"I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’" Isaiah 46:10 (NIV) |
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Artistic Showcase: "Earth - Our Home" is Live on the Website! Our 2023 showcase features a collaboration between Marjorie Maddox and Karen Elias titled "Earth - Our Home" an ode to climate change and the wildfires that currently plague North America. You are welcome to visit the exhibit on our website today | | |
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Valiant Scribe Scholarship:
On January 7th, 2023, Valiant Scribe launched an annual scholarship in honor of Naomi Kambai Ayis. Mrs. Ayis was a lifelong Christian and educator in Nigeria until her passing in 2020. Applications closed in April. We shortlisted and interviewed candidates in May, and are proud to announce the following scholarship recipients: -Jesse Nwaokolobia (full ride, & fully disbursed), -Adewole Damilola Florish (full ride), -Royalty Miracle Isaac (full ride). Thanks to Ms. Das for donating 300 American dollars in support of this initiative. | | |
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Our 2023 Poetry Competition is Now Closed: Thanks to all those that shared, or submitted to our biennial poetry competition titled "Let there be Light." There was no entry fee and the winner will be awarded 500 Canadian dollars! The submission period was from June 10 - July 15 and the winner will be announced in September. The judges for this year are Norma Hopcraft, Jaime Grookett, and Debra Ayis. Click on the button below for more details. | | |
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Latest Digital Publications |
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Landlord Attack, Short Story by Gary BeckOfficer Herminio Corrado was just carrying a container of coffee to his partner in the patrol car, when he saw the flames burst out of the window from a house down the block. He knocked on the hood to get his partner's attention, pointed, then set off at a run. |
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Golden Triangle, 2022, Non-fiction by Donna ObeidI looked for everything the way it was twenty years ago. Buffalo boys balancing on the horizon. Bungalows on stilts with woven reed rooftops. Dancing long-neck hill tribes with brass rings around their necks and bells on their hems. Morning mist that turned the air to gold. Red dusty roads. |
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August 27th at 3:43 p.m. Flash Fiction by Thomas ElsonAt this stage in his life he worried about everything. Five days before his seventy-eighth birthday, he scanned his body. Eyes cloudy. Nose runny. Teeth in need of rehab. Ears well past prime. Base of skull pounding. Neck gnaws. Left shoulder - his shoulder replacement - throbbing. Left arm sore. |
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To an Empty Doghouse in Tall Weeds, a Poem by Sherry PoffWith open face you welcome the stranger looking for home. Built for a hound, you could be shelter for a multitude of field mice, a nesting box for a free-ranging hen finding familiarity in your faded red sides; your door -a wide O- a portal for groundhogs retreating from flood water, a surreptitious skunk, a homeless cat. |
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Cursive, a Prose Poem by Laurie KleinWhere does love go when it dies? A stranger's story can move like a riptide between the listener's ears. Marauders killed a man's dog / his wife / his sons. Child, he seems to say, his voice floating somewhere inside her head as if he were her own dear father, when we are drowning, how slowly the body learns sadness can swim. |
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Digital Publications: The submission period of our open call for submissions for 2023 is open from January 15 - December 15. We aim to respond to submissions we have chosen to publish within 1 week to 3 months of receipt. Expect to read selected publications on our homepage or the collections tab bi-weekly. We publish on Fridays at 10:00 AM EST. Please spread the word. | | |
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Bookstore: Support previous Valiant Scribe contributors by purchasing a copy of their books listed in our bookstore. If you'd also like your book to be listed in our bookstore, please send it to us for consideration. A good practice is sending us an email introducing your book. | | |
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Kindly consider purchasing our anthologies or leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads if you've purchased one already :) |
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Valiant Scribe AnthologiesVisit Amazon's Valiant Scribe Anthologies Page and shop for all Valiant Scribe Anthologies books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Valiant Scribe Anthologies |
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