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22/07/2024

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20/07/2024

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18/07/2024

Thank you to everyone who showed up to our last minute event! And our first in-person event was magic! Such a wonderful night with wonderful, beautiful and talented people. After four years in business, it was about time we transferred our digital magic to real life! From and her much too sexy poetry, to .shearer and poetry on grief, to fantastic paintings and artist talk, to Olivia Jin’s cool abstract semi surreal video art, to .zahraie and .hinton.188 hybrid poetics masterclass. What a night! And the boozy shenanigans that followed. Thank you thank you. The pleasure was all mine. And a BIG thank you to 🫀 With love and gratitude, Amarantha

30/06/2024

Join us this Tuesday, 07/02, for our very first in-person pop-up event at the Dada Literary Cafe

We’ll have readings, maybe a little art, and happy hour with tarot readings! If you’re an OyeDrum contributor wanting to read or present anything, contact [email protected]. Join us for a relaxed, informal little gathering. Good vibes only!

Hope to see you there!

13/05/2024

Check out first movie review (link in bio)! “Babes” premiers nationwide (USA) May 17th. Second slide is the cast, writers and director doing a Q & A at this year’s SXSW festival where they first screened “Babes.”

13/05/2024

Movie review!

Our first movie review! "Babes" explores motherhood and friendship in a post-feminist world. “Babes” the film premiers nationwide (USA) on May 17th.

08/04/2024

Happy total eclipse! 🌞🌕😎

Here’s one of our April prompts from 🌹 To read them all now (early access), join our Patreon for $3 - less than anything else in this economy. Or join our Patreon for free and you can read the rest of the prompts later this the month!

1) Everyone is talking about the total solar eclipse. This is Eclipse season, with a focus on relationships of all kinds. It’s hard not to write about relationships (romantic, familial, work), but what about a relationship with nature? Whether or not you are in the right place to see the eclipse, the energy from these astronomical movements boosts power. Where do you feel them in your body? Take a couple of minutes to sit with the energy. Breathe it in and out, and think of how the muscles and organs move that energy around. Take a notebook and pen and write notes on the feelings and sensations. Hold the energy with an inhale and then send the energy out with an exhale. Consider it a blessing, and imagine it rolling through your body and out into the world around you. What is the message you would send out?

25/03/2024

Happy birthday to the one and only 🌹

More gems from 🫧👇

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”

12/03/2024

Can you believe?

08/03/2024

Happy International Women’s Day! Here’s our beloved banner by - which, believe it or not, has been censored on FB and on this platform for “nudity” and exposed ni***es. Don’t worry! We already put a hex on the censors 😂 But in all seriousness! What is this day all about? And what do we mean when we say that we’re intersectional feminists? Well, we still live in a world where female ge***al mutilation is practiced in many parts of the world. We still have women and girls fighting to be allowed to have an education. We still live in a world where we women do not have control over our own anatomy. And it’s just fu***ng hard to be a woman, and even harder to be a woman of color. But we also live in a world full of brilliant, intelligent, powerful women who are disrupting and making waves. And we are stronger united than divided. Stay strong 💪 fellow and women supporters 🔮 Keep shining 💫and f**k the haters.

05/03/2024

NYC! Join our friends at featuring writer, educator and OyeDrum poetry editor allia abdullah-matta for a night of poetry and magic 💫✨If you attend, send us pics to post 📸

22/02/2024

Latest book review by .shearer 💫 Read all of it on our site or link in bio. 🔮Sign up for our to read reviews before everyone else! Help and enjoy 🥀

https://oyedrum.com/taking-flight-with-andrena-zawinski-a-review-of-plumes-and-other-flights-of-fancy-by-corinne-shearer/

01/02/2024

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25/01/2024

Click on link🐟🌿 to enjoy“Verde / Azul” by Violeta Garza from our open-themed hybrid and writing works. Poems selected by Jo Reyes-Boitel ✨

Verde / Azul by Violeta Garza Violeta Garza (she/they/ella) is a non-binary Latinx poet, weaver, and artist from the Historic West Side of San Antonio, Texas. Their poems have been selected for The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, Voices de la Luna, The Multnomah County Library Writers Pro...

17/01/2024

Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Anyway… 🎆 Happy New Year! May this be a year of love, self care, forgiveness, creativity, abundance, and peace. The world needs more peace. Marina fans in the house?

17/01/2024

BOMB's quarterly roundup of fellowships, residencies, and prizes has been updated for the Winter 2024 season.

Browse the list to find funding for your next project: https://bombmagazine.org/discover/fellowships-residencies/

03/01/2024

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15/12/2023

08/12/2023

It’s that time of year again! Congratulations to our nominees!

Congratulations to all of the nominees!

02/12/2023

📢 Attention nonfiction writers! 📢⁠
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The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize will open for submissions on February 1, 2024. A $20,000 advance and publication by Graywolf Press will be awarded to the most promising and innovative literary nonfiction project by a writer not yet established in the genre. The winning author will also receive a $2,000 stipend intended to support the completion of their project. ⁠
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The prize will be awarded to a manuscript in progress. The Graywolf editors are particularly interested in new approaches to the personal essay, cultural and literary criticism, creative scholarship, and books exploring complex ideas from unexpected angles.⁠
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Previous winners include Jung Hae Chae's POJANGMACHA PEOPLE (forthcoming), Lars Horn's VOICE OF THE FISH, Esmé Weijun Wang's THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS, and Leslie Jamison's THE EMPATHY EXAMS.⁠
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Learn more here:

https://www.graywolfpress.org/about-us/submissions

28/11/2023

19/11/2023

Have you checked out Hybrid & Writing Works 2023? Curated/selections by jo reyes-boitel. OyeDrum is proud to present this collection, which is an exploration of language, form, and concepts. Link in bio 💫

1. Hunting for More by Anyély Goméz-Dickerson
2. Lazarus Women by Trish Hopkinson
3. WATERHEATDREAMPLACE by Amber Ortega
4. Verde / Azul by Violeta Garza
5. The Re/Sum of All Logos Under the I?’s Skin by Sherese Francis
6. Spell for a Full Moon in Mercury Retrograde, or: Prayer for La Llorona Who is Me by Amanda Ireta
7. Blue skies ahead

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https://oyedrum.com/hybrid-writing-2023-issue/

05/10/2023

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18/09/2023

No-fee, paying markets for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Plus: jobs.

12/09/2023

It does — mental health, physical health, and brain health.

31/08/2023

https://oyedrum.com/how-to-start-a-coven-an-interview-with-author-deirdre-danklin-by-corinne-shearer/

How to Start a Coven: An Interview with Author Deirdre Danklin By Corinne Shearer

13/08/2023

Still missing the Queen.

08/08/2023

Pioneering street artist Maria 'Toofly' Castillo shares her journey and success in graffiti culture

18/07/2023

Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created a masterpiece of conceptual art. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist?

03/07/2023

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