We’re busy trying to spruce up the joint. Hope you like the new background. In case you can’t read the whole thing or don’t know the traditional characters, it says, “兵马俑打字机； 兴于诗立于礼成于乐.” 

We’ll also have a new banner as soon as we get the proper size in Photoshop and find the right code for it.

Stay tuned and keep those submissions coming. We’re enjoying most of what we’ve received so far.

Terracotta Typewriter would like to wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival–元宵节快乐！ It’s the final night of the new year celebrations, so break out those leftover fireworks and set them off to be certain those demons and evil ghoulies won’t come around to bother us anymore. 

And please be sure to stop setting off fireworks for the rest of the year.

The Bookworm in Beijing released its schedule for the upcoming literary festival in March. There are workshops, interviews, and discussions covering a wide variety of literary topics. They will have workshops for poetry, travel writing, screenwriting, and other forms. There will also be activities for children as well as adults.

Terracotta Typewriter unfortunately will not be able to attend the festival in Beijing. However, we are looking into getting out of Shenzhen and heading for the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival in early March. (Please note, there is also a Hong Kong Literature Festival in late-June/early-July.)

We encourage writers to attend the literary festivals–we’re sure it’ll be fun and educational in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Since it’s becoming trendy to throw shoes at foreign dignitaries (see Dubya and Wen), we at Terracotta Typewriter would like to jump on the bandwagon.

We are now looking for submissions that have a connection to China as well as something to do with shoes (or even shoe laces). We’ll even accept shoe-related faux-moir with Chinese characteristics. All submissions must still adhere to our guidelines.

If you feel the need to throw a shoe at a politician, please do it from the safety of a story or poem–we don’t like seeing writers getting arrested.