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SUMMARY:There IS a Balm in Gilead
DESCRIPTION:“There IS A Balm in Gilead: Healing From The Events of 1963″ is a conference that will take place September 12-14\, 2023\, in Birmingham\, Alabama. We will discuss the events of 1963 that changed the city and inspired similar movements for human and civil rights across the nation and worldwide. \nComplete Conference Registration includes:\n– Opening Reception\n– Access to keynote and breakout sessions\n– Breakfast\, lunch\, and refreshment breaks \nRegistration Fees and Tickets:\n– Full conference: $200\n– Pre-conference AM Bus Tour of Historic Civil Rights Sites in BHAM: $50.00\n– Pre-conference PM Bus Tour of Historic Civil Rights Sites in BHAM: $50.00\n– Refund Policy: Refunds up to 30 days before the event
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/there-is-a-balm-in-gilead/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alabama Humanities Alliance":MAILTO:isnider@alabamahumanities.org
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SUMMARY:DISQUIET International Literary Program
DESCRIPTION:Program applications are open until December 1 for the DISQUIET International Literary Program. Experience contemporary Portuguese literature and workshop your writing next summer with the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon. Faculty for 2024 will include Jessica Anthony\, Chris Feliciano Arnold\, Jamel Brinkley\, Cyriaco Lopes\, T Kira Madden\, Diana Khoi Nguyen\, Katherine Vaz\, Terri Witek\, and many more TBA. \nFull tuition waivers are available through our writing contest; see our website for details or enter at disquietinternational.submittable.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/disquiet-international-literary-program/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dzanc Books DISQUIET ILP":MAILTO:disquietinternational@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Alabama Writers’ Cooperative 100th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:Our in-person conference will feature writing workshops\, manuscript consultations\, an awards banquet to honor our contest winners\, open mic\, and the annual AWC membership meeting.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-writers-cooperative-100th-anniversary-conference/
LOCATION:O’Neal Public Library\, 50 Oak Street\, Mountain Brook\, AL\, 35213\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading by Ashley M. Jones\, Poet Laureate of Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Ashley M. Jones will share poems from her powerful books: Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press\, 2017)\, dark // thing (Pleiades Press\, 2019)\, and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press\, 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards\, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award\, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry\, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Featured on several news outlets including Good Morning America\, ABC News\, and the BBC\, Jones lives in Birmingham where she is the Associate Director of the University Honors Program at UAB.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-by-ashley-m-jones-poet-laureate-of-alabama/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Ballroom\, 350 Alumni Drive\, Mobile\, AL\, 36608\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stokes Center for Creative Writing":MAILTO:aprince@southalabama.edu
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SUMMARY:Dr. Lee Farrow Series on 19th-century Russian Writers Begins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special three-part series on Russia’s great nineteenth-century writers led by Lee Farrow\, Chair of the Department of History and World Cultures at Auburn University at Montgomery. Farrow’s first program will be held Thursday\, September 7\, at 5:30pm. Her topic for the evening will be the work of Alexander Pushkin\, widely considered Russia’s greatest poet\, and his contemporary Nikolai Gogol\, who both critiqued Russian society and government through their writing\, the only way intellectuals could challenge the autocracy in a (relatively) safe manner. Pushkin\, in particular\, highlighted the impotency of Russia’s educated upper class and created the trope of the “superfluous man” that would dominate Russian literature for several decades. Three cheers to Steve Brickley\, whose request for “intellectually stimulating bookstore programming” led us to reach out to Lee Farrow. Our sincere thanks to Dr. Farrow for gifting us with this program. You won’t want to miss it.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/dr-lee-farrow-program-on-19th-century-russian-writers/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Thin Air Magazine Call for Submissions
