Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: January 18, 2015

Facebook: Only two weeks left to sign up for our February Writer’s Regimen! Sign up by February 1st

to receive 30 days of all-new content sure to get your brain buzzing and your fingers typing.

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Facebook: „Writing, like every art, is a sensual art. You have to touch it, you have to feel it, to

correct, again to correct, always to correct.“ – Aharon Appelfeld

Read this compelling interview in which Appelfeld discusses his preference towards paper over

screen, daily writing routine, and the multitude of languages spoken with his family and friends.

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6324/the-art-of-fiction-no-224-aharon-appelfeld

Facebook: Last September, Publishers Weekly named as one of their Books of the Week Southeast

Review contributor Erika Meitner‘s Copia-- “a collection that bursts with American abundance while

simultaneously describing its decline.”

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/art/blogs/staff/2014/09/30/copia-is-a-pw-

pick-book-of-the-week/16490663/

Twitter: Sign up for our February Writer’s Regimen by February 1st for exclusive content, including

craft talks, prompts, podcasts, and more! Don’t miss out on a great opportunity to flex your writing

muscles. http://southeastreview.org/30-day-writers-regimen/

Twitter: Enjoy this beautiful poem by Mark Bibbins, “Horoscopes without Telescopes”

http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/5910/horoscopes-without-telescopes-mark-bibbins

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: January 25, 2015

Facebook: Do you see one of your favorite literary quotes? Is there a powerful quote you would

include on this list instead?

http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/the-40-most-powerful-literary-quotes

Facebook: Check out this upcoming local poetry reading, featuring SER contributor Carrie Lorig and

several others.

https://www.facebook.com/events/390569717784957/

Facebook: Subscribe to our February Writer’s Regimen by Feb 1 for all new, exclusive content. In

Sara Eliza Johnson’s craft talk “Poetry at 1800 Miles an Hour,” she discusses how to unearth the

unpredictability of language using poetic practices. You can check out more of Sara’s work on her

website: http://saraelizajohnson.com/

http://southeastreview.org/30-day-writers-regimen/

Twitter: Feb 1 is the deadline for our February Writer’s Regimen! Subscribe to receive weekly craft

talks, prompts, and more.

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Twitter: Check out Wayne Harrison’s piece “Rip Off.” Wayne will contribute to our Feb Writer’s

Regimen. Subscribe by Feb 1! http://www.fivechapters.com/2012/rip-off/

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: February 1, 2015

Facebook: The Atlantic writer Cody C. Delistraty argues that, “people seldom realize how fondly they

will look back on days spent mundanely. . . These things may not stick out while they are happening,

but revisiting them can be a great pleasure.” What’s your take? What do you find yourself writing

about most often? Is it better to document the extraordinary or the ordinary?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-value-of-remembering-ordinary-

moments/384510/

Facebook: For poet Mark Strand, “the poet’s responsibility to be a witness, a recorder of experience,

is part of the broader responsibility we all have for keeping the universe ordered through our

consciousness.” Read more of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s interview with Strand here:

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/28/mark-strand-

creativity/?mc_cid=f2a44c2b67&mc_eid=029846c591

Facebook: Volume 33.1 is full of rich poetry and vivid prose from notable writers such as Robert

Antoni, Ruth Foley, and many more. Grab your copy today! http://southeastreview.org/current-

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Twitter: Congrats, Dec Writer's Regimen winner David Holloway! Read his piece inspired by the

prompt to start with an ending. http://southeastreview.org/30-day-writers-regimen/december-

2014-regimen-winner/

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: February 8, 2015

Facebook: A new collection of essays MFA vs NYC (published by n+1) explores how fiction writers

make a living in an ever-evolving, digital landscape. What do you think of their critiques of the MFA

model and the view of a modern writer as a “writer-teacher?”

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review-mfa-vs-nyc-how-do-writers-make-a-living-

1.2082851

Facebook: “Their memories were vivid, clear—and wrong. There was no relationship at all between

confidence and accuracy.” Maria Konnikova provides a fascinating article about how we “encode

[emotional memories], how we consolidate and store them, [and] how we retrieve them.” How

might your memory affect your writing?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/idea-happened-memory-recollection

Facebook: Hey there, Tallahassee! Check out this Thursday’s Literary Open Mic Night at Club

Downunder. The event is free for FSU students with valid ID and $5 for the general public. Come

mingle and chat with local literary communities and hear new writing, as well.

https://www.facebook.com/events/873767845977387/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Twitter: Valentine’s Day is only a week away! Order a copy of Volume 33.1 for the love of writing.

