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Your Invitation to contribute for the 2023 Sitting Room publication
In answer to the questions we’ve been getting, YES, The Sitting Room Annual
Publication will be happening this year and here is the wide-open topic, appropriate for our new year’s resolutions: haven’t we all some scene, some topic, some learning moment, some dream, some ________ that we have wanted to write about but never somehow got around to? Too tender or too tough or too elusive…. Most of us have, I suspect, and this is your chance to just DO IT (in two pages or less, in any genre, poetry, prose, or drawing even – wouldn’t it be fun to have a graphic novel in the publication? - ) In short, any form any genre so long as writing it fulfills a long deferred idea or inkling or mini-project. Get it off your chest. JUST DO IT!
And then send it to Karen Petersen on or before April 1, 2023 via email, kpetaluma@gmail.com
We hope to have the unpredictable results printed and ready for distribution by Sitting Room Birthday time, early June. What will the title be? What the cover? We don’t know yet, but we are looking forward to your responses to this challenge.
Publication will be happening this year and here is the wide-open topic, appropriate for our new year’s resolutions: haven’t we all some scene, some topic, some learning moment, some dream, some ________ that we have wanted to write about but never somehow got around to? Too tender or too tough or too elusive…. Most of us have, I suspect, and this is your chance to just DO IT (in two pages or less, in any genre, poetry, prose, or drawing even – wouldn’t it be fun to have a graphic novel in the publication? - ) In short, any form any genre so long as writing it fulfills a long deferred idea or inkling or mini-project. Get it off your chest. JUST DO IT!
And then send it to Karen Petersen on or before April 1, 2023 via email, kpetaluma@gmail.com
We hope to have the unpredictable results printed and ready for distribution by Sitting Room Birthday time, early June. What will the title be? What the cover? We don’t know yet, but we are looking forward to your responses to this challenge.
Contributions should be no more than two pages, 12 point, Times New Roman.
Word, Pages or other plain text files are fine. Image files as .jpeg.
If you do not use a computer, please send your work to:
The Sitting Room, PO Box 838, Penngrove, CA 94951
Sampler of The Sitting Room Sunday Surprises
Somehow we managed to pull off The Sitting Room Birthday once again on June 4, with careful staging and a kindly cool day. Aside from cake, we handed out copies of our new publication based on a sampling of last year’s Sunday Surprises (12 of the 44) along with some of the responses they evoked.
This SAMPLER OF THE SITTING ROOM SUNDAY SURPRISES – or what J.J. did on her “covid-vacation”-- is available free to anyone emailing her directly at boxcar@sonic.net. [Or you can arrange a time to stop by and see the renovations and pick up a copy for yourself.]
Have you met our Angel?
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This benevolent presence is now to be found in the Sitting Room back yard, nestled among the redwoods as she was in her original home atop Sonoma Mountain. Sculptor Mary Fuller McChesney passed away recently at the age of 99 and her delightful and often outrageous work can be found in public and private collections throughout California. You can see more of Mary’s art at the Petaluma Public Library and at the Calabi Gallery in Santa Rosa.
Are you keeping cool?
Perhaps you need a Sitting Room fan. Just pick one up the next time you stop by. Remember to email J.J. first, boxcar@sonic.net