DESCRIPTION:Thin Air Magazine is accepting submissions for our 30th issue until October 15th\, 2023! This year’s theme is Uprooted! We invite work that reflects on how personal and/ or collective uprooting transforms us. Consider: personal identity\, physical locales\, relationships\, language\, life circumstances\, and all else. However\, all art uproots us so you are welcome to submit your work regardless of how directly it speaks to this year’s theme. We accept fiction and nonfiction up to 3\,000 words\, or up to three poems. We are also seeking visual art submissions that might serve as the cover for Issue 30. View submission guidelines and submit via the Thin Air Magazine Submittable. \nWe charge a $3.00 submission fee for our print issue as well as Thin Air Online. This fee will be waived from October 9th to October 11th in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in an effort to minimize barriers and encourage work from marginalized writers. \nWe are also accepting submissions for the fourth annual Bird In Your Hands Prize. This contest celebrates and centers BIPOC writers. We accept submissions of under 500 words in fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry. The winner will receive $500\, be published in Issue 30 of Thin Air\, and interviewed for Thin Air Online. The winner and runners-up will also be invited to read their work at the Northern Arizona Book Festival held in April 2024. First and second runners-up will be awarded an honorarium. Entries are limited to BIPOC writers\, and will be accepted from September 15th to November 5th on Submittable. This year’s judge is National Poetry Series winner Kinsale Drake.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/thin-air-magazine-call-for-submissions/
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SUMMARY:Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award: Submissions Period
DESCRIPTION:Montgomery\, Alabama native Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was daring and revolutionary in her life\, art\, and writing\, and The Fitzgerald Museum’s Young Writers Award that bears her name seeks to identify and honor Alabama’s high school students who share her talent and spirit. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in spring 2020. This award\, which was first given the following year\, celebrates her life and legacy by recognizing the talents and abilities of young Alabama writers. \nGeneral Guidelines: \nThe Fitzgerald Museum’s fourth annual Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award is accepting submissions of portfolios from young writers who are currently attending high school (grades 9 – 12) in Alabama. Portfolios should contain literary works (stories\, poems\, plays or film scripts\, multi-genre works) totaling 5 to 15 pages with font sizes no smaller than 11 point. Writers are encouraged to include works that are innovative in style\, content\, form\, and/or technique. Literary works may include artwork\, illustrations\, font variations\, and other graphic elements\, but these elements should enhance the work\, not simply decorate the page. \nThe submissions period is open from September 1 until December 31\, 2023. Each student may only enter once. \nPortfolios will be judged holistically\, and only one award will be given each year. The recipient will be announced by March 15\, 2024. \nPortfolios should be submitted through the web form on the Fitzgerald Museum’s website. Due to issues of compatibility\, works should be collected into one PDF named with the author’s first initial [dot] last name [underscore] ZeldaPortfolio (for example\, J.Smith_ZeldaPortfolio.pdf). Questions about the award or the entry process may be sent to contest coordinator Foster Dickson at fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com\, with “Zelda Fitzgerald Award Question” in the subject line. \nThis year’s judge for the award is Lenore Vickrey. Since 2012\, Vickrey has been the editor of Alabama Living magazine\, which is the largest circulation magazine in the state. She has been a journalist since high school and has more than forty-five years of experience as a newspaper reporter\, editor\, and corporate communicator.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/zelda-sayre-fitzgerald-young-writers-award-submissions-period/
LOCATION:Fitzgerald Museum\, 919 Felder Avenue\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Foster Dickson":MAILTO:fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Fitzgerald Museum's sixth annual Literary Contest: Submissions Period
DESCRIPTION:F. Scott and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald were daring and revolutionary in their lives and in their art and writing. More than one hundred years after they met in Montgomery\, Alabama\, the Fitzgeralds’ literary and artistic works from the 1920s and 1930s are still regarded as groundbreaking\, and The Fitzgerald Museum is seeking to identify and honor the daring and revolutionary young writers and artists of this generation. \nCategories: Grades 9–10\, Grades 11–12\, Undergraduate \nGeneral Guidelines for 2023 – 2024: \nThe Fitzgerald Museum’s sixth annual Literary Contest is accepting submissions of short fiction\, poetry\, ten-minute plays\, film scripts\, and multi-genre works that exhibit the theme “The Best Postman in the World\,” which comes from lines in Act III of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1923 stage play The Vegetable. This theme implies works about ambition\, the pursuit of a goal\, or excellence in one’s work. Works with traditional forms and styles will be accepted for judging\, yet writers are encouraged to send works that utilize innovative forms and techniques. Literary works may include artwork\, illustrations\, font variations\, and other graphic elements\, with the caveat that these elements should enhance the work\, not simply decorate the page. \nThe submissions period is open from September 1 until December 31\, 2023. Works will be judged within three separate age categories\, not by genre\, so please be clear about the age category. Submissions should not exceed ten pages (with font sizes no smaller than 11 point). Each student may only enter once. Awards will be announced by March 15\, 2024. Each age/grade category will have a single winner and possibly an honorable mention. \nWorks should be submitted through the web form available on the Fitzgerald Museum’s website. Due to issues of compatibility\, works should be submitted as PDF