Urban Homesteading - call for submissions

Posting this call on behalf of my friend Rebecca P., who is all kinds of awesome and raises chickens in her urban backyward, among other projects.
Looks like a fun project.

Hello so many people from so many circles! This is BCC'd to a LOT of people so caution on your reply button! I am sending out a call for submissions. We are starting a new online magazine and forum called The Urban Homesteader. It will hopefully be up and running in the next few months. We are looking for articles, art, pictures, stories, recipes, how-to's related to all things Urban Homesteading.

 

What is Urban Homesteading? It is the creating of a more sustainable life on the micro and macro level in urban and suburban areas. Growing food, raising chickens, bee keeping, but also engaging in the local politics of positive people centered policy or the struggle to achieve that. For example, are people in your community attempting to build an intentional community? Is there push back?  Who are the unrecognized leaders in your community that keep it all stuck together. Is there an Octogenarian that has been maintaining a garden for 50 years? How does she can? Where does he keep his seeds? Is there someone off grid in a McMansion? We want to hear about it! Write an article, take pictures. Share your art and recipes and tips and how -to's. Write a book review or product review. Love your CSA? Co-op? School? Elected official?Tell us about it.

 

Share this post with others you know, friends, neighbors, college students, high school students, home school students. We are interested in all regions. We cannot offer compensation at this time other than publishing.

 

If you have a blog or website you would like linked to us please share it. And please link to us. Our blog is: http://theurbanhomesteader.wordpress.com/

 

The website will return with the first issue.

 

Thank you and enjoy the growing season!

 

Rebecca and Emily

Golden Crown schedule

Doing the nearly last minute bits of frantic puttering, even though I have tomorrow night for packing.

GCLS
Here's my sched, for those interested:
Friday the 24th, 4:15 - 5:30 - "Some Like it Hot: Writing Erotica and Erotic Romance." This will be a workshop conducted by yours truly.

Saturday the 25th, 10:45-11:30. Various things, including the Author Auction, in which the likes of J.M. Redmann, Karin Kallmaker, Georgia Beers, Lori Lake and I, among others, will be 'auctioned off' for a dance at the Goldie Awards (it's a fundraiser. All in a good cause. Really). I have acquired a fan as a prop and will be wearing fishnetty things and the scary red sheath dress with the dragon scale pattern, by special request.

                               7:30-9:00 - The Goldie Awards! I'm presenting in the Erotica category and am a finalist in the Speculative Fiction category. Should be exciting.

Somewhere along the line, I'll also be meeting up with local friends as well as hanging out with some of the fine folks I met last year.
Looking forward to a good (nongenre-specific) con.