Author: Angelé Sionna
-
Writing Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center
We know some of the writers that read our blog are always looking for fellowships and grants and the like. So here’s one from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Deadline is December 1 to apply: Since 1968, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has run the largest and longest residency Fellowship…
-
I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings
I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings by Jen Karetnick Jen Karetnick is the author of three full-length books of poetry, two forthcoming, and four chapbooks of poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including Cimarron Review, december, North American Review, Poet’s Market 2013, Poets & Writers, Spillway, Submittable.com and Valparaiso Poetry…
-
Grayscale by Brian Burmeister
GRAYSCALE by Brian Burmeister A month after Mom passed, I went back to the house to pack up. In the corner of her closet, buried under a pile of blankets, was a box within a box. Inside were dozens of aged, black-and-white photos of my mother with a man I didn’t know. There were no…
-
Featured Artist: David Mrugala
Featured Artist: David Mrugala David Mrugala is a German architect living in Korea and working in an interdisciplinary environment with a particular interest in generative processes that not only aim for visual representations but also in responsive and interactive environments. “I launched the platform thedotisblack to explore generative drawings using the programming language Processing. The main focus…
-
Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear
Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear The moon is a glowing white ear, passing between gingerbread houses where wasps build their paper hexes. You are not here so it can’t be changing for us, this celestial cochlea and canal trained at the earth teaching me to listen when your phone rings and rings its robotic…
-
We’re looking for blog posts by local writers!
Thin Air Magazine is looking for guest blog posts – be that written words, photography, audio, video, and/or art work! We welcome writers/artists/photographers/videographers in the Flagstaff community along with NAU students/faculty/staff to submit content to our blog. We also welcome writers not from/living in Flagstaff who’ve written something inspired by a visit or takes place…
-
Flagstaff Literary Event: Narrow Chimney Reading Series
Every Monday, literary lovers in the Flagstaff area get a chance to hear the latest work of local professional writers, writing professors and students in the MFA program at Northern Arizona University. The events are free and always at Uptown Pubhouse downtown Flagstaff. Here’s a look at the fall 2015 schedule… August 31: Angele Anderfuren…
-
Flagstaff literary event: 2015 Northern Arizona Book Festival
The 2015 Northern Arizona Book Festival: Return of the Writer is fast approaching! Check out the schedule below and attend as many of these awesome events in Flagstaff as you can… Mon, Sept. 7 Narrow Chimney Reading The Viola Award-winning series kicks off the week Featuring Susan Briante, Farid Matuk and Jesse Valencia 7–8 p.m.…
-
Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer
Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer We’re so thrilled you’ve offered to donate your time to our cause and know how you value the privilege to serve The police background check is just part of the process please visit your neighborhood sheriff who’ll make sure you’re felony free and that “sexual predator” isn’t a suffix attached to…
-
Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz
Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz “Much we have to fear, big-mouth beside me!” —Osip Mandelstam This could be any era, and by any I mean none of them swept under the loss that was our decade we remember the sky’s oldest quotation marks and the weeks of holding our breath to keep other people from…
Thin Air Magazine 