commune

This is a space of intelligent, constructive critique and celebration of the creative
process. Please contact Rory at submissions@freerangewords.com with your
work in progress or your newly hatched piece. Written pieces can be of any
genre, but please limit to 4,000 words. We also accept visual art (please limit
your submission to 8 jpegs of good screen quality), sound pieces (please limit
length of piece to 4 minutes), and video performance (you may submit a clip in
.mov format no larger than 20MBs). The editorial staff reserves the right to
choose pieces up for weekly critique and to reject work due to poor quality or
inability to follow guidelines. If several submissions qualify for peer review, they
will be put in queue for the following weeks and the author will be notified.

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“I am young, only going through an emergence, an unfolding. Currently in the middle of world travel and work, learning about being alone, I have found myself writing with regularity and depth enough to explore the literary path further- and so I enter a circle of writers, a community, shakily yet earnestly putting pen to paper with the feeling that there is something I can give, even if it is only a bridge to the unwritable. Because I feel drawn to it.” -Jamie Dams


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(self reflection)


Stand at the mirror,
Get my feet wet,
Get my skirts wet
To stand at the mirror.

Pull faces in the mirror,
An ugly face,
Make my face long,
Make it wide.

And I am flecked with dark,
Chocolate on my face,
Pull my mouth out,
Skeletal neck.

Only a child,
Only a child,
Only a child,
Only a child.

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Meet your next judge:

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lanecooper

Lane Cooper is an artist and a rabid blogger.

You can read her two cents on any one of her many sites dedicated to rambling including http://travelingtocasablanca.blogspot.com or http://awhiteroom.blogspot.com .

As an artist her work reflects her origins in the Appalachain foothills of Northern Alabama, a place where people speak in tongues and handle snakes as a mark of their connection to the divine. It is a land where language is a material, the texture of which carries the myths of its people.

The world there is still shrouded in the potency of signs. Cooper’s videos, paintings and books all reflect this sense of the metaphysical operating as texts. These texts have as their subject that which happens in the space existing between bits of information and the construction of meaning by imagining into that space.

Jacques Derrida is her favorite writer.

www.lanecooperart.com

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Your words and honesty make this wheel turn.