to ensure that they appear as the author intends. Files should be named with the author’s first initial [dot] last name [underscore] title. For example\, J.Smith_InnovativeStory.pdf. Questions about the contest or the entry process may be sent to contest coordinator Foster Dickson at fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com\, with “Literary Contest Question” in the subject line. \nThis year’s judges are Zestlan Simmons for the undergraduate category and Jim Hilgartner for the high school categories. Zestlan Simmons is an alumni of the Carver Creative and Performing Arts Center’s creative writing component and has been a high school English teacher for more than twenty years. She was the 2018 Alabama Teacher of the Year. Jim Hilgartner is a fiction writer and teacher who has published work in ACM: Another Chicago Magazine\, Greensboro Review\, Mid-American Review\, New Orleans Review\, Vermont Literary Review\, Xavier Review\, and elsewhere. He has also served as fiction editor at Black Warrior Review\, THAT Literary Review\, and (currently) Thirteen Bridges Review. Hilgartner retired as Professor of English at Huntingdon College in 2023. \nThe Literary Contest’s annual themes honor and reflect upon the Fitzgeralds’ literary legacy. The inaugural contest had as its theme “What’s Old is New\,” which encouraged students to look to tradition for inspiration. For the second year\, the theme “Love + Marriage” celebrated the centennial of the couple’s courtship and marriage. In year three\, “The Education of a Personage” centered on themes of growth and maturing aligned with the centennial of Scott’s debut novel This Side of Paradise. Year four harkened back to 1921’s The Beautiful and the Damned with the theme “The Radiant Hour.” Last year’s theme\, “Unclassified Masterpieces\,” honored the anniversary of the 1922 story collection Tales from the Jazz Age. While these themes do parallel the Fitzgerald’s literary and personal history\, they are intended to guide students to consider and examine the present and the future as Scott and Zelda did in their day.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-fitzgerald-museums-sixth-annual-literary-contest-submissions-period/
LOCATION:The Fitzgerald Museum\, 919 Felder Avenue\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Foster Dickson":MAILTO:fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Literature Today - October 2023 Issue:
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Literature Today – October 2023 Issue: \nLiterature Today- an International Literary Journal is inviting submissions for October 2023 issue of ‘Literature Today’. The theme of our October 2023 issue is ‘ Man and Nature’. You can send us poems\, short stories\, memoirs and one minute plays on : \nWebsite: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/ \n1. Beauty of nature. \n2. Destruction of nature by Man. \n3. Natural hazards and Man. \n4. Conflicts between Man and Nature. \n5. Joys of Nature \n6. Nature as guide of man \n7. Nature as philosopher \n8. Any other themes related to ‘Nature’. \nSubmission Deadline: October 15\, 2023 \nsend all submissions to : editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com \nPLEASE SHARE THIS EMAIL ON YOUR BIOG/PAGE/WEBSITE \nPS. You may also check videos of authors reading their work on our new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pArEG14AU&t=1s \nSubmission Guidelines:\n1. Send not more than 4 poems (preferably short poems up to 1 page for each poem).\n2. Send not more than 2 short stories (word limit of 500 words for each story)/2 one minute plays (2 pages for each play)/ 2 memoirs (1000 words for each memoire).\n3. Work submitted for publication must be original.\n4. Simultaneous submissions are also welcome.\n5. Send all submissions to editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com\n6. Please send a cover letter and short Bio-data\, (Maximum 50 words) in third person narrative\, with your submission. Please attach a high-resolution photo of yours\, too. \n#callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrycommunity #authorcommunity #literature #literarymagazine #booklover #drama #OneMinutePlay #DramaAlert #shortstory #callforpoems #callforstory #callfordrama
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-literature-today-october-2023-issue/
ORGANIZER;CN="Literature Today-An International Journal of Contemporary Literature":MAILTO:editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Goldilocks Zone: $500 for Authors/Artists
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit seeks a story\, essay\, excerpt from longer prose pieces\, artwork\, graphic novel\, or poem that combines excellence in craft with reader or audience appeal. Feedback for fiction and nonfiction submissions available for additional fee. Prize: $500 cash and publication for the winner; publication for runners-up and finalists. Closes September 30\, 2023. Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/269320/goldilocks-zone-2023-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-graphic-novel or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/form.aspx?id=LEAD98D-LIXJW-LeLV84G.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/goldilocks-zone-500-for-authors-artists/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Pulitzer Prize Winner Jefferson Cowie Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Count us fortunate! Jefferson Cowie will be our guest on Wednesday\, August 16 at 5:30pm with his new Pulitzer Prize-winning book\, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. In fact\, he’ll be in Alabama traveling with the Pulitzer Prize committee. Freedom’s Dominion is a magisterial work — “important\, deeply affecting\, and regrettably relevant” (NY Times) — which traces the long-running clash between white people and federal authority through the lens of Barbour County\, Alabama\, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. The New Republic calls Freedom’s Dominion “outstanding and urgent. A remarkable achievement.” Please join us in welcoming Professor Cowie for a talk about his powerful work of history.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/pulitzer-prize-winner-jefferson-cowie-book-talk/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:Southern Humanities Review Call for Submissions
