IVCC River Currents

A simple mission: to foster writing and creativity in the Illinois Valley. In partnership with Illinois Valley Community College creative writing.

[IVCC River Currents @IVwrites]

2020 Student Staff https://t.co/XZZU2Qzmfn

[IVCC River Currents @IVwrites]

The 2019 Release Party:
Thurs., May 9, 2019 in room C-316
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Free food and free copies of the book
Open-mic at noon https://t.co/X99U4ijxGz

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Because it's in the world. (It's not just women who are controlled in the book.. it's everyone except those at the top. Gilead is a theocratic totalitariansim, not simply a Men-have-power Women-do-not world. Lower status men are told when and who marry, eg.)

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

“Rise and demand; you are a burning flame.
You are sure to conquer there where the final horizon
Becomes a drop of blood, a drop of life,
Where you will carry the universe on your shoulders,
Where the universe will bear your hope.”
HBD to Guatemalan poet Miguel Angel Asturias!

[Illinois Valley Community College @IVCCEagles]

Join the @MyIVCC Foundation as they celebrate Walter Durley and Hazel Marie Boyle’s contributions to IVCC at noon in the Dr. Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre! A plaque honoring the Boyles will be unveiled. The public is welcome to attend. #ivcc #thankyouboylefamily

[George Mason Creative Writing @mason__cw]

We’re looking to Joyce Carol Oates’ advice on writing for our #mondaymotivation - she says, “read, observe, listen intensely! As if your life depended on it.” Pictured: “I Am No One You Know - Stories” (Oates, 2004)

[The Sun magazine @TheSunMagazine]

"You don’t know all the answers. You don’t know all the consequences — but you’ve got to do something because you know it���s right. There is no alternative. You cannot sit in silence.... You know it’s right, and you’ve got to move." —Marlon Riggs
Sunbeams, October 2018

[ginosko literary journal @CesarettiRobert]

2019 GINOSKO FLASH FICTION CONTEST, $500 prize, $5 entry fee. Deadline March 1st, 2019. See website for details, https://t.co/2jZgImDXVJ.

[Narrative Magazine @NarrativeMag]

We’re 6 days away from announcing the winner of this year's #NarrativePrize! Getting pumped by celebrating past winners like @minjinlee11: "My own mother’s job had been that of a saint, and far more consuming than being a partner at a law firm.”

https://t.co/ivtOonpkSI

[George Mason Creative Writing @mason__cw]

From the words of @vanessa_hua: ”I realized I wanted to tell stories that emerged from my unique worldview, from my experiences, and from my interests, even if they fell outside the canon or what appeared in the pages of a newspaper or magazine.” https://t.co/XecxY4F5tf

[The Missouri Review @Missouri_Review]

If you want to be featured in our next blogpost, all you have to do is tell us about a time you won something. What did you win? How did it make you feel?

Top responses will get a spot, so reply away!

[The Sun magazine @TheSunMagazine]

"When you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias ... you’ve got to have vigilance, but you have to recognize that it’s going to take some time ... so that you don’t give up when we don’t get all the way there." —Barack Obama
Sunbeams, September 2018

[Illinois Valley Community College @IVCCEagles]

“De Colores,” a Mexican Folkloric dance group, will perform at noon Monday, Oct. 8 in the Dr. Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre as part of @MyIVCC Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. #ivcc #HispanicHeritageMonth

[Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc]

#WritingPrompt: Write an essay inspired by the feathered friends that fly in and out of your day. What memories or emotions do birds bring to mind? #YearOfTheBird #TTIN https://t.co/d1RkA4AYO9

[IVCC River Currents @IVwrites]

Is it our shortened attention spans? Either way, a nice victory for poetry and its beautiful layers.

[IVCC River Currents @IVwrites]

The raffle winners have been notified via email!! Congratulations to Sandra C. for winning the $10 IVCC bookstore gift card and to Michaela M. and Kaliah W. for winning one of the books! #freestuffrocks #ivcc #ivcreates

[IVCC River Currents @IVwrites]

This is amazing because of hand-fed hummingbirds but so much more so because it’s being done by the @AmyTan!! ❤️❤️

[IVCC River Currents @IVwrites]

Thanks for a great #SpiritDay #ivcc!! We’ll notify raffle winners in the next few days!

[Indiana Review @IndianaReview]

It's submission season baby! The wonderful @SuperstitionRev is taking your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art through nov 5--let's goooo https://t.co/Z2riKVn1wb