Skipping Stones- A Multicultural Magazine and the Disappearing Language

Here is a link to the April- June 2014 Issue of Skipping Stones- A Multicultural Literary Magazine.
Erman was a proud contributor (his Apache words) on the story that I wrote about the Disappearing Language of the Apache People on the reservation. They are slowly losing their language as the newer generations do not teach it to their children.

Skipping Stones Issue April-June 2014


And this is food for thought. My niece was in a store and over heard to white woman discussing the Natives in Arizona. This is what she heard them saying. Although it was true, I feel it was said with the utmost disrespect.

Atiana A Jay

December 1 at 7:11am · Cibecue, AZ · 

Something that was being discussed right in front of me 😒.
"Of all the adversities the Natives went through, they are still here and that was their main goal right? just to exist and show the government they can't kill them off that easy? and wasn't the governments main purpose to kill the culture, keep the individual? that my friend is happening now. How many Native Americans still practice their tradition on a daily basis? How many speak the language that makes them who they are? Not many. The traditions that were once sacred are now being treated as events or festivities and money has to be present in order for people to show up or host. That is not what those practices were intended for. Their language is basically history and no one follows old traditions. Times are changing and so are the people. Many natives think their own culture is wrong and many don't want to learn their language or keep it alive. This new generation of natives will be the proof that the government won. Their language is dying along side the traditions not many practice. Soon they will be a bunch of English speaking, treating their traditions as history, fully transitioned Americans, and that my friend was calvary and the governments goal."

Whol Fhaye A huge topic and platform to cover, it is said also some tribes are consider putting in the agenda that future generations will only be considered enrollment if parents are married bcuz of many kids are born to parents that are unmarried. I wonder how that will play out??? Jus something I heard

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Dain Ahasteen I wish I could share this

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Jessica Dahl Ivins Were they purposely trying to get under your skin or were they that ignorant?

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Paula Ivins What's sad about it is that they introduced Alcohol & Drugs to help in killing the values of our traditions, keep them drunk & incompetent to keep them from thinking straight.. Prayer & Faith is what well help in restoring what we can and know to be True.. A good topic to bring up to a Candidate Atiana A Jay.. ❤️

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First Publish of story!

My very first story will be published in Skipping Stones!
It is a multi cultural magazine and will publish my story the "Disappearing Language".
They gave great feed back and I will let you know what edition it will be published! Very happy!!

Literal Latte Literary Magazine Submission

There are a million Literary Magazines out there. I found this one and will submit my first short story with hopes of publication. I would love to win the Pushcart Award, but that may be pushing it...pun on words.

It is on abortion in the 1930's. It was fascinating to write and learn what I thought I knew.
I was a teen that was pregnant, so that part of the story came from personal experience. I did not get an abortion though. The story started out in the modern world of abortion and clinics and quickly changed to the 1930's. The reason it was so easy for me to write about this was through conversations with my dear old friend, who was Spanish, Irish, and French. She was born in 1940. Her sister had went to Delaware for an abortion.

It takes place in 1937, after WWII, when the number of unwed women getting abortion were rising. This is compared to pre-WWII when it was mostly married women and a form of birth control. It captures the feelings of abortion, which was not much guilt. It was a matter of fact act. But, the death of abortion was a very real thing. In 1915 death of Anna Johnson, to a doctor perforating a girls uterus and pulling out her intestines were just a few of the stories told. It was an era that women did not discuss there sexual organs or abortion in public. You just didn't.

I will let you know if it makes it to the magazine!!

Fellow Artist, HELP ME

This is an email I sent to Isuma TV because I have used and abused their website. I really want a person who knows and understands the Inuit because they are a large part of my book. I want the Inuit to like it and I want it to be real to life. I also post this on my blog so that I can see who I have harassed about reading my book! Come on Isuma TV!! Arnait Video Productions 5764 Monkland Avenue Suite 223 Montréal, Québec H4A 1E9 Canada tel: +1.514.486.0707 fax: +1.514.486.9851 Arnait Video Productions P.O Box 223 Igloolik, Nunavut X0A 0L0 Canada tel: +1.867.934.8809 fax: +1.867.934.8700 Jessica Ivins	9:50 AM (0 minutes ago)
to info info@arnaitvideo.ca

Hi,

I live in the US and have watched all of Isuma TV movies about the Inuit, plus many of the interviews! I have used them for research for my YA book.  I have read Jorn Riel's book, "Shipwreck" and look forward to his others. 

