Dichroic is sponsoring a poetry contest. First prize is a year's membership in the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

qarrtsiluni invites would-be contributors to send art and literary pieces about "words of power: curses, spells, charms, prayers, incantations, mantras, sacred scriptures, explicit performative utterances, oaths, or legal instruments. " I do believe many of you have things to say or show that would fit this theme, oh yes I do.

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Yesterday could have gone better in too many ways to count, but I baked two chocolate cakes, drew a bunch of lines, and put some thought-time into new projects in-between chomping on doses of ground cloves and other palliatives. And this morning I am hitting the easel as soon as I swallow the rest of my iced coffee.