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Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: February 15, 2015

Facebook: Writer Thomas Pierce thinks Theodore Roethke “would have excelled at Twitter” were he

alive today. Read more about Pierce’s inspiration from Roethke’s text here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/by-heart-thomas-pierce/384883/

Facebook: Luba Vangelova traces the history of the English language and draws conclusions on

modern literacy. What do you think of the argument that “written English is great for puns but

terrible for learning to read or write?”

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/how-the-english-language-is-holding-kids-

back/385291/

Facebook: Our 2015 contest season is still accepting submissions! Consider sending us your best

work, whether it be a poem, short story, or nonfiction piece. Deadlines for submissions is March

15th. http://southeastreview.org/contests

Twitter: Consider submitting your best literary work to one of our contests, open until March 15th!

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Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: February 22, 2015

Facebook: Read Mark Gevisser’s engaging essay on transgender identity, originally published in the

Autumn 2014 issue Granta 129: Fate. http://www.granta.com/Archive/Granta-129-Fate/Self-Made-

Man/1

Facebook: Check out this fascinating piece that traces marginalia, “the use and abuse of books”,

throughout history and how it’s changed through the centuries.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2015/feb/19/marginalia-insults-epiphanies/

Facebook: Don’t miss your chance to be published in our next issue! Submit your finest work by

March 15th. http://southeastreview.org/contests/

Twitter: Read Mary Norris’ personal essay on being a self-professed “comma queen.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/holy-writ

Twitter: Don’t forget to submit! Contests in short-short story, narrative nonfiction, and poetry are

open til March 15 http://southeastreview.org/contests/ #litmag

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: March 1, 2015

Facebook: Read Atlantic writer Robinson Meyer's interesting take on digital writing-- how

centralized blogging "has made previously niche web publishers more mass." What do you think the

future of blogging will be?

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/what-blogging-has-become/386201/

Facebook: Read critic Jonathan Russell Clark’s analysis of opening sentences that set the tone for

notable classic and modern works. Clark appreciates openers for their “complete lack of rules, how

each writer gets to decide how best to guide a reader into their narrative.” What are some of your

favorite opening lines?

http://www.themillions.com/2014/07/the-art-of-the-opening-sentence.html

Facebook: Don’t forget, our spring contest is open Submit your best work for categories in poetry,

short short story, and nonfiction

Twitter: Spring is almost here! Pick up our latest issue for an interesting beach-read.

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Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: March 8, 2015

Facebook: Nameless narrators, Sam Sacks writes, create an “anonymity [that] keeps the books in a

state of quantum superposition between memoir and fiction.” Will you try your hand at nameless

narrating in your next story?

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-rise-of-the-nameless-narrator

Facebook: “Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How

can I bring them together?” Read an interview with writer Herta Müller in which she discusses

writing surreal scenes checked against reality.

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6328/the-art-of-fiction-no-225-herta-muller

Facebook: “ …walking without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment’s light prints on

my own silver gut.” Open your eyes to Annie Dillard’s “elusive art” of seeing in her 1974 classic

Pilgrim at Tinder Creek.

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/04/annie-dillard-pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-

seeing/?mc_cid=ba07e5d069&mc_eid=029846c591

Twitter: What does your punctuation say about you?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/style/when-your-punctuation-says-it-all.html

Twitter: Contests in poetry, short-short story, & creative nonfiction are still open! Submit your best

by next Sun, March 15. http://southeastreview.org/contests/

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: March 15, 2015

Facebook: Writers Zoe Heller and Adam Kirsch debate authors’ intentions and readers’

interpretations in this engaging article. What do you think? Is an author using language for a unique

purpose or is “language [speaking] through the author”? Can a text be interpreted in an infinite

amount of ways or only as the author initially intended?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/books/review/should-an-authors-intentions-

matter.html?ref=books&_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Sunday%20Book%20Review

&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article

Facebook: Our spring contest deadline has been extended! Make sure to submit your best poetry,

short-short stories, and narrative non-fiction work no later than ____________. Don’t miss out on

our $500 prize per contest category!

http://southeastreview.org/contests/

Facebook: Read about Jack Kerouac’s fascination with meditation, Eastern philosophy, and “the

crucial difference between genius and talent.”

