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And we're back! Although subs to VV are now permanently closed, the whole archive is home, live and ready for you to explore at the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts! Please follow @NCLA_tweets for updates.
Sharpen your pencils again, dear writers...
ncl.ac.uk/ncla/visual-verse/
28 Feb 2024
Wow. The entire 10 years of the unique anthology @visual_verse is now archived and freely available for all to use via NCLA! For research, teaching and to inspire your new writing, or search by artist, writer, volume and chapter: ncl.ac.uk/ncla/visual-verse/
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And we're back! Although subs to VV are now permanently closed, the whole archive is home, live and ready for you to explore at the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts! Please follow @NCLA_tweets for updates.
Sharpen your pencils again, dear writers...
ncl.ac.uk/ncla/visual-verse/
28 Feb 2024
Wow. The entire 10 years of the unique anthology @visual_verse is now archived and freely available for all to use via NCLA! For research, teaching and to inspire your new writing, or search by artist, writer, volume and chapter: ncl.ac.uk/ncla/visual-verse/
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Writers! Please TAG@NCLA_tweets in your responses to our archive! And let us know if you continue to use the site to inspire your work. You can search by writer/ artist/ Vol/ Chapter... Enjoy! and Thank You x VV Team.
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Writers! Please TAG @NCLA_tweets in your responses to our archive! And let us know if you continue to use the site to inspire your work. You can search by writer/ artist/ Vol/ Chapter... Enjoy! and Thank You x VV Team.
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Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words retweeted
28 Feb 2024
I am so thrilled that this work has been preserved and is available for all to read.
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Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words retweeted
2 Nov 2023
Good night to @visual_verse - thank you for a decade of brilliant prompts, wonderful curation, inspiring images and all your tenderness and care. Youβve been a beacon of light π
We are officially done. 100 pieces are now published in our final issue at visualverse.org. A Murmuration of Words on page 100 felt like a fitting way to go out. Thank you @hazelmason10 and thank you β beautiful writers of the world β for being on this journey with us.
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Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words retweeted
1 Nov 2023
This 10 year project celebrating ekphrasis, the process of writing building a world writing community is now closed. Glad to end w/a moving piece by frequent VV'er @hazelmason10. It's been a huge part of my life, now archiving it @NCLA_tweets for all. Sharpen your pencils...
We are officially done. 100 pieces are now published in our final issue at visualverse.org. A Murmuration of Words on page 100 felt like a fitting way to go out. Thank you @hazelmason10 and thank you β beautiful writers of the world β for being on this journey with us.
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We are officially done. 100 pieces are now published in our final issue at visualverse.org. A Murmuration of Words on page 100 felt like a fitting way to go out. Thank you @hazelmason10 and thank you β beautiful writers of the world β for being on this journey with us.
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We are now working on the archiving project with the brilliant team @NCLA_tweets and we will be in touch again to tell you all you need to know about accessing and reading Visual Verse into the future.
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Thank you, from the very bottom of our hearts.
Team VV.
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75 pieces published & 25 spots left in our final issue. We still have 80 pieces from which to choose. It is tough! We are taking some extra time and will publish more tomorrow. Stay tuned. And THANK YOU for all this brilliant writing - 'tis bitter sweet!
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Submissions close at midnight tonight (UK time) for our final issue of Visual Verse. Get scribbling if you haven't already submitted. And enjoy a bumper crop of pieces just published at visualverse.org. Congrats and thanks to all these writers.
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We have published our first batch of pieces for the final issue of visualverse.org. Congrats & thanks to these brilliant writers:
Tommie Ann Bower
@osahonoka
Giles Watson
Freya Dean
Pat Edwards
Becky Boling
Darrell Petska
@heidimacp
Gail Webb
@betarish
@omahaglenn
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There's still time to submit your piece. It must be between 50-500 words written in response to this image by Marc Schlossman. Submit by 15 Oct for a chance to be published. visualverse.org/submit
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Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words retweeted
1 Oct 2023
After 10 amazing years 1000s of subs, a world of writing , publishing across time zones, cities, lifetimesβ¦. @visual_verse is closing. But this is not goodbye! The site will be archived and available to all @NCLA_tweets soon. The image is the starting pointβ¦
The final issue of Visual Verse is here with an image from our long-time friend & patron @marc_schlossman alongside words by our phenomenal editorial team: co-founder @PretiTaneja, @izzy_maude14, @Ashish_stJude & @ZainabBobi.
Read our long goodbye ππΎ mailchi.mp/thecurvedhouse/ocβ¦
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Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words retweeted
1 Oct 2023
Thank you so much for your dedication over the years and for the opportunity you have provided us all with to share our words and thoughts . You have helped us to widen our creative horizons and to enjoy the work inspirational writers. Visual Verse will be greatly missed.
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The final issue of Visual Verse is here with an image from our long-time friend & patron @marc_schlossman alongside words by our phenomenal editorial team: co-founder @PretiTaneja, @izzy_maude14, @Ashish_stJude & @ZainabBobi.
Read our long goodbye ππΎ mailchi.mp/thecurvedhouse/ocβ¦
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What next? We're thrilled to announce that Visual Verse will be taken into the archive at Newcastle University's @NCLA_tweets which Preti is Director of. Your work will remain online at visualverse.org & copyright remains with you. More info here: mailchi.mp/thecurvedhouse/ocβ¦
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It's hard to put into words our gratitude and admiration for the 3000 writers who have been published by us over the past 10 years and who have made this publication what it is: original, innovative, feisty, zeitgeisty. It has been a joy to collaborate with you.
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