CPF4 Local Org Committee Forming

Subud HouseThe 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival is set for November 3-6, 2016 at Spring Street Center in Seattle. Capacity of the venue is 80 and so Gold Passes will be at a premium. They will go on sale in the next couple of months and will be $35 for every fest event except for workshops, which are to be announced soon.

The Local Organizing Committee will meet Saturday, January 9, 2016, at 1pm. If you are interested in being part of the group that makes this iteration of the fest happen, please get in touch with Festival Founder, Paul Nelson at (206) 422.5002.

Key needs right now are:

Webmaster
Grant Writer/Coordinator
Volunteer Coordinator

 

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Call for Writing – COG

COGDear Paul Nelson:

What do Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A. Van Jordan, Gish Jen, Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Donna Steiner, Opal Palmer Adisa, Molly Giles, Tomas Moniz, Ron Austin, Ajuan Mance, Paul S. Flores, Arisa White, Jendi Steiner, Calder Marchman and our close-knit editorial staff of students from the Bay Area’s Cogswell Polytechnical College have in common? Issue 1 of COG.

Get your story or poem adapted as an animated short, 2D animation, graphic novel or interpretive illustration series. Earn a blurbs from Daniel Handler or A. Van Jordan. And if you’re more of a stage storyteller than a page storyteller, find your audience by telling your tale in our audio broadcast, Cogitate, which just announced a new, oncoming host: Irene Noguchi, Producer of KQED’s nationally-beloved talk show, “Forum.”

We’ve found that the writers we stalk in Poets & Writers’ directory send in a higher caliber of work than those we identify from other literary groups – maybe because PW.org vets its community of authors with fairly strict requirements. And we heart reading good writing – so please consider submitting your work.

We’re new, but we hit hard and shout our contributors’ names from the mountaintops. Check us out at www.cogzine.com.

Best,
Aimee Pitcher, Cog Staff Editor

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Each issue of COG is a curiously constructed curation offered up by the students of Cogswell Polytechnical College.
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EBSN5 Manchester (RFP)

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Dear EBSN Members:

The CFP for the Fifth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, which will take place in Manchester in June 2016, can be found on our website HERE. We would be very grateful if you could distribute this CFP, and note that further information will be posted on the EBSN website.

If you have any queries please get in touch with either of the organisers: Doug Field <douglas.field@manchester.ac.uk>  and Oliver Harris <oliverharris@mac.com>

With many thanks and best wishes on behalf of the EBSN,

Oliver Harris
President, European Beat Studies Network

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Magdalena Zurawski & Shae Savoy

12063293_902358729845539_1374012561755344193_nSeattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) brings two poets into one space for an evening of readings. Join us for this literary event in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill. A $5 suggested donation will support the readers.

Magdalena Zurawski’s poetry collection, Companion Animal, was published in 2015 by Litmus Press. Her novel, The Bruise (FC2 2008) won both the Ronald Sukenick Prize for innovative fiction and the LAMBDA Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction. Her online column on teaching aesthetics after Ferguson can be viewed at Jacket2. Zurawski teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia.

Shae Savoy is a Seattle poet, Tarot reader, and teacher whose roots tap deep toward Kansas. Shae has published five chapbooks and her work has most recently appeared in J Journal: New Writing on Justice; Sinister Wisdom; WomenArts Quarterly; Wilde Magazine; Pocket Guide; Paper Nautilus; Common Ground Review; Trivia: Voices of Feminism and the anthology Once Upon a Time. She was a shortlist finalist for Yemassee Journal‘s 2012 Pocataligo Poetry Prize.

Visit Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar’s website for more information about the venue: vermillionseattle.com

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