WFOP News:
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) has a NEW website! Check it out at wfop.org.
Going forward please submit any of the following to wfopweb@gmail:
Ongoing poetry readings
Future poetry events
Future poetry workshops
Regular writing group meetings
Events more suited to the e-newsletter should be directed to wfopmuseletter@gmail.com
If you don’t already have one, you are invited to create a Member Page. Send the following to wfopweb@gmail.com
- Bio
- Publications
- Poetry, 2-3 sample poems
- Photos (e.g. quality poet photo, covers of published books or chapbooks)
Not yet a member? The website will give you info about joining!
TIMOTHY WALSH
Tuesday, January 26
Caramel Crisp, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh
6:15 – 7:30 pm featured reader, followed by an open mic
The reading is located in the game room beyond the cafe portion of the building. Please come early and treat yourself to coffee, dessert or other goodies to enjoy during the reading. For further information contact Kay Sanders at rksanders42@gmail.com or Mandi Isaacson at mandiisaacson@gmail.com.
The Mia Paul Poetry Series presents poet KATY DIDDEN
Thursday, January 28
Wriston Art Center Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton
4:30 pm
Katy will be reading from her book The Glacier’s Wake and newer work. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Thursday, February 18, at 4:30 in the Nathan March Pusey Room of the Warch Campus Center, poet Andrew Hudgins and fiction writer Erin McGraw (both of them the celebrated authors of multiple wonderful books) will read, again with a reception and book signing to follow.
Any questions, please contact Melissa Range at melissa.h.range@lawrence.edu.
ESTELLA LAUTER & NANCY RAFAL
Thursday, January 28
The Readers Loft | 2069 Central Ct, Suite 44, Green Bay
5:30-8 pm Featured Reader(s) + Open mic
On Deck:
February 25: Jenna Cornell, D.R. Clowers, Ralph Murre
March 31: Tom Davis, Ethel Mortenson Davis
April 28: Sylvia Cavanaugh, Ed Werstein, Nancy Austin
For more info: torigw@twc.com or call the Loft at (920) 406-0200 | www.readersloft.com.
ALISON TOWNSEND
Tuesday, February 2
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (THELMA) , 51 Sheboygan St., Fond du Lac
7 pm
Books Build Community program featuring OSCAR MIRELES, editor of I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin
Saturday, February 6
Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida Street, Appleton
2-4 pm
The Books Build Community program focuses on sharing experiences around a specific book, through formal book clubs and informal book discussions, based off of the successful Fox Cities Reads initiative. Our first selection is I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: Three Decades of Hispanic Writing, an anthology of essays, poetry, memoirs and fiction by Wisconsin Latina and Latino writers. This book contains the works of 40 writers who are past poets laureate, musicians, academics, activists, law enforcement agents, educators and much more.
For more information contact Adriana McCleer, (920) 832-617, amccleer@apl.org
YOUTH READERS
Wednesday, February 10
UUF, 10341 Highway 42, Ephraim
On the second Wednesday of every month the Dickinson Poetry Series features a reading by a local or regional poet followed by an open mic and reception. The public is welcome, and admission is free. For more information visit www.uufdc.org or call 920.854.7559.
Jeanie and Steve Tomasko
Monday, February 15
Poetry Rocks! Reading Series
Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton
7 pm, featured readers followed by open mike
With her cool, mellifluous Madison intonation, Jeanie Tomasko teases her husband Steve about his “Fox Valley” accent. Steve grew up just down the lake in Oshburg, dontcha-know, and talks, pretty much mostly pretty normal … mostly. Isn’t that right now? Jeanie has written acres of wonderful poems (says her husband, unabashedly) and has produced three printed chapbooks and one online chapbook. She would undoubtedly have more if she didn’t have an aversion to the whole submission game.
Steve has written three tablespoons of poems he’s proud of. His first chapbook was published two days before Christmas. Jeanie and Steve live with three cats, a revolving door of adult children and have a yen for forests, fresh bluegills cooked on a campfire and Lake Superior.
ON DECK AT COPPER ROCK:
March 21 Soundings: Poets from the Door County anthology
For more information on the Poetry Rocks series contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
The Mia Paul Poetry Series presents poet ANDREW HUDGINS and fiction writer ERIN MCGRAW
Thursday, February 18
Nathan March Pusey Room of the Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University, Appleton
4:30 pm
Both are celebrated authors of multiple wonderful books. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Any questions, please contact Melissa Range at melissa.h.range@lawrence.edu.
WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
Creative Writers’ Workshop
Wednesday, February 3
Kress Family Branch Library, 333 N. Broadway, De Pere
6-8 pm
Support and networking for writers. Bring your original poems or short prose to read, along with copies for critique.
DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
2016 WFOP Muse Contest: http://wfop.org/contests/muse.html
Deadline February 1!
2016 WFOP Chapbook Contest: http://wfop.org/contests/cbprize.html
Deadline February 1!
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CWW WISCONSIN WRITERS AWARDS – DEADLINE FEB 1, 2016!
Work published by Wisconsin writers in 2015 is eligible in seven categories, including book-length fiction, nonfiction and poetry; short fiction and nonfiction; a set of five poems including at least two published in the contest year; and children’s literature. (Outdoor writing may now be submitted to the long or short non-fiction category).
First-place winners will receive $500 and a week-long writers’ residency at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point. Honorable mentions will receive $50.
Entries for this year’s Wisconsin Writers Awards must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2016. Authors who enter must be current Wisconsin residents. The entry fee is $25. Membership in CWW is not required, but members are entitled to one free entry. Out-of-state judges will make the selections. Awards will be presented in a banquet in May 2016.
Nominations are also open for CWW’s Major Achievement Award, of $1000, honoring the work of a Wisconsin writer who deserves special recognition for literary merit. No entry fee is required for the submission of nominating letters, also due by February 1, 2016 (postmark deadline).
CWW also sponsors an Essay Award for Young Writers (1500 word maximum) for Wisconsin high school students; there is no entry fee, and the award is $250 this year for the winning student. Members of the board will judge. Entries for the student essay contest must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2016.
Specific guidelines, entry forms, and important additional information for each award category are available on the awards section of the website, www.wiswriters.org/awards.htm.
CWW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of published Wisconsin writers and encouraging an appreciation of Wisconsin writing.
Deadline 5/1/2016: New American Press is accepting submissions for the next anthology of Midwestern poets. https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit/50705
emilynshowers says
Thank you for the info. No idea there were such cool happenings in Appleton.
jhayslett says
You’re welcome, Emily. If you follow/subscribe to this blog, you’ll get emails of all the posts. CWW has some cool things going on and we like to blog about cool things other Wisconsin writer-oriented organizations and writers are doing.
emilynshowers says
Already following 🙂