Online Writing, Meow Meow, Online Art

I'm proud to announce that I am the poetry editor for a new online literary journal being launched in October that will celebrate the autistic spectrum. Here are the details.

Hyperlexia: A Literary Journal Celebrating the Autistic Spectrum is looking for your fiction, poetry, and personal essays. Our inaugural issue, which will be found at www.hyperlexiajournal.com, is planned for October. Send to submissions@hyperlexiajournal.com. Deadline for submissions is August 31st.

Submission guidelines:
* Hyperlexia is interested in honest, thoughtful, well-written poetry and prose about being autistic and loving someone with autism. We want genuine and truthful writing about autism. Our journal is a celebration of real life with autism, both the good and the bad. You can be serious, sad, or funny. We believe in respecting the diversity of the human mind and discriminatory writing or hatred of any kind will not be published.
* Submissions should be 1500 words or less.
* Send submission inside the body of the email, as well as attached as a Word doc.

My co-editors and founders of the journal are Kerry Cohen Hoffmann and Phoebe Gleeson. Please pass the word to anyone you know who might be interested in submitting work, and keep your eye out for the first issue in October!

And speaking of art online, check out my step-father-in-law's (that'd be Papa Mr. Vic Victor) artwork on his page on the Ovation TV website. You can see his artwork on the photos section of his page. Last Christmas, he made us this amazing shadowbox piece, titled "Orange Boots, The Star Hanger." I like the shadow effect created by the sunlight as I photographed it on the back porch this morning.

And I'll leave you with this video of little Miss Idgie playing with the kittens last night.

In the words of Henrietta Pussycat from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood of Make-Believe (as a shout out to Bryce and Ellen!), "Meow meow, cute!, meow meow!".