A blog of announcements for Seattle Poets Gathering. A social group of poets and other writers based in Seattle, we meet every two weeks, Sunday afternoons, alternatively at Brouwer's in Fremont and The Pine Box on Capitol Hill. Meetings are free and open to the public. Please join us!
Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen from both established and emerging writers. Clockhouse is an eclectic conversation about the work-in-progress of life—a soul arousal, a testing ground, a new community, a call for change. Deadline: February 1
Music (and a little poetry) based on Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics.
This event is in celebration of Emerald City Comicon this weekend.
Doors at 8, show at 9
At the Crocodile in Belltown
Performers include: Evan J PetersonMike Votava Aaron Zig David Hillman Aaron Shay Mark Blasco Seattle Jazz Composers Small Ensemble Tai Shan MoZo Aaron Daniel Peter Spencer Perry Maybrown Susy Sun We Wrote the Book on Connectors and PopCanPipers
Facebook event is here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/300953133357448/?fref=ts
Koon Woon and Dr. Keith Holyoak, cognitive psychologist from UCLA, will read their poems at the Elliott Bay Book & Company Friday 7pm on February 22, 2013 and admission is FREE.
Koon will be happy to autograph his new book WATER CHASING WATER.
The utopian tradition, at least nominally, began with Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), who coined the generic term. In Greek, utopia means “nowhere” (ou “not” + topos “place”), but suggests an especially virtuous somewhere as well (eu “good” + topos “place”). What roles have these perfect, non-existent worlds played in literary, political, and ethical traditions? How have we made our way to them? How have they changed us? Readings will include selections from More, Sir Francis Bacon, Tao Yuanming, Henry David Thoreau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Samuel Butler, William Morris, Ernest Callenbach, and Marge Piercy.
Meets: Saturday, January 26, 2013 - Saturday, March 2, 2013
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Richard Hugo House
General: $230.00
Members of Hugo House: $207.00
When: January 10, 7-10pm Where: Richard Hugo House
Poet Morris Stegosaurus performs selections from his debut full-length collection "Zebra Feathers," published by Minor Arcana Press. Seattle poets Dane Kuttler and Jeremy Richards also perform. Stegosaurus will be accompanied Stegosaurus will be accompanied by Fiddleback on guitar and Alfredo Arnaiz on saxophone. Doors/bar at 7 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m. Free admission, books for sale.
About "Zebra Feathers" Seasoned performance poet Morris Stegosaurus delivers his inimitably slick and brilliant wordplay via page, losing none of his bombast. He offers readers a bizarre, hilarious romp through a world of plush anthropomorphic animals, mystical surrealism, and absurdist commentary on our own increasingly cartoonish culture. Yet, even at its most dizzyingly psychedelic, the poems maintain a vital core of vulnerability. --Evan J. Peterson, Editor*Cover art by birds (fowlgallery.com)
About Morris Stegosaurus Morris Stegosaurus grew up in suburban Chicago, found his wings in New York City, and landed in Seattle, where he lives with his boyfriend Eric Maden, an abstract artist and experimental musician. He performs regularly with guitarist Jonathan "Fiddleback" Maxwell, cellist Star St.Germain, saxophonist Alfredo Arnaiz and other musicians under the collective name "Clockwork Ocean." He's always identified as an outsider, but in recent years has found love and acceptance within the furry community, in which context he identifies primarily as a zebra and secondarily as a dingo puppy. Photo by Andi Dean Mashek Burk.
About Minor Arcana Press Minor Arcana Press is a Seattle-based small press founded by Allison McEntire Boyle and Evan J. Peterson. They publish strange, innovative and esoteric/mystical poetry, as well as mixed-genre anthologies. More info at minorarcanapress.com
About Dane Kuttler Dane Kuttler has competed at the Individual World Poetry Slam and Women of the World Poetry Slam, self-published three chapbooks, and completed 365 poems in 365 days during the 2010 poem-a-day project. More about Dane and her work can be found at danepoetry.com. Photo by Rasmus Rasmussen.
About Jeremy Richards Jeremy Richards is a poet and journalist living in Seattle. His work has appeared widely, including in The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, McSweeney's, Rattle, The Morning News, and on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Day to Day, and All Things Considered. "Nietzsche! The Musical," for which he wrote the book and lyrics, premiered at Seattle's Market Theater in June 2010. Richards holds a BA from Gonzaga University and an MA in cultural studies from the University of Washington. Jeremyrichards.com.
Sharing news of some nonfiction classes the lovely Corinne Manning will be teaching out of her house in January/February.
The Living Room Workshops
Nonfiction Workshop January 7th, 2013- February 11 Monday, 7-9pm 6 weeks–$215 In this workshop we will explore the essay and its various forms. Students will workshop two different essays, one at the beginning and one at the end, and in between we will explore different forms of the essay: the personal essay, the braided essay, and the lyric essay. In spirit with the French root of the form—essayer—we will view our work as attempts and work together to discover all of the opportunities present to more fully reveal our work.
