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PoArtMo Anthology (Youth Edition): Announcing the Names of Our Selected Writers!

Hello everyone!

We are delighted to announce the names of the writers whose work will be part of The PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition.

Congratulations to the (very) talented 28 writers listed below:

Poetry: Sofia Ahmed, Ananya Bhardwaj, John Fabiano, Lauren Goulette, Pragya Gupta, Lauren Hacke, Kusumita Kanango, Eva Larsen, Natalia Lashley, Vera Lin, Raihana Mir-White, Nimisha Mishra, Grace Mossad, Uma Nambiar, Eva Quetzal, Raj Ratan Mala, Khyati Singh, Lily Syna, Shivani Tripurani, Stella Van Buskirk and Sara Weinstein.

Stories: Anurima Biswas, Angie Greene, Kristen Lambrecht, Joshua Ng’era, Neha Varadharajan, Annabeth Wheeler and April Yu.

What Is The PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition?

The PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition is collection of poems, short stories, essays, and six-word stories written by young creatives between the ages of 13 and 16 and living around the world.

The only other thing we really want to say is that the collection as a whole is incredible. You will be blown away by the quality and depth of each entry for sure!

What’s Next?

We are done with the formatting of the anthology. We still have to edit the manuscript. When this step is completed, we will submit it to our distributor. We are quite confident that we will be able to release The PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition around Christmas time.

In the meantime, keep an eye on our blog. Next week, we will have Cover Reveal Day. The following week, we will feature a few of our selected writers, as they tell us what inspired the entries they submitted to us! How exciting!

Before We Leave: Please Read the Following

  1. We have no plan to release a print version of The PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition. We may do it in the future, if at least 40 people or more request it.
  2. As mentioned in our guidelines, we do not offer free copies to selected writers. However, for the first two weeks following the release of the anthology, you will be able to purchase copies at a reduced price—50% off the regular price!
  3. The anthology will be available for purchase everywhere ebooks are sold, except on Amazon. For more information, click here and here.

We look forward to sharing further news about The PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition.

Enjoy the rest of your week and have a wonderful weekend!

Cendrine & David

‘The PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition’ Is Out Today!

Hello folks!

That’s it, The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition is finally out! And it looks beautiful!

What’s in The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition?

This new volume features more than 60 pieces (poetry, six word stories, short stories, flash fiction, and visual art) created by 40+ talented contributors at every stage of their artistic careers and hailing from around the world.

Poetry: Amanda Baker, KB Ballentine, Beth Brody, Lakshman Bulusu, Claire Champommier, John Collins, Tara Dasso, Lynn DeLong, Stacie Eirich, Nicole S. Entin, Casandra Hernández Ríos, D. R. James, Emory Jones, Jackie Kirman, Virginia Kovach, Brice Maiurro, Zia Marshall, Julia McNamara, Kathryn Sadakierski, Anna Sallee, Julie A. Sellers, Wesley Sims, Giuseppe Sloan, Mike Todd, and Shelby Wilson.

Six word stories: Cindelle Ancajas, Amanda Baker, Melissa Frentsos, Lisa Marie Lopez, and Chris Slade.

Short stories and flash fiction: TR Biggar, Sharon Dockweiler, Lorraine Horsley, Smita Das Jain, Rati Pednekar, Sabiha Rizvi, Anna Sallee, and J.W. Wood.

Visual art: Azelle Elric, Theodore Heublein, Ángeles M. Pomata, Annette Solakoglu, and Justin Smith.

From the editors: a flashku and a pareiku.

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Where Can I Find The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition?

The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition can be purchased everywhere books are sold (except for Amazon) and is available at the special price of $7.99 (instead of $9.99) until November 9, 2021.

An Important Message

To all selected contributors: We created a banner for you to proudly display anywhere you want online. Just save it to your computer / phone, then upload it to your blog, website, or social media accounts. But don’t forget to link to https://abpositiveart.com/poartmo-anthology-2, so people interested in supporting you know where to purchase their copies.

To the selected contributors who qualify for a PDF copy: You have until Monday, November 1, 2021 (11:59 pm CDT) to contact us to secure your PDF copy. We will reject requests sent to us after November 1, 2021 and you will have to purchase your own copy as a result.

