2008
Events Calendar
December 11th
Special Holiday Event- All Women's Reading
Tara Betts (poetry) ~
Tara Betts is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies including MiPoesias, Essence, Bum Rush the Page and Callaloo. She is a graduate of Cave Canem and the MFA Program at New England College. www.tarabetts.net
Brooke Shaffner (non-fiction) ~
The first chapter of Brooke Shaffner’s memoir, Proximity, was published in The Hudson Review. She received her MFA from Columbia, where she was a Dean’s Fellow; and has been a VCCA-Auvillar Scholarship recipient, a Prague Summer Program Scholarship recipient, a VSC Writer’s Grant recipient, a two-time New Millennium Writing Award finalist, a Writers at Work Fellowship finalist, and a So To Speak Fiction Contest finalist. She lives in Brooklyn and is the curator and host of a monthly reading and artist talk series at Park Slope’s 440 Gallery.
Alana Joblin (poetry) ~
Alana Joblin grew up in Philadelphia. Prior to making New York City her home seven years ago, she earned her B.A. at Oberlin College, studying English and Religion, followed by seven months of writing poems in Israel's desert, as part of the Arad Arts Project. Alana earned her MFA in poetry at Hunter College, where she has also taught undergraduate literature and creative writing. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, and RealPoetik.
Jackie Clark (poetry) ~
Jackie Clark is a poet living in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Softblow, Sawbuck, and Tight, among other places. She is currently the Associate Poetry Editor of LIT and also edits the "Poets off Poetry" series at http://coldfrontmag.com/. You can find her online at http://nohelpforthat.wordpress.com.
Past Readers
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Kate Greenstreet, Evie Shockley, Eva Salzman, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Bruce Covey, Amy King, Carly Sachs, Matthew Thorburn, Alexandra Grace, Jennifer Bartlett, Jeffrey Morgan, Peter Moore, Cate Peebles, Alexander Dickow, Matthew Yeager, Karin Randolph, Sara Femenella, Brian Kloppenberg, Keilly Sweatt, Amy Lawless, Siobhan Ciminera, Claudia Carlson, Julie Porter, Colie Hoffman, John Findura, Jason Takayuki Ueda, Merry Fortune, Darcie Dennigan, Matt Reeck
...fiction / non-fiction... ... ...
Jared Hohl, Matthew Everett, Jessica Penner, Annie Choi, Paul Rome, Jason Napoli Brooks, Melissa Febos, Boris Tsessarsky, Lisa Ko
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Submissions
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Submissions for 2009 readings are now OPEN!
Please follow guidelines below carefully.
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Poets:
Please submit no more than 5 poems (each of a single page length or less),
or up to 2 longer poems (not exceeding 5 pages in length) for consideration.
The body of your email should include a brief, one paragraph bio, as well
as contact information and any special notes. Poems should be attached
as a single Word Document. This is worth repeating… All of your
poems must be attached as ONE document!* Submissions should be emailed
to wordofmouth1@gmail.com with
“2009 Poetry Submission” written in the subject line.
Fiction/ Non-fiction Writers:
Please submit no more than 5 pages (preferably double spaced) for consideration.
The body of your email should contain a brief, one paragraph bio, as well
as contact information and any special notes. The writing sample should
be attached as a single Word Document. Submissions should be emailed to
wordofmouth1@gmail.com with
“2009 Fiction Submission” written in the subject
line.
*Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be automatically
disqualified.
IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING SUBMISSIONS: Due to an overwhelming
number of submissions for the relatively few available reading spaces,
you will only receive a response from the curator if you have
been selected to read, at which point you will be notified of
your selected 2009 reading date. If you have not heard from the curator
via email/ phone by December 31st, 2008, please do not be discouraged,
but do resubmit again the following year.
** Special Note to those outside of NYC: Readings are held at
Bluestockings Radical Books on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. However,
we have an increasing number of readers who travel from out of state to
be here. Readers have hailed from Chicago, Virginia, Atlanta and even
London! So, if you do not reside in the New York City area, but are willing
to travel, or have plans to be here during the scheduled reading year,
please specify this in the body of your email.
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