Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
“Indeterminate in Autumn” is a poem I wrote in response to the visual prompt of an alien head sitting on E.T.’s head placed atop a Chewbacca mug. “Indeterminate in Autumn” was shortlisted for Autumn Writing Prize on Visual Verse.
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Sharing joy with you as my poem “Love for Africa” was accepted for publication on the prestigious AVBOB Poetry Competition website and entered in the 2023 AVBOB Poetry Competition.
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It is a great honor for me to be voted as Author of the Month of November at Spillwords Press. Writing is a solitary endeavor. But in such moments I realize that it’s not.
Thank you all who believed in me and voted! I couldn’t have done it without you all!!!
Thank you, Dagmara and Spillwords Press team!
Sumedru’s Sacred Fires mark the beginning of pastoral winter and you can see them dancing in the heart of the night if you travel through the southwest of Romania, namely Oltenia or western Wallachia.
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Discover this October an old spider tale from Romanian folklore that crawled here from an ancient book by Tudor Pamfile, a 19th-century Romanian writer and folklorist.
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