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And they're ordering more!Chop Suey Books in Richmond was the first to carry our new anthologies--The Nest and Airborne—and we just discovered today that the books sold out before Christmas! Chop Suey has ordered more copies and will be carrying them in the new year. Please check them out! The books are also available directly through the publisher, on BarnesandNoble.com and on Amazon.com. In 2014, the books will be hitting shelves in even more brick and mortar stores. Needless to say, we're thrilled. Thank you for all of the support thus far! Keep reading!
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{Official Welcome} Fay, you're a penning peach!Hopefully you've caught one of Fay Funk's essays on our site before. If not, you'll be seeing them pretty regularly soon. Funk, a native of Oregon and NYU grad, currently lives in Portland. Sure, she's not a DMVer, but her writing epitomizes the "nostalgic" in particular, with some imaginary and otherworldly qualities, as well. In other words, her stuff speaks to our mission statement and we love it. Please join us in welcoming Miss Fay Funk in her new role as staff writer for Quail Bell Magazine! The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Give it up for the Associated PressDear fledglings,
We made a pretty important decision over here in Quail Bell Landia: From now on, our pieces in The Real will follow Associated Press style. All that means is that we'll be formatting our writings to make sure they follow the same spelling, grammatical and mechanical rules that most magazines and newspapers in the U.S. follow. Rejoice, grammar geeks, rejoice! (Unless you prefer Chicago or MLA, in which case you may begin moping now.) Feathery hugs, Christine Stoddard/"Luna Lark" Founder/Editor QuailBellMagazine.com The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Happy Yule/Christmas/Kwanza/New Year!Illustration: Laura Bramble Dear fledglings,
If you follow our blog of The Real—which we hope you do!—you've probably already seen Laura Bramble's terrific paper cut-out style illustration of a quail hugging a Christmas tree (um, above). Well, we love it SO much that we just had to share it here on the About blog. We also wanted to take another chance to wish you a fabulous holiday season. Happy Yule! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanza! Happy New Year! Feathery hugs, The Quail Bell Crew P.S. Please don't forget to check out The Children of Jackson Ward/the Quail Bell Scholarship for Creative Promise! The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
We Haven't Gone on Holiday Just Yet!Dear fledglings,
We quails have had our tail feathers a bit ruffled by some technical difficulties with our website this week. We will be fully restored soon and back to regular homepage updates! In the meantime, please consider supporting the Quail Bell Scholarship for Creative Promise this holiday season. Thank you! Feathery hugs, The Quail Bell Crew The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Welcome, Eleanor!Congratulations to Eleanor Fisher, a talented writer/poet and VCU graduate originally from Harrisonburg, Virginia! She's our new associate editor! We so happy to have Eleanor on board. And since inquiring minds want to know, yes, both of our associate editor positions have now been filled. (The other new associate editor is Mo Karnage.)
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Welcome, Mo!The Quail Bell Crew is thrilled to welcome Mo Karnage—writer, activist, and carpenter—as our new associate editor. Look out for their* byline, mainly on The Real, and check out their personal blog at MoKarnage.com. This is Mo's preferred personal pronoun, not a typo.
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Thanks to The Poet Time!We are thrilled that The Poet Time has created yet ANOTHER video featuring one of the poems in our new collection/scholarship fund, The Children of Jackson Ward. This video has Pushcart nominee Jessica Reidy reading Christine Stoddard's poem, "A Case of Ringworm," with one of Kristen Rebelo's photographs. Check it out on The Children of Jackson Ward page.
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The Quail Bell Scholarship for Creative PromiseThank you for your patience as we've worked to get The Children of Jackson Ward, our new poetry and photography book about Richmond's black, working-class downtown neighborhoods, off the ground. Christine Stoddard wrote the poems following her year as an AmeriCorps volunteer at G.W. Carver Elementary School, and Kristen Rebelo later took photographs on the streets of Carver, Newtowne West, Jackson Ward, and Gilpin Court to complement the poetry. The Children of Jackson Ward now has a webpage right here on Quail Bell Magazine and is also available as an ebook. Your purchase will help fund the Quail Bell Scholarship for Creative Promise! Check out the new webpage, which also includes The Poet Time's video of Pushcart nominee Jessica Reidy performing one of the collection's poems, "Everyday Seeing."
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Family buried in Richmond?Quail Bell's original documentary, Richmond's Dead and Buried, is well into the production stage and the crew has already had the pleasure of interviewing several experts on the cemeteries of Richmond, Virginia. However, we're also interested in non-experts who can talk about their relationship with the cemeteries, graveyards, and burial grounds in the city. Do you have family buried in Richmond? Would you like us to interview you? Please contact us!
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About UsWelcome to our staff blog, where you can learn more about The Quail Bell Crew. HistoryChristine Stoddard conceived the idea for Quail Bell in late 2009 after writing a children's story by the same name, and launched the website as a college blog in 2010. In June 2013, Christine and former art director Kristen Rebelo officially launched Quail Bell Magazine as a global web magazine. Read our editorial mission statement to learn more.
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