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Summary

Dancing Elephants Press celebrated its second anniversary in October 2023 with new initiatives, editor introductions, in-person meetings, and community engagement efforts.

Abstract

Dancing Elephants Press (DEP) marked its second anniversary in October 2023, highlighting a month filled with growth, community building, and literary achievements. The press adopted Amali, an elephant symbolizing hope, and welcomed new editor Libby Shively McAvoy. Editors met in person, fostering a sense of unity and collaboration. DEP launched new columns, poetry prompts, and a mission to place books in stores. The team also introduced a marketing wizard role and called for volunteers, emphasizing their commitment to spreading positivity. DEP's editors maintained a consistent publishing schedule and celebrated the diverse contributions of their writers through various contests and story collections.

Opinions

  • The DEP editors believe in the positive guidance of the universe, bringing together people from all over the world to create and support positivity.
  • Gabriella Korosi, founder of DEP, values in-person connections and views them as magical moments that enhance the publication's community.
  • The DEP community expresses gratitude for the contributions of its writers and the opportunity to make a positive impact on the world.
  • The editors appreciate the increased engagement from readers, as evidenced by the rise in views, reads, and visits over the past month.
  • DEP's mission statement reflects a commitment to creating a supportive environment for writers and spreading joy through storytelling.

Dancing Elephants Press October 2023 Updates and Round-Up

October Magic

Image created in Canva by Gabriella

Did you feel the October Magic in Dancing Elephants Press?

I did. 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

This Month DEP becomes 2 years old.

Time to give back: Our DEP family adopted Amali -meaning hope- an amazing young elephant into our hearts.

Our Editor family welcomed Libby Shively McAvoy to Dancing Elephants Press. We are very grateful to have Libby with us.

October 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

Dr. Gabriella Korosi founder of DEP was very fortunate to meet two beautiful editors of Dancing Elephants Press Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, and Annelise Lords. Read more about our magical moments together.

Because it is magic. 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

The positive guidance of the universe had to have a hand in this. Beautiful people who come together in one platform in one publication and from all over the world to create and support positivity are able to meet in person even though they could not live farther apart.

What is happening in the background? 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

Your DEP Editors working hard to publish your stories. We do this work to help spread positivity and support each other. We are all volunteering our time and experience for you.

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👁‍🗨👁‍🗨DR Rawson - The Possibilist interview series started this month. DR interviewed multiple people from DEP. Please check out our DEP YouTube section. Also, check out the interview articles on our main page under the interviews tab.

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👁‍🗨👁‍🗨In October DEP Editors had 2 Zoom meetings to discuss DEP's future, brainstorm, and talk about how to move forward in the publication. Read more about our meeting in the article below by DR Rawson - The Possibilist

Editors DEP Publishing Schedule:

Monday Libby, Tue Vidya, Wed — DR, Th — Preeti, Fri — Gabriella, Sat — Annelise, Sun — Gabriella

We also jump in and help each other when there are a lot of articles in the Que.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨We need your help.

Please check out the volunteer job opening we have at DEP in the article below posted by DR Rawson - The Possibilist

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨Call to Action

This month we created a CALL TO ACTION and many of you have answered. Thank you for everything you do to create a positive change in the world.

Call to action response articles by

Lisa Precious / Smiley Blue

by DR Rawson — The Possibilist

by Dr. Preeti Singh

by Rick Allen

I am grateful for all the positivity DEP writers and authors contribute to the world.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨We begin introducing our new prompts and columns starting with poetry. Thank you for all the lovely poems I received. Poetry round up coming soon.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨We started a new mission to try to get our books into bookstores —

as of now, Gabriella contacted 5 major bookstores.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨We begin our Veterans Day contest. There are 4 more days to enter this contest:

Thank you to those who participated. All of the entries left me with tearful eyes. Beautiful stories.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨I would like to thank you Lisa Precious / Smiley Blue and Sanghita Pal for her thank you to DEP. Warms my heart. 💝💝💝

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨Special thank you to Warren Brown for this amazing article.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨Dr. Gabriella Korosi is on the road, traveling gaining new experiences, and planning to meet with many more amazing DEP writers/authors and Editors this month.

