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Weekly pitch: windows

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Each week, we’ll publish a “pitch,” a writing prompt on a general principle, to serve as the kernel of a new work. Send it to us, and we’ll release a monthly anthology of brand-new work by contemporary writers, that is… you. Responses to the pitches may take any short form–poem, short-story, and mixture of both, art-work, mixed media work–whatever it takes to respond to the pitch. Sorry universe, we’ll just publish those from @ship.edu addresses–it’s a kind of regional snobbery, but it is what it is for now.

This week’s pitch is windows. Our childhood windows were the gateways to the world, our adolescent windows bars. How do we relate to other people, events, things, as if through a window? Windows have served as pivotal moments in many lives-the defenestration and that moment you spotted your love on the street from the living room. Imagine a moment seen through a window–at what…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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