Erin Smith: 4Cs!
Sandra Stringer: AWP!
and Brian Kirk, the runner up for both!
thanks to everyone that applied!
12.09.2008
Poet Carlos Reyes rading Dec 10
The Milwaukie Poetry Series Second Season!
A reading by Carlos Reyes
7 PM, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008
The Pond House in Milwaukie, 2215 SE Harrison
Adjacent to the Ledding Library
The Milwaukie Poetry Series Committee and the Ledding Library of Milwaukie are delighted to continue the Second Season of the Milwaukie Poetry Series with a reading by Carlos Reyes.
This will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 7 PM in the Pond House adjacent to the Ledding Library, 2215 SE Harrison, Milwaukie, OR 97222.
Carlos Reyes is an Irish-American poet blessed with an Hispanic name. Carolyn Kizer has said: “Mr. Reyes is one of our local and national treasures. His poetry is as clear and strong as his social conscience. One is always struck by his sensual and sensory qualities: the touch, taste, feel, color of things, and his ability to capture a mood, a world, in a handful of lines.” Poetry books: At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004), A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995), Nightmarks (1990), The Shingle Weaver’s Journal (1980).
His work is widely anthologized: Hunger and Thirst (2008), Simple Vows Anthology (2007) Never Before (2005), Poets Against the War (2003), Urban Nature (2000), A New Geography of American Poets (1992). He is widely published. Translations: Poemas de la Isla / Island Poems by Josefina de la Torre, Obra poética completa / Complete Poetic Works by Jorge Carrera Andrade, La señal del cuervo / Sign of the Crow by Ignacio Ruíz Pérez.
He publishes Trask House Books, Inc., a poetry press. A founding editor of Hubbub magazine, he reviewed poetry for Willamette Week, a Portland weekly. For 27 years he has been a poet-in-the schools in Oregon, Washington and Nevada. He was president and treasurer of the northwest chapter of PEN. He is the recipient of numerous awards.
The Pond House in Milwaukie is a delightful setting and easy to reach. It is located on SE 21st and Harrison in Milwaukie. From Portland travel south on McLoughlin Blvd. (99E) to Harrison St, the first light as you come into Milwaukie. Turn left and the Library is two blocks east.
From Oregon City, Gladstone and Oak Grove and I-205 from Salem, travel north on McLoughlin to Harrison, turn right and go two blocks east again to the Library.
From East Multnomah and Clackamas Counties, go west on Hwy. 224 to the Harrison St. Exit, turn left and go approximately ½ mile to the library.
The Pond House is 1 block east of the library.
We want to thank the City of Milwaukie for its generous support which makes the Series possible. For information about the readings, please contact the Series Coordinator Tom Hogan at 503-819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net or Ledding Library Director Joe Sandfort at 503-786-7584 or SandfortJ@ci.milwaukie.or.us.
It will be a delightful evening. Please join us for this wonderful reading!
Job Opportunity: U of Portland
University of Portland is hiring a visiting assistant professor to teach four journalism/media courses August-December 2009 . Masters Degree minimum. Application letter, vita, transcripts, teaching evals, and three recommendation letters to Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Chair; Dept. of Communication Studies; University of Portland; 5000 Willamette Blvd.; Portland, OR 97203. File review begins December 13.
"Cutbank" contest--deadline Feb 29 '09
CutBank is pleased to announce the second annual Montana Prize in Fiction, the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry.
We are honored to have three talented judges participating in the inaugural year of these contests. The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry will be judged by Noah Eli Gordon. Joy Williams will select the winner of the Montana Prize in Fiction. The winner of the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction will be selected by Brian Bouldrey.
Submissions are accepted December 1 through February 29. Winners receive $500 and publication in CutBank 71. All submissions will be considered for publication in CutBank.
The contests' $13 entry fee includes a one-year, two-issue subscription to CutBank, beginning with the prize issue, CutBank 71.
Please send only your best work. With all three of these awards, we are seeking to highlight work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness.
Full guidelines available at www.cutbankonline .org.
CutBank Literary Magazine
University of Montana
www.cutbankonline. org
12.02.2008
Job Opportunity: Gettysburg College--deadline Jan 31 '09
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH -- EMERGING WRITER LECTURER
One-year appointment, beginning August 2009, for a creative writer who plans a career
that involves college-level teaching, to teach three courses per semester, including
Introduction to Creative Writing and an advanced course in the writer's genre, as well as to
assist with departmental writing activities. Mentorship for teaching and assistance in
professional development provided. M.A., with a concentration in creative writing, M.F.A.,
or Ph.D. with creative dissertation, required. Teaching experience and literary magazine
publications are essential. Competitive salary.
To apply, send letter of application, c.v., the names of three references, and a 5-10 page
writing sample to Emerging Writer Lectureship, Department of English, Box 397,
Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg, PA 17325, postmarked byJanuary
30, 2009. Electronic applications will not be accepted.
Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located within 90 minutes of the
Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area. Established in 1832, the College has a rich
history and is situated on a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of over 2,600 students.
Gettysburg College celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from members of any
group that has been historically underrepresented in the American academy. The College
assures equal employment opportunity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race,
color, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, and disability.
Application Information
Postal Address: Emerging Writer Lectureship
Department of English
Gettysburg College
300 North Washington Street
Box 397
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: (717) 337-6750
Fax: (717) 337-8551
TDD: (717) 337-6833
One-year appointment, beginning August 2009, for a creative writer who plans a career
that involves college-level teaching, to teach three courses per semester, including
Introduction to Creative Writing and an advanced course in the writer's genre, as well as to
assist with departmental writing activities. Mentorship for teaching and assistance in
professional development provided. M.A., with a concentration in creative writing, M.F.A.,
or Ph.D. with creative dissertation, required. Teaching experience and literary magazine
publications are essential. Competitive salary.
To apply, send letter of application, c.v., the names of three references, and a 5-10 page
writing sample to Emerging Writer Lectureship, Department of English, Box 397,
Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg, PA 17325, postmarked byJanuary
30, 2009. Electronic applications will not be accepted.
Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located within 90 minutes of the
Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area. Established in 1832, the College has a rich
history and is situated on a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of over 2,600 students.
Gettysburg College celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from members of any
group that has been historically underrepresented in the American academy. The College
assures equal employment opportunity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race,
color, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, and disability.
Application Information
Postal Address: Emerging Writer Lectureship
Department of English
Gettysburg College
300 North Washington Street
Box 397
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: (717) 337-6750
Fax: (717) 337-8551
TDD: (717) 337-6833
11.25.2008
Portland Literary Events: Dec 7th Book Signing
December 7th at 23rd Avenue Books (1015 NW 23rd Avenue in Portland) four local authors will be in attendance to do a book signing: Judy Jewell, Maura Conlon-Mcivor, George Byron Wright, and Ursula Le Guinn.
The event runs from 3-5. There will be books available for purchase and Urusula has been kind enough to supply some titles and will be giving all of the sales of her books to the store.
The event runs from 3-5. There will be books available for purchase and Urusula has been kind enough to supply some titles and will be giving all of the sales of her books to the store.
"Pathos" Fall Term Release Party Nov 25th 7 - 10 PM
Pathos, PSU's student literary magazine, is hosting their fall term release party tonight, Tuesday, Nov 25th, from 7 - 10 PM in Food for Thought Cafe (basement of Smith).
Non-Fiction writer and professor Debra Gwartney will be speaking tonight.
Free food!
I hope that if you can make it, you do! Come out and support local literary events.
Non-Fiction writer and professor Debra Gwartney will be speaking tonight.
Free food!
I hope that if you can make it, you do! Come out and support local literary events.
Summer Fishtrap Workshops! -- deadline Jan 31, 09
Summer Fellowships
Each year, Fishtrap, Inc. awards up to five Fellowships valued at $1000 for Summer Fishtrap Workshops and Gathering, held every July at Wallowa Lake, Oregon. Awards are made on the basis of writing submission only, and are not limited to any one genre. Submissions should follow the Fishtrap mission, which is to promote "good writing in and about the West." Therefore, applicants should be from the West, or writing of the West. Fellowships cover the cost of a workshop, registration for the Gathering, and food and lodging for the week. A small travel stipend is also included.
It is the goal of Fishtrap's Fellowship program to recognize and encourage emerging writers. Previous Fellows include novelists Kathleen Tyau and Michael FitzGerald, poets Charles Goodrich and Marilyn Johnston, short fiction writer Kelly Magee, and non-fiction writer Ellie Waterston.
Because we now receive a high volume of Fellowship applications, we are unable to accept applications that don't follow the guidelines stated below. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT ACCEPT ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS. Thanks for reading these guidelines carefully.
Here's what to include in your Fellowship application:
A writing sample:
Material can be published or unpublished but MUST be in manuscript form, typed or printed– double-spaced for prose.
Writer's name MUST NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript.
Prose –fiction or non-fiction– 2500 words maximum; poetry 8 pages maximum.
If the work is from a book-length manuscript, you may send a half-page introduction in addition to the 2500 word selection.
DO NOT FOLD. Please use a 9" x 12" envelope to mail your manuscript flat.
Brief author's bio: The bio is not used in judging, but in publicizing winners.
Other optional enclosures: Self addressed stamped postcard if you'd like to be notified upon reciept of your manuscript. If you include an email address, this is the default method for receipt notification.
SASE if you want your manuscript returned to you. Make sure it has sufficient postage. If you do not provide a SASE with sufficient postage we'll dispose of the manuscript.
Fellowship applications must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2009. Awards will be made by March 27. Mail your application to: Fishtrap Fellowship c/o Fishtrap, PO Box 38, Enterprise, OR 97828
All applications will be read by a preliminary judging panel of current and/or past members of the Fishtrap Board of Directors. Final judging will be done by 2009 faculty members. None of the judges will see any information about the applicant, only the manuscript.
11.24.2008
Poetry Contest--Deadline Jan 16 '09
"Discovery"/Boston Review 2009 Poetry Contest:
The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes
Now in its fifth decade, the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest, formerly "Discovery"/The Nation, is designed to attract large audiences to poets who have not yet published a book. For the second year, the Poetry Center is proud to partner with Boston Review. Four winners are awarded a reading at the Y (set for Monday, May 11, 2009, 8:15pm), publication in Boston Review and $500. Timothy Donnelly, poetry editor at Boston Review, coordinates the contest, and three leading poets are invited to judge. We're pleased to announce that Mary Jo Bang, Terrance Hayes and Mark Strand will judge in 2009. Many winners of this contest have gone on to distinguished careers as poets, among them Marilyn Hacker, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Nick Flynn, and Gary Soto.
Guidelines:
1. The contest is open to poets who have not published a book of poems (chapbooks and self-published books
included). Those who have a book contract at the time of submission or who are subsequently awarded a book
contract are not eligible for the contest if their book is scheduled for publication before Fall 2009. Individual
poems that have been or will be published in periodicals or anthologies may be submitted; however, at least two
of the submitted poems must be unpublished and under two pages in length.