DESCRIPTION:Southern Humanities Review is seeking poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction for our next quarterly issue. Submissions will be open until November 1st. Poetry is capped at 250 submissions. There are 100 free submissions available for BIPOC writers. Contributors receive a small honorarium.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/southern-humanities-call-for-submissions/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Southern Humanities Review":MAILTO:shr@auburn.edu
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SUMMARY:Dr. Monica Powell Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:New Author and Podcaster Dr. Monica Powell will have a “Meet the Author” Book Signing event at the Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library\, Friday\, August 4\, 4:30-5:30. Dr. Powell’s new book is entitled Drop Everything and Pray Journal. The reading and book signing will be held on the 2nd Floor\, Adult Fiction section of the library.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/dr-monica-powell-book-signing/
LOCATION:Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library\, 245 High St.\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Art Talk with Emily Thomas from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
DESCRIPTION:The NewSouth Bookstore hosts Emily Thomas of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts for an ArtTalk.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/art-talk-with-emily-thomas-from-the-montgomery-museum-of-fine-arts/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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SUMMARY:SPARK Writing Festival
DESCRIPTION:SPARK 2023: Put Your Words in the World\nJuly 31st – August 4th\nSPARK is a community-based creative writing festival. We welcome writers of all experience levels\, and we really love bringing new writers to the table. Have you ever felt that small stirring inside of you like you have some words to share? Then SPARK is where you belong! \nThere are two ways to experience SPARK: \n*Ticketed events: grab your ticket for a five-day\, in-person experience on UAB’s campus. One ticket gets you into both our immersive and genre workshops. \n*Free community events: join us online via Zoom to connect with SPARKers all over the nation. These events are fun creative sessions hosted in the evening and designed to bring us together to celebrate writing. \nImmersive Workshops\nEach morning we’ll start with an immersive workshop experience that introduces participants to approaching the writing process from a new angle. These workshops will get participants engaging their senses to connect with the world around them. \nMonday\, July 31: Improv Comedy with Chris Davis\nTuesday\, August 1: Movement + Writing with Brandon Shaw\nWednesday\, August 2: Nature Writing with Halley Cotton\nThursday\, August 3: Zine Making Workshop with Halley Cotton\nFriday\, August 4: Scent Workshop with Nellie Beckett \nGenre Workshops\nHave you really wanted to dig in and commit to your writing? Then the genre workshops are for you. We have 4 in-person workshops hosted on UAB’s campus. Choose one workshop and you’ll get to spend time building community and practicing your writing through 4 days of intentional study. Workshops are held from 10am – Noon\, July 31st – August 3rd\, with a community-building reception on the 4th. \nFiction with Will Walton\nTwo-time novelist (I Felt a Funeral\, in my Brain and Anything Could Happen)\, Will Walton will create a space for imagination and exploration for those interested in fiction writing. \nPoetry with Tina Mozelle Braziel\nPhillip Levine Prize poetry winner and Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellow\, Tina Mozelle Braziel\, will guide participants through the poetic process with prompts that create a greater awareness of the world around us. \nWriting for Young Adults with Randi Pink\nCritically acclaimed and award-winning author\, Randi Pink\, will walk workshoppers through the process of constructing and shaping the writing of literature for young audiences. Participants will have the chance to meet and talk with an agent on their last workshop day. \nMemoir with Salaam Green\nKnown for her transformative healing work and ability to bring out the depth of others’ writing\, Salaam Green is an award-winning artist and writer. Her workshop will help unlock the writer within and guide writers through the process of putting their life stories down on the page. \nFree Community Events\nFree and open to everyone. Please register for Zoom link access. The same Zoom link will connect you to all sessions. \nAll Sessions are hosted at 7pm Central Time \nMonday\, July 31: Journaling through your work in progress with Javacia Harris Bowser\nTuesday\, August 1: How Alabama The Beautiful Magazine is created with Beth Cowan Drake\nWednesday\, August 2: Digital Distribution Workshop with Halley Cotton\nThursday\, August 3: Print Distribution Workshop with Halley Cotton\nFriday\, August 4: Digital Poetry/Story Video Workshop with Halley Cotton
