Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Permanent Vacation

Fairly soon, this blog will officially go "inactive." It's been mostly inactive for the better part of this year (2020) and the domain name will likely disappear as well.

However, as long as I have this Google Account, the blog will live on as hagengard.blogspot.com and you can always find it that way, I suppose.

Ada put the finishing touches on her memoir/essay collection entitled Deukollectrum. Hopefully when that title is released, a new website will be up and running. Ada herself will no longer be working on this blog. She's off to a year sabbatical in the Canary Islands somewhere. Since I know she isn't going alone, I don't expect to hear much out of her.

Thank you for following us thus far. Onto to new chapters.


In the Meantime... You can always order some copies of the Trinity Anthology Project that I worked on through 2019. 
Originally conceived as an exploration of gender, Blue Forge Press gathered three male authors, three female authors, and three authors who identify as nonbinary, and gave them a monthly writing prompt. But as the stories arrived over the course of a year, truths emerged and a new, more authentic trinity was discovered.
Most of the stories I contributed are Ada stories, meaning the Ada you know: Strong, erudite, first person, but vulnerable as most humans are. Every month offered something new. (Especially February wherein she told someone else's story.)

For January, we travel to Hokkaido with Ada where she spent a winter as an ESL teacher. February follows the story of a young woman named Astra who learns the awful truths of her monastic education. March is an essay that riffs on Wallace Steven's "Sunday Morning" and in April you can follow Ada to Leipzig where a cantata of different narratives and genres considers the role of art in our lives.

The rest of the stories are incredibly varied as you can imagine nine different writers can be. So if you want to travel the world, stop by the Trinity Anthology series.






-David Mecklenburg.


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