Scribbles - # 372 dated Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Salutations, Scribblers!
Hope your summer’s going well. Here’s what’s happening in Lit-land-o:
Celebrations:
Laurie Murphy, Ph.D., and Nadir Baksh, Psy.D., have a new book appearing Fall, 2007 from Hohm Press, called In the Best Interest of the Child: A Manual for Divorcing Parents. It’s already available for pre-orders at Amazon.com. Congrats!
S.K.I.P. here with some great news...my album release party for the national release of "Autobiographicology" has been confirmed for Tuesday, August 21st @ The Social. for the first time ever, the whole album will be recreated live with a band behind me known as the future funk collective. also performing will be mobella, eugene snowden from the legendary jc's, dj sps, dj bmf, swamburger and alexandrah from the sol.illaquists of sound, mauikai from nonsense records, plus more!!!show tickets are now available at the S.K.I.P. online store. this show will be sold out very quickly so please do not wait until the last moment to purchase your ticket. they are only $5 a piece (only five dollars?!?!?!). i purposely made the show very inexpensive so that everyone would be able to attend and bring friends and family and boyfriends and girlfriends and all that. so please visit the site and get your ticket if you are not in the orlando area to pick them up from park ave cds or the culture mart.
this is going to be a very special night and i cant wait to share it all with all of you!!!
peace and love,skip
To buy tickets, go to:
http://skipofnonsense.myshopify.com/products/autobiographicology-album-release-party-ticket
Scribblers Sharing Info:
Your Scribbler, Darlyn Finch, will be teaching two classes at The Knowledge Shop, 1000 N. Orlando Avenue, Suite C, Winter Park, FL:
So You Want to Be a Poet, 6:30 – 9:30 pm on Wednesday, September 12th OR Tuesday, October 16th. Learn how to write and read your own work aloud.
How to Select & Finance a Master of Fine Arts Degree, 6:30-9:30 pm on Wednesday, October 3rd. A practical guide to selecting an MFA program that’s right for you.
Cost for either class is $57, or $47 Early Bird.
For more info, go to: http://www.theknowledgeshop.us/ or call 407-671-9505.
The 2007 FWA Conference is November 9-11th at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort Convention Center. For more details and to sign up, go to: http://www.floridawriters.net/
Reading by acclaimed poet/playwright,
CORNELIUS EADY, ACA Master Artist-in-Residence
at the African American Museum of the Arts
Atlantic Center for the Arts’ Master Artist, Cornelius Eady
at the African American Museum of the Arts
325 South Clara Avenue
DeLand, FL 32721
386.736.4004
Saturday, August 4, 7 PM
Reading and Q&A
Free; Public Invited
Information: contact African American Museum of the Arts, 386.736.4004
Outreach is an important component of Atlantic Center’s internationally acclaimed program, providing the public with the opportunity to interact with the artists.
Playwright/Poet Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, You Don’t Miss Your Water (Henry Holt and Co., 1995), and Brutal Imagination (Putnam, 2001). Eady is co-founder of Cave Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for African American poets. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature (1985), a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, (1993), a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Traveling Scholarship to Tougaloo College in Mississippi (1992-1993), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, (1993), among others. In April 1999, Running Man, a music-theatre piece was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and awarded a 1999 Obie for best musical score and lead actor in a musical. In January 2002, a production of Brutal Imagination won the 2002 Oppenheimer award for the best first play by an American Playwright. Eady is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.
*For more information on Cornelius Eady, please visit http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/56
This residency program is sponsored, in part, through the generous support of the Joan Mitchell Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the County of Volusia: the Mark Pabst Memorial Fund; and Advance an Artist sponsors: Eleanor & Sam Meiner, Richard Spangler, Solomon Schick, and Joseph & Sue Warren in honor of Esther Hodge.
1st Annual Urban Think! Book Club Summer Mixer
Thursday, July 26th 6:00 PM
Join fellow book lovers and learn the benefits of the Urban Think! Book Club Registry
An evening of fun and inspirationLooking for new ideas for your Club's selections, or maybe you're not yet a member of a book club, but looking? Urban Think! will be buzzing with ideas...see you Thursday!