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/spark-writing-festival/
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SUMMARY:Author Andeana Simone Stewart Event
DESCRIPTION:Author Andeana Simone Stewart is having her first book sale on Saturday\, July 29th at 9:00 a.m.\, at the Juliette Hampton Morgan Library\, 245 High Street in Montgomery. She will have 14 children’s book selections available\, the latest being\, I Am Enough.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/author-andeana-simone-stewart-event/
LOCATION:Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library\, 245 High St.\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open calls for writers and artists
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit welcomes art and fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, scripts\, and graphic novels from 4 words to 49\,000 words (open calls for longer categories close early). Accepting genre\, commercial\, mainstream and literary pieces. Pays editor’s prizes and cover art. Submit at https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit today!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/open-calls-for-writers-and-artists/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230725T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230725T153000
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SUMMARY:Alabama Jewish Culture and History Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The NewSouth Bookstore will be offsite at Temple Beth Or in Montgomery for the Alabama Jewish Culture and History Symposium. The symposium is open to the public. Register for the program at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alabama-jewish-culture-and-history-symposium-tickets-574706812547?aff=oddtdtcreator. The Alabama Jewish Culture and History Symposium is designed to connect communities\, researchers\, and ideas to promote collaboration and exchange\, with the ultimate goal of strengthening the documentation and preservation of Jewish life in Alabama.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-jewish-culture-and-history-symposium/
LOCATION:Temple Beth Or\, 2246 Narrow Lane Rd.\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230720T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230720T190000
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SUMMARY:The NewSouth Bookstore hosting James R. Hansen!
DESCRIPTION:James Hansen joins us on Thursday\, July 20 at 5:30pm for the perfect summer book program connected with his new release\, Completely Mad. From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone. In this bracing adventure tale\, the story of John Fairfax and Tom McClean are woven together for the first time. Fairfax would set off from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa with his sights on Florida. McClean charted a course from Newfoundland to Ireland. Though the two men’s remarkable transoceanic journeys seem pulled from a different era\, both finished within days of the first landing on the moon in July 1969. With gripping and insightful prose\, James R. Hansen brings to life their nail-biting expeditions.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-newsouth-bookstore-hosting-james-r-hansen/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230713T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230815T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T161512
CREATED:20230718T213218Z
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SUMMARY:WGA Member Special: End Summer Strong Tues\, August 15th
DESCRIPTION:In solidarity with the WGA\, we have three \n50% scholarships available for guild members who want to write a new spec in this end of summer start. \n10-Week Basic Training: Tuesday\, August 15th \nOnly 5 Roster Spots Remaining \nTake Your Script Idea Through Three Drafts in 10 Hours Per Week for 10 Weeks with Founder Jeffrey Gordon \nAlumni receive 20% partial scholarship and Pro Members returning to Project Group as Officers receive Basic Training as a complimentary jump-start. \nNo writer achieves more without a real deadline and\, in the absence of an official writing gig\, without a regimen of support. \nYou can join Writers Boot Camp Founder\, Jeffrey Gordon for the second summer session\, the Basic Training starting shortly after the July roster on Tuesday\, August 15th. Basic Training will help you \nwrite your movie\, TV pilot or book. The 10-week process will guide you through the same tools as 12\,000 past alumni–and success stories of writers and filmmakers with hundreds of major movie and television credits. \nAs we’ve emphasized for the past 34 years supporting screenwriters and helping launch careers: \nIf you commit 10 hours per week for 10 weeks\, we’ll help you turn your movie or TV idea into a first draft plus two rewrites–while learning unique writing tools and fundamentals of the profession. \nAs summer fast extends\, nearly half of the year gone\, you can see that creative resolve and productivity can quickly suffer and you can lose momentum under the weight of other priorities. \nAchievement requires renewed commitment–and 10 hours per week can make all the difference. \nWriters Boot Camp will help you manage project goals and shift the trajectory of your year ahead. In just 10 weeks\, we can help you through three drafts of your TV Pilot or Feature Film script–or to develop and write the story foundation and initial set of pages for a book or novel. \nWriters Boot Camp’s tools and strategies have launched hundreds of alumni to careers in television and movies–and