2. Submit four identical sets of a typed ten-page manuscript. Each set is to contain the same ten pages in the
same order. Include no more than one poem per page. NO personal identification should appear on any of the
poems; no copyright attributions for previously published poems should appear on the poems.
3. Photocopied manuscripts are acceptable. However, in the case of previously published poems, do not send
photocopied pages of the periodical or book in which the poem(s) originally appeared.
4. Please staple each manuscript; do not use paper clips.
5. Enclose ONE cover letter including your name, address and day and evening telephone numbers, as well
as a list of the submitted poems in the order in which they appear, with copyright attributions for published
poems. Do not attach this cover letter to the manuscripts.
6. An entry fee of $10.00 must accompany the submission. Please make checks (drawn on U.S. banks only) or
money orders (in U.S. currency only) payable to the 92nd Street Y, and attach them to your cover letter. DO
NOT SEND CASH.
7. All poems must be original and in English (no translations).
8. No contestant may submit more than one entry. No corrections can be accepted after receipt of the contest
submission.
9. Entries must be received by Friday, January 16, 2009. If you wish to receive confirmation of receipt of
your manuscript, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard (not envelope) and allow several weeks for
its return. Due to the large number of submission received, manuscripts cannot be returned. Winners will be
contacted by telephone in March 2009; all contest entrants will be mailed the names of the winners shortly
thereafter.
10. No phone queries can be taken, either to inquire about contest guidelines or to request the names of
winners. If you wish to hear a recording of the guidelines, or to receive another set of these guidelines in the
mail, call 212.415.5759. These guidelines are also available at: www.92Y.org/poetry.
Mail contest submissions to:
"Discovery"/Boston Review 2009
Unterberg Poetry Center
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes
Now in its fifth decade, the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest, formerly "Discovery"/The Nation, is designed to attract large audiences to poets who have not yet published a book. For the second year, the Poetry Center is proud to partner with Boston Review. Four winners are awarded a reading at the Y (set for Monday, May 11, 2009, 8:15pm), publication in Boston Review and $500. Timothy Donnelly, poetry editor at Boston Review, coordinates the contest, and three leading poets are invited to judge. We're pleased to announce that Mary Jo Bang, Terrance Hayes and Mark Strand will judge in 2009. Many winners of this contest have gone on to distinguished careers as poets, among them Marilyn Hacker, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Nick Flynn, and Gary Soto.
Guidelines:
1. The contest is open to poets who have not published a book of poems (chapbooks and self-published books
included). Those who have a book contract at the time of submission or who are subsequently awarded a book
contract are not eligible for the contest if their book is scheduled for publication before Fall 2009. Individual
poems that have been or will be published in periodicals or anthologies may be submitted; however, at least two
of the submitted poems must be unpublished and under two pages in length.
2. Submit four identical sets of a typed ten-page manuscript. Each set is to contain the same ten pages in the
same order. Include no more than one poem per page. NO personal identification should appear on any of the
poems; no copyright attributions for previously published poems should appear on the poems.
3. Photocopied manuscripts are acceptable. However, in the case of previously published poems, do not send
photocopied pages of the periodical or book in which the poem(s) originally appeared.
4. Please staple each manuscript; do not use paper clips.
5. Enclose ONE cover letter including your name, address and day and evening telephone numbers, as well
as a list of the submitted poems in the order in which they appear, with copyright attributions for published
poems. Do not attach this cover letter to the manuscripts.
6. An entry fee of $10.00 must accompany the submission. Please make checks (drawn on U.S. banks only) or
money orders (in U.S. currency only) payable to the 92nd Street Y, and attach them to your cover letter. DO
NOT SEND CASH.
7. All poems must be original and in English (no translations).
8. No contestant may submit more than one entry. No corrections can be accepted after receipt of the contest
submission.
9. Entries must be received by Friday, January 16, 2009. If you wish to receive confirmation of receipt of
your manuscript, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard (not envelope) and allow several weeks for
its return. Due to the large number of submission received, manuscripts cannot be returned. Winners will be
contacted by telephone in March 2009; all contest entrants will be mailed the names of the winners shortly
thereafter.
10. No phone queries can be taken, either to inquire about contest guidelines or to request the names of
winners. If you wish to hear a recording of the guidelines, or to receive another set of these guidelines in the
mail, call 212.415.5759. These guidelines are also available at: www.92Y.org/poetry.
Mail contest submissions to:
"Discovery"/Boston Review 2009
Unterberg Poetry Center
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
11.17.2008
Things to know: here there and everywhere
* PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP : Workshop on Teaching at Community Colleges,Tuesday, November 18th, 7:00-8:30 PM, SMU 298
GLO has invited local community college instructors to come speak about their experiences in teaching, how they got where they are today, and what graduate students need to know to prepare themselves for teaching positions. These are full time instructors representing three different colleges.
Our guest speakers will be:
Jill Darley-Vanis - full-time English instructor at Clark Community College. Jill earned her M.A. at Portland State University.
Tom Huminski - full-time instructor of composition and literature at Portland Community College. Tom earned his M.A. at Portland State University.
Ryan Davis - Now a full-time instructor at Clackamas Community College, Ryan previously worked as an adjunct, or part-time instructor, at numerous other colleges and universities. Ryan earned his M.A. from Mississippi State University.
Carol Burnell - Carol works at Clackamas Community College and she also graduated from PSU with her M.A. in English. She also worked at PSU's Writing Center, and is now the coordinator of CCC's Writing Center, as well as a full-time instructor.
Please come to SMU 298 on Tuesday from 7:00-8:30 PM to hear wonderful insights and valuable job tips. This will be an open discussion, giving you a chance to hear answers to your questions.
These friendly faculty are enthusiastic about what they do and excited to help graduate students learn more about possible job opportunities. If you have ever thought of teaching at a community college, or at any other level, you should not miss this event!
* Blackfeet Writer STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES to read from his latest book, Ledfeather, on Wednesday, November 19th, from 12- 2 in the Multicultural Center, followed by a Q & A from 3-5, and then again from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Native American Student and Community Center, 710 SW Jackson (Broadway and Jackson), in Portland. Sponsored by Portland State University Studies, Native American Studies, Multicultural Center, Office of Diversity and Equity, Department of English, and Graduate Literary Organization.
Free event! Free refreshments. Books will be available for purchase. There will be time following the reading for questions.
"Stephen Graham Jones writes every line in blood from the deepest recesses of his heart." –slushpile.net
"Stephen Graham Jones is a thinking man's writer who possesses the uncanny ability to lay all of his cards out on the table yet keep readers from seeing his hand." –Dark Scribe Magazine
Jones' published novels include: Ledfeather (2008); The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti (2008); The Fast Red Road - A Plainsong; All the Beautiful Sinners; The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto; and Demon Theory. His short story collection is titled, Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories.
Jones has won several awards, including: Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction (2005) Finalist, Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction (2004)
First Prize, Writer's League of Texas Fellowship in Literature (2002), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature: Fiction (2001), Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction (2001) nFinalist, Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, and Texas Institute of Letters (2001).
* BOOK DRIVE is going on for the next two weeks. We will have boxes set up outside the Writing Center (188F in CH) and the English Department office. All books will be donated to a local literacy program.
* CONFERENCE essays due on Friday, Nov 21 by 5 pm!!! GLO is hosting two contests--one for the CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) in San Francisco March 11-14, 2009; and AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in Chicago February 11-14, 2009. If you win, you get to go to your choice of conferencefor almost FREE!! That means, we pay the registration, flight, hotel--you'll be responsible for food, etc; that's a great deal!
Here are the guidelines:
Write a 500 word "essay" about what you planning on doing with your degree--going on to teach, write, PhD, join the circus? If you want to include how the conference will benefit you and what you're ultimate plans are, go for it. Write with finesse, style, charisma...show our judges what you've been learning in those grad classes!
The entries will be blind--simply put a cover sheet with your name, contact info, and WHAT CONFERENCE YOU'RE APPLYING FOR on your submission. On the submission itself, do not put your name or contact info--if you do, we'll have to disqualify you and that would be :-(
Judges are: Professor Hildy Miller for the CCCC and Professors Michele Glazer and Debra Gwartney for the AWP conference.
Leave all entries in the EGO or WEGO mailbox in the English Dept office. We like to think of them as GLO's one, giant mailbox.
ALL CONTEST ENTRIES ARE DUE BY 5 PM NOVEMBER 21.
Winners will be announced December 8th, 2008! :-)
We encourage everyone to submit--this is a great opportunity that you won't want to pass up!
Third Thursday Poets
Third Thursday Poets gives thanks with a cornucopia of poetry.
The October event will be Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.in the Alumni Lounge in the Putnam University Center at Willamette University. The media is encouraged to attend. The theme for the reading is "Thanksgiving."
Featured poets will be Stephanie Lenox, Paulann Peterson, and Peter Sears.
Stephanie Lenox received an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho and a BA in Literature and Writing from WhitworthUniversity. Her work can be found in Crab Orchard Review, GulfCoast, Seattle Review, and Washington Square, among others, and online in DIAGRAM and AGNI. The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, a chapbook of poems inspired by record holders, human superlatives, and ludicrous acts, won the 2007 Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2006, nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize, and published as a limited-edition broadside by the Center for Book Arts. She is a recipient of a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. She works in promotions at a children's museum in Salem, Oregon, and co-edits the online literary journal Blood Orange Review.
Paulann Petersen is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University whose poems have appeared in many publications including Poetry, The NewRepublic, Prairie Schooner, and Wilderness Magazine. She has three chapbooks (Under theSign of a Neon Wolf, The Animal Bride, and Fabrication). Her first full-length collection of poems, The Wild Awake, was published by Confluence Press in 2002. A second, Blood-Silk, poems about Turkey, was published by Quiet Lion Press of Portland in 2004. Another, A Bride of Narrow Escape was published by Cloudbank Books as part of its Northwest Poetry Series in 2006 and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A fourth collection, Kindle, is just out from Mountains and Rivers Press.
Her work has been selected for Poetry Daily on the Internet, and for Poetry in Motion, which puts poems on busses and light rail cars in the Portland metropolitan area. In addition to having taught high school English (at West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon, and at Mazama High School, KlamathFalls, Oregon), she's been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, Mountain Writers Series, OCTE and NCTE Conferences, and the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. The recipient of the 2006 Literary Arts Stewart Holbrook Award for Outstanding Contributions to Oregon's Literary Life, she serves on the board for Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January William Stafford Birthday Events.
Cloudbank Books published Peter Sears's fifth chapbook "Luge" in June of 2008, and third next full-length collection "Green Diver" is due out in the fall of 2009. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Saturday Review, New York Times, Rolling Stones, The Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Orion, and many literary journals and anthologies. He teaches at the Pacific University Writing Program in Forest Grove, Oregon. He lives in Corvallis.
WillametteUniversity is located at 900 State Street SE in Salem. For more information, contact Maureen Clifford at maureen@thirdthursdaypoets.org.
