Omar Bishir @CopyeditOmar

Copy editor, writer, and lover of all things literary. https://t.co/jvJlcJa3Iu Barcelona, Spain Joined August 2023

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Omar Bishir @CopyeditOmar

2 months ago

The View from the Bench open.substack.com/pub/literature…

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Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic

a year ago

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” —Carl Jung

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Philosophy Quotes @philosophors

2 years ago

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.” — Erich Fromm

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The juror for our Juried Show is Mary Anne Reading! She is a Senior Curator at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Please visit our link to learn more: buff.ly/3F97daV #juriedshow

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The Upper New @theuppernew

2 years ago

The entry fee for youth to enter is $10. The entry fee for adults to enter the contest is $25. Writers may enter both categories as long as they pay a separate entry fee in each category. Want more info about our essay contest? check out our link: buff.ly/47i2GPx #EC

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The Upper New @theuppernew

2 years ago

SUBMIT THIS WEEKEND: GLOBAL ESSAY CONTEST. Submit today: buff.ly/3ZvBkBs $1500 in prizes! THE DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 30. #essay #nonfiction #litmag #contest

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘fervid.’ ow.ly/viYC50PPL5A

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Philosophy Quotes @philosophors

2 years ago

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” — Anaïs Nin

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘lionize.’ merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-da…

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Philosophy Quotes @philosophors

2 years ago

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.” — James Baldwin

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

We want it that way.

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘orotund.’ ow.ly/R4tL50PJkrr

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The Paris Review @parisreview

2 years ago

“I found a less formal vocabulary and a cadence better suited to what I had to say.” —Ursula K. Le Guin buff.ly/2CSrAd4

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The Paris Review @parisreview

2 years ago

“My imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.” —Kazuo Ishiguro buff.ly/3KUCTEy

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘bellwether.’ ow.ly/jyaQ50PJ2x0

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘redound.’ ow.ly/91w050PIx84

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Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic

2 years ago

“If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.” -- Harry Crews

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The Paris Review @parisreview

2 years ago

“Psychoanalysis has made me a finer writer, a fuller person and a funnier one to be sure.” Essays by Ntozake Shange on her experience with psychoanalysis, to be published in Sing A Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange, out next week. buff.ly/3P5Eicn

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 years ago

The difference between ‘bear’ and ‘bare’ can be a difficult cross to bear. ‘Bear’ usually implies the presence of something. ‘Bare’ suggests the removal or absence of something.