the tools apply to prose projects\, as hundreds of books by alumni have been published following the experience and struggle of compacting and structuring stories for the big and small screen. \nBasic Training Is More Than Basic \nThe simple\, forthright decision to commit to your writing can make all the difference. While Basic Training is more than basic for writers with prior experience\, who will appreciate how we put names to key story challenges and writing blocks\, newer writers will greatly benefit from the mentoring and support to learn a foundation of comprehensive tools for Concept\, Structure\, Character Development\, and crucial distinctions of the script page. \nA positive side effect of the pandemic\, the move to zoom has allowed writers and filmmakers outside of LA to participate in the LA groups\, which even many past alumni were not able to do. \nFor more info\, please email jg@writersbootcamp.com. Monthly payment plans are very affordable and also may be customized for writers referred by friends and alumni. \nAs always\, we love to hear from alumni with news and success stories!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/wga-member-special-end-summer-strong-tues-august-15th/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001
DTSTAMP:20260405T161512
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: The 2023 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
DESCRIPTION:2023 Judge: Richard Blanco \nEstablished in 1998\, The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize highlights one full-length collection of poetry per year. The Prize comes with a $10\,000 advance\, publication by TRP\, and 10 copies of the published book. \nSubmissions open each year on July 1 and close on September 30. All submissions through Submittable.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-the-2023-x-j-kennedy-poetry-prize/
LOCATION:TRP: The University Press of SHSU\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: The 2023 George Garrett Fiction Prize
DESCRIPTION:2023 Judge: Manuel Muñoz \nEstablished in 1998\, The George Garrett Fiction Prize highlights one book a year for excellence in a short story collection or novel. The Prize comes with a $1\,000 advance\, publication by TRP\, and 10 copies of the published book. \nSubmissions open each year on July 1 and close on September 30. All submissions through Submittable.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-the-2023-george-garrett-fiction-prize/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230801
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SUMMARY:INCEPTION: Authors and Artists Eligible for $500 Prize
DESCRIPTION:Beginnings have a particular power. For Sunspot Lit’s current Inception contest\, send your best fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, graphic novel\, comic\, or art opening. Feedback available.\nClose: July 31\, 2023\nEntry fee: $10\nPrize: $500 cash plus publication for the winner.\nEnter as many times as you like through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/listing/27249/sunspot-literary-journal.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/inception-authors-and-artists-eligible-for-500-prize/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230622T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230622T190000
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CREATED:20230525T201418Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Durkee Coming to The NewSouth Bookstore!
DESCRIPTION:Author Lee Durkee will be our very special bookstore guest on Thursday\, June 22 at 5:30pm with his new work\, Stalking Shakespeare. This book is a darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Stalking Shakespeare is an entertaining and surprisingly moving blend of biography and art history with a dash of madness added in. Lee Durkee with regale us with his adventures in writing this book. Don’t miss the fun!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/__trashed/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230612T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T190000
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CREATED:20230612T211801Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQIA+ Contributions Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:Apply by Tues. June 27th\, 2023\, 5pm (PST) \nThree Fellowship Awards for LGBTQIA+ Writers & Filmmakers \nYou can apply via the application on our website: \nWriters Boot Camp Fellowship Application. \nWriters Boot Camp continues our support of fresh voices and diverse artists this month by providing three $2500 full scholarships to writers in the Saturday\, July 8th 10-Week Basic Training. \nIn celebration of Pride this month’s theme is LGBTQIA+ Contributions. \nCandidates must self-identify as LGBTQIA+ and submit a project focusing on at least one Main Character presenting within that background and involved in a story with related subject matter. \nWhether writing about personal challenges\, about a relationship or family circumstance\, an historical retrospective or modern take on past events\, a leadership or political issues piece\, or a simply entertaining and engaging project–all formats and genres of TV\, movies\, books\, novels\, and non-fiction can be supported and are welcome. \nWhile in many cases\, audiences can benefit from authentic representation of any kind\, especially in the realm of LGBTQIA+ inclusion\, we encourage all writers to consider how a project idea offers a fresh take and contribution to the “ongoing conversation” to rise above cliche or a more generic approach. Of course\, that’s the key to any idea in the entertainment