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Around The Park: News You Can Use
ACW's Featured Event: BRANCHING OUT:READINGS AROUND THE PARK (see below for other wonderful literary events taking place throughout the region this summer.) ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR WRITINGSUMMER READING SERIES 2008 Maurice Kenny and Nick Spengler
Thursday, July 31 7pm
Saranac Lake Artist Guild, Broadway, Saranac Lake, NY James Kunstler
Thursday, August 7 7pm
Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe, 19 Exchange Street, Glens Falls, NY
(co-sponsored by the Lake George Arts Project) Steve Stern
Monday, August 11 7pm
Saratoga Springs Arts Council, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY
(co-sponsored by the Saratoga Springs Arts Council) Elizabeth Inness-Brown and Kate Messner
Thursday, August 14 7pm
Wells Memorial Library, Upper Jay, NY Paul Pines and Naomi Guttman
Monday, August 18 7pm
Old Forge Public Library, Old Forge, NY
(co-sponsored by the Old Forge Library) John Elder and Christopher Shaw
Thursday, August 21 7pm
Sagamore Great Camp, Raquette Lake, NY Author Bios
JOHN ELDER: Since coming to teach English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College in 1973, John Elder has been involved in a variety of environmental organizations at the state and local levels. His wife Rita and he, along with their three grown children, also operate a sugarbush and produce green-certified flooring in the hills of Starksboro, Vermont. Through such activities, John has become increasingly interested in the ecology, culture, and economics of the Northern Forest. His last three books--Reading the Mountains of Home, The Frog Run, and Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa--have combined descriptions of the forested landscape, reflections on environmental thought and literature, and personal memoir. With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship he has more recently been writing about the future of Vermont's forests and of the American environmental movement in a time of climate destabilization. His reading on August 21st will come from this current project. ELIZABETH INNESS-BROWN was born in Rochester and grew up in the North Country. Her collection of short stories Satin Palms (1981) won her a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and an Associated Writing Programs award. She has published stories in The New Yorker, The North American Review, Boulevard and various other literary magazines. Her novel Burning Margueritte (Knopf, 2002) garnered praise from The New York Times Book Review, which called her writing “vivid yet concise…burns away all but the essence of her story.” She teaches creative writing at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, VT, and lives with her husband and son in the Champlain Islands. NAOMI GUTTMAN was born and raised in Montreal. In 1992, her book Reasons for Winter won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. She has received grants from the Canada Council and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Wet Apples, White Blood was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007 and won the Adirondack Literary Award for Best Book of Poetry. She teaches English and creative writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. MAURICE KENNY is the author of twenty-five collections of poetry and two of fiction. World Literature Today magazine hailed him as the dean of Native American poetry. His poetry has been published in thirteen countries and translated into nine languages. For his collection The Mama Poems, he received the American Book Award and a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship and residency. His most recent work, Connotations (White Pine Press, 2008), is a collection of narrative poems concerning the life and death of his father. He is artist-in-residence and teaches literature and creative writing at SUNY-Potsdam. JAMES KUNSTLER, a native of New York City, began his literary career as a reporter, writing for various newspapers and Rolling Stone magazine. He is an active author, social critic, and internet blogger. His non-fiction book The Geography of Nowhere (1993) explores and laments contemporary trends in urban and suburban development in the United States, while The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition (2002) searches for development models among the world’s greatest cities. His most recent non-fiction work, The Long Emergency (2005) examines the global oil crisis, climate change, and other “converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century.” He is also the author of ten novels, the most recent of which, World Made By Hand (Atlantic Monthly Press), came out this year. He has lectured and a variety of top-notch universities and currently resides in Saratoga Springs. KATE MESSNER is the author of the middle grade historical novel Spitfire, winner of this year's Adirondack Literary Award for children's literature, and several other children's books that will be forthcoming. Her next book, Champlain and the Silent One (North Country Books), will be released this fall. Marty McGuire, Frog Princess will be