Chris's Writing Blog

Co-Manager of Nostrovia! Press / Publisher + Editor + Poet / 4 Chapbooks / Project Manager / Game Designer / Lebanese American / Bombs for Hands

[nostroviapress]

OUR FREE 2018 CHAPBOOK CONTEST HAS BEGUN!! We’re accepting work for the next 3 days: 7/27 - 7/29

Here’s what we offer (each of our three winners!):​

20 author copies (plus free copies of the other winning chaps for the year!)

An initial print run of 125 copies, w/ a 2nd print run as needed 

Beautiful cover art

Expert printing and binding, courtesy of @bottlecappress

Online release as free ebooks later this year

An invitation to feature at N!‘s yearly online reading

Reviews and blurbs within N!‘s network of friends 

Winners will have extensive involvement regarding their cover art, interior design, and general editing, with plenty of guidance from our chapbook editors

Full Details: http://www.nostroviatowriting.com/chapbook-contest.html

[andlohespoke]

"One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star." #Rilke

[andlohespoke]

"sometimes, you don't have to see tears to know they're falling." -Suzy Conway, "On the Way to Lo"

[andlohespoke]

*sees Raptor and Chris Pratt in new Jurassic Park trailer & thinks to make joke about T-Rex also remembering him* *sees T-Rex save Chris Pratt five seconds later in trailer* Wait... REALLY?!?

[andlohespoke]

LOL FML, the only thing better than having to wake up at 5:30am for a morning call is signing into the call, waiting for 10 minutes, and finding out the other people cancelled and didn't tell you. GG

[wildfairy]

the way I bring my                  hand to your jaw line is my first language. the         way I become movement inside your hands is my first language.

Rachelle Toarmino, You Up?, published in Nostrovia! Press  (via wildfairy)

[lifeinpoetry]

I don’t know who I am anymore. The previous sentence is a lie. The previous sentence is a lie

Jackson Nieuwland, from “Compulsive Liar,” published as part of the 2016 Featured Finalists for Nostrovia! Press (via lifeinpoetry)

[andlohespoke]

Wow, 11 minutes ago it was 11:11pm on 11/11

[andlohespoke]

Just heard a kid loudly explaining to another: "No! It's not called Christmas this year! It's called Thanksgiving!"

[andlohespoke]

Disney is American mythology

[andlohespoke]

Much to the amazement of my childhood self, today I rode Thunder Mountain and The Matterhorn for my first time ;]

[andlohespoke]

smoke and steam

[andlohespoke]

"how do i explain / that there is no bravery in running / from a house on fire." Just finished @TAGreathouse's ne… https://t.co/MH2bPdFEkC

[andlohespoke]

Spent this last weekend promoting @NostroviaPoetry with Jeremiah + Chris Salas, sharing lots of chapbooks at the 20… https://t.co/M1cswv2Hk4

[andlohespoke]

Last night I realized if [doing something I love] hurt my eyes as much as cutting onions, I'd probably not do it?

[andlohespoke]

1. This last Sunday marks 10 years for me at my job 2. Breakfast is important https://t.co/ogLvrscl1B

[andlohespoke]

Don't believe the scientists, it's definitely already Fall