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/12/jack-kerouac-how-to-

meditate/?mc_cid=2fbdcf0df8&mc_eid=029846c591

Twitter: Check out this wacky library in London!

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/in-the-memory-ward

Twitter: Have you picked up a copy of our latest issue? Don’t miss out! #litmag

http://southeastreview.org/current-print-issue/

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: March 22, 2015

Facebook: “But the beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.” Celebrate the great French essayist Michel de Montaigne’s birthday today (Feb. 28) and ready your soul for any possibility. Facebook: Looking for some inspiration? Try 30 days of emails full of prompts, quotes, podcasts, and

more. With so much content, there are hundreds of ways to get inspired with our Writer’s Regimen.

Sign up today!

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Facebook: Have you heard about Tallahassee’s first-ever literature and music festival, Word of

South? The SER will be there, so make sure to stop by our booth and say hello! Check out more

event details here : https://www.facebook.com/events/877056615649666/

Twitter: Check out “No Yolo” by Kaitlin Phillips, published on n+1 online

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-yolo/

Twitter: Our next, Volume 33.2, is in the works! Don’t miss out on a single issue-- subscribe now to

the SER: http://southeastreview.org/subscriptions/ #litmag

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: April 5, 2015

Facebook: Tallahassee’s first annual Word of South Festival is this weekend, April 11-12! Make sure

to RSVP and say hello to SER at our booth: https://www.facebook.com/events/877056615649666/

Facebook: We’re hard at work compiling our new issue, Volume 33.2. Subscribe to the SER now and

never miss an issue! http://southeastreview.org/subscriptions/

Facebook: Read Poetry Daily’s featured poem “Of Yalta” by Erin Adair-Hodges, published in the

Spring 2015 Georgia Review. http://poems.com/poem.php?date=16532

Twitter: Will we see you at Word of South this weekend? Check out the SER booth April 11-12 at

Cascades Park https://www.facebook.com/events/877056615649666/

Twitter: “Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace

your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change

the tense. Change the opening page.” Margaret Atwood

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: April 12, 2015

Facebook: Craving some writing inspiration this summer? Sign up for our June Writer’s Regimen and

receive podcasts, writing prompts, and craft talks by Wayne Harrison, Skip Horack, Sara Eliza

Johnson, and Keetje Kuipers. Register by June 1st: http://southeastreview.org/30-day-writers-

regimen/

Facebook: We had a blast last week tabling events all over the country—in Minneapolis for AWP and

Tallahassee for Word of South Festival. What were some of your favorite memories from the

convention or festival?

Facebook: Artist and SER contributor Lita Cabellut is in the midst of several interesting projects.

Check out her work here, http://www.litacabellut.com/news/.

And don’t forget that SER is always looking for innovative, original black and white images for our

cover. Submit your artwork for our next cover here: http://southeastreview.org/submit/

Twitter: Read and hear excerpts from Alice Eve Cohen‘s engaging memoir, The Year My Mother

Came Back: https://www.pw.org/content/the_year_my_mother_came_back_by_alice_eve_cohen

Twitter: Check out this short story by J. Robert Lennon, “The Impossible Man”:

http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/5998/the-impossible-man-j-robert-lennon

Ashley Turner

The Southeast Review Social Media Posts: April 19, 2015

Facebook: Did you miss our February Writer’s Regimen? Sign up for our June Writer’s Regimen for a

summer full of writing prompts, podcasts, craft talks, and more. Don’t wait, sign up today!

http://southeastreview.org/30-day-writers-regimen/

Facebook: Have you read our latest issue Volume 33.1? Enjoy prose and poetry from notable

contributors such as Mark Medric George, Chelsea Wagenaar, and Kirsten Clodfelter. Order yours

today here: http://southeastreview.org/current-print-issue/

Facebook: Read Ann Beattie‘s short story Major Maybe, published in the recent April issue of the

New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/major-maybe

Twitter: Check out Meh!-lennials, published in the latest n+1, about the contradictions and

abundance of generational analysis. https://nplusonemag.com/issue-22/the-intellectual-

situation/meh-lennials/

Twitter: April showers have you down? Subscribe to our June Writer’s Regimen for a summer full of

writing inspiration sure to brighten up your days. http://southeastreview.org/30-day-writers-

regimen/