* WORDS FOR GIVING THANKS--HARVESTED FOR THE RADICALLY GRATEFUL
Celebrate the season for change with these four local activist-authors: Miriam Feder, Jane Glazer, Willa Schneberg and Evelyn Sharenov, as they read their work at 6:30 PM on Sunday, November 30 at Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe in downtown Lake Oswego. Books, broadsides available for purchase and signing.
Free and open to the public.
Arrive early enough to order chocolate and beverages before the program begins.
$5 Free will offering welcomed to support Haitian orphanage.
Contact: 503-697-7097 for directions
45 South State Street in downtown Lake Oswego, OR 97034
* Talking Earth Monday, November 17, 10-11 PM PST, KBOO 90.7 FM
Excerpts From Blog Entry Sep 13, 2008
Stumbles with Charlie:
There are just a couple of points I want to clear up from my little sit-down with Charlie Gibson on 9/11 here in Fairbanks, the second-largest city in the great state of Alaska (population almost 35,000!).
First, Charlie asked me about the Bush Doctrine, and a lot of people seem to think I looked kinda stupid, like I was stumblin' and didn't really know what he was talkin' about. The truth is, I was just a little confused. I thought he was sayin' the Bush doctorin'....
Let me be clear. I totally agree with the Bush DOC-TRINE, which states that, basically, the president can go and blow the heck out of anyone he sees fit to if they're, ya know, lookin' at us funny or whatever. As you all know, like George Bush, I'm all for shootin' first and askin' questions later. The second thing I want to address is when I told Charlie we might need to go to war with Russia to protect Georgia.... If you go way out to the Bering Straits and stand on Little Diomede Island, which is part of Alaska, you can see Big Diomede Island, which is Russian. You can literally wave to a Russian guy over there. And then, while he's busy wavin' back, you can pick up a rocket launcher and blow him to kingdom come. Like I told Charlie, you can't blink in those situations. Cause if you blink, that Russian might think you're winkin' at him, and then he might get the wrong idea and think you're a gay, and as we all know, bein' gay is an abomination in God's eyes and of course a sign of weakness, and if a Russian sees any sign of weakness he will attack, which brings us back to Georgia.
Now I'm not sayin' Georgia is gay, but it is a girl's name, after all. So maybe Russia thought, here's this little, weak country with a girly name, let's go ahead and invade. What are they gonna do? Hit us with their little girly purses? So let this be a lesson to all countries out there with girly or gay-soundin' names. And yes, I'm lookin' at you, Chad. You'd be a lot better off if you just changed your name to something tough. Like, I dunno, Grenada. I mean, you say "Grenada," what's the first thing that comes to mind? A grenade! Who's gonna attack a country that sounds like a small explosive, pin-activated device? No one!...
From "The Palin Prophecies"
by Brent Mooseburger
Ken Arnold Books
2008
Ken Arnold and Connie Kirk, publishers and editors for the new Ken Arnold Books, join forces to read from their new offering "The Palin Prophecies," and to talk about the press and on-demand publishing. According to Connie and Ken, "The Palin Prophecies" was brought to them by an Alaskan Pentecostal sports reporter, Brent Mooseburger. Mooseburger claims that,with the cooperation of God Almighty, he channeled Sarah Palin in a daily blog in the weeks leading up to the election.
Ken is a poet, non-fiction writer and prize-winning playwright. Connie is a poet, essayist and children's book author. Brent Mooseburger is a suspicious character.
VERSE IN PERSON, Wednesday, November 19, 7-8 PM.
Northwest Branch Library, 23 & NW Thurman
Free
Three new voices featured in VIP tonight: Mark Alter, Heidi Greenwald and Jeff Ettlin. Mark and Heidi are cutting their reading teeth, while Jeff shares material from his newest chapbook, "Poem Pie." Come for a slice of literary pie and comeraderie. Free.
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A Note from Barbara
In the new KBOO line-up, Talking Earth will be broadcasting on the second (Walt Curtis) and third (Barbara LaMorticella) Mondays of every month, from 10-11 PM. I will be personally contacting the many people who called, wrote and pledged generously to KBOO in response to last month's call for support. While I am disappointed that the overall time for a pure poetry program has been (for the moment) cut back, there is also an element of liberation involved for Walt and I, as we both need to spend time on our own poetry and art.
We will both continue to urge that more time be allocated to on-air poetry, and we hope you will also-- not for more air time for Walt and I, but for live poetry on air in general. You proved with your flood of support that there is an enthusiastic audience for a general poetry show, not limited to a particular clique or age or genre, but broadly representative of the whole spectrum of poetry writing going on today.
The new Monday night line-up, broadcasting from 8 PM on every monday night, will feature new, experimental, live and eclectic music, performance pieces, and live theater, with two hours of "pure poetry," (and sometimes very impure poetry) each month, hosted by Walt and myself. For the inaugural program on this new strip, I join in the spirit of radio theater by featuring a theatrical reading, in monologue and dialogue form.
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GLO has invited local community college instructors to come speak about their experiences in teaching, how they got where they are today, and what graduate students need to know to prepare themselves for teaching positions. These are full time instructors representing three different colleges.
Our guest speakers will be:
Jill Darley-Vanis - full-time English instructor at Clark Community College. Jill earned her M.A. at Portland State University.
Tom Huminski - full-time instructor of composition and literature at Portland Community College. Tom earned his M.A. at Portland State University.
Ryan Davis - Now a full-time instructor at Clackamas Community College, Ryan previously worked as an adjunct, or part-time instructor, at numerous other colleges and universities. Ryan earned his M.A. from Mississippi State University.
Carol Burnell - Carol works at Clackamas Community College and she also graduated from PSU with her M.A. in English. She also worked at PSU's Writing Center, and is now the coordinator of CCC's Writing Center, as well as a full-time instructor.
Please come to SMU 298 on Tuesday from 7:00-8:30 PM to hear wonderful insights and valuable job tips. This will be an open discussion, giving you a chance to hear answers to your questions.
These friendly faculty are enthusiastic about what they do and excited to help graduate students learn more about possible job opportunities. If you have ever thought of teaching at a community college, or at any other level, you should not miss this event!
* Blackfeet Writer STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES to read from his latest book, Ledfeather, on Wednesday, November 19th, from 12- 2 in the Multicultural Center, followed by a Q & A from 3-5, and then again from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Native American Student and Community Center, 710 SW Jackson (Broadway and Jackson), in Portland. Sponsored by Portland State University Studies, Native American Studies, Multicultural Center, Office of Diversity and Equity, Department of English, and Graduate Literary Organization.
Free event! Free refreshments. Books will be available for purchase. There will be time following the reading for questions.
"Stephen Graham Jones writes every line in blood from the deepest recesses of his heart." –slushpile.net
"Stephen Graham Jones is a thinking man's writer who possesses the uncanny ability to lay all of his cards out on the table yet keep readers from seeing his hand." –Dark Scribe Magazine
Jones' published novels include: Ledfeather (2008); The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti (2008); The Fast Red Road - A Plainsong; All the Beautiful Sinners; The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto; and Demon Theory. His short story collection is titled, Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories.
Jones has won several awards, including: Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction (2005) Finalist, Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction (2004)
First Prize, Writer's League of Texas Fellowship in Literature (2002), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature: Fiction (2001), Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction (2001) nFinalist, Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, and Texas Institute of Letters (2001).
* BOOK DRIVE is going on for the next two weeks. We will have boxes set up outside the Writing Center (188F in CH) and the English Department office. All books will be donated to a local literacy program.
* CONFERENCE essays due on Friday, Nov 21 by 5 pm!!! GLO is hosting two contests--one for the CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) in San Francisco March 11-14, 2009; and AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in Chicago February 11-14, 2009. If you win, you get to go to your choice of conferencefor almost FREE!! That means, we pay the registration, flight, hotel--you'll be responsible for food, etc; that's a great deal!
Here are the guidelines:
Write a 500 word "essay" about what you planning on doing with your degree--going on to teach, write, PhD, join the circus? If you want to include how the conference will benefit you and what you're ultimate plans are, go for it. Write with finesse, style, charisma...show our judges what you've been learning in those grad classes!
The entries will be blind--simply put a cover sheet with your name, contact info, and WHAT CONFERENCE YOU'RE APPLYING FOR on your submission. On the submission itself, do not put your name or contact info--if you do, we'll have to disqualify you and that would be :-(
Judges are: Professor Hildy Miller for the CCCC and Professors Michele Glazer and Debra Gwartney for the AWP conference.
Leave all entries in the EGO or WEGO mailbox in the English Dept office. We like to think of them as GLO's one, giant mailbox.
ALL CONTEST ENTRIES ARE DUE BY 5 PM NOVEMBER 21.
Winners will be announced December 8th, 2008! :-)
We encourage everyone to submit--this is a great opportunity that you won't want to pass up!
Third Thursday Poets
- T h a n k s g i v i n g
Third Thursday Poets gives thanks with a cornucopia of poetry.
The October event will be Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.in the Alumni Lounge in the Putnam University Center at Willamette University. The media is encouraged to attend. The theme for the reading is "Thanksgiving."
Featured poets will be Stephanie Lenox, Paulann Peterson, and Peter Sears.
Stephanie Lenox received an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho and a BA in Literature and Writing from WhitworthUniversity. Her work can be found in Crab Orchard Review, GulfCoast, Seattle Review, and Washington Square, among others, and online in DIAGRAM and AGNI. The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, a chapbook of poems inspired by record holders, human superlatives, and ludicrous acts, won the 2007 Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2006, nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize, and published as a limited-edition broadside by the Center for Book Arts. She is a recipient of a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. She works in promotions at a children's museum in Salem, Oregon, and co-edits the online literary journal Blood Orange Review.
Paulann Petersen is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University whose poems have appeared in many publications including Poetry, The NewRepublic, Prairie Schooner, and Wilderness Magazine. She has three chapbooks (Under theSign of a Neon Wolf, The Animal Bride, and Fabrication). Her first full-length collection of poems, The Wild Awake, was published by Confluence Press in 2002. A second, Blood-Silk, poems about Turkey, was published by Quiet Lion Press of Portland in 2004. Another, A Bride of Narrow Escape was published by Cloudbank Books as part of its Northwest Poetry Series in 2006 and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A fourth collection, Kindle, is just out from Mountains and Rivers Press.
Her work has been selected for Poetry Daily on the Internet, and for Poetry in Motion, which puts poems on busses and light rail cars in the Portland metropolitan area. In addition to having taught high school English (at West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon, and at Mazama High School, KlamathFalls, Oregon), she's been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, Mountain Writers Series, OCTE and NCTE Conferences, and the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. The recipient of the 2006 Literary Arts Stewart Holbrook Award for Outstanding Contributions to Oregon's Literary Life, she serves on the board for Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January William Stafford Birthday Events.
Cloudbank Books published Peter Sears's fifth chapbook "Luge" in June of 2008, and third next full-length collection "Green Diver" is due out in the fall of 2009. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Saturday Review, New York Times, Rolling Stones, The Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Orion, and many literary journals and anthologies. He teaches at the Pacific University Writing Program in Forest Grove, Oregon. He lives in Corvallis.
