Dandelion Revolution Press

06/02/2024

Stunning new personal essay, "Under a Fire Sky: A Creation Myth" by Catie Jarvis.
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Catie Jarvis is a fiction author, English and Creative Writing Professor, yoga instructor, competitive gymnastics coach, surfer, wife, and mom. She received her B.A. in writing from Ithaca College, and her M.F.A. in creative writing from the California College of the Arts. She grew up on a lake in northern New Jersey and now lives by the ocean in Los Angeles. She believes wholeheartedly that writing and reading are gateways to human connection, compassion, and wisdom. The Peacock Room is her debut novel. Find her on Instagram and her website catiejarvis.com
https://dandelionrevolutionpress.substack.com/p/under-a-fire-sky-a-creation-myth?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

"I want to tell you the story of our creation, our mythical separation, from one into two."

05/23/2024

More art that celebrates friendship, please 🩷

05/22/2024

05/19/2024

Check out our newest short story "Like That" by M. A. Dubbs!
https://open.substack.com/pub/dandelionrevolutionpress/p/like-that-by-m-a-dubbs?r=33wfyt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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M. A. Dubbs is an award-winning Mexican-American and LGBT poet from Indiana. For over a decade, Dubbs has published writing in magazines and anthologies in seven countries across the globe. She is the author of three poetry collections: Aerodynamic Drag: Poetry and Short Fiction (2021), An American Mujer (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and Limestone Versified: Indiana Haiku and Other Poems (2024). She served as judge for Indiana's Poetry Out Loud Competition in 2022 and performs readings and workshops in her local writing community.

05/08/2024

We had to jump on the trend of pairing Met Gala 2024 dresses with our books covers! What do you think?

05/06/2024

Loved getting this video sent to us with the message "Reminded me of DRP" 🥰💖

05/05/2024

Happy Sunday! We're honored to share this powerful personal essay "De-portation Day" by Natalya Bucuy.

Natalya Bucuy is a Siberian human. She was born at the top of the world and after moving around a bit, she has settled in Bucks County, amidst Pennsylvania’s rolling green hills, inspiring art scene, and never-boring seasons. She’s been a writer since the day she was born, but did not truly write until Journalism school. (Temple Univ proud!) Over the years, she has dipped into various forms of writing and publishing. Her short stories have been published in Dandelion Revolution Press’s anthologies, Not Quite As You Were Told and Every Breath Alight.

"The heart monitor beeps, and beeps, and beeps, the sound of me, alive."

05/01/2024

Did you know we publish personal essays now? Our first one will be published this Sunday on our Substack, so be sure to follow so you don't miss it ➡️ https://dandelionrevolutionpress.substack.com/

Here's some great tips for how to use your memories to write powerful personal essays. 🩷

https://writeordie101.substack.com/p/tapping-memory-and-generating-ideas?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Lesson 1 of 8: Finding Your Essay's Heartbeat

04/21/2024

Read the first story of our "Transitions" Spring Issue!

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M. Weigel retells myths and fairy tales and explores science fiction, fantasy, and horror. When not writing, she researches stories in their oldest forms to see how they survive and transform into today’s tales. Her work can be found in The World of Myth Magazine, Partially Shy Literary Magazine, Litmora Literary Magazine, Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Carmina Magazine, and Pickled Press Poetry. She can be found online as on Twitter, @mas.to on Mastodon, and .bsky.social at Bluesky.

"It is with a heavy heart that I surrender my wand."

04/07/2024

Please enjoy this interview with author Mark Bruce!

Mark is the only author to be published in all three of Dandelion Revolution Press’s previous anthologies! His recurring titular character, Minerva James, is a female lawyer in the 1960s. Mark says it best: “Minerva is always the smartest person in the room, often to the consternation of the men in that same room.”

Mark Bruce's "Minerva James" stories are featured in all three DRP anthologies.

04/06/2024

Have you subscribed to our SubStack yet? ➡️ https://dandelionrevolutionpress.substack.com/

Starting mid-April, you can expect some incredible stories and personal essays dropping right into your inbox! (For free!!!) 🥰

03/08/2024

We believe in celebrating each other's successes especially within the creative community.

03/08/2024

We published our first anthology on March 8, 2020. Four years later we have 2 books published and built a community of readers and writers.

On this day, we believe in knowledge, education and in women.

03/05/2024

Ten more days left to submit!

Seeking submissions for our inaugural Spring journal issue: Transitions.

02/27/2024

Pulling back the curtain to look at how one of our stories "Speechless", published in our third anthology Every Breath Alight, was created: https://open.substack.com/pub/dandelionrevolutionpress/p/story-behind-the-story-speechless?r=33wfyt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/19/2024

A beautiful thought. ❤️

We are seeking submissions for our inaugural Spring journal issue related to the theme: Transitions.
https://dandelionrevolutionpress.substack.com/p/call-for-submissions-open-until-march

02/16/2024

Dandelion Revolution Press is seeking submissions for our inaugural Spring journal issue related to the theme: Transitions.

Send us your pieces by March 15, 2024!

https://dandelionrevolutionpress.substack.com/p/call-for-submissions-open-until-march

02/14/2024

Exciting announcement coming later this week... 😊

02/02/2024

The benefits are endless!! 😊

Plot Your Novel -- Plot Your Scenes with John Claude Bemis is now open for enrollment. Space is strictly limited. For those interested, you are encouraged to learn more right away.

01/09/2024

Read whatever you want!!!

12/28/2023

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12/23/2023

Happy Winter 😌✨ a wonderful season for reading

12/12/2023

“The Giver of Stars” and the”The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” were both fascinating stories about the Pack Horse Librarians who made sure books made it out to the communities who lived in the mountains and back country.

A pack horse librarian delivering books to children in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

"Bring me a book to read,' is the cry of every child as he runs to meet the librarian with whom he has become acquainted," wrote one Pack Horse librarian. "Not a certain book, but any kind of book. The child has read none of them."

To share their inspiring stories with kids, we recommend "That Book Woman" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/that-book-woman) and "Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky" for ages 8 and up (https://amzn.to/3N8WAtf) 🙂

For adult readers, there are also several excellent historical fiction novels about these determined librarians: "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" (https://amzn.to/47ZbdHz), its sequel "The Book Woman's Daughter" (https://amzn.to/3RqH6Cn), and "The Giver of Stars" (https://amzn.to/4a0Ym9A)

12/12/2023