published by Scholastic Press in 2010. Over and Under the Snow will be published by Chronicle Books. PAUL PINES has been, among other things, a merchant seaman, a taxi driver, and the owner of a Manhattan jazz club. He is now, among other things, a psychotherapist and professor of American Literature at Adirondack Community College. As a writer, he has published two novels, including the highly acclaimed The Tin Angel (Wm Morrow, 1983), and six books of poetry, of which Taxidancing (IKON, 2007) is the latest. His memoir, My Brother’s Madness (Curbstone Press, 2007), treats his experience with his mentally ill brother. David Unger writes, “few books nourish the psyche and stir the heart as much as [Pines’ memoir].” Most recently, Pines converted The Tin Angel into a libretto, premiering this year. CHRISTOPHER SHAW, edited Adirondack Life in the 1980s after having been a whitewater guide, a caretaker, and an innkeeper. He is the author of Sacred Monkey River, about a threatened river and rain forest in Mexico, and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. His fiction and articles have appeared in Outside, the New England Review, the New York Times, the anthology The Nature of Nature, and many other publications. Shaw now teaches writing at Middebury College, where he also administers the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. NICK SPENGLER, a Burlington, Vermonter, is an English and Creative Writing major at Middlebury College. His poems have appeared in Middlebury’s Sweatervest Magazine. STEVE STERN was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where he worked for many years as a Yiddish folklorist. The city’s old Jewish ghetto provided the landscape for his first collection of stories, Isaac and the Undertaker’s Daughter (1983), which won the Pushcart Writers’ Choice Award. He has since published many other collections, including The Wedding Jester (2000), which won the National Jewish Book Award. He is the author of several novels, most notably The Angel of Forgetfulness, named one of the best books of 2005 by the Washington Post. His novella The North of God (Melville House) was published in May of this year. A frame narrative in which a man tells fantastical stories to hearten and inspire a crowded boxcar of Jews bound for a concentration camp, Harold Bloom lauds the novella as “a throwback to the Yiddish sublime.” Stern teaches creative writing at Skidmore College. This program was made possible through the generosity of: New York State Council on the Arts _______________________________________________________ Wednesdays July 9 to August 13, from 6 to 8:30 p.m
Old Forge Library's annual Summer’s Writer’s Workshop
The Director and Writer-in-Residence this year is Carol Hoenig, a fulltime freelance writer and publishing consultant. Enrollment in the Writer's Workshop is limited. Participants are required to submit a piece of work that is completed during the workshop to be included in an Anthology. There is no fee, but a sample of work must be submitted. To register for the workshop call Library Director Isabella Worthen at the Old Forge Library at 369-6008. July 20 – 26, 2008
The New York State Summer Young Writers Institute
The New York State Writers Institute in conjunction with the Office of the Dean of Special Programs at Skidmore College is pleased to announce the 10th annual creative writing workshop for New York State high school students. The New York State Summer Young Writers Institute (SYWI) will be held at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, July 20 – 26, 2008.
Participants in the SYWI will receive instruction in poetry, prose, and imaginative nonfiction, and engage in the critical evaluation of each other’s work. There will be three workshops per day: two sessions in the morning, and one in the afternoon. In addition, the young writers will attend evening readings and craft talks by nationally known writ- ers who are part of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, a writing workshop for adults, which also takes place on the Skidmore campus during the month of July. This four-week institute features some of the most famous and well- regarded writers in the country, such as Russell Banks, Anne Beattie, Mary Gordon, William Kennedy, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Pinsky, and many more. Participants in the SYWI will have an opportunity to interact with some of these major literary figures. Tuesday, July 22
The Annual Author's Fair held at the Old Forge Library
The program begins with the Workshop, "How to Get Published and Beyond," from Noon to 2 p.m. led by Mary Peterson Moore of Syracuse University Press, Andy Flynn, author and successful self publisher, and Carol Hoenig, director of the library's Summer Writer's Workshop. Pre-registration is not required and it is free. From 2:30 TO 5:30 p.m. Area authors will sell and sign their books under a tent on the library lawn. Authors attending include Dick Case, Andy Flynn, Alan Foote, Holly Gaskin, Letty Haynes, Carol Hoenig, Ellie Reed Koppe, Randy Lewis, Den Linnehan, Hope Marston, Nelli Perri, Sally Valentine Steinmiller, Jamie Sutliff, Ruth Timm, Connie Watkins, Elizabeth Zerbst.
