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CALL FOR SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WORKS FOR

Label Me Latina/o

Label Me Latina/o (www.labelmelatinao.com) is an online, refereed international e-journal that focuses on Latino Literary Production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The journal invites scholarly essays focusing on these writers for its biannual publication. Label Me Latina/o also publishes creative literary pieces whose authors self-define as Latina or Latino regardless of thematic content. Interviews of Latino authors will also be considered. The Co-Directors will publish creative works and interviews in English, Spanish or Spanglish whereas analytical essays should be written in English or Spanish.

Deadline for the Spring 2012 issue: December 9, 2011.

Label Me Latina/o is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography and is listed in the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention live at Cafe Irreal. Straight from my heart and twisted intellect: http://bit.ly/g1d8SB

Top 10 Memories From 2008

10 top Memories of 2008 in no particular order:


1. My son’s graduation.

2. Catching the first rainbow trout at our family reunion in Arkansas.

3. Accidentally smashing four pizzas we were toting back to hungry family reunion because spouse and I pulled into a deserted parking lot for spontaneous combustion in the back of the rental van. We blamed it on a deer jumping in front of the car and causing the pizza’s to fly.

4. Finishing final draft of novel.

5. Publication of a story, and public readings throughout the spring, summer and fall.

6. Caring for my dying mother.

7. Working with a personal trainer in my home. Worth every penny; he thought I was gorgeous.

8. Cybering with a woman on a vampire site (purely a writing exercise, you understand) who scared me more than turned me on.

9. Being disinherited.

10. My brother’s wedding to a guy who is very much like my mother.