 I recently finished a YA book that has a mélange many exciting characters.  I need an established writer to read my book. I have queried to a few agents, to no avail,  and will be adamantly querying when I am done editing.   I would really like it to be endorsed by someone that knows about the Inuit because I want to know it is true to life or something that the Inuit would appreciate. My heart also go out to the Inuit with the changing culture and the youth. My husband is a Native American from the Apache tribe and I understand the reality of suicide with the young generations. It is around 60K words. A realistic fiction turns fantasy. I have a BA in English and  a mind to see many different viewpoints. I believe in my book and hope that it can reach the hands of youth all over the world. 

Please let me know if you would be interested or if you know a way to contact Jorn Riel. 

My blog is jessicaivinswrites.blogspot.com

Thank you in advance for your time,

Here is my response I received! (same day)!

Hello Jessica;

Congratulations on writing your book.

I do not feel at ease to give you an email for Jorn Riel; I know he has an agent somewhere in Danmark.
He is quite reclusive and I do not feel it is appropriate for me to do.  I will forward him your email and if he writes back to you, good!

I myself could eventually read your book but only in the next few monts; I am finishing a feature film and a documentary series and I have very little time to not only read, but take notes and react. I would like to be respectful of your work but I can not do this right now with my occupations.

I am sorry I can not help you more; I am certain someone will read it though because you are convincing. Is it a book about the INuit? I am not sure I understand. Good luck.

And here is my response!

Dear Marie-Hélène,

Thank you! and thank you for responding! I understand about Jorn Riel. Thank you for forwarding my information.

It is a book that involve the Inuit. I would love it if you had time to read it. I would love to have you read it

when you are done with your current work. I understand that you are busy. Ii is the young adult

genre I enjoy and hope that kids of all cultures can connect with this book.

There is a Scandinavian father that has to hide his son from evil in the year 1000AD. He travels 

to Greenland and then on to the new land (Northern Canada) where the Inuit reside. He leaves his baby with

 an amulet in the snow.  

An Inuk woman finds the baby and some of the Inuit are superstitious of the baby with red hair. 

He grows up and is one of the family when he feels the need to return to his land, Scandinavia. 

He leaves the amulet with his wife and son and tells them he will return. When he doesn't return

the Inuit that were superstitious spread the rumor that ones with red hair cause 

death. The family hides the amulet and hope that no more red heads are born. The family continues 

to pass down the amulet but when a baby is born with that tinge of redness, it brings up the past and he is 

looked at as a bad omen. 

But the amulet is not the only one on our Earth. There are two others. One was in Africa and is

now with an African foster child in New Jersey. He puts the pieces together all the while being diagnosed

with schizophrenia. He meets a Inuk man and they embark on a journey with Fiona, another foster child. 

With the beauty of the East Coast and the sublime feeling of freedom, these unlikely friends meet a foster Inuk

boy and a Inuk grandma that help them solve they mystery.  

Grandma's Afternoon Dowry

I just submitted, via email, to SteppingStones. It is a children's picture book about Erman's mother's dowry. She was the last one in that generation to follow the tradition of the dowry. It is most important to remember it as a tradition that is past and to tell our children about it.

I will also submit it to Lee and Low, a multi-cultural, book publishing agent.

This book was done with the help of my wonderful husband. He helped out with the Apache words! and is very creative! Thanks Erman for your help.

And especially grateful to the time we had with his parents while we were in New Mexico.

Contest 2013

http://www.puertodelsol.org/submit.html

2013 Poetry and Fiction Contests
Puerto del Sol is excited to announce the 2013 Poetry and Fiction Contests. The poetry category will be judged by Katrina Roberts, author of Underdog and Friendly Fire, among others. The fiction category will be judged by Michael Martone, author of Four for a Quarter and editor of Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, and others.

The entry fee is $15, and includes a one-year subscription to Puerto del Sol. Fiction submissions are limited to one piece of no more than 10,000 words per entry. Poetry submissions are limited to three poems of no more than two pages per entry. Prizes for fiction and poetry will be $400 for first place, $100 for second place, and $50 for third. The first-place manuscripts will be published in Puerto del Sol. All submissions will be considered for publication. Multiple submissions are allowed, with a fee of $15 for each additional submission.

