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!
Friday, August 27, 2010
JSC Fall Reading Series!
JSC is proud to host readings this fall by four highly acclaimed writers:
9/2/10: Carl Phillips, poet (Stearns Cinema, 5:30pm)
10/21/10: Nancy Mitchell, poet (Stearns Performance Space, TBA)
10/27/10: Michael Steinberg, creative essayist (Stearns Center Performance Space, 6:00pm)
11/16/10: Antonya Nelson, novelist and short story writer (Stearns Center Performance Space, 5:30pm)
Contacts: Jacob White Jacob.White@jsc.edu
Elizabeth Powell Elizabeth.Powell@jsc.edu
Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Double Shadow (2011) and Speak Low (2010), a National Book Award Finalist; Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (2007); and Riding Westward (2006). His collection The Rest of Love (2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
His other books include: Rock Harbor (2002); The Tether (2001), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Pastoral (2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; From the Devotions (1998), finalist for the National Book Award; Cortége (1995), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and In the Blood (1992), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.
His work has been anthologized in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (2003), Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2002), Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (1988), Contemporary American Poetry (2001), and The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (2000). His poems have also been chosen eight times for the annual Best American Poetry series.
Phillips is also the author of a book of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (2004), and the translator of Sophocles’s Philoctetes (2003).
His honors include the 2006 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.
According to the Judges' Citation for the 1998 National Book Awards, "Carl Phillips' passionate and lyrical poems read like prayers, with a prayer's hesitations, its desire to be utterly accurate, its occasional flowing outbursts."
Phillips is Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program. He was elected an Academy Chancellor in 2006.
Nancy Mitchell is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002) and Grief Hut (Cervena Barva Press, 2009), and her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, Great River Review, and in the current issue of Johnson State College's Green Mountains Review, and are anthologized in Last Call by Sarabande Books, 1997. Her poems and a teaching exercises on Sound are anthologized in The Working Poet, Autumn House Press, 2009. She has received an Artist in the Schools grant for Virginia, and residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (in Amherst, VA and in Auvillar, France), and from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Mitchell teaches in the English Department at Salisbury University, Maryland, and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program in Maine. She resides in Salisbury, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with her husband John Ebert, a filmmaker
Michael Steinberg is a writer, editor, and teacher. His memoir, Still Pitching, was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as the 2003 Independent Press Memoir/Autobiography of the Year. The Association of American University Presses also chose the book for inclusion on its 2004 list of "Books Selected for School Libraries.” And the Melton Center for Jewish Studies selected it for inclusion in "The American Jewish Story in Print," a national on-line directory.
Other books include, Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan--a finalist for the 2000 Foreword Magazine Independent Press Anthology of the Year, and for the 2000 Great Lakes Book Sellers Award; The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, currently in its fifth edition; Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching--the latter two with Robert Root Jr.; and, The Writer's Way: A Process-to-Product Approach to Writing, with Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. He also collaborated with Bob Baldori on I'm Almost Famous, a stage play that was produced in 1984 at the Apollo Theater in Chicago.
Steinberg's personal essays and memoirs have been published in many literary journals and widely anthologized, and his work has won several national awards--including the Missouri Review Editor's Prize, the National Harness Racing Writers of America Feature Writing Award, and a Roberts Writing Award. A half-dozen pieces have been cited as "Notable Essays" in the Best American Essays, and Best American Sports Writing annual anthologies. Five others have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Steinberg is the founding editor (1999) of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, an award-winning journal of literary nonfiction. Fourth Genre is one of three literary journals that exclusively publish works of creative nonfiction.
9/2/10: Carl Phillips, poet (Stearns Cinema, 5:30pm)
10/21/10: Nancy Mitchell, poet (Stearns Performance Space, TBA)
10/27/10: Michael Steinberg, creative essayist (Stearns Center Performance Space, 6:00pm)
11/16/10: Antonya Nelson, novelist and short story writer (Stearns Center Performance Space, 5:30pm)
Contacts: Jacob White Jacob.White@jsc.edu
Elizabeth Powell Elizabeth.Powell@jsc.edu
Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Double Shadow (2011) and Speak Low (2010), a National Book Award Finalist; Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (2007); and Riding Westward (2006). His collection The Rest of Love (2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
His other books include: Rock Harbor (2002); The Tether (2001), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Pastoral (2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; From the Devotions (1998), finalist for the National Book Award; Cortége (1995), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and In the Blood (1992), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.
His work has been anthologized in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (2003), Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2002), Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (1988), Contemporary American Poetry (2001), and The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (2000). His poems have also been chosen eight times for the annual Best American Poetry series.
Phillips is also the author of a book of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (2004), and the translator of Sophocles’s Philoctetes (2003).
His honors include the 2006 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.
According to the Judges' Citation for the 1998 National Book Awards, "Carl Phillips' passionate and lyrical poems read like prayers, with a prayer's hesitations, its desire to be utterly accurate, its occasional flowing outbursts."
Phillips is Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program. He was elected an Academy Chancellor in 2006.
Nancy Mitchell is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002) and Grief Hut (Cervena Barva Press, 2009), and her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, Great River Review, and in the current issue of Johnson State College's Green Mountains Review, and are anthologized in Last Call by Sarabande Books, 1997. Her poems and a teaching exercises on Sound are anthologized in The Working Poet, Autumn House Press, 2009. She has received an Artist in the Schools grant for Virginia, and residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (in Amherst, VA and in Auvillar, France), and from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Mitchell teaches in the English Department at Salisbury University, Maryland, and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program in Maine. She resides in Salisbury, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with her husband John Ebert, a filmmaker
Michael Steinberg is a writer, editor, and teacher. His memoir, Still Pitching, was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as the 2003 Independent Press Memoir/Autobiography of the Year. The Association of American University Presses also chose the book for inclusion on its 2004 list of "Books Selected for School Libraries.” And the Melton Center for Jewish Studies selected it for inclusion in "The American Jewish Story in Print," a national on-line directory.
Other books include, Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan--a finalist for the 2000 Foreword Magazine Independent Press Anthology of the Year, and for the 2000 Great Lakes Book Sellers Award; The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, currently in its fifth edition; Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching--the latter two with Robert Root Jr.; and, The Writer's Way: A Process-to-Product Approach to Writing, with Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. He also collaborated with Bob Baldori on I'm Almost Famous, a stage play that was produced in 1984 at the Apollo Theater in Chicago.
Steinberg's personal essays and memoirs have been published in many literary journals and widely anthologized, and his work has won several national awards--including the Missouri Review Editor's Prize, the National Harness Racing Writers of America Feature Writing Award, and a Roberts Writing Award. A half-dozen pieces have been cited as "Notable Essays" in the Best American Essays, and Best American Sports Writing annual anthologies. Five others have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Steinberg is the founding editor (1999) of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, an award-winning journal of literary nonfiction. Fourth Genre is one of three literary journals that exclusively publish works of creative nonfiction.
Antonya Nelson is the author of six short story collections, including Nothing Right and Female Trouble, and the four novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, Living to Tell, and, most recently, Bound, which received a glowing review in The New York Times). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of the 2003 Rea Award for Short Fiction, as well as NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, as well as in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Telluride, Colorado, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Houston, Texas.
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