Genres for All!

I received another great list of links to literary journals, and this one specifies publications that focus on particular genres:

» 50 Literary Journals and Magazines Open to Genre Work (authorspublish.com)

So many interesting possibilities! Take some time to check out anything that grabs your eye.

For writing, here's what we can do:

1) Continue to develop one of your previous pieces of writing from this quarter (or last), with the ultimate goal of having something you feel comfortable sharing with the class during the last week or so of the semester.

2) One of the prompts suggested by a student for group writing was "crime fiction." Let's put a little twist on that: crime fiction + another genre! (The first entry on that publications list is for "crime poetry," in fact. Why not dystopian fantasy crime poetry? Sky's the limit!) We can do this as a group writing activity, so think of a way to start a crime fiction story that also involves another genre, write an opening paragraph, and check back to add to any stories in progress.

3) If you do in fact find a publication from the linked list that really intrigues you, by all means feel free to start writing something for that. 

Write now!






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  1. Florence LinApril 27, 2022 at 8:14 AM

    This writing I did for an old prompt might fit under crime poetry? I'm not sure:

    Why are you fighting?
    When did you get here?
    Why are you yelling so much?
    How much did you hear?
    Are you mad at me?
    Can you go to your room?
    Is it my fault?
    Can you please go to your room?

    What was that sound?
    Why are you awake?
    Where is mom?
    Shouldn’t you be in bed?
    What’s on the carpet?
    Why don’t you let me take care of it?
    Where is she?
    Do you know where your mom kept the bleach?

    Are we there yet?
    Will you be quiet?
    Are we there yet?
    Can you stop talking?
    Are we there yet?
    Can you stay in the car?
    What was in the trunk?
    Why do you ask so many questions?
    Can we go home now?
    Where else would we go?
    Are we there yet?
    Do you want to end up like your mom?

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    1. Letitia MoffittApril 27, 2022 at 8:17 AM

      WOW -- the line about the bleach...!! I love the format of a series of questions; it works so well for "crime poetry." Fantastic!

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  2. Letitia MoffittApril 27, 2022 at 8:20 AM

    Nobody seemed to care who murdered the dragon except Tolly. Nobody even called it murder except Tolly. The dragon was slayed, they all said, because that's what we do to dragons when they act up -- and they're always acting up. Murder would imply an innocent victim, and nobody believed the dark green dragon with the ruby eyes had been innocent in the least. Tolly didn't care -- who in this miserable, cesspool of a city was innocent? Tolly herself wasn't; you don't survive in a place like Nardensk if you are. She still knew it was murder, and she was determined to find out the truth.

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  3. Letitia MoffittApril 27, 2022 at 8:50 AM

    "Help, help! My brother has been stabbed this night!
    His wife I blame; enraged with him was she,
    Believing him unfaithful (and was right).
    The chef's knife did she grab. Now there lies he

    Upon the kitchen floor in pools of blood
    And see her arms are bloodied too -- no doubt
    Her frenzied slashing caused this great red flood
    And thus my brother's living has run out."

    "Thou liest! See, his wounds are on his back
    And when I held him in my arms, so stained
    His blood upon my arms, and YOU, sir, lack
    morality, for by his death you've gained.

    You are his killer -- this I'll prove tonight!
    (But in a sonnet someone else must write.)"


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