~ Book of Kells: Big Poetry Giveaway! 2014: (Celebrating Year 5!)

~ Book of Kells: Big Poetry Giveaway! 2014: (Celebrating Year 5!)



http://blog.seattlepi.com/witnessingalzheimers/2014/04/05/april-2014s-big-poetry-giveaway/

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

Five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $25,800 each (previously $15,000), will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry.

Submissions will be accepted from March 1 – April 30 of this year, via the online submissions system.

• Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
• Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and no older than 31 years of age as of April 30, 2014.
• Applications must be submitted by April 30, 2014.
• Applications must be made through our submissions website, according to the guidelines below.
• Application materials sent via e-mail or standard mail will not be considered.

To apply, assemble your application materials as a single Word document. This document must include:

• An approximately 250-word introduction to your work (not to exceed one page).
• Ten pages of poems, in standard font and size (Times New Roman, 12pt). You may include multiple poems on one page, but total pages of poems must not exceed ten.
• Publication list. (Optional. If you choose to include it, please do so as the last page of your document.)
• Name this document [LAST NAME]_[FIRST NAME].doc (example: Doe_John.doc).

Finalists will be notified by e-mail by August 1.

Winners will be announced on September 1.

If you have any questions, contact Holly Amos at hamos@poetrymagazine.org.

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About the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Program
Established in 1989 by Ruth Lilly to encourage the further writing and study of poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program has dramatically expanded since its inception. Until 1995, university writing programs nationwide each nominated one student poet for a single fellowship; from 1996 until 2007, two fellowships were awarded. In 2008 the competition was opened to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age, and the number of fellowships increased to five, totaling $75,000. In 2014, the Poetry Foundation received a generous gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund to create the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships, which increased the fellowship amount from $15,000 to $25,800.

Plague Narratives: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe (@Richard Hugo House, beginning Feb 1)

This six-week reading course will look at the rhetorical challenge of representing current and future catastrophic harm and risk, using plague narratives as a point of departure.

Full reading list below.

Meets: Saturday, February 1, 2014 – Saturday, March 8, 2014
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Richard Hugo House

General: $245.00
Members of Hugo House: $220.50

Information on registration and financial aid.

Readings

Week 1 – Introduction to History of the Plague

• John Kelly, The Great Mortality (chapters 1-5)

Week 2 – Some Key Plague Narratives

• Procopius, History of the Wars (Book II, xxii-xxxiii) – 542 AD*
• Boccaccio, The Decameron (Introduction) – 1353 AD**
• Rosemary Horrox (trans. And ed.), The Black Death (various accounts) – 14th Century**
• Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys Diary (1665-1667) (http://www.pepys.info/1665/plague.html)*
• Nathaniel Hodges, Loimologia (sections I-III) – 1672 AD*

Week 3 – Daniel Defoe – A Journal of the Plague Year

• Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year – 1722 AD*

Week 4 – Visions of End Times – Real and Imagined

• Clear and present threats: global warming, new pandemics, Malthusian catastrophe, mass extinction, genetic uniformity and crop blights, bioterrorism, supervolcanic eruptions, megatsunamis
  • Damian Carrington, “Planet likely to warm by 4C by 2100, scientists warn” (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/31/planet-will-warm-4c-2100-climate)*
  • Bellamy Pailthorp, “Sea Level Rise Map Shows 30 Wash. Towns Inundated” (http://www.kplu.org/post/sea-level-rise-map-shows-30-wash-towns-inundated)*
  • Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (Chapter 7) – 1798*
  • Molly Billings, “The Influenza Pandemic of 1918” (http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/)*
  • Martin Fackler, “Powerful Quake and Tsunami Devastate Northern Japan” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12japan.html)*
  • Edward Ortiz, “Bioterrorism concerns keep genetic code for new strain of botulism under wraps” (http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/12/18/3674754/bioterrorism-concerns-keep-genetic.html)*
  • University of California Berkeley’s Understanding Evolution website, “Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: cases of missing genetic variation” (http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/agriculture_02)*
  • Rebecca Morelle, “Yellowstone supervolcano ‘even more colossal’” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25312674)*
  • Jim Galasyn, “50 doomiest graphs of 2013” – December 31, 2013 (http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2013/12/50-doomiest-graphs-of-2013.html)*
• Distant and imagined threats: black holes, impact events (asteroids), decline in atmospheric oxygen, experimental accidents (e.g., high-energy physics), technological singularity, extraterrestrial invasion, zombie apocalypse
  • Eben Harrell, “Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears” (http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1838947,00.html)*
  • Phil Plait, “NASA’s Wise Asteroid Hunter Back in Business” (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/20/neowise_nasa_s_asteroid_hunter_is_back_in_business.html)*
  • Peter Tatchell, “The oxygen crisis” (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/13/carbonemissions.climatechange)*
  • Fay Schlesinger, “Stephen Hawking: Earth could be at risk of an invasion by aliens living in ‘massive ships’” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1268712/Stephen-Hawking-Aliens-living-massive-ships-invade-Earth.html)*
  • Ben Popper, “Rapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?” (http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race)*
  • David Wong, “5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen” (http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html)*
• Linear religious eschatology
  • Judaic: various books of the Hebrew  Bible – dating back to the 10th century AD (summary)
  • Christian: Book of Revelation (King James Bible) – 95 AD*
  • Zoroastrian (Persian): Bahman Yasht (or Zand of the Vohuman Yast) – 6th century AD  (read summary)*
  • Islamic: Sūrat al-Qiyāma (75th chapter of the Quran) – 7th century AD

