We are so excited to share Aura Literary Arts Review Vol. 50 Issue No. 1 with you! Without further ado, we present to you some of the best original works UAB, Birmingham, and Southeastern creators have to offer this spring. Click the cover below to access Aura Literary Arts Review Vol. 50 Issue No. 2.
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Full Version of Ligaya Gapud’s excerpt from Vol. 50 Issue No. 2 She was nasty. Her face contorted into a nasty gruel. It was so unseemly that anyone unfortunate enough to be in her proximity felt a bone chill shoot through the underside of their skin, skidding like a scared spider. Nobody dared meet her gaze. There were rumors spread throughout town about what might happen if you looked into her eyes: cursed to become her eternal minion, solidified into ice, dissolved into dust, or even onset of smallpox. They began as hissy whispers between children during playtime, but the…
We are so excited to share Aura Literary Arts Review Vol. 50 Issue No. 1 with you! Without further ado, we present to you some of the best original works UAB, Birmingham, and Southeastern creators have to offer this fall. Click the cover below to access Aura Literary Arts Review Vol. 50 Issue No. 1.
Full Version of Gale Huxley’s excerpt from Vol. 50 Issue No. 1 Sharon removes Velcro rollers from her hair and applies sheer lipstick that she doesn’t mind being kissed and she thinks her husband wouldn’t mind kissing. She puts on a cherry red dress and tells herself the dress is for her—that this act is the beginning of self-respect. Over and over again, she checks the silver watch on her bony wrist and calculates how much time it will take to drive to the airport, to park, and to walk to the partition that separates the travelers and those who…
If you missed the Ashley Jones Workshop on Thursday, April 8, please email us at auraartsreview@gmail.com to request the recording. Ashley walked us through the writing process of several of her poems, showing us how to consider the histories in us as we write. What It Means to Say Sally Hemings -Ashley Jones https://ashleymjonespoetry.com/ https://www.instagram.com/cityofawoman/ https://www.thankyoubookshop.com/?searchtype=keyword&qs=ashley+jones&qs_file=&q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword https://www.magiccitypoetryfestival.org/calendar
Catherine Davis, Maddie Manston, Mario LopreteSimona Shirley, Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky, João Luís Barreto Guimarães, Adele Gardner The cover art for our Spring issue is “Byodo-In Koi Pond” created by Maddie Manston. Maddie Manston is a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham studying Art Studio with a painting concentration and a Spanish minor. Her work primarily consists of oil paintings, but she is also very interested in sculpture. The main subject of her works is “life,” whether it be nature or the human portrait.Check out her pieces: “Two Paper Bags” “Byodo-In Koi Pond” “Basis of Life” and “Self Portrait” in…
Aura will be hosting a “Writing in the Now” Workshop with Ashley Jones on March 25 at 7pm! Ashley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University (FIU), where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. Her debut poetry collection, Magic City Gospel, was published by Hub City Press in January 2017, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her second book, dark // thing, won the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press. Her third collection, REPARATIONS NOW! is forthcoming in…
We had a wonderful time with Tina Mozelle Braziel as she read and lead us in a writing workshop! Below is the prompt she lead us through: Start with a list of things that have brought you comfort in the pandemic. Then answer these about one or more of them:• Where you first encountered it• What you associate with it• How you felt about it before the pandemic and how you feel about it now• How your relationship with it may look in the future Then use Tina’s “To Season” as a guide to write your own poem…• First write…
Aura Literary Arts Review began brainstorming a podcast two years ago with our early episodes of Leave it to the Prose. A lot of people enjoyed this podcast, so we have started our new recurring podcast, Blazerature! Blazerture is a podcast about anything artsy–books, poetry, art, film, etc. Please join our hosts Sam and Anna in our first episode, “Episode One – Introducing Blazerature & Discussing the Golden Globes.” The podcast is available on Soundcloud and Spotify! Soon to be on Apple Podcasts as well! Also, please use the hashtag #AuraHotTakes on social media to let us know your hot…
Tina Mozelle Braziel won the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for her book Known by Salt (Anhinga Press 2019). Her chapbook, Rooted by Thirst, came out in 2016 with Porkbelly Press. Her individual poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Southern Humanities Review, Tampa Review, Appalachian Heritage, PMSpoemmemoirstory (where her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and other journals. In 2018, Tina was awarded a fellowship for the Alabama State Council for the Arts. In 2017, she served as an artist-in-residence at Hot Springs National Park. She was awarded an M.F.A. scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in…