Please excuse the state of the site as we prepare our redesign for launch. It will be available to the public by March 12. We hope you'll stop by again to take a look around!
[read]March 6th, 2010Please excuse the state of the site as we prepare our redesign for launch. It will be available to the public by March 12. We hope you'll stop by again to take a look around!
[read]March 6th, 2010By Andrea Uptmor
The Holiday Season is upon us, and if you are like me (and of course you are, that's why we're such good friends), not only do you hate saying "The Holiday Season is upon us," but you are feeling great trepidation at the thought of buying presents worthy of your loved ones.
by Holly Vanderhaar
Every parent knows there are questions looming, questions you know your child is going to ask you eventually. Questions that catch you by surprise, questions that come earlier than you expect. Questions that don't lend themselves to the simple answer but rather are harbingers of lengthy conversations rife with gray areas, one in which the need to use age-appropriate vocab wars with the desire to explain a Matter of Great Import.
[read]November 16th, 2009
In past years, my inertia has gotten the best of me, but this November is a different matter: my self-persuasion skills are stronger, and I'm enjoying a certain elusive optimism about life that I hope will last through the autumn.
[read]October 25th, 2009When you poke stuff with your finger, it usually reacts. If you poke a dog, it will look at you. If you poke a mound of dirt, it will turn into a mound of dirt with a finger-shaped hole poked in it.
[read]February 26th, 2010With our Contaminated Essay Contest, we want writers to explore these questions, to confuse the matter further with experiments in form and genre. We want to find new ways to define the essay.
[read]December 1st, 2009I love Lorrie Moore. And so I, along with a hundred other fans, came to the Twin Cities Book Festival last Saturday to hear her read and speak.
[read]October 18th, 2009In past years, my inertia has gotten the best of me, but this November is a different matter: my self-persuasion skills are stronger, and I'm enjoying a certain elusive optimism about life that I hope will last through the autumn.
[read]October 25th, 2009We want the Contaminated Essay Contest to address a condition of life today, a set of unanswered questions; and we seek new language, new formal expressions, with which to meet these questions.
[read]September 20th, 2009dislocate.org is now accepting submissions for its first monthly Short Forms Contest. Submit any literary work under 300 words. The winning entry will be announced April 1 and published on the website.
Please excuse the state of the site as we prepare our redesign for launch. It will be available to the public by March 12. We hope you'll stop by again to take a look around!
[read]3.06.10Do you sometimes fantasize about how cool it would be to write a stupefyingly popular blog, column or article for a website like the Rumpus or Salon or NewYorker.com? It is time, my friends, to turn those dreams into reality. dislocate.org is planning a February 1 launch of its brand new website, which will feature weekly columns as well as a steady stream of articles about books, writing, the "industry," and all things remotely related to a writer's life (fashion, pop culture, sex(!), etc.).