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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear Supporter of the Written Word:<br>
<br>
I am writing to invite you and your students to take part in a new literary
community designed specifically to foster the written word amongst talented
writers. <br>
<br>
Whitelephant Online (<a href="http://whitelephantonline.org/" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">whitelephantonline.org</a>)
is the brainchild of writers seeking to create an online environment that is
both encouraging and empathetic to gifted writers who are frustrated with
rejection letters citing lack of experience or unfamiliarity. Whitelephant
seeks to level the playing field and judge writing not by experience or fame of
a writer's degree, but solely by the quality of the writing. <br>
<br>
This project is several years in the making. Back in 2004, North Carolina State
University Creative Writing students Dana Dillehunt and Greg Behr started an
online literary magazine called The Yellow Light Movement. With submissions
from across the country and around the world, The Yellow Light Movement was an
early success. Unfortunately, due to other, lesser obligations (like exams,
summer courses, graduating...those trivial things) the magazine ended after a
little more than a year. <br>
<br>
Using The Yellow Light Movement as a learning exercise, we realized we wanted
to create not just a literary magazine, but a literary community. We noticed
that there were quite a few literary events in our surrounding areas, but we
had to search pretty hard to find them. <br>
<br>
We're still growing; we're still compiling our lists. We want to be an avid
part of the community; we're not here to promote our own work or even to make
money. We're here to create a community for writers of all kinds, to promote
and help writers, to band together for literary causes, to contribute to the
communities we live in. We're here to create a network of support and
assistance, and an awareness of local events. But, mostly, we're here to write!
<br>
<br>
Your help is absolutely imperative to this project's success. We ask each of
you to not only join our community, but to invite your colleagues, friends and
most importantly your students to join as well. <br>
<br>
We invite you to visit the community at <a
href="http://www.whitelephantonline.org/" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.whitelephantonline.org</a>
and look forward to continuing our conversation in the near future.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
Greg Behr<br>
Co-founder/Marketing Director, Whitelephant Online <br clear=all>
<br>
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Greg Behr<br>
<a href="mailto:gebehr@gmail.com" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gebehr@gmail.com</a><br>
919-272-5621 </span></font></p>
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