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨A little statistics. Our views, reads, and visits increased by a few thousand last 30 days. Last few months our reads were around 10,000. and our views were around 13,000. Thank you for all of you reading articles in DEP.

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👁‍🗨👁‍🗨Thank you to Saima Saleem for the warm birthday wishes

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨Still time to enter our fall contest.

This morning was an opportunity to record some new videos I had been hoping to do for a while. Check out some new videos from Dr. Gabriella Korosi

Thank you for reading,

Gabriella

👁‍🗨👁‍🗨Wisdom words from DR Rawson - The Possibilist

Dancing Elephant Press Mission Statement by Dr. Gabriella Korosi

Have questions or need clarifications? Do not hesitate to get in touch with us via email at: [email protected] or via a private note, or a comment on this post.

Follow Dancing Elephants Press on Twitter and Facebook and on YouTube

🐘🐘Please e-mail us your contact information so we can add you to our DEP Community on Whatsapp if you are not a participant yet. This invitation is open to any DEP writers.🐘🐘

Dancing Elephants Press Story collections Holistic Journey Toward Wellness (2022), The Joy of Life (2023) and Moments of Eternity (2023) was written by Medium writers and Authors and can be found on multiple online platforms.

With love from your editors:

Dr. Gabriella Korosi, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Dr. Preeti Singh, Annelise Lords, DR Rawson — The Possibilist, and Libby Shively McAvoy

If you like my writing, please follow me here, Subscribe to the Medium platform using my link here, and Buy me a coffee here. My Books are available on my website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Draft2Digital here. Gabriella on Newsbreak here.

For Our Writers: Thank you for being here with us at Dancing Elephants Press and helping spread positivity to the world.