industry\, which is an idea business. \nOur tools are agnostic in that there is no imposition of bias\, and Writers Boot Camp’s diversity track record through the years is unparalleled. You can read more about the process at writersbootcamp.com and the fellowship application page. \nWriters must verify their availability to write 10 hours per week for 10 weeks during the Basic Training process that has supported more than 12\,000 writers and filmmakers over the past 34 years. \nWe encourage all applicants to read about the professional approach in all of Writers Boot Camp’s educational support\, as well as distinctions that have made the learning and productivity environment of our writing groups and individual artists successful through the years. \nWe discourage applying if there’s any risk that winning could prevent another deserving writer from our support in the case that you might drop or not take full advantage of the award after winning. \nWhile we celebrate our anniversary each October\, the first session conducted by founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG ) was in his living room in March 1989 during his last semester of his MFA at USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. JG currently conducts all Basic Trainings and Pro Membership Project Groups. \nPertinent professional experience combined with cogent answers will complement the project idea to determine the three winners. \nEligibility Notes \nWriters Boot Camp alumni who have applied to a prior fellowship within the past six months–or who have won before–may apply for fun yet are not eligible to win. Winners must confirm their availability to participate in Basic Training\, along with 10 hours per week for creative exercises and writing for 10 weeks without risk of dropping due to outside conflict or work opportunities. Only winners will be notified individually. All non-winners will be notified by email within a few days of the selection of winners. \nPlease complete only one application per person. Partners working together may apply via separate applications utilizing the same project. Keep every answer to only one single sentence\, including your answers to the four topical questions combined into one four-sentence paragraph. \nPlease Don’t Wait Until The Last Minute to Apply! \nFellowship Application Deadline: Tuesday\, June 27th\, 5pm\, LA time. \nWe look forward to supporting three dynamic artists and their writing process with us. We appreciate the efforts and applications of all the candidates\, and the staff will follow up with brief notes about their personal expressions and the potential of their project ideas! \nFor information\, call 310 998 1199.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/lgbtqia-contributions-fellowship/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T190000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Eig to Read for NewSouth Bookstore at King Memorial Legacy Center!
DESCRIPTION:A magnificent new biography of Martin Luther King Jr.\, entitled King: A Life\, is making headlines. The NewSouth Bookstore is proud to host author Jonathan Eig for a talk about the book\, this being his only Montgomery appearance. The program is scheduled for Thursday\, June 8 at 5:30pm. For reasons of expected attendance this event will be held at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Legacy Center\, located directly behind the church\, at 455 Washington Ave.\, Montgomery\, Alabama. Please make note. King: A Life is the first definitive biography about Martin Luther King Jr. in decades. The New York Times\, Washington Post\, NPR\, and others have named it in their most anticipated books of 2023 list. About the work Ken Burns says\, “Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know\, think we know\, and ought to know. Here is the leader\, the preacher\, the orator\, the husband\, the father\, the martyr\, the human being — not with melodramatic halo in place\, but in all his heroic\, tragic Glory. Hallelujah!” Hope you will join us for this special program on June 8.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/jonathan-eig-to-read-for-newsouth-bookstore-at-king-memorial-legacy-center/
LOCATION:King Memorial Legacy Center\, 455 Washington Ave.\, Montgomery\, 36117\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:gabbi.emerson@newsouthbookstore.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230610T150000
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SUMMARY:Clarksville Writers Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Council\, in partnership with Austin Peay State University and the Tennessee Arts Commission\, is pleased to present the Eighteenth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference on June 8 and 9\, 2023. Join us for this fun\, affordable and talent-laden conference featuring two days of writing workshops and presentations\, a keynote banquet featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist David George Haskell\, a writing master class with critically-acclaimed author Bren McClain and more. Additional authors scheduled to present include David Alford\, Mary Martha Greene\, Rick Gregory\, Robert Gwaltney\, Ellen Kanervo\, Laurina Isabella Lyle\, Sharon Mabry\, Cynthia Marsh\, Alan Stuart Mearns\, Shana Thornton\, Amy Wright and Susan Beckham Zurenda.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/clarksville-writers-conference/
LOCATION:Austin Peay State University\, 601 College Street\, Clarksville\, TN\, 37044\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Clarksville Arts &amp%3B Heritage Council":MAILTO:writers@artsandheritage.us
