Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Win Free Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center!
It's that time of year again when JSC Writing and Literature students with 60 or more credits can apply for a free two week fellowship to Vermont Studio Center to work on their creative writing project. Residencies are typically in May and include room, board, a studio to write in, free workshops and manuscript consultation, and attendance at lectures, art openings, and readings.
To apply, send a letter of application, a project proposal to work on at the residency, a copy of your JSC transcript, and a five page writing sample in any genre to : Professor Elizabeth Powell, Department of Writing and Literature, LLC 320, Johnson State College, Johnson , Vermont 05656. Phone (802) 635-1342. No email applications, please.
Applications due on Thursday, February 17, 2011.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Rick Bass to Read at Sterling College (FREE!)
WHEN: February 14, 2011 (6:30pm)
WHERE: Simpson Hall, Sterling Campus, Craftsbury, Vermont
Bass is the author of twenty-four books of fiction and nonfiction, including the The Watch, The Hermit's Story, Winter: Notes from Montaina, The Book of the Yaak, The Lost Grizzlies, and most recently Nashville Chrome. He has received the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for The Watch, the James Jones Fellowship Award, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and the O. Henry Award.
Here is an interview with BookPage wherein Bass discusses how he combines literary art with vigorous environmental activism.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
2011 Spring Reading Series!
JSC's 2011 Spring Reading Series is here!
JSC is proud to host the following author events, all of which will take place in the Stearns Student Center Performance Space. All readings are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
2/16/11 (Wednesday): Geoff Hewitt, slam poet (5:30pm);
Slam Workshop to follow.
3/9/11 (Wednesday): JSC Student Poetry Slam (8:30pm)
3/14/11 (Monday): Chris Bachelder, fiction writer (5:30pm)
3/21/11 (Monday): Kaitlyn Greenidge w/ JSC Students
(fiction) (5:30pm)
4/21/11 (Thursday): Natasha Trethewey, poet (5:30pm)
Contacts: Jacob White Jacob.White@jsc.edu
Elizabeth Powell Elizabeth.Powell@jsc.edu
Josip Novakovich is a celebrated Croation American fiction writer. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and an American Book Award, among others. His works include one novel (April Fool's Day), three short story collections (Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust), two collections of essays (Apricots from Chernobyl, Plum Brandy: Croatian Journey) and an instructional book on the craft of writing fiction (Fiction Writer's Workshop).
Moreover, Novakovich is a longtime friend of the Johnson State College community. He has served as a guest fiction editor for JSC's literary journal, Green Mountains Review, and his highly regarded instructional book on the craft of writing fiction, Fiction Writer's Workshop, has become a foundational text for creative writing students at JSC. So it is especially exciting that his reading will serve as one of the spring's first Creative Audience events.
JSC is proud to host the following author events, all of which will take place in the Stearns Student Center Performance Space. All readings are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
1/31/11 (Monday): Josip Novakovich, fiction writer (5:30pm)
2/9/11 (Wednesday): Major Jackson, poet (5:30pm)2/16/11 (Wednesday): Geoff Hewitt, slam poet (5:30pm);
Slam Workshop to follow.
3/9/11 (Wednesday): JSC Student Poetry Slam (8:30pm)
3/14/11 (Monday): Chris Bachelder, fiction writer (5:30pm)
3/21/11 (Monday): Kaitlyn Greenidge w/ JSC Students
(fiction) (5:30pm)
4/21/11 (Thursday): Natasha Trethewey, poet (5:30pm)
Contacts: Jacob White Jacob.White@jsc.edu
Elizabeth Powell Elizabeth.Powell@jsc.edu
MONDAY, JANUARY 31:
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
(5:30pm, Stearns Space)
Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich is a celebrated Croation American fiction writer. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and an American Book Award, among others. His works include one novel (April Fool's Day), three short story collections (Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust), two collections of essays (Apricots from Chernobyl, Plum Brandy: Croatian Journey) and an instructional book on the craft of writing fiction (Fiction Writer's Workshop).
Moreover, Novakovich is a longtime friend of the Johnson State College community. He has served as a guest fiction editor for JSC's literary journal, Green Mountains Review, and his highly regarded instructional book on the craft of writing fiction, Fiction Writer's Workshop, has become a foundational text for creative writing students at JSC. So it is especially exciting that his reading will serve as one of the spring's first Creative Audience events.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Undergraduate Creative Writing Conference
The conference began in 2009 and was a huge success and, by all accounts, fun (see pictures here). A creative writing conference can prove particularly valuable for student writers who want to advance their writing skills as well as prepare for graduate school and/or commercial publication. Meeting other writers is simply a good thing.
