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It’s time to come up with themes for the 2015 GA Quarterly Anthologies and the 2015 GA Poetry Anthology.  Please post your theme suggestions for the 2015 Quarterly & Poetry Anthologies here!  Get your thinking caps on!!  This topic will be open until 11:59 pm July 20th, 2014 (US Mountain Time).

 

Please provide two lists, one with your theme suggestions for the Quarterly Anthologies and one for the Poetry Anthology.

 

Also, please keep in mind that we create banners for each anthology.  Long theme suggestions are problematic in putting on a banner.  It is best to keep themes short.  I have included a couple banners as an example to the banner size.  Themes should also be able to be widely interpreted to give a variety of options for authors.  We try to keep from doing themes that are too similar to those that have been done in the past, to see a list of past themes, click here.

 

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Why not try   :P

 

1- Last run

2- Qui pro quo

3- Fill the blank

4- Pancakes 

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For the Quarterly Anthologies:

 

No

If You Insist

White Nights

Black Days

Fire Away

Depths

Not Here

Sunshine and Darkness

Fractured Tales

In His Own Mind

The Calling

It's a Big World

Solving the Problem

Wind and Wings

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So What.

One Night Stand

Cold Heart Warm Heart

Make Me Cry

Good Things Are Yet To Come

Brothers and Lovers

Tinsel, Lights, and Love

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

This Closet is Dark

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1 Summer's Here

2 The Affair

3 Cold hands, Warm heart (I admit, this is a variation on Jo Ann's suggestion)

4 Mayday

5 Four Leaf Clover


 

Why not try   :P
 
1- Last run
2- Qui pro quo
3- Fill the blank
4- Pancakes 

 

 

I especially like Quid Pro Quo. That has some serious potential! ;)

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It’s time to come up with themes for the 2015 GA Quarterly Anthologies and the 2015 GA Poetry Anthology.  Please post your theme suggestions for the 2015 Quarterly & Poetry Anthologies here!  Get your thinking caps on!!  This topic will be open until 11:59 pm July 20th, 2013 (US Mountain Time)*

 

 

*[bolding is mine]

 

I don't usually point out simple typos, but the date for submissions seems to have passed before the time for them has even started.  :huh:  :rolleyes: 

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1 Summer's Here

2 The Affair

3 Cold hands, Warm heart (I admit, this is a variation on Jo Ann's suggestion)

4 Mayday

5 Four Leaf Clover

 

I especially like Quid Pro Quo. That has some serious potential! ;)

 

If you want some with potential you just have to look around in Greek mythology and you may find out things like this:

 

σκοτοβινιάω = which litteraly means no longer see from the urge to fuck

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I don't usually point out simple typos, but the date for submissions seems to have passed before the time for them has even started.  :huh:  :rolleyes: 

 

ARGH!  Thank you Tomas, it has been fixed.

 

Also, themes must be in English or a well known foreign phrase (ex: Quid Pro Quo, Carpe Diem, etc) and no profanity.

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Inspired by one of Sasha Distan's stories, I've got another quarterly anthology suggestion:

 

Stereotypes

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Seasonal

 

Awakened to Change

That Song is my Life

The Price of a Soul

New Year's Kiss

Blackout

Road Trip!

F%#&@!* Scared/Scary Story

Living for a Smile

There Will be Death

 

Poetry:

 

The Dance

A Lifespan/A Lifetime 

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Seasonal

 

Awakened to Change

That Song is my Life

The Price of a Soul

New Year's Kiss

Blackout

Road Trip!

F%#&@!* Scared/Scary Story

Living for a Smile

There Will be Death

 

Poetry:

 

The Dance

A Lifespan/A Lifetime 

I'm a romantic, so 'New Year's Kiss" does it for me.  Also, I love "Living for a Smile".  Hope I can comment here Renee.  oops.

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I have just read this in Nephy's story and think it might be a different one for the anthologies:

 

This above all, unto thine own self be true

 

William Shakespear

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Okay. Here are a few.

 

Seasonal:

 

- A Mundane Life

 

- Numbers

 

- The Clock is Ticking

 

- Blurred Edges

 

- Might Makes Right

 

- Owners and Pets

 

- Heaven and Hell

 

 

 

Poetry:

 

- Boundaries

 

- Sacred vs. Secular

 

If I come up with more, I'll post again.

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I am liking Mann's  "The clock is ticking",   and would like to add

 

         Clear as Mud

         

          Changes

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a few suggestion for the quarterly anthologies:

 

Opposite attract

We've still got tonight

He needs me

(and as a counter) I need him

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Seasonal:

 

Song Titles

 

Right by your side

 

On a train

 

Dear...A letter

 

Just passing by

 

Poetry:

 

Only by night

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Lap of the Gods

 

All That Glitters

 

Tempus Fugit

 

Paradise Lost

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  1.   The Butterfly Effect

  2.   In His Place

  3.   Fire and Nice

  4.   Tick-Tock — Love Me or Not

  5.   Level Five

  6.   The Fractured Fairy Tale

  7.   Are You For Real

  8.   The Sex Issue

  9.   Lead The Way

10.   No Following

11.   The Galaxy Syndrome

12.   Transit Point

13.   What If I Do . . . This

14.   Possession Is Nine-Tenths

15.   It's Always Something

16.   Choices

17.   Is This How It Ends

18.   Heartache Begins With Five Letters

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Also, themes must be in English or a well known foreign phrase (ex: Quid Pro Quo, Carpe Diem, etc) and no profanity.

 

I did not think outside of Europe the ancient greek is not a very popular subject of study (at least at the level of high school)

 

I didn't mean to offend, if i did i'm sorry. 

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John, there aren't a lot of well known non-English phrases or words in the English world, but there are a few. To be honest, I hadn't heard of Carpe Diem when it became an anthology theme, but I've certainly heard of Quid Pro Quo. A few others I can think of off the top of my head would be Que Sera Sera (from a popular song in the 50s), mañana (Spanish word used satirically to indicate sometime in the future), moi (french for "me"), babushka (russian, made famous in a song by Kate Bush), and Pro Bono (legal phrase that's used often enough for a lot of people to recognise it).

 

I'm sure there are others :) Most don't make good anthology themes, though....

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I did not think outside of Europe the ancient greek is not a very popular subject of study (at least at the level of high school)

 

I didn't mean to offend, if i did i'm sorry. 

 

There was no offense John, so please don't worry.  I just realized that I had not specified those guidelines and that it would be wise to do so.

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Well you knew I would have to give some sort of suggestion. Here are a few off the top of my head.

 

Seasonal

  1. True Colors
  2. Love me or  Leave me
  3. A knight in armor
  4. In darkest night
  5. Paradise Island
  6. Agony or Ecstasy
  7. Two if by Sea
  8. When shall we meet again?
  9. Life lessons
  10. Nightmares and dreams
  11. Trial by Fire
  12. Rainbow Connections
  13. Remember
  14. Perfect Hell
  15. Only the Lonely
  16. Starting Over
  17. By the Gods
  18. I’m wishing
  19. Never say never
  20. On my oath

 

Poetry

  1. The sentinels
  2. Happiness
  3. Golden slumber
  4. The Dusk
  5. Joyful
  6. In the beginning 
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never been happy

cosmic connection

once in a century

alone

have we ever met?

you never asked

noone knows

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a few suggestion for the quarterly anthologies:

 

Opposite attract

We've still got tonight

He needs me

(and as a counter) I need him

 I want to edit from my previous post:

 

love is love

summer loving

the best night of my life

my first love

things never change

a paranormal romance (I feel it would be a favourite for most people)

starry eyed

a big bang

when romance blossoms

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