Dollhouse Reading Series #23
Where: 2265 W. Leland, Ave., #1
When: Friday, May 17th//Doors open at 7pm, reading starts at 7:30pm.
Readers: Ben Clark, Alexis Pope, Natalie Shapero
This event is free and BYOB!
B. A. & MFA Creative Writing-Poetry ||
B. A. & MFA Creative Writing-Nonfiction
|| Department of English || Columbia College Chicago || 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605
B. A. & MFA Creative Writing-Nonfiction
|| Department of English || Columbia College Chicago || 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605
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The Gatewood Prize is for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. We’ll be accepting submissions electronically from now through June 1st, 2013, and are thrilled to announce that this year’s winner will be chosen by Eileen Myles.
Switchback Books is a nonprofit poetry press publishing full-length collections by women writers. We have been around since 2006, and published our ninth collection in March of this year.
For more information about The Gatewood Prize, Switchback Books, or our judge, please see the link below. I hope you can forward this information along to your students and colleagues.
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Columbia Poetry Review Release Party!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Beginning with a coffee hour at 4pm
Columbia College Chicago Graduate Student Lounge
33 E. Congress Parkway (4th floor, Room 404)
Followed by a release reading and party at 5:30pm
Columbia College Chicago Ferguson Hall
600 South Michigan Avenue (Room 101)
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Columbia College Chicago Presents
a Creative Writing-Nonfiction Program Event
Sponsored by the Department of English in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences:
Amy Leach & Dinty W. Moore
Tuesday, April 16, 5:30pm
Stage Two, 2nd Floor
618 S. Michigan Ave.
This event is free and open to the public.
Books will be for sale at the event, cash or credit accepted.
AMY LEACH is the author of Things That Are, published by Milkweed Editions. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in Best American Essays, A Public Space, Orion, and The Gettysburg Review, among other journals. She has been recognized with the Whiting Writers’ Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She lives in Montana.
DINTY W. MOORE is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as thememoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. He also edited The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers. Moore has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Crazyhorse, among numerous other venues. A professor of nonfiction writing at Ohio University, Moore has won many awards for his writing, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He edits Brevity, an online journal of flash nonfiction, and lives in Athens, Ohio, where he grows heirloom tomatoes and edible dandelions.
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Columbia College Chicago Presents
a Creative Writing-Nonfiction Program Event
Sponsored by the Department of English in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences:
Barrie Jean Borich
& Re’Lynn Hansen
Thursday, February 28, 5:30pm
600 S. Michigan, Room 921
BARRIE JEAN BORICH is the author of Body Geographic, published in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press. Her book My Lesbian Husband won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award, and parts of Body Geographic won the 2010 Florida Review Editor’s Prize in the Essay and the 2010 Crab Orchard Review Literary Nonfiction Prize. She teaches creative writing in the English Department and the MA in Writing and Publishing program at Chicago’s DePaul University and splits her time between Minneapolis and Chicago.
RE’LYNN HANSEN is an associate professor in the English Department of Columbia College where she teaches nonfiction in the Creative Writing Program. Her essays and prose poetry have appeared in Poem Memoir Story, Rhino, HLLQ, Hawai’i Review, Contrary, and other journals and magazines. (Her recent publications are under the name Re’ Lynn Hansen.) She is also a photographer and combines image with word; this work has been featured in Calyx and Fifth Wednesday journals. Her short stories have been included in various anthologies. Her novel, Take Me to the Underground, published by Crossing Press, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.
She is the editor of South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art. She coordinated the Introduction to Literature Program from 2000 through 2003. She coordinated the Creative Nonfiction and Professional Writing Programs in 2003-2004. She teaches a variety of courses in the Creative Writing Nonfiction Program including workshops in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir and the South Loop Review: Magazine Production class.
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➜Columbia College Chicago’s Spring 2013 reading series opens with guests Sandra Simonds and Joe Harrington, sponsored by the Department of English.When: Wednesday, February 13, 5:30 pmWhere: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave, Second FloorSANDRA SIMONDS grew up in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA in Psychology and Creative Writing at UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana, where she received a poetry fellowship. In 2010, she earned a PhD in Literature from Florida State University. Her second book of poems,Mother was a Tragic Girl, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2012. She is also the author ofWarsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008), which was a finalist for numerous prizes including the National Poetry Series; she is also the author of several chapbooks including Used White Wife (Grey Book Press, 2009) and The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea (Cy Gist, 2006). Her poems have been published in many journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast,The Believer, Colorado Review, Fence, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Volt, New Orleans Review and Lana Turner. Her creative nonfiction has been published in Post Road and other literary journals. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is an Assistant Professor of English at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.JOE HARRINGTON, is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan Univ. Press 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother’s cancer; it was a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection. He is the author of the chapbook Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees 2010) and the critical work Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002). His creative work also has appeared in Hotel Amerika, No Tell Motel, 1913, BathHouse, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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Gulf Coast 2013 Gulf Coast Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction/Lyric Essay, and Poetry.
This year’s judges are Stanley Plumly (Poetry), Maggie Shipstead (Fiction), and Darin Strauss (Nonfiction/Lyric Essay)!
The contest awards $1,500 and publication to the winner in each genre, as well as $250 to two honorable mentions in each genre. The winners will appear in Gulf Coast 26.1, due out in Fall 2013, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on our website as Online Exclusives. All three of last year’s winners were from creative writing programs! (all entrants receive a free year-long subscription to Gulf Coast with their entry fee)
DEADLINE: March 15, 2013DETAILS: www.gulfcoastmag.org/contests.
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The Best American Poetry 2013 (edited by Denise Duhamel) selected David Trinidad’s “from Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera”; Amy Gerstler, “Womanish” and Aaron Smith, “What It Feels Like to Be Aaron Smith” from Court Green 9; Maureen Seaton, “Chelsea/Suicide” and Stacey Waite, “The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV” from Columbia Poetry Review 25!
Congrats to Poets and Magazines!
Publication date: September 10, 2013
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Join the Chicago Poetry Bordello for Lundi Gras!
Monday, Feb. 11, 2013
8pm to Midnight
Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division, Chicago
$5 if dressed Victorian. $10 if not.
Live music by the White City Rippers & Jeff Levin on piano!
Burlesque beauties! Plus hand cut silhouettes by Nina Nightengale!
AND AS ALWAYS, Chicago’s best Poetry Whores!
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