Writing Trauma: Narratives of Healing January 23- February 20 Wednesdays, 7-9 pm 5 weeks –$180 Maybe you went on a road trip and figured it all out, or had a psychic tell you to take care of your feet, or survived, or learned to use your loss in a new way. In this safe space we will use methods that explore the outlying regions of our memories. Through numerous exercises we will learn to stay present with a significantly difficult memory and allow it to transform from experience to narrative. We will also look at selections from narratives of healing: “Waking” by Matthew Sanford, “Heaven’s Coast” by Mark Doty, work by Margueritte Duras, Alice Walker and selections from “Maus" by Art Spiegleman. Our support text will be the invaluable Judith Herman's "Trauma and Recovery". Through this process we can begin to gain power over the event and shape it into a structure that heals readers just as purely as it healed the writer.
Corinne Manning is a writer and teacher in Seattle, WA. She believes that the deep exploration of craft is part of a unique and beautiful healing process for the writer. She is the managing editor of Dark Coast Press. Her work has appeared online at the Oxford American, Drunken Boat, and Qarrtsiluni and in print at Arts & Letters. She was the 2010/2011 Writer-in-Residence at the Hub City Writers Project, in Spartanburg, SC. She received her MFA in fiction from UNC Wilmington. She is also a book designer, yoga teacher, and a student of herbalism.
Contact Corinne: corinne.manning [@] gmail [dot] com
For the last forty years, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has run the largest and longest residency Fellowship in the United States for emerging visual artists and writers. Artists who have not had significant recognition for their work and writers who have not yet published a full-length book of creative work are welcome to apply. Fellows receive a seven-month stay (October 1 -April 30) at the Work Center and a $750 monthly stipend. Fellows do not pay or work in exchange for their Fellowships in any way. Fellows are chosen based on the excellence of their work. Former visual arts Fellows include Ellen Gallagher, Jack Pierson, Lisa Yuskavage, Angela Dufresne, Geoffrey Chadsey, and Lamar Peterson. Former writing Fellows--nearly all of whom came here before the publication of their first books--have won every major national award in writing including the National Book Award and seven Pulitzer Prizes. Former writing Fellows include Denis Johnson, Louise Glück, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
The postmark deadline for the 2013-14 Writing Fellowships is December 1, 2012.
For details, please visit: www.fawc.org/fellowships
ROAR Magazine is a print literary journal dedicated to providing a space to showcase women's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.
It publishes literature by emerging and developing writers, as well as interviews with established writers, such as acclaimed novelist and short story writer Jill McCorkle, who, in the current issue, talks about balancing her life and writing.
ROAR Magazine is now accepting submissions for its 2013 winter issue.
For detailed guidelines, please visit its website at www.roarmagazine.org
Reunion: The Dallas Review, a literary and fine arts journal sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas, is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, visual arts, translation and drama.
Third Coast is currently accepting submissions for its 2013 Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contests. Winners in each genre receive $1,000 and publication. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to Third Coast.
Deadline: January 15, 2013
Judges: Jane Hirshfield (Poetry) and Antonya Nelson (Fiction)
Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the new Come, Thief, After (shortlisted for England's T.S. Eliot Prize and named a "best book of 2006" by theWashington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the London Financial Times), Given Sugar, Given Salt, (finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), The Lives of the Heart, and The October Palace, as well as a book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Orion, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, six editions of The Best American Poetry, and many other publications. In 2012, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Antonya Nelson is the author of eight books of fiction, including Female Trouble and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell. Nelson's work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books of 1992, 1996, 1998, and 2000. The New Yorker called her one of the "twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium." She is also a recent recipient of the Rea Award for Short Fiction and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA Grant.Guidelines: Submit one previously unpublished story of up to 9,000 words or three previously unpublished poems.
Since 1994, the Poetry Center's Summer Residency Program has offered poets and prose writers an opportunity to develop their work and to discover all that Tucson has to offer. Two residencies are awarded each summer—one in poetry and one in prose—to writers at any stage of their careers. The residency includes a $150 weekly stipend and a two-to-four-week stay in a private guest house, located within steps of the Center's renowned library. The residency is offered between June 1 and August 31. To enter, applicants must submit a resume or CV, a project proposal, and a work sample. For complete guidelines, visit poetry.arizona.edu.
The Mississippi Review awards $1,000 each in fiction and poetry for winning submissions. Its annual contest is open to all writers in English except current or former students or employees of the University of Southern Mississippi. Fiction entries should be short stories of 8,000 words or less; poetry entries should be three poems totaling 10 pages or less. There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit. Fee is $15 per entry, payable to Mississippi Review. Each entrant will receive a copy of the prize issue (for $10 more, get a one year subscription to the magazine).