WillametteUniversity is located at 900 State Street SE in Salem. For more information, contact Maureen Clifford at maureen@thirdthursdaypoets.org.
* WORDS FOR GIVING THANKS--HARVESTED FOR THE RADICALLY GRATEFUL
Celebrate the season for change with these four local activist-authors: Miriam Feder, Jane Glazer, Willa Schneberg and Evelyn Sharenov, as they read their work at 6:30 PM on Sunday, November 30 at Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe in downtown Lake Oswego. Books, broadsides available for purchase and signing.
Free and open to the public.
Arrive early enough to order chocolate and beverages before the program begins.
$5 Free will offering welcomed to support Haitian orphanage.
Contact: 503-697-7097 for directions
45 South State Street in downtown Lake Oswego, OR 97034
* Talking Earth Monday, November 17, 10-11 PM PST, KBOO 90.7 FM
Excerpts From Blog Entry Sep 13, 2008
Stumbles with Charlie:
There are just a couple of points I want to clear up from my little sit-down with Charlie Gibson on 9/11 here in Fairbanks, the second-largest city in the great state of Alaska (population almost 35,000!).
First, Charlie asked me about the Bush Doctrine, and a lot of people seem to think I looked kinda stupid, like I was stumblin' and didn't really know what he was talkin' about. The truth is, I was just a little confused. I thought he was sayin' the Bush doctorin'....
Let me be clear. I totally agree with the Bush DOC-TRINE, which states that, basically, the president can go and blow the heck out of anyone he sees fit to if they're, ya know, lookin' at us funny or whatever. As you all know, like George Bush, I'm all for shootin' first and askin' questions later. The second thing I want to address is when I told Charlie we might need to go to war with Russia to protect Georgia.... If you go way out to the Bering Straits and stand on Little Diomede Island, which is part of Alaska, you can see Big Diomede Island, which is Russian. You can literally wave to a Russian guy over there. And then, while he's busy wavin' back, you can pick up a rocket launcher and blow him to kingdom come. Like I told Charlie, you can't blink in those situations. Cause if you blink, that Russian might think you're winkin' at him, and then he might get the wrong idea and think you're a gay, and as we all know, bein' gay is an abomination in God's eyes and of course a sign of weakness, and if a Russian sees any sign of weakness he will attack, which brings us back to Georgia.
Now I'm not sayin' Georgia is gay, but it is a girl's name, after all. So maybe Russia thought, here's this little, weak country with a girly name, let's go ahead and invade. What are they gonna do? Hit us with their little girly purses? So let this be a lesson to all countries out there with girly or gay-soundin' names. And yes, I'm lookin' at you, Chad. You'd be a lot better off if you just changed your name to something tough. Like, I dunno, Grenada. I mean, you say "Grenada," what's the first thing that comes to mind? A grenade! Who's gonna attack a country that sounds like a small explosive, pin-activated device? No one!...
From "The Palin Prophecies"
by Brent Mooseburger
Ken Arnold Books
2008
Ken Arnold and Connie Kirk, publishers and editors for the new Ken Arnold Books, join forces to read from their new offering "The Palin Prophecies," and to talk about the press and on-demand publishing. According to Connie and Ken, "The Palin Prophecies" was brought to them by an Alaskan Pentecostal sports reporter, Brent Mooseburger. Mooseburger claims that,with the cooperation of God Almighty, he channeled Sarah Palin in a daily blog in the weeks leading up to the election.
Ken is a poet, non-fiction writer and prize-winning playwright. Connie is a poet, essayist and children's book author. Brent Mooseburger is a suspicious character.
VERSE IN PERSON, Wednesday, November 19, 7-8 PM.
Northwest Branch Library, 23 & NW Thurman
Free
Three new voices featured in VIP tonight: Mark Alter, Heidi Greenwald and Jeff Ettlin. Mark and Heidi are cutting their reading teeth, while Jeff shares material from his newest chapbook, "Poem Pie." Come for a slice of literary pie and comeraderie. Free.
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A Note from Barbara
In the new KBOO line-up, Talking Earth will be broadcasting on the second (Walt Curtis) and third (Barbara LaMorticella) Mondays of every month, from 10-11 PM. I will be personally contacting the many people who called, wrote and pledged generously to KBOO in response to last month's call for support. While I am disappointed that the overall time for a pure poetry program has been (for the moment) cut back, there is also an element of liberation involved for Walt and I, as we both need to spend time on our own poetry and art.
We will both continue to urge that more time be allocated to on-air poetry, and we hope you will also-- not for more air time for Walt and I, but for live poetry on air in general. You proved with your flood of support that there is an enthusiastic audience for a general poetry show, not limited to a particular clique or age or genre, but broadly representative of the whole spectrum of poetry writing going on today.
The new Monday night line-up, broadcasting from 8 PM on every monday night, will feature new, experimental, live and eclectic music, performance pieces, and live theater, with two hours of "pure poetry," (and sometimes very impure poetry) each month, hosted by Walt and myself. For the inaugural program on this new strip, I join in the spirit of radio theater by featuring a theatrical reading, in monologue and dialogue form.
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11.13.2008
"Georgetown Review" Contest--deadline Nov 15
2009 Georgetown Review Contest
$1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on any theme or subject. All genres welcome.
http://georgetownre view.georgetownc ollege.edu/ grcontest. htm
Submissions must be postmarked by on or before November 15, 2008.
Entry fee is $10 for the first entry, $5 for each entry thereafter. One poem, story, or essay counts as one entry. Please make out checks or money orders to "Georgetown Review."
If you want your work returned or want to receive a notice about the winner and runners-up, you must send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope. However, we will post a list of the work we choose on our website after the contest is judged, and we will do our best to have this list up by February 2009.
The magazine’s editors will judge.
Simultaneous and multiple submissions are okay. Your name can appear on your work as well, and in fact, we prefer that your name, address and email address appear on your entries. We have a small editorial staff and would not award the prize to any colleagues, students, or friends. You do not need a cover sheet.
All entries are considered for publication. In the 2008 contest, 20 runner-up works were selected for publication. If your work is published,Georgetow n Review acquires first North American rights, which means that after we publish the piece the rights to it revert back to you.
Send entries to:
2009 Contest
Georgetown Review
400 East College Street
Box 227
Georgetown, KY 40324
$1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on any theme or subject. All genres welcome.
http://georgetownre view.georgetownc ollege.edu/ grcontest. htm
Submissions must be postmarked by on or before November 15, 2008.
Entry fee is $10 for the first entry, $5 for each entry thereafter. One poem, story, or essay counts as one entry. Please make out checks or money orders to "Georgetown Review."
If you want your work returned or want to receive a notice about the winner and runners-up, you must send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope. However, we will post a list of the work we choose on our website after the contest is judged, and we will do our best to have this list up by February 2009.
The magazine’s editors will judge.
Simultaneous and multiple submissions are okay. Your name can appear on your work as well, and in fact, we prefer that your name, address and email address appear on your entries. We have a small editorial staff and would not award the prize to any colleagues, students, or friends. You do not need a cover sheet.
All entries are considered for publication. In the 2008 contest, 20 runner-up works were selected for publication. If your work is published,Georgetow n Review acquires first North American rights, which means that after we publish the piece the rights to it revert back to you.
Send entries to:
2009 Contest
Georgetown Review
400 East College Street
Box 227
Georgetown, KY 40324
Professional Developement Workshop--Tues Nov 18th!!
Workshop on Teaching at Community Colleges
Tuesday, November 18th
7:00-8:30
SMU 298
GLO has invited local community college instructors to come speak about their experiences in teaching, how they got where they are today, and what graduate students need to know to prepare themselves for teaching positions. These are full time instructors representing three different colleges.
Our guest speakers will be:
Jill Darley-Vanis - full-time English instructor at Clark Community College. Jill earned her M.A. at Portland State University.
Tom Huminski - full-time instructor of composition and literature at Portland Community College. Tom earned his M.A. at Portland State University.
Ryan Davis - Now a full-time instructor at Clackamas Community College, Ryan previously worked as an adjunct, or part-time instructor, at numerous other colleges and universities. Ryan earned his M.A. from Mississippi State University.
Carol Burnell - Carol works at Clackamas Community College and she also graduated from PSU with her M.A. in English. She also worked at PSU's Writing Center, and is now the coordinator of CCC's Writing Center, as well as a full-time instructor.
Please come to SMU 298 on Tuesday from 7:00-8:30 to hear wonderful insights and valuable job tips. This will be an open discussion, giving you a chance to hear answers to your questions.
These friendly faculty are enthusiastic about what they do and excited to help graduate students learn more about possible job opportunities. If you have ever thought of teaching at a community college, or at any other level, you should not miss this event!
Tuesday, November 18th
7:00-8:30
SMU 298
GLO has invited local community college instructors to come speak about their experiences in teaching, how they got where they are today, and what graduate students need to know to prepare themselves for teaching positions. These are full time instructors representing three different colleges.
Our guest speakers will be:
Jill Darley-Vanis - full-time English instructor at Clark Community College. Jill earned her M.A. at Portland State University.
Tom Huminski - full-time instructor of composition and literature at Portland Community College. Tom earned his M.A. at Portland State University.
Ryan Davis - Now a full-time instructor at Clackamas Community College, Ryan previously worked as an adjunct, or part-time instructor, at numerous other colleges and universities. Ryan earned his M.A. from Mississippi State University.
Carol Burnell - Carol works at Clackamas Community College and she also graduated from PSU with her M.A. in English. She also worked at PSU's Writing Center, and is now the coordinator of CCC's Writing Center, as well as a full-time instructor.
Please come to SMU 298 on Tuesday from 7:00-8:30 to hear wonderful insights and valuable job tips. This will be an open discussion, giving you a chance to hear answers to your questions.
These friendly faculty are enthusiastic about what they do and excited to help graduate students learn more about possible job opportunities. If you have ever thought of teaching at a community college, or at any other level, you should not miss this event!
PSU Poets to Read for UNST TEACHING & RESEARCH SERIES, THUR. 11/20
UNST TEACHING AND RESEARCH SERIES CONTINUES, THURSDAY, NOV. 20:
We are very pleased to continue our Teaching & Research Series with a poetry reading THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 4:00pm in the UNST conference room, Cramer 117. We will feature our very own talented poets including: Joel Bettridge, Tom Fisher, Rodney Koeneke, and Kaia Sand.
JOEL BETTRIDGE is the author of the poetry collection THAT ABRUPT HERE and co-editor of RONALD JOHNSON: LIFE AND WORKS, a gathering of essays on the increasingly influential poet. He teaches in the English Department and University Studies Program.
TOM FISHER is a poet and scholar of silence, whose research focuses on 20th-century poets who stopped writing. He teaches courses on literary modernism, popular culture, and American studies in the English Department and University Studies Program.
