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SUMMARY:Submissions Open for the James Baker Hall Book Award
DESCRIPTION:Accents Publishing is honored to partner with the JamesBaker Hall Foundation to launch the James Baker Hall Book Award. The inaugural award will be given in poetry to an emerging author who hasn’t yet published a full-length collection. \nIn 2024\, the award will recognize an unpublished manuscript of over 50 pages by a Kentucky author. The author of the winning manuscript will receive a $3000 award and the manuscript will be published the following year by Accents Publishing\, with the standard Accents Publishing contract. \nManuscripts can be submitted between May 1st and June 30th. \nThere is no submission fee. \nAcclaimed poet Greg Pape will be the final judge. \nFor more details\, please visit https://www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/submissions-open-for-the-james-baker-hall-book-award/
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SUMMARY:Del Shores Foundation Call for Submissions
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR UNPRODUCED SCRIPTS BY LGBTQ+ SOUTHERN WRITERS \nThe third Del Shores Foundation Writers Search is now open for submissions from unproduced playwrights and screenwriters whoidentify as LGBTQ+ and currently live in the South.  CASH AWARDS are given to the semifinalists\, finalists and winners andPRODUCTION GRANTS accompany the winning scripts to move their work toward production.  USE WAIVER CODE “DSFAL” for FREE SUBMISSION. Final submission deadline 7/31/24. For more information and submissions visit https://www.delshoresfoundation.org/
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/del-shores-foundation-call-for-submissions/
LOCATION:Del Shores Foundation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Del Shores Foundation":MAILTO:emersoncollins@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Louisville Review's National Poetry Book Contest
DESCRIPTION:The Louisville Review is thrilled to announce that Jeanie Thompson will serve as distinguished judge for our 2024 National Poetry Book Contest! \nThis first-book contest invites poets living in the United States who have not yet published a full-length book of poetry to submit manuscripts of 48-70 pages. \nWinner will receive $1\,000 and Publication through The Louisville Review’s Fleur-de-Lis Press\, 25 author copies\, and distribution through Barnes & Nobel and Amazon. \nThe winning book will be reviewed online in North American Review\, the longest running literary magazine in the nation. \nFinalists will receive publication of a selected\, previously unpublished poem in The Louisville Review\, and we will hold an online reading for the winner and finalists. \nThe reading fee of $25 includes a 1-year print subscription to The Louisville Review. \nFull details here: https://louisvillereview.org
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-louisville-reviews-national-poetry-book-contest/
LOCATION:Online Submissions only\, The Louisvilel Review\, 1436 St. James Court\, Louisville\, KY\, 40213\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press":MAILTO:associateeditor@louisvillereview.org
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SUMMARY:Join us to celebrate the release of Old Enough: Southern Women On Creativity And Aging at The NewSouth Bookstore Sunday\, June 2 at 3:00pm!
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome a half dozen contributors to Old Enough: Southern Women on Creativity and Aging to The NewSouth Bookstore on Sunday\, June 2 at 3pm. Join us for readings and lively discussion about the topic of this important new book\, published by NewSouth Books\, a really fine project led by Jay Lamar and Jennifer Horne with Katie Lamar Jackson and Wendy Reed\, and featuring essays from Jacqueline Allen Trimble\, Jeanie Thomspon and others. Meet these contributors and enjoy a stimulating program focused on what it means to age creatively tied to the release of this beautiful new book\, a volume NPR correspondent Debbie Elliott calls “a gift\, one which confronts cliched thinking about ‘women of a certain age’ with grace\, humor\, and candor.” It’s not soon enough for Old Enough!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/join-us-to-celebrate-the-release-of-old-enough-southern-women-on-creativity-and-aging-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-sunday-june-2-at-300pm/
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:Garrett Ashley and Ken Autrey reading from new works at The NewSouth Bookstore!
