WE EVEN PUBLISH
In 2003 The Sitting Room began producing a small publication every Spring based on a particular theme. The Publication Party coincides with the Sitting Room Birthday Celebration, usually the first Sunday afternoon in June.
The Sitting Room 2018 Anthology - Advance Information
Before print, people from around the globe gathered in groves and circles to tell stories. And while each generation kept their culture alive through repeating these myths and legends, there were adaptations. Individual flourishes. Exaggerations and morphing. Perhaps with digital media our voices have become softer and smaller and less compelling. Still, there is great power in recalling, reciting and rewriting a favorite legend in your own words.
Even if retellings of folk tales, myths or fairy-tales are not eligible for National Book Foundation awards (Intro, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer, 2010) they will be welcomed here. In fact this is our theme for the 2018 Sitting Room Publication!
Pick a somewhat well known fairytale, myth, legend or fable from Grimm, the Bible, Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, the Koran, or any other source, and make the story yours. Tell it from another vantage point and/or add or change a character and/or situate the story in another time or place. Examples: Sleeping Beauty…what was the mirror really thinking? Snow White from the POV of Bashful. Cain and Abel as Star Wars characters.
Looking forward, Sharon Bard and Karen Petersen will lead a workshop in March 2018 when we can explore topics, try our hands/pens at transformations, and just generally have some fun with this delightful subject matter.
Even if retellings of folk tales, myths or fairy-tales are not eligible for National Book Foundation awards (Intro, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer, 2010) they will be welcomed here. In fact this is our theme for the 2018 Sitting Room Publication!
Pick a somewhat well known fairytale, myth, legend or fable from Grimm, the Bible, Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, the Koran, or any other source, and make the story yours. Tell it from another vantage point and/or add or change a character and/or situate the story in another time or place. Examples: Sleeping Beauty…what was the mirror really thinking? Snow White from the POV of Bashful. Cain and Abel as Star Wars characters.
Looking forward, Sharon Bard and Karen Petersen will lead a workshop in March 2018 when we can explore topics, try our hands/pens at transformations, and just generally have some fun with this delightful subject matter.
Guidelines for Anthology Submissions
Length: One page; 400 words maximum
Format: Times New Roman; 12 pt; one-inch margins; single or double spaced
Titling: Original title
Identification: Full name at the bottom of page
Cover Sheet: Separate cover page to include: Name, mailing address, telephone, e-mail address, and title of the submission
Submission: E-mail as a MS Word attachment to:
sittingroom2018@gmail.com.
If you are unable to e-mail, send unfolded via USPS to:
Editor
2018 Anthology
c/o The Sitting Room
P. O. Box 838
Penngrove, CA 94951
All contributions will be accepted if they address the theme and follow the format and arrive by the deadline: April 1, 2018.
You do not have to be a "member" of The Sitting Room to contribute. Contributions are not restricted by gender or age.
Format: Times New Roman; 12 pt; one-inch margins; single or double spaced
Titling: Original title
Identification: Full name at the bottom of page
Cover Sheet: Separate cover page to include: Name, mailing address, telephone, e-mail address, and title of the submission
Submission: E-mail as a MS Word attachment to:
sittingroom2018@gmail.com.
If you are unable to e-mail, send unfolded via USPS to:
Editor
2018 Anthology
c/o The Sitting Room
P. O. Box 838
Penngrove, CA 94951
All contributions will be accepted if they address the theme and follow the format and arrive by the deadline: April 1, 2018.
You do not have to be a "member" of The Sitting Room to contribute. Contributions are not restricted by gender or age.
Publication Audience
PAST PUBLICATIONS AND HOW TO OBTAIN
The Need to Read! or My BLF, My Best Literary Friend is the theme for 2017s anthology. Copies are available at The Sitting Room.
This is What a Feminist Looks Like, our 2014 publication, surprised everyone by its variety and liveliness, so much so that there was an article written by Julie Lee in the Press Democrat, along with appearances on local radio. The buzz was such that we printed a “Second edition," including some material omitted inadvertently from the first printing. Order a copy.
The theme for 2013 was "When I Was a Child, I Read..." The Birthday Party, on a surprisingly cool day, sat under the redwoods and heard sixteen readers from the Sitting Room publication “When I was a child, I read...”. Here's a list of childhood books our contributors featured. We have a few copies left in the Sitting Room, if you want one.
The result is some wonderfully readable anthologies that combine well-known writers alongside people publishing for the first time on such evocative subjects as War and Peace (2003), Nature (2004), Humor (2005), and Books (2006 & 7), Spirit Matters (2008), Travel (2009), Surprise (2010) and Lost or Found (2011), and The Sitting Room: Past, Present and Future (2012), When I First Realized I Was a Feminist (2014), Marriage in Literature and Life (2016). We have limited copies of the earlier publications available in the Sitting Room.
The books are "sold" for $5 or more donation, and are given away too. Archive copies are always available for reading or purchase at The Sitting Room.
The Need to Read! or My BLF, My Best Literary Friend is the theme for 2017s anthology. Copies are available at The Sitting Room.
This is What a Feminist Looks Like, our 2014 publication, surprised everyone by its variety and liveliness, so much so that there was an article written by Julie Lee in the Press Democrat, along with appearances on local radio. The buzz was such that we printed a “Second edition," including some material omitted inadvertently from the first printing. Order a copy.
The theme for 2013 was "When I Was a Child, I Read..." The Birthday Party, on a surprisingly cool day, sat under the redwoods and heard sixteen readers from the Sitting Room publication “When I was a child, I read...”. Here's a list of childhood books our contributors featured. We have a few copies left in the Sitting Room, if you want one.
The result is some wonderfully readable anthologies that combine well-known writers alongside people publishing for the first time on such evocative subjects as War and Peace (2003), Nature (2004), Humor (2005), and Books (2006 & 7), Spirit Matters (2008), Travel (2009), Surprise (2010) and Lost or Found (2011), and The Sitting Room: Past, Present and Future (2012), When I First Realized I Was a Feminist (2014), Marriage in Literature and Life (2016). We have limited copies of the earlier publications available in the Sitting Room.
The books are "sold" for $5 or more donation, and are given away too. Archive copies are always available for reading or purchase at The Sitting Room.