RODNEY KOENEKE is author of the poetry books MUSEE MECHANIQUE and ROUGE STATE. A new collection, RULES FOR DRINKING FORTIES, appears this fall. His teaching at PSU includes courses in History, International Studies, and University Studies.
KAIA SAND is the author of INTERVAL, selected as a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year, and co-author of LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT: GUERILLA POETRY AND PUBLIC SPACE. She co-curates the Tangent Reading Series, which pairs poets from around the country with writers and artists from Portland's vibrant creative community. Sand teaches courses in Popular Culture in the University Studies program.
We are very pleased to continue our Teaching & Research Series with a poetry reading THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 4:00pm in the UNST conference room, Cramer 117. We will feature our very own talented poets including: Joel Bettridge, Tom Fisher, Rodney Koeneke, and Kaia Sand.
JOEL BETTRIDGE is the author of the poetry collection THAT ABRUPT HERE and co-editor of RONALD JOHNSON: LIFE AND WORKS, a gathering of essays on the increasingly influential poet. He teaches in the English Department and University Studies Program.
TOM FISHER is a poet and scholar of silence, whose research focuses on 20th-century poets who stopped writing. He teaches courses on literary modernism, popular culture, and American studies in the English Department and University Studies Program.
RODNEY KOENEKE is author of the poetry books MUSEE MECHANIQUE and ROUGE STATE. A new collection, RULES FOR DRINKING FORTIES, appears this fall. His teaching at PSU includes courses in History, International Studies, and University Studies.
KAIA SAND is the author of INTERVAL, selected as a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year, and co-author of LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT: GUERILLA POETRY AND PUBLIC SPACE. She co-curates the Tangent Reading Series, which pairs poets from around the country with writers and artists from Portland's vibrant creative community. Sand teaches courses in Popular Culture in the University Studies program.
11.11.2008
"Narrative" Fall Fiction Contest--deadline Nov 30
2008 Fall Fiction ContestNarrative’s Fall Fiction Contest is open to all fiction writers. For this contest we accept short shorts, short stories, and excerpts from longer works of fiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 10,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.
As always, we look for works that have a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to as human beings—works in which the effects of language, situation, and insight are intense and total, and whose authors have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.
Click here to submit your work.
Awards: First Prize is $3,000, Second Prize is $1,500, and Third Prize is $750. The prize winners will be announced in Narrative and will be eligible for publication. Additionally, ten finalists will receive $100 each. We’ll announce finalists in the magazine as well. All entries will be considered for publication.
Submission Fee: There is a $20 fee for each entry. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.
Timing: Entries will be accepted between September 1 and November 30, 2008. (The contest will close to entries at midnight Pacific Standard Time on November 30.)
Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 30, 2008. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions.
Submission Guidelines: Please read our Submission Guidelines for manuscript formatting and other information.
Other Submission Categories: In addition to our contest, please review our other Submission Categories for areas that may interest you.
Professor Michele Glazer to read Wednesday Nov 12!
The Milwaukie Poetry Series
Second Season!
A reading by Michele Glazer
7 PM, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008
The Pond House in Milwaukie,
2215 SE Harrison
Adjacent to the Ledding Library
The Milwaukie Poetry Series Committee and the Ledding Library of Milwaukie are delighted to continue the Second Season of the Milwaukie Poetry Series with a reading by Michele Glazer.
This will take place on Wednesday, Oct. Nov. 12 at 7 PM in the Pond House adjacent to the Ledding Library, 2215 SE Harrison, Milwaukie, OR 97222.
Michele Glazer teaches in the English Department at Portland State University. Of her first book, It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See (Pittsburgh), a critic wrote, “The poems in this extraordinary debut are (like its title) sinuous, refractory, highly structured, yet in a way implosive, too, their asymmetric blocks holding in balances always about to give way.” (Boston Review). The poet Sheryl St. Germain described her next book, Aggregate of Disturbances (Iowa), as “a stunning collection of meditations on language, landscape and loss.”
Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the Oregon Arts Commission. She co-organized and participated in Word & Hand, two year-long collaborations between writers and visual artists that exhibited at Portland State University. She is the editor of Writers Collective, an anthology of Oregon poets.
The Pond House in Milwaukie is a delightful setting and easy to reach. It is located on SE 21st and Harrison in Milwaukie. From Portland travel south on McLoughlin Blvd. (99E) to Harrison St, the first light as you come into Milwaukie. Turn left and the Library is two blocks east.
From Oregon City, Gladstone and Oak Grove and I-205 from Salem, travel north on McLoughlin to Harrison, turn right and go two blocks east again to the Library.
From East Multnomah and Clackamas Counties, go west on Hwy. 224 to the Harrison St. Exit, turn left and go approximately ½ mile to the library.
The Pond House is 1 block east of the library.
We want to thank the City of Milwaukie for its generous support which makes the Series possible. For information about the readings, please contact the Series Coordinator Tom Hogan at 503-819-8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net or Ledding Library Director Joe Sandfort at 503-786-7584 or SandfortJ@ci.milwaukie.or.us.
It will be a delightful evening. Please join us for this wonderful reading!
11.09.2008
Job Opportunity: Rosemont College--spring '09
Rosemont College, a private liberal arts college, located in Philadelphia' s beautiful Main Line, is seeking an Adjunct Instructor, Creative Writing. The Undergraduate College of Rosemont College invites applications for an adjunct instructor to teach Creative Writing in the spring 2009 semester. Qualified applicants will possess an M.A. or M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Previous teaching experience required. The course is offered twice a week in a late afternoon time slot.
To apply, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and list of three references.
Application Information
Postal Address:
Office of Human Resources
Rosemont College
1400 Montgomery Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010
To apply, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and list of three references.
Application Information
Postal Address:
Office of Human Resources
Rosemont College
1400 Montgomery Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010
11.06.2008
Go to a conference on us!
Jennifer and I have some very, very exciting news! GLO is hosting two contests--one for the CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) in San Francisco March 11-14, 2009; and AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in Chicago February 11-14, 2009. If you win, you get to go to your choice of conference for almost FREE!! That means, we pay the registration, flight, hotel--you'll be responsible for food, etc, but dang, that's a great deal!
Here are the guidelines:
Write a 500 word "essay" about what you planning on doing with your degree--going on to teach, write, PhD, join the circus? If you want to include how the conference will benefit you and what you're ultimate plans are, go for it. Write with finesse, style, charisma...show our judges what you've been learning in those grad classes!
The entries will be blind--simply put a cover sheet with your name, contact info, and WHAT CONFERENCE YOU'RE APPLYING FOR on your submission. On the submission itself, do not put your name or contact info--if you do, we'll have to disqualify you and that would be :-(
Judges are: Professor Hildy Miller for the CCCC and Professors Michele Glazer and Debra Gwartney for the AWP conference.
Leave all entries in the EGO or WEGO mailbox in the English Dept office. We like to think of them as GLO's one, giant mailbox.
ALL CONTEST ENTRIES ARE DUE BY 5 PM NOVEMBER 21.
Winners will be announced December 8th, 2008! :-)
We encourage everyone to submit--this is a great opportunity that you won't want to pass up!
Here are the guidelines:
Write a 500 word "essay" about what you planning on doing with your degree--going on to teach, write, PhD, join the circus? If you want to include how the conference will benefit you and what you're ultimate plans are, go for it. Write with finesse, style, charisma...show our judges what you've been learning in those grad classes!
The entries will be blind--simply put a cover sheet with your name, contact info, and WHAT CONFERENCE YOU'RE APPLYING FOR on your submission. On the submission itself, do not put your name or contact info--if you do, we'll have to disqualify you and that would be :-(
Judges are: Professor Hildy Miller for the CCCC and Professors Michele Glazer and Debra Gwartney for the AWP conference.
Leave all entries in the EGO or WEGO mailbox in the English Dept office. We like to think of them as GLO's one, giant mailbox.
ALL CONTEST ENTRIES ARE DUE BY 5 PM NOVEMBER 21.
Winners will be announced December 8th, 2008! :-)
We encourage everyone to submit--this is a great opportunity that you won't want to pass up!
Stephen Graham Jones reading Wednesday, Nov 19th 6 - 8 PM
Blackfeet Writer STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES to read from his latest book, Ledfeather, on Wednesday, November 19th, from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Native American Student and Community Center, 710 SW Jackson (Broadway and Jackson). Sponsored by
Free event! Free refreshments. Books will be available for purchase. There will be time following the reading for questions.
“Stephen Graham Jones writes every line in blood from the deepest recesses of his heart.” –slushpile.net
“Stephen Graham Jones is a thinking man’s writer who possesses the uncanny ability to lay all of his cards out on the table yet keep readers from seeing his hand.” –Dark Scribe Magazine
Jones’ published novels include: Ledfeather (2008); The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti (2008); The Fast Red Road - A Plainsong; All the Beautiful Sinners; The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto; and Demon Theory. His short story collection is titled, Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories.
Jones has won several awards, including: Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction (2005) Finalist, Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction (2004)
First Prize, Writer’s League of Texas Fellowship in Literature (2002), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature: Fiction (2001), Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction (2001) nFinalist, Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, and Texas Institute of Letters (2001).
Non-Fiction Writer Alexandre Poussin Reading Friday!!
Alexandre Poussin is a best-selling French author who has written three books about his incredible journeys around the world. Portland's own Inkwater Press published the first English version of his third book, Africa Trek.
Alex will be reading and showing a brief film Friday, Nov 7, from 2:30 - 3:30, in the Native American Student and Community Center (on the corner of Broadway and Jackson). Free event, free food and drinks. Books will be available for purchase.
Africa Trek is the amazing tale of Alex and Sonia Poussin’s 8,700-mile walking honeymoon from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee. Of their journey, Alexandre says, "Most people approach Africa with fear, a lot of organization and little time. We had faith, confidence and no prejudice on one side; no organization, tour operator or back-up team of any kind on the other; and no time limit — we were as free as a walking bird can be. We shared every person’s lives to better understand them, and understand the issues of their lives. To share their fate, we had to walk, because they all walk a lot — to go the fields, to the market, to town, to school. To take their path was to take their pace, their pulse, their problems. Our approach was anything but sophisticated: one footstep after another, for almost ever. . . And let it be. Let adventure be.”
Along the way, the Poussins survived bouts of malaria, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, swam at the edge of Victoria Falls, and walked the Great Rift Valley with Maasai warriors. Alexandre himself is charismatic, vivacious, and incredibly energetic, and would inspire PSU students to new academic and personal heights.
As “very freelance journalists,” says author Alexandre Poussin, “travelling is our way to reveal the world with a slower approach, one that is more intimate, more human.” Alex and Sonia completed their journey without sponsors, without support team, sharing the poverty of their hosts. They speak to us on each page of the generosity and enthusiasm of these men and women who populate the African continent. Day after day, they become a bit more African themselves.
Originally published in 2004 in France, Africa Trek captured the attention of the European nations. It was an International Herald Tribune Best Seller (France, over 280,000 sold to date); Express Tite-Live Best Seller for 17 weeks. It also won the Best Book Award at Cosne sur Loire Bookfair and the Best Book Award at the Adventure Festival of Les Angles in 2005.
