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SUMMARY:ENTROPY Workshop with L Scully
DESCRIPTION:ENTROPY is a five week\, virtual\, generative writing workshop hosted by L Scully (Nonfiction\, January 2023).  \n\n\n\nWe are living in a conundrum of degradation. Our bodies age\, the State is falling\, disorder(s) run rampant in our minds. God feels random and chaos feels inevitable. There is no choice but to write toward uncertainty. Cope\, world-build\, freak out\, investigate together.  \n\n\n\nThe structure of this workshop is a weekly meeting of two hours and includes two separate section groups to accommodate scheduling. Each week we will produce the beginnings of 2+ new pieces of writing based on original prompts provided by L live and in session. There is also opportunity to share our collective woes\, check in\, and meet writing partners. One piece of your choice will be critiqued by the group in a supportive and curious environment. We welcome new and seasoned writers alike\, as well as anyone who wants to get into a regular and dedicated creative practice. Classes will be held over GoogleMeet. \n\n\n\nSuggested sliding scale is $150-250 for the five week course. If the proposed payment scale is not reasonable for your situation\, please email L to work something out at leighahscully@gmail.com. They would love to work with you. \n\n\n\nSection A: Sundays Sept. 29 – Nov. 32-4pm EST (no class 10/13\, lesbian wedding)Section B: Wednesdays Oct. 3 – Oct. 306-8pm EST
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/entropy-workshop-with-l-scully/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Story Hour! Sara Levine: A Terrible Place for a Nest
DESCRIPTION:Join Brookline Booksmith for an all-ages storytime with Sara Levine (WFYP\, January 2006)\, author of A Terrible Place for a Nest. Books will be available for purchase at the event\, or you can preorder on the registration page. You can pick your book up after 10AM on the day of the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA child learns to settle into a new home in this lyrical and stirring picture book perfect for fans of MEMORY JARS and EVELYN DEL REY IS MOVING AWAY.Juno and his mom have just moved into a new home\, and he hates everything about it – the new school\, his new classmates\, his new room.Just outside his window\, Juno notices a family of mourning doves have started a nest atop the fence\, and they seem to be struggling to make it work\, too. Sure enough\, Juno concludes this new place is a terrible place to build a nest.But\, as winter turns to spring and the doves grow\, so does Juno. And while this new place may be scary and sometimes lonely\, they will all make it work\, together.Lyrical and hopeful\, A Terrible Place for a Nest is a tender and uplifting tale about facing new experiences with empathy and courage. \n\n\n\nSara Levine is an award-winning picture book author\, veterinarian and science educator. Her books which include Bone by Bone\, Tooth by Tooth\, Flower Talk\, Sensitive\, and The Animals Would Not Sleep! have received the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize\, Bank Street College Best Book of the Year\, Beehive Book Award\, Cook Prize and the Mathical Book Prize. She loves doing school and library programs.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/story-hour-sara-levine-a-terrible-place-for-a-nest/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard Street\, Brookline\, Massachusetts\, 02446-2908\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T170000
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SUMMARY:The Washington Writers' Publishing House Launch — Varun Gauri\, Megan Doney\, and Chanlee Luu — at Conn Ave
DESCRIPTION:The Washington Writers’ Publishing House is thrilled to announce the 2024 winners of its annual poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction manuscript contest: Varun Gauri for his novel\, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus\, Megan Doney (WFYP\, June 2008) for her memoir Unarmed\, and Chanlee Luu for her poetry collection The Machine Autocorrects Code to I. \n\n\n\nVarun Gauri was born in India and raised in the American Midwest. After studying philosophy in college and public policy in graduate school\, he worked for more than two decades on global poverty and human rights\, publishing academic articles and books on development economics and behavioral economics. He now teaches at Princeton University and lives with his family in Bethesda\, Maryland. His short fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and in Best American Nonrequired Reading. He was a Summer Writer-in-Residence at Washington\, DC’s the Inner Loop. For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus is his first novel. \n\n\n\nMegan Doney teaches composition\, literature\, and creative writing at New River Community College in Virginia. Her work has appeared in Ilanot Review\, Rappahannock Review\, Creative Nonfiction\, and other literary journals\, as well as the anthologies Allegheny and If I Don’t Make It\, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. Doney was a Fullbright fellow in South Africa in 2007\, and returned there in 2015 to study reconciliation and public narrative in the aftermath of violence. She earned an MFA from Lesley University. Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir is her first book. \n\n\n\nChanlee Luu is a Vietnamese-Chinese American writer from Martinsville\, VA\, currently residing in Roanoke\, VA. She received her MFA in creative writing at Hollins University and BS in chemical engineering and minor in Global Sustainability from the University of Virginia\, where she competed in poetry slams.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-washington-writers-publishing-house-launch-varun-gauri-megan-doney-and-chanlee-luu-at-conn-ave/