Below is information about the 2011 conference (May 23-38, University of Houston). Here is how the boldface website describes the conference:
. . . Held in the MD Anderson Library on the University of Houston campus, the bold|face writer’s conference allows the emerging writer the intense studio focus necessary to develop their craft. Lasting five full days, participants can look forward to daily workshops, craft talks, and complementary breakfasts and lunches.
Led by the MFA and PhD candidates of the prestigious University of Houston creative writing program, this year, participants will also be able to sign up for individual feedback sessions from these established working writers:
Dr. David Maclean, creative nonfiction
Author of the memoir, The Answer to the Riddle is Me, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt 2011.
Dr. Darin Ciccotelli, poetry
Published in The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review among others and a recipient of the James A. Michener Fellowship, an Inprint/C. Glen Cambor Fellowship, an inaugural Houston Writing Fellowship, and several Pushcart Prize nominations.
Dr. Aaron Reynolds, fiction
His stories and essays have appeared in Willow Springs, Third Coast, Sonora Review, Laurel Review, and Gulf Coast. He has also been awarded Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowships in both fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston, where he recently received his PhD and continues to teach creative writing full time.
$100 Early bird registration deadline: March 5
$125 regular registration: May 5
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
2010 Fall Reading Series Recap . . .
During the fall of 2010, the creative writing community at JSC kicked off the Fall Reading Series with two intimate visits by renowned poets Carl Phillips (September) and Nancy Mitchell (October), both of whom often stepped out from behind their mesmerizing poetry to talk openly and frankly about the lives from which such poetry springs -- lives at times comical (Phillips described becoming trapped on his own roof after an ill-advised attempt at home repair) and harrowing (Mitchell spoke candidly about her son's consuming drug addiction and how it generated much of the emotional energy in her newest book, Grief Hut).
October: The JSC students who participated in the fall 2010 Poetry Slam did not so much step out from behind their words as blast through them. This was high-contact writing at its best, featuring not only slam poetry but works of flash fiction and flash essay.
In late October, creative nonfiction guru Michael Steinberg delivered his craft talk entitled "Memory, Fact, Imagination, Research: Memoir's Hybrid Personality," which pushed for a new definition of this often indefinable, "mongrel" form, specifically addressing the uncomfortable "truth in memoir" controversy and the uncomfortable yet necessary alliance between imagination and fact.
In November, acclaimed fiction writer Antonya Nelson was this season's keynote visiting author, providing as well a Creative Audience event for first-year students. She wowed a big crowd by reading the first chapter of her new novel, Bound.
Before her reading, Ms. Nelson visited Professor Jacob White's Introduction to Creative Writing class to discuss the unlikely sources of fiction. Much of that conversation can be found here in the Fall 2010 Issue 5 of JSC's campus newspaper Basement Medicine.
Finally, we capped off the 2010 Fall Reading Series by celebrating the work of JSC's own creative writing community. These readers included Rose Nash (fiction), Ann Turkle (poetry), Alison Moncrief (poetry), Jacob White (fiction), Elizabeth Powell (poetry), and JSC President Barbara Murphy (poetry). What a cornucopia of voices!
October: The JSC students who participated in the fall 2010 Poetry Slam did not so much step out from behind their words as blast through them. This was high-contact writing at its best, featuring not only slam poetry but works of flash fiction and flash essay.
Ashley McCauliff, Winner, Fall 2010 JSC Poetry Slam
Doug Bliss
Jasmine Ohadi
In late October, creative nonfiction guru Michael Steinberg delivered his craft talk entitled "Memory, Fact, Imagination, Research: Memoir's Hybrid Personality," which pushed for a new definition of this often indefinable, "mongrel" form, specifically addressing the uncomfortable "truth in memoir" controversy and the uncomfortable yet necessary alliance between imagination and fact.
Michael Steinberg
Michael Steinberg and JSC Creative Nonfiction writer Todd Loskutoff
JSC Creative Writing students strike a pose: (left to right) Taylor Shaw,
Todd Loskutoff, Elizabeth Glasser, and Stephanie Girard
In November, acclaimed fiction writer Antonya Nelson was this season's keynote visiting author, providing as well a Creative Audience event for first-year students. She wowed a big crowd by reading the first chapter of her new novel, Bound.
Before her reading, Ms. Nelson visited Professor Jacob White's Introduction to Creative Writing class to discuss the unlikely sources of fiction. Much of that conversation can be found here in the Fall 2010 Issue 5 of JSC's campus newspaper Basement Medicine.
Antonya Nelson
Finally, we capped off the 2010 Fall Reading Series by celebrating the work of JSC's own creative writing community. These readers included Rose Nash (fiction), Ann Turkle (poetry), Alison Moncrief (poetry), Jacob White (fiction), Elizabeth Powell (poetry), and JSC President Barbara Murphy (poetry). What a cornucopia of voices!
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