Along with pen and paper, Alexandre and Sonia carried camera and video equipment. The footage was edited into a film that won multiple awards including Golden Fleece of the International Adventure Film Festival of Dijon 2004. It was also edited into a twelve-episode television special that ran on the Travel Channel over 40 times (over 300,000 viewers). OPB will be showing the public television documentary of their journey beginning in 2009.
11.03.2008
"Oregon Quarterly" Essay Contest--deadline Jan 31
Oregon Quarterly essay contest invites entries on Northwest themes
EUGENE, Ore. -- (10/30, 2008) -- Oregon Quarterly, the magazine of the University of Oregon, invites submissions to its tenth annual Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest.
The Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, sponsored by Oregon Quarterly and The Duck Store (formerly the University of Oregon Bookstore), is open to previously unpublished writing about ideas affecting the Northwest.Non-fiction writers are encouraged to compete in open and student categories.
The winner in the open category will receive $750 and publication in the Summer 2009 issue of Oregon Quarterly, which is distributed to nearly 100,000 readers. The student winner will receive $500 and publication in the Autumn 2009 issue. The second- and third-place writers in both categories will also receive cash prizes.
Olympian marathoner and native Oregonian Kenny Moore, author of ³Bowerman and the Men of Oregon,² will judge this year¹s contest. Moore has written articles for Sports Illustrated beginning in 1971 and served as a senior writer for the magazine from 1980 to 1995. He co-wrote (with Robert Towne) ³Without Limits,² the 1998 Warner Bros. feature film on Steve Prefontaine and Bill Bowerman.
The 15 finalists will be announced in the Summer 2009 issue of Oregon Quarterly and invited to attend a workshop with Moore. Six top essays, from both the student and open categories, will be featured in a public reading.
Entries must be postmarked by Jan. 31, 2009. There is no entry fee.
For complete submission guidelines, visit http://www.OregonQuarterly.com
EUGENE, Ore. -- (10/30, 2008) -- Oregon Quarterly, the magazine of the University of Oregon, invites submissions to its tenth annual Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest.
The Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, sponsored by Oregon Quarterly and The Duck Store (formerly the University of Oregon Bookstore), is open to previously unpublished writing about ideas affecting the Northwest.Non-fiction writers are encouraged to compete in open and student categories.
The winner in the open category will receive $750 and publication in the Summer 2009 issue of Oregon Quarterly, which is distributed to nearly 100,000 readers. The student winner will receive $500 and publication in the Autumn 2009 issue. The second- and third-place writers in both categories will also receive cash prizes.
Olympian marathoner and native Oregonian Kenny Moore, author of ³Bowerman and the Men of Oregon,² will judge this year¹s contest. Moore has written articles for Sports Illustrated beginning in 1971 and served as a senior writer for the magazine from 1980 to 1995. He co-wrote (with Robert Towne) ³Without Limits,² the 1998 Warner Bros. feature film on Steve Prefontaine and Bill Bowerman.
The 15 finalists will be announced in the Summer 2009 issue of Oregon Quarterly and invited to attend a workshop with Moore. Six top essays, from both the student and open categories, will be featured in a public reading.
Entries must be postmarked by Jan. 31, 2009. There is no entry fee.
For complete submission guidelines, visit http://www.OregonQuarterly.com
11.02.2008
Call for Submissions: "Crab Orchard Review"--deadline extended to Nov 7
Deadline extended to November 7, 2008
Special Issue: Color Wheel ~
Cultural Heritages in the Twenty-First Century
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW is seeking work for our Summer/Fall 2009 issue focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations, and/or cultural and historical possibilities of the following topic: “Color Wheel ~ Cultural Heritages in the Twenty-First Century.” We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways our ideas of identity, tradition, family, and place are challenged by an ever-changing world.
All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before submitting any interview.
For our general submission guidelines, check our Web site at.
Mail submissions, along with SASE, to:
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
Cultural Heritages issue
Faner 2380, Mail Code 4503
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2008 through November 7, 2008. We will be reading submissions throughout this period and hope to complete the editorial work on the issue by mid-February. Writers whose work is selected will receive $20 (US) per magazine page ($50 minimum for poetry; $100 minimum for prose), two copies of the issue, and a year’s subscription.
Special Issue: Color Wheel ~
Cultural Heritages in the Twenty-First Century
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW is seeking work for our Summer/Fall 2009 issue focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations, and/or cultural and historical possibilities of the following topic: “Color Wheel ~ Cultural Heritages in the Twenty-First Century.” We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways our ideas of identity, tradition, family, and place are challenged by an ever-changing world.
All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before submitting any interview.
For our general submission guidelines, check our Web site at
Mail submissions, along with SASE, to:
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
Cultural Heritages issue
Faner 2380, Mail Code 4503
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2008 through November 7, 2008. We will be reading submissions throughout this period and hope to complete the editorial work on the issue by mid-February. Writers whose work is selected will receive $20 (US) per magazine page ($50 minimum for poetry; $100 minimum for prose), two copies of the issue, and a year’s subscription.
10.29.2008
Readings, this week, and so on and so forth.
TOMORROW, Thursday night, 7 pm, SMU 238, poets ROBYN SCHIFF and KATY LEDERER will be reading!
FRIDAY, 11-12:30, Robyn and Katy will sit down with us in the snug English Conference Room, NH 407, and answer questions and carry on conversations while enjoying coffee and cookies.
Ms. Schiff is the author of two poetry collections, Worth and Revolver. She earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies from University of Bristol, England, and also earned an MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize many times, and earned The Brown Foundation Fellows Residence Program at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, and the Black Warrior Review Literary Award; she was also a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, Fence Books Alberta Prize, Alice James Books New England/New York Award.
Ms. Lederer is the author of the memoir, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, and poetry collections, Imago (in progress), The Heaven-Sent Leaf, and Winter Sex. Lederer earned her MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and has earned such awards as The MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Yaddo Fellowships in Poetry, Esquire Magazine Best Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Best Memoirs of 2003, Publishers Weekly Best Non-fiction Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Poker Face, St. Paul's School Schlesinger Fellow in Poetry, and several Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Copies of their books will be for sale.
Elijah Mac Jenkins, of flatmanCROOKED Publishing, out of Sacramento, Ca., will be Q & A-ing on November 4th in the English Conference room, NH 407, from 11- 12:30. Ask him questions about what editors are really looking for, what not to do, what to absolutely do, how to get into the field, and, of course, how to become a rich and famous writer. Copies of flatmanCROOKED's anthology of new writers' writings will be available for sale--and this is even before the official launch date of November 15th! Check out their site for more details!
Inkwater Press, PPS, and GLO will be hosting Non-Fiction Writer Alexandre Poussin! He will be reading from his world-famous book, Africa Trek, on Friday, Nov 7th, 2:30 - 3:30, in the Native American Center, rm 110. Check out his website, as well as Inkwater Press's for more details about the book and the journey!
NOVEMBER 18TH--PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP!! More details to come.
Thanks to University Studies, Native American Studies, Multicultural Center, Office of Diversity and Equity, Department of English, and GLO, Blackfeet writer STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES will be reading on NOVEMBER 19TH in the Native American Center. More details to come!! While you're waiting, check out his website (he's a fascinating fellow).
FRIDAY, 11-12:30, Robyn and Katy will sit down with us in the snug English Conference Room, NH 407, and answer questions and carry on conversations while enjoying coffee and cookies.
Ms. Schiff is the author of two poetry collections, Worth and Revolver. She earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies from University of Bristol, England, and also earned an MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize many times, and earned The Brown Foundation Fellows Residence Program at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, and the Black Warrior Review Literary Award; she was also a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, Fence Books Alberta Prize, Alice James Books New England/New York Award.
Ms. Lederer is the author of the memoir, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, and poetry collections, Imago (in progress), The Heaven-Sent Leaf, and Winter Sex. Lederer earned her MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and has earned such awards as The MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Yaddo Fellowships in Poetry, Esquire Magazine Best Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Best Memoirs of 2003, Publishers Weekly Best Non-fiction Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Poker Face, St. Paul's School Schlesinger Fellow in Poetry, and several Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Copies of their books will be for sale.
Elijah Mac Jenkins, of flatmanCROOKED Publishing, out of Sacramento, Ca., will be Q & A-ing on November 4th in the English Conference room, NH 407, from 11- 12:30. Ask him questions about what editors are really looking for, what not to do, what to absolutely do, how to get into the field, and, of course, how to become a rich and famous writer. Copies of flatmanCROOKED's anthology of new writers' writings will be available for sale--and this is even before the official launch date of November 15th! Check out their site for more details!
Inkwater Press, PPS, and GLO will be hosting Non-Fiction Writer Alexandre Poussin! He will be reading from his world-famous book, Africa Trek, on Friday, Nov 7th, 2:30 - 3:30, in the Native American Center, rm 110. Check out his website, as well as Inkwater Press's for more details about the book and the journey!
NOVEMBER 18TH--PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP!! More details to come.
Thanks to University Studies, Native American Studies, Multicultural Center, Office of Diversity and Equity, Department of English, and GLO, Blackfeet writer STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES will be reading on NOVEMBER 19TH in the Native American Center. More details to come!! While you're waiting, check out his website (he's a fascinating fellow).
10.27.2008
Call for Submissions-"MO: Writings from the River"
MO: Writings from the River is the journal of the Montana State University - Great Falls Literary Guild, published annually in January.http://www.msugf.edu/litguild/index.htm
Call for submissions:
The editors are currently accepting submissions of high quality poetry, short fiction, essays and creative nonfiction (up to 3500 words for prose) from Aug. 1st through Nov. 1st of each year. Original photographs and artwork will also be considered. Payment in contributor copies.
Prose should be double-spaced. All works should be accompanied by a cover page with author's contact info. Author's name should appear in header or footer of each page.
Electronic submissions preferred. Submit to the email address below or mail a paper copy to:
MO: Writings from the River
MSU - Great Falls
2100 16 th Av. South
Great Falls , MT 59405
Enclose SASE for return of materials. Electronic submissions not returned.
Email:
Contest: Fourth River Award for Poetry and Non-Fiction--deadline Nov 15
Fourth River Award for Poetry
Fourth River Award for Creative Nonfiction
http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/
We are looking for poetry and creative nonfiction that capture the places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and nature converge and collide.
First place winner in each category will be published in the Fourth River and will receive a $500 cash prize upon publication.
Our judges for the contest are Rick Campbell (Poetry) and Janisse Ray (Creative Nonfiction).
Contest Guidelines
Submissions should be postmarked no later than November 15, 2008
Previously published works and works accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible. Students, faculty and employees of Chatham University are not eligible.
Include a title page with your name, address, phone number and the title of your submission(s). Your name must not appear on the actual manuscript.
