RAVENSONG – Call for Creative Writing & Art Submissions

Sagebrush Cafe is looking for your creative work – creative writing and art submissions – to be published under the project banner –  RAVENSONG.

Theme: PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

What to submit?

• Flash Fiction. Poetry. Visual Art. Essays. Philosophical musings.
• Send it in.
• Attach a brief bio (a couple sentences would be great).
• Deadlines:
  • First Cut – February 20
  • Second Cut – April 20

RAVENSONG  – Call for Creative Writing & Art Submissions

We’re hatching a scheme to publish an alternative to the traditional arts magazine, keeping things low key and posting creative work monthly on our blog page. Twice this year, we will also send out an omnibus creative newsletter featuring selected submissions.

We want to see what people are getting up to, thinking about, creating and exploring. And we’d like to see if we can help share the product of that creative work.

Sagebrush Cafe is turning ten years old this year, so our theme is PUTTING DOWN ROOTS, but we are accepting work on any subject.

What song are you singing?
Send in your work to art@sagebrush-cafe.com.

 

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MacQuarrie & Manannan mac Lir – Still Lording Over the Underworld After All These Years

Book news:

Title: The Waves of Manannan mac Lir

Author – Charles MacQuarrie | Illustrator – R. Tato

Find it:  Sagebrush Cafe has a limited number of promotional copies and is offering them to customers starting Monday, January 12.

Mythology is populated by figures of sky and sea, fire and water, might and wisdom and all that stuff. We like to think that mythology belongs to the past. Greek culture, in terms of mythology, is not identical in our minds with the reported lethargy and decadence of today’s Greece. (I’ve never been there, but that is what people say…) No. Our image of Greek mythology is set firmly in the past.

But those stories somehow translate to the present. One reason this is true – people keep making new translations of ancient stories.

Who is doing that translation and breathing life into those stories? Well, one person doing it hails from the Antelope Valley. Professor Charles W. MacQuarrie has made a book on a figure of Irish and Scotish mythology – Manannan mac Lir, god of the underworld.

“Manannan mac Lir was the king of the Celtic underworld in the sea and under the earth of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. There are many stories told of him from the Voyage of Bran which was written down around 750 a.D. to his appearance in James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, which was published in 1939. This is a long life, over 1200 years, but Manannan is an immortal after-all. In this book we have translated and adapted the very earliest, and some of the best, stories about Manannan. We very much hope you will enjoy them.”

The illustrated collection of stories produced by MacQuarrie includes the work of R. Tato, an Antelope Valley artist who also has ties to the Antelope Valley College/Cal State Bakersfield satellite campus in Lancaster.

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Sagebrush Cafe is located at 42104 50th Street West, Quartz Hill , CA 93536. 

Supplies are limited.

Antelope Valley Anthology: A literary event at Sagebrush Cafe

A literary event: Saturday, February 15, 2014 from Noon to 2pm.

at Sagebrush Cafe [42104 50th Street West, Quartz Hill CA]

This series of books represents a decade of creative work from writers in the Antelope Valley. Authors of the works anthologized in the Antelope Valley Anthology will be on hand.

 

Come on out to meet some local writers and pick up copy of your favorite AV Anthology Volume. MousePrints publishing guru Gary Helm will be on hand and will also be offering his two new books, released just in the past few weeks. They’re so brand new, the ink is practically still running.

Remember the celebration at Sagebrush. For those who don’t know, The last two AV Anthologies were both up for international prizes. DARKNESS VISIBLE was up for an international small press prize, and 9 was up for a Pushcart Small press prize. Come see these marvelous pieces of literature at the Sagebrush Cafe in Quartz Hill.” – Gary Helm