DESCRIPTION:Two local writing talents read from their new work at The NewSouth Bookstore on Thursday\, June 6 at 5:30pm. Garrett Ashley’s short story collection\, Periphylla\, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions\, introduces a rare tableau of characters that collectively define our humanity. Circulation by Ken Autrey is a gorgeous set of elegies that shows an attentiveness to the power of the past with its riches and sorrows. Come enjoy the pleasures of listening to and discussion about good writing with these emerging voices.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/garrett-ashley-and-ken-autrey-reading-from-new-works-at-the-newsouth-bookstore/
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:AI and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Sunspot Lit is exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and creativity in prose\, poetry\, and art. Submissions will be considered for publication in the quarterly digital and annual print editions. Submit here https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/281493/ai-and-creativity-2024 before June 30th.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/ai-and-creativity/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder at The NewSouth Bookstore Saturday\, June 8 at 3pm!
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The NewSouth Bookstore for a special program arranged in partnership with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF): Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder will talk about her semi autobiographical Southern story of love\, loss and restoration. When Libby returns to her father’s home\, she learns that he’s left her with the remains of an old Rolls Royce Phantom\, which she names Zelda\, and a surprising discovery to be made about his life. The talented playwright\, a 2024 Tennessee Arts Commission Fellow with a dozen plays to her name\, will share insights about the writing of “Zelda in the Backyard” and her inspirations for it. Thanks to ASF for co-hosting!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/elyzabeth-gregory-wilder-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-saturday-june-8-at-3pm/
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:An Evening with Constance Fay: Fiasco
DESCRIPTION:Join us for “An Evening with Constance Fay” on June 8th at The Haunted Book Shop. Sci-fi romance author\, Constance Fay\, will discuss her latest page-turning intergalactic saga\, “FIASCO”. Known for her ability to blend steamy romance with space-age adventure\, Constance Fay is turning heads in the genre. \nWHAT’S IN STORE \nIn-Conversation: Constance Fay will have a Q&A with a fellow author (author TBA)\nBook Signing: Constance Fay will be signing copies of FIASCO. Only books purchased from The Haunted Book Shop may be personalized by the author.\nSpecialty Cocktails: Next door at The Alchemy\, enjoy a Constance Fay-themed cocktail menu.\nPurchase of the FIASCO equals your ticket to the event.\nMark your calendars\, invite fellow book enthusiasts\, and anticipate an evening filled with laughter and romance. \nOnly books purchased from us can be personalized. We will also have her first book CALAMITY available. \nAbout FIASCO\nEqual parts steamy interstellar romance and sci-fi adventure\, Constance Fay’s FIASCO is a perfect wild romp amidst the stars.\nCynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity\, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella\, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn\, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers. \nShe’s exhausted\, lonely\, and on her very last legs—but then a new client offers her a job she can’t refuse: a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin. All Cyn has to do is partner with the crew of the Calamity\, a scouting vessel she encountered when she was living under a previous alias. One tiny little issue\, she’s been given an additional bounty: deliver the oh-so-compelling medic\, Micah Arora\, to the treacherous Pierce Family or all her identities will be revealed\, putting her estranged family in danger. \nHunting a kidnapper doesn’t usually mean accidentally taking your sexy new target to dinner at your parent’s house\, a local mystic predicting you’ll have an increasingly large number of children\, or being accompanied by a small flying lizard with a penchant for eating metal\, but\, as they field investigative hurdles both dangerous and preposterous\, Cyn and Micah grow ever closer. When a violent confrontation reveals that everything Cyn thought about her past is wrong\, she realizes that she has the power to change her future. The first part of that is making sure that Micah Arora is around to be a part of it. \nAbout Constance Fay\nConstance Fay writes space romance novels and genre fiction short stories. Her short fiction can be found in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Catscast podcast\, and other publications. She has a background in medical device R&D and lives in Colorado with a cat who edits all her work first.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/an-evening-with-constance-fay-fiasco/
LOCATION:The Haunted Book Shop\, 9 S JOACHIM ST\, MOBILE\, AL\, 36602-2707\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Haunted Book Shop":MAILTO:info@thehauntedbookshopmobile.com
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SUMMARY:Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for Aspiring Teen Writers
