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SUMMARY:Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse
DESCRIPTION:Livingston Press announces its new annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Recommended length: 90-160 pages. $500 prize plus 20 copies\, standard royalty contract. Publication in trade paper\, e-book\, and Kindle. There is no entry fee. Submission deadline: May 25. Send Word attachment including contact information\, brief bio\, and letter to jwt@uwa.edu. Please list Novel-in-Verse on your subject line. \nPrevious similar titles from Livingston: \nAn Art\, A Craft\, A Mystery – Laura Secord \nDon Quickshot – William Van Wert \nForthcoming title: \n Near Where the Blood Pools – Ben Terry
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/changing-light-prize-for-a-novel-in-verse/
ORGANIZER;CN="Livingston Press":MAILTO:jwt@uwa.edu
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SUMMARY:Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
DESCRIPTION:Contest for up-and-coming screenwriters! A great way to gain potential industry exposure and place in our competition. All entrants\, regardless of placement\, receive free reader comments\, so everyone will get feedback on their scripts! \n– Early Deadline: March 23rd\, 2023\n– Regular: April 18th\, 2023\n– Late Deadline: May 25th\, 2023 \n$5 Off Discount Code: AFFWG23 \nLink for more information:\n \n\nScreenplay and Teleplay Submissions
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/austin-film-festival-screenplay-competition/
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SUMMARY:Women Going Places Fellowship Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:Honoring Women’s History\, Writers Boot Camp will award three deserving writers full $2500 scholarships for the Tuesday\, April 18th \n10-Week Basic Training. The fellowship category is the second annual\, as well as another effort to support female-focused stories and women’s voices\, which we highlighted even more since the 2020 pandemic. \nConducted by founder Jeffrey Gordon\, Basic Training will take each writer from idea through a first draft and two rewrites of a TV pilot or movie script–or the foundation of a book or novel–while imparting writing fundamentals. The only prerequisite for eligibility is the availability of 10 hours per week for creative exercises and writing. \nThe short application for this fellowship is free and highlights a few topical questions for writers to articulate personal perspectives and individual experiences of women writers and filmmakers. The expectation for stories is not that they are based on one’s own life but how one’s perspective provides engaging insight. \nApplications will be followed prior to the deadline by a staff member to verify your availability for 10 hours per week to fully participate in Basic Training if selected as a winner. \nWriters Boot Camp has a remarkable track record in support of diverse voices\, including women. In our 33-year history\, a higher percentage of our alumni successes and credits have been by women. \nApplications must be received by 5pm\, LA time\, on Thursday\, April 6th. Only one application will be accepted per writer. For more information and the submission form\, please click the above link or go to writersbootcamp.com. Please note that the Career Survey page is not the Fellowship application page. \nStory & Project Factors to Consider: \n–Do you have a fresh take on a genre or subject that expands upon what’s typically been done and goes beyond cliche? \n–Is there a story that in past iterations has been whitewashed\, sanitized or is now out-of-date? \n–Can the project open our eyes while entertaining us? \nWhile the application is straightforward\, we encourage you not to wait until the last minute. Please keep all answers to a single sentence and consider the distinctions you can make to stand out from the crowd. \nFor more info about Writers Boot Camp you can call 310/998-1199\, check out writersbootcamp.com\, or email jg@writersbootcamp.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/women-going-places-fellowship-opportunity/
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SUMMARY:Sunspot Lit Open Call for Fiction\, NF\, Poetry\, Scripts\, and Graphic Novels
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit welcomes art and fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, scripts\, and graphic novels from 4 words to 49\,000 words. Editor’s prizes are paid out for each edition; cover art is also paid. A Fast Flux option offers a speedy turnaround. Feedback for poems and genre fiction is available. Send the journal your work through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/listing/27249/sunspot-literary-journal.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/sunspot-lit-open-call-for-fiction-nf-poetry-scripts-and-graphic-novels/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Reading with Neema Avashia
DESCRIPTION:Neema is originally from West Virginia and currently lives in Boston where she is an educator and activist. She received a finalist nomination for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography for her book Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-with-neema-avashia/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
ORGANIZER;CN="Stokes Center for Creative Writing":MAILTO:aprince@southalabama.edu
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SUMMARY:Innovation and Creativity for Health and Wellness: Poets and Innovation Across Alabama with Salaam Green
DESCRIPTION:Poets and Innovation Across Alabama
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/innovation-and-creativity-for-health-and-wellness-poets-and-innovation-across-alabama/
LOCATION:Florence-Lauderdale Public Library\, 350 N. Wood Ave.\, Florence\, AL\, 35630\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Alabama Humanities Alliance":MAILTO:isnider@alabamahumanities.org