Email: info@abpositiveart.com

Rule: To qualify for a PDF copy, you must have paid the full submission fee. This fee is $6 per poem / story / essay / image / two six-word stories sent to us.

Once again, we kindly ask that you stop inquiring about print copies of our anthology. Due to the high cost involved in printing books featuring visual content, we only release ebooks.

We cannot wait to read your reviews of The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition. This is a very special and beautiful release and we know that you will enjoy every page!

Have a wonderful week!

David & Cendrine.

The PoArtMo Anthology (Volume 2) Is Almost Here!

Hello folks!

We have more fantastic news to share with you. The second volume of our PoArtMo Anthology has been accepted by our distributor and should be released very soon!

However, the huge issues we encountered over the last several weeks led us to implement a couple of changes.

A New Cover

Initially, we wanted to keep the cover that Cendrine had made. But after what happened, we decided that it was safer to design a new one. As a matter of fact, we actually prefer this one!

New cover
Old cover

A Slightly Different Title

Another thing we did is edit the title, to remain in tune with the first volume we released in 2020. So, the “new” title is The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition.

Congratulations to Our Selected Contributors!

Congratulations to the artists whose beautiful works will be featured in this upcoming new release. Their names can be found below:

Poetry: Amanda Baker, KB Ballentine, Beth Brody, Lakshman Bulusu, Claire Champommier, John Collins, Tara Dasso, Lynn DeLong, Stacie Eirich, Nicole S. Entin, Casandra Hernández Ríos, D. R. James, Emory Jones, Jackie Kirman, Virginia Kovach, Brice Maiurro, Zia Marshall, Julia McNamara, Kathryn Sadakierski, Anna Sallee, Julie A. Sellers, Wesley Sims, Giuseppe Sloan, Mike Todd, and Shelby Wilson.

Six word stories: Cindelle Ancajas, Amanda Baker, Melissa Frentsos, Lisa Marie Lopez, and Chris Slade.

Short stories and flash fiction: TR Biggar, Sharon Dockweiler, Lorraine Horsley, Smita Das Jain, Rati Pednekar, Sabiha Rizvi, Anna Sallee, and J.W. Wood.

Visual art: Azelle Elric, Theodore Heublein, Ángeles M. Pomata, Annette Solakoglu, and Justin Smith.

From the editors: a flashku and a pareiku.

What’s Next?

For the next few weeks, we will be hosting a series of interviews with some of the contributors in this volume on the blog. Everything will start this Thursday.

Next week, we will also announce the official date for the release of The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2021 Edition. You will be able to purchase copies of the ebook for a special price for 15 days.

NB: Due to the cost involved in printing multimedia projects featuring visual content, we do not release print copies of our anthologies. So, please stop contacting us to inquire about that.

We look forward to (finally) releasing the anthology! Thank you all for your patience!

David & Cendrine.

PoArtMo Anthology (Volume 2): Update to Selected Artists List!

Hello everyone!

We have some fantastic news to share with you. We know that it will be both exciting and a massive relief to you.

Further to our previous communication, our PoArtMo Anthology (Volume 2) has now been filled with additional content and we have enough material to move forward with the Anthology!

Congratulations to the artists whose beautiful works will be featured in this upcoming new release. Their names are found in our updated artists list below:

Poetry: Amanda Baker, KB Ballentine, Beth Brody, Lakshman Bulusu, Claire Champommier, John Collins, Tara Dasso, Lynn DeLong, Stacie Eirich, Nicole S. Entin, Casandra Hernández Ríos, D. R. James, Emory Jones, Jackie Kirman, Virginia Kovach, Brice Maiurro, Zia Marshall, Julia McNamara, Kathryn Sadakierski, Anna Sallee, Julie A. Sellers, Wesley Sims, Giuseppe Sloan, Mike Todd, and Shelby Wilson.

Six word stories: Cindelle Ancajas, Amanda Baker, Melissa Frentsos, Lisa Marie Lopez, and Chris Slade.

Short stories and flash fiction: TR Biggar, Sharon Dockweiler, Lorraine Horsley, Smita Das Jain, Rati Pednekar, Sabiha Rizvi, Anna Sallee, and J.W. Wood.

