CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Inaugural DOE Offshore Wind Shot Summit demonstrates momentum toward U.S. floating offshore wind – helps Maine’s future community This River is Our Relative – Documentary about Penobscot Nation’s kinship connection to the Penobscot River Grants available Grants to help ME farmers, processors keep milk local available – apply National Secuirty $11 Billion investment to advance clean energy […]
BEtween two RiversThe novel focuses on a young woman, Mia, coming to terms with her mother’s mysterious death, what she believes, and how she fits into the world. Stuck in dead-end jobs and burdened with college debt Mia, and an old college roommate travel to Mexico. The more they investigate the natural wonders, as well as the area’s history Mia understands she must confront her father about her mother. But that becomes the least of her challenges. When interacting with locals, the pair make dramatic discoveries that lead them into a web of intrigue, murder and environmental degradation. Read chapter 1 – Blue Heron – HERE.
CONVERSATIONS WITH QUETZALCOATLWe are honored to serialize Esther Pasztory’s collection of short stories starting with Conversations with Quetzalcoatl.
When Quetzalcoatl, a pre-Columbian deity, speaks to Anna a love story commences which challenges, yet enhances her marriage. Humor and challenging conversations take place. Click HERE.
COASTAL MAINE IN WORDS AND ART:Over the coming months Insights will serialize the vignettes in this art/literary book. The book was published with the help of the Maine Humanities Council. Through a contest writers had to create stories from art photographs. The result are unique pieces. This month we will highlight 4 of the 28 stories: Please click on the titles of the stories below to read them:
Sea Spirit by N. T. Franklin,
Under the Porch by Khristina Marie Landers
The Regatta by Donna Hinkley
Waves Remember by John Holt Willey
Write a story, 300-800 words, about this photographic art piece by Ramona du Houx. If your story is chosen, by Insights Literary/Art Journal, it will be published in their next issue.
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The climate crisis is evident everywhere. Write a 800-1,200 word story about the climate crisis with a solution to the topic you write about based on this image. If your story is chosen, by Insights Literary/Art Journal, it will be published in the next Issue.
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Welcome to the Solon Center for Research and Publishing first bimonthly issue of Insights Literary/Art Journal. Stories from authors published and unpublished will debut here. Original art will accompany the stories. We’ll host contests, working with Gallery Fukurou, of Rockland, Maine and the Maine publisher Polar Bear & Company.
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