Lazuli Literary Courses
We aim to divorce the intense, scholarly study of literature from its hefty price tag; the in-depth study of the craft and the poetics, the empathy and the lyricism, and the lively delight of words penned with deliberation and genius should be more readily available than it is. To that end, we offer learned literarians to lead you through literary landscapes in which they are well-traveled; to exhort you to look under that rock here, behind that tree there--to perhaps see something you might not otherwise have seen.
Registration open for:
- Virginia Woolf in Poetic Echoes: Mrs. Dalloway (online)
- Forster's Aspects of the Novel (online)
- Serialization in Dickens, Buffy, Barber, and Joyce (online)
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otherworld realism [uhth -er-wurld] [ree-uh-liz-uh m] noun
Word Origin 2017; coined by Lazuli Literary Group; first appearing in AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, Volume One. |
Lazuli Literary Group Writing Contest (Fall 2024)
$500 + publication in AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought
Submissions closed | Winner to be announced Oct 4
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We don't post much--and we don't plan to. Although the path feels narrower and narrower, we do believe an alternative still exists. We would like for people to come to know of us through word-of-mouth: the organic, individualized transmission of our journal from those who have been meaningfully affected by it to those who might be. It is our ironclad belief our writers are talented and the quality of their work is its own advertisement—if we at least did not think so, we certainly wouldn’t have published it.
- *You can help by discussing (in-person) or forwarding links (free!) to AZURE stories that either meant something profound to you or gave you a hearty chuckle.
- *You can keep a print copy of AZURE on your coffee table for your guests to flip through and discuss on the spot. Perhaps you can meet for one Sunday morning every year to discuss the new volume over brunch & lattes…
- *If they strike you as worthy of thought, you can use AZURE stories for your workshops, classes, or book clubs. Almost all of our stories are available for free online.
- *If finances allow, we’d love for you to buy our print volumes, as we consider those our true art objects.
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