Following the Fair, Dan Duggan will perform on the Hammered Dulcimer at 7 p.m. in the library wing. Duggan, a nationally known touring performer, is acknowledged as one of the finest dulcimer players and composers in the country. He is the recipient of the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship. He has recorded four albums of original compositions, three albums of traditional holiday music and a Family Album of original songs written with children in schools throughout the state, entitled, "Pieces of our Life," which received the Parent's Choice Award in 1998. His dulcimer work can be heard on Paul Simon's Grammy nominated CD, "You're the One," released in 2000. The performance is free and open to the public. It is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts: The Presentation Program. For more information call the library at 369-6008. July 25-27, 2008
The Adirondack Photography Institute announces the following writing workshop this summer:
1000 Words and a Picture
Developing story/photography packages for publication July 25-27, 2008 with special guest speakers Elizabeth Folwell, Adirondack Life Magazine and Rob Igoe, North Country Books.
Instructor: Lisa Densmore
Location: The Woods Inn Conference Center, Inlet, New York Tuesday, August 5, 2008 7:30pm
Reading with Roger Mitchell and Stephanie Coyne-DeGhett
Old Forge public Library, Old Forge, NY. For more information contact the library at 315-369-6008. August 9, 2008
Writer's Workshop for Photographers:
Developing a story/photography package for publication with special guest speaker Elizabeth Folwell, Adirondack Life Magazine
Instructor: Lisa Densmore
Location: The Woods Inn Conference Center, Inlet, New York
For more information go to the Adk Photography Institute’s web site, http://www.adkpi.org/workshops/2008/densmore_jul25.html Tues, August 12, 2008
Hoss's Book Fair
This popular event held at Hoss's Country Corner in Long Lake, NY draws hundreds of people every year. Come meet your favorite regional authors and have them sign your books. For more information contact Hoss's at 518-624-2451. August 20, 2008 7pm
Reading with The Three Poets on the Adirondacks
Mary Sanders Shartle, Elaine Handley, and Marilyn McCabe will read at the Ticonderoga Library in Ticonderoga, NY.Contact the library for more information at 518-585-4454. August 22-24, 2008
Adirondack Mountain Writers' Retreat
"Living to Tell the Tale", writing memoir with Irene Sherlock. During this writing-intensive weekend, students will explore the art and craft of memoir writing. For more details and to registrer visit, www.PersisGranger.com.
CALL FOR CONTESTS, FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS, AND PROPOSALS
Publisher looking for manuscripts!
Shaggy Dog Press is looking for writing that immerses the reader in story, character or place. It should have a solid base in, and respect the sanctity of, the natural world.
Shaggy Dog Press plans to publish quality work by first-time or lesser-known authors to serve an underfed, possibly narrow, readership that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Shaggy Dog Press retains the right to be reimbursed for all publication expenses. Any monies realized after such expenses have been met will be sent directly to the author. No royalties are to be expected or realized. Contractual efforts are paid upon publication.
Shaggy Dog Press will promote and distribute within its reach, but the author is expected to fully participate in promotional and distributional efforts.
Shaggy Dog Press does not intend to make money, but it does believe the writers should.
Please send a cover letter listing previous publication credits and a brief bio, plus an SASE for response only. Materials will be shredded and recycled unless otherwise requested.
Poetry: Send entire manuscript, one poem per page (more space if needed). Include Acknowledgments page if you have worked with an editor.
Children: Send entire manuscript, double spaced. Include Acknowledgments page if you have worked with an editor. Include illustrator's name and brief bio if applicable.
Fiction: Send two-page synopsis and first twenty-five pages. Use proper form with title page that includes name, address, telephone, email address; have header listing author's last name/book title/chapter/page number.
