Here’s news from Cathryn Cofell about WFOP in Northeast Wisconsin:
MARYANN HURTT
Monday, November 21
Poetry Rocks! Reading Series
Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton
7 pm, featured readers followed by open mike
After almost thirty years working as a hospice nurse, Maryann Hurtt is now retired and either she keeps chasing the muse or the muse is on her trail. Any which way, she was happy hiking in the Wallowas, wading in the Blackfoot River, sleeping in a cliff house on Green Bay, and exploring assorted other adventures this past summer. She is currently teaching a mostly just for fun poetry class for Plymouth Community Education. Her manuscript, Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, is about an environmental disaster in Oklahoma where the water is orange and is almost completed. Aldrich Press published her chapbook, River, in August.
ON DECK AT COPPER ROCK:
Dec 5 WFOP 2017 Calendar Poets (FIRST MONDAY)
For more information on the Poetry Rocks series contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
ANNETTE GRUNSETH
Tuesday, November 22
Caramel Crisp, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh
6:15 – 7:30 pm featured reader, followed by an open mic
Annette L. Grunseth, is a poet, freelance writer and photographer from Green Bay, WI. Earlier this year she had three of her poems set to original music compositions for voice, piano and violin, which were performed at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Her poems have appeared in Wisconsin Academy Review, Midwest Prairie Review, Peninsula Pulse, The Door Voice, WFOP annual Calendars, SOUNDINGS: Door County in Poetry, Ariel Anthology, as well as other anthologies. She has been a member of WFOP since 1988, is a graduate of University of Wisconsin – Madison, and is retired from a career in Marketing and Public Relations. The reading of poems from her work, “Becoming Trans-Parent,” is a passion of hers to help others understand and gain empathy about the transgender experience.
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.
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STORYCATCHERS LIVE HOLIDAY EDITION: AWKWARD FAMILY GATHERINGS
December 9
The Refuge, 1000 N. Ballard Rd., Appleton
7:00-9:00 pm
Join us for a live storytelling event where members of the community become storytellers sharing (mostly) true stories, surrounding this month’s theme: ‘Awkward Family Gatherings.’ You DO NOT need to tell a story to join in the fun! After all, a story isn’t a story at all without someone to tell it to. All interested storytellers should submit their story in writing OR via recorded 2-minute story pitch to tara@storycatcherscommuni
ty.com by Nov. 25. Stories
should be (mostly) true, based on the event theme (loosely or closely- up to you), and around the 5-minute mark.
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DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
WI People & Ideas New Poetry & Short Story Contests are NOW OPEN
Wisconsin People & Ideas regularly publishes some of the best fiction and poetry from around the state, and now it’s your chance to make your mark on Wisconsin’s literary scene. Click on the appropriate category to learn how to enter your short stories and poems in our contests, which are accepting submissions via USPS and online fromSeptember 1 to December 1, 2016, and are open to all Wisconsin residents and students age 18 and older. Send in your best works of poetry and fiction to win up to $500 and other prizes along with publication in Wisconsin People & Ideas, a slot at the 2017 contest reading at the Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison, even a one-week residency at the lovely Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point.
COUNCIL FOR WISCONSIN WRITERS (CWW) OPENS 2016 WISCONSIN WRITERS CONTESTS
Work published by Wisconsin writers in 2016 is eligible in seven categories, including book-length fiction, nonfiction and poetry; short fiction and nonfiction; a set of five poems two of which must have been published in the contest year, and children’s literature.
First-place winners receive $500 and a one-week writer’s residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point, WI. Honorable mention recipients receive $50 and a one-week writer’s residency at the Painted Forest Study Center in Valton, WI.
Entries for this year’s Wisconsin Writers Awards must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2017. 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 at a banquet in May 2017. The Major Achievement Award for 2016 will also be presented at the May banquet. That award, which includes a prize of $1,000, recognizes a Wisconsin writer for work of extraordinary literary merit.
CWW also sponsors an Essay Award for Young Writers (1,500 word maximum) for Wisconsin high school students; there is no entry fee. The award is $250 for the winning student. Members of the board will judge. Entries for the student essay contest must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2017.
Specific guidelines, entry forms, and important additional information for each award category are available in the 2016 Entry Forms section of the website, wiswriters.org/2016-contest-entry-forms.
2017 WFOP CHAPBOOK PRIZE – DEADLINE February 1, 2017
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets announces the 7th annual Chapbook Contest for poetry chapbooks 16 – 47 pages long published during 2016
First Prize: $100 Second Prize : $50 Contest
Contest Judge: Amy Lemmon
Open to Wisconsin residents 18 and over.
See www.WFOP.org for printable contest rules and entry form.