The reading fee is $5 for three poems or one essay (7,000 word maximum), and includes a copy of Issue 5. Please make checks payable to Chatham University. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each submission must be accompanied by a reading fee. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Send your submission, your reading fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
The Fourth River
Chatham University
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Attention: Fourth River Award for Poetry or Fourth River Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Submit Your Work (Regular Submissions)
**NEW: Special International Issue, Spring 2009
In addition to our regular publication, The Fourth River is putting together a special issue for Spring 2009 with a specific focus on international writing. We’re looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, children’s and young adult writing by international authors, in translation, and by authors traveling abroad. We are interested in work that explores the diverse meanings of and the interaction between environment, landscape, culture, nature, and human nature around the world.
The submission guidelines for the International Issue are the same as for other issues, but please indicate on your cover letter that you are submitting to this particular issue.
The postmark deadline for this issue is January 31, 2009.
Submission Guidelines (Issue 6)
The Fourth River is accepting nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, and young adult/children’s writing (without illustration) . Please send up to seven poems or up to 7,000 words of prose to the address below. Due to the volume of submissions, we will recycle all the manuscripts we receive. Please do not send us your only copy.
Include cover letter with name, address, phone number, email contact, and titles of enclosed work.
All manuscripts must include a SASE to be considered and returned.
No e-mail submissions accepted.
Kindly let us know if you are submitting simultaneously.
Reading Period (for standard issues): August 1, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Submission Address
The Fourth River
Chatham University0AWoodlan d Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Contact Us
For more information, contact The Fourth River at
10.23.2008
Call for Submissions--Pathos--deadline Nov 1st
Pathos, PSU's student literary magazine, is looking for submissions for this fall's issue. Writing may include poetry, fiction, art, memoir and one-act plays. This year we're also looking at personal essays and creative non-fiction. Issues have no specific themes, we're just interested in innovative writing with vigor. We are also accepting art submissions, black and white and color.
Writing submissions should be 15 pages or less and in MS Word format. Art submissions can be anything you scan and send - JPEGs are preferable. Please see our website, pathoslitmag.wordpress.com, for complete submission guidelines.
Email everything to pathos@pdx.edu. The deadline is Nov 1st at midnight.
Writing submissions should be 15 pages or less and in MS Word format. Art submissions can be anything you scan and send - JPEGs are preferable. Please see our website, pathoslitmag.wordpress.com, for complete submission guidelines.
Email everything to pathos@pdx.edu. The deadline is Nov 1st at midnight.
10.22.2008
Powell's Event--Friday, Oct 24th, 7:30--Burnside
Righting the Mother Tongue
Signed
by David Wolman
Upcoming Event
Friday, October 24th 2008 07:30 PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR
When did "ghost" acquire its silent "h"? Will cyberspace kill the one in "rhubarb"? Rich with history, pop culture, curiosity, and humor, David Wolman's Righting the Mother Tongue (Collins) explores how English spelling came to be, traces efforts to mend the code, and imagines the shape of tomorrow's words. "Sprightly history that sensibly balances the merits of standardization against the forces for freedom," praises Kirkus Reviews.
Please note: Signed preordered books will be shipped to you and are not available for pick-up in the store the night of the event (but if you're planning to attend, don't worry! Signed editions are usually available at the events). Also, we are sorry but we can not accommodate personalized inscriptions, or guarantee the signed books are first editions. Thanks for your understanding.
by David Wolman
Upcoming Event
Friday, October 24th 2008 07:30 PM
Powell's City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR
When did "ghost" acquire its silent "h"? Will cyberspace kill the one in "rhubarb"? Rich with history, pop culture, curiosity, and humor, David Wolman's Righting the Mother Tongue (Collins) explores how English spelling came to be, traces efforts to mend the code, and imagines the shape of tomorrow's words. "Sprightly history that sensibly balances the merits of standardization against the forces for freedom," praises Kirkus Reviews.
Please note: Signed preordered books will be shipped to you and are not available for pick-up in the store the night of the event (but if you're planning to attend, don't worry! Signed editions are usually available at the events). Also, we are sorry but we can not accommodate personalized inscriptions, or guarantee the signed books are first editions. Thanks for your understanding.
10.21.2008
Up and coming GLO events!
Up and coming GLO events! And a Portland Reveiw fun night out! And then some other stuff!
Jeffrey Renard Allen reading this THURSDAY Oct 23rd, 7 pm, SMU 236
Mr. Allen will be reading from his newest collection of short stories, Holding Pattern, published by Gray Wolf Press, 2008. There will be time after the reading for questions and conversation.
Novelist, short story writer, poet Jeffrey Renard Allen teaches in the MFA program at the New School in New York. He's a former Breadloaf Fellow and winner of the prestigious Whiting Award.
Copies of his books, Holding Pattern and Stellar Places will be available for purchase (cash only, please!)
Poets Robyn Schiff and Katy Lederer reading Thursday, Oct 30th, 7 pm, SMU 238; Q & A in NH 407 Oct 31st 11-12:30 (coffee and delish cookies!)
Ms. Schiff is the author of two poetry collections, Worth and Revolver. She earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies from University of Bristol, England, and also earned an MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize many times, and earned The Brown Foundation Fellows Residence Program at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, and the Black Warrior Review Literary Award; she was also a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, Fence Books Alberta Prize, Alice James Books New England/New York Award.
Ms. Lederer is the author of the memoir, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, and poetry collections, Imago (in progress), The Heaven-Sent Leaf, and Winter Sex. Lederer earned her MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and has earned such awards as The MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Yaddo Fellowships in Poetry, Esquire Magazine Best Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Best Memoirs of 2003, Publishers Weekly Best Non-fiction Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Poker Face, St. Paul's School Schlesinger Fellow in Poetry, and several Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Copies of their books will be for sale.
Elijah Mac Jenkins, of flatmanCROOKED Publishing, out of Sacramento, Ca., will be Q & A-ing on November 4th in the English Conference room, NH 407, from 11- 12:30. Ask him questions about what editors are really looking for, what not to do, what to absolutely do, how to get into the field, and, of course, how to become a rich and famous writer. Copies of flatmanCROOKED's anthology of new writers' writings will be available for sale--and this is even before the official launch date of November 15th! Check out their site for more details.
Thanks to Inkwater Press, Non-Fiction Writer Alexandre Poussin will be reading from his world-famous book, Africa Trek, on Friday, Nov 7th, 2:30 - 3:30. We're still working on the room confirmation, so keep your eyes peeled. About Africa Trek:
Jeffrey Renard Allen reading this THURSDAY Oct 23rd, 7 pm, SMU 236
Mr. Allen will be reading from his newest collection of short stories, Holding Pattern, published by Gray Wolf Press, 2008. There will be time after the reading for questions and conversation.
Novelist, short story writer, poet Jeffrey Renard Allen teaches in the MFA program at the New School in New York. He's a former Breadloaf Fellow and winner of the prestigious Whiting Award.
Copies of his books, Holding Pattern and Stellar Places will be available for purchase (cash only, please!)
Poets Robyn Schiff and Katy Lederer reading Thursday, Oct 30th, 7 pm, SMU 238; Q & A in NH 407 Oct 31st 11-12:30 (coffee and delish cookies!)
Ms. Schiff is the author of two poetry collections, Worth and Revolver. She earned an M.A. in Medieval Studies from University of Bristol, England, and also earned an MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize many times, and earned The Brown Foundation Fellows Residence Program at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, and the Black Warrior Review Literary Award; she was also a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, Fence Books Alberta Prize, Alice James Books New England/New York Award.
Ms. Lederer is the author of the memoir, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, and poetry collections, Imago (in progress), The Heaven-Sent Leaf, and Winter Sex. Lederer earned her MFA from The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and has earned such awards as The MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Poetry, The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Yaddo Fellowships in Poetry, Esquire Magazine Best Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Best Memoirs of 2003, Publishers Weekly Best Non-fiction Books of 2003, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Poker Face, St. Paul's School Schlesinger Fellow in Poetry, and several Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Copies of their books will be for sale.
Elijah Mac Jenkins, of flatmanCROOKED Publishing, out of Sacramento, Ca., will be Q & A-ing on November 4th in the English Conference room, NH 407, from 11- 12:30. Ask him questions about what editors are really looking for, what not to do, what to absolutely do, how to get into the field, and, of course, how to become a rich and famous writer. Copies of flatmanCROOKED's anthology of new writers' writings will be available for sale--and this is even before the official launch date of November 15th! Check out their site for more details.
Thanks to Inkwater Press, Non-Fiction Writer Alexandre Poussin will be reading from his world-famous book, Africa Trek, on Friday, Nov 7th, 2:30 - 3:30. We're still working on the room confirmation, so keep your eyes peeled. About Africa Trek:
Two people. Three years. One continent.
Africa Trek recounts the remarkable journey of French citizens Alexandre and Sonia Poussin as they traverse the length of the African continent on foot over the course of three years, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee. In a quest unlike any other ever undertaken, the Poussins follow in the footsteps of the first humans, exploring the cradle of mankind along the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.
Originally published in 2004, the French language version of this two-volume memoir sold over 280,000 copies in its authors' native country, and is now being translated into English in order to be more accessible to a worldwide audience.
Also, GLO is currently working on the following things:
- Professional Development seminar in November
- more social networking amongst grad students
- a facebook page
- a movie night (literary suggestions welcome!)
- a happy-hour bar crawl (I guess this all fits in with "social networking," doesn't it? oh well.)
- web page
- accessible calendar
10.20.2008
Congratulations to Alex Behr!
Congrats to Ms. Alex Behr--her essay, "Land of Milk and Honey," was accepted but Oregon Humanities for the Spring 2009 issue!!
Live Wire! Seeks Funny Writers--deadline Nov 23
LIVE WIRE! SEEKS FUNNY WRITERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 23, 2008
Live Wire's writing staff is looking to expand by one or two funny people. If you are familiar with the show, then you know we have sketches between :45-4:00 throughout the show. We are hoping to include NON-SKETCH material to our humor arsenal. In other words, don't write what you necessarily already hear—we want to hear something new. New is good.
We'd love it if you sounded even a little like: McSweeney's, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Demetri Martin, Eugene Mirman, Flight of the Conchords, Whitest Kids You Know
Finalists will be invited to work with our team on an upcoming show and to have at least one piece performed.
All writers who work for Live Wire are contractors and receive payment for their work.
Interested? Please submit the following to info@livewireradio.org with "writing submission" in the subject line by October 20, 2008:
1 sketch: 1-3:00 length
1 "point of view" piece: 300 - 900 words (i.e. personal essay, rant, list, letter, mix tape with commentary, etc.)
1 additional piece of any style that you think best shows off your writing/comic sensibilities. (music/lyrics are fine).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 23, 2008
Live Wire's writing staff is looking to expand by one or two funny people. If you are familiar with the show, then you know we have sketches between :45-4:00 throughout the show. We are hoping to include NON-SKETCH material to our humor arsenal. In other words, don't write what you necessarily already hear—we want to hear something new. New is good.