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230525T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230531T233000
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SUMMARY:Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
DESCRIPTION:Working on a tv\, film\, or play script? Need more time to finalize it? Not to worry! The Austin Film Festival has moved its late script submission deadline to May 31st! Don’t wait to tell your story! Podcast and Digital Series submissions will still be open until July 7th. \n*After conferring with the WGA\, we have confirmed that submitting to AFF’s competitions does not constitute prohibited conduct of Strike Rules. \nSubmissions will be open until 11:59 PM Central Time on Wednesday\, May 31. \nOur esteemed judges of screenplay and teleplay writers eagerly await to read your scripts!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/austin-film-festival-screenplay-competition-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230520T153000
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SUMMARY:Alabama State Poetry Society Spring Workshop & Awards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for two generative workshops: Lyric Witness: Writing Atrocity at a Distance with Julia Dasbach and Anthropological Poetry: Finding Value In Culture with Tania De’Shawn. Workshops will be followed by a Poetry In Nature walk and our spring awards. Join us in-person or virtually! See full schedule at https://www.alpoets.org/event-details/spring-2023-workshop-awards
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-state-poetry-society-spring-workshop-awards/
LOCATION:Alabama 4-H Center
ORGANIZER;CN="Alabama State Poetry Society":MAILTO:alabamapoets@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T190000
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SUMMARY:May 18th Mini-Camp: Free Script Evaluation from Writers Boot Camp
DESCRIPTION:Normally reserved for our Professional Members\, we are opening up this Mini-Camp to friends and colleagues in solidarity of the Writers Guild of America–and all entertainment industry union members! Fight On!! \nThursday\, 5/18\, 4-5pm\, LA Time \nMini-Camp: Free Script Evaluation \nTools to Make Your Best Script Stronger \nwith Founder Jeffrey Gordon \nWe invite you to enjoy a free Mini-Camp with Writers Boot Camp Founder Jeffrey Gordon on the topic of…Free Script Evaluation. We’ll review the most Common First Draft Problems\, and deploy a checklist of tools and tests to help free you from the need for outside script evaluation\, which will also pre-empt the tendency to rush your material out to market. \nWhile Writers Boot Camp’s unique support includes script evaluation and conferencing as part of the 10-Week Basic Training and all levels of Professional Membership\, there are certain threshold creative issues that newer writers will benefit from understanding about the nature of early stages of writing and project development. After all\, screenwriting is a profession–and while many ideas do spring forth from one’s personal life\, the curation of entertainment is a craft. \nLinked to our mission of dispelling fallacies to accelerate careers is the philosophy of freeing our alumni from insecurity about their own work and the unwitting abdication of creative authority. While it can be very natural to lose objectivity about one’s work from the outset and during various stages of rewriting\, Writers Boot Camp provides tools for artist empowerment and methods of breaking down the work into more manageable exercises and stages\, especially during rewriting. \nMany respectable and respected colleagues run companies offering script evaluation services\, though we don’t abide or encourage the need for writers to pay extra for script evaluation. Our Professional Membership offers the free\, ongoing benefit of script evaluation\, along with a constructively directed reinforcement of a method to gradually wean writers off that dependency. \nOf course\, an earnest and capable practitioner may offer insight that can be justified for the few hundred bucks. But the general lack of experience and education by new writers can render the most insightful commentary superfluous to a writer’s current capacity to integrate notes\, let alone at the right stage of the writing and rewriting process. More profoundly\, a writer is the presumed expert of their material\, so it’s not great form. \nThe insight of a veteran executive or producer who’s willing to take time to be supportive with insight about commercial viability and creative notes can be perceived as a golden ticket. Too often\, however\, screenwriters impose on their friends in the business by submitting early drafts of scripts that are premature to evaluate–unless the ultimate bottom line is whether the idea has merit in the first place and\, in that case\, why impose at all? \nThe comments of the best facilitator can be lost by the inevitable need for multiple drafts\, as well as negated by the editorial stance of an executive and their company’s business model. \nThat’s why we teach tools for development and why our Professional Members learn dozens of unique rewriting exercises\, as well as development tools applicable to the many stages it takes for your script to merit submission. \nYou can email jg@writersbootcamp.com with questions about the next 10-Week Basic Training or the benefits of Pro Membership. \nWe always appreciate hearing personal news and breakthroughs\, and recent film and TV credits\, as well as achievements in book publishing by alumni.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/may-18th-mini-camp-free-script-evaluation-from-writers-boot-camp/
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