No manuscripts will be returned. Results will be posted on the Mississippi Review website. Please do not send a SASE. Previously published work is ineligible.
Deadline is December 1st 2012.
Winners will be announced March 2013. Publication is scheduled for June 2013.
Please put "MRPRIZE 2013," name, address, phone, e-mail address, and title on page one of each manuscript. Please do not include a cover page.
Questions? E-mail <msreview(at)usm.edu> (replace (at) with @)
Send entries to the address below.
2013 Mississippi Review Prize
118 College Drive # 5144
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Writing Trauma: Narratives of Healing Richard Hugo House Mondays, 7-9pm October 8-November 12
Maybe you went on a road trip and figured it all out, or had a psychic tell you to take care of your feet, or survived, or learned to use your loss in a new way. In this safe space we will use methods that explore the outlying regions of our memories. Through numerous exercises we will learn to stay present with a significantly difficult memory and allow it to transform from experience to narrative. We will also look at selections from narratives of healing: “Waking” by Matthew Sanford, “Heaven’s Coast” by Mark Doty and “What the Living Do” by Marie Howe. Through this process we can begin to gain power over the event and shape it into a structure that heals readers just as purely as it healed the writer.
Corinne Manning is from Neptune, New Jersey and currently resides in Seattle, Washington where she is the Managing Editor for Dark Coast Press. She was the 2010/2011 Writer-in-Residence at the Hub City Writer’s Project in Spartanburg, SC. Her fiction has appeared online in Drunken Boat and Qarrtsiluni and her nonfiction will appear in the Spring 2012 issue of Arts & Letters. She co-founded the Other Means Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY; a monthly literary event that highlighted a different non-profit each time. She received her MFA from UNC Wilmington where she was a Teaching Assistant in The Publishing Laboratory.
The contest judge for the Spring 2013 Poetry Contest will be Danielle Pafunda, and the judge for the Spring 2013 Nonfiction Contest will be Julie Marie Wade. Winners will receive prize money and publication, and finalists will also be published. The contest entry fee of $15 will include a free copy of the Spring 2013 issue for all entrants.
So to Speak, founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly 20 years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that lives up to a high standard of language, form, and meaning. It looks for work that addresses issues of significance to women's lives and movements for women's equality and is especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender.
Sycamore Review is now accepting entries for the 2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry, judged by Nikky Finney and open to previously unpublished works of poetry. Each entry may contain up to three poems (no more than six pages total).
The author of the winning piece will be awarded $1,000 and publication in a 2013 issue of Sycamore Review. All entrants receive a year's subscription to Sycamore Review. Entry fee is $15 and $5 for each additional poem. Submissions are accepted via the submission manager. All entries considered for publication. Deadline: November 1.
Folio announces its 2013 Poetry Contest, which will be judged by poet and translator Martha Collins. Martha Collins is the author of five collections of poems, the most recent of which is White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012).
Postmark deadline: February 15, 2013
Reading fee: $15 (includes a one-year subscription)
The winner will receive $500 and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of Folio. Martha Collins will also select a first runner-up and an honorable mention, who will each receive $150. All cover sheets must include name, address, phone number, email address, and titles of poems. Entrant's name should appear ONLY on the cover sheet. Submit up to four poems of any style or length. Multiple entries are acceptible, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry. Folio will not consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with American University.
The Dartmouth 2013 Poet in Residence at The Frost Place
Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH. This is a six to eight week residency in poet Robert Frost's former farmhouse, which sits on a quiet rural road with spectacular views of the White Mountains.
The residency begins July 1 and ends August 31, 2013, and includes a $1,000 award from The Frost Place and $1,000 from Dartmouth College. The poet will have several opportunities to give readings across the region, including at Dartmouth College, for which the poet will receive a $1,000 honorarium.
The house, built in 1859 and owned by the Frost family from 1915 to 1920, is spartan, but comfortable. The Frost Place Museum is open to the public during afternoon hours, and a portion of the house is closed off for the resident poet.
Previous recipients of this residency, which began in 1977, include Katha Pollitt, Robert Haas, William Matthews, Cleopatra Mathis, Mark Halliday, Mary Ruefle, Mark Cox, and Laura Kasischke. Many of these poets have returned to The Frost Place to participate in the conferences held each summer. The aim of the residency program has been to select a poet who is at an artistic and personal crossroads, as Frost was when he bought the place in 1915.
The primary criteria is that applicants must have published at least one book of poems. The complete guidelines and application form can be found on our website at www.frostplace.org. Poets may apply directly or be nominated by someone else. There is a $25 fee for applications. The deadline for submission is midnight, December 31, 2012.
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of American Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an essay. Jim Harms will be judging poetry, Hannah Tinti will be judging fiction, and Abigail Thomas will be judging nonfiction.
