Monday, June 6, 2016
Jackson's Netwest Open Mic: June 10, 7:00, City Lights Bookstore in Sylva
Jackson County's Open Mic night for June will be this coming Friday, June 10, at Sylva's City Lights Bookstore, 7:00 p.m.--prose, poetry, and a little music are all welcome. So far, we've had an excellent variety of nonfiction, fiction, and verse, with a very supportive audience. As always, we'll open signups at 6:45, and there will be beverages and desserts; readers are asked to keep their readings under ten minutes (if we have a larger group, under five minutes.) Come on out!
Saturday, June 4, 2016
All-Star Lineup on June 10: Ron Moran & Jonathan K Rice
Two Well-Published NC Poets to Read at Writers' Night Out, Blairsville
Ronald Moran, former
Clemson professor, dean, and a Fulbright Lecturer, joins editor Jonathan K.
Rice to share their work at Writers’ Night Out on Friday, June 10. The 7 p.m.
reading will be followed by an open microphone for those who’d like to share
their own work. The event is free and open to the public at the Union CountyCommunity Center in the heart of Blairsville, GA
Moran has published 13 collections
of poetry. The most recent, Eye of the
World, was just released by Clemson University Press. Of it, Poet David
Kirby writes, “…this grateful, gifted poet teaches us how to burrow into and
recognize the riches in our own lives.” Moran has also written two books of
criticism (one coauthored) and has had more than 500 poems, essays, and reviews
published in many journals, including Connecticut
Poetry Review, Emrys Journal, Evening Street Review, Louisiana Review,
Northwest Review, South Carolina Review,
Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He has won several awards and was
recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Moran’s writings and memorabilia about them are archived in Special
Collections of the James B. Duke Library at Furman University. He lives in Simpsonville, SC. 
Rice is founding editor and
publisher of Iodine Poetry Journal,
as well as co-editor of Kakalak 2016.
His latest poetry collection is Killing
Time (Main Street Rag, 2015). Other books include Shooting Pool with a Cellist (Main Street Rag, 2003) and Ukulele and Other Poems (Main Street
Rag, 2006). His poetry has appeared in many publications. He’s also been a
longtime host of poetry readings in Charlotte, NC, where he lives with his
family. In 2012 he received the Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award for
outstanding service in support of local and regional writers, awarded by
Central Piedmont Community College. As a visual artist, Rice’s work has been
featured as cover art on books, as well as in online magazines.
The next day, June 11, Rice will
teach a poetry class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Writers Circle in Hayesville.
For more information on the class, please see http://www.glendacouncilbeall.com/p/schedule.html
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Sunday, May 29, 2016
Fourteenth Annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize (2016) open for submissions
SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR THE
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL DOGFISH HEAD POETRY PRIZE OPENS MAY 15, 2016!
Submission Guidelines
The fourteenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WVA, NC and District of Columbia) will consist of $500, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Beer*, manuscript publication by Broadkill River Press, and 10 copies of the book (in lieu of royalties).
The rules are: Manuscripts must be received by midnight, August 15, 2016. Manuscripts received after the closing date will not be considered. Eligible poets must reside in the above listed states and be twenty-one years of age by the date of the award. * The manuscript is to be submitted electronically in one MS Word document attachment. Send to Prize coordinator Linda Blaskey at dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthli
Send two title pages with each submission: the first with the title of the manuscript, author’s name, address, phone numbers and e-mail address; the second with just the manuscript title. No manuscript is to have any author-identifying information other than the one title page and will be rejected if it does. Judging is blind and double-tiered. The manuscript must be book-length (between 48 and 78 pages of original work – no translations) and no more than roughly thirty lines to a page, including the poem’s title and two line-spaces between the title and the body of the poem. A poem may be more than one page. The book’s dimensions will be 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches, with a minimum of half-inch side margins, and printed in 12 point type, so avoid very long lines. One submission per entrant. There is no entry fee.
The award will be presented to the winner on Saturday evening, December 10, 2016 at the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware. The winner must agree to attend this event and to read from their winning book at a reception honoring the winner. The prize will be officially awarded by Sam Calagione, Founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Distillery, or by another company official.
The author of the winning manuscript also agrees to provide, within ten days of notification, a color head-shot photograph, with photographer’s credit, for the back cover and a dedication page for the interior of the book. Also, an acknowledgement page of poems previously published, and in which publications and/or websites they appeared will need to be provided. The winner agrees to travel to Delaware at the winner’s expense for awarding of the prize. Dogfish Head will provide the winner two nights lodging at the Dogfish Inn in the beach resort town of Lewes, Delaware.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales retains the right to use any of the winning work in promotional materials.
Co-workers of Dogfish Head and their families are ineligible to enter. Previous winners of the prize are ineligible to enter.
For questions and more information contact Linda Blaskey, Prize coordinator, at linblask@aol.com
or at dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthli
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL DOGFISH HEAD POETRY PRIZE OPENS MAY 15, 2016!
Submission Guidelines
The fourteenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WVA, NC and District of Columbia) will consist of $500, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Beer*, manuscript publication by Broadkill River Press, and 10 copies of the book (in lieu of royalties).
The rules are: Manuscripts must be received by midnight, August 15, 2016. Manuscripts received after the closing date will not be considered. Eligible poets must reside in the above listed states and be twenty-one years of age by the date of the award. * The manuscript is to be submitted electronically in one MS Word document attachment. Send to Prize coordinator Linda Blaskey at dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthli
Send two title pages with each submission: the first with the title of the manuscript, author’s name, address, phone numbers and e-mail address; the second with just the manuscript title. No manuscript is to have any author-identifying information other than the one title page and will be rejected if it does. Judging is blind and double-tiered. The manuscript must be book-length (between 48 and 78 pages of original work – no translations) and no more than roughly thirty lines to a page, including the poem’s title and two line-spaces between the title and the body of the poem. A poem may be more than one page. The book’s dimensions will be 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches, with a minimum of half-inch side margins, and printed in 12 point type, so avoid very long lines. One submission per entrant. There is no entry fee.
The award will be presented to the winner on Saturday evening, December 10, 2016 at the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware. The winner must agree to attend this event and to read from their winning book at a reception honoring the winner. The prize will be officially awarded by Sam Calagione, Founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Distillery, or by another company official.
The author of the winning manuscript also agrees to provide, within ten days of notification, a color head-shot photograph, with photographer’s credit, for the back cover and a dedication page for the interior of the book. Also, an acknowledgement page of poems previously published, and in which publications and/or websites they appeared will need to be provided. The winner agrees to travel to Delaware at the winner’s expense for awarding of the prize. Dogfish Head will provide the winner two nights lodging at the Dogfish Inn in the beach resort town of Lewes, Delaware.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales retains the right to use any of the winning work in promotional materials.
Co-workers of Dogfish Head and their families are ineligible to enter. Previous winners of the prize are ineligible to enter.
For questions and more information contact Linda Blaskey, Prize coordinator, at linblask@aol.com
or at dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthli
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