MATT BRIGGS
A reader's column
Babette's Gift is a monthly reader's column which asks our online readers to write on different themes/subjects.
Requirements: write with passion, inspiration.
Limit: 250-750 words.
Deadlines: 15th day of the month. Send submissions via email (type Babette's Gift as subject) to: ravenchron@speakeasy.org or mail on 3-1/2 disk or copy to:
T H E RAVEN C H R O N I C L E S
119 Pine St., Suite 203
Seattle, WA 98101
Theme for November 1997:
Writers & the Web
As a writer, how are you using the World Wide Web? Critique how imaginatively writers are using the Web. Expand on any aspect of this theme.
Deadline: November 15th
Index of past Babette's Gift Themes:
The Pacific Northwest is a region of the used bookstore. On their creaking shelves books live on and on and are never remaindered. Each store has its own odd atmosphere, dust, and collection of books that will never be sold. Write about your favorite used bookstore.
June on line:
"Dorothy Parker in her poem Resume said: "You might as
well live." Boris Pasternak in Doctor Zhivago said "To
live life to the end is not a childish task." So, we ask you, "why
live?" A simple question.
Deadline: June 15th
Write about the poet and/or poem who/that turns you on, that lights your creative fires.
Deadline: April 15th
Vol 2, No 3 Spring 1993
Mentors: Fictional and Real
Vol 3, No 1 Summer 1993
Missed encounters: Someone to whom you wish you had spoken, but did not.
Why did you notice them? What would you have said or asked? What stopped
you?
Vol 3, No 2 Winter 1993-94
Jobs...Work. What are you doing out there?
Vol 3, No 3 Spring 1994
Rituals: What meaningful or mundane ceremonial acts get you through the
day, the week, the year? What special rituals have you improvised to replace
ancient public ceremonies? Give us your stories.
Vol 4, No 1 Summer/Fall 1994
Families: We hate them; we love them; we can't live with 'em or without
'em. Tell us your stories. Memorable characters? Skeletons in the family
closet? Be honest!
Vol 4, No 2 Spring 1995
Writers explore contemporary meanings of masks, icons and everyday rituals:
mirror mirror on the wall.
Vol 5, No 1 Summer/Fall 1995 (Male/Female double issue)
Woman...Mother...Daughter...Man...Father...Son. Use the theme to explore
gender, sexuality, role playing, the roles of our male/female selves.
Vol 5, No 2 Winter 1995-96
The seven deadly sins: anger, covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride,
sloth.
© The Raven Chronicles 1997