Monthly Archives: December 2010

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Attention Autistic Writers/Poets! Call for Submissions (Journeys With Autism)

Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg, author of the Journeys With Autism blog, is welcoming submissions for an upcoming anthology of poetry and prose by people on the autism spectrum aged 35 and over. She says below:

I welcome all pieces of writing about your feelings about being autistic, your experiences, your sense of yourself, your view of the world, your work history, your relationship with your family, or any other area of interest to you. You can write about your life pre- or post-diagnosis, you can share your experiences as a child or as an adult, and you can take a personal and/or a political point of view. The possibilities are as varied as your feelings, perceptions, and life experiences.

I welcome submissions from those who are self-diagnosed as well as from those with an “official” diagnosis.

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011. Pieces must be emailed to rachel AT journeyswithautism DOT com. For further information and submission guidelines, please visit her call for submissions page.

 

-Nicole

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Feature on Awe In Autism’s Website

Greetings, RWP Readers!

Due to illness, I have been offline for a while — and while I was away, I was featured on Awe In Autism’s website!

Awe In Autism seeks to “provide inspiration and encouragement to those impacted by autism…through original works of art, music, literature, poetry, photography and video, as well as many other resources”. They feature artists of all kinds on the spectrum. I was prompted to submit my work after winning the ANCA award. My poem, “You Don’t See It”, is featured on the site:

http://www.aweinautism.org/index.php/gallery/poetry/169-poet-nicole-nicholson

-Nicole
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WWP Poem #34: Prelude

Every cut, every jaw of glass
lying open and unhinged on the pavement is your
testimony. The bottles give up the ghost instead of you, and
the wine lies leaking all over the shattered night pavement. There are
six of you, wine goblets of meandering braided blood vein
and scarlet muscle, crouched and taut: beneath each man’s skin,
a pack of lionesses waiting to spring.
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WWP Poem #31: Miriam

There is an exit just below my navel
where the stars began: one escaped
and drifted low to the earth, riding the navel
of a cornflower sky to point its way to birth. Cocooned
inside me, your crowned yourself for entrance, robed yourself
to rival the night with red, flesh tone like the blush of sienna
that wraps my bony frame, and yet-to-open brown eyes
with double visions that layer themselves on top of each other: one from
the descendants of Adam’s dirt, and the other
from Heaven.
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“You Don’t See It” Featured in Winning Writers Newsletter

Greetings! The folks over at Winning Writers published an announcement about the Naturally Autistic Award in the Adult International Literary Category and also reprinted one of the poems from the collection, “You Don’t See It,” in the Winter 2010 edition their newsletter. To read, go here.

And BTW, I highly encourage people to subscribe. There is a lot of information about contests and they publish calls for submissions within.

-Nicole
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WWP Poem #30: Paint by Numbers

i. zero

Nobody knows that this thing
isn’t a bandit: it doesn’t seize you suddenly
and leave you awash in open wire and stereo speakers
jammed into your ears. There is only the
curious brown baby, eyes like cameras,
with a wound-up roll of film for a brain.
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