About a month ago I recieved the following e-mail:
As a longtime migraine "overcomer," managing editor, and writer, I am compiling and editing all types of migraine art to publish in a coffee table-style artistic and creative book about migraine.
I have wanted to publish a book like this for many years to provide another way for people with migraines (and those who live with them!) to share their expressions of migraine with others and to help promote awareness to people without migraines that organizations and sites such as yours have long been doing. I am particularly interested in helping to illustrate the positive and uplifting moments and events in the lives of people with migraines, because I feel that while migraine is horrendous, it doesn't define who we are all the time.
Here's my Web site page about the project: http://www.wordmetro.com/projects.html, and I'm attaching submission guidelines for the book for your information. I am offering a nominal fee to contributors whose work is accepted for the book.
If you feel that you could post this project on your site or blog for readers or work with me in any other way to reach as many people with migraines as possible, please let me know.
I would be honored and grateful for any feedback or suggestions you may have regarding the book, or to hear from you if you want to know more about me. You can reach me at any time for further information or with questions. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Betsy Blondin, Editor
Word Metro
P.O. Box 984
Carlsbad, CA 92018
migraine@wordmetro.com
editor@wordmetro.com
I have wanted to publish a book like this for many years to provide another way for people with migraines (and those who live with them!) to share their expressions of migraine with others and to help promote awareness to people without migraines that organizations and sites such as yours have long been doing. I am particularly interested in helping to illustrate the positive and uplifting moments and events in the lives of people with migraines, because I feel that while migraine is horrendous, it doesn't define who we are all the time.
Here's my Web site page about the project: http://www.wordmetro.com/projects.html, and I'm attaching submission guidelines for the book for your information. I am offering a nominal fee to contributors whose work is accepted for the book.
If you feel that you could post this project on your site or blog for readers or work with me in any other way to reach as many people with migraines as possible, please let me know.
I would be honored and grateful for any feedback or suggestions you may have regarding the book, or to hear from you if you want to know more about me. You can reach me at any time for further information or with questions. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Betsy Blondin, Editor
Word Metro
P.O. Box 984
Carlsbad, CA 92018
migraine@wordmetro.com
editor@wordmetro.com
I thought about this book for a while, and these are the two paintings that I have submitted:
The first is called, "Eye See" and it represents migraines to me because of how light sensitive and sensitive in general my eyes get when I am suffering from a migraine.
The second is called, "Canoe Cove" and is inspired by Canoe Cove, a beach in PEI. The reason I submitted this one, is because it represents the life that I continue to live, despite my migraines. It is also the place I go to relax and get away from everything, a place I can go both physically (when I am visiting PEI) and mentially, just by closing my eyes.
Any of you migaine/headache suffers who are also artist's out there, feel free to submit your own work, the deadline is the end of June.
Any of you migaine/headache suffers who are also artist's out there, feel free to submit your own work, the deadline is the end of June. ***THE NEW DEADLINE IS THE END OF JULY, SO IF YOU HAVE ART OR POEMS, PLEASE KEEP SUBMITTING THEM!! THANKS!!****
3 comments:
Wow! I'm so glad you posted this - right after my post wishing out loud for such a book!
I will certainly follow this one up and write more.
And by the way, those paintings you submitted are fantastic. They say so much - and in ways you don't usually see in migraine art. Well done! I hope you don't stop there!
Jackie this cove picture is really beautiful! Look how the light shines off the water. Very nice!!!
I noticed the same thing as Jules. Love the treatment of water in Canoe Cove!
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