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SUMMARY:Author Timothy Tyson for Ellison-Chapman Benson Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Huntingdon College will welcome civil rights historian Dr. Timothy Tyson\, senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina\, as the lecturer for the College’s Ellison-Chapman Benson Symposium\, Thursday\, April 13\, 6:00–7:00 p.m.\, in the College’s Delchamps Recital Hall\, Smith Music Building. Dr. Tyson is the author of multiple award-winning books\, including “Blood Done Sign My Name\,” a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist\, and “The Blood of Emmett Till\,” a National Book Award longlist book. A book-signing will follow the lecture with books available for purchase\, cash or check only. The event is open to the public. \nDr. Tyson was executive producer of Mike Wiley’s 2008 play and writer-consultant for Jeb Stuart’s 2010 feature film adaptation of “Blood Done Sign My Name.” His 1999 book\, “Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power\,” won the James Rawley Prize and the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and was the basis for “Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power\,” to which the OAH awarded the 2006 Eric Barnou Prize for best historical film. Dr. Tyson is co-editor with David Cecelski of “Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy\,” winner of the 1998 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Meyers Center for Human Rights in North America; and author of “Ghosts of 1898: Wilmington’s Race Riot and the Rise of White Supremacy\,” winner of the 2007 Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. He serves on the executive board of the North Carolina NAACP\, Repairers of the Breach\, and the UNC Center for Civil Rights. \nParking for the lecture will be available in the Smith Parking Lot\, accessible from East Fairview Avenue adjacent to Neal Posey Baseball Field.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/author-timothy-tyson-for-ellison-chapman-benson-symposium/
LOCATION:Huntingdon College\, 1500 E. Fairview Avenue\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Blake Ball":MAILTO:bsball@hawks.huntingdon.edu
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SUMMARY:Author Damian Dressick to read at AUM
DESCRIPTION:Award winning fiction writer Damian Dressick will read from and discuss his work at AUM on Monday\, April 17.\nThe event will be held at Theatre AUM in the Taylor Center at 6 pm. \nDressick is the author of the novel 40 Patchtown (Bottom Dog Press) and the flash collection Fables of the Deconstruction (CLASH Books). His writing has appeared in more than seventy literary journals and anthologies\, including W.W. Norton’s New Micro\, Electric Literature\, Post Road\, New Orleans Review\, Cleaver\, CutBank\, Smokelong Quarterly\, and New World Writing. A Blue Mountain Residency Fellow\, Dressick is the winner of the Harriette Arnow Award and the Jesse Stuart Prize. He co-hosts WANA: LIVE!\, a (largely) virtual reading series that brings some of the best Appalachian writers to the world. Damian also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Appalachian Lit. For more\, check out www.damiandressick.com \nPlease join us for what promises to be a wonderful evening.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/author-damian-dressick-to-read-at-aum/
LOCATION:Theatre AUM – Taylor Center\, 7041 Senators Dr\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36117\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Kent Quaney - AUM Department of English and Philosophy":MAILTO:kquaney@aum.edu
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SUMMARY:The NewSouth Bookstore First Annual Poetry Read-Aloud
DESCRIPTION:The NewSouth Bookstore’s first annual poetry read-aloud: Join us in honor of National Poetry Month. We’ll gather chairs in a circle and sit together to listen as friends and fans each read aloud a favorite poem or two. We expect that the experience of sharing the verse we love best will be enlightening and enjoyable. Bring a friend. Wine and other beverages served\, as usual.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-newsouth-bookstore-first-annual-poetry-read-aloud/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Rigel 2023: $500 for Fiction\, Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Art\, or Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit seeks one short story\, CNF\, artwork\, poem\, graphic novel\, script\, or excerpt that outshines the rest. No restrictions on theme. Literary and genre works accepted. Winner receives $500 plus publication. Feedback available for additional fee. See guidelines for details. Closes May 31\, 2023. Entry fee is $10. Enter through Sunspot’s Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/259026/rigel-2023-500-for-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-art-or-graphic-novel page or through Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/listing/32395/sunspot-lit-rigel-contest.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/rigel-2023-500-for-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-art-or-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Charles Ghigna at Alabama Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Charles Ghigna Reading & Book Signing
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-booksmith/
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SUMMARY:Martha Prescod Norman Noonan at Clifford and Virginia Durr Lecture 2023
DESCRIPTION:The annual Clifford and Virginia Durr Lecture brings Martha Prescod Norman Noonan to Montgomery. She lectures on her book\, Hands on the Freedom Plow\, at ASU’s Ralph D. Abernathy Hall Auditorium on Friday\, April 28 at 4:30pm. A remarkable woman\, Norman Noonan left her Detroit home in 1963 to help register voters as a SNCC volunteer in the South. Testimonies about her contributions and those of fifty plus other women — young\, old\, Black and White — are gathered in the book. The NewSouth Bookstore will be on site at the program selling copies of the book\, which are available for signing.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/clifford-and-virginia-durr-lecture-2023/
LOCATION:Ralph Abernathy Hall\, 1625 Harris Way\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Clifford and Virginia Durr Lecture Series":MAILTO:info@durrlectures.org
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