Among this year's winners of the 2013 PEN American Literary Awards are some past visitors to the New York State Writers Institute, including Kevin Young (PEN Open Book Award for The Grey Album), and Marilyn Hacker (PEN/Heim Translation Award for The Bridges of Budapest by Jean-Paul de Dadelson). Jill Lepore was runner-up for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for The Story of America: Essays on Origins.
Complete list of winners: http://www.pen.org/blog/announcing-2013-pen-literary-award-winners
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
PEN America Announces 2013 Literary Awards
Pat Dyjak's Symphony for the Cutters
Poet Pat Dyjak explores acts of self-harm ("cutting") and survival of child abuse in her new chapbook from Kattywompus Press, Symphony for the Cutters.
A former Graduate Assistant at the New York State Writers Institute, Dyjak is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point.
From the publisher: "Dyjak takes no prisoners in this searing examination of a culture of trauma that originates in the family and spirals out.This is an author willing to risk baring her soul, and steeped in the leading edge of her craft. Dyjak is determined to pry off the tightly nailed doors of our dark basements and let the light pour in, and in doing so she spins our suffering into art."
Publisher website: http://kattywompuspress.com/content/symphony-cutters
An interview with Professor Dyjak: http://www.uwsp.edu/pointeronline/Pages/articles/English-Professor-Hosts-Poetry-Reading.aspx
Kattywompus Press has achieved widespread notice in the poetry world for its invitation-only "Poets' Greatest Hits" series (300 volumes and counting). Here's an interview with the publishers: http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/07/meet-the-press-kattywompus.html
Monday, August 12, 2013
FENCE Magazine Open for Submissions
ATTENTION ALL WRITERS
Fence magazine will be accepting new submissions of poetry, fiction, and everything else for the whole month of August(the gateway closes 8/31/13 at exactly 11:59pm EST).
Please keep in mind our SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Each
poem and story MUST
be submitted individually. This will help us keep better track of withdrawn
pieces. Submit no more than five
poems at any one time, and up to twenty-five
pages of fiction.
If you wish to submit more than one document, you MUST submit each document separately. Submissions containing more than one poem or story will not be read.
Thank you, and consider the floodgates OPEN.
https://fence.submittable.com/submit
Founded in 1998 by Rebecca Wolff, Fence is a biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. It is Fence‘s mission to encourage writing that might otherwise have difficulty being recognized because it doesn’t answer to either the mainstream or to recognizable modes of experimentation. Fence is long-term committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil other systems that bring new writing to light.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Poets Wanted for Altamont Fair
Get a free pass to the Fair and read your own poetry...
LIVE
POETRY
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 2013
27th YEAR
CELEBRATION!
Altamont Fair Poetry Reading
LOCAL POETS READ FROM THEIR OWN WORK
& THE WORKS OF THE PAST
PERFORMANCE POETRY PRESENTED LIVE FROM
OUR STAGE
STARTING TIME IS 2:00 PM CONTINUING
UNTIL 4:30 PM
HELD AT THE HOTEL ALTAMONT STAGE IN THE
VILLAGE AND CARRIAGE MUSEUM
ON THE ALTAMONT FAIRGROUNDS
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Salon.com Editor to Read in Rensselaerville, 8/16
Joan Walsh,
editor-at-large of Salon.com, headlines this year’s Rensselaerville Festival of
Writers as a keynote speaker Saturday August 16, at 8:00 p.m.
Walsh will read from
her 2012 book What’s the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age
That Never Was.
The acclaimed
celebration of arts and literature takes place this year August 15 – 18 in
several venues throughout the idyllic Helderberg hamlet of Rensselaerville, NY.
Walsh’s appearance promises a riveting highlight in the festival’s rich
schedule of readings, workshops, and receptions.
For more: festivalofwriters.org.
"This Upstate Life" in Rensselaerville
Local authors will present their work at the annual Rensselaerville Festival of
Writers, August 15-18, 2013
.
"This Upstate Life"
Local writers will read their own
work, poetry, fiction, personal essay, or cross-genre and experimental work
specifically rooted in the upstate New York region.
Tom Corrado -
Middleburgh Carol Graser - Galway
Anne Decker - Albany
Susan Jefts – Saratoga Springs
Sarah Giragosian - Albany Howard
J. Kogan Stephentown
Marea Gordett - Cohoes Marion Menna - Glenmont
John Worth Gordon - Albany Mary
Cuffe Perez - Galway
Dan Wilcox - Albany
Himanee Gupta-Carlson – Greenfield Center
For more info: www.festivalofwriters.org
Friday, August 2, 2013
Lydia Davis to Teach Fall Workshop at UAlbany
Lydia Davis, New York State Writers Institute Fellow and recent winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, will conduct a fiction master class workshop for community writers during the fall 2013 semester. The focus will be on detailed discussion of students' work, but there may also be assigned exercises and/or readings from published novels or short stories to broaden the discussion of topics such as character, plot, style, and form. The workshop is intended for advanced writers - writers who have significant publications in literary journals. It will be an intensive five-session workshop held in the month of October.
The workshop is not-for-credit and will be held at the University at Albany's uptown campus.
Admission to the workshop is based on the submission of writing samples.
Complete information on the workshop and submission guidelines may be obtained
by calling the Institute at 518-442-5620 or by visiting the Institute's website
at:
Lydia Davis, fiction
writer, translator, and UAlbany professor, has received wide acclaim for her
extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. She has been called
"one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles
Times Book Review), "an American virtuoso of the short story
form" (Salon), and "one of the best writers in America" (O
Magazine). In the spring of 2013 Davis received the Man Booker
International Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the world of
literature. The award is given every two years to authors of any nationality in
order to recognize an outstanding body of work in English or available in
English translation.
Her newest book, which
earned rave reviews, is The Collected Stories (2009), a
compilation of stories from four previously published volumes including Varieties
of Disturbance (2007), Samuel Johnson is Indignant (2001), Almost
No Memory (1997) and Break it Down (1986). Davis
received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2003. A Chevalier of the Order of
Arts and Letters in France, Davis is also one of the most respected translators
into English of French literary fiction by Proust and Flaubert, among others.
Davis first received
serious critical attention for her collection of stories, "Break It
Down," which was selected as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. The
book's positive critical reception helped Davis win a Whiting Writer's Award in
1988
For additional
information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620, or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
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