About Drash Pit- A Literary Theme Park for Writers & Readers
Write Here. Write Now.
Drash Pit is a literary theme park for readers and writers, a cyberspace place for those who like to read and write short, theme-based, artful bumps of prose: sweet or sullen, heady or hilarious, provocative but not too partisan. The writing we publish is mature enough to give an occasional nod to the past, wry enough to be self-critical and smart enough to point us toward a better, or different way of being frazzled Bozos on this swerving bus. Writers can use satire, truck with profanity or prefer poetry. The medium doesn’t matter as long as our readers get one helluva ride.
Drash is a shortened form of the Hebrew word midrash meaning commentary or interpretation. What is often being teased apart by way of midrash, or drash, is some pearl, or problem, embedded within the Hebrew Bible. To make an obscure or thin section of text comprehensible, fair, and/or relevant midrash spinners alter endless variables of the original. Details are added. Sex roles are switched. Locales are reconfigured. Meanings are assigned, reassigned, and reneged upon all to create, or recreate, a story that sticks.
Drash Pit Writers Massage Themes
Similar to midrash, Drash Pit’s themes are suggested, ever so loosely, by weekly readings from the Torah. A text, in turns horrific and humane, the Torah tells it like it was, and is, and asks us to draw our own conclusions from its mistakes as well as from its wisdom. Drash Pit writers, and readers, are encouraged to do the same.
That Said
That said, this blog is NOT about religion, and is open to ALL dogma-tired readers and writers. Torah is simply the Drash Pit’s trampoline - the mental rubber from which its themes bounce.
How it Works
To become a Drash Pit contributor log in on Sunday evenings. That’s when I post four or five themes suggested to me by Tarot cards, ouija board and the weekly Torah portion. Writers are then invited to e-mail me, neena@drashpit.com, a concise -no more than 350 word - riff speaking to one of these themes by the upcoming Thursday at noon. The next day, Friday, four to five of these short pieces are cued up at the Drash Pit turnstile beckoning readers to come aboard and shoot the shoot down your rapid of words. By Sunday,new themes are posted and the cycle begins anew.
Invite Your Friends
Write. Read. Enjoy. And tell your friends about us. The caliber of readers and authors attracted to Drash Pit depends on you. There’s always room for more on the roller coaster of words. Buckle up and share.
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