Saturday, July 28th 1:00-4:00PM
Mark Pinsky will be signing his BIGGER (and possibly even) BETTER! edition of
The Gospel According to The Simpsons
Adding a wealth of new material, the longtime Orlando Sentinel religion reporter expands his analysis of how the show reflects the role of faith in American life. The Simpsons continue to grapple with many of the same religious and moral issues facing non-cartoon society. Join us!
On Thursday. July 26th, Stardust Video and Coffee is featuring Blair from the 2002 Detroit Nationals team that won the entire competition, and just so happens to be one hell of a singer and instrumentalist, as well as poet. The Thursday following (August 2) is the Team Orlando send-off show at Stardust featuring Curtis Meyer, Sami j, Ronin, and j. bradley. Let’s send the boy-eeeez off to Nationals in style!
What's Happening:
Wednesday, July 25th:
Soft Exposure Night from 7-9 pm at Infusion Tea on Edgewater Drive, College Park features Liza Monroy, JL Stewart, and Joseph Pasquale. Come early, at 6:30, to sign up for open mic to follow the featured poets.
Thursday, August 2nd:
5th annual “The YaYa Network Conference, “All About Women,” at Coronado Springs Resort, Walt Disney World – A Professional Women’s One-day Conference focused on balancing professional and family life, and women doing business with women. Go to: http://www.theyayanetwork.com/
Wednesday, September 26th:
Romance Writers Group panel/open discussion/signing 6:30 - 8:30 pm at Urban Think in Thornton Park by Catherine Kean, Terry Odell,
Louise Gouge, Nancy Robards Thompson, and Dara Edmondson.
Calls for Submissions:
The Annual Transcontinental Poetry Award by Pavement Saw Press All contributors receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Please mention this to your friends and all others who might be interested! Electronic and mailed entries must meet these requirements: 1. The manuscript should be at least 48 pages of poetry and no more than 70 pages of poetry in length. Separations between sections are NOT a part of the page count. 2. A one page cover letter. Include a brief biography, the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address. This sho uld be followed by a page which lists publication acknowledgments for the book. For each acknowledgement mention the publisher (journal, anthology, chapbook etc.) and the poem published. 3. The manuscript should be bound with a single clip and begin with a title page including the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address. 4. The second page should have only the title of the manuscript. There are to be no acknowledgments or mention of the author's name from this page forward. Submissions to the contest are blind judged. 5. There should be no more than one poem on each page. The manuscript can contain pieces longer than one page. 6. The manuscript should be paginated, beginning with the first page of poetry. Each year Pavement Saw Press will publish at least one book of poetry and/or prose poems from manuscripts received during this competition. Selections are c hosen through a blind judging process. The competition is open to anyone who has not previously published a volume of poetry or prose. The author receives $1000 and five percent of the 1000 copy press run. Previous judges have included Judith Vollmer, David Bromige, Bin Ramke and Howard McCord. This year David Baratier will be the judge; past students, Pavement Saw Press interns and employees are not allowed to submit. All poems must be original, all prose must be original, fiction or translations are not acceptable. Writers who have had volumes of poetry and/or prose under 40 pages printed or printed in limited editions of no more than 500 copies are eligible. Submissions are accepted during the months of June, July, and until August 15th. All submissions must have an August 15th, 2007, or earlier, postmark. This is an award for first books only. If you wish to send via regular mail your manuscript should be accompanied by a check in the amount of $18.00 made payable to Pavement Saw Press. All US contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Add $3 (US) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do not include an SASE for notification of results, this information will be sent with the free book. Do not send the only copy of your work. All manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts cannot be made. If you wish to submit electronically, you should send $25.00 via paypal to info@pavementsaw.org. We will then send you an e-mail confirmation as well as where to e-mail the manuscript. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or as word (.doc) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is to cover the paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to print out your manuscript. In addition to the prize winner, sometimes another anonymous manuscript is chosen, if enough entries arrive. This “editors choice” manuscript will be published under a standard royalty contract. A decision will be reached in November. Entries should be sent to: Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Award Entry P.O. Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 All submissions must have an August 15th, or earlier, postmark or PayPal payment. Submissions are accepted during the months of June, July, and August only. If you have questions, please ask us: info@pavementsaw.org Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org
Thanks for your attention!
Darlyn Finch
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