We'd love it if you sounded even a little like: McSweeney's, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Demetri Martin, Eugene Mirman, Flight of the Conchords, Whitest Kids You Know
Finalists will be invited to work with our team on an upcoming show and to have at least one piece performed.
All writers who work for Live Wire are contractors and receive payment for their work.
Interested? Please submit the following to info@livewireradio.org with "writing submission" in the subject line by October 20, 2008:
1 sketch: 1-3:00 length
1 "point of view" piece: 300 - 900 words (i.e. personal essay, rant, list, letter, mix tape with commentary, etc.)
1 additional piece of any style that you think best shows off your writing/comic sensibilities. (music/lyrics are fine).
10.19.2008
Interview with Professor Paul Collins on Public Radio
Below is a link from publicradio.org featuring an interview with Prof. Paul Collins and his wife about autism.
Thank you, Alex, for sending this my way!
10.15.2008
Job Opportunity in Creative Writing--Eastern Michigan University
The English Department of Eastern Michigan University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Creative Writing. The Creative Writing Program includes undergraduate and MA studies emphasizing interdisciplinarity . We are seeking literary writers who work in more than one medium and / or take new approaches to genre: documentary poetics, text and image, performance, collaborative and community arts projects, digital arts & electronic media. Candidates must hold a graduate degree and demonstrate evidence of excellence in teaching, a significant publication record, and promise of continuing excellence in publication.
The department is searching for an individual who demonstrates collegiality among faculty, support staff, and students and works well within a climate of shared governance. The successful candidate will facilitate and value student development; demonstrate a commitment to teaching; generate scholarly work and/or grant development; work in partnership with community agencies; and participate in professional and community organizations.
Known for its congenial and collaborative English Department, EMU is located in the Ann Arbor-Detroit area. The school is a culturally diverse learning and teaching community set in a small city environment, amidst a major metropolitan area, which attracts students from Metro Detroit, across the state, nationally, and internationally. Internal grant opportunities are available.
Send letter of application and dossier (CV, letters of reference, representative 30 page work sample or equivalent) to the address below by November 15, 2008. Screening of candidates will begin at that time and continue until the position is filled. For more information, contact Christine Hume at chume@emich. edu.
Application Information
Postal Address:
Dr. Christine Hume
Department of English
Eastern Michigan University
602C Pray-Harrold
Posting #F0923
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Loggernaut reading - Oct 29 - Rodney Koeneke, Tom Spanbauer, Lidia
Loggernaut reading - Oct 29 - Rodney Koeneke, Tom Spanbauer, Lidia Yuknavitch
(Thanks, Alex, for forwarding this!)
Hi, friends,
After a looong summer vacation, Loggernaut is back!
Please join us two weeks from today for our first reading of the season.
We have three terrific Portland authors on tap: Rodney Koeneke, Tom
Spanbauer, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Juicy authorial details below.
The reading is at 7:30pm on Wednesday, October 29th. Admission: $3. The
prompt this time is "Scary."
With Mississippi Studios under construction, we're moving the show over to
Urban Grind, a great new space at 2214 NE Oregon St., Portland. There'll
be food and drink available. Here's a map: http://tinyurl.com/47knzt
We'll send a reminder as we get closer, but we hope you mark the evening
down on your calendar, and we hope to see you there!
Jesse Lichtenstein
Erin Ergenbright
http://www.loggernaut.org
~ ~ ~
Rodney Koeneke is the author of the poetry collections Musee Mechanique
and Rouge State, as well as a chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties, due
out this fall. His work is included in The Flarf Anthology forthcoming in
2009. He lives in Portland, where he helps curate The Tangent Reading
Series.
Tom Spanbauer was raised in Idaho, spent two years in the Peace Corps in
Kenya, and for the past fifteen years has lived in Portland, where he
teaches Dangerous Writing workshops. He's the author of the novels Now Is
the Hour, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, In the City of Shy
Hunters, and Faraway Places.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of three books of short stories: Her Other
Mouths, Liberty's Excess, and Real to Reel. Her work has appeared
numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches writing, literature, film
and women's studies at Mt. Hood Community College.
"The Truth About the Fact" Call for Submissions--deadline Dec 31
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT International Journal of Literary Nonfiction
http://thetruthaboutthefact. com/
INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Literary nonfiction essay, memoir, commentary
1000-5000 words
Literary nonfiction
narrative poetry
Black & white art and photography
Submission Deadline December 31, 2008
Submit via email: editor( at)thetruthaboutthefact.com (replace (at) with @)
Published by Loyola Marymount University
"Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art" Contests--deadline Dec 1
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art is now accepting submissions for our 2009 Contests in Poetry, Fiction, & Nonfiction.
Winning entries in each category will be awarded $500 and will be published in Issue 47, due out in the spring of 2009.
All entrants will receive a copy of Columbia.
Judges: Diane Williams, fiction Philip Lopate, nonfiction Henri Cole, poetry
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2008
Entry fee: $12.00
Fiction and nonfiction entrants may submit up to 20 double-spaced pages. Poetry entrants may submit up to five poems.
Online entry only at http://www.columbia journal.org/contests. htm
10.14.2008
Tonight's Reading: Christine Deavel and John Marshall!
Seattle poets Christine Deavel and John Marshall are in town and will be reading today!
Reading: 7:00 p.m., SMU 228
Deavel and Marshall will talk and answer questions about writing, publishing, and the book industry, both as it applies to poetry and in general.
Marshall won the 2007 Field Poetry Prize for his book, Meaning A Cloud, published by Oberlin College Press. He has also published two chapbooks, Taken With (2005) and Blue Mouth (2001), both finalists for Washington State Book Awards.
Deavel is the author of Box of Little Spruce, a chapbook published in 2005 by LitRag Press. Her work is widely published in magazines, including Fence, The Iowa Review, and Volt. In 2009, Deavel's piece "Of the Bird's Wing There Are Tracts of Feathers" will be included in an anthology of artists and writers, to be published by the University of Washington Press.
A Call for Papers: Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture--deadline Dec 1
A Call for Papers: Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture
April 4, 2009
Yale University
Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, the theme of which will be "Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture."
The organizers hope that this broad heading will elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of Medieval Studies. Of especial interest are papers dealing with palaeography and manuscript studies; hagiography; literary studies; art history; history and historiography; gender studies; religious studies; musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as biblical exegesis and the relationship between Latin and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look forward to receiving proposals that take more theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the medieval period. We also hope to have one panel devoted to papers that explore different aspects of the history of modern Medieval Studies.
Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length and read in English. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by e-mail to Andrew.Kraebel@Yale.edu or SamanthaLily.Katz@Yale.edu; a hardcopy may be mailed to:
Andrew Kraebel
Department of English
Yale University
P.O. Box 208302
New Haven, CT 06520-8302
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.
Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to submit their paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award. The conference will also feature an exhibition of manuscripts in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and a plenary speaker, to be announced at a later date.
Please circulate this call for papers. A PDF version is available:
http://www.yale.edu/medieval/documents/CallforPapersv1.pdf
--
Laura S. Miles
Yale University, English PhD program
216 Bishop St. #109
New Haven, CT 06511
203.508.4686
MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies sponsored jointly by the Society for Medieval Feminist Studies (SMFS) and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS).
Visit SMFS at http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/index.shtml
Visit ACMRS at www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/ Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681
To post to the list, send messages to MEDFEM-L@ASU.EDU To manage your subscriber account, go to http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=medfem-l=1
April 4, 2009
Yale University
Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, the theme of which will be "Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture."
The organizers hope that this broad heading will elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of Medieval Studies. Of especial interest are papers dealing with palaeography and manuscript studies; hagiography; literary studies; art history; history and historiography; gender studies; religious studies; musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as biblical exegesis and the relationship between Latin and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look forward to receiving proposals that take more theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the medieval period. We also hope to have one panel devoted to papers that explore different aspects of the history of modern Medieval Studies.
Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length and read in English. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by e-mail to Andrew.Kraebel@Yale.edu or SamanthaLily.Katz@Yale.edu; a hardcopy may be mailed to:
Andrew Kraebel
Department of English
Yale University
P.O. Box 208302
New Haven, CT 06520-8302
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.
Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to submit their paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award. The conference will also feature an exhibition of manuscripts in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and a plenary speaker, to be announced at a later date.
Please circulate this call for papers. A PDF version is available:
http://www.yale.edu/medieval/documents/CallforPapersv1.pdf
--
Laura S. Miles
Yale University, English PhD program
216 Bishop St. #109
New Haven, CT 06511
203.508.4686
MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies sponsored jointly by the Society for Medieval Feminist Studies (SMFS) and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS).
Visit SMFS at http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/index.shtml
Visit ACMRS at www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/ Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681
To post to the list, send messages to MEDFEM-L@ASU.EDU To manage your subscriber account, go to http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=medfem-l=1
10.09.2008
Job Opportunity: Literary Arts seeks an Executive Director--deadline Nov 14
Mission: To enrich the lives of Oregonians through language and literature.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Position Profile
Literary Arts, Inc, a nonprofit literary arts organization based in Portland, Oregon, celebrates the art of writing and love of reading through public and in-school programs featuring established and emerging writers and cultural thinkers of our time. As we enter our 25th year of providing a rich array of literary programs and support to Oregonian readers, writers, and students, we seek an individual with the passion, vision, energy and experience to work with the Board of Directors to lead and shape this organization.
- The Executive Director is responsible for both the management and artistic direction of the organization, reporting to the Board of Directors and working with staff to administer diverse and unique literary programming within a mid-sized budget.
- The Executive Director, working with the Board of Directors, is responsible for developing and implementing a creative and sustainable strategy for funding current and future programs in Portland and throughout the state of Oregon.
- The Executive Director serves as the primary spokesperson for Literary Arts, representing and advocating for the organization to its audiences, writers, funders, arts organizations and other constituents.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will have a genuine passion for literature combined with a proven record in creating and building organizations and programs that bring arts and culture to the community. This individual must be a skilled leader with the ability to develop and implement a strategic vision for the organization and to maintain and build programs that support the interests of diverse stakeholders in the Portland region and throughout Oregon.
Qualified candidates will have:
- Proven skills and experience in nonprofit management and in developing and running arts and cultural programs
- Demonstrated ability to lead, support, and motivate staff in a collaborative fashion
- Demonstrated track record for strategic thinking and the leadership skills necessary for translating strategic plans into action
- Demonstrated success in sponsor development and fundraising
- Knowledge of contemporary literature and cultural trends
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including public speaking
- An understanding of media and technology trends affecting the arts and the ability to incorporate those trends into program development
For more information about Literary Arts and for the full job description, please go to: www.literary-arts.org.
Salary range: $75,000 - $85,000, depending on experience
To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references by November 14, 2008 to laedjobsearch@yahoo.com with “Executive Director Search” in subject line. References will not be contacted unless you are selected for an interview. If you wish to submit by mail, send to the following address:
Executive Director Search Committee
4455 N.E. Alameda St.
Portland, OR 97213
Literary Arts, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
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