DR Rawson — The Possibilist, Joyce Nielsen, Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox, Antonis Iliakis, Dr. Preeti Singh, Trista Signe Ainsworth, Ayoub Mouhachtt, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Carrie, Cynthia A. Morgan, Cypriano Mokobia, Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards, Filiz Özer, Christina DeFeo, Natalie Gasper, Alejandro Betancourt, Neal Lemery, Art Bram, Victoria Gregg, Jodian Marie Thomas, MS, Bsc, Asc, Sumit Kumar, Siobhan Champion, Synthia Stark, Saif Farooqi, PhD, Rane Kelze, Rahul Anand, Nimity, Nikki Waterson, B.R. Shenoy, Umme Salma, Nathalie Clair, Marrisa W., Kevin J Fellows, Kedy, E. Katherine Kottaras, Judey Kalchik, Darlene Corbett, Holly Faupel, Pius Adejumobi, Bright Okeye, Andreas D., Alex Lorenzen, Agnes Davis, Adam Nathan Wieland, Bridie D, Tamil, Carmen Micsa, Lucia Landini, CARMEN F MICSA, Juana Flor, Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar, Alan Simpson, Nada Chehade, Purbita Chakraborty, Niall Leah, Anjali Joshi, B.R. Shenoy, Suma Narayan, Karen Schwartz, Pene Hodge, Lola Rosario, Vashni Stories, Libby Shively McAvoy, Mary Vraa, Christina, Sally Prag, Bernie Pullen, Bingz Huang, Arup Purkayastha, Jennifer Dunne, Mawde Olssen, Jodie Helm, Erin M., Anaya Nosso, Barbara Cook, DesaraeBlack, Divya Goswami, Misti Lynn, Patricia Pixie❤, David Amato, Omy, Drashti Shroff, Mahein Kazi, Lalitha Brahma, Ticapo, Shev K, Amanda Payne, Amina Giselle, B A Little, Life not abrupt (L.n.a.), Aarti Tailor, Adriianna Lagorio, Amaya Island Girl, Dave Amato, , Paul Gardner, Gulsun Uluer, Janet Mary Cobb (she/her), Jielynne Barao, Jerry Pompilio, Kasturi Patra, Lillian Esther, Mohini Vats, Neera Handa Dr, Neha Sonney, Author, Patrick Parker, Pam Winter, Susie Pinon, AliB, Ron Van Fleet, Shaqib Akram, Zack Harris, Pauline Evanosky, David Stockar, Anurag Paul, Anna Boulas, Blogs by J, Sahil Patel, Deb Fiore, Pam Avila, Buddhi Ruparathna, Kerrie Gutierrez-Diaz, Allisonn Church, The Sturg, Melissa Gray, G. Hobson Goff III, Kennedie, GnanVi_Speaks, Judy Walker, Akemi Sagawa, Malini, Shubha Apte, Leonard Tillerman, From the Mountain ~ Stories & Photos of JD Adams, Sangeetha Shankar, Lswanberg, Lotus Empress, Rupa Mahanti, Doren Damico, Elin Melaas, Enne Baker, Law Of Life, NancyO, Marilyn Glover, Dr. Fatima Imam, Sanghita Pal, William J Spirdione, Hermione Wilds Writes, Benito Bartolo, NomadlandArt, Lisa Precious / Smiley Blue, Phoenix Garcia, Erika Burkhalter, Terry Day, Jenine “Jeni” Baines, Garima Sharma, James Stephens, Mike Riley, Randall Snyder, Leah Lynch, Pratik Asija, The Silent Monk, Christopher Grant, Sebastyan Papp ✨, Warren “Storyteller” Brown, Paul, Krystyna Szul, Tina 🫧 FireWolf 🔥, Every Day Life Improvement, Ravyne Hawke, Neera Handa Dr, Anthony O’Dugan, Janin Lyndovsky, Trisha Faye, Eko BP, Anu Maarit Simard, Lubna Yusuf, Sabih ul hassan, My mind, Nevena Pascaleva, Claudia G. Ciobanu, McCaylee Putney, Priyanka Priyadarshini, Linde Chen, Muhammad Nasrullah Khan, Penofgold, Anthony David Vernon, Angel Axuly, Mike Hickman, Kelli Murbach, Josh E., Michelle Jimerson Morris, Surekha Chandrasekhar, Connie Song, Indirah Ambrose, Vanita Cyril, Amna fayyaz, Dr. Tracy Davis, Douglas Lim, Gael MacLean, Maximilian G. Wolf, Heaven’s Healthy Healing, Nicole Campbell, Kaustubh Deshmukh, Vera-Marie Landi, Izzy Galantino, Rick Allen, Suzie Alexander, 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐢 [𝐡.𝐚.𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞], Chris Yanda, Sharing Randomly, Justin Delay, MHA, MPH, Athena Milios, D. Almand, Audrey Malone, James Boylan, Marmotian, Nathan Chen, Bella Smith ⭐, Joan Didak, Eddie Biggins, Reginald Ben-Halliday, Nicholas Breen, A Shayens Abran, Saima Saleem, Rene Volpi Jr., JB Writes, Lewiscoaches, Bonnie, arun, Leah Hamilton, Esther Olive, Sana Zafar, David Cerqueira, D Writervyas, Nikita Singh, Erie Astin, Aleena G, Vera-Marie Landi, Ramya Ethiraj, Amy Christie, Ashllyn T., K.A poems, Bhavnaa Narula, Claire Kelly, Motaz Majed “My To-Do List is Laughing at Me!!!”, Anish Bhattacharyya, Dr. Nishtha Srivastava, Nancy Stephan, Dr. Seema Patel (PhD), Joanie Adams, Preethi R, Christina Daniels, Nada Shawky, Alison McBain, Julia A. Keirns, Myla Morningstar, Elvira Yuzbay, Joy Wallsten, Areeba Ashrafi, Anandhi Palaniappan, Swathi S, Richard Scott, Oleg Deem, Gary L. Friedman, Deborah Camp, Ida Adams, Chris McCumskey- Part Time Writer & Published Poet, Maryan Pelland OnText.com, Phyllis Haynes, your name goes here

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