn into one of those days when the planned exercise didn't line up with circumstance. The reason for that potential bump was that I had the car in to the shop for a preventative recall (software upgrade)... and one never quite knows how those things will go.
While I had it there, I asked them to look at the A/C. It's not been the same since my trip to Florida last November, and in fact I noticed it on Thanksgiving day, when I drove in bright sunshine from Arkansas home... it just wasn't behaving properly. Of course, Winter in Nebraska one doesn't need A/C... so I ignored it until last week when Summer suddenly appeared, and it still wasn't doing its thing.
Of course, they found something... seems on that trip I must have encountered a rock. It damaged the compressor. $$$ Ouch. BUT, since they didn't have the part on hand, it gave me the chance to let them keep the car overnight... and WALK HOME. Now for me, that walk home varies depending on route, and I took one that is mostly the shortest (did take one minor detour in a park on the way). 6.3 mile afternoon walk. My current background shot is of the lake I run around from home in about a 4 mile loop (or more... I can add to that basic 4). You get this view as you get to the top of the dam face, coming up it from the west. What a reward!
Anyway, it was a great chance to let the coiled spring unravel a bit. Today's plan: bike to work and to pick up the car after. We'll see if THAT turns into a plan B... the weather can always intervene.
LIFE is good. Spark on!
Not every day has to be UBER active to be fully lived. But the balance must be there. Balance is not always balance in a given day. It might be balance over the week.
This morning I'm feeling a bit of the coiled spring... Monday was a scheduled rest day. Missed working out beyond the walking breaks on Tuesday and again on Wednesday because there were "life" things that needed doing, and it got squeezed out. Today threatens to be the same. But... there's this lovely Holiday weekend coming up, and I have my mind set on three days of nice activity... we shall see. And the coiled spring feeling usually turns into a GREAT next workout.
Whatever happens with "the plan" versus "the actual", I remind myself... I am LIVING my life, not wishing it away.
On to today's pep talk:
* Drink your water
* Eat what's in the bag
* The cookies at the coffee kiosk won't make it all better. Really.
* Work is NOT the entire world (even though you know you love what you are doing)... remember to go to recess!
* Stretch, mentally and physically... and hold your head high.
* YOU are worth it!
Spark a GREAT Thursday, my friends, for LIFE is good. Namaste.
I notice KALIGIRL called me out on yesterday's pep talk about keeping a promise to myself. I had gone away from that during a particularly tough patch, and moved to a more realistic: make the best decision you can. And she's right!
And particularly timely reminder, too, as this week looks like one of those "best decision" weeks. Last week the training plan lined up nicely. This week, not so much. Monday was fine, it was a planned rest day.
Tuesday said "bike" on the training plan, and I had already adjusted it to "swim before work". HOWEVER, I forget just what it was that kept me up later than usual Monday evening, and when I got up Tuesday, I determined I needed the extra sleep, and snoozed instead of going to swim. I couldn't swim AFTER work because I had an appointment call I needed to get home for.
Then a friend dropped off Uma Vertigo (remember my mountain bike?) that had been "living" at her house since last Fall. Then the neighbor and his son dropped over... this is the neighborhood youngster who is looking to mow my grass this summer (at a lesser rate than the pros I have currently hired and was considering firing in favor of a budget boon of doing it myself...) Well, I really don't care to mow that much, and so I'm going to boost the youth economy by hiring this 14 year old this Summer.
Anyway, long and little of it is that I ended up with an extra rest day. So... today's pep talk goes back to:
* Progress, not perfection.
* The most important decision is the one in front of you NOW.
* Just do the best you can in the moment.
* Drink your water
* Today, packed with meetings, and no time between: find a way to squeeze some recess in!
* Eat what's in the bag, that's why you packed it.
* REWARD yourself with something active after work... you deserve it!
That's it, Sparklers! TODAY is our day to LIVE in the moment. We cannot change things that have happened, good or bad. But we can influence someone's day for good with a word of encouragement or a smile! Spark on!
Those extra trips down memory lane brought on by a stray comment could be considered "detours" but they can be so amusing. Such was the "bonus blog" yesterday. As I get older, there are so many more such "side roads" that it's hard to avoid them.
From these "side roads" comes some of the best advice about the day, and the germs of my pep talks to myself:
* Remember to drink your water.
* The candy bar in the vending machine will NOT make it better.
* Ditto the cookies at the coffee kiosk!
* Eat what's in the bag, that's why you packed it.
* Go to recess... it's as important as your desk work!
* Keep a promise to yourself today.
Spark a great day, my friends. Pray for those who are hurting. Offer encouragement to those who are struggling. Rejoice in the victories of others. In short, Spread the Spark!


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