Visual art: Azelle Elric, Theodore Heublein, Ángeles M. Pomata, Annette Solakoglu, and Justin Smith.

From the editors: a flashku and a pareiku.

What’s Next?

Now that the future outlook of the Anthology is finally looking a lot more secure, we are looking for some passionate individuals who are keen to promote it and themselves when it comes out.

Are you one of the selected artists on the list above? If so, we would like to offer you the opportunity to be featured on our blog or PoArtMo Podcast. Rules:

  • If you have paid the full fee ($6 per piece), you are entitled to a full interview on our blog or our PoArtMo Podcast. You will have to let us know what you prefer.
  • If you have paid a partial fee / donation (starting at $3 per piece), you are entitled to a mini-interview on our blog (3-4 questions).

Contact Us Via Email to Either Confirm or Reconfirm Your Interest

Because of our very busy schedules, we are unable to contact each selected contributor separately. So, whether you have previously confirmed your interest in the interview or not, we are asking you to reach out to us via email. This extra step will ensure that we can save time and publish the Anthology within a reasonable timeframe.

Email address: info@abpositiveart.com

Deadline to confirm your interest in being interviewed: October 10, 2021 (11:59 p.m. CDT)

(Once again, only the selected contributors who have paid a fee will qualify for an interview on our blog or a guest spot on our PoArtMo podcast)

We look forward to sharing further news with you soon regarding the Anthology, once the editing process is completed!

Happy creating folks and as always, thanks for reading.

David & Cendrine.

Update to Last Week’s Announcement

Hello everyone!

Last week was a roller coaster of emotions for us. After our announcement about Volume 2 of the PoArtMo Anthology, several people decided to withdraw their work from the publication. Others felt angry at us and let us know about it.

But most importantly, many of you reached out to show your support. We thank you for your words of encouragement and truly appreciate them.

Our Current Situation

Now, because of those last-minute withdrawals, we find ourselves with an incomplete Volume 2. But there is great news! We have quite a few entries for Volume 3. So this is what will happen: We will merge all the entries we have for Volumes 2 and 3 into one volume!

Of course, this means having to redo everything:

  • waiting for the remaining selected contributors to respond and confirm their interest in being in the PoArtMo Anthology,
  • triple-checking that the content is not already available online,
  • proofreading,
  • editing,
  • formatting,
  • re-uploading to Draft2Digital, and
  • waiting for confirmation that the ebook is good to go.

We will need several months for all those steps to be completed. Of course, we would love for everything to be done faster. But Auroras & Blossoms is volunteer work for us and this is an extra (and unplanned) workload. We have day jobs and can only do so much on our own. So, thank you for your patience!

We will update you on the anthology as soon as we are done with the formatting. In the meantime, please support us with shares to social networks and comments. 🙂

We Are Keeping the Cover!

We love the cover we revealed to you the other day. You do too! So we are not changing it. 😉

Our New Rules

Let us be very clear. Last week’s events have dire implications for us. Our account has been flagged by Amazon and Draft2Digital and we have been issued a warning. One more issue and it will be closed.

What does it mean? All our publications and books would disappear, including the books that we have released individually and as part of the PoArtMo Collective. As a result, not only would we have to start everything from scratch elsewhere, but we would also no longer be able to offer payments to our contributors. Needless to say that Auroras & Blossoms would have to close shop if this were to happen.

We would like to reiterate that we will no longer accept content that has been published elsewhere. The content you send us must be original. Because our multiple explanations of Amazon’s very restrictive rule keep falling on deaf ears, leading to our current situation, we have also decided to stop distributing our publications to Amazon.

Finally, we now require membership into our PoArtMo Collective to be able to submit to us. This is a very important step for three reasons:

  1. We vet members before allowing them to join us;
  2. We will not promote people whose behaviors go counter to what they claim they are and/or who defame or accuse us falsely; and
  3. We want our anthologies to be truly reflective of the PoArtMo concept: quality, positivity, inspiration, upliftment. Membership is free and comes with several perks. For more info, click here.

Please note that submissions to our PoArtMo Anthology are now closed for adults. We are still looking for more entries for the Youth Edition, which should blow your mind!

Thank you for reading us. Have a great week!

Cendrine & David

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