Week 5 – Risk Perception and Coping Mechanisms

• Albert Camus, The Plague
• William S. Burroughs, “Twilight’s Last Gleamings” (from The Paris Review, No. 109, Winter 1988)**
• Kristin Jackson, “Exploring the tragic beauty of Hawaii’s remote Kalaupapa” (http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2020308049_kalaupapahawaiixml.html)*
• David Quammen, “Anticipating the Next Pandemic” (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/anticipating-the-next-pandemic.html?pagewanted=all)*
• Anthony Costello et al, “Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action” (http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1942/1866.full)*
• Coral Davenport, “The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change” (http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-coming-gop-civil-war-over-climate-change-20130509)*
• Helen Thomson, “Japanese fatalistic about risk of death from earthquake” (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20267-japanese-fatalistic-about-risk-of-death-from-earthquake.html)*
• Kenneth Worthy, “Despair, Courage, & Hope in an Age of Environmental Turmoil” (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-green-mind/201311/despair-courage-hope-in-age-environmental-turmoil)*
• James Wesley Rawles, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times(chapter 1, “The Survival Mind-set for Living in Uncertain Times”)**
• Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (chapters 1-2)**
• Emily Matchar, “Boom Times” (http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/outdoor-skills/survival/Boom-Times-20120801.html)*
• Alan Feuer, “The Preppers Next Door” (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregion/the-doomsday-preppers-of-new-york.html?_r=0)*
• Richard Morgan, “Life After Earth: Imagining Survival Beyond This Terra Firma” (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/science/01arc.html)*
• Roger Highfield, “Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1359562/Colonies-in-space-may-be-only-hope-says-Hawking.html)*
• Margaret Hartmann, “The ‘End Times’ Are Upon Us, According to Michele Bachmann” (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/end-times-bachmann.html)*

Week 6 – Understanding Resistance and Inspiring Action

• Stephan Dickert and Paul Slovic, “Unstable values in lifesaving decisions” (http://www.frontiersin.org/cognition/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00294/full)*
• Paul Slovic et al, “Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life” (http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227004861_Insensitivity_to_the_Value_of_Human_Life_A_Study_of_Psychophysical_Numbing/file/50463529ac0c0cac90.pdf)*
• George Marshall, “Why We Find It So Hard to Act Against Climate Change” (http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/climate-action/why-we-find-it-so-hard-to-act-against-climate-change)*
• Dan Gilbert, “If only gay sex caused global warming” (http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/02/opinion/op-gilbert2)*
• Fiza Salim, “Culture, Politics, and Religion: Exploring Resistance to Vaccinations in South Asia” (http://www.academia.edu/3158834/Culture_Politics_and_Religion_Exploring_Resistance_to_Vaccinations_in_South_Asia)*
• Kharunya Paramaguru, “The Battle Over Global Warming Is All in Your Head” (http://science.time.com/2013/08/19/in-denial-about-the-climate-the-psychological-battle-over-global-warming)*
• Dan M. Kahan et al, “The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change” (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1871503_code45442.pdf?abstractid=1871503&mirid=5)*
• Richard Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response (chapter 2, “Why so little is being done about the catastrophic risks”)**
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “World Social Science Report: Changing global environments” (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002233/223388e.pdf)*
• Adam Corner, “Why the World Won’t Listen” (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/ipcc_climate_change_denial_psychology_and_human_nature_trump_science_and.html)*
• Al Gore, “Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?” (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622)*

*Available online

**Will be included in course reader

Residency and Chapbook Competition - The Frost Place (Franconia, New Hampshire)

Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place

A prize of $2,000, reading series, and a six-to eight week residence at Robert Frost's former home in Franconia, New Hampshire, is given annually to a poet who has published at least one poetry collection. 

