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Graphic Submissions are invited for a Narnian poster contest. Check out Verses and Vignettes in Cair Paravel :)

Announcing a New Verses and Vignettes Poster Contest Imagine you are making a poster featuring a Bible verse. But instead of using a nature scene or biblical story to illustrate it, you instead illustrate it with a scene from one of the Chronicles. What Bible verse and what incident from the...

Calling all writers and kindred spirits with out-of-the-box imaginations! The deadline for Close Encounters Talk Show Entries is sneaking up --November 1st midnight (Pacific Time). So if you plan to submit an entry please do so soon!

I know this title is a bit unwieldy, but if you are a student, what is --or perhaps will be-- your major in college? If you are graduated, what was your major? I ended up as an English/linguistics major (though I had a music scholarship to start with) as an undergrad. Then I got a masters in...

What's for lunch? --Tofu salad from a Japanese-Peruvian restaurant What are You having for lunch today?

Our last Narnian contest involved imagining an advice column. This new contest involves imagining that YOU have your own TALK SHOW. You will pretend that you, as your actual self, are the host of Close Encounters, a talk show. For a segment of your program, pretend that you have as your guests...

Ta-da! Announcing our first summer contest, namely Dear Glennfeather*, a Narnian advice column competition. Rules: 1. Q: Write a letter posing a problem or simply a question from the perspective of one of the canonical Narnian characters for the wise but slightly flamboyant owl Glennfeather...

With Mother's Day around the corner, please share something you are thankful to your mother for, or else share a favorite mom story. Okay I'll start... My mom was a great mimic. She would have us in stitches during dinner just talking about her day because she could imitate all the...

O frabjous day! Calooh! callay! A new poetry contest!! You are invited to pick any place mentioned in the Chronicles and to capture its ambience, sense and setting in a poem. Submissions will be judged using the following criteria: faithfulness to the Chronicles - 30 points creativity - 30...

I've been in choirs most of my life and have sung every part except bass. (My favorite is alto or tenor though, because those parts are always so interesting.) Currently I'm helping the sopranos in The Witness, a musical that our church is sponsoring to Japan this summer (I'm still hoping to go...

You are invited to join a reading group going through C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters between now and Easter. The details and schedule can be found here.

I am part of a weekly reading group that has just started Lewis' Screwtape Letters. We go through about 3 letters an evening on Thursdays from 7-9pm (we eat together too :p). If any of you would like to join us we are in the southern Los Angeles county area and you can pm me for more info...

New game-- "It" picks a character from any of the Chronicles of Narnia. The rest of us can ask yes/no questions till someone can correctly guess who it is. The person who gets the correct answer (as confirmed by "It") can then choose the next mystery character for us to guess. But if the...

It's a new year and that means new contests. This year's Dancing Lawn Calendar will feature travel posters of different sites in the Chronicles. Let your imagination soar in this -- any place from Bism to "further up and further in!" is okay. But please stake your claim on your territory in a...

I was cleaning out some files this morning and came a cross an old punch-out tagboard finger puppet of Aslan from the late 1970's animated version of Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Have fun with it! (Though it will probably print out too small for you to actually stick your fingers in it.)

Judging is in for the 2011 Fanfiction Awards!

A couple weeks ago someone introduced me to the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, a fascinating children's novel that uses beautiful evocative illustrations to advance the story line -- and which actually won the Caldecott Medal (an honor usually reserved for the best...

It will be Thanksgiving Stateside in just a couple weeks. So what are you thankful for (can we make it to 1000 reasons why we are thankful before then)? 1. I didn't get caught in the rain today (hope it doesn't rain tomorrow!) 2. I got to listen to and pray with someone this evening. 3...

Announcing a Fanfic 2011 Awards Contest Specifications 1. Fanfic = a story, or poem set in Narnia or with Narnian characters (at least one of which needs to be mentioned in the Chronicles) 2. Word limit: 2000 or less (so the judges will not be overwhelmed during the Christmas holidays) --...

One of my favorite pastimes is museum hopping. This thread is to swap notes on museums/exhibits you've visited recently. Okay I'll go first. My daughter and I saw a fun (if such a word can be applied to such a ruthless warrior) Genghis Khan exhibit in Irving, Texas last month. It covered...