Nibbles & Bites
- Details
- Category: About
- Written by Megan Justice
Nibbles is a dirty magazine dedicated to giving your writing to the world. We are looking for prose no longer than three thousand (3,000) words and poetry no longer than 32 lines that you are proud of. Even if it's not perfect, even if it's not one hundred percent ready, nibbles is the forum to start putting your work out there in the real world.
Our goal is to publish one copy every month with at least pieces of prose and two pieces of poetry that are close to ready for publication and distribution on a national level. We will distribute it locally and work with you to polish the manuscript. Everything published in Nibbles is automatically considered for publication in Bites, our annual anthology once the work is polished.
Submissions can be made by sending us a .pdf of your manuscript. Our email address can by found on the Contact Us page. Manuscript should have the name of the author, page number, and title of the work on every page (in a header, please). Prose should be double spaced and poetry should be presented as the author wishes it to be published.
Drop us a line for more details, or just send us your work.
Taproot Reading: Review NIGHTWATCH
- Details
- Category: About
- Written by Sam Justice
Sergei Lukyanenko's NIGHTWATCH is set in a modern day Moscow, where an uneasy balance exists. Others, beings possessed of magic, swear allegience to either the Light, or the Dark, and keep watch over eachother to keep an ancient treaty. When a Supreme Other emerges and threatens to upset the balance both sides begin to learn the truth.
NIGHTWATCH has become difficult to come by since it was chosen as the book to read for Febuary. Because of this HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell has been chose as an alternate book to be read in stead of, or in addition to.
Taproot Reading Book List
- Details
- Category: About
- Written by Sam Justice
Febuary: Nightwatch by and/or alternate Homage to Catalonia by
March: Celephane by
Critique Service
- Details
- Category: About
- Written by Sam Justice
Boise's Novel Orchard's Critique Matching Service lets you join critique sessions outside of BNO's monthly schedule. We will match you with two to three other members seeking a critique that have time compatible with your own. This is a service available to members of Boise's Novel Orchard. If you want more information, please email samson.justice at boisenovelorchard.org or megan.justice at boisenovelorchard.org
The 500
- Details
- Category: About
- Written by Megan
The 500 is a challenge to all writers everywhere. It's as simple as this: write 500 words a day, every day, for a year.
Okay, it's a little more complicated than that. Hold yourself accountable. Use Twitter or Facebook or Google Plus to announce to the world your intentions. Don't forget to have others hold you accountable. Join us at the Writing Circle and write with others. Write at home in your cave. Or in a coffee shop. Or on the bus. Or upside down staring at a fishtank. But not while you're driving. And probably not while you're working. That likely would be bad too.
What can you write? As far as BNO is concerned, everything goes. Starting with working on a novel or short story to non-fiction to blogging and even good old fashioned journaling. It doesn't matter what it is, just write it for 500 words every day.
What doesn't count? In a word: editing. Adding a bunch of new words to something well under revision isn't writing so much as it is editing. Adding new sections or scenes to something undergoing the revision process is, however, more writing than editing.
Membership Drive
- Details
- Category: About
- Written by Megan
Boise’s Novel Orchard operates as a non profit. All the work and preparation that goes in to the program is volunteer based. We’re working hard to grow the program to bring you more. Some of the exciting plans for 2012 include:
-
getting more involvement from published authors
-
hosting workshops
-
providing an online critique matching service to extend critiquing beyond Critique Night
-
starting the monthly zine NIBBLES and pushing BITES, the journal from BNO, in new directions
Anyone can take advantage of the programming already offered by Boise’s Novel Orchard, and that won’t change. Members have additional benefits they can take advantage of. Just $40 for a year long membership gives you the following, with more benefits constantly becoming available:
-
Full access to all archived blog posts.
-
Access to the members-only lounge on the forums.
-
Discounts, including the following:
-
5% discount at Hyde Park Books with presentation of your membership card
-
Tuition at BNO Workshops (that’s any workshop we offer, online or in person)
-
Discount on BITES, the journal published annually by BNO.
-
-
Full Vlog access.
-
Critique Matching Service
-
Invitation to give seminars/write blog posts
-
Monthly newsletter
-
Invitation to summer picnic & end of the year banquet
-
Direct involvement during “Ask the Author” events
-
Electronic version of NIBBLES, the monthly zine from BNO
Click on the "Pay Now" button on right side of the webpage to become a BNO member today!
Contact Us
- Details
- Written by Sam Justice
Contact us
Email Megan: meg...@boisenovelorchard.org
Email Sam: sam...@boisenovelorchard.org