DESCRIPTION:UAB’s Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop offers an exciting creative writing opportunity for your student this summer\, June 10-28th. Please encourage them to apply and/or invite the Director\, Tina Braziel\, to talk with your students about it and/or provide creative writing instruction.  \nAda Long Creative Writing Workshop is an exciting and rewarding day camp for aspiring teen writers! They will work with published authors to draft\, edit and publish stories\, screenplays\, podcast\, poetry and more. They will find inspiration from Birmingham’s rich culture and history during field trips and special activities!  \nDates: 9 am – 3 pm\, M-F\, June 10-28th\, 2024 \nLocation: UAB’s Spencer Honors House (1190 10th Ave S. Birmingham\, AL)  \nTelephone: (205) 934-8573 office 205-276-1818 cell \nScholarships: Full and partial scholarships for anyone who finds the workshop fee cost prohibitive.   \nEmail: tmharris@uab.edu \nMore information\, pictures\, examples of student work and application information can be found at: https://www.uab.edu/cas/english/events/ada-long-workshop?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2a6wBhCVARIsABPeH1vL-6KOYLoI-lRt5WR1PwredgzcVRGM5RwJrQ-yviMiJ6T4CupoLTsaAi0pEALw_wcB \nTina Mozelle Braziel\, Director \nAda Long Creative Writing Workshop  \nhttps://www.uab.edu/cas/english/events/ada-long-workshop
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/ada-long-creative-writing-workshop-for-aspiring-teen-writers/
LOCATION:UAB’s Spencer Honors House\, 1190 10th Ave. S.\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35205\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="UAB's Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop":MAILTO:tmharris@uab.edu
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SUMMARY:Gerry Wilson at The NewSouth Bookstore Tuesday\, June 11 at 5:30pm!
DESCRIPTION:We welcome Gerry Wilson to The NewSouth Bookstore on Tuesday\, June 11 at 5:30pm. Bart Barton will lead her in conversation about her first novel\, That Pinson Girl. Told against the backdrop of the deprivation of World War I and the tragedies of the influenza epidemic\, That Pinson Girl unfolds in lyrical\, unflinching prose\, engaging the timeless issues of racism\, sexism\, and poverty. Wilson is a recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship. Her story collection\, Crosscurrents and Other Stories\, was nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Come discover the work of this fine writer as we celebrate the release of her newest book.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/gerry-wilson-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-tuesday-june-11-at-530pm/
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:Karren Pell and the Old Alabama Revue at The NewSouth Bookstore Thursday\, June 13 at 6pm!
DESCRIPTION:Singer-songwriter Karren Pell and her Old Alabama Revue bring a new program — appropriately called “Summer’s Comin‘” — to The NewSouth Bookstore on Thursday\, June 13 at 6pm. Enjoy the talents of Tim Henderson\, Larry Gobrecht\, Toni Wood\, Katie Pearson\, Tony Castaldo\, and Don Silman\, who’ll get you in a summertime groove from the start. There’ll be some toe tappin’\, for sure!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/karren-pell-and-the-old-alabama-revue-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-thursday-june-13-at-6pm/
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:Deborah Jackson Taffa at The NewSouth Bookstore Thursday\, June 20 at 5:30pm!
DESCRIPTION:The reviews in for Deborah Taffa’s new memoir are many and starred\, and include praise from Oprah and the New York Times. Whiskey Tender is a Native American story which is unexpected and propulsive\, indeed tender\, but also bold and beautifully told. It’s a memoir of family and survival\, coming of age on and off the reservation\, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native identity. A fascinating work\, full of humanity\, and a fascinating story\, which luckily Taffa will join us at the bookstore to tell. Mark your calendars to be with us on Thursday\, June 20 at 5:30pm.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/deborah-jackson-taffa-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-thursday-june-20-at-530pm/
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:Alabama State Poetry Society Online Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for online poetry open mics the 4th Monday of each month! \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85693609367\nMeeting ID: 856 9360 9367
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/alabama-state-poetry-society-online-open-mic/2024-06-24/
LOCATION:Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alabama State Poetry Society":MAILTO:alabamapoets@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Open Call for Writers
DESCRIPTION:For a limited time\, Sunspot Lit is calling for single works of novella-length fiction or nonfiction in any category\, including memoir\, literary\, genre\, and historical. Open July 1 through July 31. Guidelines and submission forms at Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/sunspot-literary-journal-LIXJW.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/open-call-for-writers/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sunspot Literary Journal":MAILTO:SunspotLit@gmail.com
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