Archive for the ‘The Written Word’ Category

Jan
2010
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Call for Submission: Lesbian Anthology

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Would you like to be part of the best Lesbian Anthology ever?
Lesbian Memoirs.com is now putting together a collection of lesbian short stories and would like to include YOU!
Submissions are open from December 1, 2009 thru January 31, 2010. All entries must be submitted by January 31, 2010 [...]

Aug
2009
21

“Dyke Bitch” Being Hated on, On a Friday Morning!!!

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It was a bright Friday morning, my partner and I were driving to work. When she stopped at a yellow light. The guy behind her was upset that he couldn’t run a red light and get to work a millisecond earlier than he would now get to work. He was yelling and [...]

Apr
2009
24

Now Reading! Visible: A Femmethology

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Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each [...]

Mar
2009
09

Pure Romance Contest has been extended!

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Due to very minimal response, we’ve extended the deadline of the contest to Wednesday, March 18th at 11:59 EST.
Same rules (see the last post for complete rules and details). Send a short piece of erotica featuring an item from Pure Romance. Don’t overthink this. It doesn’t need to be something to stress over. It just [...]

Nov
2008
20

Need Your Suggestions

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Hello Chicas!
I am preparing to create a critique forum for lesbian fiction (and maybe nonfiction, too). It will be a place where lesbian writers can upload their writing and get honest, helpful feedback so that they can improve their work, their skills and ultimately the genre of lez lit.
But I need your help. I can’t [...]

Sep
2008
12

Mystery..

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I write these sacred words for myself as much as for you for we drink from the same reflection. Our shadow dance may have left us sometimes feeling confused,depressed,alone and insecure. I have bleed from a thousand tormented wounds and been condemned insane. But “We must be the change we wish to see in the world”-Ghandi [...]

Sep
2008
07

Jared

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© 2001 Sandra Jean-Pierre
At the fifteenth and the late twenty-something of the month, he always came to spend the weekends. It wasn’t something I signed up for or that I was even aware of, it was just there, to happen, like clockwork. And Jared came that weekend.

When he was younger, It would usually be Lila [...]

Sep
2008
03

The Trouble with Emily Dickinson – by Lyndsey D’Arcangelo

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Coming September 27th…..The Gay Judy Blume
In today’s literary market, there’s a severe lack of quality young adult books with positive and realistic themes for GLBT youth. Lyndsey D’Arcangelo, who grew up reading the likes of Judy Blume, saw that need and crafted a story that GLBT teens, college students and young professionals could easily relate [...]

Aug
2008
05

A Lesbian Fairy Tale

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I’d like to say that the story I’m about to tell you will end like a fairy tale should. I’d like to promise you that the good girl gets the girl, but she doesn’t. It’s just that I need to tell the story. I need others to read my words. I need someone to tell [...]

Aug
2008
03

I lost you to me

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I lost you to me
and I’ll never be able to forgive myself
for loving you
because you took with you all that was good in me
That laugh only you could get out of me
The trust I could only seem to give to you
I look at your footprints
and as I see them walking away I can’t help but [...]

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