Nonfiction: Same as for fiction but include detailed proposal for remainder of book. Include some reference to sources if applicable.
Contact: shaggydogpress@aol.com Waterman Fund Alpine Essay Contest
The Waterman Fund seeks the submission of essays about life in the mountains of the northeastern U.S. for its inaugural Waterman Fund Alpine Essay Contest. Prize: $2,000 (in the form of a check) and the winning essay printed in Appalachia Journal. The winner must agree for his/her essay to be edited by the editor of Appalachia Journal.
Essays must be original works ranging from 2500 to 4000 words. The submission deadline is May 1, 2008. The winning piece will be published in Appalachia Journal, and the winning essayist will be awarded $2,000. The winner will be notified by email, phone or registered mail on or about July 15, 2008.
Writers who have not published a book on such topic or who have not been published in a national magazine on such topic are eligible for participation.
To submit an entry, email a Word document (or compatible format) to:
Mary Margaret Sloan at mmsloan@peoplepc.com or mail to 890 Hunt Road Windsor, VT 05089. http://www.watermanfund.org/categories/events/essay_contest.html Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Announces:
2008 Call for Entries!
2008 Summer Fellowship Categories:
-Poetry
-Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
-Painting, sculpture and other visual arts
-Photography
2008 Grant Categories:
-Painting
-Mixed Media
-Screenwriting or Playwriting
-Fiction or Creative Non-Fiction
Application deadline for both programs is January 15, 2008
Summer Fellowship and Grant application forms are available online at www.saltonstall.org or call 607.539.3146 if you prefer a printed application. From Splitthisrock.org:
Panel Proposals- Deadline Extended to January 1: Split this Rock invites proposals for panel discussions and workshops on a range of topics at the intersection of poetry and social change. Possibilities are endless.
Download the form here:
splitthisrock.org/documents/Call-for-Proposals.doc
Poetry Contest: January 15 Deadline
The contest benefits the Split this Rock Poetry Festival. $1,000 awarded for poems of provocation and witness. $500 for first, $300 for second, $200 for third place. First place winner will read the winning poem at the festival. The poem will also be published on the festival website at www.splitthisrock.org. Guidelines for entry: www.splitthisrock.org/contests.html
ONGOING EVENTS
The Black River Valley Writers Club, a writers group out of Watertown, would like to spread the word about their monthly meetings.
Meetings are held the third Saturday of every month at the Flower Memorial Library on Washington Street in Watertown. The meetings begin at 9:30 a.m. and run to around noon. They are free and open to the public. Anyone interested in joining may attend two meetings as a guest. However, guests returning for the third time will be asked to pay dues from then on.
For more information, contact Katie Semtner Stokes at 315-785-0349 or kstokes@twcny.rr.com.
Marty Podskoch has more than 50 presentations lined up in the region this season. You're bound to find him in your area at least a few times. He's the author Adirondack Stories; Fire Towers of the Catskills: Their History and Lore (2000); Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, the Southern Districts (2003); Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, the Northern Districts (2005). Visit www.adirondackstories.com to view his complete talk schedule. North Country Writers Group
The North Country Writers group meets monthly in Elizabethtown. For future meeting dates, contact Margaret Bartley, Tel: (518) 873-9225; e-mail: msbartley@charter.net Glens Falls Writers' Group
Hosted by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council. Meetings held the first Thursday of every month (10am) or the third Thursday of every month (7pm). Come on out and have some fun, these groups are free and open to anyone interested in writing. Call 518-798-1144 for info.
If you have a literary/writing event that you'd like listed on our event calendar, please e-mail acw@paulsmiths.edu
Adirondack Center for
Writing
Paul Smith's College, PO Box 265
Paul Smiths, New York 12970
Phone: 518-327-6278
Fax: 518-327-6161
Email: acw@paulsmiths.edu
Paul Smith's College, PO Box 265
Paul Smiths, New York 12970
Phone: 518-327-6278
Fax: 518-327-6161
Email: acw@paulsmiths.edu
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