GUIDELINES: ANTHOLOGY, CONTEST, EVENT TICKETS
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NEW MUSICAL: "COMPANY MATTERS" by MALCOLM DAVIDSON
Monday, November 16, 2009
6:30 PM
Admission: free; reserve by November 12th
Central Congregational Church
296 Angell Street, Providence
401-461-6691; thewriterscircle@aol.com
A story about struggles, morality and redemption in a typical company of today. With the banking crisis and the Bernie Madoff scandal still swirling in the news, this is a timely and poignant tale pitting the pushy owner of a company against his staff as they work to get their products built and sold. The reading of this musical comedy will show the typical challenges we all face today as workers with families, fearing uncertainty about the future. A not to miss theatrical experience!
ANTHOLOGY 2010
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March Book Signing Party: free and open to the public. Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:00 PM, Borders Book Store, Providence Place Mall.
- Soft cover edition of anthology: $21.50 + $3.00 postage
- Available at office and book signing party for pick up.
- Send check to: The Writers' Circle, 1087 Warwick, Avenue, Warwick, RI. 02888
- For more information: e-mail thewriterscircle@aol.com or call 401-461-6691
CONTEST: FLASH FICTION RULES
The Writers' Circle will accept submission starting January 2010. To confirm arrival, include a self-addressed stamped postcard. Deadline: June 10, 2010. Final Judge: Randall Albers, Chair of Fiction Writing Department, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Albers has a long and distinguished career as an educator and author.
- Cover page should include: title of work, author's name, address, zip code, phone, e-mail, as well as permission for judges to read work(s) submitted. Cover page must be signed by the author.
- Mail entries to: The Writers' Circle, 1087 Warwick Ave., Warwick, RI 02888
- Original unpublished work, only.
- Maximum words: up to 1000.
- Standard size white paper, stapled together.
- Title of work must appear on each page.
- Typed or word processed.
- Up to 2 entries allowed. Send copy only.
- Double spaced, not double sided.
- Entries returned with correct SASE only.
- Administrative charge: $10 each entry.
- First place: $500 and publication of story.
- First place winner and artistic merit nominees notified August 2010. Names will appear in a national press release.
To print a copy of the above guidelines, go to "Deadlines" and click "Flash Fiction Guidelines" link
EVENTS
Tickets to play readings and book signing party may be reserved by e-mailing thewriterscircle@aol.com or by calling 401-461-6691. To guarantee a chair, reserved seating is always recommended.
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THE WRITERS' CIRCLE ANTHOLOGY DEBUT
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The Rhode Island Writers' Circle Anthology , to debut in 2010, will feature fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry by New England authors, as well as commentaries by Tom Chandler, Martha Collins, Robert Colonna, Michael Fink, John Land, and Jody Lisberger. Book signing party with refreshments, featuring readings by professional actors, Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Borders Book Store, Providence Place Mall.
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POWER TO THE POETS TO CONTINUE IN SEPTEMBER 2009 THROUGH 2010
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Heather Sullivan, founder of Praying Mantis Press, a nonprofit venue for the publication of original poetry, will manage Power to the Poets, an original outreach program conceived by The Writers' Circle in 2008. Under the direction of Ms. Sullivan, the program will bring poetry to hospitals, nursing homes, retirement communities, prisons, schools, group homes, and literacy programs across the state. Use of the banner "Power to the Poets" is with permission from The Writers' Circle, a nonprofit, charitable center for professional and emerging authors. For more information, please contact Ms. Sullivan: heather.sullivan1@cox.net
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WRITERS’ CIRCLE ANNOUNCES NATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION WINNERS!
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The Writers’ Circle is pleased to announce that our National Poetry Competition drew 85 entries, with over 400 individual poems submitted, from 23 states around the country. Final judge, Patricia Fargnoli, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, selected Michael Mack’s poem “Becoming Annie” for First Place and Diane Dolphin’s poem “Recipe” for Second Place. Both winning poems will be read at Providence Public Library on April 5, 2009 at 3:00, as part of the library’s First National Poetry Month Celebration. Both poets will receive cash awards and their poems will be published in the Circle’s next anthology.
Michael Mack, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from the Writing Program at MIT. His poems have been published in America, the Asheville Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cumberland Poetry Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, and elsewhere. His work was anthologized in Best Catholic Writing in 2005 and 2007, and has aired on NPR. Awards include an Artist Grant from Massachusetts Cultural Council. Mack regularly performs his feature-length solo verse play called Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues about his mother's life with schizophrenia. He has presented it at the US Library of Congress, Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center, and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School.
Diane Dolphin, of Smithfield, RI, has worked as a writer, video producer and communications consultant to many of Rhode Island's nonprofit and government organizations. She has produced and directed several television documentaries, including Beacon on the Bluff: The Rescue of the Southeast Lighthouse, which aired locally and regionally on PBS stations. Dolphin also served as Director of Programs at Leadership Rhode Island and is a member of the LRI Delta II class (2008). She is currently working toward her Master’s degree in communications. Poetry is a fairly new genre for Dolphin, one which has spoken to her most clearly following the death of her husband in 2006.
The following poets received Artistic Merit Awards and their poems may become eligible for publication: Carolina Briano, Bill Carpenter, Beatrice Conrad, Mary Rose Dougherty, Marguerite Flanders, Eve Hoffman, Lawrence J. Krips, Laura Jordan, Ellen McGill, Catherine Moran, Robert Muir, Jed Myers, Kara Provost, Erin Rhoda, Marian Shapiro, Bill Sullivan, and Jim Zimmerman.
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