It’s been a ghost town around here this week. For that, we all apologize, but we’ve been busily compiling the Precipice submissions for review. Our heartfelt thanks to all who submitted. We can’t wait to get started, though the decision-making process is always daunting. How soon is too soon to talk about the next volume?
Category Archives: Precipice
A Final Precipice Reminder
This “13″ should be pretty familiar by now. I may have to incorporate it into the cover design… As of today, 12 days remain to submit your essay, memoir, short story, or poem for consideration. We are structuring this year’s collection around the idea of “luck.” That doesn’t mean good luck, or being lucky, for…
Short Stories and the Beauty of Spring
Short stories blink and twinkle, a small opportunity for writers to find something like spring. Novels can stretch ahead of you like a long winter, excitement and beauty wrapped in layers of coats and scarves, its magic found in its complexity. Flash fiction is a glimpse of sunshine, but a short story offers the writer…
Precipice FAQs
Another week, another Thursday, another chance to remind you all that the deadline for Volume 2 of our annual anthology, Precipice, is coming up in only a month’s time. The quick and dirty is this: this year’s theme is “luck” Precipice submissions will close on April 30, 2013 one submission per category per author, which…
What’s Your Luck?
Submissions are trickling in for our Luck-themed 2013 volume of Precipice. It’s exciting to be starting the acquisition process again. The first volume was such fun, and thanks to all of you, such a marvelous success. Has luck, for better or for worse, factored into your personal story? Is a bit of bad luck the…
Make Your Own Luck
Coffee cools in my navy mug, the dark ceramic highlighting my penchant for too much cream. Books sit in piles around me and filed on my Kindle, titles read and waiting to be read. I’m tired, the caffeine hasn’t yet kicked in, and my mind is still a little fuzzy. I’m thinking about the books…
Three Months Until the Precipice Deadline!
Just an early evening reminder to keep working on those luck-themed essays, stories, and poems. Precipice, Volume 2 submissions are open now through April 30, 2013. We’re looking forward to reading your best work, and presenting another wonderful anthology to the world later this year!
Literary Anthology Policy Updates
The new year is off and running. Are you feeling lucky in 2013? Remember that luck is many things: good, bad, changing… and that, as our quote from Cormac McCarthy reminds is, ““You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” The first volume of our literary anthology was a wonderful…
Precipice Gets Lucky in 2013!
Submissions are open for Precipice 2013, but don’t panic! They don’t close until April. There are a few other changes in place this year (think genre, word count, and a theme!), so click on over to the Precipice Page to read the full set of guidelines!
Precipice Is Here!
Write on Edge is pleased to announce that Precipice is available to the world! Congratulations to Shelton Keys Dunning, Julie C. Gardner, AmyBeth Inverness, Angie Kinghorn, Victoria Kirichok, Melissa Rutledge Kirtley, Kelly Kohles, Julia A. Maki, Erin Margolin, Stacey Meservy, Rachel Padget, Jessie Bishop Powell, Tracy Rimdzius, Kim Sisto Robinson, Dawn Hobbie Sticklen, Diane Tarantini, and Janice Wilberg on their wonderful submissions to the collection. As of…