LOCATION:Politics & Prose\, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW\, District of Columbia\, 20008\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Night with Megan Doney & Chanlee Luu
DESCRIPTION:Join Blacksburg Books as they host Megan Doney (WFYP\, June 2008) and Chanlee Luu\, winners of the Washington Writers Publishing House Prize in nonfiction and poetry\, respectively. The authors will read from their books as well as talk about the writing process and getting published with a small press. \n\n\n\nMegan Doney – Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir \n\n\n\nAfter surviving a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg\, Virginia\, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life\, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety\, it’s also about her journey over the past decade toward living with an open heart\, alive to luck\, learning\, and love. \n\n\n\nChanlee Luu – The Machine Autocorrects Code to I \n\n\n\nA knock-out debut that erases the boundaries of time and geography with unrestrained wit\, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I holds its subjects – family members at odds with their hopes and fears\, various fruits and animals constrained by the laws of humans\, and an alien seeking beauty in the world – with tenderness and wry knowledge of the fragile systems that hold their world in place. This universe of poems wanders through the messy past\, battles in the charged present\, and dreams/nightmares to the unknown future. In this experiment in forms\, Chanlee Luu is a mad scientist\, cracking Asian jokes\, shoveling golden sand\, and coding her voice to vitality.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/author-night-with-megan-doney-chanlee-luu/
LOCATION:Blacksburg Books\, 401 S. Main St.\, Ste. 106\, Blacksburg\, Virginia\, 24060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Survival on the Page: Poetry to Empower US
DESCRIPTION:Come join Facilitator Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz (she/her) (Nonfiction\, June 2018) for this workshop on Saturday\, Oct. 26th. Bring your pen and paper. Attendees will visit across the rectangles and hear stories\, jam a little\, and then write. Each participant will have the option to read aloud their work for two-minutes. It’s a safe space for QTBIPOC womxn Survivors. \n\n\n\nAlkiewicz\, a Labrador Inuk\, is a Survivor and remade her life in the Connecticut River Valley. She has taught classes for the Edmonton LifeLong Learners\, Mt. Holyoke College\, North American Indian Center of Boston and recently at The Parlor Room. Alkiewicz\, a Nunatsiavut Beneficiary and dual citizen\, has been published in DarkWinter Literary Magazine\, Inuktitut\, Leaflit\, and more. Her new business\, Ella Alk Inuk LLC\, is in Northampton where she sells her Inuit art and teaches. She enjoys being with her family\, kayaking\, laughing\, painting\, watching sports\, and writing. \n\n\n\nPhoto credit:EAlkiewicz.jpeg by Chris Alkiewicz\, 2022.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/survival-on-the-page-poetry-to-empower-us/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T150000
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SUMMARY:Washington Writers’ Publishing House Award Winner Reading & Reception with Megan Doney
DESCRIPTION:The Washington Writers’ Publishing House celebrates the 2024 winners of its annual fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction contests! Varun Gauri will read from the Carol Trawick 50th Anniversary Fiction award-winning novel For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus. Chanlee Luu will read from the Jean Feldman Poetry award-winning The Machine Autocorrects Code to I. Megan Doney (WFYP\, June 2008) will read from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Nonfiction award-winning UNARMED: An American Educator’s Memoir. Reception to follow. RSVP required. \n\n\n\nMegan Doney is a writer and English professor in Virginia. Her work has been published in Ilanot Review\, New Limestone Review\, Rappahannock Review\,  Creative Nonfiction\, Earth &; Altar\, and Inside Higher Ed\, as well as in the anthologies Allegheny and If I Don’t Make It\, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. Her essay “The Wolf and the Dog” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was a Fulbright scholar in South Africa in 2007\, and returned there in 2015 to study reconciliation and violence. Doney earned an MFA from Lesley University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/washington-writers-publishing-house-award-winner-reading-reception-with-megan-doney/
LOCATION:The Writer’s Center\, 4508 Walsh St\, Bethesda\, Maryland\, 20815\, United States
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