Applications accepted through December 31, 2013. Apply online. Visit www.frostplace.org for more information or apply at https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit

Second Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition

A $250 prize, publication of the winning chapbook, a fellowship at the 2014 Frost Place Poetry Seminar, featured reading, and a week-long residency residence at Robert Frost's Former Home in Franconia, New Hampshire is being awarded in 2013 by Bull City Press and The Frost Place. 

Applications accepted through December 31, 2013. Apply online. Visit www.frostplace.org for more information or apply at https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Hiring a Professor of Creative Writing

Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics invites applications for a full-time core candidate advanced Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with excellent abilities in creative writing, literary scholarship, and program administration: appointment to begin fall 2014. Duties include teaching (on campus and online) undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops, literary studies, and professional development courses; advising BA and MFA thesis students; service to the School and University; as well as program coordination of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics. We seek a candidate who can teach across genres, with an emphasis in innovative prose writing (fiction and creative nonfiction) and an interest in queer literature and theory. Teaching load: 3/3 plus MFA thesis advising; course release for program coordination.

Start Date: July 1, 2014

Assistant Professor: $46,000
Associate Professor: $50,000, dependent upon experience

Qualified applicants should apply online by January 31, 2014 and include:

• A letter of interest, including primary professional qualifications and pedagogical statement.
• Curriculum vitae, highlighting teaching experience, administrative experience, publications, and community engagement.
• One published book of innovative prose. Upload PDF or mail to Naropa University, JKS Faculty Search, 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
• Three recent course syllabi of your own design.
• Three letters of recommendation from writers or colleagues in equal or higher academic positions, highlighting teaching, publications, and collegiality.

Apply online.

Art with Heart

Since moving to Seattle 3.5 years ago, one of the many facets of the city that I've fallen in love with is its profound compassion and social consciousness. It is, in fact, a blessing and a curse--while navigating the turbulent waters of grad school, dissecting my thoughts one by one and rebuilding this new self of intersectionalities and muddled theory, it seemed that the world around me was rebuilding itself, too. Yet any quick dive into Facebook was a shocking reminder that my cloistered, University, Social Work, Non-Profit Seattle world was often in stark ideological contrast to much of the rest of the country.

I struggled with how to express this in class. "You don't talk much" was every professor's post-class assessment, and as much as they told me to speak up more, three years later, I voice my opinions just as much as Day 1. Yet for all of my shyness, no teacher questioned who I was or what I believed in, because it came out in what I wrote. Writing was my power, a more familiar and comfortable way of connecting both with myself and others, something I had honed during the various traumas of youth and held onto as an adult because it at once allows me to connect with others and distance myself from their response. It feels safe.

Time and again, writing has been shown to help children and young adults who are coping with childhood trauma. Trauma has wide-ranging social and physiological effects, including an inability to recognize, name, and express their feelings. They may react powerfully (violence, aggression, yelling, self-harm) or they may just simply dissociate (tune out); with either, this inability to talk about their feelings and needs lasts well into adulthood, with devastating consequences on their ability to form healthy relationships. Through writing, children and teens are finally able to unburden and redefine themselves.

If you want to learn about some of the work that local writers are doing within marginalized communities and with victims of childhood trauma, I've included a list of Seattle-based non-profits below:

Writing Resistance: Part writing group, part community action, Writing Resistance is a Beacon Hill-based group for those affected by disability and ableism. It also looks like they were taking submissions for their first Zine back in March of '13, though I was unable to locate any further mention of it online.

Books to Prisoners: Okay, so it's not actually a writing-focused non-profit, but Books to Prisoners, run by Seattle's Left Bank Books, still focuses on literacy and social justice, which is all that matter to me to make the cut.

