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Slinging Ink is a a war of words in which you are invited to submit your own texts about a given theme. A blind panel selects the finalists, who will read their entries aloud for a live audience at DiverseWorks as part of DWOW. The audience then selects the winner, who receives a cash prize!
TO SUBMIT: Download and fill out the Submission Form. Email submission form and your text (between 1500 and 1800 words, in .DOC format) to slingingink@diverseworks.org by February 20.
This round’s theme: LOST AND FOUND
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 20
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This round’s theme: Babysitting for Fun and ProfitMay 8, 2012 7:30 Big Star Bar 1005 West 19th St. Houston, TX 77008
Join us at Slinging Ink at Big Star Bar, a war of words in which writings were submitted about a given theme.
This round’s theme:
Babysitting for Fun and Profit
May 8, 2012
7:30
Big Star Bar
1005 West 19th St.
Houston, TX 77008
The selected winner will receive $100! $100!
Stories and more – both true and imagined – from all the points of view of the babysitting experience: the parent, the babysitter, …
click to continue to Slinging Ink @ Big Star Bar: Spring 2012
Welcome to Slinging Ink, a war of words in which you are invited to submit your own writing about a given theme.
This round’s theme:
Babysitting for Fun and Profit
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click to continue to Slinging Ink: Spring 2012
We are pleased to have Neil Ellis Orts, Wanda Harding, Abby Koenig, Dean Liscum and John Pluecker share their responses to the Fall 2011 theme:
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB, AND THEN I FOUND A JOB, AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW. The artist with the most votes will receive $100.00 cash money. Voting will continue through 11:59 PM CST on January 18, 2012.
Slinging …
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Wanda Harding is a reformed computer programmer and is happy exploring many art forms – photography, painting, poetry and essay writing. She lives inside the loop with her husband, seven-year old daughter and tabby cat. She’s always hoping for the possible. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Get with the Program” – Wanda Harding
Abby Koenig recently completed her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Houston. She is a regular contributor to the Houston Press’ Art Attack blog. Additionally, she is a playwright and performance artist with works produced in Houston and New York. She enjoys to complain incessantly about the end of world, which you can find her rambling about on her blog www.thesuccub.us. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Uneven Parallel Bars” – Abby Koenig
John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter, educator and translator. His work is informed by experimental poetics, radical aesthetics and cross-border cultural production and has appeared in journals and magazines in the U.S. and Mexico, including the Rio Grande Review, Picnic, Third Text, Animal Shelter, HTMLGiant and Literal. He has published more than five books in translation from the Spanish, including essays by a leading Mexican feminist, short stories from Ciudad Juárez and a police detective novel. There are two chapbooks of his work, Routes into Texas (DIY, 2010) and Undone (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011). …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Ingrate ” – John Pluecker
Neil Ellis Orts is a writer and performer supporting himself via a series of less than fulfilling day jobs. He’s written a lot of stuff. Some of it has even been published. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Always June” – Neil Ellis Orts
Dean Liscum works in the marketing department of a large, multi-national company. When he’s not pimping his metaphors out for pennies, he writes for Robert Boyd’s local arts blog. He’s been published in Arts Houston magazine, The PanHandler, and possibly other now defunct periodicals, zines, websites/webholes that he’s too lazy to look up or too unambitious to fake. …
click to continue to Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Prelude to a Meeting” – Dean Liscum
Slinging Ink Online:December 6, 2011 7:30 Big Star Bar, 1005 West 19th St., Houston, TX, 77008I was looking for a job, and then I found a job, and Heaven knows I’m miserable now. December 6, 2011
7:30
Big Star Bar,
1005 West 19th St., 77008 Slinging Ink Online:
VOTE NOW! December 6, 2011
7:30
Big Star Bar, 1005 West 19th St., Houston, TX, 77008
DiverseWorks gathered at Big Star Bar for the first night of a new series called Slinging Ink. Four readers were selected to read their own short-form writing on a single theme:
I was …
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