Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Cathryn Cofell sends the following news:
WFOP 2017 CALENDAR POETS
Monday, December 5 (1st Monday)!
Poetry Rocks! Reading Series
Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton
7 pm
Anyone with a poem published in the 2017 WFOP Calendar is our special guest! We invite you up to the mike to read your calendar poem. Not in the calendar? You can read a favorite poem from another author that appears in the calendar. Copies will be available for sale as well. After, we’ll have our traditional open mike at which you can read 1-2 poems.
ON DECK:
2017 SCHEDULE IN PROCESS – DETAILS COMING SOON!
For more information on the Poetry Rocks series contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
RON RINDO
Tuesday, December 6
Cafe 1906, THELMA Center for the Arts
51 Sheboygan Street, Fond du Lac
Part of THELMA’s Foot of the Lake Reading Series
7 pm, open mic to follow
Doors and Cash Bar open at 6:30 pm
A sensitive and evocative fiction writer, Ron Rindo has won the Wisconsin Arts Board Creative Writing Fellowship twice. His published short stories uncover the drama in domestic life, and despite his many responsibilities as a colleague, father and husband, Rindo always finds time to write.He has published three short story collections, most recently Love in An Expanding Universe (New Rivers Press, 2005), and his writing has also appeared in a variety of magazines and journals. His essay, “Gyromancy,” appears in The Best American Essays 2010. He combines his interests in playing the guitar and reading literature by setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and other poets to music.He is the chair of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
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. Deadline to submit to tell your story this night has passed, but come to hear some great stories and support the arts locally!
For more information, contact tara@storycatcherscommunitycom .
KAREN WILSON
Wednesday, December 14
UUF, 10341 Highway 42, Ephraim
7 pm, open mic to follow
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.
DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE DECEMBER 10, 2017:
Submissions to the inaugural issue of Bramble, the literary magazine of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Issues will be published quarterly and organized around a theme of the editor’s choosing. For this issue, the theme is “beginnings,” interpreted as broadly as you wish. For more information, visit: http://www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-mag/
DEADLINE JANUARY 31, 2017
COUNCIL FOR WISCONSIN WRITERS (CWW) 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.
2017 WFOP MUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY – DEADLINE February 1, 2017
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets announces the 2017 Muse Prize for Excellence in Poetry .
First Prize: $200 Second Prize: $100 Third Prize: $75
Contest Judge: Mark Doty
Open to Wisconsin residents 18 and over.
See http://www.wfop.org/muse-contest for printable contest rules and entry form.
More news for and about Wisconsin writers, and its contests, which are currently open for entries, is at www.wiswriters.org.