826 Seattle: If you write, you probably already know about literary non-profit powerhouse 826 Seattle. Founded by Dave Eggers, 826 Seattle offers tutoring, workshops, bookmaking and writing labs, reaching over 3,100 children throughout King County.

Arts Corps: Focused primarily on low-income youth of color, Art Corps has brought racial justice to the arts, through youth workshops, writing classes, after school programs, classroom curriculae and artists in residence, and youth poetry slams.

Art with Heart: Art therapy is a powerful tool in working with young children who are struggling with trauma. Whether they're facing the death of a parent or chronic illness, Art with Heart develops books to help children sort through their feelings and safely express themselves.

Pongo Teen Writing: This amazing organization works with teens, often homeless or incarcerated, to "express themselves through poetry and other forms of writing." They also publish anthologies of the teens' work, most of which are given away to other teens in need, but are also sold to help cover a small percentage of their publishing costs.

Call for submissions: THE BOILER

THE BOILER is accepting submissions in poetry, short stories, and short memoir/essays (prose under 3,500 words) for its spring 2014 issue. Submissions close February 20, 2014.

The Boiler was started online in 2011 by a group of MFA students from Sarah Lawrence College. Now publishing quarterly, it features emerging writers and established writers such as Paul Liscicky, David Hollander, Bruce Bond, Thomas Lux, Daniel Chacon, Raena Shirali, Robin Richardson, Cinthia Ritchie, Kelli Allen, Emma Bolden, Cynthia Cruz, Joseph Millar and others.

Visiting Assistant Professor Positions at Oregon State University

Two one-year Visiting Assistant Professor appointments in creative writing, one in fiction and one in creative non-fiction (with particular focus on magazine writing/literary journalism), beginning fall 2014.  

Over the three terms of the 2014-2015 academic year, each position will cover five courses, including one graduate-level (MFA) workshop, one upper-division craft class, and undergraduate literature and/or creative writing courses as assigned.  Each position also requires serving as thesis advisor for two MFA students and assisting with the reviewing of applications to the MFA program.  

Required: MFA at the time of appointment,  significant  publications in the genre, and a record of successful teaching.

To review postings and apply, go to http://oregonstate.edu/jobs

Clockhouse

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

Neil Gaiman's Sandman [themed show] at Crocodile, Seattle

Tonight!

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

reading at Elliott Bay Book & Company

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.

Visions of Nowhere: The Utopian Tradition (reading course at Richard Hugo House)

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

Click here for information on registration and financial aid.    

Required Readings  

Week 1
Tao Yuanming, The Peach Blossom Spring
Sir Thomas More, Utopia  

Week 2
Sir Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (first two chapters only - "Economy" and "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For")  

Week 3
Samuel Butler, Erewhon (chapters 7, 8, and 23-25)
William Morris, News from Nowhere (chapters 1-15)  

Week 4
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (chapters 1-5)  

Week 5
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (chapters 1-12)  

Week 6
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia  

Reading: Joannie Stangeland and David Horowitz (January 9)

Next Wednesday, January 9, our very own Joannie Stangeland will be reading with David D. Horowitz at The Station as part of the Beacon Bards reading series.

When: January 9, 7:00 P.M.
Where: The Station, 2533 16th Avenue South(by the Beacon Hill light rail station)

There's also an open mic, so bring poems.

Book Launch Party: Morris Stegosaurus' Zebra Feathers - January 10 at Hugo House

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.

Nonfiction Workshops with Corinne Manning

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

Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts

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

Call for submissions by women: ROAR

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

Five Points: James Dickey Prize For Poetry

Winner receives $1,000 and publication in Five Points.

Guidelines:

• Include no more than three unpublished poems per submission.
• Poems must be typed and may be up to 50 lines each.
• Include your name and address on each poem.
• $20 reading fee includes a one-year subscription to Five Points.
• Make checks or money orders payable to GSU/Five Points.

Enclose two sufficiently stamped SASEs to receive receipt of manuscript and notification of contest results.

All entries must be postmarked by December 1, 2012.

Winner will be announced in the spring of 2013.


Mail your entry to:

Five Points
James Dickey Prize for Poetry
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3999
Atlanta, GA 30302-3999

More info.

Reunion: The Dallas Review

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.

Deadline: December 15

Third Coast Magazine: 2013 Fiction and Poetry Contests

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.

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Third Coast 2013 Fiction or Poetry Contest
Department of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331