The deadline for submission is March 15. The winners will be announced June 1.

Second contest:

https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/wcc_scholarships_overview

WC&C Scholarship Competition

AWP offers two annual scholarships of $500 each to emerging writers who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The scholarships are applied to fees for winners who attend one of the member programs in AWP’s Directory of Conferences & Centers. Winners and four finalists also receive a one-year individual membership in AWP.

Submissions must be postmarked between December 1 and March 30 of each year. Download full guidelines at right.

4th Annual YA Novel Discovery Contest

Here is the information:



Want a chance to get your writing read by editors at Simon and Schuster, Harlequin Kimani, Random House, Candlewick, Scholastic, Sourcebooks, Kensington, Harlequin Teen, Bloomsbury, and Feiwel and Friends?

From agent Regina Brooks comes info on the 4th Annual YA Novel Discovery Contest

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:The rules of the contest are simple and entering is easy.  Submit entries of ONLY the first 250 words of your manuscript and the title via the contest website at http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/YAPitch.php.


One entry per person; anyone age 14+ can apply. Open to the U.S. & Canada (void where prohibited). Entries for the YA Novel Discovery Contest will be accepted from 12:01am (ET) November 1st, 2012 until 11:59pm November 30th, 2012 (ET).

YA literary agent Regina Brooks and her team, will read all of the entries and determine the top 20 submissions. These submissions will then be read by Navah Wolfe Simon and Schuster, Tracey Sherrod Harlequin Kimani, Krista Viola Random House, Nicole Raymond Candlewick, Rachel Griffiths Scholastic, Aubrey Poole Sourcebooks, Mercedes Fernandez Kensington, Nataysha Wilson Harlequin teen, Laura Whitaker Bloomsbury, Anna Roberts Feiwel and Friends. These judges will whittle the top 20 down to five, and each of the five winners will be provided commentary on their submissions.

Enter Here

I just finished my first manuscript and YES, I did enter it. It is a funny thing...writing. You spend a year writing this book and then you begin to doubt yourself. You actually wonder what am I doing? I force myself to print it out and tell myself it must be good, because, after all, I like it. 

On to my next book. I have, ever since I started writing wanted to write a easy chapter book for the 4th-5th grade. And now I have the story. I just have to put it on paper. Here's to writing and never stopping! Cheers! 

Post #69

One of my least favorite things to do is come up with a title for a post, or chapter etc. I like the old way ei. chapter 15, chapter 16 etc. So, should I list my post as Post 1, Post 2 etc. Nah....

I am submitting my YA short stories today. I tried my hand at a humorous story and a serious one. It was good practice and I hope something will come of  the work I put into it. Any, Any sort of...this is good. Recognition, reassurance.
As an early writer one is very unsure about their writing ability and it is a scary thing to put it out into the world to criticize. I have had every article rejected. Every children's book rejected. Lately... I have had one story in the top twenty which made me feel great!
So here goes another two stories to the real world....be nice...be truthful....but most of all....make me a better writer.

Submitting

I finished the Ryden contest, which was a little dark, but fun! It was easy and maybe because it was less than 500 words. (not because I like the evil plots).
As for the other YA contest, I have been working on it, but haven't found it so easy. The short stories I want to re write and re write and they are just not getting me excited. You know, that good feeling you get when you have created something unlike anyone else. Something you can be proud of. Okay, so I am working on it.

This will be my Second contest! and I am not sure what number of submission. Keep on submitting!

Busy Submitting

I have stayed busy writing. I have submitted a children's story to Scholastic Magazine! I am excited to test the waters with my writing. I have also submitted an article to Mothering Magazine. And my last one I am most proud of...I sumbitted a bill to my Senator on Civil Right. This was a big one for me and we will see what happens. It has to do with victims of sexual harassment and their rights as victims. It's to bad what is common sense to us is only followed by the corporate world if it is law. And the sad thing is that victims can not hold them responsible because they are technically following the law (even though they are continuing to vitimize the victim through the process.)
I am also trying to sell my house and have created business cards with a QR code. I love QR codes. You can creat your own QR code at http://myqr.co/


Here is my QR code and you can read my story about vain efforts to sell my house.